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Winners of the Albert Lea Tribune's annual Reader's Choice Awards for 2011TRANSCRIPT
The following businesses were voted the “Best of the Best.”thank you to everyone who voted to make this year’s Reader’s Choice Awards a huge success! Read on for special offers from your favorites
as their way of saying, “thanks for voting for us!”
Best Place to Buy an AutomobileDave Syverson
Best Place to service an AutomobileMotor Inn Co.
Best Body shopBlake’s Body Shop
Best PharmacyCurt's Pharmacy
Best hair salonClassic Reflections
Best Nail salonClassic Reflections
Best health ClubAnytime Fitness
Best Massage salonMassage Connections
Best Dental officeUptown Dental
Best Chiropractic officeEaton Sport & Spine
Best Convenience storeKwik Trip
Best CateringHy-Vee
Best Coffee stopLakeside Cafe
Best DessertTrumble's Restaurant
Best fast foodMcDonald’s
Best Pizza PlaceJake’s Pizza
Best Burger/friesElbow Room
Best Mexican foodPlaza Morena
Best Restaurant overallWedgewood Cove
Best BakeryNelson's County Market
Best BankSecurity Bank
Best PlumberJim & Dude’s
Best electricianAlbert Lea Electric
Best secondhand storeSalvation Army
Best Windows/siding CompanyLarson Manufacturing
Best Place to Buy home Improvement ItemsHome Depot
Best Place to Buy CarpetingFloorcrafters
Best Place to Buy furnitureBrick Furniture
Best Place to Buy AppliancesSorenson’s Appliance & TV
Best Place to Buy Lawn equipmentM&S Outdoor
Best Landscaping/NurseryHills Garden
Best ContractorLarson Contracting
Best Place to Buy a hearing AidAudibel
Best Waste Disposal serviceThompson Sanitation
Best flower shopBen's Floral & FrameBest Gift shopAddie's Floral & GiftsBest Jewelry storeFisher’s Fine JewelersBest hardware storeRaleighs Ace HardwareBest Insurance AgencySecurity InsuranceBest tax serviceAlbert Lea Tax ServiceBest Liquor storeHy-Vee Wine & SpiritsBest BarHarold's BarBest hotelAmericInnBest PhotographerPeoble PhotographyBest Websitewww.snapfitness.comBest Golf CourseGreen Lea Golf CourseBest Place to Buy a Cell PhoneVerizonBest Place to Buy sporting equip.Dunham SportsBest Nursing homeSt. John’s Lutheran Home& Knutson PlaceBest Place to Buy GlassesShopkoBest Meat Market/CounterConger Meats
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A BIG Thank You for Voting us #1
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2200 W 9th St, Albert Lea, MN • 507-373-2007
www.wedgewoodcove.comThank you for voting Wedgewood
Cove Best Restaurant Overall!We appreciate your patronage & look forward
to serving you in the future
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Cove Bar & Grill: 11am-midnightGolf: 7am-8pm
We are honored to be voted Best Chiropractor in the annual
Reader’s Choice Awards!We specialize in getting to know each individual patient and will personally tailor a program specifically targeting each person’s health needs.
Dr. Jeff Eaton; Ramona Nolan, M.T.; Jacque Farnes, M.T.
424 Bridge Ave, Ste #3Albert Lea • 377-1570
for choosing Dave Syverson the Best Place to Buy an Auto-mobile in the 2011 Reader’s Choice Awards.
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We will continue to strive for excellence,not only in our bakery, but throughout theentire store. We are proud to be part of the
Albert Lea Community.
Open 6a.m.-10p.m. everyday
Thank you for Voting us #1 Bakery for 6 years!
Thank You for VotingCurt’s Pharmacy
as your #1 Pharmacy!
1615 W. Main St., Albert Lea, MNlocated in Nelson’s Marketplace(507) 373-MEDS (6337)
Open 8:30 to 7 M-F, 9-2 Sat. & 11-2 Sunday
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Albert Lea’sonly locally
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BestOF THE
BEST
Blakes Body shop1515 Blake Ave., Albert Lea • 373-0952
“A family tradition since 1979”Voted Best Body Shop
6 YEARS!
It’s your car.It’s your choice.
Choose a body shop YOU are comfortable with!
We do repairs for:• All makes and models• All insurance companies• All auto body repairs from minor to
major collisions, repairables or rust
Thank you for your continued support!
100 WIlliam Ave, Conger - 265-3340 • Northbridge Mall - 377-1556
Thank you for letting us serve you and thank you for
choosing us as the #1 Fast Food Restaurant! Visit us at
our 3 great locations!
Manager Becci Anderson609 E. Main • 377-1355
Manager Stacia Schumaker2808 N. Bridge Ave • 377-9573
Manager Crystal Jacobsen840 Happy Trails Ln. • 377-6098
Thank you to everyone who voted
to make this year’s Reader’s Choice
Awards a success. Without the
support of our readers,
we could not make this possible.
Congratulations to the winners of our
weekly drawings for $25 gift certificates:
James Goffey
Nicole Beede
Barbara Geesman
Kathy Vonderploeg
Sharon Overgaard
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To our customers we extend a thank youfor your business and your loyal support.
To the employees, Scott (EA), Paul, Katie, Teresa, Linda, Jamie, Julie and Patty - who earned thethanks of all our customers for their hard work,long hours and great attitude in helping make
Albert Lea Tax Service LLCthe
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Thanks for choosing AnytimeFitness as Best Health Club
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THANk YOU!We are honored to be voted Best Insurance Agency in the Albert Lea Tribune’s annual
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Mary Schallock, CMT, COTALinda Ferguson, RN, CMT • Kaye Tufte, NCTM
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Some things have changed in the last 20 years...
Some things have not...
1991
1991
2011
2011
Man cited for
4th-degree DWI
Joshua Robert Klu-
ender, no age listed,
was cited for fourth
degree DWI and pos-
session of drug para-
phernalia near Garfield
Avenue and Hawthorne
Street at 1:22 a.m.
Saturday. A passenger,
Rakshita Lynne Even-
son, no age listed, was
cited for consumption.
Man cited for
3rd-degree DWI
Jeremiah Arnold
Jensen, no age listed,
was charged with a
third degree DWI at
2:53 a.m. Saturday.
Smoke reported
at Northbridge
Mall Friday
Smoke was report-
edly coming out of a
vent in the center court
area of the Northbridge
Mall, 2510 Bridge Ave.,
around 10:30 p.m.
Friday. No injuries were
reported.
House fire
reportedOfficials received
a call about a smoke
smell at the 1306
Martin Road residence
around 11 p.m. Friday,
and when 4P. 2A
By Ed Shannon
Friday, April 8, will be recorded
as Fountain Lake’s ice-out date for
2011, according to Bill Malepsy, the
city’s lake ice observer since 1969.
This is the 42nd year he has per-
formed this public service.
He said the last slivers of honey-
combed ice melted away in Edge-
water Bay in the portion next to
State Highway 13 and across from
Bayview-Freeborn Funeral Home
and the Union Center around 7 p.m.
Friday.Last year’s ice-out date was re-
corded as March 31.
The earliest ice-out date for
Fountain Lake since 1912 is March
7, 2000. That year the last patches
of melting ice were in both Dane and
Edgewater Bays. The latest recorded
ice-out date for this lake is still April
30, 1953.
This is the 99th year of the formal
listing for ice-out dates for Albert
Lea’s centerpiece lake.
The recording of these dates still
ranks as the third oldest in the state
with 10,000-plus lakes, according to
Peter Boulay of the State Climatol-
ogy Office at the University of Min-
nesota. He said the longest-known
recording of ice-out dates in the
state started in 1867 for Lake Osa-
kis near Alexandria but hasn’t been
consistent. The recording of ice-out
dates for Lake Minnetonka west of
the Twin Cities started in 1870 and
has been consistent since 1887.
Malepsy started observing and
recording the ice-out dates for
Fountain Lake in the spring of
1969. He’s continuing a local tradi-
tion started 99 years ago by John E.
“Pop” Murtaugh who died on June
1 that year. Malepsy had earlier
agreed to take over the local tradi-
tion of establishing and recording
the yearly ice-out dates.
Fountain Lake’s earliest ice-out day was March 7, 2000
AM RepoRt
opinions
How the South
and Midwest are
similarAli
Kloster
exam-ines how
Southern
Hospital-
ity and
MId-western
friendliness are basi-
cally the same thing.
There’s still time
to do your taxes
Local tax services
always expect people
to come in at the last
minute to file taxes.
toMoRRow
Former county
employee charged with theft
Warrant is out for
woman’s arrest
By Sarah Stultz
A former Freeborn
County Sheriff’s Office
secretary at the center
of an internal investiga-
tion last year has been
charged in Freeborn
County District Court
with four felony counts
of theft for reportedly
taking more than $3,000
from the department.
According to court
documents, Kelley Ann
Davenport, 37, who
worked in the civil
processing department
of the Sheriff’s Office,
allegedly took a series of
checks made payable to
the Sheriff’s Office and
cashed them for her own
use.A warrant is out for her
arrest because her cur-
rent address is unknown.
Davenport began
with the Sheriff’s Of-
fice in 2007 and re-
signed in February 2010
amid the allegations of
misconduct.
When she was em-
ployed with the Sher-
iff’s Office, Davenport
managed the accounting
books of the depart-
ment’s deposit funds and
checks, along with draft-
ing checks as payment
Council to vote on
sign installation
By Sarah Stultz
The Albert Lea City
Council on Monday is
slated to vote on a project
aimed at improving the
safety of bicyclists riding
around Fountain Lake.
The council is consider-
ing whether to install 25
“Share the Road” signs,
funded by the Statewide
Health Improvement
Program, for the route of
the lake.
The goal of the signs
is to raise awareness of
bicyclists riding around
the lake and to inform
motorists that there are
frequently bikes on this
route. City crews will be
responsible for the sign
installation.
Sign costs by SHIP are
estimated at $3,000.
During the Monday
meeting, the council will
also:• Vote whether to
terminate the agreement
for financial services with
the city of Austin.
The Albert Lea and
Austin City Council
members entered into an
agreement at the end of
February to share Austin
Finance Director Tom
Dankert.
Both cities have since
decided the arrangement
is not practical.
• Vote whether to
4Ice, Page 6A
4Council, Page 6A
Local federal employees don’t
have to worry about shutdown
By Albert Lea Tribune
If a shutdown of the
federal government had
occurred, local federal
offices were prepared.
Federal employees
at the U.S. Department
of Agriculture office in
Albert Lea and across
the nation were plan-
ning to report to work
on Monday, then take
further direction.
Now, they know they
will be able to have the
doors open next week.
A last-minute budget
deal forged amid bluster
and tough bargaining
averted an embarrass-
ing federal shutdown,
cut billions in spending
and provided the first
major test of the divided
government that voters
ushered in five months
ago.Working late
into Friday night,
congressional
and White House
negotiators
finally agreed
on a plan to
pay for govern-
ment operations
through the end
of September while
trimming $38.5 billion
in spending.
Lawmakers then ap-
proved a measure to
keep the government
running for a few more
days while the details
of the new spending
plan are written into
legislation.
Actual approval of the
deal is expected in
the middle of next
week.First District
U.S. Rep. Tim Walz
said he was pleased
an agreement had
been reached and
he would vote in
favor of legislation
to keep the govern-
ment running.
“I continue to believe
we can be fiscally re-
sponsible and make gov-
ernment more efficient,”
Walz said. “Republicans
4Shutdown, Page 7A
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Sports: Scenes and a story
from the Twins home opener.
Lifestyles: Buildings just don’t have
the same trimming details they used to.
Friday declared 2011 ice-out day
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This photo, taken Wednesday afternoon near the
Katherine Island Bridge, shows the chunks of ice blown
up on the shoreline by the winds on Fountain Lake. By
Thursday morning this reminder of ice had melted.
By Andrew Dyrdal
Millionaires are fight-
ing billionaires.
That, in a nutshell,
is why the National
Football League is in
a lockout and the 2011
season in limbo.
While a decision on
how to divide $9 billion
dollars between NFL
players and owners
wouldn’t seem to affect
Albert Lea and greater
Minnesota, it will have
repercussions on local
fans, business and the
economy.
Currently, with the
help of lawyers, players
and owners are work-
ing on a new collective
bargaining agreement
after the old one expired
at the end of the 2010
season. Players want to
keep the NFL schedule
at 16 games and have
better benefits, including
lifelong financial sta-
bility. Owners
want an
18-game schedule, more
money out of the $9
billion pie and to cut pay
for rookies. Fans from
Albert Lea just want the
issue resolved.
Bob Sturtz, an attor-
ney at Goldman Sturtz &
Halvorsen is optimistic
the two will reach an
agreement in time for
the 2011 season opening
week scheduled for early
September.
“I don’t believe there
will be any games
canceled,” Sturtz said.
“There is so much mon-
ey to go around. They
just don’t know how to
split it up.”
Sturtz, who is also
an enthusiastic Vikings
fan, said he isn’t angry
with either side, though,
because they deserved
what they’ve gotten so
far.“I’m not one of those
types of guys to say ‘poor
me’ because it costs
$75 to go to a game and
the rich players and
rich owners are
fighting over
my money,”
Sturtz said.
“They are
where they
are because
of their
talents.”Sturtz also
said that
the players
and owners
provide a
product to
the state that
vastly im-
proves Minneso-
tans’ lives.
Albert Lea High
School football coach
and activities director
Clay Anderson said he
wouldn’t be affected by
the absence of an NFL
season this fall.
“I just makes me shake
my head in disbelief,” he
said. After dealing with
many concussions on his
football team this past
fall, Anderson sympa-
thizes with the players
and their stance against
an 18-game season.
“It is not good for foot-
ball or the players,” he
said. “Their careers are
short enough already.”
Sturtz doesn’t side
with the players or the
owners but said the NFL
Players Association, the
former union which is
now a trade organiza-
tion, does serve an im-
portant purpose during
these mediations.
“They are doing what
they need to do to pro-
tect the players,” he said.
Sturtz pointed to NFL
players of the 1950s
through the ’70s. He said
a lot of them are broke
with health problems.
He said many of those
former players didn’t
have pensions or the
Locked outThe NFL’s lockout will have local
repercussions for fans and businesses
4NFL, Page 6A
Brie Cohen/Albert Lea Tribune
A Viking walks onto the field, helmet in hand, to start the
first practice day of the 2009 Vikings Training Camp in
Mankato.
4Charges, Page 7A
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Stacey Bahr
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