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by Andrew MillerSUN THISWEEK

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Just nine days after he was recognized with the Lifesaver Award for helping to save the life of an Apple Valley man having a heart attack, an Allina paramedic found himself in a grave medical battle of his own. Thirty-year-old Brian Nagel was one of two emergency medical work-ers seriously injured Jan. 18 when his ambulance was involved in a head-on collision with an SUV in Wright County, according to a Star Tribune report. Nagel was hospitalized in intensive care following the crash and initially was breathing with the assis-tance of a ventilator, the report said. A Caring Bridge page kept by Nagel’s family notes that he sustained se-vere head trauma as well skull and facial fractures. “He is in an induced

coma but when the nurses turn down the pain medi-cation he does move and try and take the tubes out which shows that he is fighting back,” Nagel’s sister, Amanda, wrote on Caring Bridge the day of

the accident. “My parents and I were with him all day and told him that ev-eryone is pulling for him.” Since then, Nagel has made “great progress,” his sister reported. He’s walk-ing again – albeit slowly –

has started speech therapy and physical therapy, and is verbally interacting with family members and hos-pital staff. Nagel, of Greenwood, Minn., was one of 10 people recognized with the Lifesaver Award at the Jan. 9 Apple Valley City Council meeting. He was among the emergen-cy workers credited with playing a role in saving the life of Apple Valley resi-dent Marty Burley, who suffered a heart attack on Oct. 10, 2013. Nagel and fellow Al-lina paramedic Andrew Rinerson took over life-saving procedures from Apple Valley firefighters upon arriving at the Apple Valley home that October day. Burley, who had lost consciousness, eventually regained a pulse and was transported to the hospital. Burley recovered from the heart attack well enough to return to work

in November, though he continues to do cardiac re-hab three times a week. The road to recovery for Nagel, however, could be considerably more diffi-cult. Surgery to treat skull and facial fractures – and to remove blood from his brain and repair any tears in the brain membrane – was scheduled for Wednes-day morning. “There are some high risks with this surgery but the doctors are pretty con-fident that there will be no complications,” Amanda Nagel reported Jan. 28. “He will have to go back to the ICU after the sur-gery to make sure he is sta-ble and back on the road to recovery.” Nagel’s family is pro-viding updates on his con-dition at Caring Bridge; go to www.caringbridge.org and search “Brian Nagel.”

Email Andrew Miller at [email protected].

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Thoughtful considerationLawmakers should exercise caution in determining how to use the state’s budget surplus.

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Country star in Apple ValleyBogart’s Place is playing host to country music artist Rockie Lynne as he releases his new album “Radio Road.”

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by John GessnerSUN THISWEEK


Moose are graceful for their size. Wolverines are feisty. Rats? They aren’t rare, en-dangered or expensive to replace, said Dr. Rachel Thompson, an associate veterinarian at the Minne-sota Zoo in Apple Valley. Thompson’s favorite animals include moose and wolverines, but she won’t play favorites with any of the zoo’s more than 4,000 residents. The Burnsville resident spent a recent morning operating on a rat who is part of a rat crew that provides “comic relief” by scampering across the stage during the zoo’s bird show. Thompson spayed the female patient and re-moved her ovaries and

uterus to stop blood loss through her reproductive tracts. “She’s just as important as any other animals,” said Thompson, who considers all zoo animals ambassa-

dors for their species and the zoo’s mission. Thompson, 34, came to the zoo six years ago. She moved to Burnsville in August 2012 with husband Aaron, dog Riley and cat

Elsie. A full-time associate vet, she’s part of a crew that includes senior vet-erinarian Jim Rasmussen and part-time associate Tiffany Wolf.

“We have a pretty com-prehensive medical pro-gram for all the animals at the zoo,” Thompson said. “They get lifelong medical care free of charge. ... We provide a very high stan-dard of care compared to maybe what people would even think of for them-selves.” Hailing from Sioux Falls, S.D., Thompson did three years of pre-veterinary and animal sci-ence studies at Missouri State University before enrolling at the University of Minnesota’s College of Veterinary Medicine, where she earned her doc-torate. “It took me a little while to land on veterinary medicine, compared to some of my siblings who knew right away what they wanted to do,” Thompson said. “I always wanted to do something with science and health as a focus, but

Thompson is zoo veterinarian

Minnesota Zoo associate veterinarian Rachel Thompson, left, performed a medical checkup on the zoo’s 14-foot python Jan. 28. (Photo by Rick Orndorf)

Art in motion

Lifesaver Award recipient now in medical fight of his ownParamedic Brian Nagel seriously injured in head-on collision

There was a dazzling swirl of colors on display at Apple Valley’s Galaxie Library on Saturday, Jan. 25, during the performance by the Twin Cities Chinese Dance Center. The event marking the Chinese New Year (which this year falls on Jan. 31) was part of the Dakota County library system’s ongoing Minnesota Mosaic Cultural Arts series. For more photos of the Chinese dancers, turn to 17A. (Photo by Andrew Miller)

Paramedic Brian Nagel, right, receives thanks from Marty Burley at the Jan. 9 Apple Valley City Council meeting; Nagel was one of 10 people recognized with the Lifesaver Award for helping to save the life of Burley after he had a heart attack. Nagel is now on his own road to recovery after he was seriously injured Jan. 18 when his ambulance was involved in a head-on collision. (Photo by Andrew Miller)

Zoo, technical college work up for discussion

by Tad JohnsonSUN THISWEEK


Funds for two state-owned sites in Dakota County were included in Gov. Mark Dayton’s bonding request that was released this month. If approved, the Minnesota Zoo would receive $12 million for renova-tions, repairs and a new exhibit, and Dakota County Technical College would receive about $5 million to com-plete the Transportation and Emerging Technologies project. It’s anyone’s guess if the funds will be approved in full as DFLers and Repub-licans will dissect the requests after the session begins Feb. 25. Sen. Greg Clausen, DFL-Apple Val-ley, said in all likelihood the $986 mil-lion in requests will be trimmed down. “At this time, it is difficult to identify projects which may be eliminated or re-duced,” he said. “It is my hope and goal that the Minnesota Zoo and Dakota

Doc has 4,000 creatures in her care

State bonding request includes local projects

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See BONDING, 12A

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Major propane shortage hits Minnesota in midst of arctic blast

Home heating fuel prices skyrocket, state of emergency declared by Laura Adelmann

SUN THISWEEKDAKOTA COUNTY TRIBUNE

Rural Dakota County hom-eowners are grappling with rising heating costs in the midst of one of the coldest winters in decades. Propane fuel prices have hit historic highs, said Steve Sargeant, vice president and gen-eral manager of Lakes Gas Com-pany, which provides propane throughout Minnesota and the upper Midwest. He said prices have climbed from $1.69 per gallon to over $5 per gallon since December. “This is unprecedented,” Sargeant said. “And the supply is extremely difficult.” Gov. Mark Dayton and some Minnesota lawmakers recently requested immediate action by President Obama’s administra-tion regarding the nation’s pro-pane shortage, which started when a major pipeline was closed last fall. While supply dropped, de-mand rose as the wet fall forced farmers to use more of the gas than usual to dry corn crops. Before reserves could rebuild, subzero temperatures hit and

stayed, increasing demand for heating and significantly drawing down propane inventories, said Lakeville River Country Co-op manager Ray Bohl. Dayton, U.S. Sens. Al Fran-ken and Amy Klobuchar, with U.S. Reps. Collin Peterson, Betty McCollum, Rick Nolan and Tim Walz wrote the White House on Jan. 25 seeking “immediate ac-tion” including reduced shipping regulations and exports. The letter also states commu-nities may be “in danger of run-ning out completely — a develop-ment that would be devastating for those communities.” The letter asks that funds be available for emergency deliveries of propane. Dayton declared a peacetime State of Emergency on Monday, activating the Minnesota Emer-gency Operations Plan and coor-dinating response efforts across all state agencies. The National Guard is also placed on active duty to respond to emergency situations. He also directed the commis-sioner of commerce to “use his consumer protection authority” to guard Minnesotans against

price gouging. Minnesota Propane Asso-ciation Executive Director Roger Leider said production is “very tight” and expects supply will re-main limited until spring. He said most concerning is that people need another fill to get them enough propane to heat their homes through the winter. Kevin Sexton, general man-ager of River Country Co-op, owned by its members in and around Dakota County, cited concerns about rising prices and dropping supply. “I’ve never seen something like this,” Sexton said. “I’ve been around 30 years, and we usually have a little spike every year, but I don’t think it’s ever gotten this high.” Sexton said the same propane fill that used to take truckers an hour at the terminal now takes al-most two days. “There’s nothing there,” Sex-ton said. “All that has been in storage has been sucked dry in Minnesota. There’s no gas.” Many propane companies are rationing propane to customers who heat their homes with the fuel.

Soaring propane prices are forcing Dwight and Donna Ped-erson, of Lakeville, to take money from their savings to pay for it. Donna Pederson said their last fill in early December cost $1.89 per gallon; now prices are at $5.69 per gallon. With just 29 percent remaining in their tank, they expect to need a refill this week; their fuel com-pany will only provide a maxi-mum of 250 gallons per fill. “I’m very concerned,” Donna Pederson said. “My hot water heater and furnace operate on propane, so if I don’t have heat, the water freezes and my pipes burst.” Propane officials say things will get better once spring comes, and in the meantime are urging customers to conserve their pro-pane supply by turning down the thermostat and not heating build-ings or rooms that don’t need to be heated. “Hopefully, spring will come soon,” Leider said.

Laura Adelmann is at [email protected].

Customers asked to conserve natural gasMinnesota Energy

Resources said cooperation was great Rosemount-based Minnesota Energy Resources asked custom-ers to turn their thermostats down to 60 degrees on Saturday after a natural gas pipeline in Winnipeg, Canada, ruptured further pinch-ing supply. The company said one of three pipelines affected by the incident was expected to return to normal Monday as Minnesota Energy asked customers to continue to conserve and avoid using natural gas appliances and to use electric space heaters but be careful not to

overload circuits. “By everyone pitching in, cus-tomers, utilities, pipelines, local government and the media, we were able to maintain system sta-bility during a very difficult time,” said Barb Nick, president of Minnesota Energy Resources. “A combination of factors including extreme cold weather and the loss of natural gas supply really tested the pipeline system and custom-ers’ patience. We know this hasn’t been easy for our customers and we thank them for their coop-eration and continued conserva-tion.” Minnesota Energy said the rupture severely disrupted gas supply throughout the company’s

service area, which includes parts of Dakota County. “Our system is stable at this point, and we are watching close-ly to ensure safe, reliable service to our customers,” Nick said on Monday. “Customer response to this has been a great help. We still request that customers take mea-sures to conserve without impact-ing their individual safety.” The company informed cus-tomers on Tuesday that they could resume normal natural gas use. Minnesota Energy said it had curtailed natural gas service to commercial and industrial “inter-ruptible” customers. The compa-ny said it expected interruptions

could continue during this unusu-ally cold weather pattern. Due to the problems with sup-plying natural gas, there also has been shortages of propane. Equal parts of natural gas and crude oil are used to make propane (see re-lated story). Information on safety and cold weather tips is available on the Minnesota Energy’s website at www.minnesotaenergyresources.com. If customers smell gas or sus-pect a gas leak, they should move to a safe location and contact the Minnesota Energy customer ser-vice center at 800-889-4970.

—Tad Johnson

Area BriefsHooppaw elected MVTA board chair The Minnesota Valley Transit Authority board of directors elected Apple Valley City Council Mem-ber Clint Hooppaw as chair at its organizational meeting on Jan. 22. He replaces two-time chair

Gary Hansen of Eagan. Jon Ulrich, Scott County C o m m i s s i o n e r, was elected vice chair; Jane Victo-rey, Savage City Council member, was re-elected sec-retary/treasurer. Other members of the board include Dakota

County Commis-sioner Liz Work-man; Burnsville Council Member Bill Coughlin; Rosemount Mayor William Droste; and Gary Hansen, Eagan City Coun-cil member.

In 2014, MVTA board meetings will take place at 4:30 p.m. on the fourth Wednesday of each month at the Burnsville Bus Ga-rage, 11550 Rupp Drive, Burnsville. Board agendas and packets are posted on the MVTA website at www.mvta.com/MVTA Board. The MVTA is the pub-lic transportation provider for the businesses and residents of Apple Valley, Burnsville, Eagan, Rose-mount and Savage, and provides service to the Lakeville Cedar Park & Ride.

Music Matinee MacPhail Center for

Music cellist Jacqueline Ultan and flutist Julie Johnson will be featured at the MacPhail Saturday Musical Matinee at 1 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 8, at Apple Valley Villa, 14610 Garrett Ave., Apple Valley. The duo will take guests on a musical road trip through the centuries and around the world. Re-freshments will follow the hour of music. The program is pre-sented by Augustana Care and MacPhail Center for Music. Admission is free. RSVP at 952-236-2600.

Pinewood Derby for all Feb. 1 The Boy Scouts are hosting “all comers” Pine-wood Derby racing on Saturday, Feb. 1, at the Apple Valley Community Center as part of the city’s Mid-Winter Fest. The event from noon-3 p.m. is open to anyone

with a Pinewood Derby car. Informal racing will begin about noon; if there is interest, a more formal race will start about 1:30 p.m. A $1 donation is re-quested per car to help support Friends of Scout-ing. For more informa-tion, visit http://chief-blackdog.nsbsa.org and click on “Mid-Winter Fest Pinewood Derby.”

Teen driver safety program at DCTC Tire Rack Street Sur-vival, a driver education program for licensed and permitted drivers age 15-21, will be offered 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 16, at Dakota County Technical College, 1300 145th St. E., Rosemount. Cost is $75. Forms, schedules and more in-formation can be found at www.streetsurvival.org.

ClintHooppaw

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Businesses, legislators feel heat from new taxesGov. Dayton, Democrats promise repeal

if there’s a ‘sufficient’ surplus

Prior to the sales tax on warehousing services, Strategic Warehousing’s 100,000-square-foot Eagan warehouse was packed with goods, company representatives say. Today, one-third of the facility is vacant. (Photo by Jessica Harper)

by Jessica HarperSUN THISWEEK


A sales tax that will apply to Min-nesota warehousing services won’t go into effect until April 1, yet many in the industry say they are already feeling squeezed by it. For three decades, Strategic Ware-housing has provided storage services in Eagan for Coca-Cola can supplier Rexam and other major manufacturers, but in August, the company began shift-ing its operations to Ames, Iowa, due to the tax. “It’s not a market we would have otherwise moved to,” Strategic Ware-housing general manager Kathy For-ester said. The Iowa facility has six employees – a number that is set to grow if the 6.5 percent sales tax isn’t repealed, Forester said. “We would have to move all of our operations,” she said. “I don’t think the legislators who passed this understand the industry.” The warehousing industry is a mo-bile one, she said. Companies can easily move their products to warehouses in Wisconsin, Iowa or Illinois — which don’t have a sales tax on warehousing services — and many already have, Forester said. “Customers will continue to bypass Minnesota so the state won’t be collect-ing the tax anyway,” she said. Those who continue to use Strategic’s Eagan warehouse have said they are un-willing to pay the tax, leaving Strategic footing a bill it can’t afford, said For-ester, who has testified about the issue to the small business caucus. Even in good years, the company maintains modest profit margins of 3 to 5 percent, Forester said. With its customers seeking services elsewhere, Strategic lost 18 percent of its revenue between August 2013 and Janu-ary 2014, which prompted the company to lay off 22 percent of its workforce, Forester said. “This industry, employees are peo-ple with minimal education,” she said. “Some come right out of college. It’s a good paying job where they can move up.” Forester knows this firsthand. A 33-

year veteran of the industry, she started as a warehouse worker and worked her way up to general manager. The recent layoffs are the warehouse company’s first in many years. When other businesses were looking to cutting costs in 2009, Strategic Ware-housing’s revenue increased 10 percent and the company added new jobs. At the time, the Eagan warehouse had 35 employees, which declined last year to 25. Strategic’s struggle is also evident by a walk through its Eagan warehouse. Prior to the passage of the sales tax, Forester said the company’s 100,000-square-foot warehouse would be packed with, among other goods, empty soda cans, which would be brought to the bottling facility. To-day, about a third of the space is va-cant. Strategic Warehousing is not alone, said Jim Pumarlo, communications di-rector of the Minnesota Chamber of Commerce. Many businesses are feeling strained by not only by the warehousing tax but also the equipment repair services and a telecommunications equipment taxes included in the legislation, Pumarlo said. “Minnesota has a good quality of life and we expect to pay for it, but it’s piling on,” he said. The $3.6 billion tax bill passed in the last legislative session as the state sought new revenues to balance its bud-get. The sales tax on telecommunica-tion equipment and equipment repairs went into effect July 1, 2013. Both the warehousing and repair sales taxes ap-ply only to services provided by a third party. Companies that store goods in their own warehouse or repair equipment on site, are exempt from the tax. Exemptions from the sales tax on warehousing services also include the storage of agricultural products, refrig-eration goods, electronic data, self-stor-age services and petroleum products. In addition to being faced with a po-tential sales tax on warehousing servic-es, Strategic could also face a sales tax on equipment repairs should its fork-lifts break, Forester said.

Gov. Mark Dayton, who proposed the tax plan, has said he will agree to re-peal all three taxes, which generate $231 million in revenue, if the state begins the February session with a “sufficient” surplus. Current budget forecasts esti-mate a $846 million surplus. Passage of a repeal seems likely if the forecast is accurate. Both House and Senate Democrats say they agree with the governor’s promise, and Republi-cans have anxious since last session to repeal all three taxes. State Sen. Jim Carlson, DFL-Eagan, is among those to side with the gover-nor but cautions that legislators should wait for the final budget forecast before making promises. “Each of the three taxes have its de-tractor,” Carlson said. “But I want to wait until the February forecast.” Carlson said he believes the sales tax on telecommunications equipment is also unfair when compared to other in-dustries. In addition to potentially repealing the three sales taxes, Carlson said he would like to ensure a sales tax exemp-

tion given to Minnesota cities is also ap-plied to joint power agreements, such as the Minnesota Valley Transit Authority. State Rep. Laurie Halverson, DFL-Eagan, authored a bill during the spe-cial session to repeal all three taxes on the condition that the state surplus is at minimum $846 million as predicted. After the bill was defeated in commit-tee, Halverson filed a similar bill to be discussed in February. “The warehouse tax is my top prior-ity, because it has already impacted so many businesses in Eagan,” said Hal-verson, a member of the House Small Business Caucus. Although she strongly supports a repeal, Halverson concurs with her fellow Democrats that a repeal can be achieved only if the state maintains a healthy budget. For Forester, a repeal can’t come soon enough. “It won’t undo what’s been done, but can stop the bleeding,” she said.

Jessica Harper is at [email protected] or facebook.com/sunthisweek.

Jazz singer Patty Peter-son, winner of the Minne-sota Music Award for best vocalist, will be joined on stage by musician friends and family members for her concert at the Valley-wood Golf Course club-house on Saturday, Feb. 1, as part of the Frozen Apple winter concert series hosted by the Apple Valley Arts Foundation. Admis-sion is free to the 6-9 p.m. concert in the clubhouse located at 4851 McAn-drews Road, and food and beverages, including a full bar, will be available for purchase. More about the concert is at www.avar-tsfoundation.org. (Photo submitted)

Winter jazz


No new trails are necessary To the editor: In 2001 a Lebanon Hills Regional Park Master Plan was created with input by a stakeholders task force consisting of 13 park us-ers and 13 representatives from affected surrounding municipalities. Development in the park is now being pro-posed with a new Master Plan backed by a major-ity of the Dakota County commissioners including the new chairwoman Liz Workman and vice chair-man Tom Egan. The 2001 plan desig-nated much of the park’s eastern section as the “preserve zone” with “de-velopment zones” located other areas. An asphalt connector trail is being proposed to traverse the park through the heart of this preserve zone under a new Master Plan. Many other new “soft trails” and features are being planned in the new proposal. The trouble is the “13 park us-ers and 13 representatives,” or someone like them, have not been asked whether or not these new develop-ment schemes are wanted or necessary. At the open houses in

December and January, I was amazed at the clever presentation of the various proposals. With regard to the paved connector trails: the posters and discussions that were offered centered on which of the paved trails I might like, rather than asking the question: “Is a connector trail need-ed in Lebanon Hills Re-gional Park?” No new trails are neces-sary. Further trail develop-ment will further segment the park, inherently dimin-ishing existing natural se-cluded areas. For Lebanon Hills, “progress” does not always mean more develop-ment. There is much need of natural habitat restora-tion, including the eradi-cation of buckthorn. Real

progress in this park would be to get the buckthorn sit-uation under control. I’ve lost faith in the cur-rent manner in which the exchange of ideas is taking place. I do not believe the Dakota County commis-sioners are really listen-ing to the basic questions. I have lost confidence in the Dakota County com-missioners that support the new Master Plan. It appears that meaning-ful, authoritative, citizen involvement is again nec-essary in this discussion, to bring the scale more in balance with the theme of preservation prevalent in the 2001 Master Plan. DALE FORDEagan

Minimum wage increase would help provide stabilityTo the editor: Back in the 1920s Henry Ford began pay-ing his employees enough for them to be able to buy the fruits of their labor, his early cars. Forty years later Congress raised the minimum wage enough to afford minimum wage workers enough to raise a family. Today there is debate about just that question. Proponents of an increase say the mini-mum of the 1960s would run over $30 per hour to-day, after accounting for inflation. Opponents say that would merely reduce the availability of jobs in the market place. Some economists challenge that otherwise widely-accept-ed idea, saying the raise would immediately be reflected in pent-up de-mand in the markets for goods and services that would require more jobs. If we are to be a hu-mane society, we must value the stability of fam-ilies on a level that affords them a way to survive and care for children. This value is itself carried into the next generation. Chil-dren themselves must be equipped to care for their families through a decent education. An inhumane society would not care about the number of low-wage jobs it takes to put food onto the table. This debate must be resolved for the good of low-wage earners if our society is to

retain a humane charac-ter. If we aim to preserve values which care for vulnerable people, which prepare people to do well, we must take steps to improve our econo-my by rewarding people who work. We must edu-cate our young and give people the means to earn their way out of the pov-erty, which has grown faster and larger than in recent memory.

LARRY KOENCKEagan

Obermueller’s tax policies favor middle-incomeTo the editor: Have you felt like the price of everything has gone up, while your in-come has stagnated or fallen? The Census Bu-reau reports those feel-ings have basis in fact. It says over the last decade, wages for middle- and lower-income taxpayers have actually declined, af-ter inflation, while those for upper-income folks have grown very nicely. In terms of public policy, this may mean better-off taxpayers may need fewer tax breaks than the rest of us. But in fact, they’ve gotten more of them until recently. Mike Obermueller, candidate for Congress in the 2nd District, thinks we need to end tax subsi-dies for big oil companies and ask millionaires to pay their fair share. Mil-

lionaires tend to reply, “We actually pay most of the taxes. It’s for national security. If oil companies aren’t given every possible tax advantage, they might not supply us with enough gasoline.” Yet the most re-cent years have been off-the-charts for oil profits, increasing each year, and the Warren Buffett rule says rich folks should pay as high a percentage of their income as the rest of us, although they don’t just now. Obermueller’s got a point. Maybe it’s time to reduce the sweet tax breaks for the wealthy, and boost them for the rest of us. Economists say it could boost our economy’s demand, and small-business bottom-lines, and employment as well. While this may not coincide with the wishes of the already-wealthy, it may follow the advice of Pope Francis. He re-cently wrote that if we don’t attack the structural causes of income “in-equality, no solution will be found for the world’s problems.” The pope agrees with 2013 Nobel-prize-winning American economist, Robert Shiller, who believes our skewed income structure is “the most important problem that we are facing now to-day.” Mike Obermueller has substantial backing for his desire to change our tax policies.

NANCY HALLBurnsville

Letters

Policymakers should be cautious with budget surplus

Seeking common ground may help improve schools

The governor, legislators and Min-nesota citizens all received good news in December. Minnesota Management and Budget, formerly known as the state Finance Department, in its most recent economic forecast projected an improve-ment in the state’s economic position of more than $1 billion for the current two-year budget cycle. When the Legislature comes back into session late in February, this uptick in available revenue will generate a lot of at-tention from policymakers across the en-tire political spectrum. This will include those eager to increase spending, those eager to reduce taxes and many wanting to do both. Inasmuch as 2014 is an elec-tion year for the governor and all mem-bers of the House of Representatives, we can expect considerable political dimen-sions to the public policy deliberations surrounding budget matters. We urge policymakers to be cautious in approaching their fiscal responsibili-

ties during the 2014 legislative session. In fact, we believe most, if not all, of this surplus should be added to the currently inadequate budget reserve. Past budget experiences should have taught everyone valuable lessons about state fiscal matters. Surpluses can evapo-rate quickly with economic downturns, and today’s actions can exacerbate to-morrow’s fiscal challenges. Remember the “Jesse Checks” employed to distrib-ute the surplus of the late 1990s? By 2002, newly elected Gov. Tim Pawlenty was confronted by a record $4 billion deficit. The “forecast balance” of $1.086 bil-lion projected this past December was immediately reduced by $261 million by operation of current law, almost all of which was to pay back state borrow-ings from school districts. This leaves a

“budgetary balance” of $825 million for consideration during the upcoming legis-lative session. It is important to note that the $825 million is not money on hand, but rather a balance projected to be on hand on June 30, 2015, 19 months from the time of the projection. While $825 million is a substantial sum, Minnesota’s two-year general fund operating budget is $39 billion. The pro-jected $825 million budgetary balance amounts to a variance of slightly more than 2 percent. This relatively small vari-ance could easily evaporate over the next 17 months. We would hope that Gov. Mark Day-ton and legislators read the statement of Minnesota’s Council of Economic Advi-sors included within the official Budget and Economic Forecast released in De-cember. The council observed that the “budget reserve remains well below the level bond rating agencies expect from

AAA-rated credits.” The council further noted that “Moody’s ratings guidelines indicate that AAA-rated states should have statutory reserves of at least 10 per-cent of current revenue.” Minnesota’s current reserves amount to 5.2 percent, the council noted. We know that legislators will face significant pressures to increase spend-ing and reduce taxes with this remaining $825 million budget surplus. We urge, however, that they heed the cautionary advice of the Council of Economic Ad-visors. We would hope that policymak-ers take a longer-term perspective and restore better fiscal discipline in Minne-sota’s financial affairs by avoiding spend-ing increases and revenue reductions dur-ing the 2014 legislative session.

An opinion of the ECM Editorial Board. Sun Thisweek newspapers and the Dakota County Tribune are part of ECM Publish-ers Inc.

by Joe NathanSUN THISWEEK


Can the Minnesota Business Part-nership, which focuses on making the best possible use of existing funds, and Parents United, which urges that more money be spent on Minnesota’s pub-lic schools, find things they agree on? Can the African American Leadership Forum, which represents more than a thousand Minnesotans, many deeply concerned about public schools, agree with what the Minnesota Association of School Administrators is suggesting? An intriguing new effort is hoping the an-swer to these questions is “yes.” I give former Minneapolis Mayor Don Fraser and former St. Paul Council of Churches Executive Director Grant Abbott considerable credit. Over the next few weeks, they are convening a va-riety of groups for public conversations that will be taped and available for view-ing online at Minnesota Achievement Gap Committee website. Their goal is to improve Minnesota’s public schools, with a focus on reducing

the achievement gap. First, they want to find several things these groups agree on. Then they hope to work with the organi-zations to focus on agreements in ways that make a real, positive difference for Minnesota students. Fraser started the Achievement Gap Committee in 2007. He wanted to pro-vide a forum for people to share their research, concerns, strategies and success in reducing the achievement gap. Over the years, teacher union presidents, uni-versity professors, district and charter educators, and a wide range of others described what they were doing. Despite their efforts, Minnesota has one of the nation’s largest gaps in high school graduation rates among students of different races. Abbott and Fraser

wanted to do more. So late last year, they began inviting a variety of groups to make brief, 15-min-ute presentations on a panel – with people they sometimes agreed with and sometimes disagreed with. Full disclosure: They asked me to be part of a panel that included Mary Cec-coni, executive director of Parents United for Public Schools; Maureen Ramirez, pol-icy and research director with Growth and Justice; and Chris Stewart, executive direc-tor of the African American Leadership Forum. The meeting, the first of three, was Jan. 21. Some of the talking points were: • Cecconi presented graphs illustrat-ing her view that Minnesota should spend more money on K-12 education. She does not think more money is the to-tal answer, but she definitely thinks it is part of what’s needed. More information is available at the Parents United website. • Ramirez explained that Growth and Justice has prepared reports showing key areas of what it describes as “strategic investment,” such as more high-quality early childhood education programs. • Stewart described what his organiza-

tion believes are five key gaps, including the “preparation gap” and the “belief” gap. Read more about education gaps at headwatersfoundation.org/Closing_the_Five_Education_Gaps. • I pointed to research about the value of strong early childhood programs for students from low-income families and of students taking dual-credit courses, the progress Minnesota has made and the need to do more. Over the next month, the committee will convene two more meetings to hear from other groups and then seek points of agreement. Cynics quote retired football coach Lou Holtz: “When all is said and done, a lot more is said than done.” Give Fraser and Abbott credit for tak-ing on tough but important issues. They may not succeed. But they may.

Joe Nathan, formerly a Minnesota public school teacher, administrator and PTA president, directs the Center for School Change. Reactions welcome, [email protected]. Columns reflect the opinion of the author.

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District 196 converts staff days to add two student days to calendar

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District 196 has added two days of student instruction to the 2013-14 calen-dar to make up for some of the instruc-tional time that has been lost due to the cold-weather cancellations this month. The calendar revisions were approved by the School Board at a special meeting Jan. 27. Under the revised calendar, all stu-dents will have school on Thursday, Feb. 13. That date had been scheduled as a day off for elementary and middle school students, for parent-teacher conferences. The first added day of school for high school students will be Friday, Feb. 14. That date had been scheduled as a day off for all students, but only elementary and middle school students will have Feb. 14 off under the revised calendar. The revised schedule for elementary and middle school conferences will be Feb. 12 and 13, from 4 to 8 p.m. both nights, and Feb. 14 from 8 a.m. to noon.

The second added day of school for all students will be on Friday, March 14. That date had been scheduled as a staff development day for all levels, but will now be a day of school for all students. “We believe adding these two days for students is important given the unusual amount of instructional time that has been lost due to the weather cancella-tions,” said Superintendent Jane Berenz. “Having these additional days earlier in the calendar will provide for a better teaching and learning environment than adding them to the end of the school year.” District 196 and most other districts in the metro area have canceled school four times this month – Jan. 7, 23, 27 and 28 – due to the extreme cold tem-peratures and wind-chill warnings. Gov. Mark Dayton canceled school statewide on Jan. 6 due to the cold.

Area students nominated to service academies U.S. Rep. John Kline, R-Burnsville, honored over two dozen students Tues-day at a ceremony in his Burnsville of-fice to recognize his nominees to the U.S. Service Academies. Apple Valley nominees: • Erik Lecy, a senior at Eastview High School, nominated to the U.S. Air Force Academy and West Point. Lecy plays hockey, and is an Eagle Scout and mem-ber of the National Honor Society. His parents are Mark and Melissa Lecy. • Andrew Mikulski, a senior at East-view High School, nominated to the U.S. Air Force Academy and West Point. Mi-kulski plays football and baseball, and is an Eagle Scout and member of the National Honor Society. His parents are Michael and Jeanne Mikulski.

• Noah Pehrson, currently attending Greystone Preparatory School, nomi-nated to the U.S. Naval Academy, West Point, and the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy. Pehrson plays soccer and com-petes in wrestling, and is an Eagle Scout. His parents are Mark and Tami Pehrson. • Michael Terry, a senior at Eastview High School, nominated to the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy. Terry plays football and is an Eagle Scout. His par-ents are Kurt and Ruby Terry. Students interested in applying for a nomination for the class entering the academies in 2015 can receive more in-formation on the “Student Corner” page at http://kline.house.gov or by calling Kline’s Burnsville office at 952-808-1213.

College News The College of St. Scholastica, Du-luth, fall dean’s list, from Apple Valley – Abby Ceglar, Anne Kibler, Stephanie Marshall, Emilee Schlosser, Elizabeth Sullivan. Ridgewater College, Willmar, fall dean’s list, from Apple Valley – Carson LaRocque, Lynn Vrooman. University of New Hampshire, Dur-ham, N.H., Marissa Nelson of Apple Valley. Schreiner University, Kerrville, Texas, fall president’s list, Noah Pehrson of Ap-ple Valley. Dunwoody College of Technology, Minneapolis, fall dean’s list, Amelia

Blakeley of Apple Valley. Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, fall dean’s list, from Apple Valley – Jake Asmus, Caitlin Brown, Eric Flaming, Lauren Grotkin, Rebecca Guenther, Szumei Leow, Szuyin Leow, Joseph Ma-licki, Vincent Metz, Jonathan Miles, Erik Nelson, Ben Paulus, Sarah Reagan, Lindsey Ruszczyk, Erica Schiebel, Selia Schneider, Parker Zeilon. University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, N.D., fall dean’s list, from Apple Valley – Joseph Besong, Heather Duehn, Matthew Gilbertson, Jade Gunderson, Michael Myslinski, Alexa Nelson, Jamie St. Marie.


New outlet mall in Eagan names more tenants

Paragon Outlet Partners released a list on Jan. 23 of more tenants for its 409,000-square-foot outlet center currently under construction in Eagan. (Photo submitted)

by Jessica HarperSUN THISWEEK


Paragon Outlet Part-ners, a Baltimore-based real estate develop-ment firm, announced more tenants for its 409,000-square-foot out-let center currently under construction in Eagan. The list released Jan. 23 includes Reebok, Old Navy, True Religion, Lucy, Talbots, Gymboree and Movado. With the latest group of tenants, the outlet cen-ter is 90 percent commit-ted. The latest tenants are in addition to the list an-nounced last summer: Saks Fifth Avenue OFF 5TH, Coach Factory Store, Michael Kors, Cole Haan, Banana Republic Factory Store, Gap Fac-tory Store, J. Crew, Polo Ralph Lauren Factory Store, Adidas and Nike

Factory Store, among oth-ers. The outlet center, which will serve the Min-neapolis-St. Paul area, is the first major new devel-opment project within the

Cedar Grove Redevelop-ment District. “Leasing has pro-gressed at a rapid and re-warding pace,” Paragon Outlet Partners Principal Nicholas King said in a

news release. “As the Twin Cities region’s newest out-let shopping center con-tinues to take shape, we are delighted to welcome our newest tenants to our growing merchant com-

munity.” Construction of the outlet mall began in June 2013 and is expected to bring approximately 400 construction jobs. Para-gon representatives expect

the mall will bring up to 2,000 retail jobs to the area when it celebrates its grand opening this sum-mer. The mall’s construction has spurred development in the Cedar Grove Rede-velopment District includ-ing a hotel, and a housing and retail complex. Morrissey Hospitality Co., which manages the St. Paul Hotel, plans to build a 123-room hotel next to the outlet mall. Apple Valley developer Stonebridge Communities plans to build a four-story mixed-use building near-by. The proposed project includes 180 market-rate rental housing units com-bined with between 12,000 and 14,000 square feet of commercial space.

Jessica Harper is at [email protected] or facebook.com/sunthisweek.

Eagan company to outfit players at Super Bowl An Eagan sportswear company will have a part in keeping NFL players warm during Sunday’s Su-per Bowl, according to recent re-ports. WSI Sports makes cold weather undergarments that contain a fiber that expands and warms up when it

comes in contact with skin. The company was founded 24 years ago by Joel Wiens and scored a deal with the San Francisco 49ers for the team’s January playoff game at Lambeau Field in Wisconsin. The Seattle Seahawks decided to get what their rivals had for the big

game when they learned tempera-tures in East Rutherford, N.J., are expected to be in the 30s. WSI is also providing thermal undergarments for the U.S. ski jump team at the Olympics.

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Business Buzz Business Calendar

RE/MAX owners honored RE/MAX North Central, the regional office for RE/MAX fran-chises throughout Minnesota and Wisconsin, honored regional bro-ker/owners for exceptional work conducted in 2013. Local honorees included Elie Safi of RE/MAX Ad-visors, Burnsville, broker/owner of

the year; and Eric Malmberg of RE/MAX Advantage Plus, Lakeville, top office closed transactions.

New VP at Biothera Peter J. Maimonis, Ph.D., has joined Eagan-based Biothera as vice president of Biomarker Develop-ment and will lead the development and commercialization of assays for

the company’s Phase 3 cancer im-munotherapy, Imprime PGG. Maimonis previously held senior positions with various pharma-ceutical and diagnostic companies, including senior director – Cancer Cell Biology, On-Q-ity; vice presi-dent – Biology R&D, Decision Bio-markers; and associate director for Oncology Research, Bayer Health Care.

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Apple Valley Chamber of Commerce events: • Tuesday, Feb. 4, 7:30-9 a.m., Chamber Coffee Con-nection, Home Instead Senior Care, 1601 Highway 13 E., Suite 108, Burnsville. Informa-tion: Eric Iverson at 612-518-5736. Dakota County Region-al Chamber of Commerce events: • Tuesday, Feb. 4, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., “Guarding Your Bot-tom Line: How to Reduce Busi-ness Risks in 2014,” Lost Spur Golf and Event Center, 2750 Sibley Memorial Highway, Ea-gan. Question-and-answer dis-cussion with Jason Lewis from Twin Cities News Talk AM 1130 and Today’s Business Radio panel of experts. Cost: $25, in-cludes lunch. Register at www.dcrchamber.com. Information: Jessy Annoni, 651-288-9202,

[email protected]. • Wednesday, Feb. 5, 4:30-6 p.m., Why Not Wednesday Business After Hours, August Ash, 2626 E. 82nd St., Suite 320, Bloomington. Free. RSVP to Jessy Annoni at 651-288-9202, [email protected]. • Monday, Feb. 10, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., American Red Cross Blood Drive, DCR Chamber back parking lot, 1121 Town Centre Drive, Eagan. Make an appointment at www.redcross-blood.org and enter sponsor code 0177419. • Tuesday, Feb. 11, 7:30-9 a.m., Rosemount State of the City Address, Community Cen-ter, 13885 S. Robert Trail, Rose-mount. RSVP to Jessy Annoni at 651-288-9202, [email protected]. Lakeville Chamber of Commerce events: • Wednesday, Feb. 5, 7:30-8:30 a.m., Morning Brew, Dunn Bros – Apple Valley.

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A royal bash

Children, many of whom were dressed as princesses, watched Kevin Lindee of Co-lumbia Heights-based Ganache chocolate company make chocolate tiaras on Jan. 25 during a grand opening celebration at Tiny Diva Princess Party in Eagan. Part event planning, part theatrics, Tiny Diva Princess Party opened on Jan. 4 at 1095 Diffley Road and hosts themed birthday parties and other events that include appearances by Disney-inspired princesses. (Photo by Jessica Harper)

Dakota County Chamber to host annual WomEn’s Conference The Dakota County Regional Cham-ber of Commerce is hosting its fourth an-nual WomEn’s Conference from noon to 5 p.m. Thursday, March 13, at Lost Spur Golf and Event Center in Eagan. The event aims to connect women and enrich their personal and professional lives by providing the tools and resources to fulfill their aspirations. The conference will feature a panel of women in business who are representative of varying ages and will share how they have successfully engaged all generations within the workplace, a featured speaker and a wine-tasting reception. More details about who will be the featured speaker and panelists will be re-leased at a future date. A marketplace of businesses will offer products and services related to Energiz-ing, Educating and Empowering women. The event, which annually has an at-tendance around 200, is a highlight of the chamber’s year. Past attendees have given positive reviews of the conference, saying is has motivated them on many levels. “The speakers were phenomenal with real life tips that I can apply to my grow-ing career and enhance my personal life,” one attendee said. This year’s event’s nonprofit partner is

the DCR Charitable Foundation. Funds raised will be used to give four, $500 scholarships to deserving female students attending high school in the Dakota County area. To be eligible for the scholarships, stu-dents must attend a high school in Dis-trict 191, 192, 196 or 197; graduate in June 2014; and committed to full-time at-tendance at a post-secondary institution. The application deadline is Feb. 14. A Wine Pull will be offered at the con-ference with proceeds benefiting the DCR Charitable Foundation. People can make a wine donation valued at $10 and above through the chamber’s website. Sponsorship opportunities are avail-able. The early bird ticket price is $129 per person for DCR chamber members or $149 for non-members. A light lunch and refreshments are included. Lost Spur is located at 2750 Sibley Me-morial Highway in Eagan. Registration will start at 11 a.m. For more information regarding regis-tration, sponsorship or scholarships, con-tact the chamber office at 651-452-9872 or visit www.dcrchamber.com/women-conference.cfm.


At the Capitol

Effort aims to bring more

transparency to government

finances by Tad Johnson


Truth in Taxation hear-ings don’t draw a lot of crowds. The annual December meetings that are held by various units of govern-ment offer presentations and information regard-ing the current budget cycle and the impact on taxpayers. Among the frequent criticisms of the hearings is that they are held too late in the budget cycle when there’s no chance to influence changes and the reporting requirements fall short of providing clarity. A bill introduced in the 2012 legislative ses-sion aimed to offer some changes in the way budget reports are assembled in an effort for taxpayers to better understand their money at work. NAIOP, also called

the Commercial Real Estate Development As-sociation, forwarded the legislation, which was ap-proved by the House and the Senate but was vetoed by Gov. Mark Dayton af-ter it was added to the om-nibus tax bills. The association hopes the legislation will gain traction in 2014. In an effort to spread the word about the legis-

lation, NAIOP conducted the Transparency Project with Dakota County’s budget, which demon-strated how a budget re-port would look under the proposed legislation. The Minnesota Center for Fiscal Excellence pre-pared the transparency report, which essentially added comparison of the current budget to that of four years ago and re-

ported the expenditures by type – personnel, cli-ent services and materials, capital outlay, to reserves, department and county support, and other. Dakota County Fi-nance Director Matt Smith said the budget his-tory provides a useful per-spective. He added that expen-diture reporting by type also may be more familiar to an audience of business taxpayers. “The effort was a suc-cess to the extent that it provided useful informa-tion to those taxpayers,” Smith said, “and based on the feedback received at the meeting to discuss it, I think they did find it use-ful.” Mark Lofthus, eco-nomic development direc-tor for Farmington-based Dakota Electric, said the trend lines, in this instance comparing 2009 to 2013, “are so critical.” For example, the re-port showed that Dakota County had reduced its spending by about $40.9 million from $318.8 mil-lion in 2009 to $277.9 mil-lion in 2013. Lofthus told NAIOP

that knowing and un-derstanding changes in spending will lead to greater citizen engage-ment. NAIOP says reporting by expenditure type aims to show why county ser-vices cost what they do, such as the biggest part of the county’s budget – em-ployee costs. The report showed that salaries and wages had de-clined from 2009 to 2013 by $15.89 million and full-time equivalent positions fell by 132 during the same time frame. With that in-formation, NAIOP says taxpayers can then ask if that has any implications for service delivery. “The standards (as pro-posed by NAIOP and the MCFE) would ensure that local governments provide transparency within their budgets and reports, much like a business,” Vicki Stute, Dakota County Regional Chamber of Commerce president, told NAIOP. Smith said he didn’t think the additional re-porting that would be re-quired by the legislation would be too burdensome. “We had the informa-

Legislation may change budget reporting

This is one of the slides from NAIOP’s Transparency Project budget presentation that used Dakota County as an example. The graphic on the left shows the typical re-porting done by units of government, and the graphic on the right shows government spending by type, one of the suggested features that would be added to government fi-nancial reporting if NAIOP’s proposed legislation were passed in 2014.

tion in our data systems and just had to assemble and report it out in a dif-ferent format,” he said. NAIOP says the typical budget that shows spend-ing by department doesn’t tell the whole story. Da-kota County and many of the cities in the county know this and prepare many different charts and graphics in an attempt to help taxpayers understand it. Smith said the county hasn’t received a lot of taxpayer feedback in the past regarding its budget and financial reporting. “We can probably take that as a sign they’ve been fairly satisfied,” he said. Information about Da-kota County’s budget can be found on its website, in newsletters and through presentations at board meetings, which are web-cast. The same can be said of cities and school dis-tricts in Dakota County that provide budget infor-mation in a variety of for-mats and venues.

Email Tad Johnson at [email protected].

Capitol renovations are biggest slice of bonding pieby Mike Cook

SESSION WEEKLY

Gov. Mark Dayton has whittled nearly $3 billion in requests into a capital investment, or bonding, proposal that totals just under one-third of that amount. His proposal includes $986 million in general-obligation bonding to-ward a $1.4 billion total investment. Local match requirements would make up the difference. “This proposal address-es many of our state’s criti-

cal infrastructure needs, while strengthening our economy and getting more people back to work,” Dayton said. He estimated the pro-posal would create more than 27,000 jobs. “If you don’t do these projects you don’t put peo-ple to work,” Dayton said, adding that high priority was given to projects that are “ready to go.” Of the governor’s pro-posal, 38 percent of fund-ing would be for projects in the seven-county Twin Cit-

ies metropolitan area, 34 percent in Greater Minne-sota and 28 percent would go for statewide programs. By investment area: 27 percent is for education, 24 percent for economic de-velopment, 15 percent for environment, 13 percent for State Capitol renova-tion, 12 percent for correc-tions and human services, 7 percent for transporta-tion and transit and 1 per-cent for veterans and mili-tary affairs. The largest single in-vestment, $126.3 million,

would be to complete the State Capitol renovation. Workers are currently in the process of upgrading the 109-year-old building, including repairs to its fa-çade and modernization of the mechanical, electrical, heating and plumbing sys-tems. With the new money, restoration should be com-plete by the end of 2016. Higher education sys-tems would receive $233 million worth of improve-ments, including $40 mil-lion in asset preservation for both the University of

Minnesota and the Min-nesota State Colleges and Universities system, $74 million for additional in-frastructure improvements at 17 MnSCU campuses, $56.7 million for the uni-versity’s Tate Laboratory of Physics building and $12 million in research lab-oratory space on the Twin Cities campuses. Among other aspects of Dayton’s proposal are: • $50 million for hous-ing infrastructure and re-habilitation; • $17 million in transit

investments; and • $12 million for eco-nomic development proj-ects and grant programs. “Governor Dayton’s robust bonding bill dem-onstrates strategic invest-ments in our state which will create thousands of jobs and support the con-tinued growth of Minneso-ta’s economy,” Rep. Alice Hausman, DFL-St. Paul, said in a statement. She chairs the House Capital Investment Committee.

New surveillance technologies clash with right to privacy

by Lee Ann SchutzSESSION DAILY

With little oversight and minimal regulation, cellphones and other electronic devices have the ability to track and collect information to a degree that one legislator called the “Wild West.” Rep. Ryan Winkler, DFL-Golden Valley, raised his concerns dur-ing the Tuesday, Jan. 28, House Civil Law Com-mittee oversight hearing regarding law enforce-ment’s use of surveillance technologies and indi-viduals’ rights to privacy. Rep. John Lesch, DFL-St. Paul, the com-mittee chair, said he called the meeting in response to concerns over the last leg-islative session’s inability to respond to concerns over license plate reader data collection by the city of Minneapolis in 2012. He said public interest in data issues continued with the National Secu-rity Agency disclosures

by Edward Snowden on government surveil-lance of private citizens. “When government uses technology with re-spect to citizens, though, we need to make sure that it follows certain parameters,” he said. No action was taken at the meeting; however, Lesch said he expects several committee hear-ings during the upcom-ing session on issues raised at the meeting. The state’s top law en-forcement personnel were invited to address three issues at the meeting: Use, collection and reten-tion of cellphone records, license plate readers and whether drones were be-ing used for surveillance. A national privacy ex-pert with the American Civil Liberties Union, Catherine Crump, said that courts have been slow to react to the pri-vacy protections offered

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“This is an excellent start to the conversation and it’s extremely en-couraging the governor has included many projects that have been in the queue for some time.” Rep. Matt Dean, R-Dellwood,

the committee’s lead Republican, wasn’t as enthusiastic. “Today’s wish list is another ex-ample of Gov. Dayton asking hard-working Minnesotans to overpay for things they would never buy for their families or small businesses. … The governor shouldn’t send hardwork-

ing taxpayers a credit card bill for his out-of-touch spending,” Dean said in a statement.

This is an edited version of a Session Daily story. Session Daily is at www.house.leg.state.mn.us/hinfo/sdaily.aspx.

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by the Fourth Amend-ment to the U.S. Con-stitution as it relates to technological advances. Saying it may be up to legislatures to act, she challenged the committee to be forward thinking. Her comments drew response from one of the Legislature’s lead-ing data practices ad-vocates, Rep. Mary Liz Holberg, R-Lakeville. “It is very obvious to me that Minnesota is way behind in imple-menting legislation regu-lating this,” she said. Public Safety Com-missioner Ramona Dohman came under in-tense questioning from

Holberg about reported data breaches involving state agency personnel, including review of driv-er’s license information and how the department handles the issue as it re-lates to the state’s data practices act. Holberg questioned whether new protection procedures have been implemented as well as calling for more checks and balances. “The tools that we use in law enforcement are critical to saving lives but we need to bal-ance that with the pri-vacy rights of Minne-sotans,” Dohman said.

Session Daily is at www.house.leg.state.mn.us/hin-fo/sdaily.aspx.

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Haigh: Equity needed for Twin Cities economic growthState of the Region champions Met Council’s Thrive 2040 plan

by Lisa KaczkeSUN THISWEEK


The Twin Cities region is becoming more diverse and equity is needed if the metro is to remain prosper-ous in the future, accord-ing to Metropolitan Coun-cil Chairwoman Susan Haigh. The Met Council will “open a new chapter” in 2014, she said Jan. 27 dur-ing the Met Council’s an-nual State of the Region speech at Macalester Col-lege in St. Paul. The coun-cil has thought regionally for 46 years, but this year will add “act equitably” to its mission, she said. It’s part of the Met Council’s new 30-year plan for the seven-county metro called Thrive 2040. The plan will be available for public comment later this month, and more in-formation can be found at thrivemsp.org. The goal is to tailor the Met Council’s approaches

to different areas of the re-gion, some of which have historical inequity, she said. Although the region of-fers opportunities, it also has some negative aspects. The Twin Cities tops the list of the 25 largest U.S. metro areas in terms of race-based income dispari-ties – worse than Atlanta, Washington, D.C., Seattle and Dallas, Haigh said, adding that she’s “pretty embarrassed” by that list-ing. Six percent of Cauca-sians live in poverty in the Twin Cities region and 25 percent of people of color live in poverty in the re-gion, she said. Three percent of the re-gion’s population lived in neighborhoods identified as Racially Concentrated Areas of Poverty in 1990, a number that had grown to 9 percent by 2010, she said. The Twin Cities popula-tion has also become more diverse. In 1990, 9 percent

of the region’s population were people of color. In 2040, people of color are expected to be 43 percent of the region’s population. In a panel discussion following the State of the Region, Nexus Communi-ty Partners President Repa Mekha pointed out that a 30-year-old Twin Cities resident is facing a differ-ent racial environment to-day than they were on the day they were born, when 80 percent of the popula-tion was Caucasian. He added that the U.S. popu-lation is predicted to be less than 50 percent Cau-casian when that 30-year-old retires. “It’s not a philosophy ... it’s a reality. That train has left the station,” he said. The demographic shift to a majority of people of color is happening in the United States, and embracing it is critical for the future of the Twin Cities, he said. “Either we progress or digress. There’s no middle,” he said. The increasing diversity might throw the region off a bit, but it will help the

region move forward, he said. “As we talk about the future, the future is coming right at us,” he said. Racially Concentrated Areas of Poverty lead to generational poverty, Haigh said. Race is con-nected to where people live in the Twin Cities, and a person’s neighborhood is connected to their health, education and well-being. The region will be eco-nomically stuck if it con-tinues in the same vein, she said. During the panel discus-sion, Northside Achieve-ment Zone President Son-dra Samuels pointed out that nearly 50 percent of Hennepin County children younger than age 5 are people of color, yet Min-nesota is near the bottom for graduation rates of mi-norities compared to other states. “You don’t build an economy on that,” she said. She added that compa-nies are drawn to Minneso-ta because of its educated workforce, but the region

is running into a “tragic, tragic” situation on educa-tion, she said. Eliminating Racially Concentrated Areas of Poverty will create region-al economic growth. The elimination of those areas would invest an estimated $35 billion into the region, Haigh said. She pointed out that without racially driven economic dispari-ties, the Twin Cities would have 182,000 more high school graduates, 137,000 more people employed and 216,000 more homeown-ers. “This is how growth happens,” she said. Thrive 2040 will provide equity in three key areas: community engagement, housing and transporta-tion, outlined by Haigh in the State of the Region speech. The Met Council will work with communities to develop solutions, includ-ing engaging people who haven’t historically been at the table, Haigh said. Choices in housing need to be created and they need better results, she said.

They plan to partner with governments and nonprof-its to spur development in the poorest areas, which in turn will create opportuni-ties for jobs and stabilize housing, she said. Transit is also needed because it will provide access to good jobs and schools, she said. Haigh added that the Green Line Light Rail Transit (LRT) line is set to open June 14 of this year and although it hasn’t opened yet, $1.7 billion has already been privately invested along the line. The Red Line Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) line that connects Apple Valley to Bloomington opened in 2013. A BRT line is also being planned in St. Paul that will connect to the Green Line and Blue Line LRT. No mention of the Southwest LRT proj-ect was made during the speech. Contact Lisa Kaczke at [email protected], or follow her on Twitter @EdinaSunCurrent.


Sports

Shakeup of football scheduling on the wayMSHSL approves district plan; Rosemount athletic director casts dissenting vote

by Mike ShaughnessySUN THISWEEK


It’s possible the 2014 South Suburban Conference football champion could be the last South Suburban Conference football champion. Not because the conference is going away, but because of a change in how the Minnesota State High School League will have its members schedule games. The MSHSL board of directors Jan. 23 voted to restructure high school regu-lar-season football by approving a “Dis-trict Football Scheduling” proposal. The plan, designed to help schools that have had trouble scheduling their full comple-ment of eight regular-season games, will divide schools into districts of at least 10, and preferably 16 or more, with proxim-ity and similar enrollments among the criteria for placement. Schools within a district then would collaborate to create schedules for each team. The plan will take effect in 2015. Section and state playoff formats would not change. Districts could have teams from more than one enrollment class, and there is no assurance that all schools within a conference would be placed in the same district. The MSHSL board approved the pro-posal 19-1, with Rosemount High School athletic director Mike Manning casting the dissenting vote. Manning said Tuesday it was his un-derstanding that 80 percent of the high schools in the state opposed district foot-ball scheduling. “I disagree with it as well,” said Rose-mount football coach Jeff Erdmann, whose team was Class 6A runner up in 2013. “I believe there are too many un-knowns ... “The big issue is the Lake Conference teams being able to fill a schedule. Our conference has made arrangements with the Lake for the past five years to play non-conference games. This issue could be resolved easily if another big-school conference would simply help with scheduling non-conference games with the Lake, like our conference has done.” Lake Conference member Eden Prai-rie, the 2013 Class 6A football champi-on, played two games against Northwest

Suburban Conference schools and one against a South Suburban Conference school and yet still had only seven regu-lar-season games, one short of the maxi-mum. Manning said he favored continu-ing to work with the Lake Conference, which has only five schools, to help them fill their schedules. But he added that the problems could be handled at the local level without introducing a new schedul-ing system statewide. He said he also would like to see cur-rent conference structures remain in place. When Farmington and Shakopee join the South Suburban next year, it will give the league eight schools in Dakota County and two in neighboring Scott County. “We’re spoiled,” Manning said. “The South Suburban Conference is such a good deal for us. We also think it’s good for our fans when they don’t have to drive as far to our road games. I don’t know if as many of them would travel to Wayzata or Eden Prairie.” A committee will be formed to deter-mine district lineups in the spring, with the goal to have them approved at the June 2 MSHSL board meeting. Districts then would begin work on scheduling for the 2015 and 2016 seasons with a Nov. 1, 2014, deadline to have them completed. The high school league will encourage schools in each district to form their own football-only conferences, complete with all-conference or all-district teams. While there was some concern ex-pressed about scenarios in which Class 5A teams would have to play Class 6A powers such as Eden Prairie and Wayza-ta, Lakeville North football coach Brian Vossen wondered if the changes would take away opportunities for the Panthers to play the large-school powers. Lakeville North is one of the smallest schools in Class 6A football, and Vos-sen said he believes it’s possible a district scheduling arrangement would match the Panthers with some Class 5A teams. “I don’t want to play 5A schools,” Vossen said. “Nothing against them; a lot of them have very good programs. I’ve told my athletic director, Russ Reetz, that I want to play the most competitive schedule we can get. “We’ve lost to Eden Prairie in the

(state) playoffs the last two years. To learn to beat a team like that, you have to play teams like that.” Class 6A football has 32 schools. The group consists of most of the state’s larg-est high schools, plus a couple of private schools (Cretin-Derham Hall, Totino-Grace) that opted up. “I think 16 is a perfect number of schools for a district,” Vossen said. “If they split the 32 (Class 6A) schools into two groups of 16, I’d be happy.” MSHSL associate director Kevin Merkle gave the board results of a foot-ball survey that found 18 percent of member schools currently had “chal-lenges” scheduling regular-season foot-ball games, and 41 percent had difficulty with scheduling within the past 10 years. Some of those schools are in outstate Minnesota, which either had to travel long distances to play a game or went with a week unfilled on their schedules. “The arrangement that passed simply passes the very difficult task of arranging new conferences to the athletic directors and principals of the 16-team districts,” Erdmann said. Filling football schedules has not been a problem in the 10-school South Suburban Conference since its formation in 2010. But the league does have some scheduling idiosyncrasies. Because the regular season is limited to eight games, teams can’t play all of the other schools in the conference in the same year. Some teams play conference opponents in all eight of their regular-season games, while others play seven conference games and one non-conference game. Those issues pale in comparison to the benefits the South Suburban Conference provides Rosemount, Erdmann said. “Our current conferences are geo-graphically based and help us out with short drives, reduced transportation ex-penses, and less dangerous routes for par-ents and students during rush hour traf-fic,” Erdmann said. “Kids get back from games at a decent time so they have more time for downtime or to do homework. Schools that end up having to make lon-ger trips for all sports all year will be greatly impacted by this decision.” Rosemount, the easternmost South Suburban Conference school, is about 25 miles from Shakopee, which will be the

SSC’s westernmost school when it joins the conference for the 2014-15 school year. Most of Rosemount’s other road trips within the conference are much shorter and don’t involve getting on a freeway. Erdmann said that appeals to schools such as Rosemount, where trans-portation budgets have been cut to the point where athletes in some sports drive themselves to road games. “If our transportation expenses in-crease we will have to raise funds or raise fees for participating,” Erdmann added. “I am guessing our district isn’t going to say, ‘Oh, now we have to travel to Eden Prairie, Mounds View or Stillwater more often through rush-hour traffic, so we will increase the funding for all of our sports at every level.’ ”

2015 season starts earlier The MSHSL board also approved an earlier start to the 2015 football season, made necessary because the Prep Bowl is expected to take place two weeks earlier than usual. The 2014 and 2015 Prep Bowls will be at TCF Bank Stadium. Because of University of Minnesota games already scheduled, Nov. 13-14 are the only week-end dates in November 2015 that the sta-dium is available to the MSHSL. In 2015, preseason practices will start Aug. 10, one week earlier than usual. Teams will be able to play games begin-ning Saturday, Aug. 22. Games are likely to replace the scrimmages that many teams schedule at the end of the second week of practice. The change means most teams will have played three games before the opening day of school. The change is likely to be for the 2015 season only because the MSHSL is ex-pected to move the Prep Bowl to the new Minnesota Vikings stadium when it opens in 2016.

Four classes for softball The MSHSL board also approved a proposal to expand the state softball tournament from three classes to four beginning in 2016. The tournament is ex-pected to remain at its present location, Caswell Park in North Mankato.

Email Mike Shaughnessy at [email protected].

Eagan/Eastview co-op aims for more ski titles

Final day of SSC meet is Thursday by Mike Shaughnessy


The combined Eagan/Eastview team will try to complete its second consecutive sweep of the South Suburban Confer-ence boys and girls Al-pine skiing championships Thursday afternoon at Buck Hill. After the first day of conference competition held Jan. 23, Eagan/East-view held a 31-point lead over Apple Valley/Rose-mount in the boys stand-ings and led Lakeville North by 32 points in the girls race. To many, skiing is an individual sport, but Ea-gan/Eastview coach Bob Boldus said his skiers place a lot of emphasis on team success. “That’s one of the things that makes high school skiing different from other meets,” Boldus said. “The USSA is great. It sets up a lot of great in-dividual events. But they don’t have the same at-mosphere as a high school meet. “I think our kids enjoy being a team. They like to have a good time together. At the Welch Invitational, they were line dancing to the music that was being played.” And when it’s time to ski, they take it seri-ously. The Eagan/East-view squad has two of the state’s top individual skiers – Tommy Anderson for the boys and Sally An-derson for the girls – and enough depth to do well in team competitions. At the first day of the conference champion-ships last week, Tommy Anderson was first in the boys race while Luke Do-little was fifth, Austin An-derson 11th and Mitchell Cumming 15th. The girls team had four skiers in the top 11 with Sally An-derson first, Claire Hefko

sixth, Ali Hofstad seventh and Erin Burns 11th. Tommy Anderson had the fastest boys time by more than one second, and Sally Anderson was more than two seconds ahead of the second-fast-est girls skier. Eagan/Eastview also has done well against competition from outside the South Suburban. At the Buck Hill Invitational earlier this month, the girls team finished second to Minnetonka by about two-tenths of a second in a meet where the com-bined time of a team’s top six skiers determines the champion. Sally Ander-son and Tommy Ander-son each placed second individually, and Dolittle was ninth in the boys race. Eagan/Eastview also took fourth in the Varsity Cup standings, determined by the combined finish of a school’s boys and girls teams. Tommy Anderson was Squad 1 champion at the Welch Invitational at Welch Village on Jan. 17. In team competitions, skiers often race more conservatively than they would in individual races. “Our kids understand that it’s a team competition, and I place a high priority on people standing,” Bol-dus said. “It’s not good if you ski off the course or have to hike back up the hill because you missed a gate.” Eagan and Eastview will go to section compe-tition next week, but not together. Minnesota State High School League rules require the cooperative team to split up for sec-tion meets. Eastview goes to the Section 6 meet at Buck Hill on Tuesday, Feb. 4, while Eagan goes to the Section 4 meet at Wild Mountain the next day. The state meet is Feb. 12 at Giants Ridge near Biwabik.

Unbeaten Lightning not yet satisfiedGirls basketball team believes it can play better

by Mike ShaughnessySUN THISWEEK


If another team was 17-0, it might become haughty – and its coach might have to take ac-tion to keep the players grounded. That hasn’t been a problem for the undefeat-ed Eastview girls basket-ball team, coach Melissa Guebert said. The players realize that late January is not the time to peak; they have to find ways to im-prove. To that end, they go into every practice and game with a list of things they want to do better, Guebert said. These days, it’s more about being better mentally than me-chanically. The players are good with the fundamen-tals, the coach said. Now, it’s a matter of maintain-ing consistency and keep-ing composure because now every team wants to be the first to knock off the Lightning. That team was not Burnsville, which lost to Eastview 77-38 on Tues-day night as the Lightning improved to 17-0 overall and 9-0 in the South Sub-urban Conference. Eastview is ranked first in Class 4A and is the only undefeated team in the group. “One of the best things about this group of kids is they have high expecta-tions of themselves,” Gue-bert said. “They always think they can play better and they’re accountable to each other. I can talk about ways they can im-prove, but I don’t have to nitpick.”

Guebert said this Tues-day afternoon, a few hours before the Lightning took the court against Burns-ville. One other thing she said: “I have a lot of play-ers who can score.” Almost as if on cue, five Eastview players scored at least 10 points in the Burnsville game. Kari Opatz had 20 points, Madison Guebert scored 13 and Emee Udo, Erika Schlosser and Hana Me-toxen scored 10 each. Burnsville also was the third consecutive op-ponent Eastview kept be-low 50 points. The most points the Lightning has allowed this season is 61 (by Park Center in a 65-61 Eastview victory), and no South Suburban oppo-nent has scored more than 54. Eastview doesn’t have individual “shutdown de-fenders” as much as it has a good team concept, Me-lissa Guebert said. “We’ve played some teams that were more ath-letic,” the coach said. “If somebody on the other team beats her defender, that’s not the fault of one person. That’s the whole team. We have to figure

Eastview guard Madison Guebert is fouled by an Eagan player during the Lightning’s 63-43 victory last Friday. The No. 1-ranked Lightning defeated Burnsville 77-38 on Tuesday to remain undefeated at 17-0. (Photo by Mike Shaughnessy)

Kari Opatz of Eastview guards Eagan’s Sammi Toepfer during a South Suburban Conference girls basketball game Friday night. (Photo by Mike Shaughnessy)See LIGHTNING, 11A


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It took a crew of employees at the Minnesota Zoo in Apple Valley to bring the zoo’s python out for a medical checkup Jan. 28. The snake is 14 feet 3 inches long, weighs 147 pounds and has a maximum girth of 21 inches. (Photo by Rick Orndorf)

I wasn’t completely de-cided on veterinary medi-cine until my junior year in high school. I went into college knowing that was what I wanted to do.” She was introduced to zoo medicine as a speciali-ty by a college advisor who did artificial insemination work with elephants. “I started getting ex-posed to the conservation work and more overarch-ing elements of zoo medi-cine,” Thompson said. “I really became interested in that and developed a pas-sion for the conservation and education compo-nents that go along with that.” Most zoos — includ-ing the Minnesota Zoo — consider it part of their mission to promote preservation of plant and animal species and conser-vation of wild and natural spaces, Thompson said.

“If you get to experi-ence seeing these animals in Minnesota they mean more to you, so that you might make more effort in your personal life — whether it’s by recycling, using less water, using less resources in general, con-tributing to projects, or maybe donating money to help with a specific conser-vation project, whether it’s a specific species or adopt-ing a park,” Thompson said. Most zoo animals are born under human care, she noted. “It’s not like they were plucked out of the wilds and introduced to an envi-ronment that’s very differ-ent,” she said. “That (the zoo) is all they’ve known. And they serve as ambas-sadors for their wild coun-terparts.” Picking a favorite ani-mal is as hard as picking a favorite child, Thompson said.

“I love working with the moose,” she said. “I re-ally like the wolverines as well. They’re feisty, very dynamic little creatures, and you don’t get to see them in a lot of collec-tions. Ours is unique in that we have wolverines.” Moose are “amazing,” Thompson said, graceful and fast-moving despite their bulk. She has worked on a Grand Portage Band of Lake Superior Chip-pewa project to collect data on Minnesota’s dwin-dling moose population. Thompson administered anesthesia to immobi-lized animals so research-ers could draw biological samples from them. “I did it last year,” she said. “I’m eight months pregnant, so I can’t ride in the helicopter this year.” John Gessner can be reached at 952-846-2031 or email [email protected].

DOCTOR, from 1A

Top-ranked Eagle teamscontinuing to dominate

Six wrestlers ranked No. 1 in

Class 3A by Mike Shaughnessy


Apple Valley’s top-ranked wrestling and boys basketball teams are showing no signs of slow-ing down. The wrestling team swept through an invita-tional in Fergus Falls last weekend, winning all three of its team matches and dropping only two individ-ual matches. Apple Valley beat West Fargo (N.D.) 64-3 in the championship match to remain undefeat-ed. The Eagles, ranked second nationally by In-terMat.com and Amateur Wrestling News, wrestle at Eagan at 7 p.m. Thursday and go to a tournament in Anoka on Saturday. Prior Lake, ranked third in Class 3A, will be among the other teams in the Anoka tourney. Apple Valley has a wrestler in the top 10 at all 14 weights in theguil-lotine.com state Class 3A rankings. Ranked No. 1 are Maolu Woiwor (132 pounds), Seth Gross (138), Dayton Racer (152), Mark Hall (170), Bobby Steve-son (182) and Gable Ste-veson (195). Gannon Volk (120), Paul Cheney (220) and Lord Josh Hyeamang (285) are ranked second in their weight classes. The boys basketball team routed Lakeville

South 104-61 to improve to 11-0 in the South Sub-urban Conference. The Eagles, who poured in 60 points in the first half, got 31 from senior guard Tyus Jones. Nine of his 11 field goals were three-pointers. Sophomore center Brock Bertram had 13 points, freshman guard Gary Trent Jr. had 11 and senior forward Dennis Austin scored 10. Apple Valley, 18-1 over-all, won its 13th consecu-tive game. The Eagles have won 48 in a row against Minnesota opponents. Jones is second in the state in points with 527, behind Lakeville North’s J.P. Macura. Jones’ 27.7 average ranks seventh in the state. The Eagles will play host to Bloomington Ken-nedy at 7 p.m. Friday. Kennedy, 10-7 overall and 7-4 in the South Subur-ban, lost to Apple Valley 100-75 on Dec. 20. Apple Valley plays host to Eagan at 7 p.m. Mon-day.

Eagles run on

Power power Senior forward Erica Power averages a goal a game – 23 games, 23 goals – for the Apple Valley girls hockey team. A pace like that is unusual in the competitive South Subur-ban Conference. Only one player in the SSC, Burns-ville’s Lindsey Coleman, is scoring goals at a faster rate than Power. Coleman has 27 goals in 23 games.

Power recently had back-to-back five-goal games against Rosemount (an 11-4 Apple Valley vic-tory) and Eagan (a 5-1 Eagles win). She also has nine assists and is tied for sixth in the conference in scoring with 32 points. The Eagles, 6-8 in the South Suburban and 7-15-1 overall, play Eastview in the first game of a girls-boys doubleheader at 5 p.m. Thursday at Apple Valley Sports Arena. Their final regular-season game is at home against Burns-ville at 2 p.m. Saturday. Pairings for the Sec-tion 3AA playoffs have not yet been released, but if Apple Valley is seeded eighth or ninth it would play a first-round game Monday. It appears more likely the Eagles would be seeded in the top seven, in which case they wouldn’t play until the quarterfinals Wednesday, Feb. 5.

Skiing sections Apple Valley skiers will compete on Tuesday for a chance to go to state com-petition. The Alpine skiers will be part of the Section 6 meet at Buck Hill. Apple Valley will take part in the Section 1 Nordic meet at Valleywood Golf Course. The state Alpine meet is Feb. 12 and the Nor-dic meet is Feb. 13. Both events are at Giants Ridge near Biwabik.


out a way to help. “We’ve been able to make adjustments. We wouldn’t be where we are without a lot of talent and skill, but our kids are also smart players.” Eastview has been able to develop some depth and its bench has been strengthened with the re-turn of senior guard Me-

gan Boehm, who recently was cleared to return after injuring a knee during a game against Hopkins in mid-December. Eastview defeated Ea-gan 63-43 last Friday as Madison Guebert scored 24 points and Opatz and Metoxen added 14 each.The Lightning, which holds a one-game lead over Bloomington Kenne-dy in the South Suburban

standings, plays Lakeville North at home at 7 p.m. Friday. Eastview defeated North 57-38 in Decem-ber after leading by four points at halftime. Eastview takes on Rosemount at home at 7 p.m. Monday.


LIGHTNING, from 10A


County Technical College project allocations remain intact through the legisla-tive process.” Rep. Pat Garofalo, R-Farmington, said he didn’t see the need for the state to borrow another billion dollars since the state has a $1 billion sur-plus. “If these projects are needed, then government should pay cash for them as opposed to increasing the debt,” he said. Garofalo said taxes were raised by over $2 bil-lion last session. “Minnesota govern-ment has plenty of money without having to borrow more to spend,” he said. Included in the Min-

nesota Zoo’s request are Discovery Bay renova-tions, the opening of a new Hawaiian monk seals exhibit, repairs to the Up-per and Lower Plaza, and additional essential re-pairs. Clausen said he met with Dayton and Min-nesota Zoo CEO Lee Ehmke on Dec. 17 to talk about the zoo’s request. He said the Senate Bond-ing Committee will tour the zoo in February. “My hope is that the committee will support the governor’s recommen-dation and allocate the full $12 million,” he said. The technical college in Rosemount request includes renovations to common instructional spaces and multi-use

classrooms for the heavy truck program, heavy construction equipment program, and new emerg-ing technology programs. Clausen said the DCTC project is in line with the governor’s em-phasis on workforce training and is a Minne-sota State Colleges and Universities priority as well. He said a bonding project such as this is an “investment in needed public infrastructure improvements and as-set preservation projects, which will strengthen the Minnesota economy, pro-vide better access to ser-vices and creates jobs.”

Email Tad Johnson at [email protected].

BONDING, from 1A

LEGAL NOTICES

CITY OF APPLE VALLEYSECTION 00 11 13

ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDSSealed Bids will be received by the City of Apple Valley, Minnesota, in the Apple

Valley Municipal Center 7100 147th Street West, until 10:00 a.m., CST, Thursday, February 27, 2014, at which time they will be publicly opened and read aloud for the furnishing of all labor, materials, and all else necessary for the following:

City Project 2014-102, 2014 STREET AND UTILITY RECONSTRUCTION

50 TREE Clear and Grub 1,100 LF Remove Sanitary Sewer 1,150 LF Remove Water Main 10,500 LF Remove Curb and Gutter 37,500 SY Remove Bit Pavement 1,100 LF PVC Sanitary Sewer 1,150 LF Water Main 27,000 CY Common Excavation 28,000 TN Select Granular Borrow 19,000 TN Cl 5 Aggregate Base 13,000 TN Bituminous Mixture 10,500 LF Concrete Curb and Gutter 18,500 LF Striping 6,500 SY Sod 50 EA 2” Diameter Tree With related itemsBidders desiring Bidding Documents may purchase them for a non-refundable

fee of $20 by visiting www.cityofapplevalley.org or www.questcdn.com. Contact Jean Bryant at (952) 953-2400 for questions about ordering. The Bidding Docu-ments may be viewed at the office of the City Engineer, 7100 147th Street West, Apple Valley, MN.

Direct inquiries to Engineer’s Project Manager Colin Manson at (952) 953-2425.Bid Security in the amount of 5 percent of the amount of the Bid must accom-

pany each Bid in accordance with the Instructions to Bidders.The Owner reserves the right to retain the deposits of the 3 lowest Bidders for a

period not to exceed 60 days after the date and time set for the Opening of Bids. No Bids may be withdrawn for a period of 60 days after the date and time set for the Opening of Bids.

The Owner reserves the right to reject any and all Bids, to waive irregularities and informalities therein, and further reserves the right to award the Contract to the best interests of the Owner.

Pamela J. Gackstetter, City Clerk City of Apple Valley, Minnesota

Published in Apple Valley January 31, 2014, 167492

CITY OF APPLE VALLEYSECTION 00 11 13

ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDSSealed Bids will be received by the City of Apple Valley, Minnesota, in the Apple

Valley Municipal Center 7100 147th Street West, until 10:00 a.m., CST, Thursday, February 20, 2014, at which time they will be publicly opened and read aloud for the furnishing of all labor, materials, and all else necessary for the following:

City Project 2014-101, 2014 STREET IMPROVEMENTS

40,000 SY Mill Bituminous Surface 10,500 LF Remove Curb and Gutter 41,000 SY Remove Bituminous Pavement 21,000 CY Common Excavation 25,000 TN Select Granular Borrow 17,000 TN Cl 5 Aggregate Base 14,000 TN Bituminous Mixture 10,500 LF Concrete Curb and Gutter 2,500 SY Sod 20,000 LF Striping With related itemsBidders desiring Bidding Documents may purchase them for a non-refundable

fee of $20 by visiting www.cityofapplevalley.org or www.questcdn.com. Contact

Jean Bryant at (952) 953-2400 for questions about ordering. The Bidding Docu-ments may be viewed at the office of the City Engineer, 7100 147th Street West, Apple Valley, MN.

Direct inquiries to Engineer’s Project Manager Dave Bennett at (952) 953-2490.Bid Security in the amount of 5 percent of the amount of the Bid must accom-

pany each Bid in accordance with the Instructions to Bidders.The Owner reserves the right to retain the deposits of the 3 lowest Bidders for a

period not to exceed 60 days after the date and time set for the Opening of Bids. No Bids may be withdrawn for a period of 60 days after the date and time set for the Opening of Bids.

The Owner reserves the right to reject any and all Bids, to waive irregularities and informalities therein, and further reserves the right to award the Contract to the best interests of the Owner.

Pamela J. Gackstetter, City Clerk City of Apple Valley, Minnesota

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NOTICE OF MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE SALE

THE RIGHT TO VERIFICATION OF THE DEBT AND IDENTITY OF THE ORIGINAL CREDITOR WITHIN THE TIME PROVIDED BY LAW IS NOT AFFECTED BY THIS ACTION.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that default has occurred in conditions of the following described mort-gage:

DATE OF MORTGAGE: May 24, 2007MORTGAGOR: Christine A.

Herrmann, a single person.MORTGAGEE: Mortgage Electronic Registra-

tion Systems, Inc..DATE AND PLACE OF RECORD-

ING: Filed June 6, 2007, Dakota County Registrar of Titles, Docu-ment No. 612050, as corrected by Corrective Mortgage recorded No-vember 14, 2013 as document no. T725151 on Certificate of Title No. 111704.

ASSIGNMENTS OF MORT-GAGE: Assigned to: M&T Bank. Dated June 7, 2013 Filed June 20, 2013 , as Document No. T718114.

Said Mortgage being upon Reg-istered Land.

TRANSACTION AGENT: Mortgage Electronic Registra-

tion Systems, Inc.TRANSACTION AGENT’S

MORTGAGE IDENTIFICATION NUMBER ON MORTGAGE:

100196800031001998LENDER OR BROKER AND

MORTGAGE ORIGINATOR STATED ON MORTGAGE: Home Loan Cen-ter, Inc., dba LendingTree Loans

RESIDENTIAL MORTGAGE SERVICER:

Bayview Loan Servicing, LLCMORTGAGED PROPERTY AD-

DRESS: 14620 Garrett Avenue #310, Apple Valley, MN 55124

TAX PARCEL I.D. #: 01.81401.01.138LEGAL DESCRIPTION OF

PROPERTY:Residential Unit Number 310

and Garage Unit Number 53 in Condominium No. 36 Garrett Square Condominium Homes

COUNTY IN WHICH PROPERTY IS LOCATED: Dakota

ORIGINAL PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF MORTGAGE: $97,000.00

AMOUNT DUE AND CLAIMED TO BE DUE AS OF DATE OF NO-TICE, INCLUDING TAXES, IF ANY, PAID BY MORTGAGEE:

$96,169.84That prior to the commence-

ment of this mortgage foreclosure proceeding Mortgagee/Assignee of Mortgagee complied with all notice requirements as required by stat-ute; That no action or proceeding has been instituted at law or other-wise to recover the debt secured by

said mortgage, or any part thereof;PURSUANT to the power of sale

contained in said mortgage, the above described property will be sold by the Sheriff of said county as follows:

DATE AND TIME OF SALE: March 18, 2014 at 10:00 AMPLACE OF SALE: Sheriff’s Of-

fice, Law Enforcement Center, 1580 Hwy 55, Lobby #S-100, Hastings, MN

to pay the debt then secured by said Mortgage, and taxes, if any, on said premises, and the costs and disbursements, including at-torneys’ fees allowed by law sub-ject to redemption within six (6) months from the date of said sale by the mortgagor(s), their personal representatives or assigns unless reduced to Five (5) weeks under MN Stat. §580.07.

TIME AND DATE TO VACATE PROPERTY: If the real estate is an owner-occupied, single-family dwelling, unless otherwise pro-vided by law, the date on or before which the mortgagor(s) must va-cate the property if the mortgage is not reinstated under section 580.30 or the property is not redeemed under section 580.23 is 11:59 p.m. on September 18, 2014 unless that date falls on a weekend or legal holiday, in which case it is the next weekday, and unless the redemp-tion period is reduced to 5 weeks under MN Stat. Secs. 580.07 or 582.032.

MORTGAGOR(S) RELEASED FROM FINANCIAL OBLIGATION ON MORTGAGE: None

“THE TIME ALLOWED BY LAW FOR REDEMPTION BY THE MORTGAGOR, THE MORTGAG-OR’S PERSONAL REPRESEN-TATIVES OR ASSIGNS, MAY BE REDUCED TO FIVE WEEKS IF A JUDICIAL ORDER IS ENTERED UNDER MINNESOTA STATUTES, SECTION 582.032, DETERMIN-ING, AMONG OTHER THINGS, THAT THE MORTGAGED PREM-ISES ARE IMPROVED WITH A RESIDENTIAL DWELLING OF LESS THAN FIVE UNITS, ARE NOT PROPERTY USED IN AGRICUL-TURAL PRODUCTION, AND ARE ABANDONED.”Dated: January 13, 2014M&T BankMortgagee/Assignee of MortgageeUSSET, WEINGARDEN AND LIEBO, P.L.L.P.Attorneys for Mortgagee/Assigneeof Mortgagee4500 Park Glen Road #300Minneapolis, MN 55416(952) 925-688837 - 13-008787 FCTHIS IS A COMMUNICATIONFROM A DEBT COLLECTOR.

Published in theApple Valley

January 24, 31, February 7, 14, 21, 28, 2014

166464

MINNESOTA SECRETARY OF STATE CERTIFICATE

OF ASSUMED NAMEMinnesota Statutes, 333

The filing of an assumed name does not provide a user with exclu-sive rights to that name. The filing is required for consumer protection in order to enable customers to be able to identify the true owner of a business.

ASSUMED NAME: Big Fat PretzelPRINCIPAL PLACEOF BUSINESS: 7515 140th Street WestApple Valley, MN. 55124NAMEHOLDER(S): Anthony L. Calistro7515 140th Street WestApple Valley, MN. 55124I, the undersigned, certify that

I am signing this document as the person whose signature is required, or as agent of the person(s) whose signature would be required who has authorized me to sign this document on his/her behalf, or in both capacities. I further certify that I have completed all required fields, and that the information in this document is true and correct and in compliance with the appli-cable chapter of Minnesota Stat-utes. I understand that by signing this document I am subject to the penalties of perjury as set forth in Section 609.48 as if I had signed this document under oath.

DATE FILED: January 2, 2014SIGNED BY: Scott Saari

Published in Apple Valley

January 31, February 7, 2014166540

CITY OF APPLE VALLEYORDINANCE NO. 960

AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OFAPPLE VALLEY, MINNESOTA, AMEND-ING TITLE XIII, ENTITLED “GENERAL OF-FENSES,” OF THE CITY CODE BY REVIS-ING CHAPTER 130 REGULATING FALSEALARMS AND ALARM SYSTEMS

The following is the official summary ofOrdinance No. 960 approved by the CityCouncil of Apple Valley on January 23, 2014:

Sections 130.40 through 130.45, whichregulate automatic alarms and proscribesa false alarm fee, is amended by delet-ing definitions of terms not used, revisingdefinitions for current technologies, andrevising regulations for purposes of clarifi-cation of terms and requirements.

A printed copy of the ordinance is avail-able for inspection by any person duringregular office hours at the office of the CityClerk at the Apple Valley Municipal Center,7100 147th Street W., Apple Valley, Min-nesota 55124.


January 31, 2014168938

CITY OF APPLE VALLEY MINNESOTA

ORDINANCE NO. 959AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THE

ZONING MAP BY REZONING CERTAIN LAND IN THE CITY OF APPLE VALLEY,DAKOTA COUNTY, MINNESOTA

WHEREAS, the Planning Commissionof the City of Apple Valley held a publichearing on an application for rezoning ofcertain real property, as described herein, on September 18, 2013, as required by City Code Section 155.400 (D); and

WHEREAS, on November 6, 2013, thePlanning Commission recommended therezoning as hereinafter described.

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED by the City Council of the City of AppleValley, Dakota County, Minnesota, related to property located at 12842, 12866, and 12896 Galaxie Avenue (identified by pre-liminary plat as Hunter Forrest), that:

1. The boundaries of the zoning districts established by City Code § 155.006 arehereby amended by rezoning the follow-ing described property from “R-l” (Singlefamily residential, 40,000 sq. ft. min. lot) to “R-3” (Single family residential, 11,000sq. ft. min. lot):

All that part of the West Half of theSouthwest Quarter of the Southeast Quar-ter of Section 15, Township 115, Range 20lying south of south line of DAHLE OAKSand north of the north line of BRONERWOODS, according to the recorded platsthereof, Dakota County, Minnesota.

2. This ordinance shall become effective upon its passage and publication.

PASSED by the City Council this 23rdday of January, 2014.

ATTEST: Pamela J. GacKsteker, City ClerkBy: /s/ Mary Hamann-RolandMayor


January 31, 2014168934

CITY OF APPLE VALLEYNOTICE OF PUBLIC

HEARING ON-SALE WINE & 3.2 PERCENT MALT LIQUOR

LICENSES APPLICATIONNOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the

City Council of the City of Apple Valley,Dakota County, Minnesota, will meet atthe Municipal Center, 7100 147th Street W., on Thursday, February 27,2014, at7:00 p.m., or as soon thereafter as pos-sible. The purpose of the meeting will be to hold a public hearing on the applicationof Super World Buffet, Inc., d/b/a Super World Buffet, for ON-SALE WINE and 3.2 PERCENT MALT LIQUOR LICENSES pur-suant to City Code Section 111.22.

The business, which will be operated in conjunction with the proposed licenses, isa restaurant located at 15050 Cedar Av-enue, Ste. 111.

The owner and officer of the corporation is: Xiao Yue Cheng, President

All interested parties will be given an opportunity to be heard at said time and place.

DATED this 23rd day of January, 2014.BY ORDER OF THE CITY COUNCILBy: /s/ Pamela J. Gackstetter Apple Valley City Clerk


January 31, 2014168940

INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT #196 CALL FOR BIDS

ECFE/ECSE/ABE BUILDING Notice is hereby given that Inde-

pendent School District 196, will re-ceive multiple prime sealed bids for the ECFE/ECSE/ABE Building proj-ect, at the District Office located at 3455 153rd Street W Rosemount, MN 55068 until 2:30 pm on Tues-day, February 4th, 2014 at which time they will be opened and read aloud.

A pre-bid conference will be held in the Dakota Conference Room at the District Office, 3455 153rd Street W Rosemount, MN 55068 – at 1 pm, on Tuesday, Janu-ary 21, 2014.

Complete instructions on how to obtain Bidding Documents can be found at: http://www.district196.org/District/LegalNotices/index.cfm

A Bid Bond, Certified Check or Cashier’s Check in the amount of 5% of the base bid price, made payable to Independent School District 196, must be submitted with the bid as bid security. No personal checks will be accepted.

The Board of Education of In-dependent School District 196 re-serves the right to reject any or all bids and to waive any informality in bidding.Gary Huusko, Board ClerkIndependent School District 196

Published in theApple Valley,

Lakeville, Burnsville/EaganJanuary 17, 24, 31, 2014

163443

CITY OF APPLE VALLEYNOTICE OF PUBLIC

HEARING PROPOSED CONDITIONAL USE PERMIT

IN THE CITY OF APPLE VALLEY

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Planning Commission of the City ofApple Valley, Dakota County, Minnesota,will meet at the Municipal Center, 7100 147th Street West, on Wednesday, Feb-ruary 19, 2014, at 7:00 p.m., or as soon thereafter as possible. The purpose of themeeting is to hold a public hearing on a proposed conditional use permit for a 40’ x 50’ (2,000 sq. ft.) fenced outdoor stor-age in a “P” (Institutional) zoning district.Said hearing relates to property locatedat 14445 Diamond Path and legally de-scribed as follows:

The South 1/2 of the Northeast 1/4 ofSection 25, Township 115, Range 20,Dakota County, Minnesota, except Roll-ing Ridge and except Rosemount SchoolDistrict Addition.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN thatthese proceedings are instituted by thepetitioner, Bossardt Corporation, and theproperty owner, Independent School Dis-trict No. 196. All interested parties will begiven an opportunity to be heard at saidtime and place.

DATED this 24th day of January, 2014./s/ Pamela J. Gackstetter, City Clerk


January 31, 2014169134

NOTICE OF MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE SALE

THE RIGHT TO VERIFICATION OF THE DEBT AND IDENTITY OF THE ORIGINAL CREDITOR WITHIN THE TIME PROVIDED BY LAW IS NOT AFFECTED BY THIS ACTION.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that default has occurred in conditions of the following described mort-gage:

DATE OF MORTGAGE: August 9, 2007MORTGAGOR: Phillip A. Klang

and Elizabeth C. Klang, husband and wife.

MORTGAGEE: Mortgage Elec-tronic Registration Systems, Inc as Nominee for Summit Mortgage Corporation.

DATE AND PLACE OF RE-CORDING: Recorded August 28, 2007 Dakota County Recorder, Document No. 2540644.

ASSIGNMENTS OF MORT-GAGE: Assigned to: U.S. Bank National Association. Dated July 19, 2013 Recorded July 26, 2013, as Document No. 2965860.

TRANSACTION AGENT: Mortgage Electronic Registra-

tion Systems, Inc.TRANSACTION AGENT’S

MORTGAGE IDENTIFICATION

NUMBER ON MORTGAGE: 100061907000032151LENDER OR BROKER AND

MORTGAGE ORIGINATOR STATED ON MORTGAGE:

Summit Mortgage CorporationRESIDENTIAL MORTGAGE

SERVICER: U.S. Bank Home Mort-gage, a division of U.S. Bank Na-tional Association

MORTGAGED PROPERTY AD-DRESS: 15970 Heath Court, Apple Valley, MN 55124

TAX PARCEL I.D. #: 014580108140LEGAL DESCRIPTION OF

PROPERTY: Lot 14, Block 8, Lon-gridge Second Addition, according to the recorded plat thereof, Dakota County, Minnesota

COUNTY IN WHICH PROPERTY IS LOCATED: Dakota

ORIGINAL PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF MORTGAGE: $222,000.00

AMOUNT DUE AND CLAIMED TO BE DUE AS OF DATE OF NO-TICE, INCLUDING TAXES, IF ANY, PAID BY MORTGAGEE:

$234,705.54That prior to the commence-

ment of this mortgage foreclosure proceeding Mortgagee/Assignee of Mortgagee complied with all notice requirements as required by stat-ute; That no action or proceeding has been instituted at law or other-wise to recover the debt secured by said mortgage, or any part thereof;

PURSUANT to the power of sale contained in said mortgage, the above described property will be sold by the Sheriff of said county as follows:

DATE AND TIME OF SALE: March 13, 2014 at 10:00 AMPLACE OF SALE: Sheriff’s Of-

fice, Law Enforcement Center, 1580 Hwy 55, Lobby #S-100, Hastings, MN

to pay the debt then secured by said Mortgage, and taxes, if any, on said premises, and the costs and disbursements, including at-torneys’ fees allowed by law sub-ject to redemption within six (6) months from the date of said sale by the mortgagor(s), their personal representatives or assigns unless reduced to Five (5) weeks under MN Stat. §580.07.

TIME AND DATE TO VACATE PROPERTY: If the real estate is an owner-occupied, single-family dwelling, unless otherwise pro-vided by law, the date on or before which the mortgagor(s) must va-cate the property if the mortgage is not reinstated under section 580.30 or the property is not redeemed under section 580.23 is 11:59 p.m. on September 15, 2014, unless that date falls on a weekend or legal holiday, in which case it is the next weekday, and unless the redemp-tion period is reduced to 5 weeks under MN Stat. Secs. 580.07 or 582.032.

MORTGAGOR(S) RELEASED FROM FINANCIAL OBLIGATION ON MORTGAGE:None

“THE TIME ALLOWED BY LAW FOR REDEMPTION BY THE MORTGAGOR, THE MORTGAG-OR’S PERSONAL REPRESEN-TATIVES OR ASSIGNS, MAY BE REDUCED TO FIVE WEEKS IF A JUDICIAL ORDER IS ENTERED UNDER MINNESOTA STATUTES, SECTION 582.032, DETERMIN-ING, AMONG OTHER THINGS, THAT THE MORTGAGED PREM-ISES ARE IMPROVED WITH A RESIDENTIAL DWELLING OF LESS THAN FIVE UNITS, ARE NOT PROPERTY USED IN AGRICUL-TURAL PRODUCTION, AND ARE ABANDONED.”Dated: January 2, 2014U.S. Bank National AssociationMortgagee/Assignee of MortgageeUSSET, WEINGARDEN AND LIEBO, P.L.L.P.Attorneys for Mortgagee/Assigneeof Mortgagee4500 Park Glen Road #300Minneapolis, MN 55416(952) 925-688819 - 13-001222 FCTHIS IS A COMMUNICATIONFROM A DEBT COLLECTOR.

Published in theApple Valley

January 24, 31, February 7, 14, 21, 28, 2014

166488

Minnesota Zoo of-ficials will be back

at the State Capitol again this legis-lative session to

lobby for approval of funds requested through the bond-

ing bill. Sen. Carrie Ruud, R-Breezy

Point, (above) looked at a slow

loris during a 2013 capitol visit by the zoo’s Kevin Weir.

(Sun Thisweek file photo)

Ramon Pastrano, CEO and president of St. Louis Park-based Impact Lives, met with organizers of the One Rosemount Feeding Families effort on Thursday, Jan. 16, to thank them for raising the $50,000-plus necessary to deliver 286,120 meals to Haitian refugees living in the Dominican Republic. From left are Rosemount Middle School Principal Mary Thompson, Pastrano, the Rev. Bill Goodwin, Mayor Bill Droste, and Tom Meaden. Goodwin and Meaden were co-leaders of the event. The packing event was March 2, 2013, at the middle school and Rosemount Elementary School. (Photo by Tad Johnson)

One Rosemount reaches goal

Diabetes program offered in Burnsville Prince of Peace Lutheran Church in Burnsville is partnering with the YMCA to offer a diabetes prevention program for people who are at risk for developing Type 2 diabetes. The program will begin at 6 p.m. Monday, Feb. 24, at Prince of Peace Christian Life Center, 13901 Fairview Drive, Burnsville, 952-435-8102, www.

popmn.org. The year-long support program helps participants learn simple lifestyle chang-es to reduce their risk for pre-diabetes. A diabetes risk assessment can be found at www.ydpp.org. For more information or to register, call 612-465-0489 or email [email protected].


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JOHNSON/TAYLOR-ALONSO

Eileen and Gary John-son, and Petra Meliet Alonso are pleased to an-nounce the engagement of their children Phyllip Chase Johnson and Susan Marie Taylor-Alonso.

Phyllip graduated from Apple Valley High School and St. Olaf College. He is a doctoral candidate of Audiology at the Univer-sity of Minnesota. Phyllip currently works as an Ad-ministrative Assistant in the International Business Development Depart-ment of Starkey Hear-ing Technologies. Susan graduated from Denton High School, Linden-wood University, and re-ceived her Master’s degree in Bilingual/Multicultural Special-Education from the University of Ari-zona. She currently is the Middle School Learning Support Coordinator at The American School In Switzerland in Lugano, Switzerland. A July 2014 wedding is planned.

Nelson/MadayAmanda Kay Nelson,

daughter of Mark Nelson and Diana Neameyer and Richard Daniel Maday, son of Robert and Jodi Maday are planning a July wedding.

Both are graduates of Lakeville North and now reside in New Hope. Richard is a product mar-keting manager at Pentair and Amanda is the owner of her own interior design company, Studio Grey.

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Apple Valley seniors The Apple Valley Senior Center, 14601 Hayes Road, is home to the following activities which are organized and run by the Apple Valley Seniors and Apple Valley Parks and Recreation. The facility is open Monday-Friday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. For information, call 952-953-2345 or go to www.cityofapplevalley.org. Monday, Feb. 3 – Blood Pressure Checks, 9:30 a.m.; General meeting, 10 a.m.; SR Meeting, 11 a.m.; Bridge, 12:45 p.m.; Pool, 1 p.m.; Happy Stitchers, 1 p.m.; Fi-nance Committee, 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 4 – Quilting Bees, 9 a.m.; Zumba Gold, 9:15 a.m.; Tuesday Painters, 9:30 a.m.; Pinoch-le, 12:30 p.m.; Spanish, 1 p.m.; Hand & Foot Cards, 1 p.m.; Table Tennis, 1 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 5 – Donated Bread, 9 a.m.; Yoga, 9:45 a.m.; Morning Stretch, 10 a.m.; Velvet Tones, 10 a.m.; First Edition Book Club, 1 p.m.; Gather Around Music, 1 p.m.; Dominoes, 1 p.m.; Mahjong, 1 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 6 – Beg. Line Dancing, 9:15 a.m.; Computer 101, 9:30 a.m.; Int. Line Dancing, 10 a.m.; Duplicate Bridge, 12:30 p.m.; Tap Dancing; 12:30 p.m.; Pool, 1 p.m.; 500, 1 p.m.; Hardanger, 1 p.m.; Recreated Cards, 1 p.m. Friday, Feb. 7 – Men’s Breakfast, 8:30 a.m.; Defen-sive Driving, 9 a.m.; Morning Stretch, 10 a.m., Wom-en’s Pool, 11 a.m.; Members Bingo, 12:30 p.m.; Water-color Class, 1 p.m.

Church Basement Ladies The Apple Valley Senior Center is offering a trip to see the The Church Basement Ladies in “The Last (Pot-luck) Supper” production at the Plymouth Playhouse on Wednesday, March 26. Cost is $38 and includes round trip transportation and admission. Register by March 4 in person at the Apple Valley Senior Center, 14601 Hayes Road, or by calling 952-953-2345. The bus will depart at 11:15 a.m. and return at 4 p.m. Lunch is not included. Eat prior to arriving or bring a snack for the bus ride.

Chocolate & Hearts Chocolate & Hearts: How Sweet it Is, a Valentine’s Day celebration sponsored by the Apple Valley and Burnsville parks and recreation departments, will be 3-5 p.m. Friday, Feb. 14, at the Apple Valley Senior Center, 14601 Hayes Road. The event will be filled with music, magic, entertain-ment, dancing, hors d’oeuvres and chocolate. Bob the Beachcomber will provide entertainment. Other activi-ties planned include a roaming magician, a photogra-pher, door prizes and more. This event is for adults age 55 and older. The cost is $12 per person. Register by calling 952-953-2345 or register in person at the Apple Valley Senior Center.

Rosemount seniors The Rosemount Area Seniors “Do Drop Inn” is open to senior citizens 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday-Fri-day. The room is located in the Rosemount Community Center and allows seniors a place to stop by and social-ize during the week.

Religion

Valentine Cabaret Spirit of Life Presbyterian Church will hold its annual Valen-tine Cabaret from 6-9 p.m. Satur-day, Feb. 15. Entertainment will be provided by members and friends of the church, including choir mem-

bers, and a full dinner will be served. The church is located at 14401 Pilot Knob Road in Apple Valley. The event is a fundraiser for the church’s youth group mission trip. Tickets are $12 for adults and chil-dren age 6 and older, and $10 for children age 5 and younger. A silent

auction also will be held. Doors will open at 5:30 p.m. for early viewing of auction items. The youth group also will sell flowers. For more information, visit spiri-toflife.org. Tickets will be available at the door or in advance by calling the church at 952-423-2212.


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ARIES - Mar 21/Apr 20Aries, you are inspired to take on the world, but you maywant to focus on smaller goals this week. Finishing a long-lin-gering work project is a viable option.

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Friday, Jan. 31 Family Fun Night, 5:30-8 p.m., Church of St. Joseph and School, 13900 Biscayne Ave. W., Rosemount. Theme: Under the Big Top. Carnival games, prizes, music, raffles, silent auction and more. Pasta dinner served until 7 p.m. Con-cessions available. Free admis-sion. Dinner tickets at the door: $6 children, $9 adult, $30 family maximum. Information: www.stjosephcommunity.org or 651-423-1658.

Saturday, Feb. 1 Winter Farmers Market, 9 a.m. to noon, Eagan Com-munity Center, 1501 Central Parkway, Eagan. Items for sale include locally produced food items such as honey, jams, sauces, sweet treats, artisan bakery items, strudel, root veg-etables and more. Youth Ice Fishing Con-test, noon to 2 p.m., Valley Lake Park, 16050 Garrett Path. Prizes will be awarded to youth ages 13 and under for different fish categories. Participants need to bring their own fishing equipment and bait. Register the day of the contest. Free. Sponsored by Lakeville Knights of Columbus. Mid-Winter Fest “All Com-ers” Pinewood Derby, noon to 3 p.m., Apple Valley Commu-nity Center, 14603 Hayes Road. Open to all. Sponsored by the Boy Scouts of America. Infor-mation: http://chiefblackdog.nsbsa.org, click on Mid-Winter Fest Pinewood Derby. Bingo fundraiser for the Farmington High School boys lacrosse team, 2-4 p.m., host-ed by the Farmington Eagles

at Celts in Farmington. Meat board raffles will be sold for $1.

Thursday, Feb. 6 AARP Tax Aide, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Burnhaven Library, 1101 W. County Road 42, Burnsville. Tax preparation help for low-income seniors, adults and families. Registration re-quired at 952-891-0300. Legal Resources, 6-8 p.m., Galaxie Library, 14955 Galaxie Ave., Apple Valley, 952-981-7045. Learn how to find infor-mation on various legal issues. Information/registration: www.co.dakota.mn.us/libraries.

Friday, Feb. 7 Forever Wild Family Fri-day: Sledding Party, 7-8:30 p.m., Lebanon Hills Regional Park, 860 Cliff Road, Eagan. Bring your sled for a fun party on the lit sledding hill. All ages. Free. Registration requested at www.co.dakota.mn.us/parks.

Saturday, Feb. 8 How To Make 2014 Your Best Year Ever, women’s well-ness seminar, 9-11 a.m., Lake-ville Chart House, 11287 Klam-ath Trail, Lakeville. Free, but a $10 tax-deductible donation to the 360 Communities’ Lewis House will be taken at the door; receipts given. Information: www.lakevillefitwomen.com. Co-Parenting Following Divorce, 9-11 a.m., InnerLight Healing Center, 17305 Cedar Ave. S., Lakeville. Cost: $39. Registration/information: coun-selingandhealing.com, 952-435-4144. Volunteer Income Tax As-sistance (VITA), 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Galaxie Library, 14955 Galaxie Ave., Apple Valley, 952-981-7045. For those who are age 65 or older, disabled, speak limited English, or whose an-

nual household income is less than $52,000. Free income tax preparation assistance. Bring tax-deductible expenses (in-cluding property tax or rental payment records), photo ID, family Social Security cards and a copy of last year’s tax re-turn. No appointments taken.

Ongoing Feed My Starving Children South Metro Mobilepack, Feb. 3-8, various shifts available, Shepherd of the Lake Lutheran Church, 3611 North Berens Road N.W., Prior Lake. Volun-teers are needed to help pack 3 million meals to be distributed to children across the world. To register or donate: www.fund-raising.fmsc.org/southmetro. For questions, contact Heather Hecht at [email protected].

Blood drives The American Red Cross will hold the following blood drives. Call 1-800-RED CROSS (1-800-733-2767) or visit red-crossblood.org to make an ap-pointment or for more informa-tion. • Jan. 31, 1-6 p.m., Advent United Methodist Church, 3945 Lexington Ave. S., Eagan. • Feb. 3, 1-7 p.m., Berean Baptist Church, 309 E. County Road 42, Burnsville. • Feb. 3, 12:30-6:30 p.m., Mount Calvary Lutheran Church, 3930 Rahn Road, Ea-gan. • Feb. 4, 12:30-6:30 p.m., Shepherd of the Valley Luther-an Church, 12650 Johnny Cake Ridge Road, Apple Valley. • Feb. 6, 1-6 p.m., Mt. Oliv-et Assembly of God Church, 14201 Cedar Ave. S., Apple Valley. • Feb. 8, 10:15 a.m. to 4:15 p.m., Burnhaven Library, 1101 W. County Road 42, Burnsville.

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Books Lori Campbell, 10-11 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 1, Dakota Lodge, Thompson County Park, 360 Butler Ave. E., West St. Paul, 952-891-7000. Meet Lori Campbell, an expert in wellness and aging and author of “Awaken Your Age Poten-tial: Exploring Chosen Paths of Thrivers,” and learn how to master the art of aging. Spon-sored in part with TriDistrict Community Education. Regis-tration required: Call 651-403-8313 or visit www.celearn4ever.org. Master storyteller Noth-ando Zulu, 7-7:45 p.m. Mon-day, Feb. 3, Burnhaven Library, 1101 W. County Road 42, Burnsville, 952-891-0300. Zulu will recreate colorful characters from African and African-Amer-ican folktales. Free.

Exhibits Best of Bonnie Feather-stone & Friends exhibit will be on display through Feb. 1 in the art gallery at Burnsville Performing Arts Center, 12600 Nicollet Ave. Information: 952-895-4685, facebook.com/bon-nieandfriends. Winter Art Experience, an exhibit sponsored by the Ea-gan Art Festival and Eagan Art House, is on display through February at the Eagan Byerly’s, 1299 Promenade Place. Infor-mation: 651-675-5521.

Music Patty Peterson with Family & Friends, 6-9 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 1, Valleywood Golf Course clubhouse, 4851 McAndrews Road, Apple Valley. Part of the Frozen Apple concert series by the Apple Valley Arts Founda-tion. Free. Information: avarts-foundation.org. Saturday Musical Matinee with MacPhail Center for Mu-sic cellist Jacqueline Ultan and flutist Julie Johnson, 1 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 8, Apple Valley Villa, 14610 Garrett Ave., Apple Valley. Features music through the centuries from around the world. Refreshments follow. Free. RSVP at 952-236-2600. Sponsored by Augustana Care and MacPhail Center for Music. Rockie Lynne “Radio Road” CD release event Sat-urday, Feb. 8, at Bogart’s Place, 14917 Garrett Ave., Apple Val-ley. Pre-show dinner at 6 p.m. with main show at 9 p.m. Din-ner and main show, $40, http://shop.rockielynnemusicgroup.com. Tickets for the 9 p.m. per-

formance are $15 at the door. Information: www.rockielynne.com.

Theater Auditions for “The Dixie Swim Club” by Expressions Community Theater, 6-8 p.m. Feb. 3-4, at the Lakeville Area Arts Center, 20965 Holyoke Ave. Roles for five women who will be portrayed at ages 44, 49, 54 and 77. Must be able to speak with a Southern accent. Performances will be April 4-6, 11-13. Call backs, if needed, will be 6 p.m. Feb. 6. Informa-tion: 952-985-4640. “Snow White & the 7 or 8 Dwarfs,” presented by Lake-ville Area Community Educa-tion and Giant Step Children’s Theatre, Jan. 31-Feb. 1, Feb. 7-8, Feb. 14-15 and Feb. 17, Lakeville North High School, 19600 Ipava Ave. Tickets: $6 in advance at 952-232-2150 (www.lakevilleareacommuni-tyed.net) or $8 at the door. “Ole & Lena’s 50th Wed-ding Anniversary and Vow Renewal,” 2 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 16, at the Burnsville Performing Arts Center, 12600 Nicollet Ave. Tickets: $20 at 952-895-4680 or Ticketmaster.com.

Workshops/classes/other Allegro Choral Academy is accepting registrations for its second semester for grades 2-8. Registrations accepted until classes are full. Campuses in Lakeville and Rosemount. Information: allegroca.org, [email protected] or 952-846-8585. Valentine Cards in Water-color, ages 14 and older, 6:30-9 p.m. Friday, Jan. 31, Eagan Art House, 3981 Lexington Ave. S. Cost: $34. Supplies provid-ed. Registration/information: 651-675-5521. Drawing from the Imagi-nation, ages 11 and older, 6-8 p.m. Wednesdays, Feb. 5-19, Eagan Art House, 3981 Lexing-ton Ave. S. Cost: $62. Supplies provided. Registration/informa-tion: 651-675-5521. Family Saturday Sampler - Painting, 1-3 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 22, Eagan Art House, 3981 Lexington Ave. S. For families with children ages 6 and above. Cost: $20 per family up to four people, $3 each additional per-son. Supplies provided. Reg-istration/information: 651-675-5521. Teen Poetry Jam/Rap Bat-tle, 4-5 p.m. the first Tuesday of each month at Apple Valley Teen Center, 14255 Johnny Cake Ridge Road, Apple Valley, 952-953-2385. Ages 12-18. Adult painting open stu-

dio, 9 a.m. to noon Fridays at the Eagan Art House, 3981 Lexington Ave. S. Fee is $5 per session. Information: 651-675-5521. Drawing & Painting (adults and teens) with Christine Tier-ney, 9 a.m. to noon Wednes-days, River Ridge Arts Building, Burnsville. Information: www.christinetierney.com, 612-210-3377. Teens Express Yourself with Paint, 5-7 p.m. Mondays at Brushworks School of Art in Burnsville, www.BrushworksS-choolofArt.com, 651-214-4732. Act-Sing-Dance winter session enrollment open for ages 7-17. Burnsville location. Information: 952-220-1676, Drama Interaction. Homeschool Theatre Pro-gram, winter session open enrollment, Wednesdays, ages 7-17. In the Company of Kids, 13710 Nicollet Ave., Burnsville, 952-736-3644. Show Biz Kids Theater Class for children with special needs (ASD/DCD programs), In the Company of Kids, 13710 Nicollet Ave., Burnsville, 952-736-3644. Broadway Kids Dance and Theater Program for all ages and abilities, In the Company of Kids, 13710 Nicollet Ave., Burnsville, 952-736-3644. Join other 55-plus adults at the Eagan Art House to create beaded jewelry. The Jewelry Club meets on the third Friday of each month from 1-3 p.m. Information: 651-675-5500. Soy candle making class-es held weekly in Eagan near 55 and Yankee Doodle. Call Ja-mie at 651-315-4849 for dates and times. $10 per person. Presented by Making Scents in Minnesota. Country line dance class-es held for intermediates Mon-days 1:30-4 p.m. at Rambling River Center, 325 Oak St., Farmington, $5/class. Call Mar-ilyn 651-463-7833. Country line dance class-es on Wednesdays at the Lake-ville Senior Center, 20110 Holy-oke Ave. Beginners, 9-10 a.m.; Intermediate, 10 a.m. to noon. $5/class. Call Marilyn 651-463-7833. The Lakeville Area Arts Center offers arts classes for all ages, www.lakevillemn.gov, 952-985-4640. Rosemount History Book Club meets 6:30-8 p.m. the second Tuesday of each month at the Robert Trail Library. Infor-mation: John Loch, 952-255-8545 or [email protected].

Call for artists for ‘Art Is …’ The Eagan Art House is accepting registrations for the 2014 exhibit “Art Is … Exhibit and Artist Perspective.” The exhibit highlights what art means to individual artists and is open to all local working artists living in Eagan or Dakota County. Each participant is re-quired to write an artist statement and can submit up to two pieces, free of charge. All two-dimen-sional media will be ac-cepted. The exhibit will be displayed at Byerly’s and Ring Mountain Creamery in Eagan. Registrations are due by Feb. 21 by email to [email protected]. Drop-off is at the Ea-gan Art House between 9 a.m. and 1 p.m. Friday, Feb. 28. The exhibit will be on display from Mon-day, March 3, through Wednesday, April 30. Visit cityofeagan.com/index.php/recreation/ea-gan-art-house for registra-tion forms and submission details.

Coffee Concert in Lakeville The Grammy Award-winning Chestnut Brass Company presents the sec-ond of this year’s Kingsley Shores Coffee Concerts at 2 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 9, at the Lakeville Area Arts Center, 20965 Holyoke Ave. “Our Lakeville pro-gram is ‘Made in Amer-ica.’ We’ll perform folk songs from diverse tradi-

tions, popular tunes of George Gershwin, Cole Porter and Duke Elling-ton, and two new works by American composers Joseph Turrin and Eric Ewazen,” said Larry Zim-merman, Apple Valley na-tive and trombonist. Tickets are $15 general admission, $12 students and seniors. Call 952-985-4640 for tickets and more information.

IMAX offers Language Days The Great Clips IMAX Theatre at the Minnesota Zoo in Apple Valley is cel-ebrating languages from around the world with se-lect films shown in French, German and Spanish. French Day (films shown in French): Tues-day, Feb. 4, 10 a.m., “To the Arctic 3D”; noon, “Born to be Wild 3D.” German Day (film shown in German): Wednesday, Feb. 5, 10 and 11 a.m., “Deep Sea.” Spanish Day (film shown in Spanish): Tues-day, Feb. 11, noon and 1 p.m., “Deep Sea.” Spanish Day (films shown in Spanish): Wednesday, Feb. 12, 9 a.m., “Born to be Wild 3D”; 11 a.m., “Deep Sea”; noon, “Born to be Wild 3D”; 1 p.m. “Galapagos 3D.” Tickets are $9.75 for adults and $7.50 for chil-dren ages 3-12 and se-niors age 65 and older. For group reservations, contact 952-997-9714 or [email protected]. The Minnesota Zoo also will participate by presenting select indoor

exhibits in the featured language of the day. Up-per level language students use music, costumes, and props to interpret more than 40 animal exhibits. All days are geared to-ward language students in grades 7-12 and elementa-ry immersion students. To register a class, visit www.mnzoo.org/teachandlearn or call 952-431-9218.

Area choirs join symphony The choirs from Lake-ville North and Lakeville South high schools will join the Dakota Valley Symphony and Chorus at 3 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 9, at the Three Choirs Festival to perform “The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace” by Welsh composer Karl Jenkins. The piece was commis-sioned by the Royal Ar-mouries Museum in Great Britain and dedicated to Kosovo war victims. The program also will feature Dr. Angela Han-son’s solo performance of Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 5 (The Turkish) and Egyptian March op. 335 by Strauss Jr. During intermission, the Dakota Valley Sym-phony will conduct its annual silent auction and Wall of Wine fundraiser. The Three Choirs Festi-val will be at the Burnsville Performing Arts Center, 12600 Nicollet Ave. Tick-ets range from $5-$16 and can be purchased at the box office, by phone at 800-982-2787 or Ticket-master.com. More infor-mation is at www.Dakota-ValleySymphony.org.

All jazzed up in Rosemount Septonics, Night Owl Band open jazz concert series

Fans of live jazz can get their fix at Rosemount’s Steeple Center in the com-ing months. The Rosemount Area Arts Council is presenting three concerts in its “Jazz at the Steeple Center” se-ries, which opens Feb. 8 with performances by Twin Cities-based groups the Septonics and the Night Owl Band. Both bands feature gui-tarist Paul Renz, director of jazz studies at the West Bank School of Music and a MacPhail Center for Mu-sic jazz guitar instructor. Guests at the concert can expect a mix of jazz standards as well as swing, Latin and contemporary jazz pieces, according to Greg Twaites, the Rose-mount arts council mem-ber coordinating the series. The concerts continue March 15 with 651 Jazz, a quintet of Rosemount-based musicians including alto sax player Connor Carroll, a 2009 Rosemount

High School graduate who went on to major in perfor-mance sax at Indiana Uni-versity. The spring finale con-cert on May 3 again brings Renz to the Steeple Center stage; he’ll be performing this time around as part of the Paul Renz Quartet. The arts council is look-ing to make “Jazz at the

Steeple Center” an ongo-ing program, with tenta-tive plans for additional concerts in the fall, Twaites said. Tickets for each of the concerts, which run from 7-9 p.m., are $5 and will be available at the door and in advance at www.rose-mountarts.com.

—Andrew Miller

The Septonics (above) and the Night Owl Band are set to open the jazz series at Rosemount’s Steeple Center on Feb. 8. (Photo submitted)


DAKOTA VALLEY

Jenkins: The Armed Man, a Mass for Peacewith the DVS Orchestra and Chorus and the

Lakeville North High Schooland Lakeville South High School choruses

Also featuring works by Mozart and Strauss Jr

Three Choirs FestivalSunday Feb. 9, 2014 3:00 pm

Stephen J. Ramsey, Conductor / Music Director

Fund raisingopportunitiesbefore theconcert or atintermission:* Silent Auction* Wall of Wine Drawing!

Ticketsavailable at

the BurnsvillePerforming Arts

Center box office,by phone atTicketmaster800-982-2787or online at

Ticketmaster.com

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For CD release, country star will brave the cold Rockie Lynne concert Feb. 8 at Bogart’s Place

by Andrew MillerSUN THISWEEK


Country music artist Rockie Lynne is no stranger to Minne-sota winters — he lived in Coon Rapids for a spell before signing his first major-label record deal and heading to Nashville – but the North Carolina native admits he never really acclimated to the arctic chill of the Land of 10,000 Lakes. “When I lived in Minnesota, my friends would come over and I’d be in the house with a stock-ing cap and a coat on,” Lynne said. “I love it in Minnesota, I love the whole way Minnesotans look at life – it can be 20 below zero and nothing really stops – but I never got used to the weather.” Lynne joked that he’ll be bringing every item of clothing he owns for his return to Min-nesota next month, when he’ll be performing a CD release concert Feb. 8 at Bogart’s Place in Apple Valley in support of his new al-bum, “Radio Road.” The album takes its name from the address of Lynne’s re-cording studio – housed in an old radio station at 1117 Radio Road.

Lynne’s self-titled 2006 debut album produced three singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts – “Lipstick,” “Do We Still” and “More” – and since his breakthrough onto the national country music scene the U.S. Army veteran has been working to build Tribute to the Troops, an annual charity motorcycle ride he co-founded that raises money for families of soldiers who died in non-combat situations. Among the highlights of his country music career, Lynne has logged more than a dozen ap-pearances on the stage of the Grand Ole Opry and seen his music aired on TV programs in-cluding CBS’s “Criminal Minds” and “Fox NFL Sunday.” This past week saw him putting the finishing touches on the theme song for next year’s United Way campaign, which he was com-missioned to produce. Tickets for the concert at Bo-gart’s in Apple Valley are $15; more information is at www.bogartsplace.com. The Bogart’s event also features a pre-show dinner with Lynne; details are at www.rockielynne.com. Email Andrew Miller at [email protected].

Since the release in 2006 of his self-titled debut album, Rockie Lynne has been work-ing to build Tribute to the Troops, an an-nual charity motorcycle ride he co-founded that raises money for families of soldiers who died in non-combat situations. (Photo submitted)

DANCING INTOTHE NEW YEAR

Apple Valley’s Galaxie Library celebrated the Chinese New Year on Jan. 25 with a performance by the Twin Cities Chinese Dance Center. It was a pre-New Year’s party, so to speak, as this year the Chinese New Year falls on Jan. 31.

The event was part of the ongoing Minnesota Mosaic Cultural Arts series offered by the Dakota County library system; the next Minnesota Mosaic event will feature storyteller Nothando Zulu sharing African and African-American folktales at 7 p.m. Monday, Feb. 3, at the Burnhaven Library in Burnsville. More about the series is at www.dakotacounty.us/library. (Photos by Andrew Miller)

Neil Diamond Tribute Philip Bauer’s Neil Diamond Tribute takes the Lake-ville South High School stage Saturday, Feb. 1. This is Bauer’s second appearance in Lakeville – the first was for a Johnny Cash Tribute in 2013. Bauer’s music career began locally when he won first place in the Minnesota State Fair Talent Contest. Since then he has performed all over the world. Tickets are $28 for preferred seating and $23 for balcony seating, and are available at www.LakevilleAreaArtsCenter.com or at the arts center at 20965 Holyoke Ave. The event is hosted by the Lakeville Area Arts Center and the Lakeville Rotary. For more information, call 952-985-4640. (Photo submitted)


For more information about MacPhail, visit macphail.org, and forinformation about Apple Valley Villa, visit applevalleyvilla.com

Join us for an eclectic and wonder-ful hour of music with cellist Jacquelin Ultan, and flutist Julie Johnson, as they take you through the centuries and around the world with music rangingfrom J.S. Bach to Argentina’s Astor Piazzolla, as well as their own original compositions. Refreshments to follow.

MacPhail Saturday Musical Matineeat the

Apple Valley Villa14610 Garrett Avenue, Apple Valley

Saturday, February 8th 1:00 p.m.Free Admission Please RSVP at 952-236-2600

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