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Optimism at the Capitol?While some Republicans joined Democrats to end the federal government shutdown, should Americans expect more bipartisan solutions?

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‘Walk Like a Man’ concertA Frankie Valli tribute act is bringing some old-time rock’n’roll to the Burnsville Performing Arts Center.

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A tough way to go outBurnsville’s girls soccer team suffered its first loss of the season in the semifinals of the state tournament.

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Daylight saving time endsIt’s time to “fall back” this weekend. Daylight saving time ends Nov. 3, when clocks should be turned back one hour.

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Meeting to address recent crime in northeast BurnsvilleNina’s shooting

one of three homicides since June by John Gessner

SUN THISWEEKDAKOTA COUNTY TRIBUNE

Three homicides since June in northeast Burns-ville, including the Sept. 22 shooting at Nina’s Grill, have police seeking to calm unsettled residents and business owners. Police will hold a pub-lic meeting on northeast Burnsville crime concerns

Thursday, Nov. 14, from 6:30-8 p.m. at Mary, Mother of the Church, 3333 Cliff Road E. Police Chief Eric Gieseke will open the meet-ing by discussing the recent crimes. Speakers will also include Dakota County Attorney James Backstrom. The spate of violent crimes is an “anomaly” for northeast Burnsville that has unsettled area resi-dents, Gieseke said. “I’ve gotten contacted by people,” said the chief,

who once pa-trolled the area as an officer. “I know city staff and the (City Council) have received some emails about crime issues.” The Nina’s Grill shooting is linked

to the murder of 20-year-old Anarae Schunk, a Burnsville High School graduate and University of Minnesota student who grew up in northeast Burnsville’s North River Hills neighborhood. Schunk was seen at the bar before closing

time Sept. 22 with her ex-boyfriend, 31-year-old Anthony Lee Nelson, of Rosemount. Nelson is accused of fatally shoot-ing 23-year-old Palagor Obang Jobi in the park-ing lot during an alterca-tion. Nelson’s current girl-friend, Ashley Conrade, 24, told police she and Schunk drove away from the bar with Nelson af-ter the shooting and went to Conrade’s Rosemount townhome. Schunk’s family re-ported her missing Sept. 23. Rosemount police say Schunk was killed Sept. 22

in Rosemount. Schunk’s body was found Sept. 30 in a rural Rice County ditch. A suspect in Schunk’s killing, Nelson faces first- and second-degree mur-der charges in the Nina’s shooting. The two other north-east Burnsville homicides remain open cases. A 4-year-old boy was killed June 11 at his home at 31 Horizon Heights Road. Keyontay Miller-Peterson died of compli-cations from blunt force abdominal injuries, the

Eric Gieseke

Civic leader and mentor Ken Slipka dies at 67 by John Gessner


Burnsville’s Kenneth Slipka was a businessman, boss, philanthropist and civic leader. Ask other civic leaders around town and they’ll say Slipka was also a men-tor in the ways of giving back to the community. Slipka, who was presi-dent of Burnsville-based company FORCE Amer-ica and a longtime sup-porter of the city’s annual Fire Muster festival, died Oct. 22, 2013, after bat-tling lung cancer. He was 67.

“I’m going to miss Ken almost like a family mem-ber,” said Jim Marches-sault, who chaired the Fire Muster’s executive board from 2005 to 2011. “He was a giving man, not just in the form of money, but advice,” said Marchessault, president of Burnsville-based Busi-ness Card Service Inc. “I thought he was a mentor of mine. I learned from Ken Slipka.” Slipka was born Aug. 24, 1946, in St. Paul. He worked various jobs to put himself through Cretin High School and attended the University of Minne-

sota. He served in the Army and attended Officers Candidate School in Fort Benning, Ga. In addition to his active duty, Slipka served more than 20 years with the Minnesota Army National Guard, said his wife, Linda. He served in numerous leadership po-sitions, finishing his ca-reer as a division adjutant general. In 2007 he was brevetted to the rank of colonel by then-Gov. Tim Pawlenty. “I think he felt he was grounded initially in his

The late Kenneth Slipka, a longtime supporter of the Burnsville Fire Muster, was also a collector of fire ap-paratus, including this retired Burnsville fire truck. (Sub-mitted photo)

The art of Halloween

Caponi Art Park Program and Voluteer Coordinator Elspeth Carlstrom leads a hal-loween tour of the park and its sculptures during the Caponi Art Park ” Halloween at the Art Park” on October 26. Families trick and treated among the trees and art works while hearing histories of the art and the Eagan art park. (Photos by Rick Orndorf)

Hotel developer misses deadline

Hopes for Heart of the City project not dead, officials say

by John GessnerSUN THISWEEK

DAKOTA COUNTY TRIBUNE

Financing problems are forcing the would-be developer of a hotel in Burnsville’s Heart of the City to miss a deadline to buy city-owned land for the project. Akota Hospitality LLC had until Oct. 31, after this edition went to press, to close on the 1.75-acre parcel north of the city’s Performing Arts Center and adjacent parking deck. City officials didn’t ex-pect the North Dakota-based hotel management firm to meet the deadline, Skip Nienhaus, Burns-

ville’s economic develop-ment coordinator, said Monday. But he remained con-fident that a hotel, which officials have longed to attract to Burnsville’s downtown redevelop-ment district, will be built on the property. “I believe that within the next 18 months, there will be a hotel out there,” Nienhaus said, without elaborating. Akota has been seek-ing additional financing partners for the proj-ect, said City Council Member Dan Kealey, president of Burnsville’s Economic Development

Levy referenda on the ballot in districts 196, 194Voters to decide fate of $30 million levy question in 196

by Jessica HarperSUN THISWEEK


Voters in District 196 on Nov. 5 will be asked to pass an estimated $10 mil-lion annual increase to the district’s current operating levy. The ballot question asks voters to revoke the district’s existing levy and replace it with a $30 mil-lion annual 10-year levy that would raise $1,486 per pupil each year. This would result in a $375 per pupil increase from the current operating levy, which brings in $20

million annually. The ex-isting levy is set to expire in 2015. If passed, homeown-ers would see an estimated $184 increase in the school district’s portion of tax-es on an average-valued home of $225,000. Due to a 7.6 percent decrease in the board-approved levy, the net in-crease on the average val-ued home would be $56 comparing 2013 to 2014. A successful levy wouldn’t prevent budget adjustments in the com-ing year but would lessen

Voters to answer Lakeville district’s $5.6 million levy question

by Laura AdelmannSUN THISWEEK


Lakeville Area School District voters will decide Tuesday, Nov. 5 whether to raise property taxes by $5.6 million annually for 10 years to fund school operations. According to the dis-trict, the proposed levy adds $540 per pupil, and will result in a net prop-erty tax increase of $167 on an average-valued $230,000 home starting in 2014. Twice since 2007, vot-ers have approved renew-

ing levies but a new levy has not been passed since 2003. Lakeville Area School District spokeswoman Linda Swanson said the district receives the lowest amount of revenue per pupil of the top 20 metro area districts. With declining enroll-ment and reduced fund-ing in the past seven years, the district said it has cut $30 million from its budget, has reduced staff and eliminated pro-grams like art and music while increasing activity fees.

Parents have cited con-cerns over increased class sizes, fewer options and higher costs. To help counteract enrollment and funding losses, the district has re-negotiated contracts and opened an online-only school, Link12Lakeville, a change that attracted 90 new students in one year and generated about $570,000. Swanson said the start-up costs and additional teaching staff were about $520,000, netting the dis-trict about $50,000.

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Eagan diner get new name, revamped menu \ by Jessica Harper


Just a year after open-ing, Betty’s Cafe and Pies has a new name and a re-vamped menu. After parting ways with their former business part-ner, owners Andrew and Michelle Hybben renamed the 1950s style restaurant — located at 1981 Silver Bell Road — Silver Bell Diner. The couple said they hope the new name and sign will be more recogniz-able from Highway 13 and better denotes their res-taurant’s theme. “We took a while to settle on a name,” Michelle said. “We didn’t want to make a mistake again.” When the Otsego cou-ple opened the diner in Oc-tober 2012, they took on the role as silent partners as their business partner managed the restaurant. But within a few weeks, the partnership began to dissolve. Upon taking control of the restaurant, Andrew

and Michelle set out to re-vamp the menu. Though their previ-ous partner and manager

promised homemade dish-es, the Hybbens say they quickly realized many of the ingredients were pre-

packaged. Now all dishes are made from scratch and from higher quality ingredients,

the couple said. Many of the dishes at Silver Bell are from Michelle’s original recipes, including the bar-

becue, chipotle and honey mustard sauces — which have become popular among customers. “I like to serve food like I would to my own fam-ily,” Michelle said. The couple has already added several new menu items such as seven-layer meatloaf, which started as a Tuesday special, but due to its popularity, the Hyb-bens added it to the menu. Beginning this week, the diner will offer cheese curds, loaded mac and cheese, and phosphates — a flavored sparkling water that was popular in the 1950s. Married for 23 years, the couple has two daugh-ters who work part-time at the family restaurant. As they look to the res-taurant’s future, Michelle and Andrew said they plan further promote the diner and hope to see it grow in the coming years.

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

After becoming the sole owners of Betty’s Cafe and Pies at 1981 Silver Bell Road in Eagan, Andrew and Michelle Hybben revamped the menu and changed the name to Silver Bell Diner. (Photo by Jessica Harper)

New Eastview club looks to Halloween as time for giving

Siblings form UNICEF club at

Eastview by Jessica Harper


Troubled by world hunger and poverty, one group of teens has set out to make a difference glob-ally from Eastview High School. Shortly into the school year, Eastview junior and sophomore Kanika and Rishabh Gupta founded the high school’s first UNICEF club. The siblings were in-spired to form the club after witnessing extreme

poverty and hunger while visiting family in India. “So many of the people affected are children, and we wanted to help in some way,” Kanika said. Rishabh said they choose UNICEF due to its reputation and oppor-tunities for high school students. Aimed at rasing funds for UNICEF, the club’s first fundraising effort made Halloween a day of giving rather than just tricks and treats. Members of the club gave area trick-or-treaters boxes to collect donations for UNICEF, an international organiza-tion that provides aid and emergency relief across

the globe. “Almost 100 percent of funds go to the people UNICEF is helping,” said Kanika, the club’s presi-dent. In addition to the Hal-loween drive, the club plans to host fundraisers throughout the year. Still in its infancy, the club has four official members and is still ac-cepting new members. To date, six students have ex-pressed interest in joining, Kanika said.

Jessica Harper is at [email protected] or facebook.com/sunthisweek. Eastview sophomore and junior Rishabh and Kanika (center) Gupta founded the high

school’s first UNICEF club. Juniors Nicole Crashell Kenate (right) and Chelsey Law-rence are also members of the new club. (Photo by Jessica Harper)


Levy would inch Lakeville funding up To the editor: In response to a letter last week that suggested residents of the Lakeville Area School District vote “no” on the Nov. 5 levy: The letter offered the opinion that Lakeville schools “will still be well funded” if voters reject the levy. It’s important for voters to know that the facts tell a different story. Lakeville’s schools are not well funded, at least not in comparison to other Twin Cities-area schools. Rejec-tion of the Nov. 5 levy will only exacerbate the situa-tion. According to Minneso-ta Department of Educa-tion data, Lakeville today ranks 15th among 20 large Twin Cities school districts in the revenue-per-student it receives from the state. Lakeville’s funding from voter-approved local lev-ies ranks even lower, 18th. So, for state and local-levy funding combined, Lakev-

ille ranks in the bottom 25 percent of comparable Twin Cities districts. Another fact: If all of the Twin Cities districts having levy votes this fall approve those levies, Lakeville will still rank only 14th among the 20 large local school districts for total voter-approved levy revenue. That means this Nov. 5 levy question is by no means an extravagant amount of additional funding. It’s simply an at-tempt to begin climbing back from a long, deep funding spiral. A spiral that has forced Lakeville to cut 20 percent of its teaching staff, leading to the Twin Cities area’s high-est student-teacher ratios.

VINCE GIORGILakeville

Slipka was a community leader, friendTo the editor: A leader in Burnsville, and a friend of mine,

named Ken Slipka has died. He was ill for some time and his passing was not unexpected. Hundreds of his friends and former colleagues gathered together with his family earlier this week at his wake and funeral to pay tribute to Ken. It is indeed a fortunate man to have the love, respect and admiration of so many as did Ken. In his case it was well-deserved. Ken was a man of great de-cency, honesty, character, integrity in his dealings in business and personal life with great generosity in his philanthropic activity. He was a leader who never desired any recognition for the deeds he did for others and always preferred to re-main in the background. As his wife, Linda, stated, “A man of quiet but deep and strong faith, Ken’s priorities were prop-erly placed. His uncondi-tional faith in our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ was evident through his words, actions and deci-sions he made.” Ken loved his friends

Letters

OpinionAfter budget battles optimism is hard to come by

Background checks should be extended to all gun sales

Exuding a candidate’s optimism, Pres-ident Barack Obama predicted last year that partisan fever in the Republican Party would break if he were re-elected. Now, only weeks removed from a gov-ernment shutdown followed by perilous congressional flirtation with debt de-fault, it’s reasonable to wonder whether fevered brinksmanship is the only way to write a budget in Washington. Sen. Amy Klobuchar, exuding the optimism that has made her popular at home and in Washington, says no. The Minnesota Democrat finds a “silver lin-ing” in the recent Tea Party-leveraged confrontation, which she says uncorked years of simmering political tensions and left a vast number of Americans boiling mad. “It really brought things to a head for people,” Klobuchar told the ECM Editorial Board one day after Democrats in the Republican-controlled House of Representatives delivered most of the votes needed to end the budget stalemate. “I want to make clear,” Klobuchar

added, “that while this agreement was important, it’s nothing you can celebrate and dance on this table about.” Sure isn’t. Still, most members of Minnesota’s Senate and House delega-tions acted responsibly at crucial times during the crisis. Klobuchar is part of a bipartisan group of 14 senators who meet regularly to discuss a range of issues and saw parts of their plan for ending the standoff en-acted. Republican Reps. John Kline from Minnesota’s 2nd District and Erik Paulsen from the 3rd District bucked the reckless ideologues in their caucus, which delivered only 87 votes for ending the cri-sis and 144 against. A New York Times analysis labels Kline and Paulsen “leadership” mem-bers of the House GOP – an experienced group of 44 who originally opposed us-ing shutdown and default as a weapon

to defund the Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare). They went along for the ride when Speaker John Boehner took up the renegade cause that started the crisis, according to the Times. But 31 of the 44 stepped back from the ledge when it came time to vote. We expected no less of Kline and Paulsen, who have had little trouble gaining and holding seats in districts that also voted for Obama in 2008 and 2012 (by the narrowest of margins the second time). Rep. Michele Bachmann, the 6th Dis-trict Republican who is retiring this year, was the only Minnesota lawmaker to vote against the deal. There’s no guarantee the blustery spectacles of autumn, which culminat-ed in only short-term budget and debt-ceiling deals while sapping the nation of an estimated $24 billion in economic output, won’t reappear. The debt-ceiling battle of 2011 gave us sequestration, a blunt budget knife both parties have rea-son to dislike. The beginning of 2013 saw

Republicans force another crisis over the “fiscal cliff” of automatic tax hikes and spending cuts. Why should new budget talks be any different? At least both chambers have appoint-ed budget conferees, which should have happened months ago. And there will be no “grand bargain” to get in the way, with its intractable ar-guments over taxes and spending. It ap-pears legislators plan to play budgetary small ball in the weeks before a Jan. 15 deadline to fund the government and a Feb. 7 deadline to increase U.S. borrow-ing authority. That’s probably fine for now, but not for long. Spending on entitlements for an aging population is on an unsustainable trajectory. When voters come to terms with whether to pay more, accept less, or both, maybe the politicians will, too.

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by Thomas CraftSPECIAL TO SUN THISWEEKDAKOTA COUNTY TRIBUNE

A Today if you go to Cabela’s or any licensed gun dealer in Minnesota to buy a gun, the store is required by law to run a 90-second background check to ensure that you don’t have a criminal history or a severe mental illness. According to the FBI, this simple but important process has kept guns out of the hands of 2 mil-lion prohibited purchasers since 1998. And while we know how many times a red flag in someone’s history has blocked a sale, it’s impossible to know how many lives the critical law enforcement tool has saved. In short, the background check system is quick, effective, and it protects the rights of law-abiding citizens to own firearms. The problem is that we leave the sat-urated markets for guns online and at gun shows completely unregulated. That means these same dangerous people that failed a background check at Cabela’s can go on Craigslist or to a gun show and purchase weapons from private sell-ers without any questions asked. The evi-dence shows they quite often do. In fact, in a 2011 study 62 percent of private sellers agreed to sell a gun to a buyer who said he probably could not pass a background check. The fact is, criminals know they can buy guns from

unlicensed dealers, and Congress is en-dangering public safety by keeping these transactions completely legal. That is why our lawmakers in Washington, D.C., need to pass a universal background check bill this year. Rep. John Kline, R-Burnsville, has an opportunity to close these dangerous loopholes by co-sponsoring a bill in the U.S. House that already has the support of more than 180 representatives from both parties. The bill, introduced by Reps. Peter King, R-New York, and Mike Thomp-son, D-California, is the House’s coun-terpart to the Manchin-Toomey amend-ment that was blocked from reaching a vote by a minority of senators in April. (Both Minnesota senators, Al Franken and Amy Klobuchar, had the courage to vote for the life-saving legislation). What would these bills do to protect the rights of gun owners and make com-munities safer? It’s simple: they would simply extend

the background check system that al-ready works at licensed dealers to cover commercial sales from private sellers. No gun registries, no confiscations, just an extension of a program that works. How would universal background checks impact you? If you’re a law-abid-ing citizen and purchase your guns from licensed gun sellers, then you would see no change. The vast majority of gun owners – including myself – support background checks because we know common-sense safety measures to keep criminals away from guns in no way in-fringes our Second Amendment rights. As with many issues facing Washing-ton, there are cynics standing in the way of some common-sense solutions. They say criminals will still find ways of buy-ing guns. Or that background checks may not have been able to prevent all of our violent tragedies. But to allow that line of thinking to impede our progress on essential gun safety reforms would be a serious mistake. We cannot solve the whole epidemic of gun violence in America with one piece of legislation, but that does not mean that we shouldn’t take meaningful steps to save lives. When nine out of 10 Americans agree on some-thing I think that overwhelming consen-sus should result in some action. As a hunter and gun owner myself, I am joining with the along with the 91

percent percent of Americans and 74 percent of NRA members – according to Republican pollster Frank Luntz – that support universal background checks. That’s not a typo. Hunting is a cherished tradition in Minnesota and all across this country, so it should tell you something that gun owners so overwhelmingly be-lieve in these critical safety guards. Despite such broad support for back-ground checks, the gun lobby is spending millions of dollars to protect the abil-ity for criminals and the mentally ill to buy guns without a background check. Let’s not let them distort the debate once again. I ask Kline to stand with all of us that know background checks work and co-sponsor the King-Thompson bill. We cannot afford to wait for the next school shooting, like the one at Sandy Hook El-ementary in Newtown, Conn., to finally confront this problem. We have endured this cycle of senseless violence for years. I don’t know about you, but I’ve had enough of it. If our lawmakers in Wash-ington won’t stand with the constituents they represent, then we need new law-makers.

Thomas Craft, Eagan, is a candidate for the Democrat endorsement in the 2nd Congressional District. Column reflect the opinion of the author.

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and we, in turn, loved him. The last time I saw Ken we talked for longer than I thought I should stay, but when I took my leave I said “goodbye” as one does upon visiting with a friend, Ken said, “No, no. No goodbye – I’ll see you later!” That was true, Ken, I will see you later. Thanks for everything.

CHUCK ERICKSONBurnsville

‘Unsession’ ideas To the editor: Minnesota is seeing more and more positive signs that indicate our economy is heading in the right direction. When employers added over 12,000 jobs in August, we regained all the jobs lost during the recession. Our unemployment rate continued its downward trend, falling to a season-ally adjusted 5.1 percent – well below the national unemployment rate of 7.3 percent. And Forbes re-cently ranked Minnesota eighth on its 2013 list of Best States for Business, a 12-spot improvement from last year’s rankings and the largest improvement of any state. While every Minneso-tan can cheer this great news, we need to do more to help small businesses and middle class families who are still struggling to make a profit and make a good living. That’s why I want busi-ness owners, members of the business community, and anyone else to send me your concrete, specific ideas for how state law-makers can make Min-

nesota’s business climate even better by cutting red tape and streamlining our state government. The 2014 legislative ses-sion, which starts on Feb. 25, is shaping up to be a first-of-its-kind effort to make government better, faster, simpler and more efficient for people and businesses. We want to im-prove service, shorten wait times, and eliminate old and outdated rules. Gov. Mark Dayton has coined this idea as the “Unsession.” You can submit your ideas by giving me a call at 651-296-5387, emailing me at [email protected], or by sending a letter to my office at 401 State Office Building, 100 Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., St. Paul, MN 55155. I hope to hear from you soon so we can hit the ground running when the “Unsession” kicks off on Feb. 25. I’m confident that state lawmakers from both sides of the aisle can put aside our differences and work together to make even more progress for Minne-sota’s small businesses and families.

WILL MORGANState representative, Dis-trict 56B (Burnsville and Lakeville)

Cooperative benefitsTo the editor: Cooperation pays off and great results happen when folks come together for the betterment of all. Case in hand – when a couple of neighbors got together to eradicate buck-

thorn from a very visible, city of Burnsville owned wooded neighborhood area, the city provided support. They offered the use of a unique buckthorn eradicator tool, as well as the pick-up and disposal of numerous 8-foot piles of buckthorn debris. More neighbors chipped in la-bor and within a week, the area was cleaned out of all buckthorn and deadwood caused by its out of con-trol growth. The city again came through with specialized support in determining what native shrubs, grass-es and plants would grow best in the area. Neighbors will provide the labor in the spring to re-plant and revitalize the area. On the agenda for spring, anoth-er buckthorn laden open area in the neighborhood will also be cleaned up. In a corresponding ef-fort, a Little Free Library was built and installed in this area. The library box was built by one of the neighbors as a fundraising project for her son’s soccer team. The city provided the permission to install the library and since then, neighborhood children and adults have stocked the library and have been enjoying walking up to it, browsing and taking books. Promoting literacy and neighborliness, the Little Free Library is suc-cessful because of coop-eration. Special shout-outs and thanks to city of Burns-ville employees Caleb Ash-ling, Ryan Peterson, and Amber Jacobson.

CHRIS HEADRICKBurnsville


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LettersWhich plan do you favour?To the editor: What a funny title: “Which plan do you fa-vour?” It’s not so funny when you look at recent sta-tistics that reveal many Americans believe Obam-acare and the Affordable Care Act are two differ-ent things. If you find this hard to believe, check out this weblink www.hulu.com/watch/539715. We all found the Obam-acare title to be catchy and descriptive, but unfortu-nately it appears that many Americans are against this groundbreaking act only because it bears President Obama’s name. It is time we call the act exactly what it is, the Affordable Care Act. The Affordable Care

Act is good for America. While the Republicans rail against the act, it should be pointed out that the Affordable Care Act is based and formed around a Republican plan, a plan known as Romney Care. Romney Care was enacted in 2006 and the people of Massachusetts are very happy with it. I believe the United States can be just as happy with the Afford-able Care Act. Our current system is broken and the time for change is now. Let’s give the Affordable Care Act a chance.

DEBORAH MATHIOWETZ

Donate to Coats for KidsTo the editor: We are all feeling the

cold weather and many of us have retrieved our warm coats. Let’s remem-ber there are some in our community who do not have a warm coat to re-trieve. Our local Salvation Army has barrels in churches, businesses and schools collecting coats to be given to children need-ing one. All coats collected by the Salvation Army Coats for Kids program are dis-tributed in the local com-munity. New or gently used coats are needed now – please consider donating this year. For families who need coats, call the Coats for Kids hotline at 651-746-3412.

RITA YOUNGERApple Valley

Fare For All to sell Holiday Packs Nov. 6 A nonprofit food pro-gram created to make fresh fruits and vegetables more affordable to Twin Cities families will sell Holiday Packs for $30 at the Diamondhead Educa-tion Center in Burnsville Nov. 6. Each pack includes a 10- to 12-pound turkey, a whole chicken, a pork ten-derloin, green beans, corn, cranberries, bread, pump-kin pie and an additional meat item. Fare For All Express, established in 2007 by the Emergency Food-shelf Network, purchases fresh fruits, vegetables and frozen meats in bulk and passes on the savings

to anyone who wants to stretch their food budget. Participants in the pro-gram save up to 40 percent on their food purchases. “Many families have been forced to cut back on fresh produce and lean meats because of ever-shrinking food budgets. Fare For All is designed to help make affordable, healthy foods available to those families — especially during the holiday season,” said Sophia Lenarz-Coy, the program manager. Fare For All Express has grown from serving about 5,000 households at nine Twin Cities loca-tions to serving more than 37,000 households at 24

locations. Because Fare For All buys food in bulk, the program is open to any-one. As more people par-ticipate, the program can provide even better deals, organizers say. The distribution at Diamondhead Educa-tion Center is from 3-5 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 6. Diamondhead is at 200 W. Burnsville Parkway. For more distribution dates and a map of Fare For All Express locations, go to 3-5 p.m. For more dates and a map of Fare For All Express locations, go to www.fareforall.org/Express/Distr ibution-DatesandLocations.aspx.

Burnsville Uncorked event is Nov. 7 The annual Burnsville Uncorked wine tasting event will be 7-9:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 7, at the Burnsville Performing Arts Center, 12600 Nicol-let Ave. S. The event is a

fundraiser for the Burns-ville Rotary Clubs. Tickets are $30 in ad-vance and are available at Red Lion Liquor, Chianti Grill in Burnsville, or from any Burnsville Rotary

member. Tickets are $40 at the door. For more information, call the Burnsville Per-forming Arts Center at 952-895-4685.


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For some, parting with possessions is hardAttitudes, percep-

tions among challenges of

hoardingby T.W. Budig


Upon leaving court sev-eral years ago, a former Coon Rapids resident said she felt she hadn’t done anything wrong in keeping more than 100 cats in her mobile home in St. An-thony. “I wasn’t hurting any-body,” Cheryl Saladis told a television reporter. “They were my life,” she said of the cats, all later euthanized. The incident isn’t unique. Millions of Amer-icans obsessively collect things. They hoard. Repercussions go be-yond the bulging boxes and uneasy stacks to af-fect family members, neighbors and city offi-cials. Sometimes hoarders themselves become vic-tims of their own compul-sions, such as in a house fire, if they are unable to flee their own burning home. Throw out the stereo-

types, said Janet Yeats, therapist, co-founder of the Hoarding Project and chairwoman of the Min-

A former Coon Rapids couple got into legal difficulties in St. Anthony a number of years ago by hoarding more than 100 cats in their mobile home. According to media reports, the mobile home, later hauled away, had be to ventilated before the cats could be taken out. (Photos by the St. Anthony Police Department)

nesota Hoarding Task Force. “People who hoard don’t have a look,” she said. They are not necessar-ily dirty, disheveled and mumbling. “We’ve got to get away from the stereotype that it’s low-income only, people losing their grip,” Yeats said. Psychologist Renae Re-inardy, who formerly prac-ticed in Minnetonka and has appeared on televi-sion as a hoarding expert, warns against stereotypes. Hoarders tend to be pleasant, she said. Some shudder at the idea of be-ing labeled a hoarder. “Couldn’t we call it a housekeeping disorder?’ ” Reinardy recalled one hoarder saying. Oddly, hoarders can be perfectionists, Reinardy said. They’ll amass 30,000 books in searching for the ideal system of book clas-sification, she explained. Hoarding can run in families. “It’s like an archeologi-cal dig,” Reinardy said of going through a home of generational hoarders. In terms of sheer bulk, hoarders can store away incredible amounts. Nate Berg, founder and president of Scene Clean, of Brooklyn Park, a com-pany that provides special-ized cleanup services, mea-sures hoarder cleanups in terms of cubic yards. Scene Clean pulled 70 cubic yards of items out of a home of a hoarder in Edina. “That would have been our record house,” Berg said, adding that because the house was going to be demolished, they left some things in. Berg cites 90 cubic yards as the most hoarder material removed at one job by the company. Hoarders’ homes are not necessarily eyesores, at least from the outside,

Berg explained. But Scene Clean staff may find haz-ardous materials, such as chemical spills, that have staff donning protective gear. “There’s no borders,” he said of where hoarder homes are found. The company gets three to four calls a day about hoarder homes, Berg said. Some hoarders keep trash, Berg said. His staff find lots of clothing from garage sales, Berg wrote in an email. Male hoarders gravitate toward magazines, elec-tronics and tools. Women often hoard decorations, plates, craft supples and cups, Berg said. There are also valu-ables. In one home, that of a playwright, besides man-uscripts, Scene Clean staff found a Golden Gopher football helmet from 1942 bearing the signature of Bruce Smith, the Gophers sole Heisman trophy win-ner. Pristine sports maga-zines of the era were also discovered. All these items can have meaning to a hoarder. Yeats spoke of a wom-an, who hadn’t finished college, hoarding news-papers and magazines as proof of her intelligence. “Sometimes you can connect loss to what peo-ple hoard,” she said. As times change, so does hoarding. It’s gone digital. Reinardy views obsessive downloading as a form of hoarding. Experts draw distinc-tions between hoarding inanimate objects and hoarding animals. The Golden Valley-based Ani-mal Humane Society’s senior investigator, Keith Streff, sees a different dy-namic. “There’s a certain in-nate attachment only an animal can bring,” Streff said. There’s an interplay – for the hoarder, perhaps a godlike sense of control, Streff said – achievable

only by hoarding animals. It’s powerful. “In my professional experience, the recidivism rate is 100 percent,” Streff said of animal hoarders. Yeats portrayed animal hoarding as often begin-ning with good intentions that go wrong. The psychology of hoarding is complex. “It comes in different flavors,” Reinardy said. According to a Mayo Clinic publication, about 75 percent of hoarding oc-curs in conjunction with other mental issues, such as depression. But not always. Genetic factors might be involved, Yeats said, and organic prob-lems, such as dementia, can play a role. Yeats views unresolved trauma or loss as a thread running through many hoarding cases. Hoarding can manifest itself in childhood, as in the messy third-grader whose parents “manage the hoard,” Yeats said. Generally, it becomes more visible as people gets older. “It does take time to accumulate things,” Yeats said. Some warning signs of hoarding include with-drawal and not letting people come into the home. It might be seen in an overeagerness to grab discarded items from fam-ily or friends.

Risks to hoarders in-clude falls, poor health relating to the inability to cook, social isolation, family conflicts, fights with local officials, diffi-culty in keeping a job, fi-nancial problems, having the power cut off and or-dered cleaning or condem-nation of the home, Mayo Clinic noted. Therapy can work, Yeats said. “Does it take a long time? Yes it can,” Yeats said. “We must approach this with compassion, rather than anger and frustration.” Stanley Saladis, talking to the television reporter outside the court house, said his wife, Cheryl Sala-dis, would be getting help. According to media re-ports, the couple hoarded 72 cats in 2002 in their Coon Rapids home, which led to legal difficulties. Their mobile home in St. Anthony was removed. “The only ones that were suffering was me and my husband,” Cheryl Saladis said to the camera outside the courthouse. To find more informa-tion on hoarding, visit: www.thehoardingpro-ject.org/home/minnesota-hoarding-task-force. www.ocfoundation.org. www.childrenofhoard-ers.com. Email T.W. Budig at [email protected].

Animal hoarding often begins with rescuing

by T.W. BudigSUN THISWEEK


Keith Streff, senior in-vestigator for the Golden Valley-based Animal Hu-mane Society, knows ani-mal hoarding when he sees it. “By the time I come across it, or people recog-nize it and report it, the problem is already acute. And in most cases, cata-strophic,” Streff said. Although uncomfort-able with the term “hoard-ing” — a recent catch-phrase, he believes — Streff sees powerful psychologi-cal forces activating serial animal collecting, an ob-session sometimes praised and encouraged by a pub-lic and media that confuses excess with compassion. Animal hoarding is something that builds over

time, Streff said. In a sense, it’s disguised. That is, hoarders often be-gin collecting animals in the spirit of rescuing them. They “rescue” one, then five, then 15, and so on. Problems build. Streff compares it to al-coholism. Sheer numbers in ani-mal hoarding do not de-termine neglect, Streff explained. Rather, it’s a question of consistent care. “They’re extremely dif-ficult cases to prosecute,” Streff said. “One, your dealing with a mental sta-bility issue, which creates a victim factor. “But by the same token, people have to recognize they’re responsible for their own behavior and there’s consequences for violating the law,” Streff said. Streff, with some 25

years on the job, views the public’s attitude toward animal hoarding as similar to attitudes about alcohol abuse decades ago. That is, a significant portion of the public is tolerant. “ ‘Gee, they’re only ani-mals,’ ” Streff said of the perceived attitude. The number of animal hoarding incidents has gone up in recent years, though this could reflect a growing awareness more than an actual increase of cases, Streff explained. About three-quarters of animal hoarding cases in-volve women, Streff said. “I think that’s a genetic thing. They’re more pas-sionate, more caregiving,” he said.

Tim Budig can be reached at [email protected].

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St. Paul man identified as person who died in Eagan crash St. Paul resident Thomas Heinz Iwen, 58, died after the vehicle he was driving went off the road near the junction of Clubview Drive and Lexington Avenue in Eagan, descended down a 10-foot high retaining wall and came to rest upside down in a pond at about 7:30 a.m. Friday, Oct. 25. Iwen was transported to Regions Hospital in St. Paul where he later died, according to a release from the Dakota County Sher-iff’s Department.

When Eagan police and fire department person-nel arrived, they extricated Iwen from the vehicle. He was the lone occupant. The Ramsey County Medical Examiner’s Office is assisting in the investiga-tion. The Eagan police and fire departments were assisted by the Dakota County Sheriff’s Office at the crash scene, which is a block south of Lone Oak Road and near the U.S. Post Office.

First-degree murder added in fatal shooting

by John GessnerSUN THISWEEK


A first-degree murder charge has been added to the case against the defen-dant in a Sept. 22 fatal shooting out-side a Burnsville bar. A Dakota County grand jury on Thursday indicted Anthony Lee Nelson, 31, on first- and second-degree murder charges, County Attor-ney James Backstrom an-nounced. Nelson, aka Shavelle Oscar Chavez-Nelson, has already been charged with second-degree intentional murder. The grand jury added the charge of first-degree premeditated mur-der. Nelson is a suspect in the murder of 20-year-old Anarae Schunk of Burns-ville, who was seen with Nelson Sept. 22 on surveil-lance video at Nina’s Grill, where the fatal shooting occurred. Charges have yet to be filed in Schunk’s murder. Rosemount police have said they’re forthcoming. Police say that Schunk, Nelson’s ex-boyfriend, left Nina’s after the shoot-ing with Nelson and his current girlfriend, Ashley

Marie Conrade, 24. They returned to her townhouse in Rosemount, the city where Schunk was killed, Rosemount police say. Her body was found

eight days later in a rural Rice County ditch. Nelson allegedly shot 23-year-old Palagor Obang Jobi, 23, of Savage, outside Nina’s after an altercation be-tween the two men shortly before the 2

a.m. closing time. Conrade has been charged with aiding an offender, a felony, for al-legedly harboring Nelson after the Jobi murder. “Our deepest sympa-thy is extended to the vic-tim’s family and friends of Palagor Jobi for their great loss,” Backstrom said in a news release Thursday. Eleven witnesses, in-cluding four Burnsville police officers, testified before the grand jury, ac-cording to the indictment. The grand jury’s first- and second-degree murder charges supersede the previous second-degree murder charge alleged in a criminal complaint, Back-strom said.

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

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Barlow: End stigma of mental illnessDakota County mental health summit draws hundreds

by Laura AdelmannSUN THISWEEK


Bipolar disorder, de-pression, suicide and stig-ma were among the topics candidly discussed at an Oct. 28 mental health fo-rum at Hosanna Church in Lakeville. The event drew an audi-ence of 560 that included parents, children and pro-fessionals, more than more than double the number expected, said Monica Jensen, spokeswoman for the Dakota County Attor-ney’s Office. Keynote speaker Ken Barlow, a KSTP-TV mete-orologist, received a stand-ing ovation after sharing of his battle with bipolar disorder in a discussion with the Rev. Bill Boline, of Hosanna Church. Symptoms like sleep-lessness and despondency plagued Barlow since col-lege and were misdiag-nosed for years until he “collapsed in a heap” in Boston, and awoke after a week hospitalized in what he learned was a manic episode. His diagnosis, Bipolar Disorder 1, left him de-pressed and shocked, but when he told his mother, she revealed his father had also suffered with the ill-ness, but nobody knew be-cause he was embarrassed. Barlow was embar-rassed as well, and for five years he and his family kept “the secret” until last year when he told 4,000 people gathered for a Na-tional Alliance on Mental Illness walk he was emcee-

ing. Since then, Barlow has become a public advocate for breaking stigma and perceived shame of mental illness. His sentiments were echoed throughout the event, as panel members that included counselors, a police officer and a pastor shared their own experi-ences and encounters with mental illness. Dakota County Ado-lescent Health Coordina-tor Shannon Bailey said one in four people have a mental illness, and said Barlow is not alone in the five years he spent hiding the truth from others. They described warn-ing signs for parents to look for in their children, including depression, withdrawal and hostility.

They noted that drug use and mental illness often go hand-in-hand. Depression, although one of the most common emotional problems, is also the most treatable, ex-perts said. Parents with concerns were encouraged to talk to their children and seek help. Dakota County has numerous resources. Dakota County has a 24-hour crisis response line staffed with social workers available at 952-891-7171 any day of the week. Hosanna Church offers “Life Hurts,” an eight-step recovery program for stu-dents in grades 4-12 who are challenged by life is-sues including drugs, al-cohol, divorce, abuse, bullying, cutting, eating

disorders, sex or peer pres-sure. To find out more about the Christian recovery pro-gram, call 952-898-0135 or email [email protected]. Other resources in-clude the National Alli-ance on Mental Illness, w w w. n a m i h e l p s. o r g ; www.teensphere.com; First Call for Help at www.211unitedway.org. Dakota County also offers school linked and school-based mental health programs in par-ticipating districts. Infor-mation about how to ac-cess them is available at the schools or through the Dakota County Collab-orative, 952-891-7449.

Laura Adelmann is at [email protected].

KSTP-TV meteorologist Ken Barlow spoke with the Rev. Bill Boline about his strug-gles with bipolar disorder before an audience of 560 at the Oct. 28 Mental Health Summit held at the church and sponsored by the Dakota County Healthy Communities Collaborative. (Photo by Laura Adelmann)

Forum offers information on health insurance Dakota County will host a health care forum from 6-8 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 12, at Lutheran Church of the Ascension, 1801 Cliff Road E., Burns-ville. The forum will feature presentations on Medi-care and MNsure, as well

as general information about WIC, Child and Teen Checkup, SNAP, and Financial Empowerment programs. Attendees can get assistance signing up for MNsure health care programs from certified counselors. The presentation on

Medicare will be from 6:15-6:45 p.m., followed by the MNsure presenta-tion from 6:45-7:15 p.m. General information and MNsure assistance will be available from 6-8 p.m. Those seeking assis-tance signing up for MN-sure programs should

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message. Graffiti was found on the outside of the high school Sept. 28, the day after the homecoming football game, according to Helke. Last week, graffiti was found in the boys bath-room in the lower “D” hallway. In addition to “DNH Mafia,” it bore the date “11/1/2013 and the phrase “last man stand-ing,” Helke said. “Last man standing” is an apparent reference to a level of play within “Call of Duty,” according to the School District 191 com-munications office. Helke’s message asks those who have heard talk about the graffiti or have “seen these phrases associ-ated with anyone or their possessions” to call police or the school. Call high school re-source officer Leslie Perry at 952-641-1359 or Associ-ate Principal Bruce Moris-sette at 952-707-2013.

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Your own personal Santa Apple Valley Santa has been making home visits for more than 30 years by Andrew Miller


Did you know Santa is available for appointments? Ken Ullery has been appearing as Santa at area homes, day cares, company parties and other venues for the past 30 years. The idea behind his business, South Metro Santa, is that a personal visit from Jolly Old Saint Nick is just a phone call away. It’s a role the affable Ap-ple Valley resident is suited to. “I wish it was a year-round job,” he said. “The best part is when you walk in the door and see the kids eyes light up. I mean old kids, too – especially the grandparents.” Ullery first donned the red suit in 1980 as a shop-ping-mall Santa at Burns-ville Center. It wasn’t long before he broke out on his own. “I answered an ad in the paper for a Santa at Burns-ville Center – I enjoyed it, but sitting in that hot suit for eight hours at a time was a little trying,” he said. Eventually, “I bought my own suit, put an ad in the paper, and I was swamped with calls.” Santa is seasonal work for Ullery, who recently left a job in the corporate world and now works during the school year as a bus driver in the Rosemount-Apple Valley-Eagan School Dis-trict. During the holiday sea-son, though, his time is at

a premium. The busiest day every year is Christmas Eve. “I’ve done as many as 14 (home visits) on Christ-mas Eve,” he said. His wife, Janice, often assists as Mrs. Claus. And Ullery does reconnaissance before he visits a home. “I talk with the parents and get the names of the kids, I get information on the kids, and I find out if the parents want me to

hand out presents and how they want me to enter the home,” he said. There’s an art to being Santa, Ullery said, one that he’s cultivated in his three decades doing the work. “It takes a special per-son with patience and you’ve got to be great with kids,” he said. “Some kids are great with Santa and they’ll talk your leg off – others are terrified. Ninety percent

of the time I can win them over with a high-five, or let-ting them touch the fur on the suit.” South Metro Santa is on the web at www.southme-trosanta.com, and Ullery can be reached at 952-432-7094.

Email Andrew Miller at [email protected].

Ken Ullery first donned the red suit as a shopping-mall Santa at Burnsville Center in the early 1980s. He now does home visits in Dakota County through his business South Metro Santa. (Photo submitted)

Shop Hop planned the first weekend in November Shop Hop, a se-ries of holiday-themed craft sales, will be held this weekend in Dakota County and beyond. A variety of crafts, vendors, and food will be offered by local commu-nity groups. Sales will be at the fol-lowing locations Satur-day, Nov. 2: • Craft, Quilt, and Bake Sale, Farmington Lutheran Church, 20600 Akin Road, Farming-ton, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. – 27 vendors, pottery, jewelry, birdhouses, knitting, cro-chet and quilted items.

• Craft Fair, Cobble-stone Square, 15848 Em-peror Ave., Apple Valley, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. – inaugu-ral sale. • Holiday Boutique and Lefse Sale, Grace Lu-theran Church, 7800 W. County Road 42, Apple Valley, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. – more than 50 vendors, gifts: hand crafted items, jewelry, toys, books, bags, accessories, gift baskets, pet items, soap, American Girl doll clothes, Tupper-ware, Pampered Chef, and much more; food: fresh authentic lefse, lunch, baked goods.

• Fair Trade Sale, St. John Neumann Church, 4030 Pilot Knob Road, Eagan, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. – handcrafts and food items made by economi-cally disadvantaged ar-tisans and farmers, with proceeds to benefit these makers and growers. • Holiday Boutique, Christ Lutheran Church, 1930 Diffley Road, Ea-gan, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. – 23rd annual sale, wide variety of items for pur-chase, bake sale of pies, breads, salsa, jellies/jams, snack mixes. • Holiday Festival, Lutheran Church of the Ascension, 1801 E. Cliff Road, Burnsville, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. – crafts from local artisans, bake sale, lunch, and chocolate lov-er’s fantasy. • The Annual Craft Fair at Mary, Mother of the Church, 3333 E. Cliff Road, Burnsville, will

be on two days – Nov. 2, 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. and Nov. 3, 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. – more than 70 crafters, food and beverages sold by Burnsville Lions Club, with proceeds donated to Armful of Love. Two other sales are be-ing held outside Dakota County on Nov. 2. Those are: • Fall Festival, House of Prayer Lutheran Church, 7625 Chicago Ave. S., Richfield, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. – crafts, ven-dors, raffle, bake sale, luncheon. • Artisan Fair, Chanhassen Recreation Center, 2310 Coulter Blvd., Chanhassen, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. – wide vari-ety of local crafts, includ-ing home and holiday décor, knitted creations, fashion accessories, paper crafts, pottery, woodcarv-ing, pet items, paintings and photography.

Auditor gives School District 196 clean review

by Jessica HarperSUN THISWEEK


The Rosemount-Apple Valley-Eagan School Dis-trict received a clean re-view of its fiscal controls during its annual audit this week. During his Oct. 28 presentation, auditor Bill Lauer of Malloy Mon-tague, Karnowski, Rados-evich and Co., commend-ed the district for its sound fiscal management. “It’s a very clean audit report,” Lauer said. Lauer noted that Dis-trict 196 continues to re-main under budget and spend less than other school districts on aver-age. As of June 30, 2013, the district spent $7.26 million less than projected from its general fund — money that is not reserved for specific services. The district’s general fund in 2012-13 was $297.9 mil-lion. Although the district reduced its general fund balance by $1.6 million between fiscal 2012 and fiscal 2013, it continued to maintain a sound bal-ance of $39.7 million. This is 13 percent of the gen-eral fund. Board policy re-quires a fund balance that is at least 8 percent of the

general fund. Lauer did note a one area in which District 196 could improve. The district has contin-ued to struggle to ensure internal controls were in place when collecting cash outside the business office. The district has started to remedy this issue by en-abling parents to pay fees online. A few individual schools had similar com-pliance issues that includ-ed receipts lacking sup-porting documentation, disbursements being made without the required two signatures, and disburse-ments being made without an authorized check re-quest. District 196 has a his-tory of sound financial reporting. For nearly a decade, it has every year received the Excellence in Financial Reporting award from the Associa-tion of School Business Officials International for its clean audit reports. Clean reports enable the district to achieve a better credit rating and lower in-terest rates on loans.


Zoo hosts November food drive For the month of No-vember, the Minnesota Zoo in Apple Valley is conducting a “Thanks for Giving” food drive in support of Second Har-vest Heartland. Zoo guests who do-nate a non-perishable food item will receive an admission discount: $2 off adult and $1 off child/

senior admission (one discount per donation). The most needed items are meat and protein, canned fruits and veg-etables, complete meals, grains, personal hygiene items and cleaning sup-plies. For more information, call 952-431-9500 or visit mnzoo.org.

Burnhaven Library activities set Burnhaven Library, 1101 W. County Road 42, Burnsville, has planned the following activities. For more information, call 952-891-0300. • Scams and ID Theft, 6:30-7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 6. Learn about com-mon investment scams and identity theft, how to pro-tect yourself, and where to find resources and assis-tance when you become a victim of a scam. Present-ed by the Better Business Bureau. • Minnesota Crime

Wave, 7-8 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 12. Meet Minnesota authors Carl Brookins, Ellen Hart and William Kent Krueger, members of the Minnesota Crime Wave, and hear about their books and upcoming titles. • Make & Take: Book Ornaments, 2-4 p.m. Fri-day, Nov. 22. Repurpose old books to create holi-day ornaments. Bring your own books or use the library’s. Registration re-quired beginning Nov. 8.

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Hennepin County medical examiner announced July 25. Police say the suspect is 24-year-old William Al-phonso Warr, who had a protection order barring him from the residence. Warr was charged with violating the protection order, criminal property damage, fleeing a police officer, giving false infor-mation to police and driv-ing after revocation. Warr, the boy’s moth-er’s boyfriend, pleaded guilty to all five counts and was sentenced July 17 to two years and two months in prison, the St. Paul Pioneer Press report-ed. The county attorney’s office has yet to bring charges in the homicide. “We haven’t given up on

it,” Gieseke said. There are also no charges in the Aug. 13 shooting on the 2100 block of East 117th Street that killed 23-year-old Abdifatah Ahmed Mahu-mod. He and another man were shot and driven from the scene by a woman who then stopped at the Supe-rAmerica station at 2250 Cliff Road in Eagan. Po-lice found Mahumod dead in the vehicle. “That’s an open case, too,” Gieseke said. “We hope to bring closure to that in the future.”

Nina’s Nina’s Grill at 2510 Horizon Drive has come under fire from some, and Gieseke has acknowl-edged complaints to po-lice about the bar and restaurant near Highway

13 and Cliff Road. However, “This isn’t a meeting about one in-dividual. It’s not a meet-ing about one particular business, or anything like that,” the chief said. Schunk’s brother Ty-son called for Nina’s to close during his sister’s public memorial service Oct. 6 at the Burnsville Performing Arts Cen-ter. The comment drew robust applause in the crowd of about 1,000 mourners. Tyson has since writ-ten Facebook postings suggesting a petition to convince owner Nina Sorkin to either “reform” or “relocate” the busi-ness. He wrote on the Please Help Find Anarae Sc-hunk Facebook page that his public comments about violence, drugs and

prostitution at Nina’s were based on comments from “dozens of con-cerned neighbors” who feel unsafe at night living near the bar. Tyson wrote that he doesn’t blame Ni-na’s for Anarae’s murder and isn’t on “an emotion-al crusade to close her business at all costs.” Gieseke has described the volume of police calls for service at Nina’s — 132 from Jan. 1, 2011, to Oct. 2, 2013 — as “signif-icant.” He has said police are investigating reports of illegal activity there.

Crime concerns Gieseke said northeast Burnsville (north of 130th Street and east of Inter-state 35W), which com-prises one of four patrol quadrants in the city, gen-erates roughly the same

number of police calls as the other quadrants. “The calls can be the same, but you can have one or two more challeng-ing or difficult calls that can change how an area is viewed,” Gieseke said. Two other recent inci-dents have also plagued the area. A man with a sawed-off shotgun took two employees hostage Sept. 7 at the Holiday station at Nicollet Avenue and Highway 13. One of the employees was his for-mer girlfriend. Police sur-rounded the station and persuaded him to release the hostages. Ariel Barnett, 31, of Burnsville, who fired into the ceiling of the store, was charged with two counts of second-degree assault and two counts of kidnapping.

Graffiti vandals struck North River Hills the night of Aug. 28, leaving the tag “DNH MAFIA.” The sign at North River Hills Park and about a dozen park buildings and homes were struck. At the Nov. 14 meet-ing, Backstrom and Drew Evans, assistant superin-tendent of the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Ap-prehension, will discuss crime trends in Dakota County and Minnesota. Police officials will discuss their anti-crime efforts and cooperation between agencies. Repre-sentatives from the Eagan and Apple Valley police departments and the Da-kota County Sheriff ’s Of-fice will be on hand.

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

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Authority. An Akota rep-resentative said in June the company was seeking a deal with Hilton World-wide to build a Hilton Garden Inn. The 90-room hotel would be valued at $3.5 million, Nienhaus said at the time. “As a city, we’re abso-lutely hoping they pull it together and continue to move forward with the project,” Kealey said. “It’s an exciting one and would do a lot for the city.” Joel Cary of LHR Hospitality Management, who has represented Ako-ta in talks with the city, didn’t return a phone call.

The missed deadline would void the city’s pur-chase agreement with Akota and the city and put the property back on the market, Kealey said Monday. That wouldn’t preclude Akota from pursuing the project and reaching a future deal with the city, which could also enter-tain other development proposals, according to Kealey. “They’re the only party that’s been on that prop-erty, and we’d love to see the property get devel-oped,” he said. The council, acting as the Economic Develop-ment Authority, approved

the purchase agreement June 4. It set the price of the land at $503,600. The EDA also ap-proved a redevelopment contract with Akota stip-ulating that the hotel have at least 90 rooms, restau-rant and meeting space, and 55 parking spaces. The city agreed to expand its parking deck and make the public parking spaces available to the hotel. Rooting hard for the project is Michael Moore, owner of the nearby Red Lion Liquor at 12400 Nicollet Ave. Moore, who’s owned the 48-year-old business since 1978, rebuilt and expanded in 2000 when the Heart of

the City was beginning to take shape. “We’d love to see (the hotel) go in,” Moore said. “I think it would be a huge benefit for the area. Of course, it would be a huge benefit to our store, because of the location of it right out our back door. And I think Burnsville needs kind of an upscale hotel. Hopefully, they can find some financing and get things moving.” New hotels bring “a renewed level of attrac-tion” to cities, Kealey said, citing the Radisson Blu Mall of America in Bloomington. A hotel in the Heart of the City would bring more visitors

to town and could make the city-owned arts center a destination for corpo-rate events, he said. And, it would “raise the bar” for other Burns-ville hotels, Kealey said. “We have some good players and we have some that haven’t put a ton of money” into their proper-ties, he said. “When you introduce a new competi-tor, that puts everybody on their toes and makes them do what they do bet-ter.” The 1.75-acre parcel is the last piece of the 6.2-acre former AAA proper-ty. The city used a Metro-politan Council grant and tax-increment financing

to buy it for $1.8 million in 2001. It now houses the arts center, the parking deck and the Mediterra-nean Cruise Cafe. City attempts to find a buyer for the remaining parcel through requests for proposals have come up empty. Developers have periodically inquired about projects, including gas stations and fast-food restaurants, that wouldn’t have met Heart of the City zoning standards.


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New immunization requirements begin in 2014 The Minnesota De-partment of Health has adopted new immuniza-tion requirements that will apply to children en-rolling in schools, child care programs and early childhood programs be-ginning Sept. 1, 2014, and will bring Minne-

sota’s immunizations law in line with current na-tional recommendations and practices. Among the biggest changes, the new rules for children in child care and grades preK-12 now call for: – Hepatitis A and B

vaccination for children enrolling in child care or early childhood pro-grams. – Replacement of the current seventh-grade tetanus-diphtheria (Td) vaccination with one that also includes pertus-sis (Tdap).

– Meningococcal vac-cination for secondary students, beginning in seventh grade. The new rules do not change the medical ex-emption or the option for parents to decline any or all vaccines for conscientious reasons.

Some additional changes to the school and child care immuni-zation rules make modi-fications in the timing of certain doses of required vaccines to match cur-rent medically accept-able standards and put early childhood pro-

grams that meet regular-ly for six weeks or more under the immunization rule. More details on the changes are on the MDH immunizations web-site (www.health.state.mn.us/divs/idepc/immu-nize/immrule/newlawfs.html).


Engagements

Mahowald/BroichGeorge and Maureen

Mahowald of Lakeville, announce the engagement of their daughter Kath-leen to Thomas Broich, son of James and Angela Broich, formerly of Lake Elmo, MN, currently re-siding in Chandler, AZ.

Katie is a 2001 graduate of Lakeville High School, a 2005 graduate of Mar-quette University, and a 2012 graduate of the University of St. Thomas, with a Master in Busi-ness Administration. She is currently employed by OptumRx.

Tom is a 1997 graduate of Normal Community High School, in Bloom-ington, IL, and a 2003 graduate of the Univer-sity of Minnesota-Twin Cities. He is currently em-ployed by Bloom Health.

A February 2014 wed-ding is planned in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Weddings

DeGolier/MillsJamie DeGolier and

Tim Mills were married on October 12, 2013, in Baldwin, WI.

Jamie, daughter of Karen and Bob DeGo-lier of Comstock, WI, is a graduate of UW-River Falls and is an instrumen-tal music teacher in Elm-wood, WI.

Tim, son of Pam and Terry Mills of Apple Valley, is a graduate of Eastview High School and UW-River Falls and is employed by Freeman Drug, Inc.

The couple resides in River Falls.

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them, district officials say. Officials plan to make $4 million in adjustments to maintenance and op-erations costs in 2014-15 regardless of the levy vote outcome. These include reducing the district’s contribution to employee health insur-ance and increasing third-party billing for special education. District officials also plan to eliminate the K-Plus scholarship program in 2014-15 since the state plans to fully fund all-day kindergarten programs. If the levy fails, most homeowners in District 196 would have the school portion of their property taxes fall in 2014 despite a

projected rise in property values. An unsuccessful levy referendum could also mean $6 million in bud-get cuts in 2014-15, which could include cuts to cur-ricular and co-curricular programs, including the gifted and talented pro-gram, increased co-curric-ular fees, and the elimina-tion of fifth-grade band. Class sizes would also likely grow, officials say. These cuts are in addi-tion to the $4 million in adjustments the district already plans to make. District 196 would face another $20 million in adjustments in 2015-16, which is equivalent to ap-proximately 300 teaching positions, according to the district.

Voters will also select from among four candi-dates running for three, four-year terms on the Rosemount-Apple Valley-Eagan School Board. The candidates are Craig Angrimson, and in-cumbents Mike Roseen, Gary Huusko, and Art Coulson. More about the candidates is online at sun-thisweek.com/2013/10/23/qa-four-school-board-candiates-district-196. More information about the levy is at www.district196.org. To find a polling place, go online to http://pollfinder.sos.state.mn.us.


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“As additional students are enrolled, this program may provide funds that the district and board could potentially utilize to ad-dress other needs in the district,” she said. State funding increased this legislative season, which the district said will boost district coffers by about $3 million. “This reduced the amount of the budget shortfall from $7 million to $4 million,” Swanson said. “This funding will be used to balance the bud-get to maintain current student fees and services.

Without this additional funding, the financial outlook of the district was much more compro-mised.” If voters approve the new levy, Swanson said $4 million will be used to bal-ance the budget and elimi-nate the deficit and $1.6 million will help reduce class size by hiring about 20 teachers. The levy dollars would also help provide more science, technology, engi-neering and math classes for all grades. Swanson noted even if the levy passes, it will not address all the cuts that have been made, and if it

does not pass, more cuts will be necessary, although School Board members have not discussed the scope that would be neces-sary. “The board would work with staff and com-munity to determine the options for cuts,” Swanson said. Polls are open from 7 a.m.-8 p.m. For more voting in-formation go online to www.isd194.k12.mn.us or http://pollfinder.sos.state.mn.us.

Laura Adelmann is at [email protected].

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Focus groups will discuss communication The future of local community television and documenting what the public expects in the way of customer service from any cable provider in Eagan will be among the topics discussed in six community focus group meetings the city of Ea-gan is holding Nov. 12-14. Daytime and evening sessions are available. As part of Eagan’s cable franchise renewal process, the city is asking for feedback from cable and non-cable subscrib-ers, residents, businesses, teachers, parents, church-es, arts, musical and cultural organizations, seniors, government agencies, nonprofits and community groups. “How we communi-cate with each other, lo-cally, is more important than ever before,” Eagan City Administrator Dave

Osberg said. “We want to hear from the entire com-munity about ways to en-hance Eagan Television and community media to meet the communication needs of our residents, local groups and busi-nesses.” Eagan officials also want to know what cus-tomer service standards they should reasonably expect of cable providers. Comcast is seeking to re-new its franchise, which expires in January 2015, so documenting the ex-pectations of the public is critical. The public is urged to register as soon as possi-ble for one of six Novem-ber focus groups by go-ing to www.cityofeagan.com/MoreThanCable for times and locations. Although sessions target a variety of interest ar-eas, the same questions are covered at each focus

group, so if residents can-not attend one particular session, they are encour-aged to register for the session most convenient to them. “Your voice makes a difference,” said Eagan Communications Direc-tor Tom Garrison, who is also executive director of Eagan Television, E-TV. “We invite you to shape the future of what local community television and community media can become.” E-TV has prepared a brief YouTube video about the focus groups and community needs assessment http://w w w. y o u t u b e . c o m /w a t c h ? v = 1 k A 2 S Z 1MCNg) or read Experi-ence Eagan, the Novem-ber/December city news-letter, for further details. While walk-ins are welcome, registration by Nov. 7 is encouraged.


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faith,” Linda said. “Then with the military, it pro-vided the discipline and leadership that was need-ed so much later on in his life.” The Slipkas moved in 1979 from Sioux Falls, S.D., where Ken was gen-eral manager of Pace Manufacturing, to Burns-ville. He had taken a sales position with Mid-Amer-ica Power Drives, a Min-neapolis company he had worked for in the early ’70s. Slipka worked his way up to general manager, president and CEO, retir-ing in 2004, said Mark Meier, who worked with him 40 years ago at Mid-America Power Drives and was hired by Slipka in 2000 to serve as FORCE America’s first human re-sources director. The growing compa-ny eventually moved to Burnsville, where it has three buildings on Cliff Road: the corporate head-quarters, a distribution center and a building for the marketing department. The company, which sells and manufactures mobile hydraulics, has es-sentially doubled its sales every five years since its inception, said Meier, of Burnsville, who retired from FORCE America in August. FORCE America emerged from a 1997 merger between Mid-America Power Drives and Pederson-Sells Equip-ment Co. The company has grown from four or five employees in 1973, when Slipka and Meier first worked together, to about 300, Meier said. FORCE America now has some 14 locations around the country, he said.

Slipka “was very much responsible for the growth,” Meier said, add-ing that his employees “would do anything for him.” “He had resounding character and he brought on people who were that way,” Meier said. “They stayed with the company a long time, and they be-lieved in the power of the ESOP (employee stock ownership plan).” The principal owner of FORCE America be-fore his retirement, Slipka was a founding member and twice president of the Minnesota chapter of the Employee Stock Owner-ship Association. Meier credited Slipka with urging him to apply for the human resources job, which he described as a career-capping highlight professionally and finan-cially. “As important as all that is, Ken recommended that I get involved in the community,” said Meier, who became deeply in-volved in the Burnsville Chamber of Commerce, enrolled in a chamber-city leadership academy and was named the chamber’s 2012 Business Person of the Year. “And because of Ken’s suggestion that I become involved, I have 200 very good friends in Burns-ville, some of them among my closest friends, that I would not have had had it not been for Ken,” Meier said. Slipka never lost the firefighting bug he caught as a young volunteer fire-

fighter in Roseville. In 1981 he took the couple’s three children to the old Diamondhead Mall in Burnsville to see a fire-fighting equipment dis-play set up by local collec-tor Roger Jackson, Linda said. It was an early version of the Fire Muster, and Slipka got on board. He was a volunteer for and key leader of the event for more than 30 years. “Ken was there right at the start,” Linda said. He became a collector himself, buying his first retired fire truck — a 1940 GMC LaFrance pumper — in 1981, Linda said. “Ever since then we have had one fire engine or more as part of the fam-ily,” she said, including the retired 1980 Peterbilt the family still owns. Slipka bought it from the Burns-ville Fire Department. An avid baseball fan with two baseball-playing sons, Slipka was a youth baseball coach and com-missioner and later be-came director, treasurer and president of Baseball Association 191, which sponsors local Mickey Mantle, senior Babe Ruth, American Legion and am-ateur teams. (Richard VanderLaan, a friend of Slipka’s nick-named Burnsville’s “Mr. Baseball” for his longtime involvement in American Legion ball and BA 191, died Sept. 12 at age 76.) Slipka’s community ser-vice didn’t end with base-ball and the Fire Muster. He served with the Early Education Center Board

of his church, St. James Lutheran in Burnsville, as well as School District 191’s Financial Advisory Committee, the Burnsville Community Foundation (past president), the Inver Hills Community Col-lege board, the Burnsville Economic Growth Com-mission (former chair) and the Dakota County Board of Equalization (former chair). Slipka was the Burns-ville chamber’s Business Person of the Year in 2000 and later served on the chamber board. “He was one of the most involved people in the city of Burnsville, I would say in the history of the city,” Meier said. For as much as he did, “Ken always stayed under the radar,” said Ed Del-

moro, who served with Slipka on the board of BA Foundation 191 and the Burnsville Commu-nity Foundation. “He did many things, and he do-nated a lot of money.” Delmoro said Slipka was one of the first people he encountered when he started volunteering in the community after retiring 18 years ago. Slipka intro-duced him to the chamber and the Burnsville Com-munity Foundation. “I just couldn’t believe what a wonderful man I’d met,” said Delmoro, the fundraiser for Burnsville’s annual holiday lighting program in the Heart of the City. “He was younger than me, but I considered him a mentor.” Slipka is survived by his wife of 40 years; mother,

Viola Slipka; daughter, Dawn (Vince) Irlbeck of Sanborn; sons, Brian (Me-gan) Slipka, Lino Lakes, and Brent (Allison) Slipka, Roseville; grandchildren, Jacob, Brooke, Elizabeth, Elsie, Joshua Kenneth, Jo-seph and Nora; siblings, Donald (Connie), Mari-lyn (Bill) Kordosky, Cindy (Clark) Opdahl and Roger (Jackie); brother-in-law, Leman (Tana) Olson; and other relatives and friends. Services were Tuesday, Oct. 29, at St. James Lu-theran Church in Burns-ville, with a gathering of family and friends on Monday at the church and an hour prior to the ser-vice.


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Four named to Eagan YMCA’s community board The YMCA in Ea-gan has added four indi-viduals to its community board. Ryan Kessler of Thomson Reuters, who directs corporate devel-opment in its mergers and acquisitions depart-ment, has been active in Y programs since his youth. Marisa Schroht, com-munity education direc-tor of ISD 196, has expe-rience in the community education environment

from child care to after-school programs. Sue Luse is the presi-dent of Suzanne Luse and Associates, an Ea-gan counseling firm that helps students find the college to fit their skills and dreams and prepare for the admissions pro-cess. Bill Zukowski is the owner of Northland Reps Inc., a manufacturing rep firm for companies mar-keting materials to the construction industry in

Minnesota and four sur-rounding states. A gradu-ate of the University of Minnesota, Zukowski has a long history with the YMCA. The YMCA’s 18-mem-ber community board is comprised of a range of professionals from Eagan and surrounding commu-nities who will guide the YMCA as it addresses current and future health and wellness needs of people of all ages.


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by Mike ShaughnessySUN THISWEEK


Rosemount’s boys and Eagan’s girls repeated as team champions at the Section 3AA cross coun-try meet, and Burnsville saw to it that it will have strong representation at this week’s state meet. Rosemount won its fourth consecutive sec-tion boys championship Oct. 24 at Valleywood Golf Course, finishing 26 points ahead of Burnsville and more than 50 ahead of any other team. Eagan is the girls winner for the second consecutive year, and junior Anna Van Wyk won her first section indi-vidual championship. Eagan scored 94 points in the girls race and fin-ished 11 in front of Burns-ville. Rosemount just missed sending its girls team to state, finishing six points behind Burnsville at the section meet. Richfield senior Obsa Ali repeated as Section 3AA boys champion in 16 minutes, 19 seconds. The next two runners across the finish line were from Burnsville – senior Ali Ahmed (16:24.3) and junior Faysal Mahmoud (16:24.6). Section boys team

champion Rosemount was led by junior Alex Berhe, who finished fourth in 16:30.3. After Ahmed and Mah-moud, Burnsville’s next finisher was senior Mitch Brown, who came in 19th. Sophomore Dillon Wong (26th) and ninth-grader Nathan Blichfeldt (31st) completed the Blaze’s top five. Seniors Tyler Schone-will and Sam Porter fin-ished 35th and 47th. Individual state meet qualifiers included Apple Valley junior Grant Udel-hofen, who was sixth at the Section 3AA meet in 16:33.7. Van Wyk won the 4,000-meter girls race in 14:27.0, less than three seconds ahead of Burns-ville senior Vivian Hett. Eagan’s Raissa Hansen was seventh in 15:07.6. Kelli Praska (14th), Ol-ivia Mitchell (35th) and Danielle Marshall (37th) also scored for the Wild-cats. Katie Koprowski (40th) and Karina John-son (52nd) completed the Wildcats’ top seven. Hett, the 2013 state Nordic skiing runner-up, will return to the state cross country meet hoping to improve on her 16th-place finish from last sea-son.

Burnsville eighth-grader Kelly Koch was eighth in the section meet in 15:10.0. Ninth-grader Krista Holmstrom (19th), eighth-grader Mari Belina (31st) and sophomore Jo-hanna Weber (45th) also scored for the Blaze. Jane Koch, a junior, placed 76th. Two runners from East-view and two from Apple Valley also qualified indi-vidually. Lightning sopho-more Laura Bestul was fifth in the section meet in 15:03.9. Bestul’s team-mate Margie Freed, also a sophomore, advanced by finishing 12th in 15:16.7. Apple Valley eighth-grader Molly Moynihan and sophomore Olivia Anger finished 10th and 11th at the section meet to advance to state. Moyni-han’s time was 15:11.6, while Anger finished in 15:14.1. The state Class AA meet will be Saturday, Nov. 1, at St. Olaf College in Northfield. The Class AA girls race begins at 10 a.m., followed by the boys race at 11. The Class A races will be Saturday af-ternoon at St. Olaf.

Email Mike Shaughnessy at [email protected].

Players from both teams, including Burnsville’s Abby Soderholm (6) and Lakeville North’s Olivia Bruce, crash the net on a Lakeville North corner kick during the state Class AA girls soccer semifinals. A moment later, the ball landed at Bruce’s feet and she tapped it in for the game-winning goal. (Photo by Rick Orndorf)

Blaze’s loss is tough to takeTop-seeded

Burnsville falls in state girls soccer by Mike Shaughnessy


What did it take for Lakeville North to finally reach the state girls soccer championship game? Lower expectations. Not necessarily from the Panthers; their goal al-ways has been to win the state title. But, not being the team everybody else was looking at seemed to help. North defeated unde-feated and No. 1-seeded Burnsville 1-0 on Tues-day afternoon in the Class AA semifinals at the Me-trodome. Forward Olivia Bruce, a ninth-grader, scored the game’s only goal with 6 minutes, 8 sec-onds remaining. The Panthers reached the state championship game for the first time as Lakeville North. Lakeville High School went to the state final in 2004, the final soccer season of Lakev-ille’s one high school era. Lakeville North (15-2-3) plays Minnetonka, which defeated Eden Prai-rie 3-2 in double overtime in the other semifinal, in the Class AA champion-ship game at 3 p.m. Thurs-

day at the Metrodome. Burnsville (17-1-3) faces Eden Prairie for third place at 8 a.m. Each of the last two seasons, Lakeville North was the No. 1 seed in the state tournament, only to lose in the semifinals. This year, the Panthers came in as the No. 4 seed, with Burnsville No. 1. “I think not being seed-ed No. 1 took some pres-sure off us,” said North goalkeeper Alexis Joyce. “As underdogs, we knew we had to play hard and not just expect things to happen.” “We’ve been where Burnsville is, and being the No. 1 seed is tough,” Panthers coach Bulut Oz-turk said. “We said the No. 1 seed was cursed at the state tournament. “We talked about how the No. 1 seed didn’t win the state tournament two years ago. A couple of our younger players asked which team that was, and we had to tell them it was us. We talked about how the No. 1 seed didn’t win last year. Again, that was us.” Burnsville controlled play early in Tuesday’s game and had several chances to score, including a shot by Abby Soderholm that sailed just above the

crossbar. That forced North into a formation change. The Panthers started in a de-fense-minded 4-4-1-1 be-fore switching to a 4-3-3. “It just seemed like No. 6 (Soderholm) was run-ning the show out there,” Ozturk said. “We thought if we had more numbers up top, it would put a little more pressure on them.” North started to create a few more scoring chanc-es and was awarded a cor-ner kick with a little more than six minutes remain-ing. Sarah Fisco sent the ball to the front of the net. Players from both teams went after it and Burns-ville goalkeeper Darby Lofthus tried to punch it out of danger. But the ball settled at Bruce’s feet, and all she had to do was direct it into an open net. Joyce made five saves as the Panthers earned their 16th shutout of the sea-son. Hannah Mitby had five of Burnsville’s nine shots. Burnsville, which defeated Lakeville North 2-1 in a regular-season South Suburban Confer-ence game, was shut out for only the second time this season. Email Mike Shaughnessy at [email protected].

Lamott saves them, scores them for EastviewLightning in state soccer final for

3rd straight year by Mike Shaughnessy


Kyle Lamott has saved so many penalty kicks for Eastview in key situations that it seemed only fair that he got to take a shot at the goal. When his turn came Monday night, he calmly buried it in the Edina net, keeping the Lightning ahead in a shootout of a state Class AA boys soc-cer semifinal game it even-tually won 2-1. The victory put East-view (15-3-1) in the state championship game for the third consecutive year, and the Lightning sought its second straight title when it played North St. Paul on Thursday at the Metrodome. The last school to play in the Class AA boys title game three straight years was Edina from 1999 through 2001. In addition to his shoot-out goal, Lamott made a diving save against Edina’s first shooter, Isaac Bloom. The next Edina shooter, Matt Dahl, hit the cross-bar, and Eastview went on to outscore the Hornets 4-2 in the shootout. In shootout situations, teams often are looking for just one save from their goalkeepers. The Light-ning is comfortable with

Eastview players celebrate after winning the penalty kick shootout in their 2-1 victory over Edina in the state Class AA boys soccer semifinals. (Photo by Mike Shaugh-nessy)

Lamott in the net. He stopped five of nine penal-ty kicks during the regular season. “First of all, his quick-ness is almost cat-like,” Eastview coach Scott Gustafson said. “He reads shooters really well, and he doesn’t try to over-think it.” Lamott said the Light-ning practices penalty kicks at the end of every practice, and it was decid-ed just before the playoffs started that if the team got into a shootout that he would take one of the kicks. If not for Lamott’s play in the first 100 minutes of the game, the Light-ning might not be in the state final. Edina (15-3-3) had the edge statistically in Monday’s game at the

Metrodome, outshooting Eastview 21-8, including 9-0 in overtime. Lamott made 13 saves and the only regulation-time shot to elude him was a header by Edina’s Trip Adams in the 12th minute. Eastview’s Pierce Erick-son scored an unassisted goal late in the first half after taking a throw-in from Sam Fluegge. Monday was the third consecutive playoff game Eastview won after falling behind by one goal. “Yeah, we get a little flustered when we fall be-hind,” Lamott said. “But we decided we want to be a team that keeps working hard the whole game. We didn’t want to be known as a team that gives up.”

South defense makes its standCougars shut out

Eagan 10-0 in football playoffs by Mike Shaughnessy


Lakeville South head coach and offensive coor-dinator Larry Thompson went deep into the play-book for some of the stuff he threw at Eagan.

A “Wildcat” formation with his top running back taking direct snaps. One rushing attempt for, of all people, the Cougars’ nose tackle on defense. A dou-ble-reverse pass by a tight end. A play where a run-ning back drops a direct snap, then takes off run-ning and scores a touch-down. OK, maybe that last one didn’t happen as designed.

It did, however, produce the only touchdown of Lakeville South’s 10-0 vic-tory over Eagan on Friday night in the first round of the Class 6A high school football playoffs. Mark Ruhl took the snap, dropped the ball, then scooped it up and ran 55 yards around right end for the touchdown mid-way through the fourth See FOOTBALL, 16A


Eagan in section finals

Eagan outside hitter Sarah Jurgens lines up a kill at-tempt during a Section 3AAA volleyball semifinal match Tuesday against Rosemount at Prior Lake High School. The Wildcats (26-2), who are ranked first in Class 3A, won in straight sets and will play Lakeville North for the section championship at 7 p.m. Saturday, also at Prior Lake High. (Photo by Rick Orndorf)

Panthers end Burnsville’s football season by Mike Shaughnessy


Lakeville North had little difficulty advanc-ing to the second round of the Class 6A football playoffs, defeating Burns-ville 31-0 in a first-round game last Friday. The Blaze (2-7) was able to stay in the game for more than a half. Burns-ville trailed 10-0 midway through the third quarter before Lakeville North pulled away. The Panthers earned their fifth shutout of the season. Lakeville North (7-2) rebounded from a 36-7 loss to Rosemount in the final game of the regular season. The Panthers play host to Cretin-Derham Hall at 7 p.m. Friday, Nov. 1, in the crossover round between Section 3 and Section 4 teams. The winner will play in a quarterfinal game either

Thursday, Nov. 7, at TCF Bank Stadium or Friday, Nov. 8, at the Metrodome. Panthers quarterback Drew Stewart passed for two touchdowns and ran for one in the Burnsville game. Both touchdown passes went to senior wide receiver Lee Edwards. Stewart scored on an 8-yard run in the second quarter. Senior running back Jamiah Newell scored the Panthers’ final touch-down on a 40-yard run in the fourth quarter. He gained 155 yards on 26 carries. Stewart rushed for 35 yards and Tanner Ja-cobus gained 39 yards on four carries. Edwards had four catches for 80 yards and two touchdowns. Stu Ha-mann kicked a 35-yard field goal and four extra points. Burnsville lost its final four games after back-

to-back victories over Bloomington Kennedy and Lakeville South in midseason. The losing streak started with a 41-7 defeat at Lakeville North on Oct. 4. Next year the Blaze will look to build around players such as

linebacker Brett Shepley, defensive lineman Tahi Dixon, receiver Camden Traetow and running back Ben Sherman. Email Mike Shaughnessy at [email protected].

Burnsville quarterback Will Reger throws a pass while under heavy pressure from the Lakeville North defense. (Photo by Rick Orndorf)

quarter. It gave the Cou-gars (6-3) enough insur-ance that they could think about extending their sea-son another week. They will play at Roseville (7-2) at 7 p.m. Friday, Nov. 1, in the crossover round be-tween Section 3 and Sec-tion 4 teams. Asked if he was con-cerned that the Cougars had exhausted their sup-ply of offensive tricks, Ruhl smiled and said, “No, Thompson’s always got something.” What might be even more critical for the Cougars’ playoff sur-vival is their defense. For much of last week’s game, it looked as if the defense would have to

make a 3-0 lead hold up. South held Eagan to 73 yards rushing and didn’t allow a play longer than 21 yards. “Earlier in the season, we were giving up too many big plays,” Thomp-son said. “We’re not giv-ing up as many big plays now. Our defense did a re-ally nice job (against Ea-gan).” Lakeville South nose tackle Alonte Alexander recovered a fumble at the Eagan 19-yard line on the Wildcats’ first play from scrimmage. Although South’s possession stalled where it began, the Cou-gars were close enough to put Brendan Boche in range for a 36-yard field goal. There was no more scoring until Ruhl broke

free on his fourth-quarter touchdown run. Eagan (2-7) finished the season with five con-secutive losses. The Wild-cats did not score more than seven points in any of their last four games. In last week’s playoff game, leading rusher Sam Zenner did not appear to be healthy and was avail-able for only limited duty, gaining 12 yards on three carries. Quarterback Ian Entzi-on ended up as Eagan’s leading rusher in the play-off game with 56 yards on 11 carries. He also com-pleted 15 of 30 passes for 148 yards. Josh Brown (seven catches, 77 yards) and Andy Jubenville (five catches, 37 yards) were the leading receivers.

Bryndan Matthews intercepted a pass in the Eagan end zone in the second quarter, prevent-ing South from increasing its three-point lead. Line-backers Ricky Kamrud and Joe Kovach each had six unassisted tackles. Ka-mrud also had 1.5 tackles for loss and a sack. Lakeville South rushed for 229 yards, with Ruhl gaining 146 yards on 20 carries. “I had some holes,” Ruhl said. “Our O-line did a really good job of blocking.” Defensive back Grant Mosser led the Cougars with six unassisted tack-les. Email Mike Shaughnessy at [email protected].

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Burnsville Lions Club. More information

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Craft/Bake SaleFaith Lutheran Church

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5370 Painting &Decorating


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5420 Tree Care &Stump Removal



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5280 Handyperson

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Dakota Home Improvement

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the Elderly & persons w/spec. needs. Bathrooms,

ceramic tile, & grab bars. Remodeling.

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5290 Hauling &Moving

Fall Specials!Free est. Same day service.

612-695-2796

5340 Landscaping

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apluslandscapecreations.com

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A Happy Yard 20% Off Fall Clean-ups, Brush

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Mike 763-434-0001

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5380 Plumbing

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

Jason 952-891-2490


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TOPSIDE, INC. 612-869-1177 ◆Insured Lic CR005276 ◆ Bonded

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5410 Snow Removal

$350* For The SeasonDriveway Plowing and

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612-810-2059


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PAUL BUNYAN TREE SERVICE, INC.

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5440 Window Cleaning

Rich’s Window Cleaning Quality Service. Afford-able rates. 952-435-7871

5500 EMPLOYMENT

5510 Full-time

Carpenters WantedEstablished company

seeking self motivated, hard working individu-

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5510 Full-time

Education

TEACHERSNew Horizon Academy is accepting resumes for Early Childhood Edu-cation teachers at our Burnsville and Lakeville locations. Candidates must have some college course-work completed in early childhood education or related field of study and be Teacher qualified un-der MN Rule 3 guidelines. For more information or to schedule an interview call Lori at Lakeville @

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Kingsley Shores in Lakeville has an open-ing for a 40 hour/week housekeeper, Monday- Friday with occasional holidays. Primary re-sponsibilities are keep-ing community areas of the building clean and orderly and cleaning apartments. Must be flexible, possess a good attention to detail, and be a team player. Expe-rience preferred. Excel-lent benefits. Email resume to [email protected] or fax to 952-435-4070.

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5510 Full-time

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Stream Global Services Looking to Fill More Than 100 New Posi-tions in Eagan – Posi-tion: Inbound Sales for Dish Network – with rapid hiring New hires will support Dish Net-work in Inbound Sales. People apply at www.stream.com/careers to learn more about the position, training and development opportu-nities, pay and benefits.Stream is located at 3285 Northwood Circle in Eagan and is taking ap-plications for immedi-ate hiring. The positions feature a competitive pay and benefits pack-age. Stream also pro-vides in-depth training and ongoing develop-ment opportunities to help employees build meaningful careers with the company. Stream is a global provider of business process out-sourcing services, sup-porting many Fortune 1000 companies. Stream provides sales, technical support and customer care services through its global network of approximately 56 ser-vice centers worldwide. Stream has had a sig-nificant presence in the Tri-County Area for more than fifteen years. No cold calling. Lucra-tive commission plan with guaranteed base; average agent makes $40,000/year with top performers have the ability to make $92,000/year. Office environ-ment, based in the world headquarters of Stream Global Services In-bound Sales with warm leads. Fast paced. Ben-efit package. Paid vaca-tion and sick time

5510 Full-time

Teacher Assistants/Paraprofessionals

Metro AreaMust have high school diploma, if you have 60+ college credit = higher pay, must enjoy working with special needs chil-dren. Hours vary depend-ing on student’s hours in school. Weekly pay, ben-efits, and cash bonuses. www.teachersoncall.comClick on: Apply On Line - Once you complete the application, a Staffing Co-ordinator will contact you

for an interview. For assistance call

952-346-1656

5520 Part-time

Bus Driver (PT)Rosemount

MRCI WorkSource is seek-ing a PT Driver to work split shift hours 7-9:00am and 2:30-4:30pm, M-F, paid time off and eligibility for retirement. H.S diploma/ GED, previous experience, valid license & good driv-ing record. Basic knowl-edge of individuals with developmental disabilities & interpersonal communi-cation skills preferred. To find out more, contact

Sharon at 651.423.8900 or visit www.

mrciworksource.org/careers.html and com-plete an application today.

Substitute Teachers Burnsville-Eagan-Savage

School DistrictVisit www.isd191.org for

more details

5520 Part-time

City of Rosemount(PT) Building

Attendant At Community Ctr & Steeple Ctr. 6 to 12 hrs/wk incldg nts & wkends. Cleaning, minor maint., eqpmt set up/take down, monitor events. HS deg/GED, valid DL, able to pass bkgrd ck. Prefer prior exp. in bldg. maint, cust svc wk, & comm ctr/ice arena ops. $11.99 to $16/hr. For req’d app materials, call (651) 322-2022, www.ci.rosemount.mn.us or City Hall, 2875 W. 145th St., Rosemount, MN 55068. Open until filled.

EOE

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DARTS – PT Homemakers

DARTS – PT Homemak-ers needed in BV, LV, & AV. Seeking caring, responsible people to provide housekeep-

ing / companionship for older adults. If you or anyone you know would be great with

our clients, please fill-out our online app. at

dartsconnects.org Mail or drop off the

app to DARTS. 1645 Marthaler, West

St Paul. M-F 9-4. EOE

Earn Extra Income! PT GLS Newspaper Distribu-tion has wkday and/or wk-end routes available. Early AM hrs. Dependable vehi-cle, good PT income. Gary 941-447-5742

Management Educational Assistant (Multiple Open-ings). Burnsville-Eagan-Savage School DistrictVisit www.isd191.org to

apply


5520 Part-time

Lakeville Mini Storage

& Truck Rental Co.seeking Part Time Help:1-2 Days/wk. Computerexp. req. Must be able to manage up to 24’ moving trucks. Daily Grounds & Facility Cleaning. Ideal for semi-retired.Call Tim: 952-985-5020


Market Research Firm: Seeks detail oriented peo-ple to edit mystery shop reports online. Excellent spelling, grammar and phone skills a must! Paid online training; flex PT hours; pay averages $12-14 per hour. Requires min of 4hrs/day M-F & 1 wknd /mo. Email resume & cover letter to: [email protected]

Optometric AssistantFriendly and cheerful per-son with optometric back-ground preferred, to work in sales PT. Apply in person: Crossroads Vision Clinic 14120 Commerce Ave NE Prior Lake-952.447.2020

P.C.A./Home Manager for woman w/T.B.I. Clean D.L. & insured car, CPR/first aid, able to lift 40#. Duties: personal care, diet, driving, championship, or-ganization. Must be kind, fun, creative, hardwork-ing, trustworthy and like dogs. Comp. depend on exp. 952-975-0774, LM. or [email protected]

Part-timeCNA/Home Health Aides needed at The Rivers Se-

nior Living Community in Burnsville. All shifts avail-able. Apply in person at

11111 River Hills Drive, Burnsville.

Rosemount VFW- 2 Openings:Veterans encour-aged to apply. PT Head Bartender. 25 hrs min. wk.M-F; some wknds, $10/hr.PT Cook- Thur-Sa. nights/$10.50 hr. 952-913-5979

Seasonal and Part-time Book

Processors & Shelvers Needed

Attention to detail req. Friendly casual envi-ron. Pos. days & eve’s hrs, 8am – 8pm. For job description go to www.mackin.com – Employ-ment Apply in person at: Mackin Educational Resources 3505 Co. Rd. 42 W. Burnsville, MN 55306

Work from HomeInterview businesses only.

Experience preferred.$14-18/hr. M-F days.

Able to work 15+hrs weekly.InfoTech Marketing For more info: visit

infotechmarketing.com.Then call 952-252-6000


Houseaides FT & PTCommunity Assisted Living is looking for

FT, PT & E/O Weekend Houseaides to work in our residential homes

taking care of 5/6 Seniors in Farmington & Apple

Valley. We have openings on Evenings. All shifts include E/O weekend.

Previous direct care exp. is preferred. Call

952-440-3955 for application address.

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5540 Healthcare

PCAsRegency Home HealthCare is seeking part time day and/or evening PCAs to care for individuals in their homes. Help needed in the Mendota Heights, West St. Paul, Apple Valley, and Golden Valley areas. Re-sponsible for assisting with client cares, food prepa-ration, light housekeep-ing, and laundry. Must be compassionate, have great attention to detail, excellent problem solving skills, strong communica-tion skills, and must have a valid driver’s license. If interested please submit

online application at www.regencyhhc.com or fax resume attn: Allison @

651-488-4656. EOE

5540 Healthcare

RN/LPNsRegency Home HealthCare is seeking part time and full time overnight RN/LPNs to provide services to ventilator dependent cli-ents in group settings and/or private homes in the metro area. We are cur-rently seeking nurses in the Farmington, Lakeville, Apple Valley, Rosemount and Savage areas. Must have great attention to de-tail, strong problem solv-ing skills, excellent com-munication and clinical skills. Current MN nursing license and CPR required. If interested please submit

online application at www.regencyhhc.com

or contact Allison @ 651-488-4655. EOE

LEGAL NOTICES

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CITY OF BURNSVILLEORDINANCE NO. 13-1303

AN ORDINANCE AMENDING TITLE 10 OF THE

BURNSVILLE CITY CODE, BEING THE ZONING TITLE

OF THE CITY OF BURNSVILLE WRPV XI

WOODS BURNSVILLE LLC CASE FILE NO. DEV13-0028The City Council of the City of

Burnsville ordains as follows:Section 1. Title 10 of the Burnsville

City Code is hereby amended to al-low the razing and reconstruction of apool building in accordance with the Amended Planned Unit Development Agreement on file in the City clerk’s office dated October 8, 2013, for the following described property located within the City of Burnsville, Minne-sota:

Lot 1, Block 1, Burnsville Apart-ments

Section 2. The zoning map of the City of Burnsville referred to and de-scribed in said Title 10, shall not be republished to show the aforesaid rezoning, but the Community Devel-opment Director or his/her designee shall appropriately mark the zoning map on file in the city clerk’s office for the purpose of indicating the rezoning provided for in this ordinance and allof the notations, references and other information shown thereon are herebyincorporated by reference and made apart of this ordinance.

Section 3. This ordinance shall be effective immediately upon its pas-sage and publication according to law.

PASSED AND DULY ADOPTED THIS 8th day of October, 2013, by the city council of the City of Burnsville. By: Elizabeth B. Kautz, MayorATTEST:Macheal Collins, City Clerk

Published in Burnsville/EaganNovember 1, 2013

47170

AMENDED SUMMONSSTATE OF WISCONSINST. CROIX COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT Case No. 13 CV 495Code: 30404 - ForeclosureAGSTAR FINANCIAL SERVICES, FLCA540 BALDWIN PLAZA DRIVEP.O. BOX 360BALDWIN, WI 54002,Plaintiff(s),v.YA YANG and PHOUA YANG 6540 66th Avenue North Brooklyn Park, MN 55426, YA YANG and PHOUA YANG 893 State Road 128 Glenwood City, WI 54013, TSUEFU YANG893 State Road 128Glenwood City, WI 54013-3901,TSUEFU YANG6540 66th Avenue North Brooklyn Park, MN 55426,LEE XIANG YANG6540 66th Avenue North Brooklyn Park, MN 55426, ST. CROIX COUNTY CHILD SUP-PORT AGENCY 1101 Carmichael Road Hudson, WI 54016, WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY INC.525 2nd Street Glenwood City, WI 54013, FIRST STATE MORTGAGE CORPORATION 1400 Corporate Center Curve,Suite 110 Eagan, MN 55121Defendant(s).

THE STATE OF WISCONSINTo FIRST STATE MORTGAGE

CORPORATION named above as a defendant:

You are hereby notified that the plaintiff(s) named above has/have filed a lawsuit or other legal action against you.

Within 40 days after September 27, 2013 you must respond with a written demand for a copy of the complaint. The demand must be sent or delivered to the court, whose address is St. Croix County Courthouse, Government Center, 1101 Carmichael Road, Hudson, WI 54016, and to John D. Leary, Ruder Ware, L.L.S.C., Plaintiff’s at-torney whose address is 402 Gra-ham Avenue, P.O. Box 187, Eau Claire, Wisconsin 54702. You may have an attorney help or represent you.

If you do not demand a copy of the complaint within 40 days, the court may grant judgment against you for the award of money or other legal action requested in the complaint, and you may lose your right to object to anything that is or may be incorrect in the complaint. A judgment may be enforced as provided by the law. A judgment awarding money may become a lien against any real estate you own now or in the future, and may also be enforced by garnishment or sei-zure of property.

You are notified that we are at-tempting to collect a debt. Any in-formation obtained will be used for that purpose.Dated this 13th day of September, 2013.RUDER WAREAttorneys for AgStar Financial Ser-vices FLCA/s/ John D. LearyJohn D. LearyState Bar No. 1003749P.O. ADDRESSRUDER WARE, L.L.S.C.402 Graham AvenuePost Office Box 187Eau Claire, Wisconsin 54702Telephone: 715.834.3425Facsimile: 715.834.9240

Published in Burnsville/EaganNovember 1, 8, 15, 2013

27591

INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 196CALL FOR BIDS

MOTORCOACH BUS TRANSPORTATION

Notice is hereby given that BIDS will be received for Motorcoach Bus Transportation by Independent School District 196 at the District Office, 3455 153rd Street West, Rosemount, MN 55068, until 10:00 a.m., November 18, 2013 at which time and place bids will be publicly opened and read aloud.

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

If you should have any questions regarding this bid you may contact the Randy Dukek, Coordinator of Transportation at (651) 423-7685.

Gary Huusko, Board ClerkIndependent School District 196

Published in Apple Valley, Lakeville, Burnsville/Eagan

November 1, 8, 201348501

CITY OF EAGAN NOTICE OF ASSESSMENT

HEARING PROJECT NO. 1119 – EAGANDALE

CENTER INDUSTRIAL PARK STREET IMPROVEMENTS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the

City Council of the City of Eagan, Dakota County, Minnesota, will meet at the Ea-gan Municipal Center at 3830 Pilot KnobRoad, Eagan, Minnesota 55122, on Tues-day, November 19, 2013 to consider the proposed assessment of street improve-ments relating to Project No. 1119 in the following described area:

The area located within Section 11, ly-ing North of Yankee Doodle Road (CSAH28), East of Lexington Avenue (CSAH 43),and South of Lone Oak Road (CSAH 26),in Township 27, Range 23, in the City ofEagan, Dakota County, Minnesota.

The area proposed to be assessed is allproperty described above, all as more fullyand particularly described in the assess-ment roll on file in the City Clerk’s office, which roll is open to public inspection.The total amount of the proposed as-sessment is $553,252.58. Written or oralobjections will be considered at the publichearing.

No appeal may be taken as to theamount of any assessment unless awritten objection, signed by the affectedproperty owner, is filed with the City Clerk prior to the hearing or presented to the presiding officer at the meeting. An ownermay appeal an assessment to DistrictCourt pursuant to M.S.A. Section 429.081by serving notice of the appeal upon the Mayor or Clerk of the City of Eagan, withinthirty (30) days after the adoption of the assessment and filing such notice with theDistrict Court of Dakota County within ten(10) days after service upon the Mayor or Clerk.

Notice is further given that pursuant tothe Minnesota Statues, Sections 435.193 to 435.195, the City of Eagan has ad-opted the City assessment deferral. Thisordinance provides that the Eagan CityCouncil may defer the payment of specialassessment against homestead property,which is owned and occupied by a person 65 years of age or older or retired by virtueof disability when the assessment wouldcreate a hardship upon the property own-er. Applications for deferral must be madenot later than ninety (90) days after the as-sessment is adopted.

Further information relating to these as-sessments and an application for deferralof assessments may be obtained from the Special Assessment Division of the Pub-lic Works Department and any questionsshould be directed to that Division.Dated: October 15, 2013/s/ Christina M. Scipioni City Clerk – City of Eagan

Published in the Burnsville/EaganNovember 1, 2013

48064


HEARING PROJECT NO. 1046 – OLD SIBLEY

HIGHWAY STREET IMPROVEMENTS

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City Council of the City of Eagan, Dakota County, Minnesota, will meet at the Ea-gan Municipal Center at 3830 Pilot KnobRoad, Eagan, Minnesota 55122, on Tues-day, November 19, 2013 to consider the proposed assessment of street improve-ments relating to Project No. 1046 in the following described area:

The area located within the Southwest¼ of Section 19, lying North of DiffleyRoad and West of TH 77 (Cedar Avenue),in Township 27, Range 23, in the City ofEagan, Dakota County, Minnesota.






48043

NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALENOVEMBER 6, 20, 2013SIMPLY SELF STORAGE

4025 OLD SIBLEY MEMORIAL HIGHWAY,

EAGAN, MN. SS MNRI, LLC, doing business

as Simply Self Storage intends to enforce its lien on certain personal property belonging to the following at the facility located at 4025 Old Sibley Memorial Highway, Eagan, MN 55122. The sale will take place (unless otherwise withdrawn) via an on-line auction at www.storagebat-tles.com on Wednesday, November 6, 2013 beginning at approximate-ly 10:00 AM and concluding on Wednesday, November 20, 2013 at approximately 10:00 AM. This pub-lic sale will result in the goods being sold to the highest bidder. Certain terms and conditions apply.

M. Nord #133 Beer Sign, Gas Heater, Circular Saw

F. San Jose #207A Fish Tank, Bike Trailer, Golf Clubs

L. Debreto #528 Artwork, Lamp, Chair

L. Debreto #530A Television, Furniture, Clothing

J. Thompson #638 Computer, Globe, Headboard

M. Monsen #922B Weights, Ex-ercise Equipment, Outboard Motor

J. Erickson #259 Grill, China Cabinet, Ski Boots

B. Clifford #506 MLB Lamp, Speaker, Bicycle

N. Pennington #554 Artwork, Heater, Dresser

Published in Burnsville/Eagan

November 1, 8, 201343681

CITY OF EAGAN NOTICE OF ASSESSMENT HEARING PROJECT NO. 1097 – SUMMER PLACE

1ST & 2ND STREET IMPROVEMENTS

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that theCity Council of the City of Eagan, DakotaCounty, Minnesota, will meet at the Ea-gan Municipal Center at 3830 Pilot KnobRoad, Eagan, Minnesota 55122, on Tues-day, November 19, 2013 to consider the proposed assessment of street improve-ments relating to Project No. 1097 in the following described area:

The area located within the Southwest¼ of Section 25, lying North of Wilder-ness Run Road and West of Dodd Road,in Township 27, Range 23, in the City ofEagan, Dakota County, Minnesota.

The area proposed to be assessed is allproperty described above, all as more fullyand particularly described in the assess-ment roll on file in the City Clerk’s office,which roll is open to public inspection.The total amount of the proposed as-sessment is $27,969.78. Written or oralobjections will be considered at the publichearing.

No appeal may be taken as to theamount of any assessment unless awritten objection, signed by the affectedproperty owner, is filed with the City Clerkprior to the hearing or presented to thepresiding officer at the meeting. An ownermay appeal an assessment to DistrictCourt pursuant to M.S.A. Section 429.081by serving notice of the appeal upon theMayor or Clerk of the City of Eagan, withinthirty (30) days after the adoption of theassessment and filing such notice with theDistrict Court of Dakota County within ten(10) days after service upon the Mayor orClerk.

Notice is further given that pursuant tothe Minnesota Statues, Sections 435.193to 435.195, the City of Eagan has ad-opted the City assessment deferral. Thisordinance provides that the Eagan CityCouncil may defer the payment of specialassessment against homestead property,which is owned and occupied by a person65 years of age or older or retired by virtueof disability when the assessment wouldcreate a hardship upon the property own-er. Applications for deferral must be madenot later than ninety (90) days after the as-sessment is adopted.



48047

CITY OF EAGAN NOTICE OF ASSESSMENT HEARING PROJECT NO.

1120 – NICOLS ROAD STREET IMPROVEMENTS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the

City Council of the City of Eagan, DakotaCounty, Minnesota, will meet at the Ea-gan Municipal Center at 3830 Pilot KnobRoad, Eagan, Minnesota 55122, on Tues-day, November 19, 2013 to consider the proposed assessment of street improve-ments relating to Project No. 1120 in the following described area:

The area located within the North ½of Section 30, and South ½ of Section19, lying both North and South of DiffleyRoad, and East of TH 77 (Cedar Avenue),in Township 27, Range 23, in the City ofEagan, Dakota County, Minnesota.

The area proposed to be assessed is allproperty described above, all as more fullyand particularly described in the assess-ment roll on file in the City Clerk’s office,which roll is open to public inspection.The total amount of the proposed as-sessment is $169,360.66. Written or oralobjections will be considered at the publichearing.





48070

CITY OF BURNSVILLEORDINANCE NO. 1304

AN ORDINANCE AMENDING TITLE 10 OF THE

BURNSVILLE CITY CODE, BEING THE ZONING TITLE

OF THE CITY OF BURNSVILLE PROFFUTT LIMITED PARTNERSHIP

CASE FILE NO. DEV13-0027The City Council of the City of

Burnsville ordains as follows:Section 1. Title 10 of the Burnsville

City Code is hereby amended to al-low open storage and display and abuilding addition in accordance withthe Planned Unit Development Agree-ment on file in the City clerk’s office dated October 8, 2013, for the follow-ing described property located within the City of Burnsville, Minnesota:

Lots 1 and 2, Block 3, Burnsville In-dustrial Park

Section 2. The zoning map of the City of Burnsville referred to and de-scribed in said Title 10, shall not be republished to show the aforesaid rezoning, but the Community Devel-opment Director or his/her designee shall appropriately mark the zoning map on file in the city clerk’s office for the purpose of indicating the rezoningprovided for in this ordinance and allof the notations, references and other information shown thereon are herebyincorporated by reference and made apart of this ordinance.

Section 3. This ordinance shall beeffective immediately upon its pas-sage and publication according to law.

PASSED AND DULY ADOPTED THIS 8th day of October, 2013, by thecity council of the City of Burnsville. By: Elizabeth B. Kautz, MayorATTEST:Macheal Collins, City Clerk


47177


LEGAL NOTICES

INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT 196 • Rosemount-Apple Valley-Eagan Public SchoolsEducating our students to reach their full potential

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the election judges for Independent School District No. 196 shall count the ballots cast in the School District’s November 5, 2013 special election at the following locations for the combined polling places specified.

Combined Precinct 1 Berean Baptist Church 309 County Road 42 East Burnsville, MN

Combined Precinct 2 Lord of Life Lutheran Church16200 Dodd Lane Lakeville, MN

Combined Precinct 3 Hayes Community and Senior Center14601 Hayes Road Apple Valley, MN

Combined Precinct 4 Mt. Olivet Assembly of God Church14201 Cedar Avenue Apple Valley, MN

Combined Precinct 5 River Valley Church14898 Energy WayApple Valley, MN

Combined Precinct 6 ISD 196 District Service Center14445 Diamond PathRosemount, MN

Combined Precinct 7Shepherd of the Valley Lutheran Church12650 Johnny Cake Ridge RoadApple Valley, MN

Combined Precinct 8 Our Saviors Church14980 Diamond PathRosemount, MN

Combined Precinct 9 Community of Hope Church14401 Biscayne Avenue WestRosemount, MN

Combined Precinct 10 St. Thomas Becket Church4455 South Robert TrailEagan, MN

Combined Precinct 11 Eagan Fire Safety Center1001 Station TrailEagan, MN

Combined Precinct 12 Easter Lutheran Church4200 Pilot Knob RoadEagan, MN

Combined Precinct 13 Christ Lutheran Church1930 Diffley RoadEagan, MN

Combined Precinct 14 Chapel Hill Baptist Church4888 Pilot Knob RoadEagan, MN

Precinct 15: Absentee ballotsSchool District 196 District Office3455 153rd St. WestRosemount, MN

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HEARING PROJECT NO. 1100 – DODD ROAD

STREET IMPROVEMENTS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the

City Council of the City of Eagan, Dakota County, Minnesota, will meet at the Ea-gan Municipal Center at 3830 Pilot KnobRoad, Eagan, Minnesota 55122, on Tues-day, November 19, 2013 to consider the proposed assessment of street improve-ments relating to Project No. 1100 in the following described area:

The area located within the West ½ ofSection 25, lying South of Diffley Road,and North of Cliff Road, in Township 27,Range 23, in the City of Eagan, Dakota County, Minnesota.






48053


HEARING PROJECT NO. 1118 - DODD FARM

(CALVIN COURT) STREET IMPROVEMENTS

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City Council of the City of Eagan, Dakota County, Minnesota, will meet at the Ea-gan Municipal Center at 3830 Pilot KnobRoad, Eagan, Minnesota 55122, on Tues-day, November 19, 2013 to consider the proposed assessment of street improve-ments relating to Project No. 1118 in the following described area:

The area located within the Northwest ¼ of Section 25, adjacent to Calvin Court,in Township 27, Range 23, in the City ofEagan, Dakota County, Minnesota.

The area proposed to be assessed is allproperty described above, all as more fullyand particularly described in the assess-ment roll on file in the City Clerk’s office, which roll is open to public inspection .Thetotal amount of the proposed assessmentis $7,175.42. Written or oral objections will be considered at the public hearing.





48058

INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 194

REGULAR SCHOOL BOARD MEETING OCTOBER 8, 2013

This is a summary of the IndependentSchool District No.194 Regular SchoolBoard Meeting on Tues, October 8, 2013with full text available for public inspec-tion on the district website at www.isd194.k12.mn.us or District Office at 8670 210thStreet W., Lakeville, MN 55044

The meeting was called to order at 7:02p.m. followed by pledge of allegiance. All board members and administrators were present except Superintendent Snyderand Exec Dir Knudsen.

Public Comment: Jennifer Harmening,1220 Bluebill Bay Rd & Erin Gonyea,16979 Hubbard Trail shared the scheduleof levy presentations at PTO meetings atthe buildings; Amy Willingham and SarahStowell, representatives of Unite 194shared reasons to support levy.

Consent agenda items approved: Min-utes of the meetings on September 24and 27; employment recommendations,leave requests and resignations; pay-ment of bills & claims as presented; addi-tional non-public transportation contract;MSHSL resolutions for LN & LS; dona-tions and fieldtrips.

Reports presented: Envision Lakeville;TEDx Lakeville; Annual Report; Levy com-munications update; first reading new/re-vised policies 202, 204, 205, 210.

Recommended actions approved: Cer-tification of proposed 2013 payable 2014levy ceiling at the maximum amount al-lowed by MDE and establish hearing date/time as Tuesday, November 26, 7:00 p.m.

Adjournment at 9:19 p.m. Published in

Lakeville, Burnsville/EaganNovember 1, 2013

46879

CITY OF EAGAN NOTICE OF ASSESSMENT HEARING PROJECT NO.

1121 – PATRICK ADDITION (HAY LAKE COURT)

STREET IMPROVEMENTS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the

City Council of the City of Eagan, DakotaCounty, Minnesota, will meet at the Ea-gan Municipal Center at 3830 Pilot KnobRoad, Eagan, Minnesota 55122, on Tues-day, November 19, 2013 to consider the proposed assessment of street improve-ments relating to Project No. 1121 in the following described area:

The area located within the Southwest¼ of Section 25, adjacent to Hay LakeCourt, in Township 27, Range 23, in the City of Eagan, Dakota County, Minnesota.

The area proposed to be assessed is allproperty described above, all as more fullyand particularly described in the assess-ment roll on file in the City Clerk’s office,which roll is open to public inspection. Thetotal amount of the proposed assessmentis $7,977.92. Written or oral objections willbe considered at the public hearing.





48079

CITY OF BURNSVILLEORDINANCE NO. 1302

SUMMARY ORDINANCE AMENDING TITLE 10,

CHAPTERS 12 AND 14 OF THE BURNSVILLE CITY CODE CONCERNING RESIDENTIAL METAL

ROOFS CASE FILE NO. DEV13-0024

On September 3, 2013, the City Council of the City of Burnsville ad-opted an ordinance to amend Title10, Chapters 12 and 14 of the Burns-ville City Code concerning residential metal roofs.

Metal roofs are becoming more popular for both design and environ-mental reasons. They tend to be more expensive but last at least twice as long as shingled roofs. Metal roofscan be made from almost any type of metal both galvanized and un-galva-nized steel, tin, aluminum, and copper.For the City of Burnsville it is proposed that no galvanized or unfinished steel or aluminum will be permitted. No ex-posed fasteners are permitted.

A printed copy of the complete or-dinance is available for inspection byany person during regular office hoursat the Office of the City Clerk at the Burnsville City Hall, 100 Civic CenterParkway, Burnsville, MN 55337.

APPROVED FOR PUBLICATION this3rd day of September, 2013 by theCity Council of the City of Burnsville.

BY ORDER OF THE CITY COUNCILMACHEAL COLLINS, CITY CLERK


47165

CITY OF BURNSVILLE PUBLIC HEARING

A Public Hearing will be held onNovember 13, 2013, at 6:30 p.m. oras soon thereafter as possible by theBurnsville Planning Commission, 100Civic Center Parkway, in the Council Chambers on the application of Min-nwest Bank for a Planned Unit Devel-opment Amendment and Preliminaryand Final Plat, to be known as RiverValley Commons 2nd Addition, for a43 lot subdivision.

The application will be scheduled for the next appropriate City Council meeting following the Planning Com-mission meeting.

All persons desiring to speak on thisapplication are encouraged to attend.For more information concerning thisrequest, please contact Planner ChrisSlania (952) 895-4451 at the City ofBurnsville.Chris Slania On Behalf of the Chair of the Burnsville Planning Commission

Published in Burnsville/EaganNovember 1, 8, 2013

48143

INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 194

SPECIAL BOARD MEETING OCTOBER 8, 2013

This is a summary of the IndependentSchool District No. 194 Special Board ofEducation Meeting on Tuesday, October8, 2013 with full text available for publicinspection on the district website at www.isd194.k12.mn.us or 8670 210th StreetW., Lakeville, MN 55044

The meeting was called to order at 6:00

p.m. All board members and administra-tors were present except SuperintendentSnyder and Exec Dir Knudsen. Discussion: Update of administrationsproposal for certification of pay 14 levy.

Meeting adjourned at 6:50 p.m.Published in

Lakeville, Burnsville/EaganNovember 1, 2013

46862

CITY OF BURNSVILLE PUBLIC HEARING

A Public Hearing will be held onNovember 13, 2013, at 6:30 p.m. oras soon thereafter as possible by the Burnsville Planning Commission, 100Civic Center Parkway, in the Council Chambers on the application of Dwor-sky Family Trust for an Interim UsePermit for soil processing and storage located at the southwest corner of Du-pont Avenue and 126th Street West.


All persons desiring to speak on thisapplication are encouraged to attend.For more information concerning thisrequest, please contact Planner Chris Slania (952) 895-4451 at the City of Burnsville.Chris Slania On Behalf of the Chair of the Burnsville Planning Commission


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CITY OF BURNSVILLE PUBLIC NOTICE

A meeting will be held on Novem-ber 13, 2013, at 6:30 p.m. or as soon thereafter as possible by the Burns-ville Planning Commission, 100 CivicCenter Parkway, in the Council Cham-bers on the application of KC Propco LLC (Kindercare) for a variance to the required setback for a pylon sign lo-cated at 1800 Greenwood.


All persons desiring to speak on thisapplication are encouraged to attend.For more information concerning thisrequest, please contact Planner Chris Slania (952) 895-4451 at the City of Burnsville.Chris Slania On Behalf of the Chair of the Burnsville Planning Commission


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CITY OF BURNSVILLEPUBLIC HEARING

A public hearing will be held on Monday, November 4, 2013, at 6:30 p.m. or as soon thereafter as possible by the Burnsville City Council, 100Civic Center Parkway, in the Council Chambers on an application to vacate portions of the public drainage and utility easements in Lot 1, Block 1 andOutlot B of the RIDGES TENTH ADDI-TION plat, Dakota County, Minnesota,according to the recorded plat thereof.

All persons desiring to speak onthis item are encouraged to attend. For more information concerning thisrequest, please contact the City of Burnsville at (952) 895-4459 Macheal Collins, City Clerk

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INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 196SCHOOL BOARD PROCEEDINGS

OCTOBER 14, 2013Rosemount-Apple Valley-Eagan

Public SchoolsRegular Board Meeting

Chairperson Rob Duchscher called the regular School Board meeting to order at 6 p.m. on Oc-tober 14, 2013 at Dakota Ridge School.

Present: Joel Albright, Art Coul-son, treasurer; Rob Duchscher,

chairperson; Gary Huusko, clerk; Mike Roseen, Bob Schutte and Director of Secondary Education Mark Parr.

Absent: Jackie Magnuson, vice chairperson and Superintendent Jane K. Berenz.

The Pledge of Allegiance was led by the School Board.

There was a moment of silence for Andres Mateo, a Valley Middle – School of STEM student, who passed away.

Motion by Schutte, seconded by Albright and carried, with six mem-bers voting in favor and no member voting in opposition, to approve the agenda.

The School Board recognized National Merit Scholars.

Dr. Parr congratulated the Rose-mount High School Marching Band on being named Grand Champion at the Minnesota Youth In Music Marching Band Championship for the eighth year in a row, Madison Holtze for Best Performer and Best Drum Major went to Tony Hanto, George Tangen, Emily Brossart and Jessie Cox.

Parr recognized Food and Nutri-tion, and Transportation employees for their vital role in educating stu-dents.

Retno Saridewi-Wong of Lakev-ille and Chas McCready of Apple Valley announced that UNITE 196 supports the November 5 levy referendum and encouraged members of the public to get in-formed about District 196 and how efficiently is uses its resources. Michael Groneberg, a UNITE 196 member from Eagan, shared his decision on the 2010 levy vote and told how he now, after becoming involved with the Budget Advisory Council, supports the November 2013 levy.

Rick Heller, St. Paul resident, commented on the need for full accessibility for blind or print dis-abled individuals to state and fed-eral documents. He would like the public to become engaged in the process and provide leverage for a state-level hearing by the Min-nesota Department of Education, if needed.

Motion by Roseen, seconded by Huusko and carried, with six mem-bers voting in favor and no member voting in opposition, to approve the following Consent items:

Minutes of September 23, 2013 regular board meeting (Exhibit A1);

Claims for September 18-Octo-ber 8, 2013 (Exhibit B1);

Electronic funds transfer sched-ule for September 14-October 4, 2013 (Exhibit B2);

Schedule of investments for September 14-October 4, 2013 (Exhibit B3);

Treasurer’s Report for months ending July 31 and August 31, 2013 (Exhibit B4);

Gifts received by September 2013 (Exhibit B5);

Advertising revenue received by September 2013 (Exhibit B6);

Continued participation in the State of Minnesota’s Fuel Program through January 31, 2015 and any additional extensions granted by the state (Exhibit B7);

A resolution of School Board support for district application to the Minnesota State High School League (MSHSL) Foundation for grant funds to offset activity costs (Exhibit B8);

Separations, leaves of absence and new staff (Exhibit C1);

Set pay rates for site manag-ers at $35.30 per event or $52.80 for over 3.5 hours, and supervisor for activities and athletic events at $28.51 per event or $41.92 for over 3.5 hours, effective October 15, 2013 (Exhibit C2);

Agreement with the University of

Northern Iowa for student teacher placements (Exhibit C3);

Agreement with Normandale Community College for food ser-vice student interns (Exhibit D1);

Resolution to expel a student immediately, for the remainder of the 2013-14 school year, continu-ing through and including June 11, 2014 (Exhibit D2), and

Agreement with Family, Adoles-cents and Children Therapy Ser-vices, Inc. (FACTS), for short-term mental health services that may be accessed at school sites, at FACTS or in homes, during the 2013-14 school year (Exhibit D3).

Student Information Supervisor Kim Reis presented the October 1, 2013 Enrollment Report. The official enrollment report is submit-ted to the Minnesota Department of Education (MDE) each year and is used to determine funding from the state. The report showed there were 27,202 students enrolled in District 196 schools. That is 34 more students (0.13 percent) than last year. Total enrollment includes all students in kindergarten through grade 12, plus students in center-based special education programs, early childhood special education and Transition Plus.

The K-12 only enrollment of 25,993 is 65 more students than last year and 91 more students than projected by the district last November for purposes of prepar-ing the 2013-14 preliminary bud-get. The final budget presented to the board in December will reflect actual enrollments from the Octo-ber 1 count.

Reis also shared demographic data on students enrolled in the district on October 1. Students of color now represent 30.12 percent of total enrollment, up 2.2 percent from last year and almost double the 15.07 percent from 10 years ago. Of this year’s total, 12.1 per-cent of district students are Black; 9.47 percent are Asian; 7.61 per-cent are Hispanic and 0.94 percent are American Indian. White stu-dents represent 69.88 percent of enrollment.

Students who qualify to receive English Learner (EL) services rep-resent 5.39 percent of total enroll-ment, up .39 percent from last year and 1.47 percent higher than the 3.92 percent who qualified for EL services 10 years ago. Preliminary statistics on students receiving special education services repre-sent 15.84 percent of total enroll-ment, up .54 percent from last year and slightly less than the 16.32 percent who qualified for special education services 10 years ago. The official special education child count takes place on December 1. Students who qualify to receive free or reduced-price school meals make up 24.07 percent of this year’s enrollment, up 1.57 percent from last year and almost triple the 9.2 percent of district students who qualified 10 years ago.

Steven Albaugh, head of the choral department at Rosemount High School, noted the President’s Committee on the Arts and Hu-manities found that students with a high level of arts participation did better than their peers on achieve-ment and behavioral measures, and that the difference was more significant in lower socioeconomic groups. The artistic process allows academically challenged students to become engaged. Music devel-ops creative and critical thinking skills, and helps build collaborative workforce skills.

The past history of District 196, with its Triple A philosophy of academics, arts and athletics, has allowed the district to attract and retain some of the most re-

spected choral music educators in the Upper Midwest. The board and administration’s promotion of educational excellence and overall support for the arts is reflected in the past.

Albaugh reported that for three decades the Dakota Valley Choral Festival has been the highlight of the performance year. Established in 1978, choral students have had the privilege of performing under the conducting baton of interna-tionally renowned choral conduc-tors. Albaugh reported more than 20,000 community members annu-ally attend high school productions and much larger audiences attend concerts all grade levels.

Music educators question the sustainability of all of the vocal mu-sic programs with the strong focus on achieving higher test results. They are concerned about the elimination of music requirements at the middle school level, the high student-teacher ratio at the elementary schools and inconsis-tent musical offerings from school to school. Albaugh thanked the ad-ministration for working with them to address these needs so that mu-sic continues to be an integral part of the curriculum.

In conjunction with National School Lunch Week, Parr asked the board to approve a resolution recognizing the vital role played by food and nutrition services employ-ees in supporting the education of students and declaring October 13-19 as District 196 Food and Nutri-tion Services Employees Apprecia-tion Week (Exhibit F).

Motion by Schutte, seconded by Albright and carried, with six mem-bers voting in favor and no member voting in opposition, to approve the resolution.

In conjunction with National School Bus Safety Week, Parr asked the board to approve a resolution recognizing the vital role played by transportation employ-ees in supporting the education of students and declaring October 20-26 as District 196 Transporta-tion Employees Appreciation Week (Exhibit G).

Motion by Roseen, seconded by Albright and carried, with six mem-bers voting in favor and no member voting in opposition, to approve the resolution.

Parr announced that the School Board Candidates’ Forum, spon-sored by the Dakota County Re-gional Chamber of Commerce, is being streamed on the district’s website and broadcast on cable.

Motion by Huusko, seconded by Albright and carried, with six mem-bers voting in favor and no member voting in opposition, to adjourn the meeting at 7:15 p.m.

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Minnesota Crime Wave The Minnesota Crime Wave will hit Burnhaven Library from 7-8 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 12. Min-nesota authors Carl Brookins, Ellen Hart and William Kent Krueger make up the group, and they’ll talk about their books and upcoming ti-tles. The library is at 1101 W. County Road 42 in Burnsville. Call 952-891-0300 for information.

Benefit concert set Nov. 16 Vineyard Community Services, Burnsville, will host a country and blue-grass concert to benefit the Fruit of the Vine food shelf from 1-6 p.m. Satur-day, Nov. 16, at Ansari’s Mediterranean Grill and Lounge, 1960 Rahncliff Court, Eagan. Featured musicians will be Patrick Frederick and Steve “Stymie” Seamans of The Daisy Dillman Band, Kit Kildahl and Boom Boom Steve Von-derharr, Jeff Ray and Hur-ricane Harold Tremblay and Corpse Reviver. Online ticket donations are $30 at www.vcsmn.org or $40 at the door if avail-able. For more informa-tion, call 952-595-5980.

Holiday comedy in Lakeville Lakeville-based Ex-pressions Community Theater will present the stage comedy “Trials, Tribulations and Christ-mas Decorations” Nov. 8-24 at the Lakeville Area Arts Center. Tickets are $13 and are available online at www.Lakevil-leAreaArtsCenter.com or by calling 952-985-4640.

The Dream Songs Project Classical voice and guitar duo, The Dream Songs Project, will kick off the 2013-14 Open Doors season with North-ern Songs, a concert tour celebrating the music of Minnesota composers, at 7 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 9. The concert is at Ss. Mar-tha and Mary Episcopal

Church, 4180 Lexington Ave. S., Eagan. Performed by mezzo-soprano Alyssa Ander-son and guitarist Joseph Spoelstra, the concert features “Letters from Composers” by composer Dominick Argento, Chris-topher Gable’s “Hens – Their Diseases and Cure, A Ring of Birds” by gui-tarist and composer Jef-frey Van, and a newly commissioned work by Daniel Nass, “Songs of Cowboys and Hobos.” The concert is appro-priate for all ages, and will include an informal meet-and-greet with the ensemble after the per-formance. Nass will also be available for questions about his music and cre-ative process. More information can be found at: www.the-dreamsongsproject.org. The concert series is in its seventh season of providing music to feed the hungry. Concerts are free and open to the pub-lic. Suggested donations of $10 are accepted to support 360 Communi-ties. Concert-goers also are asked to bring non-perishable items to help restock the 360 Commu-nities food shelves. For more concert infor-mation, call 651-681-0219 or go to www.mandm.org.

La Feminine exhibit La Feminine will pres-ent “Metamorphosis: New Dreams, New Visions, New Directions,” an ex-hibit featuring artists Pa-tricia Schwartz, Christine Tierney and Leslie Bow-man, at the Burnsville Per-forming Arts Center Gal-lery from Nov. 7 to Dec. 14. An opening reception from 6-8 p.m. Friday, Nov. 8, will feature live music by classical guitarist Gene Swanson. Admission is free. For more information, go to www.burnsvillepac.com/art-gallery or call 952-895-4685.

Pottery and art sale in Eagan The Eagan Art House

will host its annual Pottery and Art Sale from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 23, featuring pottery and artwork by instructors and students. Admission is free. Par-tial sale proceeds will ben-efit the Dakota Center for the Arts. The Eagan Art House is located at 3981 Lexing-ton Ave. S., Eagan. Infor-mation: 651-675-5521 or eaganarthouse.org.

Ole & Lena Christmas “Ole & Lena’s Fam-ily Christmas” will take the Burnsville Performing Arts Center stage at 7 p.m. Dec. 18-19. Tickets are $20 at the box office, by phone at 800-982-2787 or Ticketmaster.com.

Photo contest winners Winners of the sixth annual Caponi Art Park Photography Contest have been announced. Adult category: First place, “Untitled” by Em-ily Cole; second place, “Bending with Tree” by Lynn Carlson; third place, “Tree Tops Trail” by Terri Tilotta. Youth category: First place, “Gentle Touch” by Izaac Gingerich, age 10; second place, “Birch Curl” by Delaney Carl-son, age 10; third place, “Flowers” by Chantel Dowell, age 14. Honorable mention: “Serpent” by Fran-cie Duea, “Caponi Art Park” by Sandra Swan-son, “Caponi Art Park Panorama” by Terri Ti-lotta, and “Tree” by Ch-antel Dowell, age 14. Winning photographs will be on display in an exhibition at the Eagan Community Center from Nov. 11 through Dec. 31. An opening reception and awards ceremony will be at 7 p.m. Nov. 11 at the Eagan Community Center. Winning images and all photo submis-sions can be viewed on-line at caponiartpark.org.

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

[email protected].

Books Local teen author Swati Avasthi talks about her second novel, “Chasing Shadows,” 3-4 p.m. Friday, Nov. 8, Wescott Library, 1340 Wescott Road, Eagan. Ages: 12-18. Informa-tion: 651-450-2900 or www.co.dakota.mn.us/libraries. Local Author Fair, 1-4 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 16, at the Dakota County Western Service Cen-ter atrium, 14955 Galaxie Ave., Apple Valley. Free. Information: www.dakotacounty.us/library and search local author fair or call 651-450-2918.

Dance Twin Cities Ballet of Min-nesota performs “Nutcracker” Dec. 13-15 at the Burnsville Performing Arts Center, 12600 Nicollet Ave. Tickets: $16 to $32 at the box office, by phone at 800-982-2787 or Ticketmaster.com.

Exhibits The Abode Exhibit, fea-turing quilts by the Minnesota Contemporary Quilters, is on display through November at the Lakeville Area Arts Center, 20965 Holyoke Ave. Informa-tion: 952-985-4640.

Music Ricky Skaggs & Bruce Hornsby with Kentucky Thun-der, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 2, at the Burnsville Performing Arts Center. Tickets: $53 to $60 at

the box office, by phone at 800-982-2787 or Ticketmaster.com. “Come Thou Fount of Ev-ery Blessing” – Thanksgiving Collaboration Concert & Food Drive, 7 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 10, at the Lakeville Stake Center, 18460 Kachina Court, Lakeville. Features the Minnesota Mor-mon Chorale and Orchestra, the Minneapolis Commodores, Grace United Methodist and Farmington Lutheran church choirs. The event is open to the public. Guests are encouraged to bring one or more non-per-ishable food items for admis-sion which will go to the local 360 Communities food shelves. Refreshments will follow. Vineyard Community Ser-vices benefit country and bluegrass concert for Fruit of the Vine food shelf, 1-6 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 16, at Ansari’s Mediterranean Grill and Lounge, 1960 Rahncliff Road, Eagan. Tickets: $30 donation online at www.vcsmn.org or $40 at the door if available. Information: 952-595-5980.

Theater “Arsenic & Old Lace,” pre-sented by the Prior Lake Play-ers Community Theatre, 7 p.m. Nov. 1-2, Twin Oaks Middle School, 15860 Fish Point Road S.E., Prior Lake. Tickets: $14 for adults, $12 for seniors and students, and $8 for children 12 and under at www.plplayers.org or at the door. Information: www.plplayers.org. “Children’s Letters to God,” presented by the Home-ward Bound Theatre Company,

2 and 7 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 2, and 3 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 3, at the Lakeville Area Arts Center, 20965 Holyoke Ave. Tickets: $18 for adults, $15 for students and seniors. Information: 952-984-4640. “Wonder of the World,” presented by The Chameleon Theatre Circle, 7:30 p.m. Nov. 1-2, 8-9, 11, 14-16, and 2 p.m. Nov. 17, at the Burnsville Per-forming Arts Center. Tickets: $20 for adults and $17 for stu-dents, seniors and groups of eight or more at the box office, by phone at 800-982-2787 or Ticketmaster.com. “An Evening with Mark Twain” featuring Michael Bate-son, 7 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 22, and 2 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 23, at the Burnsville Performing Arts Center. Tickets: $17 at the box office, by phone at 800-982-2787 or Ticketmaster.com.

Workshops/classes/other Holiday Cards in Watercol-or, ages 14 and older, 7-9 p.m. Friday, Nov. 1, Eagan Art House. Cost: $29; supplies provided. Information: www.eaganart-house.org or 651-675-5521. Registrations are open for “At the Ballet: The Nutcrack-er,” special holiday workshop by Ballet Royale Minnesota, Nov. 6 to Dec. 4. Space also available in ongoing Mommy & Me and Adult/Teen ballet classes. Information: www.Bal-letRoyaleMN.org or 952-898-3163. Maiolica Tile Making, 1-5 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 9, Eagan Art House, 3981 Lexington Ave.

Friends and Grammy winners Ricky Skaggs and Bruce Hornsby will share the stage Saturday, Nov. 2, at the Burnsville Performing Arts Center for an evening of new songs and traditional bluegrass music. The duo will be joined by Skaggs’ band Kentucky Thunder, and the show will include a performance of Hornsby’s iconic early hit “The Way It Is.” Tickets are $53-$60 and can be purchased at the Burnsville arts center and at Ticketmaster.com. (Photo submitted)

The vocal quartet Walk Like a Man will present a Broadway-style revue of the music of Frankie Valli on Saturday, Nov. 9, at the Burnsville Performing Arts Center. Led by ten-or Val Martinez, who performed as one of the Four Seasons in Frankie Valli’s solo tours, the quartet presents hits such as “Sherry,” “Dawn Go Away” and “Big Girls Don’t Cry.” Tickets range from $51-$71 and are available in person at the Burnsville arts center’s box office, 12600 Nicollet Ave., and at Ticketmaster.com. (Photo submitted)

S., Eagan. Cost: $30. Registra-tion required. Information: www.eaganarthouse.org or 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 studio, 9 a.m. to noon Fridays at the Ea-gan 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. Drama/theater classes for ages 4 and up at River Ridge Arts Building, 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 (Colonial Shopping Center), 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. In-formation: 651-675-5500. Soy candle making class-es held weekly in Eagan near 55 and Yankee Doodle. Call Jamie at 651-315-4849 for dates and times. $10 per person. Present-ed by Making Scents in Minne-sota. Country line dance classes held for intermediates Mondays 1:30-4 p.m. at Rambling River Center, 325 Oak St., Farming-ton, $5/class. Call Marilyn 651-463-7833. Country line dance classes on Wednesdays at the Lakeville Senior Center, 20110 Holyoke Ave. Beginners, 9-10 a.m.; In-termediate, 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].

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Saturday, Nov. 2 Holiday boutique and bake sale, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., Christ Lu-theran Church, 1930 Diffley Road, Eagan. Rolls, coffee and lunch items available. Information: Ei-leen Gregory at 952-469-6552. A Fair Trade Sale, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., St. John Neumann Church, 4030 Pilot Knob Road, Eagan. Lunch by Chef Jeff Cater-ing, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Products in-clude handcrafts and food items which provide a sustainable live-lihood for small-scale producers. Information: Jeanne Creegan, 651-681-9575.

Sunday, Nov. 3 Spaghetti dinner fundraiser for Burnsville Traveling Base-ball, 4-7 p.m., Neisen’s Sports Bar, 4851 W. 123rd St., Sav-age. Meal catered by Olive Gar-den, Burnsville. Proceeds ben-efit Burnsville Traveling baseball teams heading to Cooperstown, N.Y. Theme baskets for raffle also. Tickets: $7 at the door.

Thursday, Nov. 7 Burnsville Park Nicollet’s Dementia Caregiver Support Group, 10 a.m. on the third floor

in the administration conference room, 14000 Fairview Drive, Burnsville. No registration is re-quired. Information: Connie at 952-993-8739. Prenatal Education Class “Breastfeeding Advantages and Practical Tips,” 6:30-8 p.m., Bethesda Church, 15033 Highway 13 S., Prior Lake. Pre-sented by Michele Lein with La Leche League. This class cov-ers the benefits of breastfeed-ing and helpful information to be successful. Free. Registration is required. To register or more in-formation, call 952-447-5683 or email [email protected]. Panel discussion – Educat-ing Caregivers and Their Loved Ones, 6:30 p.m., Mary, Mother of the Church, 3333 Cliff Road, Burnsville. Free. Call 952-890-0045, ext. 241, or email [email protected] to register. Child care is available with preregistration.

Saturday, Nov. 9 Craft and bake sale, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., St. John the Baptist Catholic School and Church, school gym (door 18), 12508 Lynn Ave., Savage, 952-890-9465.

Sunday, Nov. 10 Kids ’n Kinship 14th annual Bowlathon, Cedarvale Lanes, 3883 Cedar Grove Parkway, Ea-

gan, 651-452-7520. Schedule: 1-2:30 p.m. for volunteers/chil-dren who are matched and their families, waiting list children and their parent(s) and siblings; 2:30-4 p.m. for corporate and group bowlers. Register by Nov. 3 at http://bowlathon13.eventbrite.com. Donate online at http://givemn.razoo.com/story/Kids-N-Kinship. Campus Faith Clubs des-sert banquet, 6:30-8 p.m., Legends Golf Club, 8670 Credit River Blvd., Prior Lake. Students, parents and teachers are invited. Information: Paul Nyquist at 952-854-4596.

Monday, Nov. 11 Veterans Day Concert, 8:30 a.m., Faithful Shepherd Catholic School auditorium, 3355 Colum-bia Drive, Eagan. Information: 651-406-4747.

Ongoing Craft fair, 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 2, and 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 3, at Mary, Mother of the Church, in the Mary Center and Fireside Room, 3333 Cliff Road, Burnsville. Free ad-mission. Food and beverages for sale by the Burnsville Lions Club.

Blood drives The American Red Cross will

Novel draws from dark chapter of family’s history ‘Farewell Berlin’ author Steven Muenzer at Rosemount library Nov. 5

by Andrew MillerSUN THISWEEK


Steven Muenzer had his parents in mind as he set about writing his first novel, “Farewell Berlin.” Set in 1930s Germany, the book follows a small-time peddler in the old Jewish quarter of Berlin who joins a smuggling ring following the death of his parents. While the story of “Farewell Berlin” is fic-tional, the setting – with Hitler’s rise to power cast-ing a dark pall over every-thing – hits close to home for Muenzer, whose par-ents fled Germany in the 1930s and saw several rela-tives die in the Holocaust. “The Holocaust – that was the central theme of my childhood,” said Muenzer of St. Paul. “I knew I couldn’t write my parents’ story, because I didn’t know it. What I tried to do was figure out

what it must have been like for my parents to live in Nazi Germany.” Muenzer will be read-

ing from “Farewell Ber-lin” at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 5, at Rosemount’s Robert Trail Library as

While “Farewell Berlin” is fiction, the book’s setting hits a personal note for author Steven Muenzer, whose par-ents fled Germany in the 1930s and saw several relatives die in the Holocaust. (Photo submitted)

part of the “Meet the Au-thor” series sponsored by the Rosemount Area Arts

Council. Muenzer, who recently retired from a career in law, spent four years writ-ing “Farewell Berlin,” which saw publication in January. Prior to publication, he’d never been to Berlin,

and relied on old maps and picture books to bring realism to the book’s setting. In September, though, he visited Berlin for the first time as part of a trip to Europe with his wife, Jeanne Scott. Much of his time in the German city, he said, was spent “just walking around, trying to exorcise these devils that had been swirling around in my

head for years about Ger-many.” He’s now working on a sequel to his debut novel; the next book, he said, is set in France during World War II. “Farewell Berlin” is avail-able for purchase through the author’s website, www.farewellberlin.com.

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hold the following blood drives. Call 1-800-RED CROSS (1-800-733-2767) or visit redcrossblood.org to make an appointment or for more information. • Nov. 2, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., Kowalski’s Market, 1646 Diffley Road, Eagan. • Nov. 2, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Old Chicago, 14998 Glazier Ave., Apple Valley. • Nov. 4, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Culver’s, 15225 Galaxie Ave., Ap-ple Valley. • Nov. 5, 12:30-6:30 p.m., Dis-trict 191 Community Education Center, 200 W. Burnsville Park-way, Suite 102, Burnsville. • Nov. 6, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Uponor, 5925 148th St. W., Apple Valley. • Nov. 7, 1-6 p.m., Hope Church, 7477 145th St., Apple Val-ley. • Nov. 8, 12:30-6:30 p.m., Eas-ter Lutheran Church by the Lake, 4545 Pilot Knob Road, Eagan. • Nov. 9, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., Ap-ple Valley Fire Department Station 1, 15000 Hayes Road, Apple Val-ley. • Nov. 9, 10:15 a.m. to 4:15 p.m., Burnhaven Library, 1101 W. County Road 42, Burnsville.

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