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opInIonSun Thisweek’s new homeLarry Werner, general manager and editor of Sun Thisweek, writes about the newspaper’s new location in Apple Valley’s Central Village .

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Teens battle against

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Youth drug trends: Meth use declines; pot, heroin on the rise

by Andrew MillerSuN ThISWeek

For parents concerned about the prospect of their kids trying synthetic marijuana, there’s good news and bad news . The good news is that, at least in the south metro area, it appears the drug is no longer available at tobacco shops, gas stations, or “head” shops . The bad news: Il-legal or not, synthetic marijuana is still avail-able online . Legislation was passed in Minnesota last year that outlaws sale and possession of synthetic marijuana,

by Laura AdelmannSuN ThISWeek

For four years, one Da-kota County juvenile sus-tained his prescription drug addiction by raiding other people’s medicine cabinets . People don’t realize that the bathroom is the one room in a house that gives people complete privacy to snoop, to gather, to take, says one Dakota County chemical health social

worker . Prescription drug abuse among teens is a growing trend in Dakota County that officials say is a lead-

ing cause for the rise in heroin addictions among young adults . Past-year use of pre-scription pain killers was reported by 6 .3 percent of Minnesota 12th-graders in 2010, according to a January 2011, National Institute on Drug Abuse

report . Those types of prescrip-tion narcotics, like Oxycon-tin and Vicodin, are highly

addictive opiates that pro-duce a placid euphoria . Youths who try them may not realize their in-herent danger, said Carol Falkowski, Minnesota De-partment of health drug abuse strategy officer, be-cause they have grown up in a pill-popping culture . “eighty-five percent of our population takes pills every day for one reason or another,” Falkowski

said . “Children growing up are very used to seeing pill-taking . They see par-ents and relatives take pills, they may have siblings on medication . They see kids in grade schools line up at lunch time at the nurse’s of-fice to take pills . It’s part of the culture .” Apple Valley high School resource officer Michael eliason said some

Carol Falkowski

James Backstrom

by Aaron VehlingSuN ThISWeek

According to the es-timate of State Demog-rapher Tom Gillaspy, by 2020 the number of Min-nesotans of retirement age will exceed that of children in the k-12 age bracket . Lakeville’s public school system is already experiencing that dynamic change . Demographic con-sultant hazel Reinhardt projects the district will lose between 143 and 651 students over the next five years, with the weight to-ward the larger number .She attributes the decline to the aging of the resi-dents in the district’s at-tendance area . “The district’s popula-tion is aging out of the

prime childbearing years,” she said in a presentation to the Lakeville School Board earlier this month . So with more empty-nesters and an increasing focus on senior housing, there are fewer children to attend the schools . To add to that, Rein-hardt said that fewer sin-gle-family, detached hous-es are being built . This poses a problem for the district because “90 per-cent of resident students come from the single-fam-ily detached units .” An ad-ditional issue is reduced “migration .” Depressed housing prices means that fewer people are likely to sell their homes elsewhere to moved to Lakeville . Director of Business

Steady enrollment decline projected in district 194

Next five years see potential revenue decreases

Felony charge follows drunken standoff with police

by Andrew MillerSuN ThISWeek

A Farmington man has been charged with a felony after a standoff with police that report-edly saw him clutching a pistol in one hand and a bottle of tequila in the other . Police say Cameron B . Ackland, 46, was showing signs of “extreme intoxi-cation” when he pointed a gun at officers during the standoff March 11 alongside a quiet country road in empire Township . The criminal com-plaint gives the following account of the incident: A Dakota County sheriff ’s deputy was dis-patched to the area of Blaine Avenue and 17th Street around 2:30 p .m . March 11 on a report of a man staggering around a vehicle parked near a grove of trees . The deputy located the

vehicle and ran a license plate check, which gave emergency alert that the driver was possibly sui-cidal and in possession of a gun . Additional sheriff ’s deputies, police officers, and an armored vehicle arrived and were posi-tioned about 50 yards be-hind Ackland’s vehicle . Police observed a li-quor bottle in Ackland’s right hand, from which he occasionally took a drink, and a silver hand-gun in his other hand . Ackland was repeatedly ordered to put down the gun but did not respond . Ackland gestured with the gun toward officers “in a jabbing motion,” the complaint said . he staggered toward them, lurched to the side of the road and fell down . The gun remained in Ackland’s hand, and po-lice used the armored ve-

hicle to approach him . Ackland was taken into custody and trans-ported to Regions hospi-tal in St . Paul for evalua-tion . Police recovered from the ground an unloaded .38-caliber revolver and an empty bottle of tequi-la . Ackland has been charged with second-de-gree assault for allegedly threatening police with the handgun . The felony is punishable by up to seven years in prison and a $14,000 fine . he also was charged with carrying a pistol while under the influence of alcohol and carrying a pistol without a permit, both gross misdemean-ors .

Andrew Miller can be reached at [email protected] or face-book.com/sunthisweek.

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Apple Valley Police Officer Mike Eliason testified at the state Capitol last year in support of legislation out-lawing the sale and posses-sion of synthetic marijuana.

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Synthetic marijuana dangers shift to InternetDrug has disappeared from tobacco

shop shelves in Dakota County

by Jessica HarperSuN ThISWeek

Meg Chevalier will never forget the night her brother brought her home from a late-night drug binge . The Dakota County teen had lived away from home for some time and quickly felt ashamed upon seeing the disheartened look upon her mother’s face . It was then, at age 15, she hit rock bottom . “It hurt to see what I was doing to her,” Che-

valier said . “My mom is so important to me . She’s always been supportive of everything I did .” Though she remained at the bottom for a short time, Chevalier attempted to get sober on her own during her sophomore year of high school . Soon temptation be-came too great and Cheva-lier relapsed several times . Many of her friends at school also abused sub-stances, making sobriety nearly impossible .

Chevalier, now 17, de-cided to start over by en-rolling in Alliance Acade-my, a public charter school that provides a sober en-vironment for teens who struggle with drugs and alcohol . “I found exactly what I was looking for in this school,” said Chevalier, who has been sober for 16 months . While attending the Burnsville school, Cheva-

Teens take comfort in sober school County, local organizations work toward prevention

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Tigers on track for another runThe majority of the athletes off last season’s fourth-place Farmington girls track and field team are back .

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lakeville violin virtuoso returns Seventeen-year-old musical prodigy Chad hoopes is returning to his hometown April 29 for a concert at the Lakeville Area Arts Center .

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onlIneCheck out the new Sun Thisweek website at www .SunThisweek .com .

Read an update to today’s story about a third McDonald’s proposed in Lakeville .

Read guest editorials from Secretary of State Mark Ritchie, u .S . Sen . Al Franken and a Yellow Medicine county commissioner .

Like the Sun Thisweek Facebook page at www .facebook .com/ sunthisweek .

newSa safer intersectionThe City of Lakeville and Dakota County are teaming up to revamp one of the city’s most dangerous intersections .

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by Aaron VehlingSun ThiSweek

As part of Richfield-based Best Buy’s $800 mil-lion cost-cutting measures, the company will close its Lakeville store, according to a news release from the company. Best Buy reported last week it was closing 50 big box stores in 2013. Four other metro locations are also set to close, leaving about 300 employees unem-ployed. The company has said it would pursue trans-fers for the laid off-workers. “in order to help make technology work for every one of our customers and transform our business as the consumer electronics in-dustry continues to evolve, we are taking major actions to improve our operating performance,” said Brian J. Dunn, CeO of Best Buy. Best Buy has 1,450 loca-tions nationwide and hun-dreds more in other coun-tries. The company notified its employees the stores will

close sometime this fall. As it reduces the number of its traditional big box stores, the company also plans to open another 100 u.S. Best Buy Mobile small format stores in that time period. According to the company, it expects to more than double by 2016 its current crop of such stores from the 305 it has today. Best Buy will also try out its “Connected Store” format in select markets, in-cluding the Twin Cities. These stores, Dunn said

in the release, “provide a better shopping environ-ment for our customers across multiple channels while increasing points of presence, and to improve performance and profitabil-ity.” These new stores are ex-pected to open by Christ-mas.

Aaron Vehling can be reached at [email protected] or facebook.com/sunthisweek.

Lakeville Best Buy to close Company plans to shutter five metro stores

Photo by Aaron Vehling

This fall, Best Buy plans to close five metro locations, in-cluding its Lakeville store.

A safer intersection for Dodd, County Road 50New lights aims to improve safety


This year the intersec-tion of County Road 50 and Dodd Boulevard will experience a revamped design in an effort to in-crease safety and efficiency, thanks to a joint Lakeville-Dakota County agreement. Left turns onto County Road 50 from either direc-tion of Dodd have proven to be an exercise in uncom-fortable forms of risk-tak-ing. “it’s a little like Russian roulette,” said City Coun-cil Member Matt Little at a work session last year, when a discussion of the project took place. City Administrator Steve Mielke said the move is “purely a traffic-control concern.” There won’t be any trails or other addi-tions. All four intersection ap-proaches would include a left-turn signal that would not only display green and red arrows, but also a blinking yellow. Only the west- and eastbound lanes of the intersection current-ly have red and green left-turn arrows. Flashing yellow arrows allow motorists to turn left after yielding to oncoming traffic without having to wait for a green arrow. “(The arrows) have been shown to enhance safety

and improve traffic flow,” interim City engineer Zachary Johnson said. The standard green- and red-arrow arrangement will be active during peak traf-fic times, but during low traffic times the yellow ar-rows will be used, accord-ing to Johnson. The city and county are splitting the cost of engi-neering and construction – about $45,000 for the city

of Lakeville. it will be the city’s pub-lic works department that is responsible for main-tenance and energy costs of intersection lighting thereafter, with the county responsible traffic signal-related capital costs. Aaron Vehling can be reached at [email protected] or facebook.com/sun-thisweek.

Photo by Aaron Vehling

This year Dakota County and the city of Lakeville will up-grade traffic lights at the intersection of Dodd Boulevard and County Road 50. The aim, according to city officials, is to make the intersection safer and more efficient.


Opinion

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We’ve settled into our new home in downtown Apple Valley by Larry Werner

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Shortly after 4 p.m. on March 29, i was greeting guests at a chamber of commerce party we threw in the atrium of the building we had moved the newspaper into a couple weeks earlier. Bruce Nordquist, director of community development and planning for the city of Apple Valley, congratulated me on our decision to move from Burnsville to the Shops on Galaxie building. “You’re a visionary,” Nordquist said with his characteristic overstatement and enthusiasm. “You’ll love it here. There are 57 restaurants within a half mile of this building. i counted them.” By the time the party began last Thurs-day, i was feeling more like a punching bag than a visionary. Over the last two months, we have merged Thisweek Newspapers with the Sun Current papers to create Sun Thisweek while moving our entire opera-tion from our longtime home in Burnsville to the Central Village area of Apple Valley. At the same time, we’ve had to make some major changes in our distribution system and our technology to accommodate the acquisition of the Sun papers by eCM publishers, our parent company. But Nordquist’s comment about the choice of this Apple Valley location for our headquarters got me to thinking about an interview i did several years ago with

Bruce’s boss, Mayor Mary hamann-ro-land. At the time, i was writing for the Star Tribune and doing a story about her plans for a new walkable downtown where peo-ple can work, live and play without having to get into their cars. in her conference room, the mayor showed me a map with lines drawn where office buildings, restaurants, a park and multi-family housing would be built on what had been a pumpkin patch. hamann-roland was jumping on a trend known as “new urbanism” that was being embraced by other suburban communities, includ-ing Burnsville, where her friend, Mayor elizabeth kautz, had built her “new down-town,” known as heart of the City. For years, Apple Valley officials had re-ferred to the commercial cluster adjacent to Cedar Avenue and County road 42 as “downtown.” As anyone who has driven through that intersection knows, there’s nothing “walkable” or “pedestrian-friend-ly” about that busy place. So Apple Valley

officials had embarked on turning a pump-kin patch along Galaxie Avenue, a couple blocks south of 42, into a place that feels more like a downtown. readers of this newspaper might recall we’ve done several stories on the fact that the Central Village has been slow to devel-op. The building in which i am writing this column has seen several tenants fail after opening their businesses with great hope. And as i look out my office window, i can see empty plots of land where apartments and townhouses were to have been built by now. The Great recession got in the way of the big plans hamann-roland and Nor-dquist had for this place. But now that the economy is improving, the prospects for Central Village are im-proving. Our building, which had dropped to about 40 percent occupancy, is more than 80 percent occupied. An apartment building planned to our west will connect by trail to the new Bus rapid Transit line on Cedar. There’s talk of another develop-ment to our north that will wrap around the lovely kelley park where concerts are held in a bandstand on summer Fridays. And my staff enjoys walking along the sidewalks of Central Village to some of those restaurants or grabbing a bite at the Valley Diner, which, along with the kami Japanese steak house, is in the Shops of Galaxie building.

readers of this space know i’m a down-town guy. There’s something magical about the vitality of working in a place that of-fers the variety that downtowns do – re-tail, restaurants, workplaces and gathering spots such as kelley park. As our lease was headed for expiration in Burnsville, i began to look at space in downtowns, including Burnsville’s heart of the City and down-town Lakeville, one of my favorite places to hang out. we got the best deal in Apple Valley, and we’re happy to be here. Last Thursday, about 150 businesspeo-ple enjoyed food from kami and Valley Diner and music from a talented performer known as rockin’ woody. Many of the folks who came to our party said they had never been to the old pumpkin patch that is becoming a downtown. if you’re in the neighborhood, stop by. i can recommend the food at kami, Valley Diner and a few of the other restaurants i’ve tried in our new neighborhood. it will take me a while to try all 57 of them. it’s a difficult job, as they say, but someone has to do it.

Larry Werner is editor and general manager of Thisweek Newspapers and the Dakota County Tribune. He can be reached at [email protected]. Columns reflect the opinion of the author.

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Racino means jobs, revenue To the editor: Sen. Dave Thompson, r-Lakeville, voted no in com-mittee on March 19 on the bill allowing racinos in Min-nesota. This bill is a winning so-lution to support education and create tens of thousands of jobs in the construction, hospitality and agricultural industries. Although this district has a large agricultural de-mographic, Thompson is choosing not to support education, jobs and the dis-trict’s important agriculture roots with his no vote. The same old chicanery was used to defeat the racino bill and protect the tribal casino car-tel’s monopoly on slot ma-chines. what businesses in Thompson’s district would benefit from a Minnesota racino? who in District 36 is affected by the racino bill that would grow not only the race horse but horse indus-try? Veterinary clinics, trailer, tractor and equipment deal-ers, feed stores, hay farmers, horse farms and boarding facilities, truck and tractor dealers and repair facilities, farriers, lumber stores, fleet and farm stores, grocery, in-surance, banks and more. Fourteen states have proven that racinos provide jobs and millions in revenue – two things that most law-makers can agree would be good for Minnesota, espe-cially when we are in debt to our public education system. i have seen the benefits of racinos firsthand in iowa, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Flor-ida and west Virginia where i have trained race horses in the last 18 months. Many Minnesota own-ers, breeders and trainers are

leaving Minnesota with their horses and dollars and ship-ping horses across the na-tion to race after the larger purses and breeders awards that the racino states offer. All while one of the top five racing venues in the country is sitting in our backyard in Shakopee struggling to get enough horses to fill races while fans continue to pack the stands in record num-bers. it is urgent that we take advantage of racinos to ensure that Minnesota is a competitive state. it is unfor-tunate and frustrating that the votes of a few could hold us back, especially when an overwhelming majority of Minnesotans want racinos. Call Thompson and tell him racino needs his vote – as much as he will need our votes in his next campaign. rANDY weiDNerNorthfieldrace horse trainer and president of the Minnesota Quarter horse racing As-sociation

Still no new pool in Lakeville To the editor: Yes, this is another letter from a swim parent – a tired swim parent. i have two daughters in-volved with the Lakeville swim community since 2003. Both are in the swim club, as Lakeville North Swim Team members since 2004, employed by the Aquatics Department since 2007. My oldest (Class of 2010) spent time she didn’t have her senior year as part of a new pool task force liaison to the Lakeville Area School Board. She knew she would never see adequate facili-ties herself, but had hopes that her younger teammates would. we know how that

worked out. i have served on the club board, helped with countless proposals, fund-raisers, expressed my views at board meetings. No pool. My youngest will start her senior year and seventh year as a North swimmer this fall. it has been seven years getting kicked in the head in crowded lanes, unable to get the workout in some days because both North and South are still forced to practice together seven years after a beautiful state of the art second high school was built with no pool. Still those kids show up 18 hours a week, 7,000 yards a day to represent Lakeville. i would have been nice if Lakeville stood behind them. it is with much pride that i watched my daughters be-come confident, physically fit, young women with an amazing work ethic and pride in their accomplish-ments in the pool. They have wonderful memories and friends from the swim com-munity despite it all. So, thank you, to all the parents who have fought and been disappointed time and time again. i’m done. And best wishes to the parents who are continuing to fight for adequate facilities for their kids. kAMi MiTTeNeSSLakeville

Schools are crumblingTo the editor: Many Minnesota two-year colleges and universities are dealing with crumbling school infrastructures. They need money to maintain and fix plumbing, roofs, heating, ventilation, air conditioning and electrical systems of the schools’ buildings. Fixing these assets should be an even greater priority

than building new buildings and that is why fully funding the Minnesota State Col-lege and University system’s $110 million higher educa-tion Assets preservation and replacement request should be the first funding priority for the Legislature. At my school, Dakota County Technical College, our welding department and all of the auto programs have such poor ventilation that all the fumes seep into the caf-eteria from their classrooms. we also have heating and air conditioning problems in the landscape horticulture part of the building, where students have to sit in 50 de-gree lectures. Bathrooms on the north side of the build-ing are also very old and are very inefficient compared to the bathrooms on the south side of our campus building that have sensors and mod-ern efficient designs. For the past decade, we have backlogged $775 mil-lion of heApr requests that haven’t been funded by the state of Minnesota. in fact, the state has never fully funded heApr. So to at least keep up, we need to fully fund MnSCU’s $110 million request and “Fix it First.”

MiChAeL DOYLeMinneapolis

Kline has facts on gas-price blame wrong To the editor: My first thought when reading U.S. rep. John kline’s column (Sun Thisweek, March 30) is to inquire as to whether Cindy looked into mass transit or carpooling. i am a bit sur-prised a single mother could quit her job no matter what the cost of gas is. As to lowering gas pric-es, we need to establish the facts. On March 7, USA Today reported the U.S. is produc-ing more oil than ever. we are using less oil. Vehicles are more fuel-efficient. in his recent article in the wall Street Journal “Move Over, OpeC-here we Come’ ed Morse said, “The Unit-ed States has become the fastest-growing oil and gas producer in the world, and it is likely to remain so for the rest of this decade and into the 2020s.” Fuel is now the top U.S. export. in 2011 Associated press reported America was on pace to ship out more gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel than anything else. in 1981 when prices sky-rocketed at the pumps oil was slightly more than $200 a barrel. i just checked, as of today oil is $103 a barrel yet gas prices are at all time highs.

how can kline complain about Obama’s energy poli-cies if we are exporting more, using less, and the price of gas at the pump cannot be traced to extreme prices for a barrel of oil? Our last two presidents recognized that there are no quick fixes to reduce high oil or gasoline prices. in 2008 president George w. Bush said that “if there was a magic wand to wave, i’d be waving it” to lower prices. i think kline should consider joining our senators Amy klobuchar and Al Franken who are sponsoring legislation aimed at reigning in oil speculators. As to Solyndra, it was partly backed by the wal-ton family (think wal-Mart) and received loans from the Bush and Obama adminis-trations. So its funding was bipartisan. The economy tanked, which cut demand, and Solyndra found itself unable to compete with sub-sidized Chinese companies. Now its bankruptcy is being used as a platform to attack Obama’s energy policy.

NikA DAVieSApple Valley

Stop bullyingTo the editor: Bullying – a problem in high schools, junior highs, and elementary schools – is not only an issue in the schools, but also outside of the classroom. According to the Ameri-can Society for the preven-tion of Cruelty to Children, an estimated 160,000 stu-dents refuse to go to school each day for fear of physical and verbal abuse from their peers. This bullying can cause depression, anxiety, irritability, shame or aggres-sion in students. Bullying has taken on a whole new appearance through cyber bullying. Through social networks such as Facebook and Twit-ter, students are constantly being bullied. Gossip and rumors can spread from the halls to the student’s social network pages in seconds. Because cyber bullying hap-pens outside of school, stu-dents are reluctant to report it, and the bullying contin-ues. Bullying should not be a part of school or any stu-dent’s life. The damage it causes is completely avoid-able if the bullying is re-ported and dealt with prop-erly. with better education about bullying there can be a change in the schools. if this problem continues, students will continue to be hurt. if teachers, parents, and students are better educated about the effects of bully-ing, maybe a change could come from it. School should be about education, not so-

cial media and gossip.

CLAire D’AGOSTiNOBurnsville

A pickle in a candy wrapper To the editor: it’s the patriots who pro-tect the Constitution, right? well, the super-patriots in Minnesota think that their Constitution is so broken that they need to give it a mega-dose of fixing up. how about a “right to work” Amendment to fix the jobs situation? Don’t we all like the right to work? But when you unwrap that candy bar, you will find a sour pickle that amounts to union busting. how about a “Voter pho-to-iD” Amendment to weed out all those people who vote twice? Unwrap that one and you find a thinly-veiled attempt to disenfranchise many of the 200,000 Minne-sota voters who don’t have a Minnesota driver’s license or equivalent. A photo iD law would have caught the single known instance of voter im-personation in Minnesota history. Sure, there would be the collateral damage of dis-enfranchising the thousands who could not produce a photo iD. But that would be good since most of them would vote for Democrats if we let them. One thing that these two candy bars have in common is that they are both manu-factured by the American Legislative exchange Coun-cil. ALeC consists of a bunch of corporations that write corporation-friendly legislation for which they recruit stooges in public of-fice to introduce their inter-ests as legislation. Another of ALeC’s creations is the “Stand Your Ground” law. My daddy always taught me that was a good thing. You will recognize it as the shoot-if-you-feel-scared law that they have in Florida and many other states. Gov. Mark Dayton vetoed it for Minnesota in March 2012, but these zombies have a way of reappearing as amend-ments on the November bal-lot. Yet, really, is there any-thing wrong with corpora-tions trying to disenfran-chise voters with the photo iD thing? After all, corpora-tions are the real people in our national constitution, aren’t they? By the way, ALeC’s patsies have at least five other pickles in the mix (Senate files 149, 373, 429, 530, 1236). if you have any questions, just ask your re-publican senator or repre-sentative.

rAYMOND A. LArSONeagan

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Lakeville could get its third McDonald’s Proposed plan looks at Dino’s Gyros site


McDonald’s is looking to build a new restaurant near the corner of Cedar Avenue and Dodd Boule-vard in Lakeville. An existing building, which houses Dino’s Gy-ros, would be razed to make way for the fast-food chain’s construction, ac-cording to Community and economic Development Director Dave Olson. That existing building is about a decade old.

The Planning Commis-sion held a public hearing Thursday, April 5, after this edition went to press, to consider the application for a conditional use per-mit to allow the construc-tion of a McDonald’s at 17701 Cedar Ave. Lakeville currently has two McDonald’s restau-rants. The location near down-town on County Road 50, popular with students from nearby Lakeville north high School, recently un-

derwent a significant re-modeling effort. The other, often referred to as “McStop,” is located in a truck stop complex at i-35 and County Road 70. it was one of the first Mc-Stop concept locations in the united States, and is currently a corporate – not a franchise – location. Aaron Vehling can be reached at [email protected] or facebook.com/sun-thisweek.

Heritage Center clears another hurdle Lakeville council OKs contracts, financing


The Lakeville heritage Center has become, in the words of Mayor Mark Bel-lows, a project over which City Council members have “agreed to disagree.” That theme persisted at a Monday meeting, when the council voted 3-2 to approve construction con-tracts and temporary fi-nancing for portions of the project from city liquor funds. The bridge loan would cover the balance of the renovation costs pend-ing the sale of the existing downtown Senior Center building and $190,000 in fundraising. Approval of various hurdles has typically been with 3-2 votes with council members Matt Little, Lau-rie Rieb and kerrin Sweck-er in support of the project and Bellows and Council Member Colleen LaBeau on the “nay” side. LaBeau has made some “yes” pro-cedural votes, but has been mostly against the project. This arrangement is ex-pected to continue as addi-tional votes come into play before the heritage Center opens this fall. “i totally support se-

niors and the Yellow Rib-bon, but i keep getting end-less calls on this,” LaBeau said. “i can’t support it be-cause we’re leaving another building vacant again.” The current Senior Center building is for sale. There have been interested parties, but no one has taken a bite yet, according to city officials. Bellows echoed his pre-vious sentiment toward the heritage Center, which will feature space for the Lakeville Senior Center, Lakeville Beyond the Yel-low Ribbon and the Lakev-ille Area historical Society in the former police station across from City hall. “This is a project over which we’ve agreed to dis-agree,” he said. “i disagree with the process, the vision behind it and the impact on the taxpayer.” Little, who is running for mayor this fall against Bellows, thanked all the volunteers involved in the project, which has relied on a number of in-kind donations. he also thanked LaBeau, a real estate agent and home builder, for her insight. LaBeau, Little said, “has made this a better project. no matter how you

vote, thank you for making this project better.” he also called on the whole council to get behind the project, given that it is nearly a year into the pro-cess. “Let’s make this the best project this can be,” he said. The project was de-signed to not have an addi-tional financial impact on Lakeville taxpayers. Fund-ing is to come from existing city funds, fundraising and the sale of the downtown Senior Center. Based on the prices submitted by the apparent low bidders, the city de-termined the project’s cost will be $1,094,474, about $25,000 less than anticipat-ed. Fundraising is at about $55,000 with a $15,000 pledge, not including in-kind donations. Though LaBeau has had concerns about bid amounts and another va-cant building, she did offer some goodwill. “i do hope fellow coun-cil members who support it prove me wrong,” she said.

Aaron Vehling can be reached at [email protected] or facebook.com/sun-thisweek.

Photo by Rick Orndorf

Maddie Schoen (white bunny ears) and Isabel Schoen (purple bunny ears), both of Lakeville, participated in down-town Lakeville’s Break-fast with the Easter Bun-ny and egg hunt March 31. The event was co-sponsored by the Lakev-ille Parks and Recre-ation Department and the Downtown Lakeville Business Associations.

A hunt for Easter Eggs


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teens use their own prescrip-tion drugs to get high. “We had one case this year where the kid was grinding up his Adderall and snorting it,” Eliason said. There were no charges filed, but his parents were advised to bring the student in for a chemical health as-sessment. “He’s just taking it a dif-ferent way, so there’s not much you can do,” Eliason said. “It’s his prescription.”

Heroin connection Once addicted to pre-scription drugs, powerful cravings can lead to smok-ing or injecting heroin to find the same high without need of doctors or pharma-cies. Chase, 22, a recovering addict formerly of Rose-mount, said his drug use in

high school escalated rapid-ly and included prescription drugs, marijuana, ecstasy and cocaine. What started as weekend recreation overtook his life, pulling him from his fam-ily and toward friends who used. “In the drug world, it’s like drugs are pretty much your whole life,” Chase said. “Pretty soon the only thing you talk about is getting high and being high. The only thing you think about is where you can get more with your drug-addict friends.” The day after graduation, he used $300 of gift money he’d received on cocaine, snorted most of it in his car at a nearby townhouse com-plex. He was later pulled over and arrested for possession of the small amount left. Chase later pawned the laptop he’d been given for

college so he could purchase drugs. Partying was his priority in college, and he failed his first semester, dropping out after his parents refused to continue the loan. He had long decided nev-er to inject a drug or smoke methamphetamine, his threshold of what he consid-ered an addict. His lowest point was free-basing heroin. “That was the worst ex-perience of my life,” said Chase, who has completed treatment and is pursuing a drug counseling degree to help others find their way out. The types of cases Chase is likely to encounter in Min-nesota are changing. The state Health Depart-ment reported that from January to June 2011, metro treatment admissions for heroin and other opiates

topped those for marijuana. “That’s unprecedented … in the Twin Cities,” Falkows-ki said. Over 3 percent of those heroin/opiate admissions were minors, according to the MDH January 2012, Drug Abuse Trends report. Minnesota’s teenagers are using heroin at a higher rate than in other states. According to the Min-nesota Student Survey, 1.4 percent of Minnesota 12th-graders had used heroin in the past 12 months in 2010, higher than the 0.9 percent national rate. Falkowski believes her-oin’s allure is partly due to Minnesota’s cheap yet po-tent supply of Mexican her-oin. The U.S. Drug Enforce-ment Agency reported last year that Mexican “black tar” heroin available in the Twin Cities was as little as 25 cents per pure milligram, the cheapest of 21 cities studied. One Dakota County so-cial worker said heroin ad-diction is particularly prob-lematic among suburban young adults, most of whom abused prescription drugs as teens. The social worker, who asked her name not be used to protect her clients, said one juvenile she knows regu-larly bought and used hero-in in public restrooms in an Apple Valley retail store. She said the bathroom is very isolated in a corner and is a perfect spot for such ac-tivity. Long-term use of heroin leads to mental and physical problems that include sweat-ing, insomnia, impaired vi-sion, as well as lung, liver, kidney and brain damage, seizures and even death. Once addicted, users keep taking heroin not only to get high, but to avoid intense, painful withdrawal symp-toms that include stomach cramps, vomiting and fever.

Price to pay The type of heroin avail-able in Minnesota is ex-tremely potent and danger-ous, said Dakota County Drug Task Force Cmdr. Dan Bianconi. “What was 50 percent

pure four or five years ago is now 70 percent to 90 percent pure, now,” Bianconi said. Chase said he used hero-in after smoking marijuana with a friend who “talked him into doing it” even though he was scared. “He’s like, ‘It’s not that bad,’” Chase said. “And, he was will-ing to share it for free.” Bianconi said users of-ten are given their first high for free, then once they are hooked, the bargains end. After smoking the her-oin, Chase said everything started spinning and he felt “like a big shot.” Craving more drugs, he and some friends drove to Minnetonka to rob an al-leged drug dealer rumored to have $2,000 and drugs stashed in his bedroom at his parents’ Minnetonka home. As the victim slept, Chase and his friends searched in vain for the stash. Frustrated, they woke up the alleged dealer, who start-ed fighting and screaming. “We tried to suffocate him and make him pass out so he would stop scream-ing,” Chase said. The boy’s brother ran in, calling 911. Chase’s friends fled but were caught and ar-rested. Chase evaded police until the next day when officers knocked on the door of his home. In court-ordered treat-ment, Chase and his room-mate found they had a lot in common, including families dedicated to their rehabilita-tion. The roommates played chess late into the evening, sharing laughs and future plans. “His family owned a bar,” Chase said. “They were well-off. He had everything set for him. All he had to do was get clean and he’d have college paid for.” Chase successfully com-pleted treatment and left. His friend’s new room-mate was being treated for heroin addiction. Within a month, Chase’s friend, who had never tried heroin, overdosed on the drug and died.

“I know how deadly her-oin is,” Chase said. “It puts people in graves or institu-tions.”

Harmful The path by which most users take to heroin is laced with marijuana. Dakota County Attor-ney James Backstrom called marijuana “by far the most frequently used illegal drug in America,” but said people wrongly often dismiss it as harmless. Backstrom called pot “America’s most danger-ous illegal drug” in a June 15, 2010, paper blasting the movement to legalize mari-juana. In an interview with Sun Thisweek, Backstrom said: “There’s a common percep-tion that marijuana is no different than alcohol … but the simple truth is that it’s dangerous and destructive.” A January 2011 Drug Enforcement Agency report stated 79 percent of the na-tion’s adolescent treatment admissions involved mari-juana as the primary or sec-ondary substance. In the 17 years as Apple Valley High School resource officer, Eliason said the popularity of other drugs including ecstasy, cocaine and methamphetamine has waned, but marijuana is a constant. “There’s becoming a so-cial acceptance to pot,” Elia-son said. Dakota County Com-munity Corrections Dep-uty Director Jim Skoivil, agreed, stating marijuana is the drug he is “most con-cerned about,” because of its cancer-causing proper-ties, mind-altering effect on young growing minds and bodies, and how it often leads youth toward escalat-ing crime. “But as a society, we’ve rationalized marijuana so well,” he said. Like heroin, Bianconi said, the marijuana smoked today is an extremely potent high-grade drug compared what was available 20 or 30 years ago. Backstrom said THC levels have increased from 1 percent in the 1970s to an average of over 13 percent today. He also cited studies showing teens who smoke pot at least once a month are almost 26 times more likely to use another illegal drug than teens who never smoked marijuana. According to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Admin-istration, youths ages 12 - 17 who smoked marijuana were 85 times more likely to use cocaine than those who did not. Money raised through marijuana sales finances crime, gang and drug-dealer activities, Backstrom noted, and he advocates additional controls on it. “We need to recognize the threat it represents and continue our efforts to con-trol it, prevent our youth from starting to use it, ag-gressively enforce our laws against those who illegally cultivate, distribute and pos-sess it, and effectively treat those who have become ad-dicted to it,” he said.

Laura Adelmann is at [email protected] or facebook.com/sunthisweek.

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lier found a network of sup-portive sober friends, which she says has been key to her sobriety. “It’s like a family here,” she said. “Unlike my old friends, they genuinely care and support my sobriety.” It’s this network, along with her family, that keeps her on the path to recovery, Chevalier said. “When I feel cravings, I realize I would give up my sober family that I have grown to love so much,” she said. Chevalier’s sentiments are not unique. Recent studies have shown that students who attend sober high schools after treatment are more likely to stay on the path to recovery. If sent to a traditional high school, 80 percent of teens struggling with addic-tion will relapse in the first 90 days, according to the National Center on Addic-tion and Substance Abuse at Columbia University. By comparison, the cen-ter found that 70 percent of students who attend a recovery-based high school like Alliance, will graduate sober. Since it opened in 2003, Alliance Academy has struggled to stay afloat fi-nancially due to delayed state aid, and relies on vol-unteers in addition to full-time employees. The sober school plans to host a fundraiser for the public to join at 2 p.m. April 21 at 12156 Nicollet Ave. in Burnsville. For more infor-mation, contact Lisa West-holder at (715) 651-4297. Alliance Academy is just one of many organizations looking to combat growing rates of drug use among teens. In recent years, school

officials have seen increas-ing incidents of prescrip-tion drug use and persistent rates of heroin use. Heroin use was on the rise about three years ago, but has since leveled off, said Debbie Bolton, school social worker and assistant executive director of Alli-ance Academy. Counselors at River Ridge Treatment Center have seen similar trends. Krista Pugsley, a coun-selor at the Burnsville treat-ment center, said she is see-ing many teens experiment with harder drugs at a fast-er rate. “Most start with pain killers and move up to her-oin,” she said. “Once they use opiates they seem less reluctant to use heroin.” Pugsley said she has seen some instances of synthetic drug use among teens en-tering treatment, but not much. Officials at Alliance Academy noticed the same trend. Though area teens at Alliance are experimenting with synthetic drugs, few consider it to be their drug of choice, Bolton said. “A lot have been experi-menting with it, and it’s hard to test, so many con-tinue to use it,” she said. However, school officials request a special, costly test for students they suspect are using synthetic drugs.

Pot use increases Marijuana has been a popular drug among teens for years, and use in Dakota County is on the rise. “Currently rates of mar-ijuana use have been the highest since the ’90s,” said Shannon Bailey, adolescent health coordinator for Da-kota County. The 2010 Minnesota Student Survey, which is

used by county officials to track substance abuse by teens, indicated that mari-juana is the among the most popular substances among teens, second to alcohol. That study showed few instances of prescription drug and heroin abuse among teens — about 1 to 3 percent of ninth- and 12-graders. Dakota County Public health has taken several steps to prevent substance abuse in teens, Bailey said. In addition to typical PSAs and efforts at high schools, Dakota County Public Health has worked to prevent substance abuse among teens by hosting fo-rums for parents. Its latest forum is set from 6 to 8:30 p.m. May 9 at Henry Sibley High School in Mendota Heights. Email Ann Lindberg at [email protected] for more information or to RSVP. Officials at Alliance have seen similar trends in mari-juana use, and credit the up-tick, in part, to changing

attitudes. Judi Hanson, director of community and family out-reach at Alliance, said she has noticed parents who smoked marijuana when they were teens in the 80s, sometimes view the drug as a harmless plant. But Hanson is quick to point out that today’s mari-juana is often more dan-gerous than it was 20 to 30 years ago. Unlike the marijuana of yesteryear, current marijua-na is often laced with harsh-er substances and contains much higher levels of THC. “A lot of kids think its no big deal,” Hanson said.

Gateway drug But studies have shown most addicts begin with marijuana. Carol Flugaun is one of the many parents who saw her teenage son become hooked on marijuana and alcohol. Flugaun said she first suspected her son, Ty-ler Novacek, was abusing drugs and alcohol after seeing discussions between him and his friends about the subject. A short time later, he was expelled from school.

Though she found herself surrounded by red flags, Flugaun said she struggled with denial. “I thought that maybe it was a phase,” she said. But upon finding a half empty bottle of wine in her son’s bedroom, Flugaun de-cided to send Novacek to treatment. Once Novacek complet-ed treatment, his mother sent him to Alliance Acad-emy in hope the school would help him stay on track. “I feel that they have my back here,” she said. “I don’t think I would have a son without them.” Today, Novacek, a se-nior, is on track to graduate from Alliance Academy. Flugaun advises all par-ents who suspect their child is abusing drugs or alcohol to do the same immediately. According to the Na-tional Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University, one out of 70 teens are in need of treatment. “It may take multiple tries for them to stay so-ber, but never give up,” she said. Bailey suggests that par-ents set clear rules, stay in tune to their children’s be-havior and friends to help keep them away from drugs and alcohol. “This means doing the hard work to monitor your children and their friends – and what they are doing online,” Bailey said. Chevalier’s drug addic-tion too began with mari-juana. She began smoking pot in ninth-grade and quickly moved on to hallucinogens and huffing – a habit she of-ten supported by stealing. “I’m an all or nothing person so once I started to give up my morals, I figured why not use,” she said. Marijuana is often the hardest thing for teens to quit due to its mild reputa-tion, Chevalier said.

“A lot of kids won’t ad-mit they have a problem with pot,” she said. Chevalier said she turned to drugs to deal with de-pression and other mental health issues. Though she has a sup-portive mother, Chevalier said she found it hard to reach out for help. “I didn’t learn to cope in healthy ways,” she said. “I closed off my feelings because I didn’t like to feel vulnerable.” Chevalier said her self-destruction began with self-mutilation in middle school. Chevalier’s struggle is common among teens and young adults who abuse drugs and alcohol. Individuals who suffer from major depression are 4 percent more likely to abuse drugs and alcohol, accord-ing to the National Institute of Mental Health. Those with schizophre-nia are at greater risk, 10 percent more likely, than people of normal mental health. Even teens who don’t battle clinical mental health issues struggle emotionally upon getting sober, Bolton said. “Many discover they don’t like themselves, but it’s awesome to see them come out on the other side,” she said. Therapy and medica-tion has helped Chevalier manage her depression, yet she said, it will always be a struggle. Today, Chevalier’s future is a bright one. She is on track to graduate this year and plans to attend college. As for teens who con-tinue to struggle with ad-diction, Chevalier has the following words of advice: “Don’t think there’s no way out or that you’re too far in. There’s always hope.” Jessica Harper is at [email protected] or face-book.com/sunthisweek.

Photo by Jessica Harper

After struggling for years with drug addiction, Meg Che-valier found sobriety and support at Alliance Academy in Burnsville. The public charter school provides a unique op-portunity for teens battling addiction.

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Yellow Ribbon ceremony drew crowd to Lakeville

Governor presents proclamation to county, city officials

by Laura AdelmannSun ThiSweek

Across party lines, Da-kota County elected offi-cials stood together to join the community in support-ing military families, March 30. Gov. Mark Dayton and u.S. Rep. John kline along with Richard C. nash, the adjutant general of the Minnesota national Guard, recognized Dakota County and several of its cities as Yellow Ribbon entities during a proclama-tion ceremony at Trinity evangelical Free Church in Lakeville. Dakota County commis-sioners and Apple Valley, Burnsville and Lakeville mayors and council mem-bers were among those pre-sented an official proclama-tion from Dayton signifying their status as an official Yellow Ribbon entity. Yellow Ribbon networks support military mem-bers and their families in a variety of ways, such as providing child care, help-ing families move or doing household chores. “You are modeling be-havior of how to support military members and their families,” said nash. “i sin-cerely appreciate all that you do.”

Dayton said Minnesota soldiers are being deployed multiple times, and the stress of not knowing if they would live through the day takes a toll. “Thanks to leadership of the national Guard, it has become a national pro-gram,” he said. “Thank you to all of you, who are the people who have made these awards a reality in your communities. i just can’t tell you how important they are and how needed they are.” kline said America’s military members need help of the community to be re-integrated with their family and neighbors. All credited the Min-nesota national Guard for

getting the Yellow Ribbon network going here and across the country. kline said that it won’t work without people in the community to provide the services, and help. “i am so proud of these communities…who have stepped up and get orga-nized and make sure that when our soldiers come back, they are not only wel-comed, but they’re helped to get reintegrated,” kline said. “Thank you for mak-ing it possible.”


Farmington first to tie high school into yellow ribbon network

High schoolers unite to help serve military familiesby Laura Adelmann

Sun ThiSweek

A Farmington high School senior’s idea for a new club is poised to be-come a tra-dition that may echo in schools across the state and na-tion. A n d y Morris, 17, sought to start a club for students planning to enlist in the military, but instead has

founded what he believes is the nation’s first student chapter of an established Yellow Ribbon network, appropriately called the Farmington Yellow Rib-bon Student Chapter. “i think it’s pretty cool to be the first one,” Morris said. “it’s nice to be able to take the initiative and be able to help those people that need it.” Farmington’s Yellow Ribbon network, formerly titled warrior to Citizen, organized in 2008 to honor and help military service members and their families.

The student club will join the network in its mis-sion to assist deployed sol-diers’ families through vol-unteer service. Last week, some club members joined the Yellow Ribbon network effort to help the wife of a deployed soldier move to Farming-ton. Club members will con-tinue that kind of service and help the Farmington Yellow Ribbon network with its online presence and marketing materials.

Photo by Laura Adelmann

Burnsville Mayor Elizabeth Kautz smiled at Gov. Mark Dayton, holding Burnsville’s Yellow Ribbon proclamation.

Farmington High School senior Andy Morris

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Rivard - MihmRaymond and Ruth Rivard of

Lakeville are pleased to announcethe upcoming wedding of theirdaughter Kassi to Austin Mihm,the son of S teve and JacqueMihm, also of Lakeville. Kassi, a2007 graduate of Lakeville SouthHigh School, is a student at theUniversity of Minnesota, TwinC i t i e s m a j o r i n g i n I n t e r i o rDesign, with a minor in FamilySoc ia l Sc ience. Kass i is a lsoworking as an intern at Cuning-ham Group Architecture in Min-neapolis. Austin, a 2004 gradu-ate of Lakeville High School, is agraduate of Metro State Univer-sity, with a degree in Interna-t i o n a l B u s i n e s s . A u s t i n i semployed at Best Buy Corporateas a Merchant Analyst. Kassiand Austin are planning an out-door wedding in July.

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Florian G. KraftAge 85, of New Prague passed

away peacefully on March 23,2012. Preceded in death by hisprevious wives, Ann and Fran;Daughter, Bev; and grandchil-dren: Matthew and Corey. Sur-vived by his wife, Dorothy Efta;children: Ken (Marianne), Duane(Brenda), Robert (Cyndi), Judy(Don) Fedder , Tom (Mary ) ,Mary Jo (Ron) H iner ,Terry(Rose), Lori (Jeff) Doerr, andLisa (Frank) Marek; 12 grand-children; 4 great grandchildren;also by 10 wonderful step chil-dren, step grandchildren, andtheir families.

Mass of Christian burial, washeld 11am Monday, March 26th2012 a t S t . Pa tr ick Ca thol icChurch, Jordan.

He was loved and will be missedby all.

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Students in the club will learn about the military by inviting speakers that may include Farmington resident Annette Kuyper, director of military outreach for the Minnesota Army National Guard, or soldiers returning from boot camp. Todd Karich, an FHS social studies teacher and the club’s adviser, said he may offer students involvement in the club as an opportunity for service learning as part of his class curriculum. “My goal is to teach student leadership,” he said, crediting Morris for the effort he has put forth to establish the club. Morris created a promotional video, met with school officials, organized a signup table during lunch and met with Yellow Ribbon Network members. Karich said he expects the idea will spread to other high schools across the state and nation. “As a social studies teacher, this is something I would like to continue to see grow,” he said. Morris, who plans to join the Marines after he graduates on June 8, is working with FHS junior Brad Dow and has high hopes for the club’s future. “I’m hoping he can lead it next year,” Morris said. Kuyper said she is excited about the student chapter’s formation. “It’s awesome,” she said. “They’re going to be totally connected to what the community is doing. They’re going to have a rep from their student chapter be on our steering committee, and we’ve identified ways we’re going to partner and work together, so it is phenomenal.” More information is online at facebook.com/BeyondtheYellowRibbonStudentChapter.


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Gaylord to seek DFL nod to face Kline

Redistricting changes key factor in decisionby Laura Adelmann

SuN THISweeK

Dakota County Commissioner Kathleen Gaylord said she will seek the DFL endorsement to run against John Kline in the new second congressional district. “A number of people have asked me to consider running,” she told Sun Thisweek. “Virtually everyone I have talked to have been very supportive, Democrats and Republicans.” Gaylord, an attorney and South St. Paul resident, has served on the Dakota County Board of Commissioners since 2003, and is up for reelection in 2014. under the redrawn second district, Democrats index at more than 50 percent, and other DFL candidates have indicated interest in endorsement at the district’s April 28 DFL


Dakota County Commissioner Kathleen Gaylord shook hands with U.S. Rep. John Kline at a Yellow Ribbon ceremony days before announcing she would seek the DFL nomination to run against him in November,

convention at Rosemount High School. Gaylord said she analyzed how redistricting affected the district closely before making her decision to run. “The district has changed substantially,”she said. “I think this is a district looking for new representation.“ Michael Obermueller of eagan, a Minneapolis attorney and former member of the Minnesota

House of Representatives, announced Tuesday he is also seeking endorsement and Patrick Ganey, a Northfield City Council member, entered the endorsement race March 24. Kline is seeking his sixth term in office; his spokesman, Troy Young, declined comment. Laura Adelmann is at [email protected] or facebook.com/sunthisweek.


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along with recreational drugs sold as bath salts and “research chemicals.” Not long after the legis-lation was passed, synthetic marijuana – often mar-keted under names such as K2, Spice and Yucatan Fire – began disappearing from retail venues in Da-kota County. Prior to the drug being outlawed, “we had stores selling it in Savage, Burns-ville and Apple Valley,” said Apple Valley Police Officer Mike Eliason, a past presi-dent of the Minnesota Ju-venile Officers’ Association who testified at the state Capitol last year in support of legislation outlawing synthetic marijuana. “Right now I don’t know of any places that are sell-ing it in the south metro,” he said. “If kids are buying it, they’re buying it on the Internet.” During an interview with Sun Thisweek on Monday, Eliason did an Internet search to under-score the ease with which synthetic marijuana can be purchased. In a matter of seconds, he’d turned up a website with K2 on offer. “$23.95 a gram, $39.95 for three grams,” he said, reading from the website. “You get a discount the more you buy. And you can use Visa or MasterCard.”

Threat grows Synthetic drugs first came on the radar of state officials about 15 years ago when raves were popular, but “it has really taken off as a social phenomenon in the last few years,” said Carol Falkowski, drug abuse strategy officer with the Minnesota Department of Human Services. “More and more people are using them.” Falkowski pointed to statistics from the Henne-

pin Poison Control Cen-ter to emphasize that the threat of synthetic drugs is growing. In 2010, the center han-dled 28 incidents involving synthetic marijuana; in 2011 the number of inci-dents jumped to 149. Bath salts incidents logged by the center in 2010: five. In 2011: 144. “There are signs at the national level this is not subsiding, and I have no reason to think we’re any different,” Falkowski said. “These synthetic drugs are a whole new ball game. The Internet plays a key role in the retail marketing of these substances, and the whole area of Internet law is an emerging one.” The availability of syn-thetic drugs on the Internet may obscure the dangers involved in using them. Synthetic marijuana can produce coma, hallucina-tions, heart irregularities, depression and other severe health problems in abusers, officials say. And unlike bath salts or “research chemicals” such as the synthetic hallucino-gen 2C-E, which tend to attract hardcore drug us-ers, synthetic marijuana appeals to young, novice users, Falkowski said. “Because it’s something that’s sold as legal and harmless on many websites, teenagers may be inclined to try it,” she said. Eliason illustrated the “nudge, budge, wink, wink” conspiratorial men-tality surrounding the sale of synthetic marijuana when he testified before a state House committee in January of last year. Eliason told legisla-tors he’d recently visited a website selling K2-coated gumballs that labeled the product “not for human consumption.” “I’m still trying to figure out who’d chew a gumball

that’s not fit for human consumption,” Eliason said with a note of irony. At the same House com-mittee hearing, Rep. Tara Mack, R-Apple Valley, spoke on behalf of a fam-ily in her district whose 16-year-old son abused synthetic marijuana for about nine months. The parents became aware when noticing “very dangerous and scary be-haviors in their son,” Mack said. “It’s disturbing to hear what individuals and families go through when they’re involved with this drug,” she said.

‘Dangers lurk online’ In the past two weeks, both the Minnesota House and Senate approved bills that strengthen penalties for selling synthetic mari-juana. If put into law, the leg-islation would increase the penalties for selling the drug from a gross misde-meanor to a felony, punish-able by up to five years in prison and a fine. As state officials work to curtail the synthetic drug problem with new laws, Falkowski said the burden of prevention is on parents, schools and communities. Falkowski’s advice to parents seeking to dissuade their kids from synthetic marijuana and other drugs: “Talk early, talk often.” “Dangers lurk online – I think they need to point that out early and point it out often,” she said. “Just because it’s found online doesn’t mean it’s safe or le-gal or good for you.”

Andrew Miller can be reached at [email protected] or facebook.com/sun-thisweek.

Services Mark Klett said it was difficult to quantify the loss of revenue from the declining enrollment. The district receives from the state an average of about $5,124 per pupil enrolled in the district (on the last day of school, not the first). The exact num-ber depends on the grade a student is in – High school students get more funding than elementary kids, Klett said. Based on that average value, the potential rev-enue loss could range from about $732,000 to more than $3.3 million over the next five years. “At this point, our point is not to try to project rev-enues,” Klett said, referring to predictions for fiscal years 2014-16. “The point is that obviously declin-ing enrolment means that without an increase in state aid we’ll see really tough revenue times.” To compound this re-duced state aid, the in-creasing proliferation of empty-nester households

will result in a community with less of a vested inter-est in its school system, Reinhardt said. This means the opportunities for levy referenda to pass become even less likely than in pre-vious years. Kindergarten atten-dance is often the canary in the coal mine. “Beginning in 2006-07, kindergarten becomes smaller than the previous year’s Grade 12,” Rein-hardt said in her presen-tation. To top it off, net migration into the district has declined over the years. What happens is that later grades become larger than the earlier grades, thus creating a smaller overall student body as the earlier grades age. Another problem the district faces is competition with neighboring school districts, home-school-ing options and private schools. In 2010-2011, about 700 students who live in the Lakeville district open-enrolled in another district. About 300 students open-enrolled into the Lakeville

school district, according to Reinhardt’s report. Among the reasons she gave for students enrolling in another district includ-ed: • Proximity to a school in another district; •Identity; • Socioeconomic status; •Preference for either a small school or a large school; and •Program offerings. School Board Member Bob Erickson said at a re-cent school board meet-ing that programs such as Kindergarten Plus and IGNITE!, the gifted and talented program, could help stave off some open-enrollment families. “I’m advocating that we continue to work aggres-sively” with our programs, Erickson said. “To me, the plan should be established as soon as possible so we can work against the out-ward migration.”

Aaron Vehling can be reached at [email protected] or facebook.com/sun-thisweek.

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Farmington council rejects developer’s request

Economy drives decisionby Laura Adelmann

Sun ThiSweek

On a 3-2 vote, Farming-ton City Council members rejected a developer’s pro-posal, and city staff ’s rec-ommendation, to relocate a $2.2 million city assessment. James Seed, representing Astra Genstar Partnership, requested the city move part of an assessment for the 195th Street project from the northern portion of property it intends to devel-op in about 25 years to the southern portion it hopes will be developed soon. The Seed family had planned housing on all the acreage in June 2008 when they agreed to a develop-ment plan that included an 11-year schedule to repay $4.6 million in property as-sessments, starting in 2013. The city would use the money to help repay bond debt for the 195th Street project. But the floundering economy left the property undeveloped, and with city approval, last year the Seeds sold the northern property to local businessman David Finnegan. The Seeds intend to buy the land back in the future to develop it, but assess-ments are contractually for-bidden on that property. “we have a contractual obligation to spare David Finnegan from any exposure to the special assessment,” Seed told council members at their April 2 meeting. Seed proposed moving the assessment to the south-ern portion of the property and paying its scheduled $441,144 assessment pay-ment as planned in 2013. if the council refused, Seed said they must prepay the full $2.2 million of the assessment for the north-ern portion of the property, thereby cutting $179,543 in-terest money the city would have received. Moving the assessment to a smaller portion of prop-erty also decreases the city’s

collateral, although City engineer kevin Schorzman said the remaining property is currently valued at about $1 million more than the to-tal amount of assessments. Council Member Julie May, a banker, said they need to protect taxpayers from potential loss, noting land values are dropping. Schorzman said the city’s second safety net in case of default is to use state funds for road projects to repay bond debt. Council members Terry Donnelly and Jason Bar-tholomay agreed with May’s assessment that if they de-pended on those funds to re-pay the bond, the city would

be short cash for other road projects and it could become a taxpayer burden. “The reasons for those funds is not to make bond payments,” Donnelly said. Seed said nothing would impede them from making the payments, even if they had no land. he said land values have stabilized in the last few years, and although others have “gone down” in the tough economy, the Seed family has survived the re-cession. “The bridge wouldn’t be there, and the east-west thoroughfare would not be there except for the land-


James Seed looks down at the April 2 Farmington City Council meeting as Council Member Julie May, on the tele-vision screen, explained her reasons for turning down Seed’s request to transfer assessments to another property.

See CounCil, 14A


Sports

by Andy RogersSun ThiSweek

The majority of the girls who helped the Farmington track and field team take several pounds of hardware home from the Class AA state meet last June are back for another run. Last season nadia Lorencz took home silver medals in the 100-meter hurdles and long jump. She said she plans on coming home with gold this time around. “i want to win,” Lorencz said. “i’d like to jump a foot farther on long jump. That would be awesome. i’m working on my ap-proach. i was a little out of control last year. i learned a lot at clinics in both events during the offseason. i actually lifted this year, too.” Most of the top competition from 2011 has graduated, so if she continues her gains, count Lorencz as a favorite – provided she stays healthy. She’s currently dealing with a lingering back injury from gymnastics, but last season she had a hamstring injury and missed the first few weeks of track and field and by state she was fine. Lorencz isn’t the only Farm-ington girl with high aspirations. Alyssa Parco is one of the top hurdlers in the metro after coming in third last season at state in the 300-meter race. “i’m hoping to get my time down,” Parco said. “i’m working on my form and (to) get my speed up. hopefully get a sub-44 (sec-onds).”

Last season she ran 44.81 at state, a half-second out of first. Parco is also a member of the 4x400 relay that finished fourth at the state meet, along with isabelle Ferm and Maria kiminski. They’re holding auditions for that final spot with Megan Gra-ham and kalli Opsal in the run-ning. “it’s going to create some great inter-team competition during the day and that’s only going to make us better,” head coach Tom hart said. with another strong leg on the relay, the girls would like to move higher on the podium by June. “we’ve worked really hard. we spent three-four days a week in the weight room and went on really long runs,” kiminski said. hart is confident they’ll con-tend again in 2012. “They’re gamers,” hart said. “The bigger the meet the bigger the result. it’s just not something i can teach them. They have that in-ternally and it’s a great attribute.” Behind the state medal winners is a new crop of young athletes hoping to continue Farmington’s winning ways. There’s been an influx of talent in nearly every event. “There’s a lot of potential,” kiminski said. “we have a lot more throwers and (distance run-ners) and some really fast younger girls. There’s a better balance than we’ve had before.” The throwers, Alysha Grebner

and Alexis Smrekar, are getting some help from Smrekar’s mother, Julie, a volunteer coach who set re-cords of her own in high school at Minnetonka. kelli elmer, who was an All-Missota sprinter, is back along with seniors kayla watne, Jessica Arey, Abby haugen and elizabeth Okikiolu, who should help out in sprints and jumps.

Boys track The Tiger track team lost many seniors, but several underclassmen have lined up to take their place. The boys team has 102 mem-bers out this spring, most in school history. “From the organization stand-point it’s a little more difficult, but it’s an awesome problem to have,” coach Brian helmstetter said. “From the success they had last year, they go into the halls and say they had a lot of fun.” he also said other athletes have taken notice of the cross-training track has to offer. “we help athletes that want to be better athletes,” helmstetter said. “we know this is the second or third sport for a lot of the kids. we’ll make them a better basket-ball player, better soccer player.” The Tigers had an influx of freshmen last season, who are now older, bigger and faster. “They’re still pretty young, but now they’re experienced,” helm-stetter said. Middle distance, sprints, hur-

dles and throwing events have ben-efited from the surge. Tyler Lerbakken leads a group of middle-distance runners with Chad Retterath, Trevor Breezley, Tanner Grubb and Mason Gay-lord. Throwing has been popular at Farmington for a while, thanks to the success of Trey Davis and Logan hussung, alumni who now throw for the university of Minne-sota. “A lot of the young guys in that group know those guys,” helm-stetter said. “They come back two, three times a year. it’s pretty mean-ingful to see guys with hardware from the Big Ten Conference.” Joe Ouyang and C.J. wynings

hope to continue Farmington’s dominance in throwing. Sprinters Alex Chadwick and Jack erickson, and pole vaulters Reid Taubenheim and Connor Phu, hope to increase Farming-ton’s point totals. Justin hett has hopes to break into the top three in the conference in jumping events, along with long jumper Dan Berg. “Things look promising,” helmstetter said. “A conference title and section title are a little out of reach, but we’ll make some noise.”

Andy Rogers can be reached at [email protected] or face-book.com/sunthisweek.


A year ago, snow cov-ered the baseball dia-monds across the metro area, leaving baseball programs such Lakeville South scrambling. while the Cougars ex-perienced a healthy turn-over from last season, the early spring thaw has giv-en the Cougars a chance to sprout into better ball players in less time. “Practice looks a lot better than last year,” senior catcher hunter harnisch said. “The team looks a lot more competi-tive. Our fielding is way better. we have guys who care and who want to win.” The extra practice time in the field has helped. “we’re a lot more re-fined,” senior pitcher will Lundquist said. “we’re a lot better mechanically. we’re a lot smoother. Last year we were in the gym at this point and we didn’t have a game until a week and a half (after we were scheduled to start).” Better fielding should help improve a team that gave up seven runs per game in 2011, most in the South Suburban Confer-ence. “it’s a lot easier to pitch knowing that you don’t have to blow it by every-body,” Lundquist said. “You can relax and let the defense do its part.” Another reason

harnisch feels the team should be better in 2012 is improved chemistry. “A lot of guys we’ve played with for 10 years,” harnisch said “it’s a lot smoother out there.” The Cougars feel good fielding is going to come into play more often this season with the addition of the Batted Ball Coef-ficient of Restitution bats that deaden the trampo-line effect. The idea is to limit in-juries, but it also will limit home runs. “i just as soon as go with wood bats,” Lakev-ille South head coach Al iversen said. “The (BBORC) bats are really slow. The ball isn’t going to jump. That’s fine. we’re here for the safety of the athlete. “it’s going to come down to quality bunting and hit-and-runs. we’ll scratch and claw. i’ve been at this for almost 30 years, and i’ve never been a big-inning guy. Give me one or two here and there and we’ll be fine.” Last season the Cou-gars started 4-1, but fad-ed through May with a 10-game losing streak on their way to a 6-15 sea-son. Still, one of the big-gest highlights was beat-ing Lakeville north twice during the regular season. The Cougars had never beaten their crosstown ri-val before. The Cougars always have had a record below .500. The closest they got was in 2010 with a 10-12 record, so the players would like to continue re-versing trends. “we have a lot of

coaches including myself that have been involved with winning programs,” iversen said. “we looked back at our losses (last year), seven were one- or two-run games. we win by the fifth inning, but then some mojo comes over them or something, and it was like they’ve never been there before. This year we’re saying we’re playing a full seven in-nings.” The Cougars hope 2012 is a little more like the first five games of 2011. “we want to be a force, but our ultimate goal is to make it to state or make it far in sections,” Lundquist said. “we have a lot of returning players, so it’s pretty exciting.” Lundquist, who was all-conference in 2011 along with all-conference honorable mention catch-er harnisch, will join re-turning outfielder Garret Delich and first baseman Jacob Miller. Luke Sather and Mitch Jans also bring varsity experience on the mound and in the field. Other pitchers looking to get in on the action include erick Cerenka and Luke Benge along with young lefties Shane Marker and Mitchell Mauer. it adds up to a speedy, defense-minded team. iversen’s main concern is generating runs. “That will come,” iversen said. “we’re just excited to get out there.”

Andy Rogers can be reached at [email protected] or facebook.com/sunthisweek.


with the snow leaving us for good weeks ago, base-ball teams got an early lead on the basepaths. Lakeville north found relief in the extra outdoor practice. Last year’s team was senior-heavy, meaning this year’s version will have plenty of new faces and sev-eral underclassmen. “Most years we have 10-11 (seniors) out, but this year we have six or seven,” head coach Tony Market said. “we’ll rely on a lot of juniors to step up and fill those roles.” Leading the list of re-

turning players is Austin Streit, an all-conference member in 2011. he’ll be playing with Joel klink-hammer, who figures to be the Panthers’ top pitcher, and returning starter Adam Alexander. “we have great leader-ship and a talented group of juniors who just lack varsity experience,” Market said. “They’ve been success-ful at other levels, so it’s just a matter of getting them some varsity time.” Fellow seniors henry wehlage and neil engler, who is coming off a seri-ous knee injury, hope to fill some gaps along with an athletic group of junior athletes. Brandon Morgan will spot up in the outfield with Zack Creighton with erik Rutt in the infield. A young pitching lineup of Sam Pet-

rick, Dalton Lehnen and Jordan Jacobson also hope to throw some strikes for the Panthers. After a few days practic-ing in Florida during spring break, Market has noticed a speedy bunch and an ag-gressive defense. “we hit pretty well to-day... in a scrimmage,” Mar-ket said. “we have some good team guys willing to move runners along and put down some bunts. we’re still capable of having quality at-bats, but they have an un-derstanding of game situa-tions. “we’re definitely putting an emphasis on baserun-ning and taking advantage of opportunities.”

Andy Rogers can be reached at [email protected] or facebook.com/sunthisweek.

Lorencz, Parco are back after earning medals at state

Early outside practice has

helped Cougars refine game

Last year’ssenior-heavy

team turned over to underclassmen

Tiger track on pace for another record season

Lakeville South hopes improved chemistry, fielding equal wins

Plenty of new faces for Panther baseball

Photo by Andy Rogers

Farmington’s Aaron Lane lines up for a pole vault during practice on Monday.

Photo by Andy Rogers

Lakeville South senior Jacob Miller dives for a foul ball during fielding practice Monday.

Photo by Bill Jones

Lakeville North’s Tyler Flack goes up for a dunk at the 2012 Minnesota Basketball Coach-es Association All-Star Series on March 30 at St. Cloud State University. He won the dunk contest.

Flackflies high at all-stargame


Rep.MaryLizHolberg,R-Lakeville, said ratherthanopposingthe legisla-tion, some school districtemployeeswouldembraceit. “Therearemanyschoolemployees that would ap-preciate having that poli-cy,”shesaid. House Education Fi-nance Committee Chair-man Pat Garofalo, R-Farmington, argued therewasn’t a credible educa-tion group that opposedthebill. Sen. Dave Thompson,R-Lakeville, has beenworkingonsimilarlegisla-tionintheSenate.

T.W. Budig can be reached at [email protected] or facebook.com/sun-thisweek.

Lakeville football players make all-star team LakevilleNorthquarter-back Trey Heid, offensivelineman A.J. Miller andwidereceiverCharlieHayesalong with Lakeville Southwide receiver Matt Hellerwere among the 88 play-erschosen toparticipate inthe 2012 Minnesota Foot-ball Coaches AssociationAll-Star Football Game at1 p.m. on June 30 at TCFBankStadiumonthecam-pus of the University ofMinnesota.

Solheid Lakeville North’s Athena winner MadisonSolheidwillbeamong 39 young womenrepresenting St. Paul cityand suburban high schoolsas Lakeville North’s re-cipientoftheSt.PaulAreaAthenaAwardforoutstand-ingachievementinathletics.Solheid will be recognizedatanawardsceremonyandluncheon on April 18 inOakdale. A three-time letter win-nerinhockey,shewasakeypartoftheSouthSuburbanConference championshipand fourth-place finish atstate in February. She wasalsoatwo-timeletterwinnerin soccer where she helpedthe Panthers win the con-ference, section and placefourth at state. She alsoearnedlettersincrosscoun-tryandtrack.Sheisamem-berof theNationalHonorSociety, Sunday schoolteacher, tutor, NationalMerit Finalist and rankedNo.1herclass.

Baseball players needed The North Star Classicbaseball league is lookingforplayers35orolderfromApple Valley, Burnsville,Eagan, Lakeville, Rose-mount and Farmington.The league has a numberof teams from the metroarea as well as outstateteams. For more informa-tion contact Apple ValleyA’s manager Brian Betts at(612) 363-6769 or by [email protected].

Sports Briefs Rosemount legislator’s bill passes the House Vote was close; opponents argue it would stifle free speech

by T.W. BudigSUNTHiSwEEk

Rep. kurt Bills, R-Rosemount, saw his billrequiring school boardstoadoptpolicyprohibit-ingtheuseof schooldis-trictresourcesbyemploy-ees forpoliticalpurposespassona73to60voteonMarch28. But not without de-bate. “This bill violates theFirst Amendment,” ar-gued Rep. Melissa Hort-man, DFL-BrooklynPark. No one wantsteachers or other schoolemployeestobemisusingschool district resources,sheexplained. Butthebill“veryclear-ly” attempts to controlwhat’s being discussedin the teachers’ lounge,Hortmanargued. Another attorney,Rep.TinaLiebling,DFL-Rochester, noted that re-

quired schoolboardpol-icy must not apply whenan employee is dissemi-nating “factual informa-tion.” whomakesthecallonwhat’s factual and whatisn’t?sheasked. “i think you’re creat-ingalotof problemswiththisbill,”Lieblingsaid. Rep. Mindy Greil-ing, DFL-Roseville, saidshe was glad the legisla-tion had been “gutted”in education committeeandthat itno longerdidmuchof anything. itstillsentabadmes-sage,shesaid. But Bills, who stillteaches first period atRosemount High Schoolbefore leaving for theState Capitol, said any-one who’s ever been ina teachers’ lounge isn’tworried about the legis-lation silencing teachersfromofferingopinions.

PhotobyT.w.Budig

Rep. Kurt Bills, R-Rosemount, saw a bill he authored re-quiring school boards to establish policy prohibiting the use of school resources for political purposes pass the House on March 28.

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Non-affiliated employment agreements,2011-13 was tabled to allow time for fur-ther discussion.

Adjournment at 10:36 p.m. __________________________________

This is a summary of the IndependentSchool District No. 194 Special Board ofEducation Meeting on Tuesday, March 20,2012 w ith fu l l text ava i lab le for pub l icinspec t ion on the distr ic t webs i te a twww.isd194.k12.mn.us or 8670 210thStreet W., Lakeville, MN 55044

The meeting was called to order at 4:30p.m. All board members and cabinet mem-bers were present.

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Actions approved: Hiring of LSHS Boys'Lacrosse head coach.

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South Suburban AlanonMondays 7pm-8:30pm

Ebenezer Ridges CareCenter 13820 Community

Drive Burnsville, MN55337 Mixed, Wheelchair

Accessible. For more information

Contact Scott 612-759-5407 or Marty

612-701-5345

Notices &Information

1060

Burnsville Lakeville

A Vision for You- AAThursdays 7:30 PM

A closed, mixed meeting at

Grace United Methodist Church

East Frontage Roadof 35W across from

Buck Hill-Burnsville

Burnsville Lakeville

A Vision for You-AA

Thursdays 7:30 PMA closed,

mixed meeting atGrace United

Methodist Church

East Frontage Road of I 35 across from

Buck Hill - Burnsville

EAGAN/BURNSVILLE/SAVAGE AA

3600 Kennebec Drive (2nd Floor) Eagan, MN

(Off of Hwy 13)

Meeting Schedule•Sundays 6:30pm

(Men's) & 8pm (Mixed)

•Mondays 6:30pm & 8pm (Mixed)

•Tuesdays 6:30pm & 8pm (Mixed)

•Wednesdays Noon(Mixed) & 8pm (Mixed)

•Thursdays 6:30pm Alanon & 8pm (Mixed)

•Friday 6:30 (Mixed) & 8pm (Mixed)

•Saturdays 8pm (Open)Speaker Meeting

Questions? 651-253-9163

Tickets1080

Twins Season TicketsSect. 102, row 11, 10 games;2 seats w/access to Metro.Club, $640. 952-224-8940

ProfessionalServices1500

Classes1501

Pilates! Precision andFlow Pilates Studio. Cur-rently taking new stu-dents. Private Sessionsand small group classesavailable. www.precisionandflowpilates.com 320-420-5394

Selling or BuyingGold & Silver

1505

* WANTED * US Coins, Currency Proofs,

Mint Sets, Collections, Gold, Estates & Jewelry

Will Travel. 27 yrs exp Cash! Dick 612-986-2566

Accountants & Tax Svcs

1510Mark J Haglund CPA LLC

2438 117th St E. Suite 201Burnsville 952-646-2444

Stauber & Associates PAwww.staubercpa.com

952-238-9500

BusinessServices2000

A & D Recycling 10811 215th St. W.

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Blacktop & Sealcoating

2040

100% GuaranteedAsphalt/Sealcoating/ConcreteDriveways. Call 952-451-3792

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Building & Remodeling

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Cement, Masonry,Waterproofing

2100

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John 952-882-0775

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Family bus. Since 1975.952-469-1211


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Quality Comes First - We Do It All!

Chimney &FP Cleaning

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SWEEP • INSP. • REPAIRFull Time • Professional Ser.

Certified Registered / Insured29 Yrs Exp. Mike 651-699-3373

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2050

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2230

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Flooring & Tile

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Garage Door

2260

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2360

Handyperson 2290

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Jack of All TradesHandyman is nowavailable to perform,

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2360

Landscaping 2350

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AB LANDSCAPINGSpring clean-ups, Land-scape design, shrub &

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35 Years Exp.Financing Avail.Excellent Refs.Lic BC171024

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owner cooperation, and now the landowner want-ing to pay his part,” Seed said. Mayor Todd Larson and Council Member Christy Jo Fogarty supported the proposal, citing the Seeds’ 50-plus year history of business integrity. Bartholomay said while he appreciates the Seeds’ cooperation and positive relationship with the city, the right decision is based

on finances. The majority of coun-cil members also said they want to avoid getting the city into a situation like the one at Vermillion River Crossing. For that development, the city bonded $5.5 mil-lion in 2006 to build a road, entryway and bridge, but most of the property re-mains undeveloped. A subsidized senior housing project is being built there now, and city of-ficials hope it will spur de-

velopment. Even if the land sells, assessments on the prop-erty total $1.97 million, not enough to repay the bond, said City Finance Director Teresa Walters in an inter-view with Sun Thisweek. At the meeting, Fogarty expressed concern that the Seeds would pay for anoth-er developer’s mistakes. “This is frustrating for me,” she said. “Because this is the reason to me why cit-ies get reputations of being difficult to deal with.”

Fogarty called it “ter-rible” to assume the Seeds, who have “always been great partners,” would de-fault when they never have before and that the land would not be valuable enough to support the loss. Larson said Seed has done everything the city has asked without hesita-tion, and business deals start with integrity. “It’s been a long time since I’ve seen anyone stand up at a meeting and show the amount of integrity

that you and your family have shown,” Larson said. “To me, that means a lot.” May said many nice, smart people have not sur-vived. “For a lot of them it wasn’t for any fault of their own,” she said. “That’s why the decision today, for me, is based on risk.” After the vote against the proposal, Seed said in an interview with Sun Thisweek that he was “ex-tremely disappointed” in the decision.

“I feel abused, honestly,” Seed said. “I don’t think we asked for something unrea-sonable.” He said he would work with city staff to explore other options. “We’ll see if there’s a second chapter here,” he said.


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2360

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Roofs, Siding,& Gutters

2510

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WindowCleaning

2660

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Merchandise3000

Boutiques/Craft Shows & Gifts

3050

• Seasonal Gift Items• Home Décor • Jewelry & Accessories • Edibles

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CemeteryLots

3090

Glen Haven: 2 plots, 2vaults w/companion head-stone. Value $8,990. Asking$4,300/BO. 218-828-3608

CemeteryLots

3090

Grandview Park Cemetery,Hopkins, MN. 2 side by sideplots, $950 ea. 602-861-8082

Collectibles& Art

3110

'91 World Champion MNTwins – Bobbleheads, fullset (26). New – in originalpkg., $599. Call 952-927-0788

EstateSales

3130

BLOOMINGTON9800 Elliott Ave South

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Misc.For Sale

3260

COURT RESOURCES-SAVE! Bkrptcy Debt Re-lief $860* Divorce/Custody$570* Civil/Criminal DUIstart $165* *court fees ad-ditional 763-792-4940, 218-828-4483

Elec. Wheel Chr, Walkers,Bedside commodes, Hospitalbed, 6” toilet seat w/side loc.Price to Sell. 612-269-2977

TreeService

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3050

Misc.Wanted

3270

� � WANTED � �Hifi/stereo equip., HAM,& misc. old electronics.

Andy 651-329-0515

Misc.Wanted

3270

Buying Old Trains & ToysSTEVE'S TRAIN CITY

952-933-0200

MusicalInstuments

3280

Piano player: mahog. Upright. $849

612-377-4715

Garage Salesthis week3500

Farmington3528

Fgtn: Fri. 4/6- Sat., 8-620215 Dunbar Ave.MOVING SALE! Tools, an-tiq. & reg furniture, dishsets, PA system, house-hold.

Garage Salesnext week3600

AppleValley

3603

4/13-14, 9-4. 14146 Ensley Ct.Kids cloz NB-5T strollers,carseats toys, HH

6 Families – One StreetDurham Way 4/12-14th

8-6p Pilot Knob/D Path

Bloomington3606

Huge Sale 4/12 – 4/13, 9-5.60 yrs of treasures, furn, hh,gardn,vintage, Tonka toys,mangle. 9312 12th Ave S.

BrooklynCenter

3607

St. Alphonsus Parish7031 Halifax Ave N.

$3 per person Pre Sale:4/13 (5-9pm) Sale: 4/14 (9-2pm) 4/15 (9-2pm) $2 per bag

Burnsville3609

Big Redecorating Sale!Tue.- Sat. Apr. 10-14, 9-5pm15506 Fremont Ave. Lots

furn, couches! Rugs, HHLegos! Lots lots more!

TreeService

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3050

Lakeville3643

Lakeville ECFE Kids'Stuff Sale, Sat, 4/21, 8am-2pm Kenwood Trail MS,19455 Kenwood Trail; $1adm until 10; 50% off at11:15-1 pm; $5 Bag sale1:30-2pm www.lakevilleecfesale.com

Minneapolis3653

Textile Center GarageSale! Apr 14th Fundrais-er (8-4) New Event Loca-tion U of MN Reuse Ctr,

883 29th Ave SE,MPLS 612-436-0464

Plymouth3665

Moving: 4/14 (8-2) Kid &adult cloz, toys, yard tools,furn., snowblower, HHitems. 3010 Kimberly Ln N

Richfield3667

Glasstop tbl, furn, tools, HH,more! 4/12-13 (9-5); 4/14 (9-12) 7333 Russell Ave. So.

Leisure3700

Boat Services,Storage & Slips

3730

Don't Be Left AgroundCome Boat the Mississippiwww.watergatemarina.netSlips available for all sizes

Plenty of water!Call JP at 651-695-3783

SportingGoods & Misc

3810

Personal Gun Collectionfor Sale. High quality! Callfor pricing. 612-408-0222

Agriculture/Animals/Pets3900

SeniorRentals

5100

Pets3970

Peeka & Boo, 2 sweet &beautiful, bro & sis, orangetabby cats, together only toa special loving home. Alltests/shots/spay/neut. $75for both. Vet. refs. req'd.Call Jerry 952-888-9524

Pets3970

Family Care4000

ChildCare

4100

EG:Reasonable Prices 2.5+& summer care, 10 yrsExp. FT/PT 651-330-8167

Farmington M,W,F Day-care 2yrs+. Drop in avl.

Kathy (651) 463-3765

Farmington: Lic'd 10 yrsexp! Opngs. Inf-Schl. Age.MVES. 651-463-4918

Home HealthCare Providers

4300

PCA 11 Yrs Exp. 1 to 1 inyour home, overnightsavailable 952-435-3152

Rentals5000

Pets3970

SeniorRentals

5100

Townhouse ForRent

5200

FGTN: 2 BR, 1-1/2 BA, 2-lvl TH, appls, gar.

Avail 5/1 $850mo+util. Call 651-463-4921

Prior Lake 2BR, attachedgarage, pets OK. $950/mo.Includes Sewer & WaterAvl 4/1! 952-440-4112

(952) 881-2122 • (612) 599-6385DAN WIMMER

Quality Work and Low Rates

Tree Removal, Tree TrimmingHigh Risk Climbing, Stump Grinding

and Storm Clean Up

Free EstsLic’d & Ins’d

Ideal Tree ServiceIdeal Tree Service

www.idealtreemn.com

20% SpringDiscount

April 11 - April 22Weekdays 9 - 8:30 Weekends 9 - 5

CENTENNIAL LAKESHUGHES PAVILLION

7499 France Ave. South, Edina(Located on the lower level,

between Chuck E. Cheese & Q.Cumbers)Over 80 artists!

HOME DECOR•GIFTS•ANTIQUES

CANDLEBERRY ON THE LAKES

Since 19866 miles S. of

Shakopee on 169

Mon-Fri 7:30am - 5:00pmSaturday 8:00am - 2:00pm

952-492-2783

• Pulverized Dirt - $12.75 yd• Black Dirt - $11.25 yd• Decorative Rock• Colored Mulch - $27.00 yd• Bagged Mulch - $3.00/bag• Mulches• Boulders• Retaining Wall Block• Pavers (starting @ $2.10/sq ft)• Edging • Poly • Fabrics

LOWPRICES

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A Fresh Look, Inc.Interior/Exterior Painting by the Pros

Bonded & InsuredFree Est. • Senior Discounts

Lic. #BC626700Credit Cards Accepted

612-825-7316/952-934-4128www.afreshlookinc.com

Commercial and residential pressure washingDecks strip & seal, roof washing, house washing,

concrete cleaning and staining. Full exterior washing.

Our job is to make you look good!763-225-6200

www.sparklewashcmn.com

BOB’s

Family Owned/Operated — 30 Years Experience952-469-5221 | www.allsonsexteriors.com

MN License # BC 639318 | Lakeville, MN 55044

Storm Damage RestorationRoofing ■ siding ■ windows

Established 1984

(763) 550-0043(952) 476-7601(651) 221-2600

3500 Vicksburg Lane Suite 400-351Plymouth, MN 55447 Lic # 6793

General Contractors

Great Service Affordable Prices

Senior Discounts

SPRING &SUMMER

SCHEDULE

9242 HUDSON BLVD NORTH • LAKE ELMO, MN

651.730.8006www.HomeEssentialsBoutique.com

CLOSED MONDAYS, TUESDAYS & EASTER SUNDAYHours: Wed thru Fri 10am-8pm • Sat 10am-6pm • Sun12pm-5pm

Furniture • Garden Ware • Florals • Home AccentsPrimitives • Antiques • One of A Kind

Glassware • Treasures & So Much More• • Inventory Restocked Daily • •

Wednesday, March 14 thru Sunday, April 15, 2012

RT03

0812

No strollers allowed.Handicap accessible.

You are invited to tour our Model

Apartment Home

Market Village for 55+ Opened March 1, 2012

Please call Cindy at 952-461-1644 or

612-865-6625 to arrangefor a personal tour of

the model.

Market Village100 J Roberts Way

Elko New Market, MN 55054

Turn your unneeded items in to

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

952-846-2000



Enhancing the quality of human life through theprovision of exceptional healthcare services

Northfield Hospital & Clinics is an Equal Opportunity Employer

RN House Supervisor (Ref. #556) (.3 FTE).3 FTE (24hrs/2wks). Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing (BSN), current MN RN license, current BLS/CPR. Current or obtain within the first 6 months - ACLS, PALS, NRP/STABLE and Basic Electronic Fetal Monitoring. Preferred skills/experience: 5 years current experience in hospital clinical practice and management and/or leadership experience, ability to relate to physicians and other healthcare professionals and the ability to perform multiple concurrent tasks.

Cancer Care & Infusion Center Care Navigator (Ref. #554) (Cancer Care & Infusion Center)

(.5 FTE).5 FTE (40hrs/2wks). BSN required, Current MN RN licensure, preferred experience in outpatient care coordination in oncology and one to two years experience in care navigation.

Clinical CMA/LPN (Ref. #566/548) (FamilyHealth Medical Clinic-Lakeville &

Farmington) (.5 FTE & .9 FTE).5 FTE (40hrs/2wks) (#566). .9 FTE (72hrs/2wks) (#548). Current CMA/LPN certification required (may obtain within 6 months of hire). Current BLS/CPR required.

Dietary Aide 1 (Ref. #555/550)(Nutrition Services) (.4 FTE & Casual/On-Call)

.4 FTE (32hrs/2wks) (#555). Casual Call (#550). Must be at least 16 years of age, high school graduate preferred. Must be willing to work weekends and holidays.

Please visit www.northfieldhospital.org for furtherdetails and to complete an online application!

OWN ME FOR $1,450/MONTH (APPROX)20406 Jupiter Ct. has 4 BR, 2 BA, kitchen has new granitecounter tops, tile floor and stainless steel appliances. Dining/entry& bathrooms have new tile & showers are tiled. New flooring &paint throughout. 2 stall garage, finished with new garage door.

Max Embacher 507-380-9197Land To Home Development

LAKEVILLE

HousesFor Rent

5400

Farmington, 3BR, 2BA,1500sq. ft. Nice yard. Petspossible for additionalcharge. $1300/month. 651-398-5473

RentalInformation

5500

All real estate advertisingin this newspaper is sub-ject to the Fair HousingAct which makes it illegalto advertise “any prefer-ence limitation or dis-crimination based on race,color, religion, sex handi-cap, familial status, or na-tional origin, or an inten-tion, to make any suchpreference, limitation ordiscrimination.” Familialstatus includes childrenunder the age of 18 livingwith parents or legal cus-todians; pregnant women;and people securing cus-tody of children under 18.

This newspaper will notknowingly accept any ad-vertising for real estatewhich is in violation ofthe law. Our readers arehereby informed that alldwellings advertised inthis newspaper are avail-able on an equal opportu-nity basis. To complain ofdiscrimination call HUDtoll-free telephone numberfor the hearing impairedis 1-800-927-9275.

RoomsFor Rent

5600

Lkvl by 35E & 160th, Wlk-out bsmt to pond Avail.Imdly. Rick 612-366-4580

Apartments &Condos For Rent

6400

AV–Palomino East Apt.Blowout special,

2BR, 2BA , Availimmed. W/D in unit. Free

cbl $99 depCall David 952-686-0800

Farmington 1BR. On siteLaundry. No pets. $595

612-670-4777

Rosemount: 2 BD Off St.pkg. Includes heat & wa-ter. NO PETS. AvailableNOW. $600. 952-944-7983

Real Estate7000

Apartments& Condos For Sale

7400

EaganSet back in a secludedarea of Eagan. Beaut. land-scaping, 55+ co-op unit,2BR, 2BA. Reduced! Easyaccess to trails & EaganComm Ctr. 651-994-6778

Farmington1BR Apt. Avl 5/1.

$595/mo. $500 SecurityMonth to month lease.

651-274-2837 Fairview Apartments

Farmington

RENTS START AT1BR $685

$250 OFF FIRSTMONTHS RENT Rosewood Manor

14599 Cimarron Ave.Rosemount

651-423-2299

Employment9000

Businessfor Sale

9010

Small Plastics Co.For Sale!

Operate full or part time.Move to your area.

563-872-4671

HealthCare

9050

BusinessOpps & Info

9020

Advertising DisclaimerBecause we are unable tocheck all ads that areplaced in our media, weencourage you to be safeand be careful before giv-ing out any importantinformation such as creditcard numbers or socialsecurity numbers, whenresponding to any ad.

If you're not afraid tospeak in front of smallgroups and like the idea ofunlimited income poten-tial, please call Andy Bess-er @ 612.454.5821

HealthCare

9050

Med Records/ReceptionPT 5-9 pm. Two eves/wk

and rotate Sat amsPeds office/Burnsville.Phone: 952-278-6950

Fax: 952-278-6947

RN / LPN Edina Derm clinic. Staff/triage nurse. Flexibilityand clinic experiencemandatory. Mon - Fri.

E-mail resume:[email protected]

or fax to 952-915-6100

HealthCare

9050

Help Wanted/Full Time

9100

***DRIVERS***LOCAL DRIVERS

HOME EVERYDAY

Tractor-trailer driversneeded for a Private Fleetdelivery operation basedin Burnsville, MN forBridgestone/Firestone.Driver will make dailyhand deliveries within aregional area. Physicalwork required.

Rate of Pay: $0.4025/mi for delivery/ local peddie $0.4175/mi after 1 year $19.35/hour – local $800 weekly minimum guarantee

Health Insurancewith Dependent Cov-erage & Dental, LifeInsurance, Visioncoverage, & Prescrip-tion card.401k Pension Pro-gramPaid Holidays & Va-cationHome every nightMonday thru Fridaywork week

Applicants must be over24 yrs old, have a mini-mum 2 yrs tractor-trailerexp within the last 3 yrs, &meet all DOT require-ments. Contact:

CPC Logistics, Inc. at 1-800-914-3755 or

email resume to: [email protected]

Adults-Prepare forthe GED Test! Learn

from home online, 24-7.Like District 196 ABE on

Facebook. [email protected] or

call 952-431-8316.

Castle Rock Bank is currently accepting ap-plications for a full-time

bilingual (Spanish) tellerposition. Previous tellerexperience is required.Please contact either Eric or Dave Nicolai

at 651-463-4014

Construction Companylooking for PROFES-SIONAL Sales Reps! Jobis salary based w/ com-mission & very attainablewkly & monthly bonuses.Only respond if you desireto make $75,000.00+ a yr!Call Bryan at 763.244.6679

DRIVER/WHSE NEEDEDFT to deliver cabinetry

and work in a warehouseenvironment. Good driv-

ing record req. Knowledgeof the Twin Cities area

helpful. Warehouse exp.Preferred. Health benefits,

401K & 2 weeks pd vaca-tion. Immediate start.

Apply in person at: DIVERSIFIED DIST., INC.

11921 Portland Ave. So.,Ste A., Burnsville, MN

55337 (952)808-9646

Dry Cleaning PlantManager, Farmington,Must have strong atten-tion for details, honest,hardworking, neat, quicklearner, able to work as ateam player. Apply at: Total Care Cleaners 949 - 8th Street Farm-ington, MN 55024 651-460-3340

Open House from9am to 11am onWednesday for FoodManufacturing. All skilllevels & warehouse/Fork-lift. Call for more info

952-924-9000

HOUSE CLEANERS$80-$110/day FT/PT

7:20am-3:00pm. We pro-vide CAR. Burnsville

Location. 952-432-2134


9100

Join Our TeamCrew Leads/Crew Members Needed

Prescription Landscape islooking for energetic andmotivated persons to joinour production teams. Wehave openings at both lo-cations, Crystal and St.Paul. Job duties includeoperating mowing equip-ment, physical labor; up toand including bending,kneeling and lifting up to45 lbs, and other duties asassigned. Seasonal andyear-round positionsavailable. Year-round po-sitions include snow andice management; plowing,shoveling, etc. Experiencehelpful but not required,on the job training avail-able. Some positions re-quire a valid and cleandriver's license. Pre-em-ployment drug/alcoholtesting required. Compen-sation: $10.00-$18.00 pend-ing experience. For moreinformation visit our website at: www.rxlandscape.comor email [email protected] or phone

Sue at 651-379-4713

Manufacturing5 Summer Students to dovarious tasks in a manu-facturing atmosphere toinclude anything frompainting to gardening topiece work. Pay is $10.00per hour with an end ofsummer bonus. Qualifica-tions are: minimum 18years old and currently at-tending school. Hire dateis May to Sept. Apply at:

[email protected]

Now HiringFoldcraft Co., a 100% em-ployee-owned, foodservicefurnishings manufactureris seeking energetic, quali-fied candidates for the fol-lowing positions at ourBloomington, MN loca-tion:

1st Shift Production-Sewing1st Shift Production-gen-eral (cabinetry, ware-house, upholstery)Staff/Job Cost Accoun-tantAccount Manager

To learn more about theseopportunities, and how toapply, visit our website atwww.plymold.com and

click on our News andEvents tab.

NOW HIRING-Companies desperatelyneed employees to assem-ble products from your lo-cation. No selling, anyhours. $500 weekly poten-tial. 1-985-646-1700 Dept.MN-1077

ProductionSupport Specialist

Seeking dependable en-ergetic person w/posi-tive attitude to workwith other team mem-bers in a clean, natural-light office environ-ment. Successful candi-date must be able towork w/various datasets within MS Word &Excel, perform mailmerges and have dataentry skills. Attentionto detail is critical. Oth-er duties include lightpaper assembly and theuse of office printingequipment.

FT position, M-F, 8:30 am-5pm. Solid ben-

efit offerings. Musthave AA/AS or equiva-lent work experience.

Apply online at: www.

medimedia.com/careers.aspx

Scale Operator Lakeville, Operate truckscale at aggregate minepit. FT Seasonal. Willtrain. EOE/AA. Submitresume. FAX: 952-937-6910or E-mail:

[email protected]


9100

The City of Burnsville iscurrently accepting appli-cations for the position of:

Executive Assistant/

Deputy City ClerkRegular Full-Time

Starting Salary: $20.86-24.15/hr, DOQ

Salary Range: $20.86-26.62/hr

Closing date for applica-tions is 04/16/12. Appli-cants must complete Cityof Burnsville EmploymentApplication in order to beconsidered. For completejob description and to ap-ply online, visit the web-site at:

www.burnsville.org or call 952-895-4475 for

information.

An AA/EEO Employer

Wanted Exp. Landscape Laborer Call 952-461-2579

Would You Like to Change the World?

If you have a passion forwork that can make ameaningful, long-term im-pact around the world,join us as:

SAVE THE CHILDRENAMBASSADORS

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9100

Help Wanted/Part Time

9200

City of Elko New Market

Summer Seasonal Public Works

PositionThe City of Elko NewMarket is accepting ap-plications for a summerseasonal maintenanceworker in the PublicWorks Department. Theposition will be respon-sible for assisting in themaintenance of the Citystreets and storm sew-ers, water and sanitarysewer systems, parks,buildings and otherCity property. Mini-mum qualifications in-clude a valid MinnesotaClass D Drivers Licenseand must be a mini-mum of 18 years of age.Preferred qualificationsinclude Experience inthe operation of lawnmaintenance equip-ment, medium and lightequipment, and generalproperty maintenanceand groundskeeping.The position will bescheduled 30-40 hoursper week, Mondaythrough Friday, day-time hours. Startingsalary is $10.00 to $12.00per hour, dependingupon qualifications.City application re-quired. For a copy ofthe application materi-als, contact the City of Elko New Mar-ket at (952) 461-2777 orvisit the city web site atwww.ci.enm.mn.usSubmit completed ap-plication to the City ofElko New Market, 601Main Street, P.O. Box99, Elko New Market,MN 55020. Completedapplication packet mustbe received by 4:00 p.m.,April 20, 2012.

Junkers &Repairable Wanted

9810

Vans, SUVs, & Trucks

9900


9200

Burnsville Sparks YouthWrestling K-6 coach forthe 2012-13 season. Pleasecontact – Jason O'Brien at612-240-6614 or Sam Sandat 701-320-0104 with inter-est or further questions.

CARQUEST Distribu-tion Center, LakevilleWe are looking for PT autoparts handlers to work inour distribution center.20-40 hours per week be-tween the hours of 9:00 amand 7:00 pm. Must be will-ing to work weekends, andbe able lift up to 50 lbs.www.carquestcareers.com or call 952-322-6735

Exp. Res. Cleaner, musthave car, $11+ start PT nighthrs. LV loc. 612-987-1917

Fantasy GiftsPart time sales clerks Evenings and weekends atour Lakeville, St. LouisPark and Coon Rapids

locations.

Applications at all loca-tions or email resume to

[email protected]

Godfather's Pizza hasimmediate openings forPart-Time, EveningDelivery Drivers.Drivers receive: competi-tive pay, tips, per deliveryfee, flexible hours and agreat environment: Must 18 years of age, agood driver and have ac-cess to an insured vehicle.

Apply in person at: 850 WCounty Rd 42 or online at

www.godfathers.com(specify Burnsville

location)

EOE

Mystery ShoppersEarn up to $100/day. Un-dercover shoppers neededto judge retail & dinningestablishments. No expreq. Call 855-219-4443

NAR VARIOUS SHIFTS

We are seeking nursingassistants to serve in

our 65-bed skilled nurs-ing facility. Duties

include assisting resi-dents with their daily

grooming, diningneeds, ambulating andtransferring residents.

Candidates must be on the Minnesota

Registry.

COOK PT PM Duties include: prepa-ration of meals from

scratch & supervisingdietary staff in the ab-sence of the Director.Candidates must haveknowledge of food safe-ty practices, diet modi-fications & recipe con-

version. Previous long-term care experience

preferred.

Please apply at:TRINITY CARE

CENTER3410 213th Street W. Farmington, MN 55024Or send resumes to:[email protected]

EEO/AA

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9200

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Immediate weekend openings.

Call and leave a message.651-968-6039

Window Cleaners WantedWill train, starting salary$10hr. Ladder exper. aplus. 952-431-5521

Automotive9500


9810

Runners & Non Runners 612-810-7606

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Bike

9820

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RVs, Nonmotor-ized Campers

9850

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9900

01 GMC Yukon XLT 1500AT, 4WD, Red w/grey lthr,heated seats, 230K, verywell maint., 1 owner, cleaninside/out, no rust, 3rdseat, rear heat/ac. $3800

Mike 612 987 1044


9810


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District 56B Republicans will try again to endorse Local Republicans willtry again April 26 to en-dorse a candidate for thestate House of Represen-tativesseatinthenewDis-trict56B. Candidates Terry Mc-Call of Burnsville andRoz Peterson of Lakevillebattled to a four-ballotdraw on March 17. In ra-zor-close balloting at theinaugural Senate District56 Republican convention,neither candidate cameclosetogainingthe60per-cent needed for endorse-ment. Another hung conven-tion on April 26 wouldleavebothmullingwhetherto move on to a primarycontest in August. TheRepublican nominee willin November face formerstate Rep. Will Morgan,a Burnsville DFLer whoserved two terms and wasunseated by Rep. PamMyhrain2010. The endorsing conven-tion will be held at theDiamondhead EducationCenter/Burnsville HighSchool Senior Campus,located south of Burns-ville Parkway and west ofNicollet Avenue. Registra-tionisat6:30p.m. District56B,undernewpolitical boundaries thatwill take effect next year,includes south Burnsvilleand extends north intoeastcentralBurnsville.TheLakeville portion of thedistrict includes only theOrchardLakearea. McCallisalongtimeRe-publican activist and chairof the 2nd CongressionalDistrict Republicans. Pe-terson is a Lakeville AreaSchoolBoardmemberandchairof theDakotaCoun-ty Regional Chamber ofCommerce.

— John Gessner

Bill may pay a portion of school-funding shift Opponents of state Rep. Pat Garofalo’s bill say it would deplete budget reserves

by T.W. BudigSuNTHISWEEk

The Republican-con-trolled Legislature passedon April 2 a school shiftbuy-back conference com-mittee report dedicatingone-time state budget re-serve dollars to pay a por-tionofthe$2billionschoolfundingshift. The legislation slates$430millioninreservesto-ward thebuy-back, leavingabout $577 million left in

thereserves. Debate on the Housefloorwassometimessharp,with House Education Fi-nance Committee Chair-manPatGarofalo,R-Farm-ington, calling Democrats“deadbeat Democrats” foropposingthebuy-back. Democratsreturnedfire. “You’re out of order,”Rep. Ryan Winkler, DFL-Golden Valley, said. “Yourbillisoutoforder.” But the bill passed the

Houseona75-to-56vote. The tone in the Senatewas gentler, with Sen. Le-Roy Stumpf, DFL-Plum-mer, warning that creditratingcompanieswouldnotlook favorably on the stateusingupitsreserves. “Thisdefinitelywillhurtus,”Stumpfsaid. The conference commit-teereportpassedtheSenateona35-to-28vote. Democrats have pro-posedclosingperceivedtax

loopholes relating to off-shore corporate assets as ameans of paying back theschoolfundingshifts. Democratic Gov. MarkDayton has suggested thatusingthebudgetreservestopaybacktheshiftswasirre-sponsible. In other education-re-lated matters, the Housepassed an educationpolicy bill, authored byRosemount High Schoolteacher Rep. kurt Bills,

R-Rosemount, containinga provision requiring thatschool boards establishpoliciesprohibiting theuseof schooldistrict resourcesby employees to advocatefortheelectionordefeatofany candidate for electiveoffice,advocatethepassageordefeatofanyreferendumquestion, or solicit fundsforpoliticalpurposes. It stipulates the policiesshould not prohibit schooldistrictemployeesfromen-

gaginginpoliticalactivitiesexceptwhenengagedinper-forming duties assigned tothem under their employeecontract. Democrats have arguedthe legislation treads onFirst Amendment rights.Theyalsocriticizedtheleg-islationasbeingaminefieldofstatemandates.

T.W. Budig can be reached at [email protected] or facebook.com/sunthisweek.

Citizens Climate Lobby to meet The Dakota Countychapter of Citizens Cli-mateLobbywillmeetfrom11:45a.m. to2p.m.Satur-day,April7, in theDakotaRoom at Wescott Library,1340WescottRoad,Eagan.Those who are concernedaboutclimatechangearein-vitedtothemeeting. The speakerwillbeShi-Ling Hsu, author of “TheCase for a Carbon Tax,”whowillbeheardviaphonelink. Contact Paul Hoffingerat (651) 882-0671 for moreinformation.

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