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Special supplement to Sun Thisweek and the Dakota County Tribune

Seifert is board’s choice The ECM Editorial Board has endorsed Marshall’s Marty Seifert in the Republican gubernatorial primary.

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Superheroes with quirksExpressions Community Theater presents the stage comedy “Insane With Power” at the Lakeville Area Arts Center.

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Wrestler wins world titleMark Hall, already a four-time state high school champion for Apple Valley, added a world championship to his resume this summer.

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Shoppers’ version of the State Fair

Jade Buddha to visit Dakota County

by Tad JohnsonSUN THISWEEK

DAKOTA COUNTY TRIBUNE

A different kind of Minnesota State Fair is coming to Eagan from Aug. 14 to 17. Those are the grand opening dates for the 100-store, 409,000-square-foot Twin Cities Premium Outlets where traffic vol-umes are expected to be high enough that local of-ficials are urging shoppers

to think about getting to the outlets like they do the State Fair. That means taking a bus, carpooling and plan-ning for extra time (and patience) when driving to and from the site which is southeast of the junction of highways 77 and 13. It’s the kind of traffic Eagan welcomes, along with the expansion of the tax base, increase in jobs and related economic

benefits. In addition to creat-ing 400 construction jobs during the build out, the outlet mall will employ about 1,600 workers when it opens in August. Eagan Convention and Visitors Bureau Presi-dent Brent Cory says the increase in visibility and commerce will benefit Ea-gan. “Twin Cities Premium Outlets will no doubt

help consumers think of Eagan and the surround-ing region as a true shop-ping destination,” he said. “From an economic im-pact standpoint, there’s no question that Eagan and northern Dakota County will benefit immensely.” With the Mall of America in Bloomington just across the Highway 77 bridge, Minnesota has two new shopping twins. “We feel the two shop-

ping destinations will complement one another and only drive more traf-fic into our region,” Cory said. “We like to think of it as ‘coopetition’ when promoting the malls.” The Eagan CVB is working with Twin Cities Premium Outlets on some joint marketing ventures and the location of the new shopping destina-

School district to issue iPads to 1,600 students

by Tad JohnsonSUN THISWEEK


Rosemount-Apple Valley-Eagan School District officials are hoping that a test project in 46 classrooms this school year will improve the quality and quantity of learning for 1,600 students. Those classrooms and students will take part in a beta project through which each student will be issued an iPad Mini after funds of up to $502,400 are spent to purchase 1,600 of the de-vices and related equipment – a move that was approved July 14 by the School Board. The idea to test the effectiveness of issuing a mobile device to a limited number of students – the district has an estimated 28,000 students and 31 school sites – emerged from District 196’s Learning and Technology Task Force. The beta project aims to evaluate what kinds of courses, projects and ages are most appropriate for a district-provided, one-to-one technology device. “We wanted to go through it in a real thoughtful way,” Steven Troen, director of teaching and learning, said. The district sought applications from fourth- through 12th-grade teachers who wanted to have their classrooms become part of beta project. An estimated 80 applications were submitted and task force members se-lected 46 classrooms representing each grade level (4-12) in nearly all district

Installation will be at Watt Munisotaram

in Hamptonby Nick Hassett

SUN THISWEEKDAKOTA COUNTY TRIBUNE

An international symbol of peace is travelling the world and making a stop in Dakota County. The Jade Buddha, an 8 foot, 4.5 ton statue carved from a Canadian jade boulder, will be brought to the Watt Muniso-taram, a Cambodian Buddhist temple in Hampton. And or-ganizers behind the event are expecting a large turnout. “We were anticipating two to three thousand people, but with more media attention we’re now thinking at least five thousand plus,” Chanda Sour, president of public relations for the Watt Munisotaram, said. “We’re expecting people from Iowa, Chicago, Michi-gan, all over.” Sour added that Ian Green, the man who carved the Bud-dha from the 18 ton jade boul-der, will be a guest speaker at the event, which runs from Aug. 6-10. “(The Jade Buddha) has a wide appeal,” Sour said. “We’re not just talking about Buddhism, but world peace. There’s so much chaos in the world today and we hope to have people come together and share universal peace. You don’t have to be Budddhist to participate.”

In fact, the temple has part-nered with local community in-stitutions such as Castle Rock Bank to help spread the word. “They came to us and asked if we were willing to help, and we’re thrilled to do so,” said

Lavonne Nicolai, vice presi-dent of Castle Rock Bank. “I feel blessed that they take it upon themselves to bring this work of art to our county. It’s

Visitors to Twin Cities Premium Outlets to bring traffic, commerce

The Jade Buddha will be installed at Watt Munisotaram, 2925 220th St. E. in Hampton in August. (Photo submitted)

Dancing through the labyrinthLocal choreographer’s ‘Labyrinth’ debuts at Fringe Festival

by Andrew MillerSUN THISWEEK


Kristin Freya is taking audiences on a dream-like journey at this year’s Min-nesota Fringe Festival. The Apple Valley dance choreographer’s latest pro-duction, “Laby-rinth,” follows a heroine’s escape from a massive maze in a mod-ern retelling of the Greek myth of Ari-adne. “A labyrinth is a puzzle — it can be difficult to es-cape, but not impossible,” explained Freya. “In this modern version, (it’s the) story of a person who lost her way and finds herself trapped in a laby-rinth of her own design. … Throughout her jour-ney she finds a way back through trust, hope and letting go.” Freya, a 1988 Apple Valley High School gradu-ate who now serves as ar-tistic director at Heartbeat Studios in Apple Valley,

is presenting “Labyrinth” through her own perfor-mance company, Vox Me-dusa. As the show’s director, Freya aims for “Laby-rinth” to be an entranc-ing audio-visual spectacle, using slow-motion video

backdrops, haunt-ing choral ar-rangements, and thread — lots and lots of thread. “I’ve had these great visions of us-ing thread on stage for a long time,” said Freya. “There’s 300 feet

of thread that eventually gets unfolded on stage — it gets worked into geo-metric shapes and a cat’s cradle and other shapes. The thread becomes the labyrinth itself at times, and the light of hope at other times.” The production draws from the talent base at Heartbeat Studios. The show’s roster of perform-ers and production crew features nine staff mem-bers from Heartbeat, as

well as five students in the performing arts studio’s Senior Academy. The Vox Medusa pro-duction team on “Laby-rinth” includes Freya’s husband, Paul Wonsavage, overseeing the show’s film

aspects; Jeremy Chris-tensen, handling music and video; and Emily Co-lay, choral arrangements. “Labyrinth” opened July 31 at Intermedia Arts in Minneapolis; additional performances are sched-

uled July 31, Aug. 3, 7 and 9-10. Tickets are $12 (plus a $4 festival button) and are available at www.fringefestival.org.

Email Andrew Miller at [email protected].

Grace Mollenkopf (top), an instructor at Apple Valley’s Heartbeat Studios, and Natasha West, a student in Heartbeat’s Senior Academy, are among the performers in “Labyrinth,” which will be presented by Vox Medusa at this year’s Minnesota Fringe Festival. (Photo submitted)

Kristin Freya

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Dakota City: A blast from the past at the fair

The Chautauqua is one of the highlights at the Dakota City Heritage Village during the Dakota County Fair. (File photo)

Heritage Village to host activities,

performances by Andy Rogers

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Every year during the Da-kota County Fair, a time capsule in the form of the Dakota City Heritage Village opens daily from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. where reenactors will attempt to emu-late what life was like in the early 1900s. One of the yearly highlights has been the Chautauqua, which will harken back to scenes and song of days long past much like the overall theme at Dakota City Heritage Village. This year viewers can expect a story about Dakota County on the prairie featuring the Depres-sion, Prohibition, the formation of The National Grange of the Order of Patrons of Husbandry, Chief Cloudman, locust infesta-tions, penny auctions, and pigs on their way to South St. Paul. “Most scenes are comic and lighthearted,” said Peter Martin, one of the actors and organizers. A few scenes are more poi-gnant such as one where prison-ers of war work on Minnesota farms, and another in which Na-tive Americans give up hunting for farming. The cast is familiar includ-ing Jennifer Merhar, Marissa Eastling, Dewey Roth and Eric Peltoniemi, who have acted in the Chautauqua since 1999. Shane Lord and Tim Bunting joined the group a few years ago, and newcomer 2014 Rosemount

High School graduate Madison Holtze will join in for 2014. “They must be having fun,” Martin said. “Otherwise why would they endure playing cows, pigs, and grasshoppers.” Martin wrote scenes and lyr-ics and directed the plays for the first five or six years before taking a break. He re-joined the effort in 2012. Peltoniemi, who runs Redhouse Records in Min-neapolis, wrote all of the music and some additional lyrics for all

of those shows. Pearl Shirley and others from Dakota City Heri-tage Village produce the show. Chautauqua shows begin in the tent behind the drugstore at 7 p.m. Monday through Wednes-day; 2, 5 and 7 p.m. Thursday; 4 and 6 p.m. Friday; 5 and 7 p.m. Saturday; and 2 and 5 p.m. Sun-day. The Dakota City Heritage Village features 22 period build-ings including a bank, church, town hall, school, drug store,

and post office, which will be staffed with hosts interpreting rural life in the early 1900s. The Rambling River Model Railroad will be set up at the museum. New displays this year include a summer kitchen and root cellar. The vintage race cars are moving to Dakota City to the next to the gas station as the original location no longer avail-able. The cars raced at Dakota County Fair in the 1950s and 1960s.

“These are the remnants of what’s left over from those cars,” organizer Mark Langer said. “They’re very unique cars.” There will also be demonstra-tions on wood-stove cooking, blacksmithing and soap mak-ing as well as several musical performances at the bandstand throughout the week. The Summer Pops Orchestra is performing at noon on Thurs-day. Friday’s bandstand perfor-mances include Joshua Kloyda at 3 and 5 p.m. The Czech Area Concertina Club Band will play at 7 p.m. The bandstand will feature Whoops-a-Daisy Band at noon and 2 p.m. Saturday. Later in the day, the Dakota Brass Quintet will play at 6 and 8 p.m. Lakeville South High School will handle entertainment at the bandstand Sunday with the marching band beginning at 2 p.m. and the jazz combo at 3 p.m. Other musicians will be wandering around the village daily performing on porches or benches. A Dillinger Gang bank raid reenactment will return this year for performances at 11 a.m. and 4 p.m. Saturday, and 4 p.m. Sun-day. Threshing demonstrations are scheduled at 2 p.m. Tuesday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday as well as at 3 p.m. Thursday north of the fire barn. There will also be a tractor parade 1 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday.

Email Andy Rogers at [email protected].

Local blues, folk artist performing at county fair by Andy Rogers

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Acoustic blues and folk mu-sic will cut through the noise at the Dakota County Fair next week. Joshua Kloyda, 26, will play at the bandstand at 3 and 5 p.m. Friday in Dakota City Heritage Village at the Dakota County Fair. “I love that whole scene,” he said. “The last time I was there I fit right in.”

Although this will be Kloyda’s first time on the bandstand, he’s been one of the wander-ing musicians at Dakota City before playing his Regal slide guitar from 1912. A Rosemount native, Kloyda started playing guitar when he was 13. When he was 18 he started taking it seri-ously playing in coffee houses and local venues. In search of a more advanced tune, he drove

what he called a “hippie van” to Nashville to re-fine his craft. Kloyda released a re-cord “Ramblin On” in 2010 and he’s been on touring ever since. Al-most three years ago he moved to the Goss Opera House in Water-

town, S.D., where he lived up-stairs, performed downstairs and wrote music everywhere. “I played with the house band in the opera hall and sat

in all those old original rooms writing songs every day,” he said. “It was pretty wild.” The work should manifest it-self in the form of a new record soon. He has since moved back to Minnesota and played in several area coffee houses and bars. He plays what he calls ram-bling music: a mix of blues and folk music on an acoustic gui-tar. Inspired by Wisconsin sing-er-songwriter Jeffrey Foucault

along with older musicians, such as Mississippi Fred Mc-Dowell and Blind Willy John-son, Kloyda is excited to con-tribute his music to the fair. “Sharing my music with peo-ple is a big part of the journey,” Kloyda said. “If you can make someone feel something, you can have someone experience the journey. It’s pretty power-ful thing.”

Email Andy Rogers at [email protected].

Joshua Kloyda

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A life reconstructedLakeville woman’s comeback after devastating crash

Kristin Sanders, of Lakeville, was driving this van when it was destroyed in a June 18, 2011, crash. Hospitalized for months, Sanders underwent three surgeries and will feel effects of the crash for the rest of her life. (Photo submitted)

by Laura AdelmannSUN THISWEEK


Kristin Sanders has no memory of the 2011 head-on crash that forever changed her life. The Lakeville mother, chief financial of-ficer and fitness instructor said she remembers nothing of dying or being revived upon arriving at Regions Hospital. She tells of the accident by others’ accounts, includ-ing that of a silent film recorded by a traffic cam-era. Waking from the in-duced coma 18 days into her seven-week hospital stay, Sanders’ first recol-lection is of confusion, fear and pain that seared through her body, head to toe. It was relentlessly con-stant and alive despite narcotics that felt about as effective as baby aspi-rin. “I remember the first time after waking up and being wheeled to an x-ray,” Sanders wrote in an account detailing her re-covery. “Every little bump I would wince in pain and would just sit there and cry because you feel so helpless. I remember feel-ing very, very alone even though there were people around me. I did not want to see anyone. At that point just wanted to die. I couldn’t stand the pain anymore and thought se-riously, this is what I was saved for?” Wearing a halo, a vest connected to a large metal brace that was drilled into her head with four screws a couple inches long, hooked up to machines and a tube down her throat, she felt a surge of emotions she was unable to verbally express. “Because I couldn’t feel certain things in my body, I was scared beyond

belief,” Sanders said. Panic gripped her be-cause she felt something horrible had happened to someone in her family. “To not understand if my children or my family was even living anymore

is a pain one can-not describe,” she wrote. Sanders said she desperately want-ed to ask ques-tions, express her frustration, anger, fears, concerns, and at times, rage. Her writing came

out as scribbles nobody could understand. Visi-tors cried. She answered questions by blinking her eyes. Sanders wanted to know what was going on, to take her life back, to see her children, Ellie, then 9, and Eliza, who was 6 months old. It was her children rescuers had desper-ately searched for in her crumpled minivan after spotting a car seat in it after the wreck, but angry words between Sanders and her eldest daughter had kept them from ac-companying her on the fateful June 18 trip to the store, likely saving their lives.

Critical care After days of effort and work with a machine that showed her breaths, Sand-ers was able to breathe without a respirator and she was transferred to the critical care unit around July 12. “I was becoming more “clear” in my thinking at this point in that I could stay up longer times, but all I did was stare at the ceiling because I couldn’t lift my head,” Sanders wrote. “Really the only movement I had at this point in time is when someone would come and change my diaper.” She contracted an in-fection that left her un-

able to control bodily functions; days were filled with tears, pain, frustra-tion, embarrassment, ag-ony and nurses who pro-vided comfort and care. A month after the acci-dent, Sanders was allowed to see her children, but because of the infection could not touch them. “I cried,” Sanders said. “My oldest daughter had tears in her eyes. It was just scary for them.” Sitting up the first time in bed was a three-nurse exercise that Sanders said was excruciating. Soon after that, before she could move on her own, she was transferred to undergo physical and occupational and therapy rehabilitation, which she refers to as “boot camp.” “They were very clear that no longer would I have people doing stuff for me and I needed to do it for myself,” Sanders wrote. “I was laying there thinking I can’t even sit up what am I going to do? But then I got my ‘feisty’ self-back and thought, well I will show them. Their pissing me off ac-tually helped some. I was out to prove them that I will sit up one day, I will be able to dress myself one day and feed myself.” That determination drove her rehabilitation, fighting brutal pain daily. On trembling legs she stood for two minutes in-stead of the 30 seconds therapists had proposed. “I cannot tell you how exhausted I was after two minutes, but I knew right there and then I was going to succeed.” Sanders employed the same determination to re-gain short-term memory loss by constantly trying to memorize and repeat words. She had to retrain her legs and limbs, and after weeks on a liquid diet had to teach herself again how to chew and swallow, dress herself with limited

movement and how to get in and out of the wheel-chair on her own. “It was like learning a new life,” Sanders said. After insurance would no longer cover in-patient rehabilitation, Sanders learned she would be sent home. Making their two-story walk-out home accessible required installing chair ramps; a hospital bed and necessary equipment was installed on the main lev-el. Friends and family gathered for a short, cel-ebratory homecoming party. Still wearing the halo, missing parts of her hair, sporting a huge gash in her forehead, and hav-ing not had combed or washed her hair in weeks and unable to walk or talk in complete sentences, Sanders said she was em-barrassed. “No one cared,” Sand-ers wrote. “I was able to see everyone, and I was overjoyed.” Settling in at home was difficult. She wanted to do everything on her own, but needed help and it made her mad. Sanders desperately wanted to care for her children. “More than seven weeks have gone by, and I have not been able to

change one diaper on my baby … I haven’t been able to hold her more than five minutes, and my old-est just wanted her mom back,” Sanders wrote. Instead, Sanders strug-gled to adapt to her new life, filled with appoint-ments and struggles to regain strength and inde-pendence. Sometimes, when alone, she just cried. After about three months, doctors finally replaced the halo with a neck brace, a switch that she said felt like 20-pound weight being lifted. She took to using a walker and crutches, crawled downstairs to take her first shower since the accident, and by No-vember, was allowed to return to work part time. “It was overwhelming at first because everyone at work wanted to talk about the accident and I didn’t,” Sanders wrote. “I just wanted to try and fo-cus, but it didn’t take me long to realize things were not the same. I used to multi-task so well, (but) I would find myself just getting lost in the middle of doing tasks.” She did not have the same stamina, and her once strong memory was gone. She had to write ev-erything down and com-pleted projects one at a

time. Through determina-tion, Sanders has regained many abilities, but will likely always suffer some effects of the accident. She has endured three hip surgeries and returned to teaching fitness classes, but is disappointed she could not lead kick-box-ing again. Sanders instead leads a strengthening class and still suffers pain. She drives, but sudden movements can disturb her and she tries to avoid driving on the I-35 front-age road where the crash occurred. Surviving the crash that she said should have killed her has left her with questions of the reasons God saved her; she still struggles with frustration and anger, and there are days where she is exhaust-ed and the challenges de-mand daily renewal of her will to rebuild her life. That determination remains so strong that about a year after the ac-cident, she had the words “I will never give up” tat-tooed on her back. ”I have two young kids,” Sanders said. “I have a career, I have a hus-band, I have family. They all need me, so I have to move forward.”

Laura Adelmann is at [email protected].

Kristin Sanders

Apple Valley man charged in theft from athletic association by Andrew Miller


An Apple Valley man was charged July 24 with five counts of felony theft related to the loss of ap-proximately $113,500 from the Rosemount Area Athletic Associa-tion between 2011 and 2013. Robert S. Reischauer, 62, allegedly stole the money by fraudulently writing checks to himself and paying for his PayPal and Amazon accounts with RAAA funds while he was employed as fi-nance manager for the youth athletic associa-tion. After issuing checks to himself, Reischauer would delete them from the accounting records he presented to the RAAA board, according to the

criminal complaint. Police launched an in-vestigation in September 2013 after an audit by the athletic association following Reischauer’s departure revealed thou-sands of dollars missing, the complaint said. Reis-chauer had been the only one with access to the ac-counts. The RAAA replaced Reischauer — and un-dertook the audit — af-ter noting several small

errors in accounting, the complaint said. Reis-chauer had been the asso-ciation’s finance manager, a paid position, for 27 years. Police executed a search warrant at Reis-chauer’s home and seized financial records relating to the association’s ac-counts. Copies of bank state-ments found in the home were compared to origi-nal bank records, which

showed that several trans-actions had been removed from the statements Reis-chauer had presented to the RAAA, and “the numbers had been sys-tematically changed to hide the fact that addi-tional money was being removed from RAAA accounts,” the complaint said. The Minnesota De-partment of Commerce’s Fraud Bureau assisted in the investigation, un-

dertaking a “forensic accounting” by analyz-ing RAAA records and Reischauer’s computer and bank records to de-termine the amounts and timeframes of the alleged thefts. If convicted of all five counts of theft, Reis-chauer faces a maximum penalty of 55 years in prison and fines totaling $170,000. “This major economic crime is the 14th case in-

volving losses in excess of $100,000 charged in Da-kota County since 2009,” Dakota County Attorney James Backstrom said. “Financial crimes against organizations involving youth are especially trou-bling.” Reischauer’s first court appearance is scheduled for Aug. 11 in Hastings.



Legislative Health Care Workforce CommissionTo the editor: On July 22, the first meeting for the Legislative Health Care Workforce Commission met in St. Paul. As a member of the commission, we are tasked with studying and provid-ing recommendations to the Legislature on how to strengthen Minnesota’s

health care workforce. The commission must compile a preliminary report with its recommendations by Dec. 31, 2014, and present its final report to the Leg-islature by Dec. 31, 2016. The goal of the new commission is to iden-tify where shortages ex-ist or are anticipated and explore and evaluate the solutions and alternatives to ensuring that those shortages will be filled. Throughout the country, especially in rural areas,

there soon will be critical levels of family practitio-ners. In order to develop creative solutions that are the best fit for Minnesota’s health care system, this commission serves the im-portant purpose of iden-tifying the necessary next steps to move our work-force forward. The report must take the following steps: • Identify current and anticipated health care workforce shortages, by both provider type and ge-

ography. • Evaluate the effec-tiveness of incentives cur-rently available to develop, attract and retain a highly-skilled health care work-force. • Study alternatives to develop, attract and retain a highly-skilled health care workforce. • Identify current causes and potential solu-tions to barriers related to the primary care work-force, including training and residency shortages and income disparities between primary care and other providers. Bolstering our health care workforce and pre-venting worker shortages is vital to delivering the care that individuals and families need. I’m espe-cially interested in how we can make changes to our higher education system to educate future health care workers. The Legislative Health

Care Workforce Com-mission consists of five members of the House of Representatives and five members of the Senate. Each chamber must be represented by three mem-bers of the majority party and two members of the minority party. Please feel free to con-tact me about any con-cerns you may have. Your input is welcome and ap-preciated.

Sen. GREG CLAUSENDFL-Apple Valley

Editor’s note: Clausen’s term is not up for re-elec-tion this fall.

What’s wrong with D.C.? To the editor: With all due respect to his military service, if anyone wants to know what is wrong in Wash-

ington, D.C., just read Mr. Hoffinger’s letters. I am to the point where I just laugh and roll my eyes as to what is his latest com-plaint and what horrible thing has U.S. Rep. John Kline, R-Burnsville, done now. Mr. Hoffinger is com-pletely unwilling to com-promise about anything and the only possible conclusion is to get rid of John Kline. Let’s take Mr. Hoffinger’s latest let-ter. He accuses Kline of taking advantage of “gov-ernment-paid retirement incomes” and “fringes funded by taxpayers.” That would describe all senators and representa-tives, regardless of party. This would imply that Mike Obermueller plans to work for free. If Mr. Hoffinger thinks Oberm-ueller can fix this issue, he is delusional. Mr. Hoffin-

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Seifert is knowledgeable, pragmatic, experienced

360 Communities provides choice when it’s needed most

Marty Seifert is the most traveled of the Republican candidates for governor, having visited all 87 Minnesota counties in the run-up to the Aug. 12 primary elec-tion. The former southwestern Minnesota farm kid has also covered a lot of ground in his professional and political careers, from teaching high school history and government to serving 14 years in the House of Representatives, three as minor-ity leader. Experienced, pragmatic and deeply knowledgeable about issues ranging from the Iron Range’s sulfide mining controver-sy to metropolitan transportation needs, Seifert is our choice in the Republican gu-bernatorial primary. The winner will face DFL Gov. Mark Dayton in November. The ECM Editorial Board interviewed Seifert and his three main opponents — party endorsee Jeff Johnson, a Hennepin County commissioner; Rep. Kurt Zellers, a former House speaker; and Orono busi-nessman Scott Honour. (Merrill Ander-son, a retired public relations consultant, is also on the ballot.) All the candidates sounded familiar Republican themes around cutting busi-ness regulations and not raising taxes. But Seifert had the most thorough grasp of the issues and the sharpest, best-prepared set of policy prescriptions.

An engaging sort with an expansive per-sonality, Seifert also showed the greatest propensity for straight talk and compro-mise. He’s conservative, all right, but un-afraid to declare that some battles fought in pursuit of party orthodoxy are a waste of political capital. The Marshall resident has been a teacher (and union member), college ad-missions counselor and Realtor. He’s a small-business owner and executive direc-tor of the Avera Marshall Foundation, which supports the Avera Marshall Re-gional Medical Center. The only candidate with experience in the health care field, Seifert wouldn’t try to scrap the state health care exchange — that’s politically impossible, he said — but he has ideas for reforming MNsure, such as opening it to insurers from outside Minnesota and replacing current board members with health care and insurance experts. He wants to reform health care delivery by giving nurse practitioners more author-ity in patient care — a cost-saving “pre-triage” model that would especially help underserved rural communities, he said. His education proposals are anchored

by a drive to get schoolchildren, many of them still learning English, reading by the end of third grade. Early literacy is a pas-sion shared by his running mate, Rep. Pam Myhra of Burnsville. He proposes a moratorium on new test-ing — students take too many tests now, he said — and doesn’t view school vouch-ers as a panacea for closing the achieve-ment gap. He wants college tuition hikes capped at the inflation rate and says student aid should be reformed to give colleges and universities more incentive to hold down tuition. On transportation, Seifert and his op-ponents share an insistence on highway lanes, not rail trains. Seifert wants plan-ning for the Southwest Light Rail project stopped. To bridge a 20-year transportation funding gap in Minnesota estimated at $12 billion, Seifert said he wants a third of each state bonding bill dedicated to “roads and bridges.” That would bridge nearly 70 percent of the gap, said Seifert, who op-poses a fuel tax increase and says unneces-sary rules and regulations can be scrapped to make road construction cheaper. Seifert lost a 2010 bid for governor, eventually throwing his support to Tom Emmer at the state Republican conven-tion. This time, he and some other unen-

dorsed candidates haven’t gone quietly. Plymouth resident Johnson, the party’s convention choice, served six years in the House and was elected to the Hennepin County Board of Commissioners in 2008, gaining re-election in 2012. He pledges a thorough audit of state government pro-grams, with an eye toward ending ineffec-tive ones. Zellers, of Maple Grove, has served 10 years in the House and was elected speak-er after Republicans won the majority in the 2010 elections. He led his caucus in its 2011 budget negotiations with Dayton and the DFL. Stalled negotiations led to a three-week government shutdown, with Dayton bowing to Republicans’ insistence on not raising taxes to erase a $5 billion shortfall. The DFL regained the House majority in the 2012 elections. Honour, of Orono, hasn’t served in government but has clearly done his homework on state issues. His business ventures have included a firm that bought and revamped troubled companies, saving and creating jobs, Honour says.

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by Anika RychnerSPECIAL TO SUN THISWEEKDAKOTA COUNTY TRIBUNE

She was 88, he was 92, and when the couple arrived for their food shelf appoint-ment at the 360 Communities Burnsville Family Resource Center, they looked trau-matized and defeated. Volunteer Archie MacPhee had seen this look before: They had never expected to be in this position. Archie knew that for many, it is exception-ally difficult to come to a food shelf for the first time and ask for help. He greeted this couple warmly and welcomed them as he would a guest in his own home. Tears rolled down the husband’s face as his wife shared their story. Archie let them know that everyone goes through difficult times, and that 360 Communi-ties is a neighbor with resources to share in times of need. As Archie explained the Burnsville Food Shelf shopping model, he began to walk them back to the food shelf to meet our volunteer shopping assistants. Before they reached the food shelf door, the man stopped Archie and said, “Hey bub, come here!” He dropped his cane on the floor and held out his arms. Soon he was joined by his wife and they all shared a group hug. “All I need is one of these stories every once in a while and it reminds me why the good Lord wants me here,” says a smiling Archie, “and every week I get one.” Archie says the move to a choice model food shelf, where people in need shop for their own food rather than pick up pre-packed bags of groceries, and the changes made in how people are greeted are big reasons why. “This model opens the door for 360 Com-munities to receive people with more grace, respect and dignity.” 360 Communities continually evaluates and improves its programs and services as a means to an important end: better serv-ing those in need. It was in this spirit, that over a year ago, we began a process of as-sessing our network of five food shelves and two family resource centers to see if we

could find ways to serve more people more efficiently, more completely and with more dignity. 360 Communities Feed My Sheep Food Shelf at Messiah Lutheran Church is cel-ebrating its 10th anniversary of serving the Lakeville community. Throughout that time, they have worked to improve service every year. This week, Feed My Sheep will become the second 360 Communities food shelf to transition to a choice model. In addition to this change, they have set up a community garden in Lakeville’s Sunny Acres neighborhood in an effort to in-crease the amount of fresh produce offered to families in need. Residents of Sunny Acres are growing their own healthy pro-duce in the garden and now have the ability to shop for their groceries at the Feed My Sheep Food Shelf. As a member of 360 Communities’ net-work of five food shelves, Feed My Sheep was able to see the choice model first put into service at the 360 Communities Burns-ville Food Shelf last March. The results of this transition have been remarkable and have provided Feed My Sheep with a blueprint of best practices to follow. The Burnsville Food shelf has served 25 percent more individuals in the few months since the change with healthier food options and resources to stabilize families. During the same period we have been able to distribute 5,000 more pounds of food per month – another 25 percent increase. The popularity of this model with our customers has been overwhelming and ac-counts for some of the increase in people served. But there are many important fac-tors that have aligned to make this success

a reality. These collaborations and partner-ships in the community were critical for 360 Communities to make a greater impact in Burnsville: • The Burnsville AM and Noon Rota-ries secured nearly $7,000 in funds to pur-chase commercial freezers and refrigera-tors that give the Burnsville Food Shelf the capacity to store a greater volume of meat, dairy and produce. • Our collaboration with Vineyard Community Services’ Fruit of the Vine Food Shelf in Burnsville has made it pos-sible to accept a sizable weekly donation of food from Wal-Mart of Burnsville. Fruit of the Vine has the capacity to pick up and deliver the produce, meat and dairy. The ability to leverage Vineyard Community Services’ core competency of food delivery has directly led to an increase of healthy food for the families we serve. For example, where we have received very little fresh pro-duce in the past, we are now receiving an average of 900 pounds of fresh produce a week. And this healthy food is popular with our customers because when dollars are stretched, one is less likely to purchase more expensive items like fresh produce and meat at a grocery store. • Our volunteers continue to contribute their time and energy in the spirit of caring

for their neighbors. In fact, year over year between the months of April and June, we saw a 61 percent increase in the number of volunteers in Burnsville and a 46 per-cent increase in the total number of hours served. The choice model has streamlined food delivery for our Burnsville Food Shelf. The change in the food shelf coincided with a change in the operation of the Burnsville Family Resource Center. We now have more time with customers at each food ap-pointment to build relationships. In addi-tion, we are piloting a new self-sufficiency project to better track outcomes, with the goal of supporting, following up, and im-pacting people’s long-term self-sufficiency. This system of tracking outcomes im-proves our ability to carry out our holistic approach, helping us target areas of need while providing people with goal-planning tools and support beyond food. Throughout the 40-year history of 360 Communities, we have recognized that change is healthy, and more impor-tantly, needed in order to meet the evolv-ing needs of an ever-shifting population. With stretched resources, we are starting to leverage community partners to col-laborate in new ways to serve more and to serve better. But most importantly, we are continual-ly strengthening our relationships with the people we serve. When people come to 360 Communities for help, they often feel like they are out of options. In Burnsville and in Lakeville, our food shelf customers are now experiencing more choice at a time in their lives when things feel out of control. And that is dignifying and helps them on the road to self-sufficiency.

Anika Rychner is director of self-sufficiency at 360 Communities, a Dakota County non-profit which serves 17,000 people annually by preventing violence, ensuring school success, and promoting long-term self-sufficiency. Columns reflect the opinion of the author.

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360 Communities collaboration with Vineyard Community Services’ Fruit of the Vine Food Shelf in Burnsville has made it possible for the organization to pick up and deliver the produce, meat and dairy. (Photo submitted)

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ger says “I am a Marine” and then says “I did not get my income, health care, and retirement from a public job funded by tax-payers.” Where does Mr Hoffinger think the mili-tary gets its funding? Mr. Hoffinger also writes “All men are created equal. To me that means the right to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness regardless of physical, mental and earn-ing capability.” If you are not going to include the unborn as the right to life, please spare us the holier than thou lecture. Perhaps Mr. Hoffinger needs to follow his own advice and take a good, long look in the mirror.

TOM ILLGApple Valley

Wills is dedicated to serviceTo the editor: I once served for four years on the Curriculum Advisory Committee for Biology in School District 196. During this time, I was appalled at the many layers of bureaucracy that had been deemed neces-sary by the district admin-istration. Moreover, the cost of all these bureau-crats and their support systems was very disturb-ing. No wonder they keep coming back for more levy money. That’s why I support state Rep. Anna Wills, R-Apple Valley. She has con-sistently supported giving more education dollars directly to the classroom, not to bureaucrats. She has stated many times that increasing the budget for the Department of Educa-tion is just a black hole for hard-earned homeowner taxes. We need more clear-thinking and dedicated legislators like Anna Wills. HALE MESEROWEagan

Veterans memorial to be dedicated To the editor: The official dedica-tion of the Farmington Area Veterans Memorial will take place on Sunday, Sept. 7, at 2 p.m. We are currently working on vari-ous activities for this event so please watch for news releases and letters in this newspaper as our plans progress. Mark that time and date on your calen-dar. We are planning a great ceremony; one that is respectful to all military veterans with emphasis on those Farmington Area Veterans who lost their lives in past war time op-erations. Persons who have pur-chased pavers should go to www.farmingtonvetsme-morial.com and click on the “Veteran Pavers” tab and check the paver list for accuracy. You can also get an update on dedication plans by clicking on the “News” tab.

LEON W. ORRFarmington Area Veter-ans Memorial Committee chairman

Support Seifert To the editor: In the upcoming Re-publican gubernatorial primary I will be support-ing Marty Seifert because he is Minnesota’s best chance at bringing real leadership back to our state government. With simple, reasonable solu-tions to these issues, Seif-ert is the candidate who can get our state back on the right track. As a former public school teacher, univer-sity admissions counselor, small business owner, and, most recently, an executive director of a health care foundation, Seifert has the experience to know how legislation will affect Min-nesotans in their everyday life. The biggest issues plaguing our state, edu-cation, job creation, and health care, are all issues that Seifert has extensive background in. With edu-cation, Seifert knows that giving Minnesota families school choice and keeping the control of the schools local are the best ways to make sure that all stu-dents are given a quality education. The only way we can keep Minnesotan

jobs in Minnesota while also growing new jobs is by creating a tax envi-ronment that is business friendly. Gov. Mark Day-ton has done the opposite of keeping Minnesota competitive, but Seifert is ready to take this issue on from day one. Health care is one of the biggest issues our state is facing. Seifert is the only candidate who has spent the past few years working directly in the field and knows how to make health care op-tions plentiful and afford-able. With his common sense solutions and real world experience, voting Seifert on Aug. 12 is the right call. TIM POSTLakeville

Seifert is the right choice To the editor: I am excited to say that I will be supporting Marty Seifert for governor in the August Republican pri-mary. Marty is a proven leader with a wealth of real world experience who has a clear vision of what he will do once in office.

Job creation, health care, and education are some of the biggest is-sues that Minnesotans are facing in their every-day lives and for each of these issues Marty has a plan. Marty knows that the only way to keep Min-nesota competitive is to change the tax environ-ment. After spending the past few years working as the executive director of a health care foundation, Marty has the experience needed to be able to fix the failing MNsure system and make it so there are a number of affordable choices for Minnesotans. Marty, a former public school teacher and uni-versity admissions coun-selor, knows that growing the state government is not the way to ensure that Minnesotan students are getting a quality educa-tion. Having a governor with extensive experience in both the public and pri-vate sector is important. Minnesota needs a leader who knows what Min-nesotans are dealing with in their everyday lives be-cause they have had those same experiences. On Aug. 12, please join me in voting for Marty Seifert in the primary elec-tion because he is right on the issues and ready to lead.

SUSAN J. SEVERSONBurnsville

Some thoughts on DoddTo the editor: Let me first begin by saying the death of Alys-sa Ettl is tragic. I have no way of knowing how those who knew her per-sonally are affected. I, who sat next to her in AP microeconomics my se-nior year of school, was rocked by the sad news. After reading the article of Minnesota Depart-ment of Transportation report recommending to not change the speed limit

on Dodd, I felt different emotions. I felt those of anger, not toward Mn-DOT, but toward the community of Lakeville itself. I moved here my soph-omore year of high school and am a proud Lakeville North graduate. What makes Lakeville great is how connected and close the community is. We ral-ly together during times of sadness and in times of happiness. After read-ing the story published on July 25 I was disheartened to learn how our commu-nity seemed to grow apart mere months after a dev-astating accident. The Dodd hill by Lake-ville North is extremely unsafe, especially during the winter time. I go as far to avoid it completely sometimes. However, we are a few years away to fixing the problem due to funding. In the meantime, I propose using common sense. If we as a commu-nity want the speed limit change, then we all must become activists for it by contacting MnDOT, the city, and the county. If we wish to fix Dodd, we need to discuss solutions together. Parents must do their part in warning inex-perienced drivers of haz-ardous driving. Drivers of all ages and abilities must drive smarter. No one is to blame for the tragedy that hap-pened. If another does occur in the future, then the death would not be on the watch of any one person. It would be on the watch of the Lakeville community. Let us give Alyssa and her the family the respect they deserve. As a city, let’s quit feel-ing slighted and come to-gether to develop a logical and effective solution to a problem that is so close to our hearts.

ANTHONY WORDENLakeville

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Apple Valley seniors The Apple Valley Senior Center, 14601 Hayes Road, is home to the following activi-ties, which are organized and run by the Apple Valley 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.cityofapplevalley.org. Monday, Aug. 4 – Blood Pres-sure Checks, 9:30 a.m.; General Meeting, 10 a.m.; SR Meeting, 11 a.m.; Bridge, 12:45 p.m.; Pool, 1 p.m.; Happy Stitchers, 1 p.m.; Finance Committee, 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 5 – Quilting Bees, 9 a.m.; Bike Group, 9 a.m.; Tuesday Painters, 9:30 a.m.; Pi-nochle, 12:30 p.m.; Spanish, 1 p.m.; Table Tennis, 1 p.m.; Hand & Foot Cards, 1 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 6 – Donat-ed Bread, 9 a.m.; Bicycle Club, 9 a.m.; Yoga, 9:45 a.m.; Morn-ing Stretch, 10 a.m.; First Edi-tion Book Club, 1 p.m.; Gather Around Music, 1 p.m.; Domi-noes, 1 p.m.; Mahjong, 1 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 7 – Defensive Driving, 9 a.m.; Beg. Line Danc-ing, 9:15 a.m.; Int. Line Danc-ing, 10 a.m.; Duplicate Bridge, 12:30 p.m.; Tap Dancing; 12:30 p.m.; Pool, 1 p.m.; 500, 1 p.m.; Hardanger, 1 p.m.; Recreated Cards, 1 p.m. Friday, Aug. 8 – Bicycle Club, 9 a.m.; Morning Stretch,

10 a.m.; Women’s Pool, 11 a.m.; Watercolor Class, 1 p.m.

Burnsville seniors The Burnsville Senior Center is located in the Diamondhead Education Center at 200 W. Burnsville Parkway. Call 952-707-4120 for information about the following senior events. Monday, Aug. 4 – Sunrise Stretch, 8:30 a.m.; Cribbage, 11 a.m.; Pinochle, 12:45 p.m.; SS Flex; deadline, Albuquerque. Tuesday, Aug. 5 – Ce-dar Lanes Bowling, 10 a.m.; Scrabble, 10:30 a.m.; Duplicate Bridge, 12:30 p.m.; Line Danc-ing. Wednesday, Aug. 6 – Wood-carvers, 8 a.m.; Sunrise Stretch, 8:30 a.m.; Tai Chi MS, 11 a.m.; 500 and Bridge, 12:45 p.m.; BABS, 1 p.m.; SS Flex; Wednes-day in the Park, 7 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 7 – Foot Clin-ic, 9 a.m.; Health Ins. Council, 9 a.m.; Crafters, 10 a.m.; Wood Carving, 6 p.m. Friday, Aug. 8 – Sunrise Stretch, 8:30 a.m.; Painting, 9 a.m.; Knitters, 9:30 a.m.; Hand & Foot, 12:15 p.m.; SS Flex; deadline, Branson.

Eagan seniors The following senior activi-ties are offered by the Eagan Parks and Recreation Depart-ment in the Lone Oak Room at the Eagan Community Center, 1501 Central Parkway. Call 651-675-5500 for more information.

Monday, Aug. 4 – Zumba, 9 a.m.; FFL and FFL+ (Oasis), 10 and 11 a.m. Tuesday, Aug. 5 – Quilting, 9:30 a.m.; Book Club No. 1, 1 p.m.; Euchre and 500, 1 p.m.; Zumba, 5:30 p.m.; Yoga (Oasis), 6:20 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 6 – LO-Rockers, 9 a.m.; Nordic Walk-ing, 10:30 a.m.; Hand & Foot, 1 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 7 – Domi-noes, 9 a.m.; Stillwater Trip, 10 a.m.; Bridge, 1 p.m.; Zumba, 5:30 p.m.; Yoga (Oasis), 6:30 p.m. Friday, Aug. 8 – Zumba, 10:15 a.m.; Yoga (Oasis), 11:10 a.m.; Bingo, 1 p.m.

Farmington seniors The Rambling River Center is located at 325 Oak St. For more information on trips, pro-grams and other activities, call 651-280-6970. Monday, Aug. 4 – Coffee Guys, 9:30 a.m.; Dulcimer Club, 10 a.m.; Recycled Cards, 12:30 p.m.; Day Old Bread, 12:30 p.m.; 500 Cards, 12:30 p.m.; Line Dancing, 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 5 – Coffee Guys, 9:30 a.m.; Fitness Center Orientation, 9:30 a.m.; Chair Exercise, 10 a.m.; Wood Carv-ing, 1 p.m.; Bowling, 1 p.m.; Table Tennis, 2 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 6 – Wii Games, 9 a.m.; Coffee Guys/Gals, 9:30 a.m.; Seniors on the Move Fitness, 10 a.m.; Day Old Bread, 12:30 p.m.; Bridge, 1 p.m.

Thursday, Aug. 7 – Zumba Gold, 9:15 a.m.; Coffee Guys, 9:30 a.m.; Pinochle, 12:30 p.m.; Table Tennis, 2 p.m. Friday, Aug. 8 – Wii Games, 9 a.m.; Coffee Guys, 9:30 a.m.; Day Old Bread, 9:30 a.m.; Re-cycled Bingo, 1 p.m.

Rosemount seniors The following activities are sponsored by the Rosemount Parks and Recreation Depart-ment and the Rosemount Area Seniors. For more information, call the Rosemount Parks and Recreation Department at 651-322-6000. Monday, Aug. 4 – Bridge, 9 a.m., Do Drop Inn; 500, 1 p.m., DDI. Tuesday, Aug. 5 – Coffee, 8 a.m. to 1 p.m., Rosemount Cub; Bid Euchre, 9 a.m., DDI; Catered Lunch, 11:30 a.m., Rosemount Community Center, RSVP required. Wednesday, Aug. 6 – RAS Walking Club, 9 a.m., RCC south parking lot. Thursday, Aug. 7 – Cribbage, 9 a.m., DDI; Bingo, 1 p.m., DDI. Friday, Aug. 8 – Euchre, 9 a.m., DDI; Bowling, 1 p.m., Ap-ple Place in Apple Valley. Stillwater Trolley Tour, Thursday, Sept. 18, Stillwa-ter. Narrated tour followed by lunch at The Gasthaus Bavar-ian Hunter. After lunch, stop by Aamodt’s Apple Farm and the St. Croix Winery store. The bus will depart from the Rosemount

Community Center at 9:15 a.m. and return at 3:45 p.m. Cost is $64, which includes bus, tour and lunch. Registration dead-line: Aug. 22. Historic Fort Snelling Bus Tour, Thursday, Sept. 11. A cos-tumed tour guide will give par-ticipants a detailed history of the site and share stories from the past. After the tour, have free coffee and cookies at the Visitor Center. Bring your own bag lunch for a picnic; a cooler will be provided. Cost is $12. The bus will depart from the Rosemount Community Cen-ter at 10:45 a.m. and return at 1:30 p.m. Registration deadline: Sept. 4. August Schell Brewery and Morgan Creek Vineyards, Thursday, Oct. 2, New Ulm. Tour the brewery and try sam-ples of beer and root beer in the Rathskellar Tap Room. Visit the gift shop and gardens. Lunch at Veigel’s Kaiserhoff’s Restau-rant, then head to the vineyard for a tour and tasting. Cost is $75. The bus will depart from the Rosemount Community Center at 7:15 a.m. and return at 5 p.m. Registration deadline: Sept. 8. The Rosemount Area Seniors “Do Drop Inn” is open to senior citizens 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Mon-day through Friday. The room is located in the Rosemount Community Center and allows seniors a place to stop by and socialize during the week.

East African children’s choir The Asante Children’s Choir will perform dur-ing the 5 p.m. worship ser-vice on Saturday, Aug. 16, at Farmington Lutheran Church. A free-will offer-ing will go to the Asante Children’s Choir. “Asante” is a Swahili word translated “Thank You” in English. The As-ante Children’s Choir is made up of children from East Africa, a region re-covering from years of civil war and genocide

that have claimed millions of lives, leaving thousands of children and women as orphans and widows. The choir is dedicated to spreading love, hope and joy while raising awareness for the plight of orphans and other vulnerable chil-dren. For more informa-tion regarding the Asante Children’s Choir or Farm-ington Lutheran Church, go to www.farmingtonlu-theran.com. Farmington Lutheran Church is lo-cated at 20600 Akin Road, Farmington. Call the

church office at 651-463-4100 with questions.

SouthCross VBS SouthCross Commu-nity Church, 1800 County Road 42 E., Burnsville, will hold a free vacation Bible school from 6:15-8:15 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 3, through Thursday, Aug. 7. Children age 3 through those who have just fin-ished fifth grade may at-tend. “Workshop of Won-ders” will help children

learn to imagine, build, grow, work and walk with God. Space is limited to 40 children so call 952-432-4286 or register online at www.southcrossmn.org.

Garage sale at Christus Victor Christus Victor Lu-theran Church, 7510 Palo-mino Drive, Apple Valley, will hold its annual garage sale Aug. 8-9. Sale hours will be 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Friday and 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday. Early bird shopping: Pay $3 per family and shop from 9-10 a.m. before the official opening on Friday. Call 952-454-6927 for more information.

Trinity Lutheran yard sale Trinity Lutheran Church, 600 Walnut St.,

Farmington, will hold a yard sale from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 16. The sale will feature furniture, toys, home de-cor, children’s books and more. There will be free popcorn, hot dogs and lemonade. The event is a fundrais-er for the Young Believers youth group. Thrivent Fi-nancial is providing fund-ing for sale expenses.

St. Mathias Fun Fest St. Mathias Parish will hold its annual Fun Fest on Sunday, Aug. 24. The festival will be held on the church grounds at the corner of Highway 50 and County Road 47 in Hamp-ton. Festivities will include a polka Mass at 11 a.m. featuring Big Ben and the Brians. A food stand and a dessert stand will open

following Mass. Other ac-tivities will include both si-lent and regular auctions, pot of gold, bingo, games, beer stand and country store. There will be entertain-ment throughout the day, featuring country music singer Ron E. Cash.

Community block party Calvary Church of New Prague will sponsor its second annual Com-munity Block Party from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 2, at Memorial Park on Main Street in New Prague. The free event is open to all. There will be games with prizes for all children and door prize drawings for adults. Free food and drinks will be provided. The Fradenburg Family Band will perform live.

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Inventor and entrepreneur Dave Edmonson is shown with his creation, the Freeway, in a photo outside his first manufacturing plant in Burnsville. (Submitted photo)

Invasion of the three-wheelersLocal engineer invented the Freeway, whose

loyalists will gather in Burnsville Aug. 9 by John Gessner


An oddball vehicle that put Burnsville on the au-tomotive map 35 years ago and still maintains a cultish following will make an encore appear-ance Aug. 9. Owners of the three-wheel Freeway, a high-mileage vehicle manufac-tured in Burnsville from 1979 to 1982, will gather for a reunion at Neill Park on the corner of Burns-ville Parkway and Upton Avenue. It’s the third such gath-ering for owners whose loyalty to the 650-pound, fiberglass-body gas sip-per just won’t quit. Jim Rostis of Woodridge, Ill., arranged all three — the first in August 2004, also at Neill Park, and the sec-ond five years later in his home state. The reunions draw loyalists from around the country. Ten years ago they brought about 30 Freeways to Neill Park. About half joined a road rally through town to the vehicle’s two manufactur-ing sites. “It was kind of an awe-some sight,” said Rostis, a 63-year-old IT direc-tor who arranged the re-unions through an online group of Freeway owners. The Freeway was in-

vented by Eagan resident Dave Edmonson, who launched the H-M-Vehi-cles company to build it. “It was a very interest-ing project and endeavor,” said Edmonson, 71, who lived in Apple Valley from 1965 to 1988. “I look forward to the Freeway reunion coming up. It’s always fun to see more of the vehicles come back. The guys that have them, they just keep them in tip-top shape. They’re all pol-ished up. It’s really nice to see.” Edmonson was study-ing mechanical engineer-ing at the University of Minnesota in 1970 when he began researching high-mileage vehicles for an independent-study course. “I thought it would make a lot of sense for people driving to work or when they don’t need a big car to be driving something smaller and more economical,” said Edmonson, a father of six and grandfather of 19. “I did studies on how much power it took to move a small vehicle down the road and what kind of mileage you could expect. I began building a proto-type in 1974 and finished it in 1976. That’s when I tried to start getting the business going.” In 1978 a company

called Vexilar offered start-up cash. Edmonson accepted and opened his first shop in Blooming-ton. He later moved to a building on the north side of Highway 13, be-tween Burnsville High School and Burger King. The company’s last ad-dress was 12119 16th Ave. S., now home to Destiny Christian Center. “I attended a church service there,” Edmonson said. “It was really weird seeing the pulpit up where the assembly line was.” H-M-Vehicles pro-duced 700 Freeways and at its peak employed 22 people, Edmonson said. The vehicle has two wheels in front, one in back and a rear jump seat into which a passenger could squeeze. “The technical marvel was that if you bought the standard model, the en-try-level model, and drove it at factory specs, which was 40 miles per hour, the guarantee was 100 miles to the gallon,” said Rostis, who drove to Burnsville in 1981 to pick up his facto-ry-ordered first Freeway. “The guarantee was that if you didn’t get it, you could bring the car back. They didn’t have any brought back.” The Freeway was li-censed as a motorcycle in most states, Rostis said, though his state of Illinois

deemed it a car because of the two front wheels. The Freeway isn’t a quiet vehicle, he said. As with a motorcycle, back-ing up takes footwork because there’s no reverse gear. The ride isn’t so smooth. Freeways came with a heater and 12-volt lights and battery, Rostis said. A small sun roof was optional. Whatever the vehicle’s shortcomings, “You’ve got to say to yourself, ‘This guy did a great job and had a great idea at the time,’ ” Rostis said. The idea’s time ran out as the era’s energy crisis eased and the economy worsened. The company,

Owners at the first Freeway reunion, held in Burnsville in August 2004, lined up their vehicles outside the first of two buildings in Burnsville where the vehicle was made. (Submitted photo)

never sufficiently capital-ized, survived from “hand to mouth,” Edmonson said. H-M-Vehicles ended in Chapter 7 liquidation, with a handful of paid or-ders that went unfilled. “Gas prices were on the way down and the business climate was on the way down and we had piles of snow in front of the doors that we almost had to shovel tunnels into to get into the building,” Edmonson said, recall-ing the harsh winter of 1981, when Freeway pro-duction peaked and fell. “But our sales started go-ing down. When they got down to the point where we were able to deliver only 10 vehicles a month, we couldn’t afford to stay in business anymore. For several months we did over 60 vehicles.” The company also stuck its toe in the elec-tric-vehicle market, build-ing 20 electrically powered Freeways. “They’d go 40 miles on a charge, which wasn’t too bad at the time,” Edmon-son said. “Actually, Jimmy Carter’s regime tried to get a big electrical vehicle program going, and there were actually electrical

vehicles shows we went to back at that time.” Edmonson put his en-gineering skills to work for a number of compa-nies, retiring in 2008 from Phoenix Solutions Co., which makes plasma heat-ing systems. His three-wheel lives on. “I am a fan,” said Rostis, who owns three Freeways, including an electric. “I still have my original that I purchased and picked up in October of ’81. I drive it to car shows and cruise nights. The other thing that I’ve done over the years is I’ve purchased a good number of Freeways and either restored them or rebuilt them and made them run-ners, and then sold them off. It’s been fun.” The Saturday, Aug. 9, reunion will be held from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. There’s a registration fee for people bringing Freeways. The public is welcome to view the vehicles, Rostis said. A road rally is planned for around 10 a.m. or 2 p.m., depending on the weather, he said.

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


EducationDistrict 196 Community Education classes District 196 Community Ed-ucation will offer the following classes. To register, or for more information, call 651-423-7920 or visit www.district196.org/ce. Lifeguarding plus Water-park Module (ages 15-plus), 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Aug. 18-21, Black Hawk Middle School, $230. Water Safety Aide (ages 13-plus), 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Aug. 4-14 or 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Aug. 18-21, Black Hawk Middle School, $140. Water Safety Instructor (ages 16-plus), 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Aug. 18-21, Black Hawk Mid-dle School, $250. First Aid, 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Aug. 13 or Aug. 21, Black Hawk Middle School, $65. First Aid Renewal, 10-10:30 a.m. Aug. 9, Black Hawk Mid-dle School, $30. CPR/AED - Adult, Child and Infant, 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Aug. 12 or Aug. 20, Black

Hawk Middle School, $75. CPR/AED - Adult, Child and Infant Renewal, 9-10 a.m. Aug. 9, Black Hawk Middle School, $49. Advantage ACT Prep Course, grades 10-12, 5:45-8:45 p.m. Wednesdays, Oct. 22 to Nov. 19 (skip Nov. 5), RMS, $120.

District 196 recognized for excellence in financial reporting For the 12th year in a row, District 196 earned the Certifi-cate of Excellence in Financial Reporting from the Association of School Business Officials In-ternational (ASBO). This year’s certificate recognizes excellence in the preparation and issuance of the district’s Comprehensive Annual Financial Report for fiscal year 2013. The Certificate of Excel-lence is the highest recognition of school district financial op-erations offered by ASBO, a

professional organization with more than 6,000 members. The program reviews and critiques district accounting practices as represented in the Comprehensive Annual Fi-nancial Report, and recognizes school districts that adhere to sound principles and reporting procedures. Fewer than 1,000 school dis-tricts nationally apply for the Certificate of Excellence each year based on the minimum cri-teria. The District 196 Finance Department has received the award in each of the 12 years it has applied. Superintendent Jane K. Berenz commended members of the Finance Department for their continued diligence in carefully managing the dis-trict’s $300 million-plus annual budget. The 2013 Comprehen-sive Annual Financial Report was approved by the School Board last November. The complete report is avail-able at www.District196.org/district/departments/finance.

College News Montana State University, Bozeman, spring president’s honor roll, Kelsey Philipsek, of Apple Valley. University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, spring graduates, from Apple Valley – Michael Chap-man, Arts and Sciences, psy-chology; Abby Meyer, Business, management; Madelyn Miller, Arts and Sciences, communica-tion; Grant Mueller, Business, accounting; Amy Traub, Arts and Sciences, psychology. Normandale Community College, Bloomington, spring graduates, from Apple Valley – Marquita Anderson, A.A., liberal education, and A.S., nursing; Derek Balsimo, A.S., engineering; Mohamed Ali Bel-fadel, A.S., nursing; Jana Blum, A.S., nursing; Brianna Dahedl, A.A., liberal education; Ako-lade Gbadamosi, A.A., liberal education; Benjamin Gibson, A.A.S., computer tech; Mac-Gregor Grier, A.A., liberal edu-cation; Tim Huie, A.A., liberal education; Vinh Huynh, A.A., business: marketing and man-agement; Kathryn Janicki, A.A., liberal education; Cayla Juul,

A.A., liberal education; Rachel Klemz, A.A., liberal education; Abdoul Kone, A.A., liberal education; Tara Larson, A.A., music; Jonathan LeClaire, A.A., liberal education; Justin Lee, A.S., business: marketing and management; Cassidy McKay, A.A., business: marketing and management; Sunnia Nadeem, A.A., liberal education; Kimth-oa Nguyen, A.A., liberal educa-tion; Chelsey Oberstar, A.A., liberal education; Christina Persaud, A.A., liberal educa-tion; Samantha Richard, A.A., liberal education; Jose Rubio Tellez, A.S., business: market-ing and management; Sergiy Skorokhod, A.S., engineering; Bobbi Li Sutherland, A.A.S; Arvin Tolibas, A.S., liberal edu-cation; Boi Tran, A.A.; Helen Valsler, A.S., nursing; Christy Vang, A.A., liberal education; Jamie Winter, A.S., nursing; Erik Zimmerman, A.A., liberal education.

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Sale pending for Lakeville VFW buildingMetro Equity owner considering development plans for downtown block

by Laura AdelmannSUN THISWEEK


Lakeville VFW members are packing up 50 years of history in preparation for a pending sale of the bar and restaurant is has operated in downtown since 1919. VFW Post 210 Cmdr. Randy Pronschinske said the VFW bar and restaurant’s last day in operation is Aug. 1, and they expect to close the sale within weeks. The buyer, Mark Hotzler, owner of Metro Equity Management, said once the purchase is complete, he will own the entire block except for Dairy Delite, an iconic 1950s-style standalone diner. He said he is in contact with Dairy Delite owner former Min-nesota Viking and current Dakota County Commissioner Paul Krause about its potential purchase, but they have not agreed to a price or terms of sale. Hotzler said he is considering long-term options for development of the entire area, which may include remodeling buildings, or in the long-term, rebuilding the entire block. He said he is considering an Ital-ian restaurant or event center for the

VFW building and is investigating different types of development op-tions. Retail will be part of any develop-ment plan, he said. “We’re already brainstorming ideas for the entire block,” Hotzler said. “That’s in the works, and so we have a lot of good ideas. … We’re trying to get the highest and best use that we can find for that block and kind of make it a cornerstone for downtown.” Pronschinske said the pending $454,000 sale of the VFW’s building will propel Post 210 out of debt, and allow the organization to increase its philanthropic purpose of helping veterans and supporting community organizations including Scouts and booster clubs. “We’ll be able to do a lot more for them moving forward,” Pronschin-ske said. The VFW is planning to move into a space in the Lakeville Heri-tage Center, and Hotzler is working with the veterans organization to allow them to move their huge flag pole to its new location. “It meant a lot to some of the members,” Pronschinske said. “We’re going to have a big ceremony

when we move it. We’ll have a big ‘Staking Our Flag at the Heritage Center’ celebration.” He said members are prepar-ing for the building’s sale by going through items they have gathered over the years. “We’re taking as much of our his-tory with us as we can,” Pronschin-ske said. Closing the bar/restaurant that the organization has operated in downtown Lakeville for decades has been a difficult decision fraught with emotion, but Pronschinske advo-cated for it because the business was operating at a loss. Membership voted this spring to put the building up for sale, and Pronschinske said he was contacted by multiple parties considering a purchase. Pronschinske said Hotzler’s plan will benefit businesses and the entire city. “It will be nice when it’s done,” Pronschinske said. “I think it will be better for the city. Mark can now de-velop both pieces of property and it will be a nice downtown.”

Laura Adelmann is at [email protected].

After 50 years in business, the Lakeville VFW Post 210 will get out of the bar and restaurant business. Friday is its last day open, and the sale is expected to be completed within weeks. The VFW membership will move to the Heritage Center and continue its work of helping veterans and community involvement. (Photo by Laura Adelmann)


Obituaries Engagements

Brown/RueggMary K. Brown and

Kyle D. Ruegg together with their families are pleased to announce their engagement.

Mary is the daughter of Dr. Johnny E. and Caro-lyn J. Brown of Port Ar-thur, Texas. Kyle is the son of Steve and Robin Ruegg of Eagan, Minne-sota.

Mary is a 2000 graduate of Ramsay High School and a 2004 graduate of Texas State University. She is an animator with Powerhouse Animation Studios Inc. Kyle is a 2003 graduate of East-view High School and a 2007 graduate of Ring-ling College of Art and Design. He is employed as an animator with Retro Studios in Austin, Texas.

A November wed-ding in Austin, Texas is planned.

Jordan/Silbernagel

Jennica Lakeann Jor-dan, daughter of Fred and Halee Jordan of Burns-ville, Minnesota(formerly Jonesville, Michigan) and Andrew Silbernagel, son of Tim and Dr. Cindy Silbernagel of Farming-ton, Minnesota announce their engagement.

Jennica is a 2012 gradu-ate of Jonesville High School and a student at Normandale Community College. She is currently employed at MUTI. An-drew is a 2006 graduate of Christian Life School and a 2010 graduate of North Central University. He is employed at Paul’s Rental as an assistant manager.

A Sept. 13th wedding is planned at Mt. Olivet As-sembly of God in Apple Valley, Mn. The couple will make their home in Rosemount, Mn.

Lee/ZuehlkeAndrew Robert Lee,

son of Dave and Julie Lee of Apple Valley, MN, and Heidi Lee Zuehlke, daughter of Jim and Mary Zuehlke of Way-zata, MN, announce their engagement.

Heidi is a graduate of Minnetonka HS and the University of St. Thomas. She is employed by Ol-son Advertising Agency. Andy is a graduate of Eastview HS and the Uni-versity of St. Thomas. He is employed with Prime Therapeutics.

They will wed on Sep-tember 6th in Minneapo-lis and will reside in south Minneapolis afterwards.

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Area BriefsPolice open house The Apple Valley Police Department will host an open house from noon to 3 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 7, to celebrate its 50th anniver-sary. The family-friendly event includes building tours, vehicle displays and equipment demonstra-tions. The Apple Valley Police Department is lo-cated at 7100 147th St. W.

Wild Bill’s hosts Guns & Hoses Wild Bill’s Sports Sa-loon is hosting its fourth annual Guns & Hoses charity event Saturday, Aug. 9, at all Wild Bill’s locations, including Apple

Valley, in partnership with the Minnesota chapter of Concerns of Police Survi-vors (COPS). A total of 10 percent of all food purchases from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. will go di-rectly to COPS. Event activities include face painting, silent action and a wing-eating contest. Wild Bill’s employ-ees also will be accepting $2 donations for COPS throughout the summer and donors will receive their choice of a wrist band or can koozie.

Paideia blood drive Aug. 1 The National Junior Honor Society at Paideia Academy in Apple Val-

ley is sponsoring a blood drive for the American Red Cross from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Aug. 1. Every person who do-nates a pint of blood at the Paideia blood drive will receive a free game of bowling donated by Apple Place Bowl. Register in advance for the blood drive at Red-CrossBlood.org and enter the sponsor code Paideia.

Volunteers needed for flower project Great River Greening is seeking volunteers to plant wildflowers in Ali-magnet Park in Apple Val-ley from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 27.

Large populations of woodland wildflowers existed on the land until woody overgrowth and buckthorn overtook the park. Volunteers will drag and stack precut trees and seed-cleared areas in an at-tempt to rejuvenate wild-flower populations. A total of 150 resto-ration volunteers and 30 volunteer supervisors are needed. All ages welcome; children must be super-vised. Free training will be provided along with a light breakfast, snack and lunch. Preregistration is re-quired at greatrivergreen-ing.org/vol-events or by contacting Jen Kader at jkader@greatrivergreen-

ing.org or 651-665-9500, ext. 11.

Lewis House charity golf tournament The 21st annual Lewis House Women’s Char-ity Golf Tournament will be from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday, Aug. 11 at Legends Golf Club, 8670 Credit River Blvd., Prior Lake. Golfers can support 360 Communities Lewis House violence prevention and intervention program-ming by spending the af-ternoon golfing. Strong by Nature is the theme of this year’s tournament. Dress up in a theme-related cos-tume and join us in saying “no more” to sexual and domestic violence. Cost is $125 entry fee per golfer – includes green fees, dinner and prizes. Women can register for the event by visiting www.360Communities.org.

Apple Valley resident seeks storage space for bike sale Apple Valley resident Rick Anderson is in need of additional storage space to keep growing his annual bike sale benefitting Kids ’n Kinship – more than $46,000 has been raised in six sales thus far. The space can be an unfinished basement, ga-rage, empty retail or com-mercial space or other se-cure clean area. Anderson tunes all bikes at his home so no additional tuning

will take place at the stor-age facility. Bikes are typi-cally stored from Septem-ber through early May. For additional infor-mation or to help, contact Anderson at 952-322-4729 or [email protected].

Block Bash set Aug. 15 Block Bash, a night of food, fun and entertain-ment, is planned 6-11 p.m. Friday, Aug. 15, in Market Plaza, downtown Lakev-ille at Holyoke Avenue and 208th Street. The event, sponsored by the Downtown Lakev-ille Business Association, will kick off with acous-tic duo Erin and Madi-son followed by Lakeville guitarist Phil Halstead. The main attraction, The Killer Hayseeds country band, will play the rest of the evening. Motley Crews, Tiki Tim’s and Hibachi Daru-ma food trucks will serve up their specialties and adult beverages will be available from Brackett’s Crossing Country Club. There is a $5 fee to at-tend, and one complimen-tary beer is included in the price. Attendees must be 21 or older with a valid ID. The Downtown Lakev-ille Business Association is a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting the downtown business district and the preserva-tion and revitalization of historic Downtown Lakeville. For more infor-mation, go to www.Down-townLakeville.com.

New Eagle Scouts in Troop 171 are, from left, Tom Loving, Nate Miller, Luke Brockman and Tom Zurales. (Photo courtesy of Jim Zurales)

Troop 171 honors Eagle Scouts Boy Scout Troop 171, Eagan, recently honored four Boy Scouts during their Eagle ceremonies. Thomas Loving, Lu-cas Brockman, Nathaniel Miller and Thomas Zura-les all earned the highest advancement award of the Boy Scouts of America, the Eagle Scout Award. This prestigious award is earned by less than 10 percent of all Boy Scouts. To earn Eagle, a Scout must earn a minimum of 21 merit badges and suc-cessfully plan, lead and manage a service project. Loving organized events that generated mon-ey so that his church in his hometown of McPherson, Kan., could purchase an automated external defi-brillator device. Loving then purchased the device and scheduled training sessions (three volunteers,

40 hours, donations from congregation and addi-tional church volunteers to be trained). Brockman built an out-door science lab (learning square) at Garlough Envi-ronmental Magnet School in West St. Paul (19 volun-teers, 90 hours). Miller painted fire truck parking stripes and metal floor grates at Apple Valley Fire Station No. 1 (22 volunteers, 100 hours). Zurales painted the exterior trim of the Ea-gan Resource Center and stained the deck (26 vol-unteers, 160 hours). Troop 171 is char-tered by Peace Reformed Church in Eagan. Since its inception in 1995, Troop 171 has produced 32 Eagle Scouts. For more informa-tion on Troop 171, visit www.mntroop171.org.

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Business BuzzLifeTime Fitness kudos LifeTime Fitness Lakeville is one of 12 winners of the 33rd annual United States Tennis As-sociation Facility Awards Pro-gram, which recognizes excel-lence in the construction and/or renovation of tennis facilities throughout the country. Repre-sentatives from LifeTime Tennis Lakeville will be honored at the USTA Semi-Annual Meeting at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in New York City on Aug. 30. The Lakeville facility is an industry leader in both junior and adult tennis, hosting 22 an-nual USTA adult tournaments and being one of the first pri-vate clubs to paint blended lines on all courts. LifeTime Fitness Lakeville was also named the USTA Northern Member Orga-nization of the Year in 2013.

Local leaders recognized Two area residents won 2014 Leaders in Public Policy awards from Politics in Minnesota and the Capitol Report. Charlene Briner, of Rose-mount, won in the Unsung Hero category. As chief of staff for the Minnesota Department of Education, Briner helped the passage of the state’s anti-bully-ing bill, as well as bringing We Day and We Act to Minnesota. Jason George, of Apple Val-ley, won in the One to Watch category. He recently left the International Union of Operat-ing Engineers Local 49 to work for Natural Resources Group. George was a recipient of an award in the Labor category in 2013. Honorees were recognized in a July 17 program at The Saint Paul Hotel.

Top agents honored The Lakeville/Burnsville of-fice of Coldwell Banker Burnet recently recognized its top per-forming independent sales asso-ciates at an awards presentation ceremony. International Sterling Society membership was awarded to the top 16 percent of all sales asso-ciates worldwide including Deb

Stevens and Shelly Rae Linnell. Todd Jorgensen earned membership in the company’s International Diamond Soci-ety, a level achieved by the top 11 percent of all sales associ-ates worldwide in the Coldwell Banker system. Nancy and Charlie Ritt qualified to join the company’s International President’s Circle, which is awarded to the top 6 percent of all sales associates worldwide. International President’s Elite membership was awarded to the Dave Oswald Team, Pat-ti Schmidt and Rich Hansen. This award represents the top 3 percent of all sales associates worldwide. Daniel and Julie Desrochers – Desrochers Team were award-ed membership in the com-pany’s Society of Excellence. This award represents the top 1 percent of all sales associates worldwide.

Ideal Credit Union event Ideal Credit Union will host community appreciation events at its branch locations Aug. 11-15 in celebration of its 88th anniversary and the successful completion of its name change. The Eagan office celebration will be Monday, Aug. 11. At-tendees can enjoy a hot dog, get a free gift and receive a free sam-ple from the vault for a chance to win a giveaway. The office is at 3225 Denmark Ave. A food truck from Aesop’s Table will grill hot dogs from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Attendees are encouraged to bring a nonperishable food item to donate to local food shelves. Coats for the annual Salvation Army Coats for Kids drive will also be collected. For more information, visit www.idealcu.com.

Open house at dance studio Fred Astaire Dance Studio-Eagan will hold an open house from 7-10 p.m. Friday, Aug. 22. The studio is at 1975 Seneca Road, Eagan. Doors open at 7 p.m. with classes at 7 and 8 p.m. The event is free. Register at www.fredastairemn.com.

Express Employment Professionals, Lakeville, raised about $6,000 in donations during a July 28 customer appreciation event at its Savage office that featured Clydesdale horses. Funds were collected for its employee Erin Kinniry who has incurred unexpected medical expenses. Erin, a healthy 25 year-old, suffered a stroke June 3 while in her 17th week of pregnancy. Her husband, Bryce Kinniry, and their family have held vigil as Erin has undergone two brain surgeries and is in physical therapy for at least a month, according to her Caring Bridge site. The most recent post on the site says the baby appears healthy, and is being closely monitored as Erin continues to push through the ordeal with little or no medications for pain. (Photo submitted)

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Apple Valley Chamber of Com-merce events: • Tuesday, Aug. 5, 7:30-9 a.m., Chamber Coffee Connection, Dunn Bros Coffee, 15265 Galaxie Ave., Ap-ple Valley. Free for members and their guests. Information: Kristy Cleveland at [email protected]. • Tuesday, Aug. 5, 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., Apple Valley Business Watch Night to Unite Picnic, Fire Sta-tion No. 1, corner of County Road 42 and Hayes Road. Cost: $5 for lunch. Burnsville Chamber of Com-merce events: • Thursday, Aug. 21, 2:30-7 p.m., 2014 Fall Fling, Minnesota Horse and

Hunt Club, 2920 E. 220th St., Prior Lake. Registration information: Jina Duchnowski at [email protected]. Dakota County Regional Cham-ber of Commerce events: • Tuesday, Aug. 5, 8-9 a.m., Rose-mount Coffee Break, Merchants Bank, 15055 Chippendale Ave. W., Rose-mount. Open to all DCRC members. Information: Chelsea Johnson at 651-288-9202 or [email protected]. • Wednesday, Aug. 6, 4:30-6 p.m., Why Not Wednesday, Las Tortillas, 15051 Crestone Ave., Rosemount. Information: Chelsea Johnson at 651-288-9202 or [email protected]. • Thursday, Aug. 14, 8-9 a.m., Ea-gan Coffee Break, City Image Salon &

City Image Men’s Hair, 3440 Denmark Ave., Eagan. Open to all DCRC mem-bers. Information: Chelsea Johnson at 651-288-9202 or [email protected]. Lakeville Area Chamber of Com-merce events: • Tuesday, Aug. 5, 5-8 p.m., Night to Unite, Golden Ridge Stables, 8315 190th St. W., Lakeville. • Wednesday, Aug. 6, 7:30-8:30 a.m., Morning Business Brew, Pro-vincial Bank Downtown, 20280 Iberia Ave., Lakeville. • Friday, Aug. 15, 6-11 p.m., Down-town Lakeville Business Association’s second annual Block Bash, Market Plaza, 208th Street and Holyoke Av-enue, Lakeville.

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Sports

Apple Valley’s Mark Hall works his opponent’s shoulders toward the mat during the 2014 state high school wrestling tournament. Recently, he was one of three U.S. wrestlers to win freestyle titles at the FILA Cadet World Championships. (File photo)

Notebook: AV’s Hall is a world champion by Mike Shaughnessy


Mark Hall, already a four-time state high school champion for Apple Val-ley, added a world cham-pionship to his resume this summer. Hall won five matches in the 167.5-pound weight class in freestyle at the FILA Cadet World Cham-pionships in Slovakia in July. He won the title match 4-1 over Sumiyaba-zar Zandanbud of Mon-golia. Hall also is the Cadet national freestyle champi-on at 167.5 after finishing second in the same tourna-ment last year. He was one of three U.S. wrestlers to win championships at the Cadet World tournament; one of the other U.S. win-ners, Mason Manville, wrestled at Apple Valley for one year and is now at Blair Academy in New Jersey. After training at the U.S. Olympic Center in Colorado, Hall will be a junior at Apple Valley in the fall, when he will re-sume his quest to become the first Minnesota high school wrestler to win six state championships. Meanwhile, at the USA Wrestling Junior National Championships in Fargo, N.D., two Minnesota high school champions dueled for the 195-pound cham-pionship. Apple Valley’s

Bobby Steveson defeated Totino-Grace’s Lance Benick 3-1. Last winter, Steveson won the Class 3A state championship at 182 while Benick was Class 2A champion at 195. Both will be seniors in the fall. AVHS graduate Seth Gross, headed to the Uni-versity of Iowa wrestling program, had a sixth-place finish at the junior nation-als.

Prep previews Eastview’s girls and Apple Valley’s boys will defend their champion-ships at the Pacesetter Sweet Sixteen Basketball Championships this week-end at the College of St. Benedict in St. Joseph. The projected top four teams in each Minnesota high school basketball en-rollment class are invited to the tournament. Apple Valley’s boys play Fond du Lac at 11:20 a.m. Satur-day, while Eastview’s girls play Albany at 12:40 p.m. The tournament runs through Sunday, with the boys championship game at 2:30 p.m. and the girls championship game at 5:10. Each team’s high school coaches will not be al-lowed to coach during this event because the summer waiver period ends Friday. Eastview’s girls won the 2014 Class 4A champion-ship. Apple Valley was first in the boys Class 4A

rankings for most of last season before losing in the Section 3 championship game. Many of the state’s top high school volleyball teams will compete in the Breakdown Sports Minne-sota Elite Preseason Tour-nament on Saturday at Midwest Volleyball Ware-house in Burnsville. Lakeville North is a two-time champion in this tournament and is return-ing this year. Rosemount also is among the invited teams. A second 32-team tour-nament will be held Sun-day, with Farmington in the field for that event. Pool play begins at 9 a.m. both days, with championship matches scheduled for 6 p.m.

Senior Babe Ruth The Burnsville Pythons won the state Senior Babe Ruth baseball champion-ship in Minnetonka, de-feating the Minnetonka Mudhens 5-1 in the cham-pionship game Monday. Burnsville moves on to re-gional play in Milwaukee beginning Friday. Burnsville, the No. 1 seed, went 4-0 in the tour-nament, defeating Wood-bury, Rosemount and the Mudhens twice. Rosemount, seeded fifth, went 4-2 in the state tournament, with its two losses coming against Burnsville and the Mud-

hens. Teams from Apple Valley, Lakeville North and Lakeville South also competed. Burnsville’s Logan Shorn had two pitching victories, one save, and a 0.98 ERA for the tourna-ment. He also led the team in hitting with a .615 aver-age, six RBI and five runs scored. Ty Procko (.583) and Nick Ruffing (.455) also had strong perfor-mances at the plate.

Coaching moves • Apple Valley High School named Chris Scan-lon head boys golf coach. Scanlon, who teaches in the business department at AVHS, has been the Eagles’ junior varsity girls golf coach for the last 12 years. Scanlon is a 1997 graduate of AVHS, where he played soccer and hock-ey. • Dakota County Tech-nical College named Bai-ley Anderson head vol-leyball coach. Anderson, an Eastview High School graduate, played volley-ball at DCTC in 2011 and 2012, the program’s first two seasons. She is work-ing on a degree in exercise and sport science at DCTC and plans to attend Augs-burg College to major in health, physical education and exercise science.

Email Mike Shaughnessy at [email protected].

Sports Briefs

Open houseat TAGS TAGS Gymnastics will hold open houses from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 6 at the locations in Apple Valley and Eden Prairie. Tours, new student evaluations and prize give-aways will be part of the open houses. Students also may register for the Fall 1 program. TAGS offers classes for boys and girls ages 15 months to 17 years of all ability levels. The TAGS South loca-tion is at County Road 42 and Johnny Cake Ridge Road in Apple Valley. For more information, visit www.tagsgym.com or call 952-431-6445.

USTA award for Life Time Lakeville Life Time Tennis Lakeville is one of 12 win-ners in the United States Tennis Association’s an-nual Facility Awards Pro-gram, which recognizes excellence in construction and/or renovation of ten-nis facilities. Life Time Tennis Lakeville holds 22 annual USTA adult tournaments. It was one of the first pri-vate clubs to paint blended lines on all courts.

Dakota Rev teams grab gold

Players from Dakota Rev (dark uniforms) and North Metro battled for the girls Un-der-14 Classic 1 championship at the Minnesota Youth Soccer Association summer state tournament Saturday in Shakopee. Dakota Rev won 1-0. Another Dakota Rev team won the girls Under-13 Classic 1 division. (Photo by Mike Shaughnessy)

Eagan, Burnsville, LV North make state Legion tournament by Mike Shaughnessy


Considering Lakeville North’s success in high school baseball – the Panthers took third place in the Class 3A tourna-ment in June – it likely surprises no one that North also will contend for a state American Le-gion championship. How North got to this point might be a bit of a surprise, though. Neither of the pitch-ing workhorses in North’s high school sea-son – Dalton Lehnen and Nick Dorfman – will ap-pear in the state Ameri-can Legion tournament, which begins Friday in Eagan, Burnsville and Bloomington. Lehnen, who’s headed to the Uni-versity of Cincinnati, is playing for the Elko Ex-press men’s amateur team while Dorfman was shut down because of an el-bow injury after pitching 16 innings this summer for the Legion club. In their places have stepped a small army of strike-throwing pitchers who are not afraid to let their defense work for them. “We have five or six guys we can use on the mound, and that always

helps in a state tourna-ment,” said Lakeville North Legion coach Jar-ed Simon. “We can score runs, and our pitchers keep us in the game.” Lakeville North, which won the Sub-State 6 tournament last week-end in Dundas, takes a 23-6 record into the state tournament. The team will play Alexandria in a first-round game at 1 p.m. Friday at Alimagnet Park in Burnsville. North will play a second game Friday at 4 or 7 p.m., also at Alimagnet. The state tournament runs through Monday, with the cham-pionship game scheduled for 1 p.m. Monday at Ea-gan High School. Eagan and Burnsville also qualified for the state tourney – Eagan by being the host team and Burns-ville by beating Apple Valley 8-1 in the Sub-State 5 championship game Sunday. Eastview finished third in the Sub-State 6 tournament that Lakeville North won.This is the fourth time in five years Lakeville North has qualified for the state tournament. North, ranked third in the most recent state poll, has never won a Legion state title.

Amateur golf agrees with Trent PetersonValleywood player wins State Open by Mike Shaughnessy


Six years ago, Trent Peterson was Minneso-ta’s best amateur golfer. Now, after taking a shot at professional golf, find-ing it not to his liking, then returning to school, he’s back to trying to be the best amateur player he can be. “My goals are really the same now as they were then,” said Peterson, who plays out of Valley-wood Golf Course. “I’m super-competitive. I’ll play in the big tourna-ments in Minnesota and as many of the (United States Golf Association) tournaments as I can.” On Sunday he won the Minnesota State Open for the first time, winning a playoff against former University of Minnesota golfer Justin Smith with a par on the first extra hole. He had a three-round total of 8-under-par 208 against a field that had many of the state’s top professional and amateur players including Donald Constable, who played on the PGA Tour in 2013. In 2008, while a stu-dent at South Dakota State University, Peterson won the Minnesota State Amateur championship and the Minnesota Golf Association Players tour-nament. He also finished second at the Minnesota State Open. At the time, the Eagan native was contemplating going to dental school, but his amateur golf success (he also was the Summit League Player of the Year while in col-lege) all but dictated that he try playing profession-ally. Peterson traveled on some mini-tours, but it wasn’t long before he be-came disillusioned. “You’re playing for very little money on those tours,” he said. “You just about have to win to make any money at all. Golf becomes a job. You’re playing 12 months a year. “I like other outdoor activities. I’ll put the clubs away in October and not take them out again until spring, and when spring comes, I’m fired up to play.”

After deciding pro-fessional golf wasn’t for him, Peterson went back to school. A biology major at South Dakota State, he studied at the University of Sioux Falls in 2011-12 and obtained a nursing degree. He works at United Hospital in St. Paul on a surgical floor, and his overnight shift leaves him time to play golf during the day. “I love it,” said Peter-son. “Usually the people who come in are in a lot of pain, but one, two or three days later, they’re up and moving around, and taking less pain med-ication. It’s a good feeling to know you had some-thing to do with helping them get better.” Peterson’s amateur golf accomplishments also include helping Ea-gan High School win the 2005 state large-school title. He tied teammate Ryan Peterson (no rela-tion) for the individual championship. After quitting profes-sional golf, Trent Peter-son applied for amateur reinstatement. That re-quired a 12-month pro-bationary period during which he couldn’t play in any amateur events. “That was fine,” he said. “I could forget about golf for a while and concentrate on school.” Last year he returned to the State Amateur and MGA Players tourna-ments for the first time since he won them in 2008. He was runner-up in the Players (the state amateur match play championship) and tied for fifth in the State Ama-teur (a stroke play tour-nament). Peterson was runner-up in the Min-nesota Golf Association Player of the Year stand-ings behind Farmington native and Valleywood player Sammy Schmitz, who won the award for the third consecutive year. On Sunday, in addi-tion to trying to outlast Smith and Constable, Peterson sought to win the tournament for Bill Travis, a longtime family friend who helped mentor Peterson died of cancer last Saturday.


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NOTICE OF HEARINGSTATE OF MINNESOTA COUNTY OF DAKOTA DISTRICT COURTFIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICTCASE TYPE: CONDEMNATIONCOURT FILE NO.: 19HA-CV-14-1763City of Apple Valley, a Minnesotamunicipal corporation, Petitioner,v. William C. Thompson (deceased); the unknown heirs of William C. Thompson; Dakota County; Magellan Pipeline Company, L.P.; Gene Rechtzigel, individually and as trustee of Evelyn I. Rechtzigel Trust and Frank H. Rechtzigel Charitable Remainder Unitrust; Srinivasa Rajulapati; Madhavi Rajulapati; Jason Jelinski; Michelle Jelinski; Daniel Gasteazoro; Kristin Gasteazoro; Shelly L. Larson; Darrin A. Larson; Larry J. Russell; Jonathan E. Burkart; Kelly A. Burkart; Francine Lemonie; Daniel Lemonie; Terry Holtzworth; Cheri Holtzworth; Rory L. Swenson; Elizabeth A. Swenson; Yan A. Jiang; Jia X. Jiang; Thomas Thell; Mee-Ling Louie-Thell; Steven A. Hanoski; Deoksoon K. Hanoski; Aurelie Yen Hoang Ly; and John Doe and Mary Roe who may claim an inter-est in the real estate described in the Petition as proprietors, tenants, life estate holders, encumbrancers, or otherwise.Respondents.

TO: Aurelie Yen Hoang Ly, 15972 Fennel Court, Apple Valley, MN 55124; Dakota County, c/o Thomas R. Donely, Esq., Dakota County Judicial Center, 1560 Highway 55, Hastings, MN 55033; Steven A. and Deoksoon K. Hanoski, 15967 Fennel Court, Apple Valley, MN 55124; Yan A. and Jia X. Jiang, 15819 Fescue Court, Apple Valley, MN 55124; Thomas Thell and Mee-Ling Louie-Thell, 15820 Fescue Court, Apple Valley, MN 55124; Rory L. and Elizabeth A. Swenson, 15809 Fescue Court, Apple Valley, MN 55124; Magellan Pipeline Company, L.P., c/o Christopher Grote, Esq., Lindquist & Vennum, 4200 IDS Center, 80 South 8th Street, Minneapolis, MN 55402; Daniel and Francine Lemonie, 15764 Finch Avenue, Apple Valley, MN 55124; Gene A. Rechtzigel, individually and as trustee, 6533 – 160th Street West, Apple Valley, MN 55124; and William C. Thompson (de-ceased), the unknown heirs of William C. Thompson, and John Doe and Mary Roe.

YOU WILL PLEASE TAKE NOTICE:1.That the Petitioner herein has filed in the office of the Clerk of the District Court in and for Dakota County,

Minnesota, its Petition praying for condemnation of certain property situated in the County of Dakota, State of Minnesota, said property being legally described as follows:

That part of the Southwest Quarter of Section 35, Township 115 North, Range 20 West of the 5th Principal Meridian, lying East of REGATTA, according to the recorded plat thereof, and lying West of the East 50 acres of said Southwest Quarter, all being in Dakota County, Minnesota.

(the “Property”).2. The names of all persons appearing of record or known to the Petitioner to be owners of said land, or

claiming an interest therein are set forth in Exhibit “A”. 3. A parcel boundary survey has been attached as Exhibit “B”.4.That the object of said Petition is to acquire fee title in the Property in connection with the necessary

public improvements associated with expansion of Petitioner’s park, extension of a public street, access to and maintenance of public utilities, and expansion of the Petitioner’s existing drainage and ponding area.

5. That said Petition will be presented to the District Court, County of Dakota, State of Minnesota on the 15th day of October, 2014, at 9:00 a.m., or as soon thereafter as counsel can be heard, before the Honorable Patrice Sutherland at the Dakota County Government Center, 1560 Highway 55, Hastings, Minnesota 55033, at which time said Petitioner will apply to the Court for an order adjudging that said taking is necessary and au-thorized by law, and that the use for which the Property is proposed to be taken is a public use; that transfer of fee title and possession of the Property be ordered; appointing three competent and impartial persons as com-missioners to ascertain and report the amount of damages that will be sustained by the owners, on account of the taking of the aforesaid Property, and fixing the time and place of the first meeting and the compensation to be paid to said commissioners, all as prayed for in the Petition herein.

6. A party wishing to challenge the public use or public purpose, necessity, or authority for taking must ap-pear at the court hearing and state the objection or must appeal within 60 days of a court order.

7.A court order approving the public use or public purpose, necessity, or authority for the taking is final un-less an appeal is brought within 60 days after service of the order on the party.

EXHIBIT “A”PARCEL -PIN: No PIN assigned by Dakota County, MinnesotaLand Owner:Pursuant to Amended Findings of Fact, Conclusions of Law, and Judgment filed in Dakota

County Court File No. 19HA-CV-09-5476 attached as Exhibit C, the last known record owner of the parcel/property described below was William C. Thompson. See Exhibits C at p. 3-4, ¶ 10.

Easement Holders: Dakota County; Magellan Pipeline Company, L.P.; City of Apple ValleyOther known claimed interest holders: Gene Rechtzigel, individually and trustee of the Evelyn I. Rechtzigel

Trust and Frank H. Rechtzigel Charitable Remainder UnitrustAdjacent property owners that may or may not claim an interest: Adjacent Property Owner Address Plat Name Block LotSrinivasa Rajulapati and Madhavi Rajulapati 15664 Finch Avenue Apple Valley, MN 55124 Regatta 2 9Jason Jelinski and Michelle Jelinski 15672 Finch Avenue Apple Valley, MN 55124 Regatta 2 10Daniel Gasteazoro and Kristin Gasteazoro 15680 Finch Avenue Apple Valley, MN 55124 Regatta 2 11Shelly L. Larson and Darrin A. Larson 15688 Finch Avenue Apple Valley, MN 55124 Regatta 2 12Larry J. Russell 15746 Finch Avenue Apple Valley, MN 55124 Regatta 1 1Jonathan E. Burkart and Kelly A. Burkart 15754 Finch Avenue Apple Valley, MN 55124 Regatta 1 2Francine Lemonie and Daniel Lemonie 15764 Finch Avenue Apple Valley, MN 55124 Regatta 1 3Terry Holtzworth and Cheri Holtzworth 15772 Finch Avenue Apple Valley, MN 55124 Regatta 1 4Rory L. Swenson and Elizabeth A. Swenson 15809 Fescue Court Apple Valley, MN 55124 Regatta 1 6Yan A. Jiang; Jia X. Jiang 15819 Fescue Court Apple Valley, MN 55124 Regatta 1 7Thomas Thell; Mee-Ling Louie-Thell 15820 Fescue Court Apple Valley, MN 55124 Regatta 1 8Steven A. Hanoski; Deoksoon K. Hanoski 15967 Fennel Court Apple Valley, MN 55124 Regatta 1 15Gene A. Rechtzigel 15973 Fennel Court Apple Valley, MN 55124 Regatta 1 16Aurelie Yen Hoang Ly 15972 Fennel Court Apple Valley, MN 55124 Regatta 1 17Mortgagee: NoneProperty Address: There is not a property address for the property described below.

Dated: July 10, 2014. DOUGHERTY, MOLENDA, SOLFEST, HILLS & BAUER P.A./s/ Brian J. WisdorfBy: Brian J. Wisdorf, ID# 297768Michael G. Dougherty, ID #134570Robert B. Bauer, ID #227365Attorneys for Petitioner, City of Apple Valley7300 West 147th Street, Suite 600Apple Valley, Minnesota 55124(952) 432-3136

ACKNOWLEDGMENTThe party above-named represented by the undersigned, hereby acknowledges that sanctions may be im-posed pursuant to MINN. STAT. §549.211./s/ Brian J. Wisdorf

Published in Apple Valley, July 25, August 1, 8, 2014, 254830

CITY OF APPLE VALLEYNOTICE OF TIME AND PLACE OF

OFFICIAL TEST OF OPTICAL SCAN VOTING SYSTEM

AND ELECTRONIC BALLOT MARKING EQUIPMENT

FOR THE CITY OF APPLE VALLEY

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, pursuantto Minnesota Statutes 206.83, that the of-ficial test of the electronic ballot marking equipment and optical scan voting sys-tem to be used for counting ballots for the August 12, 2014, Primary Election will be held at 2:30 o’clock p.m. on Wednesday, August 6, 2014, at Apple Valley MunicipalCenter, 7100 147th Street W., Apple Val-ley, Minnesota 55124.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that thetest is open for observation by the public,the press, representatives of the politicalparties, and the candidates.

/s/ Pamela J. Gackstetter Apple Valley City Clerk

Published in Apple Valley

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NOTICE OF MOTION ANDMOTION TO PERMITDEPOSIT OF QUICK

TAKE FUNDSSTATE OF MINNESOTACOUNTY OF DAKOTA DISTRICT COURTFIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICTCASE TYPE: CONDEMNATIONCOURT FILE NO.: 19-HA-CV-14-1763City of Apple Valley, a Minnesotamunicipal corporation, Petitioner,v. William C. Thompson (deceased); the unknown heirs of William C. Thompson; Dakota County; Magel-lan Pipeline Company, L.P.; Gene Rechtzigel, individually and as trustee of Evelyn I. Rechtzigel Trust and Frank H. Rechtzigel Charitable Remainder Unitrust; Srinivasa Ra-julapati; Madhavi Rajulapati; Jason Jelinski; Michelle Jelinski; Daniel Gasteazoro; Kristin Gasteazoro; Shelly L. Larson; Darrin A. Lar-son; Larry J. Russell; Jonathan E. Burkart; Kelly A. Burkart; Francine Lemonie; Daniel Lemonie; Terry Holtzworth; Cheri Holtzworth; Rory L. Swenson; Elizabeth A. Swenson; Yan A. Jiang; Jia X. Jiang; Thomas Thell; Mee-Ling Louie-Thell; Ste-ven A. Hanoski; Deoksoon K. Ha-noski; Aurelie Yen Hoang Ly; and John Doe and Mary Roe who may claim an interest in the real estate described in the Petition as propri-etors, tenants, life estate holders, encumbrancers, or otherwise. Respondents.

TO: Aurelie Yen Hoang Ly, 15972 Fennel Court, Apple Valley, MN 55124; Dakota County, c/o Thomas R. Donely, Esq., Dakota County Judicial Center, 1560 Highway 55, Hastings, MN 55033; Steven A. and Deoksoon K. Hanoski, 15967 Fen-nel Court, Apple Valley, MN 55124; Yan A. and Jia X. Jiang, 15819 Fes-cue Court, Apple Valley, MN 55124; Thomas Thell and Mee-Ling Louie-Thell, 15820 Fescue Court, Apple Valley, MN 55124; Rory L. and Eliz-abeth A. Swenson, 15809 Fescue Court, Apple Valley, MN 55124; Ma-gellan Pipeline Company, L.P., c/o Christopher Grote, Esq., Lindquist & Vennum, 4200 IDS Center, 80 South 8th Street, Minneapolis, MN 55402; Daniel and Francine Lem-onie, 15764 Finch Avenue, Apple Valley, MN 55124; Gene A. Rech-tzigel, individually and as trustee, 6533 – 160th Street West, Apple Valley, MN 55124; and William C. Thompson (deceased), the un-known heirs of William C. Thomp-son, and John Doe and Mary Roe.

YOU WILL PLEASE TAKE NO-TICE that Petitioner City of Apple Valley, through its attorney, will move the above-named Court on the 15th day of October 2014, at 9:00 a.m. or as soon thereafter as counsel can be heard, before the Honorable Patrice Sutherland at the Dakota County Government Center, 1560 Highway 55, Hast-ings, Minnesota 55033 for the fol-lowing:

1. An Order, pursuant to MINN. STAT. §117.042, permitting deposit with the Court of an amount equal to Petitioner’s approved appraised value for the property identified in its Condemnation Petition.

2. For such other and further relief as the Court deems just and equitable.Dated: July 17, 2014. DOUGHERTY, MOLENDA, SOLFEST, HILLS & BAUER P.A./s/ Brian J. Wisdorf By: Brian J. Wisdorf, ID# 297768Michael G. Dougherty, ID #134570Robert B. Bauer, ID #227365 Attorneys for Petitioner, City of Apple Valley7300 West 147th Street, Suite 600Apple Valley, Minnesota 55124(952) 432-3136

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

The party above-named represent-ed by the undersigned, hereby ac-knowledges that sanctions may be imposed pursuant to MINN. STAT. §549.211./s/ Brian J. Wisdorf

Published inApple Valley

July 25, August 1, 8, 2014254808

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really a privilege.” Though not a Buddhist herself, Nicolai thinks the symbol of the Buddha holds value. “I believe in peace and symbols of peace,” she said. “For Christians, you see the cross and think of love, with the Buddha you think of peace. And now we have this symbol of universal peace in our area.” The temple will be open to the public, as well as a food booth with Asian ethnic cuisine. “We’re not trying to hide,” Sour said. “We wel-come the mainstream. To be a part of an event like this is exciting.” Nancy Dadak, secre-tary and board member at the Gyuto Wheel of Dhar-ma Monastery in Minne-apolis, said depictions of the life of Buddha are very important for Buddhists.

“We hold these art forms dear. There’s a rich and refined tradition of using representative ob-jects in Buddhist philoso-phy,” she said. The Jade Buddha was carved from a boulder nicknamed “Polar Pride.” It was discovered in Northern Canada in 2000. After Green saw the boul-der in 2003, the process to create the Buddha took several years. It was con-secrated in Sydney, Aus-tralia, in 2009. Though the logistics of moving a 9,000 pound jade statue aren’t exactly simple, it has since been on a world tour, with approximately 7.1 million people having seen it as of March. “It’s travelled through-out the world for four or five years,” Sour said. “Prior to coming here, it will be brought down in a container truck from On-tario.” Sour said seeing the

Jade Buddha is a land-mark spiritual moment for followers. “It’s a lifetime even for them, they’ve never seen a Buddhist statue of this magnitude,” he said. “It’s important to be in front of it, and feel themselves at peace.” Dadak echoed his sen-timent. “Tibetan Buddhism is the moral center of Tibet-an life,” she said. “There’s little separation between religious and secular life.” But even for non-fol-lowers, Nicolai thinks the Jade Buddha can bridge divides. “Building relationships between religions is im-portant,” she said. “We’re all after the same thing. The temple is not just for Buddhists. I feel it’s for you also.”

Email Nick Hassett at [email protected].

BUDDHA, from 1A

First-degree murder now alleged in Schunk case

Grand jury indicts alleged killers by John Gessner


The man and woman charged with stabbing 20-year-old Anarae Sc-hunk to death last Septem-ber are now charged with first-degree murder. A Dakota County grand jury handed down July 29 indictments of first-degree premeditated murder and second-degree intentional murder against 32-year-old Shavelle Os-car Chavez-Nelson, aka Anthony Lee Nelson, and his girlfriend, 24-year-old Ashley Marie Conrade. The indictments super-sede second-degree mur-der charges prosecutors filed against the pair a month ago, County Attor-ney James Backstrom said in a news release. Prosecutors say Sc-hunk, a University of Minnesota student from Burnsville, was murdered at Conrade’s Rosemount

townhouse during the ear-ly-morning hours of last Sept. 22. Her body was found on Sept. 30 in a ru-ral Rice County ditch. Chavez-Nelson is also charged with first- and second-degree murder in the shooting death of Palagor Obang Jobi of Savage outside Nina’s Grill in Burnsville before closing on Sept. 22. Chavez-Nelson, with whom Schunk had had a relationship before break-ing it off, had been with the two women at Nina’s. They then returned to Conrade’s townhouse. Schunk met Chavez-Nelson on Sept. 21 in

Burnsville to try to recov-er $5,000 she had loaned him, authorities say. Chavez-Nelson was ar-rested for the Jobi shoot-ing Sept. 24 in Rosemount while trying to flee police. “Our deepest sympathy is extended to the family and friends of Anarae Sc-hunk for their great loss,” Backstrom said. Chavez-Nelson, who has a long criminal histo-ry, is at the Stillwater state prison serving a sentence on an unrelated convic-tion. Conrade has been in the county jail since her June 25 arrest. Her first court appearance on the grand jury indictment is July 30 in Hastings. Chavez-Nelson’s first appearance on the indict-ment is July 31.

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

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Bloomington, Aug. 1,2,3,5 to 8 on Aug. 1, 8 to 8 on Sat. & Sun. Men stuff, power & hand & yard tools, hunting, fishing, knives, gun holsters, cowboy hats, model rac-ing cars, household, tables, chairs, drum set, all must go. 10101 Colfax Ave., Bloomington

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Burnsville: Moving Sale! 1005 Leisure CourtAug 7 & 8m 9-5pm, Many HH items, sm furn. garden tools, hoses, fert. spreader.


Bloomington, July 31-Aug 2, Thur & Fri 8-5, Sat 9-5. HUGE Fund-raising Sale benefitting MN BOXER RESCUE Sat. $5.00/bag starting @ 1pm --- 2701 W. 96th Street (corner of 96th & Vincent)

BURNSVILLE: “Grace’s Attic”

Grace United Methodist Church Rummage Sale

15309 Maple Island Road Aug 14th - Aug 16th. 8-5pm, Sat. 8am to 1:30pm, $1 Bag Sale

11am -1:30pm Sat. Look for lg Silver Cross-es Across from Buckhill

Coon Rapids:HUGE KIDS SALE

300+ Sellers!! August 8-12 10a-7p Daily

10 NW Coon Rapids Boulevard(Near Savers)

Crystal Multi-Family Sale 7/31, 8/1-2 (9-5) Furn, HH, lawn & garden, more!5236 Hampshire Ave. No.

Crystal: Moving Sale 8/1 -28a-5p. Furn, yard equip, HH items, + many items!!

5417 Angeline Ave N.

Deephaven, 7/31 to 8/2, 9am-5pm. ANTIQUES, collectibles, household, vintage. REALLY, REALLY ****BIG**** SALE!! 5005 Hooper Lake Road

Eagan Multi-Family 8/1-2(8-4) Cash only Kids toys, Home access., framed art (Slater Rd off of Cliff, follow Slater to Wall St) 2268 Wall St

Eagan Multi-Family 8/7-8 (8-4) Kids & Teen cloz, toys, books, furn., HH, more!4012 Stonebridge Dr. So.

EAGAN: Aug 7, 8th 9-4 & 9th 9-1p, Furn., cloz, bikes, craft items & snow blower + more! 3955 Mica Trail

Edina: Multi Fam 7/31-8/2,(9-4) 5648 Woodcrest Dr. Vint. HH, unique objects, bks, hrdwre, toys & puzzles.

FARMINGTON: 17116 Eventide Way Aug 1/2 Fri/Sat 9a-5p, Huge sale! 20 years in the making - kids clothes 4T & smaller, kid items, furniture, house-hold items, lots of variety.

FARMINGTON: 305 Hick-ory St. Aug 1 & 2 9-5pm, Furn., Kitchenware, glassw. vintage tools, & handmade items.

FARMINGTON: Aug 8th (9-6pm) & 9th (8-2pm), Bookshelf, bike, cloz, HH, collectibles, books, DVDs & toys 19400 Eureka Ave West

Golden Valley:3810 Bassett Creek Drive August 7-9, (8a-5p). Furn,

Kids, Tools, HH & Crafts

Hopkins, 8/7 - 8/9, 8 am to 4 pm. Multi-family sale! General household items- treasures for all ages. 201 - 16th Ave No.

LAKEVILLEAugust 13-16thOver 30,000 Sq.

Feet of Bargains!All Saints Church

6th AnnualGarage Sale

Aug 13-16 Early Bird Sale-Wed,

4-8 ($3 Adm),Thurs, 9-6, Fri, 10-4,

Sat, 8-Noon (1/2 Price & Bag Sale)

19795 Holyoke Ave

LAKEVILLE, 16297 Grif-fon Crt. Aug 8 & 9th 9a-4p, Moving Sale! Furn, HH items, garden, tools, antqs.


LKVL, 7/30 (4-8), 7/31-8/2 (8-6). NEW inf travel system, freezer, mower, lawn furn, HH, furn, tools, antqs, video games, cloz NB-XXL 11375 237th St. E.

New Hope, 7/31-8/2; 7/31-8/1 8a-5p; 8/2, 8a-1p. baby stuff/cloz, maternity, HH, electronics/video games. & misc. 7724-45 1/2 Ave N.

PlymouthAnnual Rummage Sale

St. BarnabasLutheran Church

Sat., Aug. 9 8am - 2pm15600 Old Rockford Rd

Plymouth HUGE SAMPLE SALE! Thurs-Sat, 7/31 & 8/1-2 (9-4). NEW - Gifts, gadgets, games & HH items15725 51st Place North

Plymouth, July 31st, August 1st, August 2nd, 8 am - 5 pm. Estate/Garage Sale: Furni-ture, Camping/Fishing, Tools, Garden Equip-ment, Kitchen + House-hold, Filing Cabinets, Books, Xmas, Antiques, etc. 1015 Ives Lane N.

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PRIOR LAKE: 20101 France Circle Aug 7-9th, 9-5pm, Tools, vintage, furn. On the ranch by the pond.

Richfield Big sale! 8/1-2 (8-4) Furn, HH, antiqs, tools, outdoor equip, more!6316 Grand Ave. South

Richfield Estate Sale7132 Columbus Ave. So.7/31 - 8/1 (9-5) Collectbls, fish boat, lawn equip, tools

Robbinsdale Estate Sale4216 Islemount Place

Sat., August 2 (9-4)Last day! Antiq. tbl/chrs,

lamps, dishes, much more!

ROSEMOUNT: 6656 GER-DINE PATH Aug 1 & 2nd 9-5pm, Furniture, antqs., HH, Collectibles & misc!

Shoreview Multi-Family Don’t miss! 8/7-9 (9-4) HH, cloz, kids, antiqs, furn., garage. 959 Scenic Drive

Shorewood Moving Sale7/31; 8/1-2 (8-4) Cash only

Furn, patio, HH & more! 19395 Waterford Place

St. Louis Park: AquilaNeighborhood Annual

Garage Sale. Sat 8/2 (8-4) North of Knollwood Plaza

WayzataCommunity Church

Wed., Aug. 6 (9-8)Thurs., Aug. 7 (9-6)

Biggest salein the West Metro!

Collectibles, housewares,tools, sports gear,

furniture, and more!Free admission.

Prices reduced Thursday.Refreshments available.

No strollers, pets, or shopping carts please. Handicap accessible.

Net proceeds to charity.125 Wayzata Blvd East

Zimmerman, Aug 2-3, 9am-3pm. Check out: www.oldisknew.com (sales tab). Lots of Stuff!28563 149th St NE

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Dave’s Concrete & Masonry

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

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5390 Roofing, Siding& Gutters




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5420 Tree Care &Stump Removal

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Direct Service ProfessionalRewarding position assisting individuals with intellec-tual disabilities and sensory impairments in a center based setting in Bloomington. Provide supervision, job skills training, implement programs and track goals, participate in community integration activities and assist with self-care needs. Position requires the ability to lift and transfer individuals to/from wheel-chairs. A valid driver’s license and compliance with MVR & Rule 11 background checks required. Ability to obtain a CDL license within 6 months of hire and drug/alcohol testing required. Driving a Rise van or lift equipped bus is a daily function of the job. Position requires individual to lift and carry 50+ pounds on a regular basis. Position is full-time, M-F with excellent benefits. $11-$12 HR/DOQ with a generous training & benefit package. One year experience working with individuals with intellectual disabilities and degree preferred. Submit cover letter and resume to Melinda at [email protected].

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DAGGETT ELECTRICGen. Help & Lic. Elec.

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Ins’d Ron 612-221-9480

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651-600-8820

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5340 Landscaping

AB LANDSCAPING Specializing in creating great curb appeal with

perennial gardens, trees & shrubs

Call Al at

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CAYERING LAWN SERVICES LLC

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E-Z LandscapeRetaining/Boulder Walls,

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5350 Lawn &Garden Services

A Happy Yard 20% off-New CustomersWeekly Mowing, Gutter

Cleaning, Brush RemovalSod & All Types of

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3 Interior Rooms/$250Wallpaper Removal.

Drywall Repair. Cabi-net Enameling and

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612•390•6845Quality ResidentialPainting & Drywall

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952-474-6258 Ins/BondMajor Credit Card Accepted


Ben’s Painting

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5380 Plumbing

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

Jason 952-891-2490


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Call 952-925-6156

◆ Roofing ◆ Siding Gutters ◆ Soffit/Fascia

TOPSIDE, INC. 612-869-1177

Lic CR005276 ◆ Bonded ◆ Insured

34 Yrs Exp. A+ Rating BBB


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612-272-7165. Lic BC48741

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5440 Window Cleaning

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5510 Full-time

Automotive Positions Available

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* WAREHOUSEGood computer aptitude

necessary.

FT positions w/benefits. Apply in person or send

resume to: Steve Penner, HR dept. LKQ Viking Auto Salvage,

26548 Chippendale Ave.Northfield, MN 55057

[email protected] online at:

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MANAGERLocal Co. seeks car-penters & Construction Mgr. w/at least 5 yrs exp. Must have DL, & transportation. Sarah 651-423-7248

Designed Cabinets, Inc.

located in Lakeville, MN is looking to fill mul-tiple positions within our family owned and operated business. Po-sitions available are: • Cabinet makers and installers with 3+ years experience • CNC op-erator, and • lead finish-er. Please apply withinDesigned Cabinets, Inc.

7965 215th St. WestLakeville, MN 55044Office: 952-469-2700

www.designedcabinets.com

EXPRESS LUBE TECHS (LAKEVILLE)

Jeff Belzer Chevrolet/Dodge/Kia is rapidly growing and looking for Express Lube Techni-cians. Candidates must have a positive attitude, be self motivated and a team player. You must be able to pass a back-ground check and have a good driving record. Duties include: Oil changes, rotates, bulb replacement, filter and wiper blades. We offer: Competitive pay and a chance to advance in the compa-ny. If interested please send resume to [email protected]

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General Maintenance

Worker Dakota County Techni-cal College is seeking 2 Full-Time Evening Custodians. To apply, go to http://mn.gov/mmb/careers/index.jsp and use requisition num-ber 14MNSC000464 Deadline 8/5/2014. EOE/E A member of the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities System.

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Help Wanted Full Time Diesel Truck Mechanic

Eagan based repair fa-cility is seeking quality individual for Diesel Service Center, to make repairs on our fleet of heavy-duty tractors and trailers. Day shift. Experience and/or CDL a plus. Competitive wages and benefits, medical, dental, 401(K) savings plan, paid vacation, holidays and more.

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HOUSE CLEANERSCompany car provided, MN DL, M-F, $90-95/day. 952-831-3510

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AutomotivePT Lube/Tire TechEvening position avail-able. Apply in person or call Dave at River Hills Automotive. 952-890-9988

Counter Help PT $8.50/hr. After school postion 3pm-8pm, 3 days per week & E/O Sat - 8am-4pm. Apply in person Perfect Cleaners 2147 Cliff Road, Eagan.

Now Hiring/TrainingSchool Bus DriversPT, benefits, paid holidays$750 Hiring bonus

Call Denise952-736-8004

Durham School Services

5520 Part-time

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5520 Part-time

ReceptionistFriendship Village of Bloomington, a premier continuing care retirement community, is seeking a part-time Reception-ist. Every other weekend 2:30pm – 8:30pm. Respon-sibilities include providing front line customer service support and information to residents, visitors, ven-dors, and team members. Receives incoming phone calls and performs cleri-cal/office support duties as assigned. One year re-ceptionist or similar office

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Burnsville Toyota Billing and Title ClerkPosition available for experienced car biller. Must have knowledge of license & title pro-cedures, computer-ized schedules, cost-ing procedures, 10 key & typing. Salary based on experience.

Mon-Fri 25-30 hrs.Email resume [email protected]

Fax resume, attn: Wynn Burg

952-435-2534



Class A Driver to move forklifts. Metro wide.$20+/hr 612-282-6560

Janitorial Supervisors & Cleaners

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tion is helping the CVB showcase other destina-tions. “Given all of the inter-est and media attention that Twin Cities Premium Outlets has created for our community, it gives our convention and visi-tors bureau an even great-er opportunity to pro-mote Eagan’s 15 hotels, 100-plus restaurants and great attractions such as Cascade Bay Waterpark,” Cory said. Cory hopes all that traffic to the outlets on opening weekend also finds its way to local res-taurants and hotels. The outlets are expect-ed to be a strong regional draw with shops like Sak’s Off Fifth, Coach, Michael Kors, Nike, and Gap Fac-tory Store. As if those were not enough, several new stores were added to the outlets’ stable last week. They are Armani, 7 for All Mankind, Steve Mad-den, Filson, Vera Bradley and Francesca’s Collec-tions, according to news reports. These latest additions are not located at any oth-er Minnesota outlet mall. The Eagan outlets are the only mall of its kind in the metro area. Outlet malls are located in Albert-ville and Medford – both about 45 miles from the Eagan location.

Traffi c plans Local officials have been preparing for the in-flux of traffic for months. City officials note that the outlets won’t open un-til 10 a.m. each day, so the impact on the morning rush hour could be mini-mized. Police officers plan to be on site as needed to make sure a safe vehicle flow is maintained. Attendants will help direct drivers to open parking spots. The outlets’ employ-

ees will use shuttles to get to work, eliminating the need for an estimated 600 to 1,000 parking stalls. Two temporary surface lots flanking the city’s new parking ramp will provide an additional 600 spaces, making 2,900 parking spaces available each day over the grand-opening weekend. In an effort to make the traffic flow as smooth as possible, the city of Ea-gan has released a traffic flow map and tips on how to navigate the redevel-oped property in the city’s Cedar Grove area. The map (included with this story) shows the two-way ring road around the outlets with five park-ing areas surrounding it. Those driving vehicles to the mall are encouraged to pick the closest parking lot to whatever entrance

they select – Highway 13 to Silver Bell Road to Ce-dar Grove Parkway on the east and Diffley Road to Nicols Road on the south-west. City officials are ask-ing people to consider taking Minnesota Val-ley Transit Authority bus routes 437, 438, 444, 445, and 475U or the Metro Red Line, which has stops at the Apple Valley Tran-sit Station; 147th Street and 140th Street in Apple Valley; and the Mall of America. The Cedar Grove Tran-sit Station stop is located just west of the outlets. For those coming in from out of town, most Eagan hotels will be of-fering guests complimen-tary shuttle service to and from the outlets. Despite all those mea-sures, city officials are

asking motorists who typically drive through the area to consider al-ternate routes during the first couple days, especial-ly those who live near the mall. City officials also say that area merchants who have business suppliers may want to schedule de-liveries earlier in the week or the following week. Regular operation hours will be Monday to Saturday 10 a.m. to 9 p.m., Sunday 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. More about traffic flow around the outlets is at www.cityofeagan.com/abouttheroute. More about Twin Cit-ies Premium Outlets is at www.premiumout-lets.com/outlets/outlet.asp?id=112.

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buildings. Among the selection criteria were a teacher’s past classroom technology experience and their expla-nation about how a one-to-one initiative would be applied in the curriculum. Beta project teachers are undergoing staff de-velopment this summer with an eye toward learn-ing from each other and best practices in other dis-tricts, such as in Farming-ton where an all-district, one-to-one iPad initiative is entering its second year. Troen said the project is not about the device, it’s about creating a “dynamic student learning experi-ence.” “It comes down to how students use technology to access information, col-laborate and communi-cate,” Troen said. Some teachers may deploy a flipped class-room using the devices. In a flipped classroom, teachers can create video lectures that students can view at home and use class-room time to complete as-signments or projects. This allows the teacher to guide and assist in such work. Troen said iPads have applications through which teachers can receive real-time feedback on stu-dents, such as a quiz that generates instant results so teachers can see who is grasping or not under-standing what is being taught. “The hallmark of ev-ery conversation is it is all about the learning and what it is we want students to do,” Troen said. The district will use anecdotal and empirical information to judge the beta project’s effectiveness. San Francisco-based BrightBytes has supplied a computer platform called Clarity with Case Mod-ule to compile survey data from staff, students and parents regarding their ex-periences.

The analysis will also measure how much work was completed and grades the students achieved. Troen also hopes to hear feedback about in-dividual students creat-ing something due to the access to technology that they might not have ever done or conceived of oth-erwise. “We are going to stand back and watch the stories develop,” Troen said. Troen said working with technology better prepares students for col-lege and careers since so many post-secondary schools and job sites are fully-integrated with com-puters. “The long-term vision is that the technology be-comes invisible,” Troen said. “It is interwoven into the learning experience. It is just part of the world and how you communi-cate and collaborate.” The next step for the district with regard to growing the use of district-provided, one-to-one tech-nology likely will be de-pendent on how successful the beta project is. Troen said another 40-50 teachers are undergoing staff development training through a separate beta project called Technology Integration. Through this project teachers have ac-cess to a Chrome Book or iPad carts, that are used only in the classroom. Issuing technology de-vices to students for use at home and in school is something that Troen hopes will expand if the funding is available. “There is a high excite-ment level,” Troen said. “I get to work with a lot of good teachers and staff on a variety of projects, but this has the ability to im-pact every classroom and every student – to change the experience, that is ex-citing.”

Email Tad Johnson at [email protected].

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In an effort to make the traffic flow as smooth as possible, the city of Eagan has released a traffic flow map and tips on how to navigate the redeveloped property in the city’s Cedar Grove area. The map shows the two-way ring road around the outlets with five parking areas surrounding it. Those driving vehicles to the mall are encouraged to pick the closest parking lot to whatever entrance they select – Highway 13 to Silver Bell Road to Cedar Grove Parkway on the east and Diffley Road to Nicols Road on the southwest. (Image submitted)


theater and arts briefs

theater and arts calendar

Flying Foot Forum Flying Foot Forum will perform at 6:30 p.m. Sun-day, Aug. 3, as part of the Summer Performance Se-ries at Caponi Art Park’s Theater in the Woods, 1220 Diffley Road, Ea-gan. Flying Foot Forum is a percussive dance and the-ater company that fuses percussion and percussive dances with other forms of music, dance and the-ater, telling unusual tales, creating a wild variety of characters, and exploring universal ideas in inven-tive and new ways. Admission is free with a $5 per person suggest-ed donation. Bring lawn chairs or a blanket for seating. Visit www.capon-iartpark.org for more in-formation.

Bluegrass festival The Caponi Art Park Bluegrass Festival will be held Sunday, Sept. 14. The festival brings na-tionally and regionally touring, award-winning bands, The Okee Dokee Brothers, Monroe Cross-ing, Lost Jim Trio and the Roe Family Singers to the Theater in the Woods amphitheater. The community cel-ebration of music and fundraiser for the Art Park starts at noon with an open jam session. Tickets are now on sale, visit www.caponiart-park.org for information.

Step back in time at fair Entrance to Dakota City Heritage Village – a collection of 22 build-ings recreating a Dakota County village of 1900 – will be free to visitors with paid admission to the Dakota County Fair Aug. 4-10. New this year are ex-hibits in the Ahlberg Hall Museum featuring a 1900s era root cellar and summer kitchen, as well as “Presentation Station” featuring local artisans and hobbyists. Other events include daily Chautauqua perfor-mances, vintage tractor parade, threshing dem-onstrations, vintage race cars, and a variety of mu-

sical performances. Saturday and Sunday the John Dillinger Gang will be raiding the Dako-ta City Bank. Old-fash-ioned ice cream, pie, 1919 root beer and lemonade are available in the village daily, along with sweet corn Thursday through Sunday afternoons. Dakota City is located on the Dakota County Fairgrounds at 4008 220th St. W. in Farm-ington. Visit www.dako-tacity.org for a complete schedule of events.

Superheroes at IMAX Theatre The Great Clips IMAX Theatre at the Minnesota Zoo is celebrating the opening of “Guardians of the Galaxy” with a “buy one ticket, get one ticket half off ” special for the 9:30 a.m. showing on Saturday, Aug. 2. Come early for free face painting, doughnuts, juice and appearances by members of the Minne-sota Superheroes United. Tickets can be pur-chased at the box office. Doors open at 8:30 a.m.

Spring Lake Park Music Fest The third annual Spring Lake Park Re-serve Music Festival will be 5-8 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 17, at Schaar’s Bluff. This is a joint partnership among the Rosemount Area Arts Council, the Hastings Prescott Area Arts Council and the Da-kota County Parks De-partment. The festival will fea-ture live music from lo-cal community bands, including the Hastings High School marching band, Rosemount Com-munity Band, River Val-ley Community Band, and Ponticelli, a strings ensemble. Concessions will be available to purchase from Sandy’s Grill & Ital-ian Ice and RA MacSam-my’s food trucks. Prices vary. Participants should dress for the weather and bring lawn chairs and blankets for seating. Admission is free. Pre-registration is appreci-ated and available online

at www.co.dakota.mn.us/parks or by phone at 952-891-7000.

Author at Galaxie Library As part of the 2014 Club Book series hosted by Dakota County Library, internationally known author Amy Bloom will speak, answer audience questions and sign books at 7 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 14, at Galaxie Library, 14955 Galaxie Ave., Ap-ple Valley. The Common Goods Bookstore will have Bloom’s books avail-able for purchase at the event. Bloom has seen world-wide success as a novelist, short story author and screen writer. Her short stories have been nominat-ed for both the National Book Award and the Na-tional Book Critics Circle Award, and appeared in popular anthologies in-cluding “The Best Ameri-can Short Stories” and “O. Henry Prize Stories.” A psychotherapist by training, Bloom also cre-ated, wrote, and produced the Lifetime comedy-dra-ma about a psychiatrist, “State of Mind.” The Club Book event is sponsored by MELSA, the legacy amendment, Minnesota Public Radio, MinnPost, Library Strat-egies and Dakota County Library. For more information, visit www.dakotacounty.us/library or call 651-450-2900.

Vintage Band Festival The Vintage Band Festival is presenting a one-day event on Satur-day, Aug. 2. With musical styles ranging from Civil War to jazz and more, 12 diverse bands from around Minnesota will perform outdoor concerts on Northfield’s Bridge Square starting at 9 a.m. and going until 9 p.m. The event will be held in conjunction with Northfield’s Riverwalk Market Fair in Bridge Square, where arts, crafts, and fresh foods are avail-able. The event is free and open to the public, but do-nations are appreciated. Visit http://vintage-bandfestival.org for more information.

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

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Auditions The Prior Lake Players will hold open auditions for their fall production of “The Leg-end of Sleepy Hollow” from 6:30-8:30 p.m. Monday, Aug. 18, and Tuesday, Aug. 19, at Twin Oaks Middle School, 15860 Fish Point Road S.E., Prior Lake. Roles available for children and adults. Auditions are first come, first served; no appointments necessary. Per-formances will be Oct. 10-12 and 24-26. More details are at plplayers.org.

Books Author Scott Thoma, 2-3:30 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 9, Robert Trail Library, 14395 S. Robert Trail, Rosemount. Thoma will sell and sign copies of his book, “Out of the Blue,”

a true story about two sisters and their miraculous survival of one of the most powerful tor-nadoes in Minnesota history.

Call for artists Eagan Art House’s ninth annual Harvest of Art Com-munity Art Exhibit, Sept. 7 to Nov. 3. Open to all south-of-the-river artists, age 8-18 and ages 19 and older. All media accepted. Registration fee: $16 per person for up to two pieces of artwork (ages 8-18); $21 per person (19 and older). Deadline: Aug. 18. Complete guidelines are at www.eagan-arthouse.org. Information: 651-675-5521.

Events/festivals Dakota County Fair, Aug. 4-10, Dakota County Fair-grounds, 4008 W. 220th St., Farmington. Information: www.dakotacountyfair.org. Burnsville Fire Muster,

Sept. 4-7. Information: www.burnsvillefiremuster.com.

Exhibits East Asian painting exhib-it, June 1-Aug. 31, Robert Trail Library, 14395 S. Robert Trail, Rosemount. Cultural Perspectives: Bringing Heritage Home ex-hibit, July 10-Aug. 24, Ames Center, 12600 Nicollet Ave., Burnsville.

Music Music in Kelley Park fea-turing Steve Sullivan & the Fac-tory, 6-9 p.m. Friday, Aug. 1, at Kelley Park, 6855 Fortino St., Apple Valley. Free. Food and beverages available for pur-chase. Devine, funk/motown/jazz/pop, will perform at 7 p.m. on Aug. 3 as part of Sunday Night Music in the Park at Nicollet Commons Park, 12600 Nicollet Ave., Burnsville. Free.

Lyle Lovett & His Large Band, 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 3, in the amphitheater at the Minnesota Zoo as part of Sub-way Music in the Zoo. Tickets: $68, $80.50 VIP box seat. In-formation: http://mnzoo.org/plan-your-visit/music-zoo/. Trombone Shorty & Or-leans Avenue, 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 6, in the am-phitheater at the Minnesota Zoo as part of Subway Music in the Zoo. Tickets: $43, $55.50 VIP box seat. Information: http://mnzoo.org/plan-your-visit/music-zoo/. Remembering the King (an Elvis tribute featuring Steve Marcio) will perform at 7 p.m. on Aug. 6 as part of the Wednesday in the Park Concert Series at Civic Center Park, 75 Civic Center Parkway, Burnsville. Free. Music in Kelley Park fea-turing T. Mychael Rambo, 6-9 p.m. Friday, Aug. 8, at Kelley

Park, 6855 Fortino St., Apple Valley. Free. Food and bever-ages available for purchase.

Theater “Shrek, The Musical,” presented by Eagan Summer Theatre, July 18 to Aug. 2, Ea-gan High School auditorium. Tickets: $15 adults, $10 se-niors and children age 12 and younger. Purchase tickets on-line at eagan.k12.mn.us. Box office: 651-683-6964. “Insane with Power,” pre-sented by Expressions Com-munity Theater, 7:30 p.m. Aug. 1-2 and 7-9, 2 p.m. Aug. 3, Lakeville Area Arts Center, 20965 Holyoke Ave. Tickets: $13 at the box office, online at www.LakevilleAreaArtsCenter.com or by phone at 952-985-4640. “Grease,” presented by The Play’s The Thing Produc-tions, 7:30 p.m. Aug. 8-9 and 2 p.m. Aug. 10, Ames Center,

The Ames Center in Burnsville surprised its 500,000th patron, Paige Nuebauer of Wayzata, as she and her family entered the building for the Rhythmic Circus performance on July 26. Kelsey Covart, sales and events manager at the Ames Center, presented the Nuebauer family with a giant commemorative ticket naming them the 500,000th patron through the Ames Center doors. From left, Sullivan Nuebauer, Paige Nuebauer, Eric Nuebauer, Kelsey Covart and Stella Nuebauer. The Nuebauers also received a $100 gift card to Mediterranean Cruise Café and a pair of complimentary tickets to any three upcoming performances at the venue. The Ames Center opened in 2009 as the Burnsville Performing Arts Center. (Photo submitted)

Apple Valley’s summerlong Music in Kelley Park concert series concludes Friday, Aug. 1, with a performance by Steve Sullivan and the Factory. The Twin Cities-based indie-blues-folk fusion band fronted by singer-songwriter Sullivan combines the sounds of artists such as Muddy Waters, Ray Charles and Tom Waits. Admission is free to the 6-9 p.m. concert in the park located at Founders Lane and West 153rd Street, and vendors will be on hand offering festival food such as burgers and brats along with wine and beer. More about the event is at Facebook.com/MusicInKelleyPark. (Photo submitted)

Music at the market

Ames Center milestone

Rollicking blues

12600 Nicollet Ave., Burnsville. Tickets: $14 adults, $13 chil-dren age 12 and younger. Pur-chase tickets at the box office or at Ticketmaster.com, 1-800-982-2787.

Workshops/classes/other The Eagan Art House of-fers art classes for all ages, www.cityofeagan.com/index.php/recreat ion/eagan-art-house, 651-675-5500. 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 Build-ing, Burnsville. Information: www.christ inet ierney.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. Summer Theatre Camps, ages 4-16, week-long camps June-August, In the Company of Kids Creative Arts Center, 13710 Nicollet Ave., Burnsville, www.cokartscenter.com, 952-736-3644. 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 held for intermediates Mon-days 1:30-4 p.m. at Rambling River Center, 325 Oak St., Farmington, $5/class. Call Marilyn 651-463-7833. Country line dance class-es on Wednesdays at the Lakeville Senior Center, 20110 Holyoke Ave. Beginners, 9-10 a.m.; Intermediate, 10 a.m. to noon. $5/class. Call Marilyn 651-463-7833. The Lakeville Area Arts Center offers arts classes for all ages, www.lakevillemn.gov, 952-985-4640. Rosemount History Book Club meets 6:30-8 p.m. the second Tuesday of each month at the Robert Trail Library. In-formation: John Loch, 952-255-8545 or [email protected].

Eagan’s Central Park festival grounds will be playing host to Kevin Bowe & the Okemah Prophets (pictured) and Tim Sparks next week during Eagan Market Fest. The Aug. 6 concert opens at 4 p.m. with Sparks, a guitarist who specializes in country blues, gospel, jazz and world music; at 6 p.m. Kevin Bowe & the Okemah Prophets take the stage to deliver their signature brand of American rock ’n’ roll. Admission is free to Market Fest, a weekly farmers market and community festival held on Wednesday nights throughout the summer at the Central Park festival grounds, with live music each week at the Rotary Band Shell. More on the event is at www.cityofeagan.com. (Photo submitted)


Quirky crimefighters, questionable superpowersExpressions presents stage comedy ‘Insane With Power’ in Lakeville



They may not be able to leap tall buildings in a single bound, but the su-perheroes in “Insane With Power” boast plenty of special talents. There’s Speed Freak, who believes he can run at incredible speeds, though when he does run he does so in reverse. There’s Mental, who, along with sud-den outbursts of strange non sequiturs, thinks she can read minds. And there’s Dim Bulb, who purports to be able to turn off the lights with his brain — a bold claim from a man wear-ing Hanes jockey briefs outside his pants. The Justice League of America they are not, but these crimefighting heroes get the job done — at least within the confines of the mental health facility where they’re patients. The lighthearted stage comedy, which opens Aug. 1 at the Lakeville Area Arts Center, is the latest production from Ex-pressions Community Theater. The story follows journalist Lois Lancaster as she researches the current state of mental health facilities by visit-ing a hospital populated with a group of quirky inmates who imagine they are

crimefighting superheroes. Initially, Lois finds the elaborate su-perhero fantasies to be an entertaining

diversion — albeit entirely delusional — un-til something unusual happens

that makes her wonder. Audiences can expect “very funny, light summer entertainment” from “In-sane With Power,” according to director Jim Anderson of Eagan. “It’s not Ibsen or Strindberg,” Ander-son said. “It’s kind of a sit-back-and-enjoy kind of show. I don’t want to say it’s slapstick-y, necessarily, but it’s a good comedy with colorful characters, and it’s really a lot of fun.” The six-person cast of “Insane With Power” includes Woody Davidson, Alan Davis, Samantha Dewars, Kim Lang, Keith Mattson and Mike Reardon. Show times are 7:30 p.m. Aug. 1-2 and 7-9, and 2 p.m. Aug. 3. Tickets

are $13 and are available online at www.LakevilleAreaArtsCenter.

com or in per-son at the arts cen-ter, 20965 H o l yo ke

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Andrew Miller at [email protected].

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“Insane With Power” cast members are, from left, Woody Davidson, Keith Mattson, Samantha Dewars, Mike Reardon, Alan Davis and Kim Lang. (Photo submitted)

Double dose of musical theater from The Play’s The Thing

Children’s theater group staging ‘Grease’ and ‘Aladdin Jr.’ in August



This summer, The Play’s The Thing Productions is turning back the clock to 1959 — and to remote an-tiquity. The Lakeville-based children’s theater company is staging two musicals, “Grease” and “Aladdin Jr.,” at south-metro venues in August. “We are literally rock-ing the Casbah and rock-ing Rydell High this sum-mer,” said Dayna Railton, who founded the children’s theater group in 2009 and is directing both of TPTT’s current shows. “Grease” will be pre-sented at Burnsville’s Ames Center (formerly the Burns-ville Performing Arts Cen-ter) Aug. 8-10, while “Alad-din Jr.” takes to the stage of Eagle Ridge Junior High in Savage Aug. 6-8.

The cast of “Grease” fea-tures about 50 young actors from The Play’s The Thing ranging in age from 12 to 18. Audiences will recognize the music and look of the 1978 film starring John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John, including the songs “Grease is the Word” and “You’re the One That I Want.” “The original (1971 mu-sical) was a little crude — this one’s cleaned up, the crude vulgarity is gone, but it has all the delightful songs and colorful characters that people know,” explained Railton. “Aladdin Jr.,” inspired by the animated 1992 Dis-ney film set in the fictional Middle Eastern sultanate of Agrabah, features the theater group’s younger per-formers, ages 6 to 12. “It’s actually gone quite well,” Railton said of the young cast. “The young ones (in ‘Aladdin Jr.’) are stepping

up and raising their perfor-mance level because they know they’ve got to carry the show on their own.” Tickets for “Aladdin Jr.” will be available at the door of Eagle Ridge before each performance. “Grease” tick-ets can be purchased in per-son at the Ames Center box office, 12600 Nicollet Ave., Burnsville, or through Tick-etmaster.com. TPTT, which offers youth theater camps and performance opportunities year-round, plans to stage “The Best Christmas Pag-eant Ever” in Farmington this November, followed by a musical version of “A Christmas Carol” at the Lakeville Area Arts Center in December. More about TPTT is at www.childrenstheatretptt.com.


Max Mayleben (center) plays Danny Zuko in “Grease” this month at Burnsville’s Ames Center. His T-Bird buddies are, clockwise from lower left, Gabe Kohlbeck, Ben Cline, Brandon Homan and Hunter Conrad. (Photo submitted)

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