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NOVEMBER 25, 2011 VOLUME 32, NO. 39

by Aaron VehlingTHISWEEK NEWSPAPERS

He may have stayed out of the spotlight, but Jeffrey Alan Belzer’s impact on Lakeville is eminently mea-surable. Belzer, 70, own-er of the Belzer Chevrolet, Dodge, Kia dealership in Lakeville, died Sun-day, Nov. 20. “He was a huge presence in anyone’s life he touched, despite being very private,” said longtime friend Bob Erickson, a school board member and former city administrator in Lakeville. The Belzer family’s phi-lanthropy has extended to many areas in the commu-nity, including the Lakev-ille Area Arts Center, the Lakeville Police Depart-ment and active involve-ment in the Lakeville Area Chamber of Commerce. Erickson said Belzer was the first to step forward with a donation when the police department sought to purchase a snowmobile. On the arts front, Erick-son said Belzer was a major donor for each of the 10 years of the LAAC’s exis-tence. The business community also honored him. “Belzer was a longtime member of the Lakeville Chamber, an active Lakev-ille community supporter and a successful business

owner, serving the Lakev-ille area for over three de-cades,” wrote Lakeville

Area Chamber of Commerce Execu-tive Director Todd Bornhauser in an email to members. “Our prayers go out to Gloria, his brother and sister, children and grand-children during this

very difficult time.”

Road to car sales Belzer started his profes-sional life as an attorney, according to an obituary the family submitted to Hodroff-Epstein Memorial Chapels. After attending Wash-burn High School in Min-neapolis in 1959, he headed off to college. In 1968 he graduated with a juris doc-torate from the Drake Uni-versity Law School in Des Moines, Iowa. He returned to the Twin Cities, becoming a senior partner at Belzer & Loewen-thal Law Firm on France Avenue in Edina. Belzer represented sev-eral car dealers as part of his corporate law practice. The business intrigued him enough that in 1980 he was inspired to purchase the Todd Chevrolet dealership in Lakeville. At first, he thought he would oversee the dealer-ship as he worked at the law

Local philanthropist, car dealer dies

Family, friends say Jeff Belzer had a strong work ethic, devotion to

community stewardship

Jeff Belzer


The election season for mayor of Lakeville has of-ficially kicked off: Council Member Matt Little has entered the race. He will take on Mayor Mark Bellows, who has said he will run next year for re-election. “Lakeville needs leader-ship that is accessible, avail-able and reliable,” Little

said, “but it also needs a leader who is objective on the issues.” In some circles, Little has been crit-icized for his use of social media in meet-ings to communicate with the public. He said these methods are part of what make him a transparent,

accessible council member. “I’m readily available, whether it is through new modes of communication like Twitter or Facebook, or at community events and responding to letters from constituents,” he said.

Little was elected in 2010. He referred to three major policy successes dur-ing the past year that have “made the quality of life

better in Lakeville.” The first was suggesting the hiring of two part-time administrative staff mem-bers to help keep police officers on the streets and away from the dictation machine. This “bolsters public safety,” he said. In April, Little offered to donate half his council salary (more than $4,300)

Matt Little to run for Lakeville mayorCouncil member cites leadership, objectivity as hallmarks of his style

Matt Little

Let there be light

Photo by Aaron Vehling

The annual Light Up the Night celebration brought out Lakeville North High School’s “Now and Then” chorale group on Thursday evening, Nov. 17, in downtown Lakeville. The Now and Then Singers delighted the audience of about 50 people with the group’s series of classic Christmas carols. The ceremonial lighting of the Christmas tree and surrounding trees in Pioneer Plaza followed. The event was sponsored by the Downtown Lakeville Business Association. City of Lakeville staff hung the lights.

Farmington City Council dumps project funding plan

Tax estimates soar as correct information revises estimates

by Laura AdelmannTHISWEEK NEWSPAPERS

A controversial plan to increase taxes for future city projects has lost ma-jority support of the Farm-ington City Council. The abrupt change was announced at the Nov. 21 City Council meeting. Farmington Mayor Todd Larson said city of-ficials learned the county had provided an inaccurate figure that was used to cal-culate the plan’s cost to res-idential property owners. Using the correct fig-ure, the plan would raise

average-valued residential property taxes by about $200 in 2012, a steep dif-ference between the $81 increase the city had origi-nally calculated. Larson said he would propose at the Nov. 22 budget workshop that the council table action on the plan. News about the work-shop, which occurred after this story went to press, will be posted online at www.ThisweekLive.com. Under the plan, devised to wean Farmington from

by Tad JohnsonTHISWEEK NEWSPAPERS

When Eagan native Natalie Darwitz was play-ing with the U.S. Women’s Hockey Team during an exhibition game prior to the 2001 World Champi-onships, she fired the puck down ice ... then SLAM. A member of Team Can-ada bowled her over, send-ing the 18-year-old Darwitz to the ice. “The girl didn’t care too much about the puck, went for the body and ran me over,” said Darwitz, a three-time U.S. Olympic medal winner. As one of the small-

est players on the ice ever since she was a youngster, Darwitz had become ac-customed to being slammed to the ice, and, like the fiery competitor she is, picking herself up and continuing playing. “It was the sensation right afterward, remember-ing exactly what happened,” Darwitz said of the hit. “Af-ter that five-second span, that was the most eerie.” She said she was foggy and dizzy but made it back to the bench at the end of her shift. When it was time for her line to return to the ice she

Natalie Darwitz overcame

a concussion to win three

Olympic medals with the

U.S. Women’s Hockey

Team. Now the former

Eagan High School

hockey player has come

full circle, working within

the confines of new

head-injury rules

as a varsity coach.

What price for glory?


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

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

severe concussion last October

Goalie’s hockey future is ‘on ice’

by Tad JohnsonTHISWEEK NEWSPAPERS

Natalie Darwitz was on the bench Oct. 18, 2010, as an assistant coach for the University of Minneso-ta when goalie Alyssa Grogan, a fellow Eagan High School graduate, suffered a severe concussion that has prevented her from returning to the ice. Grogan was participating in a “race to the puck” drill when one player’s knee hit her forehead and an-other player fell on the back of her head. She wishes she had never poke-checked the puck

Photo by Laura Adelmann

Tax increases in 2012 will “undoubtedly strangle eco-nomic growth and job creation,” Ruthe Batulis, president of the Dakota County Regional Chamber of Commerce, told Farmington City Council members Monday night. She urged the council to make budget cuts.

See Belzer, 6A See Little, 5A

See Darwitz, 11ASee Grogan, 10A

See Plan, 5A

Lakeville man summons spirits. See Thisweekend Page 8A

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This is an era in which in-novative business solutions abound to help companies and employ-ees compete g l o b a l l y amid a le-gion of eco-nomic chal-lenges. Some-times it takes a maverick to inject some creativity into the mix. Marty Hebig owns Lakeville-based Maverick Software, an aptly-named company that provides a way for businesses to save on technology costs while offering practical job expe-rience and opportunities to college students. The under-25 demo-graphic faces an unem-ployment rate of nearly 54 percent, according to Time Magazine, so Hebig’s ability to offer cost-effective soft-ware testing to companies, and provide well-paying jobs with real experience and job opportunities to students is a big deal. The Minnesota High Tech Association saw this, bestowing on Maverick the 2011 Innovative Collabora-tion of the Year during its Tekne Awards celebration on Nov. 3 in Minneapolis. “This collaboration cre-ates a motivated, skilled and productive workforce that sustains and expands Min-nesota’s technology-based economy,” the association said in a press release. To win is an honor, He-big said, but the ceremony itself also provides valuable exposure to his company. The event is the Oscars of the Minnesota technology industry, he said, and so large firms such as Oracle, 3M and Microsoft are well

represented. The potential for networking exists in droves. Along with business partner Chuck Sherwood, Hebig accepted the honor as a two-minute video pre-sented the history of Mav-erick.How it works Through the program, Maverick sets up offices on-site at the locations of its university collaborators. Currently, it has six offic-es with 110 students at nine universities, Hebig said. Each site has a full-time of-fice manager. The company’s clients in-clude Digital River, Syman-tec, Merill Corporation and Thomson Reuters (which was the first), among others. Maverick’s student em-ployees earn on average about $13 an hour, far out-pacing retail and food in-dustry alternatives. Clients pay Maverick about $25 per hour for those students’ ser-vices, which center on soft-ware development testing, Hebig said. By managing the fixed costs associated with physi-cal locations, Maverick has

been able to maintain prof-itability. “We don’t go out and set up offices, hoping clients will come,” he said. The offices come af-terward. Maverick has been prof-itable since “day one,” He-big said, adding that he anticipates his firm will see about $4 million in revenue this year. The company is trans-parent with its clients about its expenses, Hebig said. This builds trust when “we know they could go out and do this themselves. We want them to know it would be difficult for them to do it much cheaper.” Maverick draws on stu-dents who achieve high grades and exhibit excellent technological aptitude. “We get the best stu-dents,” he said, with assur-ances that he is not running a sort-of “IT sweatshop. These are high-paying, flex-ible jobs close to class.” The students get a lot out of the program. In addition to earning income, they get the opportunity to imple-ment theory in a practical

Tekne Award is among highest recognition

a technology firm can receive

Photo submitted

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

Maverick honored for its innovation

Marty Hebig

See Maverick, 7A


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People who give back should be able to voteTo the editor: A recent letter to the edi-tor by Mark Bellile stated that almost 50 percent of Americans pay $0 in taxes and therefore haven’t earned the right to vote. I’m not exactly clear on who these people are who pay $0 in taxes. But if a per-son gives back to the com-munity in other ways, they still shouldn’t have the right to vote? A person who slaves away at a job all week getting paid for less than he’s worth, but doesn’t earn enough annual income to be required to pay taxes shouldn’t have the right to vote? A single mother with children but receives entitle-ments from the state or fed-eral government shouldn’t be allowed to vote? Homeless people who’ve worked much of their lives haven’t earned the right to vote? Unemployed or home-less veterans who don’t earn enough to be required to pay taxes should have their vote taken away? I agree that many chang-es are necessary to get this country back on track. However, denying people who give back to the com-munity, who are or have been productive members of society the right to vote is an idea with which I’d have

trouble agreeing. If half the citizens of this country are told they no longer have the right to participate in government, Mr. Bellile would likely have that revolution of which he spoke. I worked full-time up un-til I was 29 years old. I’ve been receiving Social Securi-ty for disability due to men-tal health issues for the last nine years. Presently, I rent from my sister, a homeowner. I help her children with home-work, values, and often help keep order when she’s gone for the day at her job. I help with minor repairs around her home, and routine yard work and household chores. I often do my shopping in downtown Lakeville. I’ve only moved to Lakeville re-cently, but in the past, I’ve done volunteer work for var-ious community programs, and will likely do so again. I pay $0 in taxes. Apparently some would say that I have more of an emotional investment – and less of a financial investment – in my family and this coun-try, and I don’t deserve to participate in government. I disagree.

ANDY ALTLakeville

Teacher contract should be settledTo the editor: As a teacher in Lakeville for the past 12 years, I have

thoroughly enjoyed being a part of this amazing, sup-portive community. It has been my delight to invest my heart and soul into my students. I have been privileged to teach with some of the most dedicated teachers. I’ve taught with an in-dustrial tech teacher who stays at school until 10 p.m., unpaid, to coach students in their award-winning ro-botics projects. I’ve taught with a choir director who spends so much time after school that her students call her “Mama C” because she’s become their second mother. A Spanish teacher is advising two new student clubs this year – without pay. Some teachers spend their fall weekends writing 20 or 30 recommendation letters for seniors who are applying for colleges and scholarships. One social studies teacher holds class in the lecture hall because he has over 70 students in A.P. Psychology. Every spring I coordinate over 100 teachers in putting together a three-hour variety show to raise funds for student scholarships. We love what we do, we love our students, and we have always gone above and beyond to enrich their lives. It is with that profession-al experience that this year’s contract negotiations have broken my heart. I have never felt so un-supported, so frustrated, or so overwhelmed by low mo-

rale. Knowing that it took the Lakeville Area School Board months to even show up to the negotiations table, seeing presentations of intentionally mislead-ing information, and read-ing about efforts to cut our health care have sucked the life out of teachers. It is terrifying to face health concerns without knowing whether we will be able to afford to treat them. Lakeville teachers have always accepted the lowest salaries in our area to bal-ance our health care ben-efits. Now some of our best teachers are considering looking for new jobs next year if we are not only the lowest paid, but also the most underinsured. Lakeville has been known for its excellent ed-ucation and outstanding teachers who go above and beyond. But 100 of our best teachers were cut when last year’s referendum didn’t pass, and those who are left are exhausted by their in-creased work load and cut down by the lack of support from their district officials. It is with an invested and heavy heart that I ask the School Board to recon-sider their terms in the ne-gotiations settlements. The best gift this holiday season would be to come to work to a place I love, surround-ed by amazing educators who love what they do, love the kids they teach, and feel supported in their work. BETSY GRAWESpanish teacher, Lakeville South High School

Legislature should fund schoolsTo the editor: The article in the Nov.

18 Thisweek concerning enrollment drops in Dis-trict 194 and the editorial about school levy elec-tions brought back memo-ries of my years teaching. I find it incredible that the levy referendum issue, addressed by the writer, remains a solution for funding schools because it is dishonest, unfair and wasteful. School districts are citizen-run institutions. The state has properly delegated oversight to lo-cal control. School boards must oversee the business affairs of the district, negotiate employee con-tracts, provide medical coverage for employees, deal with employee rela-tions, make hard decisions about spending priorities and staffing and adminis-ter the educational regula-tions that federal and state governments impose on them. During my 35 years of teaching, my experi-ence has been that they do a pretty good job with this full plate considering the pressures from the pub-lic for accountability and from unions for competi-tive salaries and benefits. I can’t understand why our state legislators take the attitude that these heavily burdened school boards should also engage in funding the schools they are overseeing. By state law educa-tion is the responsibility of state government. It should have the big pic-ture concerning the wel-fare of our people. Edu-cation is expensive and in the debate of how to allocate our state tax rev-enues, elected state offi-cials, in my opinion, try to do to much so educa-tion takes the hit and levy

referendum is allowed to make up the difference. This is a dishonest, and unfair solution, first because it hides tax in-creases. While state offi-cials claim to hold the line on taxes levy referendum causes them to increase. Second it makes educa-tional opportunity in the state unequal and last it wastes huge amounts of district resources and em-ployee effort that should go to students. The next time you are asked to vote on a levy ref-erendum, remember your state senator and repre-sentatives have allowed local levy referendum so other things such as stadi-ums can be debated. My advice, vote every local levy request down, keep the levying for edu-cation where it is trans-parent and can be done equitably, in the Legisla-ture.

JAMES R. GRONVALLLakeville

Pull together for veteransTo the editor: Earlier, state Sen. Dave Thompson, R-Lakeville, wrote a letter about 23 per-cent unemployment among Minnesota’s military veter-ans. A portion of Presi-dent Obama’s jobs act was passed and signed into law this week, and it will en-courage small businesses to hire veterans. Hopefully this will finally help our vets. But why can’t our cur-rent Minnesota legislators get things done? Thomp-son’s response is typical of our local “I wish I could do

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Letters

by Don HeinzmanTHISWEEK NEWSPAPERS

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

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

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

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

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

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

Property tax uprising brewing in suburban cities

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to help pay for those posi-tions. A donation to the city requires a four-fifths vote, but the move was only able to achieve three votes out of five members. Another success Little cites is his advocacy for the Heritage Center, to be shared by the Senior Center, Beyond the Yellow Ribbon, and Lakeville Area Histori-cal Society, in the old police department on Holyoke Avenue. It is scheduled to open in fall 2012. During his campaign for council last year, Little em-phasized the importance of maintaining high-quality infrastructure. He said he kept that promise. “When previous councils put off road repairs, I was able to obtain a unanimous vote on an aggressive plan to get the work done,” he said. “All this was accom-plished together with a tax levy decrease.”

The drive for Little to run for mayor extended be-yond the confines of him-self. “This is something people have asked me to do,” he said. Continuing the transpar-ency theme, Little said he has been an active advocate for opening up government to the masses. He helped members of the Highview Heights neighborhood advocate for the reopening of their ice rink, which the council voted to do recently. Little said he helped resi-dents of a neighborhood on Flagstaff Avenue achieve traffic-calming measures. “We knocked on doors up and down Flagstaff to garner support,” he said. In terms of other com-munity involvement, Little was named Lion of the Year last year by the Lions Club and is involved in the Lakeville Resource Center, a local food shelf. “When the 360 Commu-

nities food shelf moved out of downtown due to budget-ary problems, I organized the former volunteers and partnered with the Eagan Resource Center to fill the need,” Little said. “The new Lakeville Resource Center has served over 550 differ-ent households.” Little and Bellows have clashed since the beginning of the year over a number of issues, including the Heritage Center, the munic-ipal liquor store study and the creation of the Finance Committee. During the height of the Heritage Center debates this past spring and sum-mer, Bellows took issue with Little’s approach to advocating for the project, which included referring to Bellows as “opposition.” “He’s politicizing and pandering to seniors,” Bel-lows said. “What he’s done is create an incredible divi-sion among the council.” Little has argued that his

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reliance on debt-incurring bonds to fund city projects, seven additional but smaller tax increases were to occur over the next 11 years. In 2012, the planned larger increases were exac-erbated by state legislation that eliminated the Market Value Homestead Credit and drove up property tax-es. Farmington business owners recently spoke against the plan when city estimates showed that with the state changes, it would lead to nearly 30 percent property tax increases on commercial and non-home-stead properties. Council members Ju-lie May, a rental property owner, and Terry Donnelly, a family farmer, have con-sistently opposed the plan because of its tax increases. At Monday’s meet-ing, Ruthe Batulis, Dakota County Regional Chamber of Commerce president, told city officials the orga-nization is opposed to any tax increase in 2012. She said local business owners’ greatest concern is increasing property taxes. Batulis urged the city to cut its budget, and for government to live within its means as businesses are striving to do.

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Burnsville business may expand into FarmingtonCompany still negotiating purchase of building


After a multi-state search, a Burnsville busi-ness is working to expand to the Farmington Industrial Park. If plans go as expected, Quality Ingredients, a man-ufacturer of powdered fla-vors, creamer, cheese pow-ders and whip topping, will expand into the old Perfor-mance Industrial Coatings building early next year, said Bob Freeman, gen-eral programs director with Quality Ingredients. Freeman emphasized that many details still need to be negotiated regarding the sale of the PIC build-ing, but confirmed the company’s desire to expand its thriving business into Farmington. “We’re set on Farming-ton if all the due diligence and agreements are final-ized,” Freeman said. “We

are not looking anywhere else and are planning to ex-pand.” Company officials spent months researching poten-tial expansion sites in the upper Midwest region, he said. Quality Ingredients, founded in 1987 by Burns-ville resident Bob Thomp-son, has other locations in Burnsville and Marshfield, Wis. According the com-pany’s business profile on www.manta.com, Quality Ingredients has estimated revenue of $50 million to $100 million and employs approximately 50 to 99 peo-ple. Farmington City Plan-ner Lee Smick said if the expansion transpires, some of the company’s workforce would be transferred to Farmington, and about 15 skilled jobs may be opened See Business, 16A

approach has been to re-search every issue as com-prehensively as possible and make decisions based on the data. Among the issues Little said he would pur-sue as mayor is to attract more well-paying jobs to Lakeville. He said too much attention has been paid to the missed oppor-tunity of Costco and not enough attention has been paid to “jobs that can sus-tain households.” “Lakeville is highly educated,” he said, “so we should be pursuing high-tech jobs.” In Lakeville, council members serve four-year terms and mayors serve two-year terms. If Little were to lose the mayoral race next year, he would retain his council seat for the re-mainder of his term. If he were to win, the coun-cil would appoint his re-placement.

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

Business owners are go-ing without paychecks to pay employees, restructur-ing expenses and dropping health care coverage. “Additional taxation in Farmington is not the an-swer now, nor is it in the fu-ture,” Batulis said. “Higher taxes in Farmington will undoubtedly strangle eco-nomic growth and job cre-ation. It could cause addi-tional failures.” Former City Council Member Steve Wilson of-fered budget-cutting sug-gestions, including merging city police and fire depart-ments and contracting with an outside engineering firm to evaluate historical con-tracts and determine Farm-ington’s long-term and short-term needs. Wilson also encouraged the city to seek other fund-ing sources for projects and to create a citizen “Adopt a Trail” program, so users could contribute an annual fee for overall trail mainte-nance. Council members who supported the plan had all along cited concerns about the amount of property tax

increases it would create, and all supported spending cuts to the plan. At the meeting, all three indicated they would sup-port scrapping the plan and discussing it again next year. Council Member Ja-son Bartholomay said he agreed with Larson, and was “extremely disappoint-ed” by the error that led to the inaccuracies. He also said he “cannot support any type of tax in-crease.” Fogarty was the only council member to exten-sively support the merits of the plan during the meet-ing. She said residents told her they liked the idea of city planning for long-term expenses and ending the city’s practice of bonding for projects. “I think we’re seeing around the world the prob-lem with continuing to bond and borrow and bor-row and borrow,” Fogarty said. “You can’t do it.”

Laura Adelmann is at [email protected].


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firm. But he saw that this arrangement would need to be amended. Belzer sold his law firm and its building near I-494 and Highway 100 and moved to Lakeville to run the dealership. At the time, people had thought he had “gone over the edge,” according to his obituary, “but he felt peo-ple should have the forti-tude to try a new career.” Belzer’s passion for the business only grew, and he bought the Haugen Dodge dealership in Farmington. Erickson remembers being impressed with a deal Belzer struck to com-bine those two competing brands into one dealer-ship. Chevrolet is a Gen-eral Motors brand and Dodge is a brand of GM rival Chrysler. “His GM-Chrysler dealership in Lakeville was the first of its kind in the United States,” Er-ickson said. “I was so im-pressed and pretty excited

for the community to have a shared dealership like that under one roof.” The dealership’s most recent addition was the sale of Kia cars. Erick-son said Belzer predicted the Korean-made vehicles would prove a formidable competitor to Toyota. One contributing trait to the success of his busi-ness was his work ethic. He worked six days a week, and if anyone want-ed to have lunch while Bel-zer was at the dealership he was not willing to leave the office. “He brown-bagged his lunch,” Erickson said. Belzer would offer those looking to dine with him to stop by the dealership and join him for these lunches. The hard work paid off over the years. In 1991 the dealership took third out of the top 202 Chevrolet dealers in the country, and two years in a row he ac-cepted the award for the No. 1 truck dealer in the five-state area.

Belzer/from 1A Belzer also served on the General Motors Presi-dent’s Board. When he was not work-ing, Belzer enjoyed playing golf, traveling, hunting, fishing and spending time with family and friends. “His children were his jewels,” according to the obituary, “and he was al-ways there to teach the value of hard work and of-fer support and guidance.” Erickson and Belzer spent time together trad-ing stock tips and books. “He was an avid read-er,” Erickson said. “He certainly read just non-stop.” Erickson will miss his friend. “He and I shared many great moments together,” Erickson said. Belzer’s family will stay involved with the dealer-ship, carrying on their pa-triarch’s legacy. Belzer is survived by his wife, Gloria; brother, Dr. Michael Belzer (El-lyn Wolfenson); sister Judi Belzer (Jerry Waldman) and families; his children, Steven (Kim), Mike, Kim, Jeff Jr. (Jamie) and Anna; and grandchildren, Brady and Blake. “Jeff, Dad, Pops, Papa will be deeply missed by his family and friends,” the family wrote in his obitu-ary.

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

Stories to warm one’s heart Minnesota author Chuck Frederick will share stories from his book “Spir-it of the Lights” from 2 to 3 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 3, at Farmington Library, 508 Third St., Farmington. The event is free and all ages are welcome.

In his book, Frederick shares true stories of people who found healing, grace and community when visit-ing Marcia Hales’ annual Christmas light display at her home in Duluth. For more information, visit www.dakotacounty.us/library or call (651) 438-0254.

Library program for teens The Farmington Library, 508 Third St., will offer Teen Make & Take: Pop-up Greeting Cards from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 28. Information is at www.dakotacounty.us/library or (651) 438-0250.

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

handful of family photos, and is especially mourn-ing the loss of some family keepsakes. Kerri said they intends to rebuild the home, a pro-cess that they are working out with their insurance company. The public is invited to the breakfast from 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Dec. 11 at St. Joseph Catholic School, 13900 Biscayne Avenue West, Rosemount. The meal includes pancakes, ham, sausage links, scrambled eggs, coffee, juice and water. Restaurant and store gift cards and cash dona-tions are being accepted at the St. Joseph Church Par-

ish office, attention Paula Krekelberg.

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


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

setting, learning by doing. In addition, there are the opportunities for job placement with Maver-ick’s clients. But there is more to it: Hebig and his staff also help the stu-dents with resumes, con-duct mock interviews and encourage them to attend career fairs, he said. “We do that because Thomson Reuters and other clients might not be able to hire all the stu-

dents,” he said. Maverick’s goal for the next three years is a dou-bling in size. To do this, He-big said, he is in the process of seeking more clients. Hebig said Maverick is currently working with Minnesota’s Department of Employment and Eco-nomic Development and Advance IT Minnesota to apply his company’s model to help the long-term un-employed. “We would get them some training and basical-

ly have them do the same thing (as the students),” he said. “When they are fin-ished they could go on to full-time work.” When Hebig started his company in 2000, he christened it after his high-school nickname, which he earned because of the model of Ford he drove back then. Little did his classmates know how de-scriptive that moniker was.

Aaron Vehling is at [email protected].

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

—Andrew Miller

Documentary offers solutions for caregiversEagan’s Molly Cox

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

ThisweekendThisweekend

theater and arts briefs

by Andrew MillerTHISWEEK NEWSPAPERS

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Andrew Miller is at [email protected].

For first film role, Lakeville actor summons spirits

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

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

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

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

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


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

that day because since then, her concussion has kept her from playing the game she loves and from complet-ing that semester’s worth of classes at the university. Grogan, who never missed a game due to injury as a Wildcat varsity hockey player from 2004 to 2008, has needed all the support she’s received from her team, fam-ily, friends and her own faith as she’s endured headaches, uncertainty and countless visits to a range of medical specialists. “It has drastically hum-bled me and I have a much greater perspective for what is important in my life,” said Grogan, the daughter of Steve and Karla Grogan and sister to Derek, 23. “I want to get my degree. I want to be able to work full days in the future. I want to go a day without a headache. I want to be able to wrestle with my kids 10 years down the road. Those are the things that are important to me.” For Grogan, who started playing hockey at age 8 and won a gold medal with the U.S. National Team at the 2008 World Championships, the game is on hold. “There is a chance I will never play hockey again but am still optimistic I’ll have that chance again,” she said.

“After almost a year of feel-ing crappy and being ex-hausted, my main focus is on getting back to feeling like myself and fully recovering from this very serious con-cussion.”

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

She says she’s been given this injury for a reason. She’s been active with the univer-sity’s medical department, talking to medical staff and students about her injury and other patients about liv-ing with a concussion. Grogan’s message to ath-letes is not to “mess around” with a concussion and to take one’s recovery seriously. Winning and losing is inconsequential when com-pared with allowing one’s brain to recover, so “no mat-ter what the pressure feels like, remember what is most important to you, and that is you. Don’t lose hope and persevere.” The concussion has not only been a setback in Gro-gan’s athletic career, but also her academic pursuits. She said she slept for 20 to 22 hours a day for the first six weeks of her recovery, and she was unable to finish her classes for the semester. She can’t go to movies, concerts or anywhere that is loud and busy. “The thought of being an energized, headache-free self again keeps me motivated,” Grogan said. “The thought of being a normal college student who can cram for tests and stay up late study-ing is exciting to me. When-ever I get discouraged, I re-member that there are always people who are worse off.”

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

In Loving MemoryDarah Lyn Robertson

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

enough. Thanksgiving has wingsand goes where it must go.

-Victor Hugo

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Obituaries In Memoryskated around with legs that were uneasy underneath her. She had problems maintain-ing focus. Upon returning to the bench, coaches directed her to the team trainer, who saw that an eye test indicated she may have had a concussion. “Then the trainer said: ‘I’m going to tell you five words that I want you to remember. I’m going to ask you what these five words are in 10 minutes, a half an hour, an hour.’ ” For the first time in her career, which has included hundreds of games of youth, Eagan High School, Univer-sity of Minnesota and inter-national hockey, Darwitz sat out the rest of the game with her first and only document-ed concussion. “I believe I probably had a lot more,” she said. “Ten or 15 years back concussions were not a popular discus-sion medically or as a topic in hockey. Do I believe I had other concussions? Yes.” Now the topic of concus-sions in youth athletics is front and center in Minne-sota and across America. New state legislation di-rected the Department of Education and the Minneso-ta State High School League to craft a concussion aware-ness campaign, assemble training materials, and estab-lish a strict treatment proto-col – one involving complete rest and a gradual increase in activities – in treating con-cussions in young athletes. New league rules require that an “appropriate health care professional” (a medi-cal professional functioning within the levels of his or her medical education, medical training, and medical licens-ing) determine whether an athlete can return to the field of play. Concussion baseline test-ing is mandatory for all high school athletes competing in contact sports, and parents must complete an MSHSL eligibility form which has them sign off as understand-ing concussion management protocols. The MSHSL Sports Med-icine Advisory Committee highly recommends that ev-ery student-athlete and par-ent successfully complete the “Heads Up: Concussion in

High School Sports” course at www.cdc.gov/concussion.

The numbers An estimated 1.6 million to 3.8 million sports- and recreation-related concus-sions occur in the United States each year, with 50,000 occurring in Minnesota, ac-cording to the Brain Injury Association of Minnesota. It is estimated that 1,000 Minnesota youths (ages 5 to 18) go to the hospital with sports-related concussions each year, according to a Minnesota Department of Health study. The association says be-cause sports-related concus-sions tend to be underreport-ed, the number may be much higher. Though Darwitz is no longer on the ice competing, she has been thrust into the issue as she has been entrust-ed with the care of a crew of high school girls hockey play-ers as the new coach of the Lakeville South varsity team. “You have to protect their brains. It is a very delicate topic,” Darwitz said. “For me, I can only tell them that I want them to be tough and know the difference between an injury and an owie.”

Decision is fi nal In the past, that difference was often determined by the athlete. The coach came up to you, asked you how you felt, and most young athletes – fearless, naive and willing to please – would say: “Put me in, coach.” That is no longer the case. The new power player on the sidelines at contests and practices is the health care professional, often a trainer. That person will determine whether an athlete returns to a game or practice after tak-ing a hit. No matter what the coach, player or parents say, the determination is final. Darwitz thinks the new rules with regard to concus-sion are positive, but is con-cerned about some aspects of their implementation. She raises the issue that some health care profession-als at league games will not be full-time trainers and as familiar with the players as the coaches. She asks, too, if they will have enough experience to make a determination about a concussion in the midst of

Darwitz/from 1A competition. Darwitz, though, is con-fident of rule changes with regard to pre- and post-game concussion testing. “That is a great tool,” she said. “It’s a 15-minute test. … But that is not something you can automatically test them with during a game.” Darwitz was fortunate that her concussion was mild. She said when she took her post-concussion test, her eye test still indicated she had a concussion and her re-action time was slow. At that point, she said the concus-sion played mind games on her, which led her to think about things like when she would play again or if she would play again. But two days later, Dar-witz passed the test and was cleared to play. “I was totally fine,” she said. “I put it in the rearview mirror. It was behind me.” She went on to play in three Olympics (earning two silver medals and a bronze) and eight International Ice Hockey Federation world championships and was a captain of Team USA from 2007 to 2010. One thing that is for cer-tain is that concussions will still happen in high school sports. All of the protocols, new safety equipment, edu-cation and testing won’t pre-vent players from experienc-ing the collisions that result in concussions. But now players, parents, coaches and trainers are bet-ter equipped and aware of how to keep young athletes safe after a concussion has occurred.

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

Reading groups to meet The Reading Groups of the Dakota County Heritage Library will discuss “The Master Butchers Singing Club” by Louise Erdrich at their next meeting. Two reading groups are offered. The evening group will meet at 7 p.m. Wednes-day, Nov. 30. The afternoon group will meet at 12:30 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 1 (attendees should feel free to bring a lunch). The groups will also be voting for their 2012 se-lections at these meetings. The reading groups are free and open to anyone who enjoys reading and discuss-ing good books. The library is at 20085 Heritage Drive. Informa-tion: (952) 891-0362 or www.dakotacounty.us/library.

Travel program at library As part of their series focused on global travel, the Friends of the Heritage Library will sponsor a pro-gram on India presented by Karin Grossman at 7 p.m. Monday, Nov. 28, in the li-brary meeting room. The program is free. The library is at 20085 Heritage Drive. Information: (952) 891-0362 or www.dakotacounty.us/library.

Service news Navy Seaman Stephen Walsh, son of Tamara and John Walsh of Lakeville, re-cently completed U.S. Navy basic training at Recruit Training Command, Great Lakes, Ill. Walsh is a 2008 graduate of Lakeville South High School.

Lakeville Briefs


by Andy RogersTHISWEEK NEWSPAPERS

The Burnsville/Farm-ington/Lakeville Blazing Cats adapted soccer CI (cognitive impaired) team went 0-2 at the state tour-nament last weekend at Stillwater. The team lost in the first round to the even-tual state champions Anoka-Hennepin 11-4 with goals scored by Jake Wilson (three) and Bren-dan Wong (one). Goal keeper Michael Burns kept the team alive with 36 saves. In the consolation bracket, the Blazing Cats lost to Dakota United. Wong scored twice and Jake Wilson once while Burns stopped 27 shots. Wilson was named to the 2011 CI Division

Adapted Soccer All-Tournament Team.

Andy Rogers is at [email protected].

SportsLakeville swimmers find their stride at state


The Bodnaruk family had plenty to cheer for Sat-urday at the Class AA state girls swimming and diving meet at the University of Minnesota. Lakeville North’s Julia and Alena Bodnaruk were part of nearly every point scored in Lakeville North’s 12th-place finish at state. Both girls qualified for the championship final in-dividually. Alena had the highest finish of any Panther with a sixth-place posting in the 500-yard freestyle. Her time of 5 minutes, 7.93 sec-onds was a lifetime best for her. She also swam to 10th in the 200 freestyle. Julia was eighth in the 200 freestyle with a time of 1:56.19, which was also a personal record. She was 16th in the 100 freestyle. “I think Alena and Julia have become closer over this season and are very supportive of one anoth-er,” Lakeville North head coach Dan Schneider said. “They are great kids and with all of the girls on the relays coming back next year I think we have a good nucleus to build on.” They both swam legs of the 200 freestyle relay, along with Brenna Smith and Erin Kleiner, which finished in eighth place. The same four were part of the 400 freestyle relay that finished ninth. It was the highest they could place after qualifying for the consolation final in the

preliminary round. “I do think the girls were disappointed with their time in the 400 free relay prelims,” Schneider said. “I was very happy that they were able to come back on Saturday to win the consolation heat and finish ninth. I felt a little better after I looked at the times in the relay and saw that all of the teams that made the championship heat had times that were faster than we had gone at sections.” The crew set a new school record in the 400 freestyle relay at the sec-tion meet earlier this month. Smith had lifetime best splits in both relays. Kleiner also swam the 100 butterfly, coming in 14th. She now owns the school record in the but-terfly. Just qualifying for state

this season proved diffi-cult. “It is always a challenge to taper for sections and then try to come back and hold or improve your times at state,” Schneider said. “The cut-off times are so fast that if you want to make state you really have to go all out at sections un-less you are one of the few elite swimmers that can wait and taper just for state meet.”

Lakeville South Brianna Alexander proved to be one of the best young swimmers in the state last weekend with two all-state individual fin-ishes as an eighth-grader. Alexander finished fifth in the 200 individual med-ley with a time of 2:07.71, about a second and a half out of first place. The med-ley is often considered an

event reserved for the top all-around swimmers with four strokes involved. “Only the best swim-mers are able to excel at this event,” Lakeville South head coach Rick Ringeisen said. She was the eighth fast-est swimmer in the 100 backstroke with a time of 1:07.17. Last year she qualified for state in two events as a seventh-grader. “That was head-turn-er, however, for Brianna to finish in the top eight, championship finals in two events as an eighth-grader was an announcement of her future intentions,” Ringeisen said. “The fu-ture looks bright for Bri-anna. … Brianna has the heart and soul of a winner and loves the feel of the smooth clean flat water that only the person lead-

ing the race gets to enjoy.” Alexander isn’t the only young swimmer at Lake-ville South making waves. Alexander joined forces in the 200 medley relay with ninth-grader Taylor Perko, eighth-grader Shea Bougie and junior Carrie Schrock for a 14th-place finish. “For such a young group to qualify for state and then swim well enough in the prelims to qualify for the finals was tremen-dous,” Ringeisen said. “Then they took it to an even higher level.” Schrock and Alexander joined up with seniors Al-lison McKennell and Hal-ey Chatelaine to swim the four legs of the 12th-place 200 freestyle relay. “I was thrilled that the seniors swam so well and were able to end their ca-reers swimming in the fi-nals and scoring points for the team at the state meet,” Ringeisen said. The girls finished 18th overall, which thrilled Ringeisen. “This year’s state meet team was a break-out year for the youth on our team and pinnacle of success for my seniors,” Ringeisen said. “Going into the sea-son I felt if we had a good year, we could be back at state and finish as a top 20 team. This year the team placed 18th, and we were able to gain experience for the future.”


Tigers polish off record-breaking year in the pool


Farmington’s Kaitlyn O’Reilly swims the 200-yard indi-vidual medley at state. To view more photos, visit www.ThisweekLive.com.

Farmington finishes with highest-point total at state in school history


This was the best season ever for the Farmington girls swimming and diving team in many ways. The Tigers set eight school records in 2011 and had their highest point total and finish in school history last weekend at the Class AA state meet at the Uni-versity of Minnesota. The team finished 13th, beating the school’s previ-ous best – 17th place in 2010. Kaitlyn O’Reilly had a thrilling afternoon as she was All-State in three differ-ent events. She finished third in the 100-yard backstroke with a time of 57.18 seconds, about two seconds out of first place. She was seventh in the 200 individual medley. “Kaitlyn is a very talent-ed, hard-working and driven athlete,” Farmington head coach Jen Marshall said. “She sets lofty goals and puts the work in to achieve them. I had no doubt she’d earn All-State honors again this year and it was exciting that she achieved it in three events.” She was part of the sev-enth place 200-yard medley

relay with Abby Haugen, Zoe Avestruz and Kristen Kracke. “I’m very proud of the medley relay as it’s the first relay that’s placed in the top eight in the history of the program,” Marshall said. “The girls feel that pride too as they’ve established some history.” O’Reilly also joined forces with Avestruz, Cora Ruzicka and Kracke to fin-ish 13th in the 400 freestyle relay. Avestruz had an exciting day of placing eighth in the 50 freestyle event. She also finished 16th in the 100 but-terfly. New school records were set in the following events this season: • 200 medley relay – O’Reilly, Haugen, Avestruz and Kracke; • 200 IM, 100 freestyle and 100 backstroke – O’Reilly; • 50 freestyle and 100 but-terfly – Avestruz; • 500 freestyle – Ruzicka; and • 400 freestyle relay – Kracke, Ruzicka, O’Reilly and Avestruz.


Photo by Bill Jones

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

Blazing Cats 0-2 at state

Kochevar back leading the PanthersHead coach returns after suffering serious head injury

after a fall on the ice in practice last year


The Lakeville North girls hockey team is com-ing off one of its more up-and-down seasons in recent memory. They team had plenty to cheer for in 2010-11. It finished third in the South Suburban Confer-ence behind Rosemount and Lakeville South, two teams that qualified for state. But the Panthers lost a heartbreaker to Farming-ton in the Section 1AA semifinal a few days after their head coach Buck Kochevar slipped on the ice and suffered a skull fracture, which required an extended hospital stay. He’s back and said he’s feeling fine. “I’m still not allowed to go on the ice yet,” Ko-chevar said. “For trau-matic brain injury, they have told me it’s one full year off the ice. So, at practice I’m still there guiding them from the box. My two assistant coaches, Richie Schrick

and Steve Sabetti, do just an awesome job. We all work together very nicely. I should be on the ice Feb. 15th.” Last year, the girls re-lied on several young stars who are more experienced and battle-tested. Sophomores Alexis Joyce (16 goals, 25 assists last season) and Christi Vetter (22 goals, 19 as-sists), are ready for action along with Allie Harvey (13 goals, 10 assists) and Dani Sadek (4 goals, 11 assists). In goal, Dani Dex-ter (7-3 last season) and Cassie Alexander (12-3) will share duties until the coaches see a separation. “Both goalies are very steady in the goal and we are very lucky to have them on our team,” Ko-chevar said. The Panthers opened the season with a 5-3 loss to Hill-Murray on Nov. 11, but turned around to defeat Hopkins 4-2 and Eastview 3-0. Joyce (three goals and an assist) and Vetter (two

goals and two assists) have shown improvement since last season along with Sadek (two goals and one assist). The girls have been get-ting their shots, but Ko-chevar would like to see a few more of those shots get through. “We need to finish bet-ter,” he said. “We are still working on line combi-nation and positions. It’s early in the season and with the hard work these girls do every day at prac-tice we should be able to fix all those concerns.” The goal is to compete for and win the South Suburban Conference ti-tle/ “Overall as a team we want to get back to the state tourney,” Kochevar said. “We are taking it practice by practice and game by game to improve in all areas and hopefully come February we will be ready and focused to reach our team goal.”



Lakeville South’s Brianna Alexander swims the 200-yard individual medley at state. She finished fifth overall. To view more photos, visit www.ThisweekLive.com.

South SuburbanConference

FootballAll ConferenceLakeville North: Trey Heid, Charlie Hayes, Joel Oxton, AJ Miller, Mitch Johnson, Alex Wood, Karl Finkel. Lakeville South: Mitch Leidner, Matt Heller, Dillon Lampert, Tom Ryan, Nevin Andreas.

Honorable MentionLakeville North: Zach Ziemer, Austin Streit, Zach Creighton, Grant Erickson, Luke Goeman. Lakeville South: Devon Bzoskie, Eric Heintze, Nick Sanborn, Tom Petersen, Matt Leidner

VolleyballAll conferenceLakeville North: Nicole Latzig, Alyssa Goehner, Jessica WolffLakeville South: Monica Turner, McK-ell Anderson, Jazzmyn TingelhoffRosemount: Jaclyn D’Amico

Honorable mentionLakeville North: Kelly Nizzari, Abby MonsonLakeville South: Kaitlin Vanwinkle, Al-lie Mosser

Boys Cross CountryAll ConferenceLakeville North: Ben Saxton, Jason DawsonLakeville South: Mark Honetschlager, Jake Schneeman

Honorable mentionLakeville North: Spencer Castillo, Luke Anderson, Jason Windhom, Jack Brenner, Corey Peterson, Justin HansonLakeville South: Wade Durham, Noah Hanson, Joey Machaj

Girls Cross CountryAll ConferenceLakeville South: Kaytlyn Larson, An-nie Brekken, Megan Kilbride, Megan Lubow, Erin Kilbride, Jenny MachajLakeville North: Taylor Perkins, Emma Johnson

Honorable mentionLakeville South: Caraline Slattery, Mariah Gallagher, Erin MeyersLakeville North: Haley Eskierka.

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

Saturday, Nov 26• Lakeville South at North Wright County, 1 p.m. • Lakeville North at So. St. Paul, 3 p.m. Monday, Nov 28• Lakeville South at Owatonna, 7 p.m. Tuesday, Nov 29• Lakeville North at Rosemount, 7 p.m. Friday, Dec 2• Apple Valley at Lakeville South, 7:15 p.m. Saturday, Dec 3• Farmington at Lakeville South, 7 p.m.

Missota ConferenceGirls Hockey

Team Conference Overall W L T W L TRed Wing 0 0 0 1 1 0 Farmington 0 0 0 1 2 0 New Prague 0 0 0 1 2 0 Shakopee 0 0 0 1 3 0 Chaska/Chan 0 0 0 0 0 0 Northfield 0 0 0 0 1 0 Holy Angels 0 0 0 0 2 0 Tuesday, Nov 29• Farmington at Wayzata, 7 p.m.Thursday, Dec 1• Farmingotn at New Prague, 7:15 p.m. Saturday, Dec 3• Farmingont at Lakeville South, 7 p.m. Tuesday, Dec 6• Eden Prairie at Farmington, 7:15 p.m.

Boys SoccerAll Conference: Chad Stivers Cole Landwehr, Brandon Scott and Sam LeskeHonorable mention: Michael Ricker and Tyler Vue

Girls SoccerAll Conference: Kelli Harstad, Ashley KimmelHonorable Mention: Kelli Elmer and Izzie Ferm

Standings

Sports Briefs

Alisa Hall honored for sportsmanship Lakeville’s Alisa Hall was named the recipient of the Jerry Noyce Sports-manship Award at the 2011 USTA Northern An-nual Award banquet Sat-urday, Nov. 19, at Minne-sota Valley Country Club in Bloomington. A senior at Lakeville North, Hall played No. 1 singles for her squad in 2011 and helped lead her team to three consecutive conference champion-ships. She has played USTA Northern tournaments since 2005 and has been ranked in the top-20 of the section in her age group for many years.


something” Republicans. Twenty-three percent unem-ployment rate for vets. Wow. Hardworking Minneso-tans should be able to rely on full partnership with legisla-tors in helping us pull out of our difficult economic times. I’m tired of charades from those who pretend to save us money while they keep giving special breaks for the wealthy. I want programs that work, fair taxation, affordable and quality education, and safe roads. Legislators, taxpayers and citizens need to pull to-gether with our governor for

the good of our state, not play legislative games for those who are better off.

HOLLY CAIRNSNorthfield

Will a union make a better day care?To the editor: Gov. Mark Dayton on Nov. 15 ordered a vote of thousands of family home day care providers on whether they want to form a union. Family child care provid-ers are self-employed busi-ness owners. As independent contractors, they develop the

terms and conditions for the enrollment of children in their child care home and are able to individually set their fees, tuition and operating hours. The local economy dictates the appropriate fee structure for a provider business. Grants such as the Child and Adult Care Food Pro-gram are used by providers to augment their revenue stream. Continuing educational opportunities, yearly training and support for the provid-ers are offered by scores of day care/early childhood in-dustry organizations, colleges and technical schools. Many of these opportunities are of-

fered free of charge. Tax dol-lars provide for county health and human service and licens-ing workers to provide addi-tional support and informa-tion to providers. For now, the proposed union vote will be limited to providers that accept state subsidies for child care. These subsidies are paid for by tax dollars and available to fami-lies who meet economic crite-ria. The subsidy rates are set based on local economic mar-ket surveys. Family child care providers are not employees of the state of Minnesota in an employ-ment relationship that permits

negotiating over wages, and hours of operation. There is no precedent for an executive order of this type. Opponents of the union vote vow to file a suit claim-ing that the governor does not have the authority to autho-rize a union vote of indepen-dent contractors. Ballots will be sent Dec 7. This is a great time to talk to family home day care pro-viders: “Will a union make this a better day care?” • Will your child care busi-ness be required to join the union? • Are you able to access

the free training and support you need from industry asso-ciations, colleges and county licensing staff? • Will the costs of child care go up in order to accom-modate the potential payment of union dues? • Who does the unioniza-tion of providers benefit? My child? The provider? The union?

RUTHE BATULISDakota County Regional Chamber of Commerce, Eagan

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TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT the

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Scott County, Minnesota, will meet at the

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December 7, 2011 to consider a project to

repair and improve portions of Lynn Drive,

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

up in the new location. At 61,500 square feet, the building Quality In-gredients is seeking to expand into has been empty for several years and works well to ac-commodate the compa-ny’s needs, Smick said. She said the company plans to raise part of the building’s roof from about 30 feet to 68 feet in height to accommodate business operations and will utilize a variance for the roof changes. “It’s in the industrial zone – there’s no issues with that,” Smick said. Jason Bartholomay, a City Council member and chair of the city’s Economic Develop-ment Authority, called the company’s plans “a perfect example of the

city taking a step in the right direction.” Bartholomay said the City Council is dedicat-ed to being more busi-ness-friendly. “We’ll help business out as much as we pos-sibly can,” he said. Smick said the city is excited for the compa-ny’s expansion plans and the potential for addi-tional jobs for residents. “Working with the company, we know they have really good people,” Smick said. “We’re very excited about having them. … When they told us they were looking outside the state and ev-erywhere else and chose Farmington, that’s very exciting for us.”


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Farmington Troop 119 soars with eight earning Eagle Scout rank

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An unprecedented eight scouts in Troop 119 have earned Eagle rank this year. The troop’s ssistant Scout Master Kurt Benedetto and Scout Master Chris Ulrich flank the Eagle Scouts: (left) Chandler Ulrich, Kegan Markwardt, Jamie Scavone, Anthony Benedetto and Josh Storms. Eagle Scouts not pictured are Jeff Zakoski, Jesse Cardinal and Logan Ausen.

Number attaining hard-won ranking may be unprecedented


Eight Farmington Boy Scouts in Troop 119 have earned the organization’s highest rank, Eagle Scout. Last year, just one Troop 119 scout earned Eagle rank, said Kurt Benedetto, assis-tant scoutmaster. Benedetto said he doesn’t know of any other local troop that has had so many scouts at once earn the Eagle rank. The Troop 119 Eagle Scouts are: Chandler Ulrich, Kegan Markwardt, Jamie Scavone, Anthony Benedetto, Jeff Zakoski, Jesse Cardi-nal, Logan Ausen and Josh Storms. Fulfilling all the require-ments to earn Eagle rank de-mands diligent planning. To qualify, each scout has to earn at least 21 merit badg-es and successfully organize and complete a community project.

A detailed project plan must be district-approved be-fore it can proceed; Benedetto said most initial plans submit-ted require revisions. Five of the eight Troop 119 scouts performed their proj-ects at the Trinity Care Center in Farmington, and included building and installing a gar-den trellis, large planters and benches and replacing rock with greenery. The scouts are purpose-fully provided limited funds for the projects, and are not allowed to do the work them-selves. “They have to get all vol-unteers,” Benedetto said. He described the process as challenging, and credited each scout’s individual drive and determination for see-ing their projects through to completion. “I wish I could say it was that (Scout Master) Chris (Ulrich) and I really know

what we’re doing, but it’s the boys,” Benedetto said. This group of scouts grew up together, from Cub Scouts and band to sports competi-tion. That level of togetherness drew them close, but also fostered an environment of friendly competition, which Benedetto said contributed to their achievements. He added that they helped each other on their projects, and their commitment to at-tain the Eagle have inspired local Cub Scouts who look up to them, whom some of the Eagles have begun to take un-der their wings in leadership roles. “You can see these boys are going to be the leaders of tomorrow,” Benedetto said. “Their leadership and charac-ter…they lead by example.”



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