2012 st anthony villagefest

Supplement to the Bulletin • Week of July 23, 2012 • Published by Lillie Suburban Newspapers, Inc.

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Clarence Renello felt something was missing from St. Anthony.

It was the early 1980s, and Renello was an active member of the City Council. He noticed that other, nearby cities had annual festivals that brought together people in the town to celebrate. And St. Anthony didn’t have that.

“I felt there wasn’t enough communi-ty,” Renello said. “I thought the Village needed something where people could all get together. I just thought the city should do that.”

So he set about doing it himself. Renello remembers asking the council for money to start an event. At first they were reluctant to pay for the event. But eventually, after he pressed hard enough, he was given $1,000 in “seed money.”

Renello set about organizing local businesses into vendor booths, talking to farmers to bring in animals for local kids to see. VillageFest had been born, with the goal of earning back the $1,000 for the city.

“Let me tell you, we were all exhausted,” Renello said about everyone

involved in staging the weekend event. But it had been a success. The festi-

val brought in $3,000. The profit went toward putting on a repeat festival for the next year.

VillageFest has changed dramatically since that first year, Renello said.

“It’s gotten so much bigger and so much nicer,” he said. “Everyone has really done a fantastic job.”

Renello is now the M.C. of the festi-val parade. In the early 1990s, control of VillageFest moved to the city’s Chamber of Commerce. Barb Kuznia was on the Chamber, and helped formalize the annual festival.

“Clarence is the one who pushed to get it started, and then the Chamber of Commerce helped it grow,” she said. “And it’s really been successful.”

Renello was the local cable com-missioner in 1985. He began to televise some of the festival on cable, so people who weren’t able to make it could still watch some of the fun. About 10 years

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Sometimes, customers come to The Truman Company to find out the value of a coin or a coin collection so they can sell it. Others want an appraisal so they know a little more about their possessions, says Westerling, owner of The Truman Company in Roseville.

And, in a scene that echoes Westerling’s own past, sometimes a neophyte walks in with a coin and a certain gleam in the eye – and leaves with a wealth of knowledge and a newly-minted passion for coins.

After 36 years in business, there are plenty of repeat customers at The Truman Company. Westerling’s recipe for continued success is simple: unmatched knowledge of his field and a commitment to building and keeping trust. “We focus on good service and honesty.”

Westerling is a life member of the American Numismatic Association with an A+ rating with the Better Business Bureau. He’s been trusted with collections that are too big for their owners to bring into the office. This is where his sterling customer service really shines.

“I’m more than happy to come out to their home or bank,” he says. Either in-store or off-site, he spends whatever time it takes to make sure he’s provided a meticu-lous appraisal.

And if someone is interested in selling a collection, they can be assured Westerling won’t “cherry-pick” a few valuable coins and leave them with the rest. He says it’s only fair to do business on their terms, and with his experience and contacts, he can handle a wide range of inventory. “There’s a market for everything,” he says.

For one thing, the business Westerling began as a storefront for local customers now counsels people from thousands of miles away. Thanks to the digital age, The Truman Company now counts an estimated 2,500 active clients around the country.

Westerling learned the trade from his uncle Truman, a California coin dealer who crisscrossed the country in a quest to find the most coveted coins.

“Every time he visited my family, he gave me a coin that had an interesting history. His hope was that I would foster a real interest in rare and unusual coins,” Westerling says. And it worked!

While old coins appreciate gradually,

precious metals have seen a dramatic spikes in value. From 2002 to 2012, the value of silver went up 456 percent and gold 478 percent.

“I honestly think the prices for gold and silver will continue to rise during our life-time,” Westerling says.

The Truman Company has also under-gone some major changes in the past year – moving to a new suite that doubled the space to accommodate additional staff and an increased client base. But the business is still easy to find, at the same office building.

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ago, he said, the parade started being televised live on local cable.

“I have people come up and ask me, ‘Is that going to be live on T.V. again this year? I like to watch it,’” Renello said.

Renello said what makes him the most proud about the annual festival is the way it brings together local institutions to put on a fun event for

the community. For example, this year features a production of “Annie” in the St. Anthony High School Auditorium, put on by the St. Anthony Community Theater. There is a community service project involving Nativity Lutheran Church, activities in the shopping cen-ter, and exercise events put on by the local fitness center.

“I just hope they keep VillageFest going for a long time,” Renello said. “We’ve got our churches and our schools coming together and cooperat-ing. It’s really good.”

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Quality hang timeThe inflatable area was a huge hit last year, and provided many fun activities for kids, like the EuroBungie.

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FRIDAY, JULY 27TH 7:00 ST. ANTHONY COMMUNITY THEATER PRODUCTION OF ANNIE –St. Anthony High School Auditorium - Adults $10.00 Students/Seniors $8.00

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SUNDAY, JULY 29TH 2:00 ST. ANTHONY COMMUNITY THEATER PRODUCTION OF ANNIE –St. Anthony High School Auditorium - Adults $10.00 Students/Seniors $8.00

TUESDAY, JULY 30TH COMMUNITY SERVICE PROJECT It Takes a Village: Feed My Starving Children

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FRIDAY, AUGUST 3RD - continued The St. Anthony Lions will be collecting non-perishable food items for the North East Food Shelf, Diapers, Toiletries, paper products also requested. STREET DANCE & CELEBRATION IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING THE PARADE FEATURING: Headpressure St. Anthony Shopping Center

Infl atables, EuroBungie Climbing Wall, Beer Tent, Food Booths

Coloring Contest: Sponsored by Tea Source You can pick up your entry any day of the week before VillageFest and they will have a table out front on Friday.

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SATURDAY, AUGUST 4THAll Saturday events at Central Park, unless otherwise noted. 8:00 am 5K RUN –starts at St. Anthony Shopping Center 8:00 am 1K Fun Run for Beginners also at St. Anthony Shopping Center

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–St. Anthony High School Auditorium - Adults $10.00 Students/Seniors $8.00 7:30 – 9:45 MAIN STAGE - Blazing Saddles 9:45 – 10:15 BREAK FOR FIREWORKS- bigger and better!!! 10:15 – 11:00 ENTERTAINMENT: Blazing Saddles fi nal set

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The word “bootcamp” doesn’t need to frighten Village Fest-goers this summer, Kelsey Brodt insists.

“I’m not here to yell and scream at you,” she said. “I have a loud voice, but I’m going to be shouting encouragement.”

Brodt is leading the VillageFest Bootcamp July 30 from 5:30-6:30 p.m. in Silver Point Park. She works as a group exercise instructor at the Fitness Crossroad gym, and will be bringing that experience to a work-out that is free, open to anyone who is interested, and designed to provide a fun, manageable hour of exercise.

The class will take place in the grass outside, which Brodt expects to add to the fun. And it won’t require much expertise or equip-ment, instead relying on body weight exercises like “doing crunches on the grass,” she said.

According to Fitness Crossroad’s website, Brodt has certifications with Aerobics and Fitness Association of America and National Personal Training Institute.

“She believes in a holistic approach to fitness and aims to be an inspiring fitness professional who keeps clients motivated with variety and encouragement,” the website said.

And Brodt will bring that “holis-tic approach” VillageFest.

“The way I want it to work is, if you can’t run, walk,” she said. “If you can’t do a push-up, we’ll find modi-fications for you. It will be suitable for an eight-year old as well as a 68-year-old.”

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sweat at VillageFest. In addition to hosting the Bootcamp and a 5K run Aug. 4, owner Barry Tedlund said, the gym is hosting a 1-mile run for 4-8-year old children. It will start at the same time as the 5K.

“We’ve got a lot of family things going on, so there will be a lot of little kids here,” Tedlund said. “We thought it would be fun to have

something for them to participate in.” Between the two runs and the

bootcamp, everyone can find some-thing at VillageFest to introduce them to exercise. And that’s the way it should be, Brodt said.

“The more you sit around, the harder it is to get up,” she said. “Fitness is so important to a com-munity. Why not open it up to every-body?”

Om nom nom...Like last year, there will be many local vendors providing food options during VillageFest.

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How high can you go?Last year’s silent auction was the perfect place for bargain hunters.

The 20th annual tournament, a staple of the town’s VillageFest, has bounced back and forth between two different courses over the past decade — it was at Columbia Golf Club in Minneapolis in 2010 and a few years before that, and has also taken place at the Francis A. Gross National Golf Course in St. Anthony.

Conflicts over starting time arrange-ments at the courses meant the Classic had difficulty finding a permanent loca-tion. But for the second straight year — and, the Chamber of Commerce hopes, for many more to come — the tournament will play at Francis A. Gross.

Tony Fragnito, Chamber of Commerce board member and former president, said attendance for the tour-nament is typically stronger when it’s

at Francis A. Gross, because it’s within the St. Anthony city limits.

“People don’t have to leave the city to get to it,” he said. “So we have more players when we’re in St. Anthony. It’s kind of a tight fit between the end of the tournament and the start of the parade. So when we’re here, we’ll get you to the parade on time.

The tournament’s participation has risen from “40 to 50,” as Fragnito said, to “100-plus.” But two years ago, when the tournament was at Columbia, there were only 70 players.

“We started getting some commu-nity pushback,” Fragnito said. “Like, ‘This is a St. Anthony event, and you’re having it in Columbia Heights.’”

The tournament won’t have that problem anymore. Fragnito said it is

The St. Anthony Chamber of Commerce Annual Golf Classic fi nally has a home

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the Chamber’s “biggest fund-raiser,” and it should remain within the city limits for the foreseeable future.

Last summer at Francis A. Gross, it had “19 or 20” hole sponsors — more than the number of holes on the course.

Fragnito also encouraged players of all skill levels from the public to join. While the Chamber of Commerce hosts the tournament, he said, nobody has to be a member in order to play.

And while the winning team is often composed of scratch golfers who score more than 10 below par, not everyone needs to be that good.

“I would venture that I’ll be one of the worst golfers on the course,” he said. “I haven’t played in about five years. It’s just a fun day.”

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2012 st anthony villagefest

Documents

clarence renello

control of villagefest

u g u s t

local businesses

local kids

t u e s d

year plymouth resident

active member