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Daylight saving time beginsDaylight saving time begins at 2 a.m.Sunday, March 8, when clocks should be moved one hour ahead.

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Inside this edition is an advertisement for bids notice from the Lake-ville Area School Dis-trict for concrete repairs to various buildings.

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Nonprofi t aims to helpWhile a person may come to 360 Communities for food assistance, the nonprofit aims to help with other areas of need.

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Music during wartimeA concert at the Lakeville Area Arts Center features compositions written during or just after World War II.

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Panther hockey on a rollIt’s been a long trip for the Lakeville North boys hockey team to 28-0, the record the Panthers take to the state tournament this week.

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Lakeville Area Garden Club celebrates 25 years

by Laura AdelmannSUN THISWEEK

DAKOTA COUNTY TRIBUNE

Members of the Lakev-ille Area Garden Club began meeting in 1990 because they shared a pas-sion for growing things. Over time, they discov-ered the club cultivated friendships that natu-rally blossomed and have helped keep them rooted through the seasons of life. Lori Peterson, of Elko, has been a member for 21 years.

“I joined because I love gardening and I wanted to find out more about gardening,” Peterson said. “What I found is a won-derful group of friends, close friends, who are there to support you when you have issues.” The group helped her through the death of her mom years ago and the unexpected loss of her hus-band, John Galvin, who died in December at 57. “When he died, I was in shock,” Peterson said. “There were probably 12 to 15 of (the garden club members) at the funeral.” Founding Lakeville Area Garden Club mem-ber Jean Mahowald, of Farmington, said her chil-

dren were small when she attended the club’s first meeting in March 1990. When the kids went to school, Mahowald said she became so involved in the garden club, it was like a full-time job. Now, they are both college graduates and her daughter is planning an August wedding. Mahowald said she re-cently visited Lakeville’s Ritter Farm Park where the club in 1991 planted 600 trees at the request of the Lakeville Parks and Recreation Department. The trees were meant as a wind break for people cross-country skiing in the

Lakeville Area Garden Club members visit a garden filled with peonies on one of their many excursions together. (Photo submitted)

Love of gardening blossoms Love of gardening blossoms club of friendshipsclub of friendships

Like state, Lakeville also reports budget surplus

City Council prioritizes funds toward road projects



After months of worry by Lakeville staff and City Council member about how to keep the levy amount down and still provide city services, pre-liminary analysis shows Lakeville has a $932,000 surplus in its general fund. The unanticipated surplus was primarily at-tributed to money saved from unfilled positions, less-than-anticipated snow plowing at the end of 2014 and increased building permit revenues as

Senior Center fee reductions planned for non-residents

Move intended to bolster plummeting memberships sold

after rate increases by Laura Adelmann

SUN THISWEEKDAKOTA COUNTY TRIBUNE

After Lakeville Senior Center membership fees increased four years ago, Lakeville officials say the city lost 86 percent of its non-resident memberships. City officials are planning price cuts that are predicted to woo back 155 of the almost 200 non-residents who dropped their memberships after the rate increases were set in 2011-12. Lakeville residents, however, will pay a couple bucks more for a Senior Center membership when the changes begin in May. Under the proposal reviewed by the City

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Snyder addresses concerns



About 30 people turned out to Lakeview Elementary’s March 2 PTO meeting when Dis-trict 194 Superinten-dent Lisa Snyder fielded comments, questions and concerns about key district initiatives: Impact Academy and bring-your-own device

(BYOD). Concerns were first raised about the initia-tives during a Face-book conversation that prompted Snyder to sug-gest she and key staff members discuss the con-cerns at the meeting. BYOD is the district’s iLearn 2.0 pilot at Chris-tina Huddleston Elemen-tary and Orchard Lake Elementary that requires parents to supply their students with electron-ic devices the students bring to school for class-work.

The district provides some devices for low-in-come students. Impact Academy, the district’s alternative learning system in its sec-ond school year, meets in Orchard Lake Elemen-tary where the rest of the school operates with a traditional teaching model. Impact Academy re-places rows of desks with spacious areas populated with comfy furniture and groups students by abil-

Some Lakeview parents question district initiatives

Orchard Lake Elementary Principal Marilynn Smith addresses about 30 parents at a Lakeview Elementary PTO meeting as District 194 Superintendent Lisa Snyder looks on. Snyder suggested the duo and District Technology and Data Services Director Jason Molesky visit with parents who expressed concerns about several key district initiatives through a Facebook group. (Photo by Laura Adelmann)

Plans stall for School Board member to observe union negotiations

Issue to return at March 19 study

session by Laura Adelmann


After two failed mo-tions, the Lakeville Area School Board is taking a proposal to allow a board member to observe union negotiations back for more discussion. At a study session last month, the board ap-peared to have reached consensus that School Board Chair Michelle Volk would have the first two-year appointment to sit in on union negotia-tions with district leader-ship. A different board mem-ber was to be appointed for the next round of contracts (involving cus-todians and principals) to avoid involvement by any board member up for re-election and possibly seek-ing endorsement by the union. Board members had also tentatively agreed on strict protocols that limit-ed the board member from participating in the nego-tiations, allowing them to primarily watch and take notes. Volk and any subse-

quent member appointed to the position would also help district officials up-date other board members about the progress of the talks in meetings closed to the public. Don Sinner, Education Minnesota-Lakeville pres-ident, said the union has requested a School Board member be present during negotiations to improve communications and rela-tions with the administra-tion. “Any time you can im-prove relationships be-tween both sides of the aisle, hopefully things will work in a better manner,” he said. Volk said she expected the resolution to pass at the board’s Feb. 24 meet-ing, but two motions to forward the proposal died for lack of a second. Board Member Kathy Lewis made the first mo-tion exclusive to the pro-tocols that prescribed the board member’s role. After that motion failed, Board Member Jim Skelly motioned that Volk be appointed to the position for the 2015-2017 bargaining round as the district will be negotiating contracts for teachers and education assistants.

See BUDGET, 13A

See FEES, 13A

See INITIATIVES, 14A See UNION, 16A

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McGuire Middle School staff celebrated a national recognition on March 3 that took years of effort to achieve. The school was desig-nated as an AVID Nation-al Demonstration School for implementing AVID strategies schoolwide, a implementation process that takes years to com-plete. AVID, Advancement Via Individual Determina-

tion, is a global nonprofit organization focuses on closing the achievement gap by preparing students for college and other post-secondary opportunities. The AVID designa-tion is the highest honor a school can receive. McGuire Middle School Principal Joshua Alexander said the site team began AVID training seven years ago and have been refining and embed-

ding the AVID strategies schoolwide for the past five years. “This sets us apart from other schools as it vali-dates our classroom rigor, focus on success for all students, full implementa-tion of schoolwide teach-ing strategies and a col-lege-going, career-ready culture, ” he said.

— Laura Adelmann

McGuire Middle School receives national recognition

McGuire Middle School staff members celebrate AVID Day on March 3 after learning the school’s AVID program has been awarded validation, making McGuire a National Demonstration School. (Photo submitted)

District 194 School Board Following is the agenda for the 8:01 p.m. Tuesday, March 10, regular meeting of the District 194 School Board at Lakeville City Hall.

1. Preliminary Actions a. Call to Order b. Pledge of Allegiance c. Roll Call and Board Intro-ductions d. Spotlight on Innovation

e. Good News f. Public Comment g. Board Communications h. Agenda Additions i. Approval of Agenda2. Consider Approval of Con-sent Agenda a. Board Minutes b. Employment Recommen-dations, Leave Requests and Res-ignations c. Other Personnel Matters d. Payment of Bills & Claims e. Other Business Matters f. Resolution Regarding Ac-ceptance of Gift Donations g. Field Trips 3. Consent Agenda Discussion

Items 4. Reports a. Innovation Zone Report – Dr. Snyder/Ms. Knudsen b. Strategic Planning Update – Dr. Snyder/Mr. Molesky c. Graduation Rates – Mr. Molesky d. First Reading New/Re-vised Policies – Mr. Massaros 5. Recommended Actions a. FY16 Preliminary Budget Update – Mr. Baumann 6. Additions to Agenda 7. Information a. Superintendent’s Report b. Board Members Reports 8. Adjournment

Agendas

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Parenting series session March 16 The 2014-15 Farmington and Lakeville Parenting Series on Monday, March 16, will feature Luke Spiegelhoff, a licensed so-cial worker sharing parenting strategies. This event will be held from 7-8:30 p.m. at Mead-owview Elementary in Farming-ton. Spiegelhoff has more than 20 years of experience serving youths in Dakota County. He has worked as a school social worker, in-home and outpatient therapist as well as a clinical supervisor. He is currently the clinical director at FACTS and is continuing to expand his role in providing training for profes-sionals and parents. Admission is free; pre-regis-tration is not required. Continu-ing education units are available for a small fee. Meadowview is located at 6100 195th St. W., Farmington. More information is available at www.farmingtonCE.com or 651-460-3200.

Ettl scholarship applications open Applications will be accepted through April 15 for the Alyssa Ettl Memorial Scholarship pro-gram. Ettl died in a Dec. 4, 2013, car crash; she would have gradu-ated in 2015. This is the second year scholarships have been of-fered. Five $1,000 scholarships will be given. Applications are open to Lakeville North and Lakeville South high school stu-dents. Applicants must describe why it is important for students

to live out their faith in school and public places and describe how their Christian faith helped them through their high school career. Students can apply on-line at https://sites.google.com/site/alyssaettlmemorialscholar-ship/scholarship. To learn more about the Alyssa Ettl Memorial or to make a donation, visit https://sites.google.com/site/alyssaet-tlmemorialscholarship/home.

DCTC Early Childhood and Youth Development The Early Childhood and Youth Development program at Dakota County Technical College in Rosemount is spon-soring an open house from 1-4 p.m. Monday, March 23, in the program classroom 2-206. Anyone interested in learning more about the program and a career in early childhood educa-tion is encouraged to attend this event. Faculty and staff will be available to answer questions. Participants can tour classrooms and lab space, ask questions and discuss courses with the faculty. The program students pro-vides an opportunity to prepare for careers as preschool teach-ers, childcare providers, child life assistants and more. Day, evening and online class options are available. This program also offers transfer options for stu-dents who wish to complete a bachelor’s degree. For more information, con-tact Dawn Braa at 651-423-8315 or Sharon Bergen at 651-423-8398.

Inver Hills receives Travelers grant Inver Hills Community Col-lege recently received a $55,000 grant from Travelers Insurance. The grant will provide special project support for the college’s Travelers EDGE Scholar Career Pipeline Program. The program aims to increase the pipeline of underrepresented students who complete bach-elor’s degrees and are prepared for a career at Travelers or with-in the insurance and financial services industry. “Inver Hills Community Col-lege is excited to partner with Travelers and participate in their Travelers EDGE program,” stat-ed Matt Kruger, director, TRIO Student Support Services at In-ver Hills College. “This grant will provide deserving students the opportunity for professional development, literacy and rel-evant work experience as they participate in a paid internship in the financial services and in-surance industry.” For more information on the Travelers EDGE program at In-ver Hills Community College, contact Kruger at [email protected] or 651-450-3701.

Community education classes Lakeville Area Community Education will offer the follow-ing classes. Call 952-232-2150 or visit www.LakevilleAreaCom-munityEd.net for more informa-tion. Petite Paintings, 6:30-9 p.m. Thursday, March 12, Firehouse Grille in Elko New Market. Paint “mini spring,” two small

pieces of art on canvas to take home. Light appetizers are in-cluded in the fee; beverages are available for purchase. For ages 21 and older. Riveted Jewelry, 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, March 14. Learn standard riveting and tube rivet-ing, and how to use a riveting hammer and other tools. Adults. Your Legacy – Family, Church, Charity, 6:30-8 p.m. Thursday, March 12. Uncover estate and giving strategies to ensure your legacy lives on. Adults. Yoga for Beginners, 6:30-7:30 p.m. Monday, March 16. Six-week session (skip March 30). Adults. Yoga for Intermediates, 7:40-8:40 p.m. Monday, March 16. Six-week session (skip March 30). Adults. Youth Fencing for grades two to five and Fencing Team for grades six to eight: Next sessions start March 16. New students will learn fencing basics: ad-vance, retreat, thrust, lunge, etc. Returning students will work on economy of motion, setup at-tacks, combination attacks and adding new moves to their skill set. Everyone will work towards arm-band advancement with the ultimate goal of reaching the ninth level black band.

College news Saint John’s University, Col-legeville, fall dean’s list, from Lakeville – Mack Farley, Mar-cus Vievering. College of Saint Benedict, St. Joseph, fall dean’s list, Haley Chatelaine, of Lakeville. Concordia College, Moor-head, fall dean’s list, from Lake-ville – MaryEllen Saatzer, Julia

Vance. Luther College, Decorah, Iowa, scholarship recipients, from Lakeville – Cailee Van-sickle, President’s Scholarship; Grant Gunderson, President’s Scholarship and Legacy Award. University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, fall honors list, Eu-gene Benhart, of Lakeville. University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, December graduates, from Lakeville – Ashley Larson, B.S., kinesiology; Edward Mad-olimov, B.S., athletic training. University of Wisconsin-Madison, winter graduate, Pat-rick Enroth, of Lakeville, B.S., mechanical engineering. University of Wisconsin-Mil-waukee, fall dean’s list, Nicole Latzig, of Lakeville. University of Wisconsin-Stout, fall chancellor’s award, from Lakeville – Renee Brown, Kevin Bungert, Lindsay Erstad, Elyse Haugen, Megan Hondl, Jillian Lentz, Marisa Mala-howski, Andrew Ostapowycz, Benjamin Ritter, Joshua Robin-son, Monica Schmit. Luther College, Decorah, Iowa, fall dean’s list, from Lake-ville – Kierra Blackstad, Isaac Davis, Christy Emanuelson, Kyle Knoke, Sara Nelson. Dakota County Technical College student Kyle Maxwell, of Lakeville, is the recipient of a $1,000 scholarship from the mikeroweWORKS Foundation in partnership with the AED Foundation, an affiliate of Asso-ciated Equipment Distributors. Maxwell is a student in DCTC’s Heavy Construction Equipment Technology program.

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Levy options for music, technology To the editor: I think it is great that the Lakeville Area School Board is looking into bringing back music and art programs. Art pro-motes fine motor skills, spatial relations, and ab-stract thinking … skills that are needed to excel in other subjects. If creat-ing a levy is the only way we can get these programs back, I am open to hear-ing about it. In light of this potential levy, I have some concerns about the levy to fund technology. At the last School Board meeting, I saw an excel-lent demonstration of the Bring Your Own De-vice program at Christina Huddleston Elementary and while students are enjoying their electronic devices, I question to what extent does it im-prove learning? Can we justify the extra $700,000 to bring devices into the classroom when class

sizes have increased and programs have been cut? More information on out-comes is needed before we ask taxpayers to fund fur-ther technological learn-ing initiatives in Lakeville.

KARA BECKERLakeville

Trails are not a shared vision To the editor: If a private business ripped a road through one of the last remaining for-est areas in Dakota Coun-ty, there would be outrage. This week I visited Spring Lake Park. When I saw the damage I let out a shriek, which startled my companion. A huge swath of forest had been clear cut. This development approach in our regional parks is expensive, does not have shared vision and is ecologically reckless. Costs. The county now has approved mas-ter plans for 85.5 miles of “Greenway” trails at a total estimated cost of $83,416,678. If the board

approves the Lebanon Hills Master Plan, this figure climbs to more than $86 million. Legacy fund-ing should not be used on projects that have net negative environmental impacts. We voted for the Legacy to protect land not clear cut forest. Dakota County taxpayers may already be on the hook for $3.4 million of main-tenance costs every year

from current planned de-velopment. Lack of shared vision. The Eagan Core Green-way, the Sierra Club and the Audubon Society have come out against this de-velopment approach in Lebanon Hills. I heard the county received more than 600 comments. A handful of engineers, consultants and politicians do not own this land. This is our shared legacy to protect. We are obliged to protect land for future genera-tions. Natural Resources. There are serious ques-tions about natural re-sources checks and bal-ances in this process. I, like most Dakota County residents, once trusted government to be good land stewards. I assumed that the county had strong environmental review. I no longer believe this is the case. We do not need flat as-phalt traffic lanes through our last remaining open space in Dakota County. Keep Lebanon Hills af-fordable today and tomor-row while leaving a little

other habitat for other life forms.

LAURA HEDLUNDEagan

Appalled that letter was published To the editor: I am appalled that the newspaper published the letter by Thomas Carlson on Feb. 26/27. We have lost so much as Americans because of fear and anger over the last decade and a half, and I think we all have to be diligent before spreading more of it, and news outlets should take on a greater responsibil-ity for protecting the pub-lic from this kind of fear mongering. Within 10 minutes of searching the school’s website I found the exact materials in question in this letter, as well as the reading materials about Christianity that will be taught during the same unit. This article begins in the same way as the reading materials on Is-

lam: “One of the greatest religions of the world is Christianity.” The materials were not allowed to go home, but clearly any parent can ac-cess the material if they want to (since I did with-out even having a child in that school, let alone in that class), so no one is “hiding” anything “from mom and dad.” If there is anything to be upset about in this story it is that religion (not a specific religion) is being taught in school. I buy that as a legitimate concern, although I am personally glad to see that students are learning about all three of the ma-jor monotheistic religions of the world. Much like Mr. Carlson, when people only have half truths they come to wrong conclu-sions, and when religion is involved there are often dire consequences. I hope in the future the newspaper is more dili-gent about the letters they choose to publish. We do not need more division in this country, we need knowledge and under-standing. Information is the best way to fight fear.

MALEENIA MOHAB-IRRosemount

Pass the Toxic Free Kids Act To the editor: Many of us are aware of the potential dangers of substances such as BPA, formaldehyde, cad-mium, lead and certain flame retardants on chil-dren’s health and develop-ment. But most of us are not aware that companies are not only allowed to

Letters

Correction A story last week incorrectly stated the Lakeville Area School Board is meet-ing with a consultant March 17 to discuss a potential capital levy and/or oper-ating levy. The correct date of the meeting is March 19 at 6 p.m. at the Crystal Lake Education Center, 16250 Ipava Avenue, Lakeville. The newspaper regrets the error.

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New secretary of state wants more Minnesotans to voteby Don Heinzman


Did you vote in the last general elec-tion? If your answer is yes, congratulations. If it is no, Secretary of State Steve Simon has some ideas to make voting easier for you. It’s true that Minnesota usually is among the top voter-turnout states for the general elections, but the turnout for last year’s primary election was 10 per-cent. Simon figures the turnout would be much greater if the primary election date were pushed back from August to June. As a former 10-year legislator, he knows that changing the date won’t be easy. He says the turnout is low in August because “Minnesotans try to squeeze ev-ery drop out of summer, when there isn’t much interest in an election campaign.”

Legislators, particularly outstate, worry if the election were in June, they’d miss out on campaigning for re-election. Si-mon says those legislators get a lot of press and attention from would-be voters when they are in session. Simon said he intends to introduce legislation to move the primary date to June this session. He says the idea has the support of new House Speaker Kurt Daudt and Gov. Mark Dayton. The new secretary of state also wants to change the law to have earlier voting two weeks before the election.

Last fall when there was early, no-excuse absentee voting two weeks before the election, there was a 55 percent in-crease in absentee voting. The next step could be earlier voting. Earlier-voting bills have been intro-duced in both the Minnesota House and Senate. Simon points out that 32 states, including the neighboring ones, have ear-lier voting. Another initiative the new secretary favors is ability to register to vote when getting a driver’s license. In Delaware, for example, the law requires the registrant be asked directly if they wish to register to vote when applying for a driver’s li-cense. On the matter of recounts, Simon be-lieves Minnesota is better prepared for recounts than any state. His election to secretary of state con-tinues his political climb that started in Hopkins High School, where he was a

member of the high school debate team and a state champion in extemporaneous speaking. The teacher in Hopkins who gave him valuable advice and encouragement was Phil Abalan. Another teacher who re-members him is Ken Wedding, a social studies teacher, now retired in North-field. Wedding predicted that Simon would be successful in politics because political ideas excited him and the stu-dents respected him. Simon wants Minnesotans to know he will work with anyone of any political affiliation, from any part of the state, to protect, defend and strengthen the right to vote in Minnesota. Don Heinzman is a columnist for ECM Publishers. He can be reached through [email protected]. Columns reflect the opinion of the author.

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360 Communities starts conversations that lead to greater impactsby Sal Mondelli

SPECIAL TO SUN THISWEEKDAKOTA COUNTY TRIBUNE

Early in February, Beth walked into 360 Communities Burnsville Family Re-source Center for a food shelf appoint-ment. Like all first-time food shelf cus-tomers in Burnsville, she met with one of our staff to have a conversation about her situation. Financial Support Worker Natalie Schmidgall completed a financial screen-ing to uncover any other barriers to self-sufficiency Beth could be facing. Natalie found that Beth, a single mother of two and a homeowner, had fallen into fore-closure. Her father had been living with her family and helping with finances, but he had moved out of the house. Then she lost her job. She continued to make her mortgage payments, but the financial strain made it impossible to keep up with insurance and home association fees. In order to keep her home, she would need to come up with about $3,500 to become current and stop the foreclosure process. When it comes to the individuals and families we serve, hunger is merely a symptom of larger issues. Volunteers

and staff at 360 Communities’ network of five food shelves in Apple Valley, Burnsville, Farmington, Lakeville, and Rosemount are aware of the complexity of a person’s hunger crisis. An estimated 30,000 Dakota County residents, includ-ing our food shelf customers, are expe-riencing poverty. And for many, poverty presents itself in multiple ways: poverty of nutrition, poverty of housing, poverty of safety, and poverty of support sys-tems, to name several. A food emergency situation allows 360 Communities to start the conversa-tion with our food shelf customers so that we can fully understand their needs, and then see if there are ways we can help them with additional resources and pro-grams. In their conversation, Beth told Nata-

lie that she had already reached out to other agencies, but was unable to get help with her housing situation. Natalie asked more questions and discovered that Beth was an Army veteran and had been deployed overseas during the 1990s. Natalie connected Beth with Dakota County Veteran Services and helped her apply for a grant through the State Sol-dier’s Assistance Program. The grant is in place to help qualified veterans with shelter, catastrophic loss, or utilities. Nat-alie helped Beth ensure all the paperwork and proper documentation was submit-ted and Beth has been interviewed by the program. If approved, the grant could help her avoid foreclosure. Beth’s story is another instance where 360 Communities was able to help a food shelf customer beyond food. But emer-gency food is where the conversation started about how to help Beth on her journey back to self-sufficiency. You can help 360 Communities start more conver-sations by supporting our food shelves during the Minnesota FoodShare March Campaign. This annual food drive ben-efits about 300 food shelves across the state, including 360 Communities’ net-

work of five food shelves. Throughout the month of March, you have an op-portunity to increase the impact of your food donations that help families like Beth’s. 360 Communities would like to raise $75,000 and 75,000 pounds of food dur-ing this campaign, enough to feed 22,500 people for a week. For every $10 donat-ed, we can purchase $30 worth of gro-ceries with our access to discount food programs. In addition, every donation to our food shelves in the month of March, food or money, will generate a larger portion of Minnesota FoodShare’s grant distribution for 360 Communities, fur-ther stretching the impact of your gift. With 360 Communities, we can do more with your food shelf donations. We can change lives and strengthen commu-nities.

Sal Mondelli is President & CEO of 360 Communities, a Dakota County nonprofit that provides hope and support to people by preventing violence, ensuring school success, and promoting long-term self-sufficiency. Columns reflect the opinion of the author.

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use these substances in many children’s products, but are not even required to disclose their presence, so that concerned parents can make informed deci-sions. The Minnesota De-partment of Health has identified a list of “Pri-ority Chemicals” that are found in products chil-dren are exposed to that may be particularly harm-ful to them. Exposure to these chemicals has been linked to cancer, hormone disruption, and develop-mental and neurological damage. If passed, a bill called the Toxic Free Kids Act will require companies to report products that con-tain a Priority Chemical. As a mother of two young children, I am very con-cerned about what’s in the products they are exposed to every day. Things like toys, shampoo, and even food. Therefore, I will be contacting my state elect-ed officials urging them to support this important bill. Perhaps with more citizen input, this will be

the year the state Legis-lature chooses to protect kids’ health by passing the Toxic Free Kids Act. DIANA SPURGEONApple Valley

Help to end multiple sclerosis To the editor: Multiple sclerosis is a chronic disease of the central nervous system, for which there is no cure. MS interrupts the flow of information within the brain and between the brain and the body. Most people with MS are diagnosed between the ages of 20 and 50, with at least two to three times more women than men being diagnosed with the disease. MS affects more than 2.3 million world-wide. Thanks to growing collaboration around the world, however, there are improved treatments lead-ing to enhanced quality of life for people living with MS. In 2014, the society invested $50.2 million to

advance more than 380 research projects around the world in order to stop MS, restore what has been lost and end MS forever. Through its comprehen-sive nationwide network of programs and services, it also helped more than one million people affect-ed by MS connect to the people, information and resources needed to live their best lives. MS divides minds from bodies, pulls people from their lives and away from one another. MS is a de-stroyer of connection. But it is possible to build connections that MS can-not destroy. Our connec-tions raise questions, find answers, bring knowledge and provide hope. Every connection we make is a small victory and, to-gether, our small victories create larger ones that will help end MS forever. Ev-ery connection counts. I know the effects of MS; I have MS. Beginning with MS Awareness Week March 2- 8, I encourage people to connect in a way that is most meaningful to them, as there is no more pow-

erful way to end MS. It’s easy to get involved, visit www.MSconnection.org. It only takes a few min-utes to make a difference in the lives of the millions of people worldwide who live with this disease.

KELLEY O’DONNELLLakevilleWalk MS ambassador-Twin Cities

Toxic Free Kids Act aims to improve safetyTo the editor: I may be Marvel Com-ics’ first grandmother with super powers. As with many super heroes, my su-per powers fully emerged after a cataclysmic brush with death … after a near-ly fatal brain aneurysm hemorrhage. My super power? Due to severe reactions to many chemicals, while walking down the middle of the street I can sniff out toxic fumes from homes in my neighborhood. With my eyes shut I can iden-tify people laced with toxic fragrance chemicals.

Malls should fear me, be-cause from the corridor I can lead the authorities to stores selling toxic prod-ucts. But life with super powers isn’t easy. I become physically ill from exposure to chemi-cal toxins everywhere … fitness clubs, grocery stores, concerts, furniture stores, malls, theaters, and church. But I’m not alone. An estimated 30 percent of people experience negative health impacts from others’ fragrance chemicals — migraines, dizziness, respiratory dis-tress, impaired thinking. Because “fragrances” are protected under “trade secret” laws, we are un-aware of the presence of chemicals like phthalates, known endocrine disrup-tors linked with cancer, re-duced fertility, male birth defects, kidney and liver damage. Exposure pre-natally is associated with negative neurobehavioral effects in boys. I worry that my grand-children are also affected by invisible toxic chemi-cals they cannot escape. According to EPA esti-

mates, infants up to age 2 are 10 times more vulner-able to carcinogenic chem-icals than adults. By age 2, babies have accumulated 50 percent of their life-time cancer risk. This hor-rifies me. Our Department of Health has recommended that nine toxic chemicals no longer be allowed to re-main hidden in children’s products. Under the Toxic Free Kids Act, manufac-turers would have to make this information public. Currently, many of these toxic chemicals are found in children’s toys, jewelry, baby shampoo, lotion, plastics, textiles, and fur-niture. Please urge your rep-resentatives to vote for the Toxic Free Kids Act, which is currently before the Minnesota Legisla-ture. Parents should have the right to know, because not every kid has a grand-ma with superpowers. SANDRA STENBERG BIRDSALLBurnsville

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Lakeville City Coun-cil members approved a $3.6 million construction contract to CB&I Inc. for development of a 2 mil-lion gallon water tower at 190th Street and Holyoke Avenue. The project was recom-mended in a 2013 compre-hensive water supply study update conducted by city Public Works Director Chris Petree and his staff. It found that without additional elevated water storage, the city would be

unable to meet current and future water needs in portions of the southern and eastern parts of Lake-ville, where most of the city’s growth is occurring. The water tower will have a concrete base and welded iron water tank and look similar to the one at the Central Main-tenance facility at 7570 179th St. W.. No private wells in the area are expected to be af-fected by the tower’s con-struction, since the project is solely for water storage, Petree said at the March 2 City Council meeting, where the contract was awarded. Four companies bid on

the project and ranged in price from $4.6 million to $3.6 million, which was the CB&I Inc. bid that came in 14 percent below an engineering estimate of $4.3 million. Lakeville has five wa-ter towers, and three ser-vice the “normal pressure zone” where the new tower will serve. Water from the city’s other two towers in the “low pressure zone” can-not be moved back to cover the normal pressure zone area if needed, ac-cording to the city. Laura Adelmann is at [email protected].

Because of what has been described as out-door warning siren “fa-tigue,” city and county emergency managers in Dakota County, follow-ing a recommendation from the National Weath-er Service, have changed their policy regarding when outdoor warning sirens are activated. In the past, outdoor warning sirens were ac-tivated during tornado warnings and any severe thunderstorm warnings. From 2010 to 2014, this resulted in 96 instances where outdoor warning sirens were activated. The new policy con-tinues to activate the outdoor warning sirens during tornado warnings, but changes to a sus-tained wind speed criteria

needed to prompt sound-ing the sirens during a se-vere thunderstorm warn-ing. Effective immediately, outdoor warning sirens will sound when wind speed is expected to meet or exceed 70 miles per hour. If this policy had been used over the last five years, the use of outdoor warning sirens across Da-kota County would have been reduced by 75 per-cent. The National Weather Service made this rec-ommendation based on more accurate weather forecasting and technol-ogy, as well as wind dam-age information. Local police and fire can also call to have the outdoor warning sirens

activated if they feel it is in the best interests of public safety, such as if they see a funnel cloud when no warnings are is-sued. These situations are rare, however. If residents hear a si-ren, they should go inside and get more information from their television, In-ternet, radio, or smart-phone and take appropri-ate action. Because the National Weather Service has advanced technology, warnings may be issued well ahead of a storm. Warning sirens should al-ways be taken seriously. Questions about the new outdoor warning policy can be directed to Dan Carlson, Dakota County emergency pre-paredness coordinator, at 651-438-4703.

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News BriefsLove for Aria benefit set The Love for Aria ben-efit will be held from 4-7 p.m. Saturday, March 14, for the family of Aria Carl-son, who was born Jan. 7 with a complete atrioven-tricular canal defect. She will require major heart surgery within three to six months. Event activities will in-clude a spaghetti dinner and silent auction in addi-tion to music, games and crafts for kids. The benefit will be held at New Horizon Academy, 9085 203rd St. W., Lake-ville. Tickets will be available at the door for $10 per per-son, $25 per family.

Job Transitions Group The March 10 meeting of the Easter Job Tran-sitions Group will be a breakout session on “Are You Really Qualified for that Job?” The group meets at 7:30 a.m. at Easter Lu-theran Church – By The Lake, 4545 Pilot Knob Road, Eagan. Small group sessions are offered following the meet-ing at 9:30 a.m. each week on many different topics. Call 651-452-3680 for information.

Mental Health Day at the Capitol Mental health advocates and friends from through-out Minnesota will gather for Mental Health Day at the Capitol on March 12. Families, persons living with a mental illness and mental health profession-als will meet from 10 a.m. to noon at Christ Lutheran Church on Capitol Hill, 105 University Ave. W. (across the street from the Capitol) for presentations on this year’s legislative is-sues, including key propos-als to boost mental health funding and improve ac-cess to mental health ser-

vices. Hundreds of people are expected to attend the event and to join in visits with their legislators about mental health services in their home communities. The event is sponsored by the Mental Health Leg-islative Network, a coali-tion of more than 35 orga-nizations concerned about the quality and availability of mental health services in Minnesota. For infor-mation, call NAMI Min-nesota at 651-645-2948 or 1-888-NAMI-Helps, or go to www.namihelps.org.

Seasonality Through Spices “Spring is Sprung … Or Almost” is the second in the Seasonality Through Spices series offered at 8 a.m. Saturday, March 21, at the LeDuc Historic Es-tate, 1629 Vermillion St., Hastings. Participants will play with seeds and sprouts, en-couraging the budding of plants to come earlier. This session is for all in-terest groups, but especially for gardeners and those who like to cook. Class size is limited and early regis-tration is encouraged. Register by calling ei-ther the LeDuc Historic Estate at 651-437-7055, Hastings Spiral Co-op at 651-437-2667 or Mindful Motion Pilates and Fitness at 651-318-9168. The cost for this session is $20. Other classes in the se-ries include “Embracing the Heat” (July 18), “Fruits of the Harvest” (Sept. 19) and “Getting to the Root of Things” (Nov. 14).

Varicose vein screening set in Burnsville Metro Vein and Cos-metic Surgery will hold a free varicose vein screening on Saturday, April 11, in Burnsville. The screening is from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. The Burnsville clinic is at 625 E Nicollet Blvd., Suite 200. Registration is

required. Call 612-789-8346 or register online at veinsnomore.com. The screening provides the opportunity for people to see if they have vari-cose veins, get information about varicose veins or related venous conditions and review treatment op-tions. They can then take that information and dis-cuss it with their primary care physicians. If left untreated, vari-cose veins can lead to much more serious conditions, such as leg ulcers and deep vein thrombosis. Varicose veins can also be painful. About 25 million Ameri-cans suffer from them. Benefits will not be ob-tained for free screening and Ucare members are only eligible for new pa-tient appointments.

Hope for Recovery workshop The National Alliance on Mental Illness of Min-nesota (NAMI Minnesota) will hold a free, six-hour interactive workshop that provides families and in-dividuals with informa-tion on mental illnesses, practical coping strategies, and hope for recovery. The workshop will be held from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, March 28, at St. Mathias Church, 23315 Northfield Blvd., Hampton. For in-formation or to register, call 651-645-2948 or go to namihelps.org.

Fundraiser for Icing Smiles at Skateville A rollerskating fund-raiser for Icing Smiles, a nonprofit organization that provides birthday cakes and celebrations for critically ill children, will be from 4:30-6:30 p.m. March 14, at Skateville. More about the event is at www.facebook.com/skatefundraiser. Skateville is located at 201 S. River Ridge Circle.


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Fish fry Friday in Farmington The Church of St. Mi-chael will host its annual fish fry from 5-7 p.m. Fri-day, March 6, in the church social hall at 22120 Den-mark Ave., Farmington. Dinner will include all-you-can-eat Alaskan pol-lock, potato side, coleslaw and fluffy dinner rolls, along with juice, coffee and milk. Ice cream will also be provided. Good-will offerings will be accepted. All proceeds will go toward Church of St. Michael charitable causes.

Matsiko World Orphan Choir The Matsiko World Or-phan Choir will perform at Spirit of Life Presbyterian Church in Apple Valley during the 10 a.m. worship service Sunday, March 15. The church is located at 14401 Pilot Knob Road in Apple Valley. All are wel-come. The choir is currently made up of 18 of the poor-est orphaned and at-risk children from Peru, India

and Liberia. Their ages range from 5 to 13. The children, with their adult leaders, will stay in the homes of Spirit of Life families March 14-19 while they perform at various venues in the Minneapo-lis area. They will perform again at Spirit of Life dur-ing the church’s Meet in the Middle after-school pro-gram Wednesday, March 18. For more information on the choir’s visit, call the church office at 952-423-2212.

Science & Scripture Shepherd of the Valley Lutheran Church, Apple Valle, will offer a seminar titled “Science & Scripture: Encountering Ecology” from 8 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Saturday, March 14. A continental breakfast will served. Two theologians and a biologist will look through the lens of caring for the environment at how science and scripture are related. Dr. Alan G. Padgett, professor of Systematic Theology at Luther Semi-

nary, will present the title keynote address and a breakout session “Science and Christian Faith: Con-flict?” Dr. Ian S. Johnston, professor of Biological Sci-ences at Bethel University, will present the breakout session “Scientific insights carry prophetic weight for faithful Christian living!” Kiara Jorgenson, Ph.D. candidate at Luther Semi-nary, will present the break-out session “Surveying the Land: The Shape of Dis-course in Christian Eco-logical Ethics” All three speakers will gather for a question-and-answer panel at noon. Cost is $20. Early-birds can register for $15 before March 12. Register by cash or check at the church dur-ing office or worship hours or online with a credit or debit card at www.sotv.org/events. This seminar is part of the ongoing Christian edu-cation series “Immersed in the Word.” Shepherd of the Valley Lutheran Church is locat-ed at 12650 Johnny Cake Ridge Road in Apple Val-ley.

ReligionSeniorsLakeville seniors All events are held at Lakeville Heritage Cen-ter, 20110 Holyoke Ave. Call 952-985-4622 for in-formation. Monday, March 9 – Health Insurance Counseling, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.; Knitting Class, 9:30 a.m.; Wii Bowl-ing, 10 a.m.; Day Old Bread, 10:15 a.m.; Hear-ing Screening, 11 a.m.; Healthways Flex Fitness 1, 11 a.m.; Healthways Flex Fitness 2, noon; Cribbage, 12:30 p.m.; Cards, 1 p.m.; Mahjong, 1 p.m.; deadline, iPhone Class. Tuesday, March 10 – Dominoes and Cards, 9 a.m.; Tappercize, 9:30 a.m.; Craft Group, 9:30 a.m.; Blood Pressure Checks, 9:30 a.m.; Cre-ative Writing, 10 a.m.; Day Old Bread, 10:15

a.m.; Party Bridge, noon; Zumba Gold, 3:30 p.m.; Pilates Mat Class, 5 p.m.; deadline, Diner’s Club. Wednesday, March 11 – Cards, 9 a.m.; Line Dancing, 9 and 10 a.m.; Healthways Flex Fit-ness 2, 10 a.m.; Day Old Bread, 10:15 a.m.; Healthways Flex Fit-ness 1, 11 a.m.; Pinoch-le, noon; Dime Bingo, 1 p.m.; Chess, 1 p.m. Thursday, March 12 – “Classic Voices” Chorus, 9-10 a.m.; iPhone – Back to Basics, 9 a.m.; Day Old Bread, 10:15 a.m.; Red Hat Chorus, 10:30 a.m.; Euchre, Hand & Foot, noon; Ping Pong, 1-3 p.m.; Red Hat Cho-rus at Augustana Regent, 1:30 p.m.; Zumba Gold, 3:30 p.m.; Diner’s Club – Babe’s, 5 p.m.; Billiards, 6:30-8:30 p.m.; deadline, Old Log Theater Trip. Friday, March 13 – Yoga, 8:15 a.m.; Cards,

9 a.m.; Day Old Bread, 10:15 a.m.; Healthways Flex Fitness 1, 11 a.m.; Healthways Flex Fit-ness 2, noon; Duplicate Bridge, 12:30 p.m.; Tat-ting, 1 p.m.; Oil & Acryl-ic Painting Class, 1 p.m. Saturday, March 14 – Driver Safety Program, 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

Senior Day at IMAX Theatre Senior Citizen Day is Tuesday, March 10, at the IMAX Theatre at the Minnesota Zoo, 12000 Zoo Blvd., Apple Valley. Complimentary coffee and refreshments will be served at 9 a.m. The film, “Pandas: The Journey Home 3D,” will begin at 10 a.m. Cost is $5. For questions or group reservations, call 952-997-9714 or email [email protected].

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Twelve women were honored with the 2015 Ex-ceptional Businesswomen Award during a recogni-tion ceremony Thursday, Feb. 26, at Holiday Inn and Suites in Lakeville. The award, which has been given by the Dakota County Tribune and Sun Thisweek since 2010, rec-ognizes women who have distinguished themselves in Dakota County business and community efforts. This year’s group rep-resents manufacturing, family-run small businesses, teachers, motivators, orga-nizers, innovators and bar-rier breakers. The event, which has previously been held in Lakeville, Apple Valley, Burnsville and Eagan, in-cluded a panel conversation with the award winners and a chance to meet past and present Exceptional Busi-nesswomen. This year’s honorees are: • Jeryl Beaulieu, presi-dent and CEO, Showcraft Inc. • Laurie Rieb Bolin, di-rector of development, 360 Communities • Amie Burrill, executive

director, Burnsville Con-vention & Visitors Bureau • Kimiko Childress, re-search engineering manag-er, UTC Aerospace Systems • Lisa Franxman, presi-dent, Anchor Bank-Farm-

ington • Jodi Kurtz, sales man-ager, Warners’ Stellian Ap-pliance Co. Inc. • Sharon LaComb, for-mer vice president of in-stitutional advancement,

Dakota County Technical College • Ingrid Lindberg, chief customer experience officer, Prime Therapeutics • Ingrid Mattsson, direc-tor of brand management,

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• Margaret Schreiner, board director, Dakota Electric Sponsors of the event were: Premier Sponsor: Holi-day Inn Lakeville/Rudy’s Red Eye Grill. Platinum Sponsors: Lakeville Chamber of Commerce and CVB, Lakeville Trophy, UTS Aerospace, Prime Thera-peutics. Gold Sponsors: Dakota County Regional Chamber of Commerce, Fairview Ridges Hospital, Castle Rock Bank, Anchor Bank, Valley Natural Foods. Silver Sponsors: 360 Communities, Dakota Elec-tric, Minnesota School of Beauty, Northfield Lines, Paragon Odyssey 15, Show-craft, Uponor, Wellington Management.

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This year’s Exceptional Businesswomen honorees were (from left) Jeryl Beaulieu, Laurie Rieb Bolin, Sharon LaComb, Jodi Kurtz, Ingrid Lindberg, Margaret Schreiner, Ingrid Mattsson, Lisa Franxman, Amie Burrill, Kimiko Childress, Cheryl Morton, and LaVonne Nicolai. (Photo by Laura Adelmann)


“Drive, the Student Engineer,” a 28-minute documentary that follows the St. Thomas Academy Experimental Vehicle Team, will premiere Sunday, March 22, at 7 p.m. on Twin Cities Public Television. The team placed second and third in its category the 2014 Shell Eco-Marathon competition in Houston. (Photo submitted)

Documentary on STA Experimental Vehicle Team featured on public television “Drive, the Student Engineer,” a 28-minute documentary that follows the St. Thomas Acad-emy Experimental Ve-hicle Team as it concepts, builds and races an elec-tric vehicle, will premiere Sunday, March 22, at 7 p.m. on Twin Cities Pub-lic Television. The docu-mentary was produced by Broadcast & Design Group, with financial support from Power Sys-tems Research and Saint Thomas Academy. The academy’s 2013-2014 EVT members in-cluded the following lo-

cal students: Ian Nichols and Connor Shea, of Eagan; Carter Swedal, of Rosemount; and Samuel Westlake, of Lakeville. “Drive captures well the highs and lows, and all the learning opportu-nities that come through the labor-intensive pro-cess of building two electrical vehicles for the Shell Eco-Marathon competition,” said Caro-line Little, co-moderator of the Experimental Ve-hicle Team and French teacher at St. Thomas Academy. “For it to air on Twin Cities Public

Television is amazing. It’s a testimony to the phenomenal production work of Broadcast & Design Group, and the cooperation of our team, the academy’s adminis-tration, and our parents.” The academy team designed and built two lithium-ion battery-pow-ered vehicles, “Alpha” and “Beta,” to race in the battery electric ur-ban concept division of the 2014 Shell Eco-Marathon competition, held in Houston in late spring. The team devoted over 2,800 hours and 8 months to building the two vehicles that were re-quired to have all of the same systems as a street legal vehicle. The team placed second and third in its category, finishing behind Sherbrooke Uni-versité of Quebec. It was the highest placing U.S. team in its division and the highest placing high school team in the com-petition overall. The documentary also is available on YouTube (http: / /youtu.be/Nuc-1zV6a-AA) and will be rebroadcast on TPT on March 23 at 1 and 7 a.m., and 1 p.m.


Third-graders at Faithful Shepherd Catholic School in Eagan hosted a Wax Museum event in February. Students researched a person of historical influence and created a presentation and speech to showcase at a special gathering attended by family and friends. (Photo submitted)

Students host wax museum event

Paideia Academy in Apple Valley welcomed children’s author Susan Egner and her chameleon Woodfin on Feb. 27 as part of the K-8 public charter school’s “Reading Rocks” literacy initiative. Egner and Woodfin, a character from her books, performed a skit for the first- and second-grade classes around the theme of “being different is OK,” with Woodfin demonstrating his color-changing ability – costumed first in green, then black, then white. Launched by the school’s PTO, the “Reading Rocks” program in February saw students attempting to collectively read more than 200,000 minutes while obtaining pledges to help support media and technology activities at the school; as part of the program, parents and local authors were invited to read to students to earn more reading minutes. (Photo submitted)

Literary shapeshifter


SportsPanthers roll into state with 28-0 recordHill-Murray first

opponent in Class AA tourneyby Mike Shaughnessy


When Lakeville North lost to Edina in the Class AA championship game at the state boys hockey tournament a year ago, nobody on the Panthers’ bench saw it as the end. Instead, they saw it as part of the learning curve that has returned North to the state tournament, this time undefeated and as a No. 1 seed. “One of neatest things about this group, which often is overlooked by people, is some of these se-niors were on a team that won 11 games,” Panthers coach Trent Eigner said after his team’s 6-1 victory over Farmington in the Section 1AA champion-ship game in Rochester. “They’ve seen the process all the way through. “We were on the short side of some nine-goal games to Benilde and Grant Besse. The kids put in a lot of effort to get the program to this point. That is very special for me.” That 11-win team, by the way, still reached the state tournament, al-though it went 0-2. It’s been a long trip from there to 28-0, the record the Panthers take to the state tournament this week. “It’s emotional for our seniors. Now we’re just trying to finish some busi-ness here,” said defense-man Jack Sadek, one of several seniors who will play in their third state tournament. If Lakeville North wins the Class AA champion-ship, it would be the first

large-school team to go undefeated since Bloom-ington Jefferson went 28-0 in 1992-93. Eigner said his players probably don’t know which team was the last to go unbeaten. That might be for the best be-cause the Panthers have been given a challenging draw for the state tourney. North received the No. 1 seed, with defending champion Edina at No. 2. But in the blind draw that matches seeded teams against unseeded teams for the quarterfinal round, Lakeville North got Hill-Murray, possibly the best of the three unseeded teams. The Panthers take on the Pioneers (21-7) in the quarterfinals at 6 p.m. Thursday at Xcel Energy Center. Lakeville North de-feated Hill-Murray 4-3 on Dec. 23 at Aldrich Arena. The Panthers led 4-1 in the

third period before Hill-Murray scored twice in the final seven minutes to nar-row the deficit. If the Panthers win their opener, they would play No. 4-seeded Blaine, a team that hasn’t lost since Jan. 2, or No.5-seeded Eden Prairie, a Lake Conference power that might have played the state’s toughest schedule, in the semifinals Friday night. If they get past that game, then they might get another shot at Edina, which beat them 8-2 in the 2014 state Class AA final. Although the Panthers’ firepower is substantial – each player on their top two lines has scored at least 15 goals – senior forward Jack Poehling said they are a more well-rounded team than a year ago. “We’re just more de-fensively sound. We’ve

worked hard in practice to make sure our D-zone is top-notch,” said Poehling, who skates with his broth-ers Nick and Ryan on North’s top line. “We’ve just focused on the little things, all the detail work. If someone’s not going, we pick them up to try to get them going.” “When you have a ton of guys who can create offense, sometimes things get away from things that are necessities, such as be-ing physical and being on the right side of pucks,” Eigner said. “It was im-portant to us to play the right way, which I think we’ve done throughout the season.” Lakeville North, which is allowing 1.25 goals per game, routed Dodge County 14-0 and Roch-ester Century 10-0 in the first two rounds, then took a 3-0 first-period lead over

Farmington in the cham-pionship. The Tigers (19-8-1) ended the shutout streak by tapping in a rebound of a shot off the glass early in the second period. “They’re a fast team, they forecheck hard and never give up,” Jack Poehling said. But it wasn’t long be-fore North assumed con-trol again. Jack Poehling scored his second goal of the game and ninth of the section tourney later in the second period. In the third, Henry Enebak scored twice to complete a hat trick. Nick Poehling scored North’s first goal. “It was our goal to get through sections with no goals allowed,” Sadek said, “but we’ll take the win.”

Even though the win-ning streak wasn’t fore-most in the Panthers’ minds, Eigner said the players didn’t mind talk-ing about it because they wanted to be part of something like that. Also, he said, they understood that it didn’t just happen magically. “Sports is fickle in that your work isn’t always re-warded,” Eigner said. “In this circumstance, to see this group of kids put to-gether what they have and get rewarded on the back end, it’s fun to watch.” The most important thing to the players right now is their season isn’t over yet. “Playoff hockey is the best. There’s nothing like it in the state,” Enebak said.

Max Johnson (left) of Lakeville North tries to take Farmington defenseman Erik Holmstrom off the puck during the Section 1AA championship game won by the Panthers 6-1. (Photo by Mike Shaughnessy)

Although none of them won a Class 3A championship, Lakeville wrestlers were prominent at the state wrestling finals Saturday at Xcel Energy Center. Lakeville North’s Lucas Westrich (top photo) tangles with Matt Njos of Anoka in the 160-pound championship match. Jon Zeidler (lower left) of Lakeville South takes Blaine Nordin of St. Francis to the mat in a first-round match at 285. Tristyn Hanson (lower right) of Lakeville North tries to take down Apple Valley’s Bobby Steveson in the 195-pound final. Westrich, Zeidler and Hanson all were state runners-up in their weight classes. This is the second consecutive year Westrich has been state runner-up at 160. Wade Sullivan of Lakeville North (126) and Dalton Peterson (170) of Lakeville South were third-place medal winners. (Zeidler photo by Jason Olson; Westrich, Hanson photos by Mike Shaughnessy)

Lakeville wrestlers make statement at state Panthers’ Trepanier is a top seed at state

Class AA boys swim meet is this week

by Mike ShaughnessySUN THISWEEK


A familiar theme could play out for Lakev-ille North at the state Class AA boys swimming and diving meet. Once again, a young Panthers swimmer is poised for a breakout performance. In the fall it was seventh-grader Regan Smith, who took second place in two events at the state girls meet. This week it’s eighth-grader Andrew Trepanier, who is the top seed in the 100-yard butterfly. Trepanier is the only eighth-grader to qualify for a Class AA individual event at state and is the only swimmer in the but-terfly with a seed time be-low 50 seconds. He swam 49.72 in the Section 3AA finals last Friday in Prior Lake. The butterfly will be Trepanier’s only individu-al event at state. He swam on three Lakeville North relays that qualified. Class AA diving pre-liminaries are 6 p.m. Thursday at the Universi-ty of Minnesota Aquatic Center. Swimming pre-liminaries are 6 p.m. Fri-day, with swimming and diving finals at 6 p.m. Saturday. Prior Lake won the Section 3AA team cham-pionship by 73 points over Lakeville South.

Lakeville South The section runner-up Cougars qualified five individual swims, two relays and one diver for state. The Sabal brothers, se-niors Luke and Matt, will be heavily involved. Luke advanced in the 200-yard individual medley by tak-

ing second in the section meet in 1 minute, 56.86 seconds. He was fifth in the 100 butterfly but his time of 53.16 beat the state qualifying standard. Matt Sabal finished third in the 100 freestyle in 48.45, beating the qualifying standard by .02. He missed advanc-ing in the 200 freestyle by about one-tenth of a sec-ond. Lakeville South ninth-grader Brady Torborg also advanced in two events, taking fourth in the 200 butterfly in 1:59.87 (beating the state cut by .01) and third in the 100 butterfly in 52.74. The Sabal brothers, ju-nior Brandon Sandquist and sophomore Andrew Lind were fourth in the 200 freestyle relay but advanced with a time of 1:29.62. Torborg and se-nior Trent Meyer teamed with the Sabal broth-ers to finish third in the 400 freestyle relay in a state-qualifying time of 3:14.46. Senior Lucas Haa-gensen finished third in diving with 333.45 points and will compete at the state meet.

Lakeville North In addition to Trepa-nier, Lakeville North’s individual qualifiers for state were senior Andrew Strauch, third in the 200 individual medley in 1:59.36, and senior Jacob Burchfield, second in the 100 freestyle in 48.29. Lakeville North took second place in all three relays at the Section 3AA finals, with Trepanier, Burchfield, Strauch and senior Nathan Regan swimming on all of them. They had times of 1:38.85 in the 200 medley, 1:28.26 in the 400 freestyle and 3:14.12 in the 400 free-style. All three easily beat the state qualifying stan-dards.

Defenseman Jack Sadek is one of several Lakeville North seniors who will be playing in their third state boys hockey tournament. (Photo by Mike Shaughnessy)


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many developers bought permits before fee in-creases were implement-ed. City Council members had already directed the first $85,000 of any fund balance to be appropri-ated to the Park Improve-ment Fund for the Land of Amazement. The second $100,000 will be appropriated to the city’s share of the 2015 Street Reconstruc-tion Fund and the next $300,000 is to be spent on equipment for police, fire, streets and parks. Council Member Doug Anderson ex-pressed concern that the city has found more cor-rosive soils in areas slated for street reconstruction for the next five years. Corrosive soils have prematurely aged buried water main lines, causing leaks and requiring their

replacement years ahead of schedule, adding mil-lions to the cost of street reconstruction projects. As a result, the city has informed Lakeville residents in those areas to expect assessments thou-sands more than origi-nally anticipated. Council members discussed the option of using some of the unan-ticipated fund balance to help those homeown-ers pay down their as-sessments, but worried about setting precedent or treating one group of homeowners differently from others. They instead agreed to direct the remaining unencumbered balances totalling about $447,000 be appropriated to the city’s share of the recon-struction costs, because that way the funds would ultimately benefit all tax-payers equally. With $100,000 already

earmarked for the proj-ects, the city will dedicate $547,000 toward the road reconstruction projects due to the surplus. Council Member Col-leen LaBeau said while it is good to have a sur-plus, it is “very concern-ing” because the council “went through a very in-tense budget process.” “We were right up to the last of it in November feeling like even if we had a quarter-million dollars extra, we’d be doing re-ally good,” LaBeau said. She noted that several council members had ad-vocated for less of a levy increase in 2015 than was passed, and indicated there should be more support for keeping the levy down during this year’s budget process.

Laura Adelmann is at [email protected].

BUDGET, from 1A

park, but for Mahowald they also stand as a testa-ment to the quickly pass-ing vapor of life. Mahowald recalls the fun they had planting the seedling pines, spruce and maple. Some were eaten by deer, but the ones that remain are hardly recog-nizable. “Now they’re just huge,” Mahowald mar-veled. “We were there and they’re just big.” In recognition of the group’s 25th anniversary, members will hold a tea party Monday and are planning several special ways to commemorate the milestone. Members will meet to each cast a stepping stone to beautify their gardens, and they are planning to make a banner that ev-ery member has a part in

crafting. Also planned is a spe-cial trip, possibly to a fan-tastic garden in Duluth or St. Cloud or to Seed Sav-ers Exchange in Iowa, a store featuring heirloom seeds. Mahowald said any-one living in and around Lakeville interested in gardening may join the club. The group meets year-round at 7 p.m. on the second Monday of every month at Main Street Manor, the retirement fa-cility in downtown Lakev-ille. Interested visitors are always welcome. During the winter, they invite speakers on topics that have included peren-nials, lawn care, vegetable gardening, rose care and pest management. A speaker will present infor-mation on gladiolus at the April meeting.

Summer meetings in-clude excursions to mem-ber’s gardens or to public gardens like the Como Park Conservatory. Membership is $15 a year, but the first meeting is free to anyone interest-ed in gardening. While the group is cur-rently all female, anyone interested in gardening may join, whether a nov-ice or expert, but those visiting should expect more than an opportuni-ty to learn about a shared hobby. “It’s about more than gardening,” Peterson said. “A lot of us are just really good friends.” Anyone with questions about the club may call Peterson at 952-461-3243.


GARDENING, from 1A

Council at a Feb. 23 work session, single non-resident memberships will drop from $30 to $25 and non-resident couple memberships will go from $60 to $40. Before the 2011-12 fee in-creases, non-resident mem-berships were $15 and no couple memberships were offered. Lakeville Parks and Rec-reation Director Brett Alter-gott said non-residents were upset by the increases and the schedule that did not discount for a couples membership. “Some people said be-cause the fees being what they are, they just aren’t go-ing to participate,” Altergott said. “And they do go else-where.” The proposed fee struc-ture would give non-resident couples a $10 price break on the cost of purchasing indi-vidual memberships. Altergott is projecting the changes will nearly triple the number of participating non-resident couples. He predicts the num-ber of non-resident couple memberships purchased will increase from 24 to 65 (in-creasing membership from 48 individuals to 130 indi-viduals). He added that the Active Adults Advisory Committee requested the price changes in an effort to bring non-resi-dent memberships back near their pre-2013 levels of 367. The city reports there are currently 170 Senior Cen-ter non-resident member-ships, and Altergott projects 155 non-residents will join the center from May 2015 through next April to create a total of 1,194 total mem-berships by next April. The projections anticipate no change in the number of Lakeville individuals and couples with memberships. For Lakeville residents, Senior Center membership fees will increase from $18 to $20 for a single membership

FEES, from 1A and from $34 to $35 for a couples membership. The Senior Center will also drop its unpopular punch card system, de-scribed by Altergott as “an administrative nightmare.” The $10 or $20 punch cards were introduced in 2011-12 when city staff recommended charging members 50 cents for Se-nior Center programs that had previously been in-cluded with membership, according to the city. Altergott said once the punch cards were in-troduced, the number of participants in the Senior Center programs dropped by about 3,000 annually, a reduction of 27 percent. Under the new plan, the city will still charge for programs, but implement a flat annual fee ranging from $5-$15 depending on how many times the pro-gram meets and regardless of whether a member lives in Lakeville. Non-members will pay $2 to participate in activi-ties which include photog-raphy, motorcycle, dime bingo, Wii bowling, knit-ting, Texas Hold ‘Em and line dancing. With the changes, Alter-

gott is predicting the fees will generate $27,170, al-though he added the Senior Center continues to rely on taxpayer subsidies. Council Member Doug Anderson asked what the city would do next if the changes fail to generate the sales predicted. Altergott said he is “re-ally confident” with the lower fees people will re-turn and they will “easily attain” the newly budgeted sales projections. Anderson urged Al-tergott to closely monitor sales and revenue so ad-justments could be made if it does not achieve the desired results. Altergott said they do closely monitor the pro-grams and membership sales and will add the in-formation to his monthly departmental reports so council members can track their progress. Altergott predicted the changes will spur member-ship sales, noting the Se-nior Center has a history of drawing participants from neighboring townships. “We want to embrace those people to come in and use our facility,” Alter-gott said.

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ity level instead of age. The district is planning to spend about $500,000 to move Impact Academy to its own school build-ing or a leased space in 2016-17 school year, and a study is underway to de-termine a site. Orchard Lake Princi-pal Marilynn Smith said the elementary is designed as a “very traditional school with compart-ments for kids.” She said construction work is needed to turn it into a “21st century envi-ronment that we can actu-ally implement the model in.” Snyder said some of the district’s other elementary schools are designed in a manner that is more con-ducive that allows for the Impact Academy model, but the district has not built capacity for the pro-gram in a different school. Moving Impact Acad-emy into another school would also require re-drawing school bound-aries, which Snyder said would not be received well by the public. Smith said if they make Impact Academy the only option at OLE, surveys indicate about 25

percent of the families there would leave for an-other school. Snyder said the School Board could either re-draw boundaries and as-sign those students a new school or, more likely, al-low families to follow the district’s process for an in-district transfer to an-other school. Parents cited concerns they would be responsible for providing their child’s transportation to and from school. School Board Member Terry Lind said school districts are more com-petitive than in the past and have to provide edu-cational choices or face losing students. Snyder said Impact Academy introduces a choice for families, de-scribing Impact Acad-emy’s teaching model as one that is “very much aligned“ to what busi-ness and future-ready lit-erature predicts the kinds of skills and dispositions students will need to find jobs, including the ability to self-direct and collabo-ration and communica-tion skills. “We’re trying to create a much more active learn-ing environment where they’re learning how to

INITIATIVES, from 1A use the tools of today re-sponsibly and for learn-ing, not just for games and social media,” Snyder said. Parents also ques-tioned how well students are learning under the Impact Academy model. Parents cited test re-sults on SchoolDigger.com that show Orchard Lake’s students test scores have fallen since Impact Academy was implement-ed, and the school is well below high-performers Eastview, Lake Marion and Lakeview. The parents asked why the district would not want to model Orchard Lake on things those schools are doing. Snyder said when such changes are implemented, it always takes three to five years to look at trends and start seeing positive growth. “Almost any time you start a new program, there’s an implementation dip,” Snyder said. “We experienced that this past year and that is really nor-mal because when things are changing and people are uncertain, there’s a psychological impact on all that.” Snyder added that local assessments and individu-al examples of students in the Impact Academy model making 1.5-2 year’s

growth in one school year. Smith said they were able to close the achieve-ment gap for incoming kindergartners in Impact Academy last year and have held that now that those students are midway through first grade. “That’s a big differ-ence,” Smith said. “I don’t have that experience in my kindergarten to first grade in the traditional program. I still have a pretty significant achieve-ment gap. So the fact that we were able to do that tells me we’re onto some-thing.” Parent Ben Osborn said in an interview the expansion of Impact Academy should be de-layed four to five years for the district to adequately measure academic perfor-mance between the Im-pact Academy students and traditional model students in middle school. “The district has told us countless times that we don’t have any money, but apparently we do have money if the project is im-portant to the superinten-dent’s agenda,” Osborn said in an email. “No cur-rent funds should be used to expand Impact Acad-emy. Residents should be allowed to vote on this expansion and its opera-tions. There isn’t enough demand to fill an entire

school and test results have dipped dramatically for OLE since they im-plemented Impact Acad-emy.” Parents also cited con-cerns about BYOD, which asks families to provide their students with their own devices, like an iPad or Galaxy tablet, that they bring to school. In an interview, Lakev-iew parent Dan Edgar called the initiative “a si-lent technology levy for parents,” that increases their cost to send their children to school in Dis-trict 194. Lakeview Elementary parent Karl Student also said the district should provide devices that are stored on a cart and shared among classrooms so everyone has the same equipment and applica-tions. He called the district purchasing devices and providing them to every student unfeasible. Student said the teach-ers would have an easier time learning one tech-nology instead of trying to manage a variety. Technology and Data Services Director Jason Molesky called the sce-nario of teachers not knowing how to manage so many different devices his “greatest fear” when they implemented the iL-

earn 2.0 pilot about five months ago. He said an ideal scenar-io would be if all students had the same devices and the teacher could access more tools and digital re-sources that are specific to that device. “With BYOD, you are somewhat limited to web-based tools,” he said. Molesky said since it was implemented, the kids seem to be comfortable with their own devices, and do not have problems accessing the resources as their teachers direct. Snyder said she appre-ciated the parents’ inter-est in what the district is doing and was happy to come in, share informa-tion and listen to con-cerns. PTO Co-Chair Ste-phie Dunford thanked the crowd of about 30 for at-tending, noting that the event drew the biggest crowd they have ever had to a PTO meeting. “We’ve never needed more chairs,” she said, inviting more Lakeview parents to attend their next PTO meeting at 9 a.m. March 19.



LEGAL NOTICES

CITY OF LAKEVILLEDAKOTA COUNTY, MINNESOTA

ORDINANCE NO. 935AN ORDINANCE AMENDING TITLE 3, CHAPTER

1, OF THE LAKEVILLE CITY CODECONCERNING ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES

THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF LAKEVILLE, MINNESOTA,

ORDAINS:

SECTION 1. Section 3-1-7-1A of the Lakeville City Code is amended

by amending the following license fees:

Type of License Amount of License

On-sale Liquor:

Annual sales of $375,000 or less of alcoholic beverages $6,250.00

Annual sales of more than $375,000 of alcoholic beverages $7,000.00

Off-sale 3.2 percent malt liquor $ 300.00

Wine $ 800.00

Investigation fee $ 700.00

SECTION 2. This ordinance shall be effective immediately upon its

passage and publication.

ADOPTED this 2nd day of March, 2015

CITY OF LAKEVILLE

BY: Matt Little, Mayor

Charlene Friedges, City Clerk

Published in Lakeville, March 6, 2015, 358077 Continues Next Page

NOTICE OF MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE SALE

THE RIGHT TO VERIFICATION

OF THE DEBT AND IDENTITY OF

THE ORIGINAL CREDITOR WITHIN

THE TIME PROVIDED BY LAW IS

NOT AFFECTED BY THIS ACTION.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that

default has occurred in conditions

of the following described mort-

gage:

DATE OF MORTGAGE:

June 13, 2005

MORTGAGOR: Dereck W Laun-

drie and Nicole E. Laundrie, hus-

band and wife.

MORTGAGEE: Mortgage Elec-

tronic Registration Systems, Inc.

DATE AND PLACE OF RE-

CORDING: Recorded June 30,

2005 Dakota County Recorder,

Document No. 2336007.

ASSIGNMENTS OF MORT-

GAGE: Assigned to: U.S. Bank

National Association, as Trustee,

successor in interest to Bank of

America, National Association as

successor by merger to LaSalle

Bank, National Association, as

Trustee for Certificateholders of

Bear Stearns Asset Backed Se-

curities I LLC, Asset-backed Cer-

tificates, Series 2005-HE9. Dated

February 7, 2012 Recorded Feb-

ruary 28, 2012, as Document No.

2852123.

TRANSACTION AGENT:

Mortgage Electronic Registra-

tion Systems, Inc.

TRANSACTION AGENT’S

MORTGAGE IDENTIFICATION

NUMBER ON MORTGAGE:

100220710000033387

LENDER OR BROKER AND

MORTGAGE ORIGINATOR STATED

ON MORTGAGE:

Maribella Mortgage, LLC

RESIDENTIAL MORTGAGE

SERVICER:

Select Portfolio Servicing, Inc.

MORTGAGED PROPERTY

ADDRESS: 17078 Forfar Court,

Lakeville, MN 55024

TAX PARCEL I.D. #:

22.20850.05.160

LEGAL DESCRIPTION OF

PROPERTY: Lot 16, Block 5, Dodd

Park, Dakota County, Minnesota.

COUNTY IN WHICH PROPERTY

IS LOCATED: Dakota

ORIGINAL PRINCIPAL AMOUNT

OF MORTGAGE: $223,250.00

AMOUNT DUE AND CLAIMED

TO BE DUE AS OF DATE OF NO-

TICE, INCLUDING TAXES, IF ANY,

PAID BY MORTGAGEE:

$323,433.77

That prior to the commence-

ment of this mortgage foreclosure

proceeding Mortgagee/Assignee of

Mortgagee complied with all notice

requirements as required by stat-

ute; That no action or proceeding

has been instituted at law or other-

wise to recover the debt secured by

said mortgage, or any part thereof;

PURSUANT to the power of sale

contained in said mortgage, the

above described property will be

sold by the Sheriff of said county

as follows:

DATE AND TIME OF SALE:

May 1, 2015 at 10:00 AM

PLACE OF SALE: Sheriff’s Of-

fice, Law Enforcement Center, 1580

Hwy 55, Lobby #S-100, Hastings,

MN

to pay the debt then secured by

said Mortgage, and taxes, if any,

on said premises, and the costs

and disbursements, including at-

torneys’ fees allowed by law sub-

ject to redemption within six (6)

months from the date of said sale

by the mortgagor(s), their personal

representatives or assigns unless

reduced to Five (5) weeks under

MN Stat. §580.07.

TIME AND DATE TO VACATE

PROPERTY: If the real estate is

an owner-occupied, single-family

dwelling, unless otherwise pro-

vided by law, the date on or before

which the mortgagor(s) must va-

cate the property if the mortgage is

not reinstated under section 580.30

or the property is not redeemed un-

der section 580.23 is 11:59 p.m. on

November 2, 2015, unless that date

falls on a weekend or legal holiday,

in which case it is the next week-

day, and unless the redemption

period is reduced to 5 weeks under

MN Stat. Secs. 580.07 or 582.032.

MORTGAGOR(S) RELEASED

FROM FINANCIAL OBLIGATION

ON MORTGAGE: None

“THE TIME ALLOWED BY

LAW FOR REDEMPTION BY THE

MORTGAGOR, THE MORTGAG-

OR’S PERSONAL REPRESEN-

TATIVES OR ASSIGNS, MAY BE

REDUCED TO FIVE WEEKS IF A

JUDICIAL ORDER IS ENTERED

UNDER MINNESOTA STATUTES,

SECTION 582.032, DETERMIN-

ING, AMONG OTHER THINGS,

THAT THE MORTGAGED PREM-

ISES ARE IMPROVED WITH A

RESIDENTIAL DWELLING OF

LESS THAN FIVE UNITS, ARE NOT

PROPERTY USED IN AGRICUL-

TURAL PRODUCTION, AND ARE

ABANDONED.”

Dated: February 24, 2015

U.S. Bank National Association, as

Trustee

Mortgagee/Assignee of Mortgagee

USSET, WEINGARDEN AND LI-

EBO, P.L.L.P.

Attorneys for Mortgagee/Assignee

of Mortgagee

4500 Park Glen Road #300

Minneapolis, MN 55416

(952) 925-6888

38 - 15-001474 FC

THIS IS A COMMUNICATION

FROM A DEBT COLLECTOR.

Published in

Lakeville

March 6, 13, 20, 27,

April 3, 10, 2015

358043










gage:

DATE OF MORTGAGE:

December 11, 2006

MORTGAGOR: Bruno M

Pelagalli, a single person.


tronic Registration Systems, Inc..


CORDING: Recorded January 4,




GAGE: Assigned to: Wells Fargo

Bank, National Association, as

Trustee for Bear Stearns Asset

Backed Securities I Trust 2007-

AC3, Asset Backed Certificates,

Series 2007-AC3. Dated Septem-

ber 20, 2010 Recorded Septem-

ber 27, 2010, as Document No.

2754967; and by Document Dated

February 22, 2013 Recorded March

1, 2013 as Document No. 2933980.

TRANSACTION AGENT: Mort-

gage Electronic Registration Sys-

tems, Inc.



NUMBER ON MORTGAGE:

100013800914107533


MORTGAGE ORIGINATOR STAT-

ED ON MORTGAGE: GreenPoint

Mortgage Funding, Inc.


SERVICER:

Select Portfolio Servicing, Inc.

MORTGAGED PROPERTY AD-

DRESS: 16371 Impatiens Court,

Lakeville, MN 55044

TAX PARCEL I.D. #:

22.18599.04.090


PROPERTY: Lot 9, Block 4, Crystal

Lake Golf Estates 5th Addition, Da-

kota County, Minnesota.


IS LOCATED: Dakota






PAID BY MORTGAGEE:

$567,813.77














as follows:


May 1, 2015 at 10:00 AM




MN











MN Stat. §580.07.











November 2, 2015, unless that date





MN Stat. Secs. 580.07 or 582.032.



ON MORTGAGE:None

















ABANDONED.”


Wells Fargo Bank, National Asso-

ciation as Trustee



EBO, P.L.L.P.


of Mortgagee



(952) 925-6888

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Published in

Lakeville

March 6, 13, 20, 27,

April 3, 10, 2015

358033










gage:

DATE OF MORTGAGE:

August 29, 2006

MORTGAGOR: Sunny I. Nord-

vik, an unmarried woman.


tronic Registration Systems, Inc.


CORDING: Recorded September

18, 2006 Dakota County Recorder,



GAGE: Assigned to: JPMC Spe-

cialty Mortgage, LLC f/k/a WM

Specialty Mortgage, LLC. Dated

December 2, 2010 Recorded De-

cember 30, 2010, as Document No.

2775730 and by Assignment Dated

June 22, 2012, Recorded July 9,

2012 as Document No. 2878922.

TRANSACTION AGENT: Mort-

gage Electronic Registration Sys-

tems, Inc.



NUMBER ON MORTGAGE:

100488910097521271


MORTGAGE ORIGINATOR STAT-

ED ON MORTGAGE: New Century

Mortgage Corporation


SERVICER: JPMorgan Chase

Bank, National Association

MORTGAGED PROPERTY

ADDRESS: 20064 Italy Avenue,

Lakeville, MN 55044

TAX PARCEL I.D. #:

22.44900.08.300


PROPERTY: All of Lot 29, Block 8

and South 9 feet of Lot 30, Block

8, Lenihan’s Lots, Antlers Park, Da-



IS LOCATED: Dakota






PAID BY MORTGAGEE:

$291,170.25














as follows:


May 1, 2015 at 10:00 AM




MN











MN Stat. §580.07.











November 2, 2015 unless that date





MN Stat. Secs. 580.07 or 582.032.



ON MORTGAGE: None

















ABANDONED.”


JPMC Specialty Mortgage LLC



EBO, P.L.L.P.


of Mortgagee



(952) 925-6888

30 - 15-001167 FC



Published in

Lakeville

March 6, 13, 20, 27,

April 3, 10, 2015

358027

INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 194

REGULAR BOARD MINUTESFEBRUARY 10, 2015

This is a summary of the Inde-

pendent School District No. 194

Regular Board of Education Meet-

ing on Tuesday, February 10, 2015

with full text available for public

inspection on the district website

at www.isd194.k12.mn.us or 8670

210th Street W., Lakeville, MN

55044

The meeting was called to order

at 7:03 p.m. followed by pledge of

allegiance. All board members and

administrators were present.

Consent agenda items ap-

proved: Minutes of the meetings

on January 27 and February 3;

employment recommendations,

leave requests and resignations;

payment of bills & claims; dona-

tions; additional board committee

assignments.

Reports presented: ACT state

mandated test proposal; iLearn

2.0 update; Baldrige express re-

sults; Shared leadership update;

First reading new policy 421-Gifts

to Employees and School Board

Members.

Adjournment at 8:28 p.m.

Published in

Lakeville, Burnsville/Eagan

March 6, 2015

355576










gage:

DATE OF MORTGAGE:

September 28, 2007

MORTGAGOR: Amy A.

Schultz and John W. Schultz, wife

and husband.

MORTGAGEE:

Mortgage Electronic Registration

Systems, Inc. as nominee for Provi-

dent Funding Associates, L.P..


CORDING: Recorded October 17,




GAGE: Assigned to: CitiMort-

gage, Inc. Dated October 12, 2010

Recorded November 10, 2010, as

Document No. 2765345 and also

by document Dated June 11, 2013

Recorded June 24, 2013 as Docu-

ment No. 2958248.

TRANSACTION AGENT:

Mortgage Electronic Registra-

tion Systems, Inc.



NUMBER ON MORTGAGE:

100017935170901447


MORTGAGE ORIGINATOR STATED

ON MORTGAGE: Provident Fund-

ing Associates, L.P.


SERVICER: CitiMortgage, Inc.

MORTGAGED PROPERTY AD-

DRESS: 18541 English Avenue,

Farmington, MN 55024

TAX PARCEL I.D. #:

14.58651.02.020


PROPERTY: Lot 2, Block 2, Prairie

Creek 2nd Addition.


IS LOCATED: Dakota






PAID BY MORTGAGEE:

$249,436.02














as follows:


April 7, 2015 at 10:00 AM




MN











MN Stat. §580.07.











October 7, 2015, unless that date





MN Stat. Secs. 580.07 or 582.032.



ON MORTGAGE:None

















ABANDONED.”

Dated: January 27, 2015

CitiMortgage, Inc.



EBO, P.L.L.P.


of Mortgagee



(952) 925-6888

10 - 14-008768 FC



Published in

Lakeville

February 6, 13, 20, 27,

March 6, 13, 2015

345747

INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT 196

ROSEMOUNT-APPLE VALLEY-EAGAN

PUBLIC SCHOOLSCALL FOR BIDS

2015 CARPET AND OTHER FLOORING REPLACEMENT

Notice is hereby given that

sealed bids will be received for

the 2015 Carpet and Other Floor-

ing Replacement by Independent

School District 196, at the Facilities

Department, 14445 Diamond Path

West, Rosemount, MN 55068, until

2:00 p.m. local time on Thursday,

March 26, 2015, 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 Facilities Department at (651)

423-7591.

Gary Huusko, Board Clerk

Independent School District 196

Published in

Apple Valley, Lakeville,

Burnsville/Eagan

March 6, 13, 2015

358037

CITY OF LAKEVILLE PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE

REQUEST:

1. A Comprehensive Plan

amendment to modify the 2030

Land Use Plan, Transportation

Plan, and Staged MUSA Expansion

Areas Plan.

2. A Zoning Map amendment to

rezone property to PUD, Planned

Unit Development District.

3. The preliminary plat and

PUD Development Stage Plan of

204 single family lots, 47 attached

townhouse lots, and one common

area lot to be known as Avonlea.

APPLICANT: Mattamy Homes.

LOCATION AND LEGAL DE-

SCRIPTION: The property is locat-

ed along Cedar Avenue (C.R. 23),

south of 179th Street and the City’s

Central Maintenance Facility in the

City of Lakeville, Dakota County,

Minnesota and is legally described

as follows:

EXHIBIT A

PARCEL A-1:

The North 48 rods of the West

1650.35 feet of the Northwest ¼ of

Section 15, Township 114, Range

20, Dakota County, Minnesota,

except that part platted as Cedar

Avenue Park and Ride, AND

The South 138.42 feet of the

North 930.42 feet of the West

1650.35 feet of the Northwest

Quarter of

Section 15, Township 114 North,

Range 20 West, Dakota County,

Minnesota.

Also that part of the South

138.42 feet of North 930.42 feet

of the Northwest Quarter of Sec-

tion 15,

Township 114 North, Range 20

West, Dakota County, Minnesota

that lies within the following de-

scribed parcel:

Beginning at the Southeast

corner of the West 1650.35 feet

of said Northwest Quarter; thence

north, along the east line of the

west 1650.35 feet, a distance of

1846.86 feet; thence southeasterly

to a point on the south line of said

Northwest Quarter which is 31.94

feet east of the point of beginning;

thence west, along said south line,

a distance of 31.94 feet to the point

of beginning.

PARCEL A-2:

The North 83.19 feet of the

South 551.03 feet of North 1481.45

feet of the West 1650.35 feet of the

Northwest Quarter of Section

15, Township 114 North, Range 20

West, Dakota County, Minnesota.

Also that part of the North 83.19

feet of the South 551.03 feet of

North 1481.45 feet of the North-

west

Quarter of Section 15, Township

114 North, Range 20 West, Dakota

County, Minnesota that lies within

the following described parcel:

Beginning at the southeast

corner of the West 1650.35 feet

of said Northwest Quarter; thence

north, along the east line of the

West 1650.35 feet, a distance of

1846.86 feet; thence southeasterly

to a point on the south line of said

Northwest Quarter which is 31.94

feet east of the point of beginning;

thence west, along said south line,

a distance of 31.94 feet to the point

of beginning.

PARCEL B:

The North ½ of the Northeast

¼ of Section 16, Township 114,

Range 20, Dakota County, Minne-

sota.

PARCELS C AND D:

The South Half of the Northeast

Quarter, the North 13 1/3 rods of

the North ½ of the Southeast Quar-

ter, and the North 13 1/3 rods of the

North ½ of the Northeast Quarter of

the Southwest Quarter all in Sec-

tion 16, Township 114, Range 20,

Dakota County, Minnesota.

PARCEL F:

The South Sixty-six and two-

thirds rods of the North Half of the

Southeast Quarter and the South

Sixty-six and two-thirds rods of

the Northeast Quarter of the South-

west Quarter, Section Sixteen (16),

Township One Hundred Four-

teen North, Range Twenty, ac-

cording to the Government Survey

thereof.

PARCEL H:

The North ½ of the Northwest ¼

of Section 27, Township 114 North,


Minnesota.

The South ½ of the Northwest ¼

of Section 27, Township 114 North,


Minnesota.

PARCEL I:

The North 1,616.00 feet of the

East 1,616.00 feet of the Southeast

Quarter of Section 28, Township

114 North, Range 20 West, Da-


WHEN: Thursday, March 19,

2015 at 6:00 p.m. or as soon there-

after as the parties may be heard.

WHERE: Planning Commission

meeting at the City Hall Council

Chambers, 20195 Holyoke Avenue,

Lakeville, Minnesota.

QUESTIONS: Contact Plan-

ning Director Daryl Morey at (952)

985-4422 or by e-mail at dmorey@

lakevillemn.gov

DATED this 3rd day of March, 2015.

CITY OF LAKEVILLE


Published in

Lakeville

March 6, 2015

357942


SPECIAL BOARD MINUTESFEBRUARY 17, 2015



Special Board of Education Meet-






55044

The special meeting was called

to order at 6:00 p.m. All board

members and administrators were

present except Exec Dir Ouillette.

Discussions: Equity Update &

Cultural Presentation: Latino Cul-

ture; Board Ongoing Business; Pre-

sentation & Feedback: Committee

recommendations regarding Long

Term Needs for SEM, STEM & Digi-

tal Learning/Technology.

Meeting adjourned at 9:04 p.m.

Published in


March 6, 2015

355590

MINNESOTA SECRETARY OF STATE CERTIFICATE

OF ASSUMED NAMEMinnesota Statutes, 333

The filing of an assumed name

does not provide a user with exclu-

sive rights to that name. The filing

is required for consumer protection

in order to enable customers to be

able to identify the true owner of a

business.

ASSUMED NAME:

Nuance Financial

PRINCIPAL PLACE

OF BUSINESS:

17751 Keystone Ave

Lakeville, MN 55044

NAMEHOLDER(S):

Nicholas D Meester, Ltd

17751 Keystone Ave

Lakeville, MN 55044

I, the undersigned, certify that

I am signing this document as the

person whose signature is required,

or as agent of the person(s) whose

signature would be required who

has authorized me to sign this

document on his/her behalf, or in

both capacities. I further certify

that I have completed all required

fields, and that the information in

this document is true and correct

and in compliance with the appli-

cable chapter of Minnesota Stat-

utes. I understand that by signing

this document I am subject to the

penalties of perjury as set forth in

Section 609.48 as if I had signed

this document under oath.

DATE FILED: February 21, 2015

SIGNED BY: Nick Meester

Published in

Lakeville

March 6, 13, 2015

357292

INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT #194

ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDSMULTI-SITE EXTERIOR CONCRETE REPAIRS

LAKE MARION ELEMENTARY

SCHOOL

19875 DODD ROAD

LAKEVILLE, MINNESOTA 55044

CHERRY VIEW ELEMENTARY

SCHOOL

8600 175TH STREET WEST


OAK HILLS ELEMENTARY

SCHOOL



CHRISTINA HUDDLESTON

ELEMENTARY SCHOOL



CENTURY MIDDLE SCHOOL

18610 IPAVA AVENUE


LAKEVILLE SOUTH HIGH

SCHOOL

21135 JACQUARD AVENUE


Independent School District

#194 will receive single prime

sealed bids for Multi-Site Exterior

Concrete Repairs until 1:00 p.m. lo-

cal time on March 10, 2015 at the

District Office, 8670 210th Street

West, Lakeville, Minnesota, 55044,

at which time and place all bids will

be publicly opened and read aloud.

Bidding documents, including

the Proposal Form, Drawings and

Specifications, will be on file at the

Offices of the Architect, Wold Archi-

tects and Engineers, 305 St. Peter

Street, St. Paul, Minnesota 55102.

(651) 227-7773; at the Minnesota

Builders Exchange; McGraw Hill

Construction/Dodge Plan Center;

Reed Construction; iSqFt Plan

Room (St. Paul, MN); and from

PlanWell at www.e-arc.com/MN/

saintlouispark.

This project includes: The re-

moval and replacement of portions

of concrete walks throughout the

District.

American Reprographics Com-

pany, 4730 Park Glen Road, St.

Louis Park, Minnesota 55416 (952)

697-8800, facsimile (952) 697-8803

will provide complete download-

able sets of the Bidding Docu-

ments to prospective bidders and

subcontractors. The downloads

will be available on or about Febru-

ary 16, 2015. A deposit check in the

amount of $25 made out to ARC for

each set downloaded via the inter-

net at http://www.e-arc.com/mn/

saintlouispark and clicking on the

PlanWell icon, then the Public Plan

Room icon, select Multi-site Con-

crete Repairs.

Make proposals on the bid forms

supplied in the Project Manual.

No oral, telegraphic or telephonic

proposals or modifications will be

considered. Submit with each bid,

a certified check or acceptable bid-

der’s bond payable to Independent

School District #194 in an amount

equal to five percent (5%) of the

total bid. The successful bidder will

be required to furnish satisfactory

Labor and Material Payment Bond,

and Performance Bond.

Bids may not be withdrawn

within thirty (30) days after the

scheduled time of opening bids,

without the consent of the Owner.

The Owner reserves the right to

accept any bid or to reject any or

all bids, or parts of such bids, and

waive informalities or irregularities

in bidding.

The Owner requires Substantial

Completion of the project on or be-

fore August 14, 2015.

Board of Education

INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DIS-

TRICT #194

Published in


February 27, March 6, 2015

353420


SPECIAL BOARD MINUTESFEBRUARY 10, 2015



Special Board of Education Meet-






55044

The special meeting was called

to order at 5:32 p.m. All board

members and administrators were

present.

Closed Session: Discussion was

held regarding contract negotia-

tions in accordance with MN Stat-

ute 13D.03.

Meeting adjourned at 6:40 p.m.

Published in


March 6, 2015

355559









business.

ASSUMED NAME:

Face 4 Your Future


LEGAL NOTICES

PRINCIPAL PLACE

OF BUSINESS:

20186 Hertage Drive

Lakeville, MN 55044

NAMEHOLDER(S):

Lara Kelley

2818 West 88th Street

Bloomington, MN 55431

Diane Lindo

2193 130th Way

Rosemount, MN 55068

Mona Christensen

243 Winona Street West

West St. Paul, MN 55118




















SIGNED BY: Lara Kelley

Published in

Lakeville


352162


ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS MULTI-SITE FIRE

ALARM REPLACEMENT CHERRY VIEW ELEMENTARY

8600 175™ STREET WEST


KENWOOD TRAIL

MIDDLE SCHOOL

19455 KENWOOD TRAIL




sealed bids for Multi-Site Fire

Alarm Replacement until 2:00 p.m.

local time on March 12, 2015 at the















Room (St. Paul, MN); and from Plan

Well at www.e-arc.com.

This project includes: Removal

and replacement of the fire alarm

system throughout the entire build-

ing.




697-8800, facsimile (952) 697-

8803, will provide complete down-

loadable sets of the Bidding Docu-


subcontractors. The downloadable

set will be available on or about

February 2, 2015. A deposit check

in the amount of $25 made out to

ARC for each set downloaded via

the internet at www.e-arc.com and

clicking on the Plan Well icon, then

the Public Plan Room icon, select

Multi-Site Fire Alarm Replacement.






















in bidding.

A pre-bid walkthrough has been

scheduled for Monday, February

16, 2015 at 8:00 p.m. at Cherry

View Elementary and at 9:00 p.m.

at Kenwood Trail Middle School.

Meet at the front door at Cherry

View Elementary School.




Board of Education


TRICT #194

Published in



354080

CITY OF LAKEVILLENOTICE OF

PUBLIC HEARINGNOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that

a public hearing will be held be-

fore the City Council of the City of

Lakeville in the Council Chambers,

20195 Holyoke Avenue, on the 6th

day of April, 2015, at 7:00 p.m. or

as soon thereafter as the parties

may be heard to consider the ap-

plication of Heavy Metal Grill LLC

for a wine and 3.2% malt liquor li-

cense at a restaurant to be known

as Heavy Metal Grill, 20851 Holy-

oke Avenue.

DATED this 2nd day of March,

2015


Published in

Lakeville

March 6, 2015

357725









business.

ASSUMED NAME:

rifleassembly.com

PRINCIPAL PLACE

OF BUSINESS:

7745 Grinnell Way

Lakeville, MN 55044

NAMEHOLDER(S):

Aetos Outdoors

7745 Grinnell Way

Lakeville, MN 55044




















SIGNED BY: Chris Jones

Published in

Lakeville

March 6, 13, 2015

357409


ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDSMULTI-SITE WALL

REFINISHING PROJECTEASTVIEW ELEMENTARY

SCHOOL

18060 IPAVA AVENUE


ORCHARD LAKE ELEMENTARY

SCHOOL

16531 KLAMATH TRAIL




sealed bids for Multi-Site Wall Re-

finishing Project until 3:00 p.m. lo-

cal time on March 10, 2015 at the

















saintlouispark.


of vinyl wall covering and associ-

ated surface prep, painting of gyp-

sum walls, columns, metal lockers,

hollow metal doors and frames,

and metal stair stringers and rail-

ings.




697-8800, facsimile (952) 697-8803





will be available February 16, 2015.

A deposit check in the amount of

$25 made out to ARC for each

set downloaded via the inter-




Room icon, select Multi-Site Wall

Refinishing Project.






















in bidding.




Board of Education


TRICT #194

Published in



352483

CREDIT RIVER TOWNSHIPNOTICE OF HEARING ON

PROPOSED ASSESSMENT FLAG TRAIL IMPROVEMENT

PROJECTNotice is hereby given that the

Town Board of Credit River Town-

ship, Scott County, Minnesota, will

meet at 7:15 p.m. on March 23,

2015, at the Prior Lake Fire Station

No. 1 located at 16776 Fish Point

Road, Prior Lake, Minnesota, to

pass upon the proposed assess-

ment of costs related to the im-

provements of Flag Trail. The areas

to be assessed are all those prop-

erties abutting or having access to

said road, all located in Credit River

Township.

The proposed assessment roll

is on file for public inspection by

contacting Lisa Quinn, Credit River

Town Clerk. The total amount of the

proposed assessment is $217,010.

Adoption of the proposed assess-

ment by the Town Board may be

taken at the hearing. Written or oral

objections will be considered at the

meeting. No appeal may be taken

as to the amount of the assessment

unless a written objection, signed

by the property owner, is filed with

the Town Clerk prior to the hearing

or presented to the presiding officer

at the hearing.

An owner may appeal an as-

sessment to the District Court

pursuant to Minnesota Statutes

Section 429.081 by serving written

notice of the appeal upon the Town

Chairman or Town Clerk within

thirty (30) days after the adoption

of the assessment and filing such

notice with the District Court within

ten (10) days after service upon the

Town Chairman or the Town Clerk.

The Town Board may consider

adopting a deferment policy at this

public hearing pursuant to Min-

nesota Statutes Section 435.193

through 435.195. Minnesota

Statutes Section 435.193 through

435.195 authorize a Town Board to

defer the payment of assessments

against homestead property owned

by persons 65 years of age and

older, or who are retired because of

permanent and total disability un-

der circumstances where it would

be a hardship for such person to

make the assessment payments.

When deferment of the special as-

sessment has been granted and

is terminated for any reason pro-

vided in that law, all amounts ac-

cumulated plus applicable interest

become due. If the Town Board

adopts a deferment policy any as-

sessed property owner meeting

the requirements of this law may,

within 30 days of the confirma-

tion of the assessment, apply to

the Town Clerk for the prescribed

form for such deferral of payment

of this special assessment on said

owner’s property.

/s/ Lisa Quinn, Clerk

Published in

Lakeville

March 6, 2015

358320


ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDSCENTURY MIDDLE SCHOOL FLOORING REPLACEMENTCENTURY MIDDLE SCHOOL

18610 IPAVA AVENUELAKEVILLE,

MINNESOTA 55044Independent School District


sealed bids for Century Middle

School Flooring Replacement un-

til 2:00 p.m. local time on March

10, 2015 at the District Office,

8670 210th Street West, Lakeville,

Minnesota, 55044, at which time

and place all bids will be publicly

opened and read aloud.













saintlouispark.


and replacement of carpet flooring,

vinyl wall base, and the installation

of quarry tile and athletic rubber

flooring as described in the con-

tract documents.




697-8800, facsimile (952) 697-8803





will be available February 16, 2015.

A deposit check in the amount of

$25 made out to ARC for each

set downloaded via the inter-




Room icon, select Century Middle

School Flooring Replacement.






















in bidding.




Board of Education


TRICT #194

Published in



352461


PROPOSED ASSESSMENT GENSMER CIRCLE

IMPROVEMENT PROJECTNotice is hereby given that the




2015, at the Prior Lake Fire Sta-

tion No. 1 located at 16776 Fish

Point Road, Prior Lake, Minnesota,

to pass upon the proposed as-

sessment of costs related to the

improvements of Gensmer Circle.

The areas to be assessed are all

those properties abutting or having

access to said road, all located in

Credit River Township.
















at the hearing.









































owner’s property.


Published in

Lakeville

March 6, 2015

358311


PROPOSED ASSESSMENT VALLEY OAKS

FIRST ADDITIONIMPROVEMENT PROJECT

Notice is hereby given that the




2015, at the Prior Lake Fire Sta-

tion No. 1 located at 16776 Fish

Point Road, Prior Lake, Minnesota,

to pass upon the proposed as-

sessment of costs related to the

improvements of Deer Run Court,

Lone Oak Court, Pheasant Ridge

Road, Valley Ridge Court and Ver-

na Lane. The areas to be assessed

are all those properties abutting or

having access to said road, all lo-

cated in Credit River Township.
















at the hearing.









































owner’s property.


Published in

Lakeville

March 6, 2015

358299

CITY OF LAKEVILLE NOTICE OF

PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

REQUEST: A conditional use

permit to allow the installation of a

natural gas transmission pipeline.

APPLICANT:

Northern Natural Gas Company

LOCATION AND LEGAL DE-

SCRIPTION: The proposed project

will be located on numerous prop-

erties lying between the northeast

quadrant of 215th Street and Ken-

rick Avenue (CSAH 5S), and 210th

Street (CSAH 70) at the west city

limits of Lakeville. The affected

properties located in the City of

Lakeville, Dakota County, Minne-

sota are identified as follows:

PID220360025011

PID220350001014

11625-215th Street

PID220350001015

11701-215th Street

PID2203500050012

PID220350004011

11850-215th Street

PID220350005014

11900-210th Street

PID220350005013

11980-210th Street

PID2203500025014

12070-210th Street

PID220350024018

12110 -210th Street

PID220350025015

PID220350025016

12150-210th Street

PID220350025012

12230-210th Street

PID22-350026010

12310-210th Street

PID220350026041

12320-210th Street

PID220350026001

12350 210th Street

PID220350026002

PID220350026042

12330-210th Street

PID220350026030

12400-210th Street

PID220350027012

12430-210th Street

PID220350027011

12450-210th Street

PID220260052010

12342 Lucerne Trail

PID22036006018

10831-215th Street

WHEN: Thursday, March 19,

2015 beginning at 6:00 p.m. or as

soon thereafter as the parties may

be heard.

WHERE: Planning Commis-

sion Meeting. City Hall Council


Lakeville.

QUESTIONS: Call Associate

Planner Frank Dempsey in the

Planning Department at (952) 985-

4423 or e-mail comments or ques-

tions to [email protected]

DATED this 2nd day of March 2015

CITY OF LAKEVILLE

Charlene Friedges,

City Clerk

Published in

Lakeville

March 6, 2015

357951


PROPOSED ASSESSMENT ROLLING OAKS COURT

IMPROVEMENT PROJECTNotice is hereby given that the




2015, at the Prior Lake Fire Station

No. 1 located at 16776 Fish Point

Road, Prior Lake, Minnesota, to

pass upon the proposed assess-

ment of costs related to the im-

provements of Rolling Oaks Court.

The areas to be assessed are all

those properties abutting or having

access to said road, all located in

Credit River Township.
















at the hearing.









































owner’s property.


Published in

Lakeville

March 6, 2015

358305

CITY OF LAKEVILLEDAKOTA COUNTY,

MINNESOTANOTICE OF HEARING ON IMPROVEMENT

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN

that the City Council of Lakeville

will meet at 7:00 p.m. on Monday,

March 16, 2015 at the City Council


Lakeville, Minnesota, to consider

the Kensington Boulevard Improve-

ment Project, which extends from

205th Street to a point just south of

the intersection with 210th Street;

City Improvement Project 15-04,

pursuant to Minn. Stat. 429.011 to

429.111.

The area proposed to be as-

sessed for the improvements is as

follows:

The project will include property

in that part of Section 25 Township

114 Range 21, within the City of

Lakeville, Dakota County, Minne-

sota, and also being along Kens-

ington Boulevard between 205th

Street and a point just south of

the intersection with 210th Street,

where the improvements associ-

ated with the CSAH 70 project ter-

minated.

The estimated cost of the im-

provement is $898,240.00. Such

persons as desire to be heard with

reference to the proposed improve-

ment will be heard at this meeting.

DATED this 17th day of Febru-

ary, 2015.

CITY OF LAKEVILLE

BY: Charlene Friedges, City Clerk

Published in

Lakeville


352071

CITY OF LAKEVILLEDAKOTA COUNTY,

MINNESOTANOTICE OF HEARING


NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that

the City Council will meet at 7:00

p.m. on April 6, 2015 in the Council



certifying delinquent water, storm

water and sanitary sewer charges

to the County Auditor-Treasurer

with taxes against the property

served and assessing delinquent

street light charges, together with

applicable service charges and

18% annual interest.

The proposed charges and as-

sessment role are on file for pub-

lic inspection in the City’s Finance

Department. Written or oral objec-

tions will be considered at the pub-

lic hearing.

A property owner may appeal

street light assessments to dis-

trict court pursuant to MS Section

429.081 by serving notice of the

appeal to the Mayor or City Clerk

within thirty (30) days after adop-

tion of the assessment and filing

such notice with the district court

within ten (10) days after service

upon the Mayor or City Clerk. No

appeal may be taken to the district

court, however, as to the amount

of an assessment, unless a written

objection, signed by the affected

property owner, is filed with the City

Clerk prior to the assessment hear-

ing or is presented to the presiding

officer at the hearing.

DATED this 2nd day of March,

2015

CITY OF LAKEVILLE


Published in

Lakeville

March 6, 2015

358150


ROSEMOUNT-APPLE VALLEY-EAGAN

PUBLIC SCHOOLSCALL FOR BIDS 2015 FIRE

ALARM UPGRADESNotice is hereby given that

sealed bids will be received for the

2015 Fire Alarm Upgrades by Inde-

pendent School District 196, at the

Facilities and Grounds Office locat-

ed at 14445 Diamond Path West,

Rosemount, MN 55068, until 2:00

p.m. on March 24, 2015, at which

time and place bids will be publicly

opened and read aloud.

A pre-bid meeting is scheduled

for March 13, 2015 at 9:00 a.m.

at Black Hawk Middle School af-

ter which Oak Ridge Elementary

School will be visited. Attendance

at this meeting is highly recom-

mended.

This project includes: Fire Alarm

Upgrades at Black Hawk Middle

School and Oak Ridge Elementary

School.

Complete instructions on how to

obtain Bidding Documents can be

found at: http://www.district196.

org/District/LegalNotices/index.

cfm

A Bid Bond, Certified Check

or Cashier’s Check in the amount

of 5% of the total bid price, made

payable to Independent School

District 196, must be submitted

with the bid. No personal checks

will be accepted.

Gary L. Huusko, Board Clerk

Independent School District 196

Published in

Apple Valley, Lakeville,

Burnsville/Eagan


354054

CITY OF LAKEVILLE DAKOTA COUNTY,

MINNESOTANOTICE OF HEARING ON IMPROVEMENT


NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN

that the City Council of Lakeville

will meet at 7:00 p.m. on Monday,

March 16, 2015 at the City Council



the Hamburg Avenue Improve-

ment Project, which extends from

Lakeville Boulevard to 220th Street;

City Improvement Project 15-05,

pursuant to Minn. Stat. 429.011 to

429.111.

The area proposed to be as-

sessed for the improvements is as

follows:

The project will include property

in that part of Section 33 Township

114 Range 20, within the City of

Lakeville, Dakota County, Minneso-

ta, and also being along Hamburg

Avenue between Lakeville Boule-

vard and 220th Street.

The estimated cost of the im-

provement is $579,255. Such

persons as desire to be heard with

reference to the proposed improve-

ment will be heard at this meeting.

DATED this 17th day of Febru-

ary, 2015.

CITY OF LAKEVILLE

BY: Charlene Friedges, City Clerk

Published in

Lakeville


352079

His motion also failed to garner a second, so it also died. “I didn’t expect it because I hadn’t heard there was an issue from anybody,” Volk said in an interview. She said the issue will be discussed in the board’s March 19 study session. At the meeting, Skelly said

the proposal may not come back for a vote if agreement cannot be reached. Sinner said the first con-tract negotiation meetings have yet to be scheduled. “It’s very, very early in the process,” Sinner said. “The School Board still has to set their parameters, we still have to survey our members … and the district also sur-veys administration to see if

there are any issues the ad-ministration wants to bring to the table.” Sinner said his goal is to complete contract negotia-tions before school starts in the fall. “We try to work corrobo-ratively through this pro-cess,” Sinner said. “Hope-fully, we can have productive communications and move forward quickly.”

UNION, from 1A Kim Jirik nominated for state award Kim Jirik, a speech language pa-thologist with Lakeville Area Public Schools, has been nominated for the National Education Association’s Award for Teaching Excellence. Jirik is the first Lakeville teacher to be nominated for the award, which recognizes teachers union members who exemplify teaching excellence. Eligible members include dues-pay-ing educational support profession-

als, classroom teachers and higher education faculty. Jirik, who was encouraged to apply by Education Minnesota Lakeville President Don Sinner, is one of six individuals being interviewed this month to become the single candidate to represent Education Minnesota and compete at the national level. Jirik was a finalist for the 2014 Minnesota Teacher of the Year.


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AdministrativeJob folder auditor related to new kitchen installa-tion. Some kitchen design experience necessary. This position is a 2-3 day a week job with flexible hours of 5-6 hours a day. Salary open and based on experience. Job is lo-cated in Bloomington for a 40 year old family owned business. Email resume to

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Church Secretary Bloomington location Part Time. Benefits avail. Experience with Microsoft Office, Power Point, Web Page Mgt, Quick Books. Submit resume by March 10th to: [email protected]

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Community Assisted Living in Apple Valley and Farmington is look-ing for dedicated employ-ees to work as Houseaides in our Residental homes taking care of 6 Seniors. We currently are looking to fill PT & FT positions on Evenings & Nights, and PT W/E Day. All shifts include E/O Week-end. $ll.60/hr to start w/experience. Call 952-440-3955 for application ad-dress.

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Auditions Auditions for the Prior Lake Players’ spring production of a Rodgers & Hammerstein revue will be 6:30-8:30 p.m. Monday, March 9, at Glen-dale United Methodist Church, 13550 Glendale Road, Sav-age. Auditions are open – no appointments are necessary. Roles are available for ages 13 and up. The production will be a concert-style performance, with approximately 15-20 sing-ers performing alongside a live pit orchestra. Those auditioning should prepare a short seg-ment of a Broadway showtune that shows their vocal talent. Performances will be Friday, May 1, and Saturday, May 2, at Glendale United Methodist Church.

Books Meet the Author – Haley Snyder, 6:30-8 p.m., Tues-day, March 17, at Robert Trail Library, 14395 S. Robert Trail, Rosemount. The author of “Get that Girl a Cheeseburger” will sign copies of her book and discuss the common myths and stereotypes surrounding eating disorders. Presented by the Rosemount Area Arts Council. SouthSide Writers, Sat-urday workgroup for aspiring writers, offering critique, sub-mission and manuscript prep-aration information, support and direction, 10 a.m. to noon, Wescott Library, 1340 Wescott Road, Eagan. Information: 651-688-0365.

Dance Iny Asian Dance Group, 11

a.m. to noon Saturday, March 7, Galaxie Library atrium, 14955 Galaxie Ave., Apple Val-ley. Free. Information: 952-891-7045.

Music 651 Jazz, 7-9 p.m. Friday, March 6, Rosemount Commu-nity Center, 13885 S. Robert Trail, Rosemount. Part of the Rosemount Area Arts Council’s “An Evening of Jazz” series. Tickets: $7 at www.rosemoun-tarts.com. Eagan-based Exultate Fes-tival Choir and Orchestra will perform Mozart’s “Requiem” 7:30 p.m. Friday, March 6, at St. Mark’s Episcopal Cathedral, 519 Oak Grove St., Minneapo-lis; 7:30 p.m. Saturday, March 7, at Church of The Annunciation, 509 W. 54th St., Minneapolis; and 2 p.m. Sunday, March 8, at St. Joseph the Worker Catholic Church, 7180 Hemlock Lane N., Maple Grove. Tickets avail-able at www.exultate.org or by calling 651-707-0727. South Metro Chorale Cabaret: “Come Fly with SMC,” 7:30 p.m. Saturday, March 7, and 3 p.m. Sunday, March 8, Lakeville Area Arts Center, 20965 Holyoke Ave., Lakeville. Tickets: $20/$15, in-cludes appetizers, beverages and dessert. Information/tick-ets: 612-386-4636, [email protected] or www.southmetrochorale.org. Clint Black, 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 11, Ames Center, 12600 Nicollet Ave., Burnsville. Tickets: $47-$56 at the box office, Ticketmaster.com or by phone at 800-982-2787. No Man’s String Band, 7 p.m. Thursday, March 12, Rosemount Community Center, 13885 S. Robert Trail, Rose-

mount. Tickets: $7 at www.rosemountarts.com or at the door. Dakota Valley Symphony: The Feeling In Baroque Music II, 2 and 7 p.m. Sunday, March 15, Ames Center, 12600 Nicol-let Ave., Burnsville. Tickets: $20 at the box office, Ticketmaster.com or by phone at 800-982-2787. Artaria String Quartet, 2 p.m. Sunday, March 15, Lakev-ille Area Arts Center, 20965 Holyoke Ave., Lakeville. Part of the Lakeville Coffee Concert series. Tickets: $15 adults, $12 seniors and students. Informa-tion: 952-985-4640. Transit Authority: A Tribute to the Music of Chicago, 8 p.m. Thursday, March 19, Ames Center, 12600 Nicollet Ave., Burnsville. Tickets: $42-$62 at the box office, Ticketmaster.com or by phone at 800-982-2787.

Theater “Veronica’s Room,” pre-sented by Chameleon Theatre Circle, Feb. 20-March 8, Black Box Theatre, Ames Center, 12600 Nicollet Ave., Burnsville. Adult situations, possible nu-dity. Tickets: $22 adults, $19 seniors and students, at the box office, by phone at 800-982-2787 and online at Ticket-master.com. “50 Shades! The Musi-cal Parody,” 8 p.m. Saturday, March 14, Mystic Showroom in Prior Lake. Adults only. Tickets: $29 and $39. Information: 952-445-9000 or mysticlake.com.

Workshops/classes/other Swing dance lessons, 7-8:15 p.m. Sundays, March 8, 15, 22 and 29, at Dan Patch American Legion Post 643, 12375 Princeton Ave., Savage,

To submit items for the Family Calendar, email:

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Friday, March 6 Walleye fry by Dakota County Elks Lodge 2832, 5-7:30 p.m., Mary Center at Mary, Mother of the Church, 3333 Cliff Road, Burnsville. All-you-can-eat walleye, baked potatoes, coleslaw, rolls, milk and coffee. Cost: $13 adults, $6 ages 11 and younger, $3 kid’s meal of macaroni and cheese, animal crackers and milk. Fish fry, 5-8 p.m., Rose-mount VFW Post 9433, 2625 120th St. W., Rosemount. All-you-can-eat cod ($12.95) or walleye ($14.95); includes soup and salad bar. Fish fry, 5-9 p.m., Rose-mount American Legion, 14590 Burma Ave., Rosemount. All-you-can-eat fish ($11.95 adults, $10.95 seniors, $7.95 kids). In-formation: 651-423-3380. Forever Wild Family Fri-day: The Way of the Monarch, 7-8:30 p.m., Lebanon Hills Visitor Center, 860 Cliff Road, Eagan. All ages. In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre returns with the story of the spectacular life, meta-morphosis and migration of the Monarch butterfly. Free. Regis-tration requested. Information: www.co.dakota.mn.us/parks. Course number 5050.

Monday, March 9 Relay For Life of Eagan fundraiser, all day at Gran-ite City Food & Brewery, 3330 Pilot Knob Road, Eagan, 651-452-4600. Must present flier, available at the hostess table at Granite City. Ten percent of the total tab will be donated to American Cancer Society-Relay For Life Eagan.

Tuesday, March 10 Friends of LeDuc of His-toric Hastings meeting, 7 p.m., 1629 Vermillion St., Hast-ings. Following a short busi-ness meeting, a program on Quilts at the Dakota County

Fair will be presented by Cindy Thury-Smith, master quilter and curator at the Pioneer Room in Hastings City Hall. The meeting is free and open to the public.

Wednesday, March 11 Eagan Garden Club monthly meeting, 7-9 p.m., Eagan Municipal Center, 3830 Pilot Knob Road, Eagan. Speaker: Debbie Lonnee on “New Annuals and Perennials for 2015.”

Friday, March 13 Walleye fry by Dakota County Elks Lodge 2832, 5-7:30 p.m., Mary Center at Mary, Mother of the Church, 3333 Cliff Road, Burnsville. All-you-can-eat walleye, baked potatoes, coleslaw, rolls, milk and coffee. Cost: $13 adults, $6 ages 11 and younger, $3 kid’s meal of macaroni and cheese, animal crackers and milk. Fish fry, 5-8 p.m., Rose-mount VFW Post 9433, 2625 120th St. W., Rosemount. All-you-can-eat cod ($12.95) or walleye ($14.95); includes soup and salad bar. Fish fry, 5-9 p.m., Rose-mount American Legion, 14590 Burma Ave., Rosemount. All-you-can-eat fish ($11.95 adults, $10.95 seniors, $7.95 kids). In-formation: 651-423-3380. Fish fry by the Rosemount Knights of Columbus, 6 p.m., St. Joseph’s School Social Hall, 13900 Biscayne Ave., Rose-mount. Free-will offering.

Saturday, March 14 Lakeville Landscape & Home Expo, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., Lakeville North High School, 19600 Ipava Ave. W., Lakeville. Information: 952-469-2020.

Ongoing Emotions Anonymous meetings, 7:30-9 p.m. Tues-days at SouthCross Commu-nity Church, 1800 E. County Road 42 (at Summit Oak Drive), Apple Valley. EA is a 12-step program for those seeking emotional health. All are wel-

come. Information: http://www.emotionsanonymous.org/.

Reunions Apple Valley High School Class of 2005 10-year reunion, Saturday, June 13, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. family-friendly barbecue at Alimagnet Park; 5:30-9 p.m. adult-only dinner cruise along the St. Croix River. Barbecue cost: $5 children, $10 adults. Cruise: $40 by March 13; $50 after March 13. RSVP by May 29. Information can be found on the Apple Valley High School Class of 2005 Facebook page or by emailing the reunion com-mittee at [email protected].

Blood drives The American Red Cross will hold the following blood drives. Call 1-800-RED CROSS (1-800-733-2767) or visit red-crossblood.org to make an ap-pointment or for more informa-tion. • March 6, 11:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., Easter Lutheran Church – By The Lake, 4545 Pilot Knob Road, Eagan. • March 7, 10:15 a.m. to 4:15 p.m., Burnhaven Library, 1101 W. County Road 42, Burnsville. • March 9, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., Minnesota Valley YMCA, 13850 Portland Ave., Burnsville. • March 9, 1-7 p.m., Hope Community Church, 9623 162nd St. W., Lakeville. • March 12, 12-6 p.m., Hope Church, 7477 145th St., Apple Valley. • March 12, 1-7 p.m., Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, 151 E. County Road 42, Burns-ville. • March 14, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., Crown of Life Lutheran Church, 4150 Pilot Knob Road, Eagan. • March 14, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Wescott Library, 1340 Wescott Road, Eagan. • March 16, 12-6 p.m., Kowalski’s Market, 1646 Diffley Road, Eagan.

Apple Valley’s Frozen Apple winter concert series finishes its 2015 run on March 7 with a performance by Michael Monroe. An acoustic artist whose music blends folk, jazz and reggae, Monroe has become a familiar face in Apple Valley with regular performances at the annual Frozen Apple and Music in Kelley Park concert series hosted by the Apple Valley Arts Foundation. Admission is free to the 6-9 p.m. concert in the clubhouse at Valleywood Golf Course, 4851 McAndrews Road. More information is at www.avartsfoundation.org. (Photo submitted)

Frozen Apple concert

The Dakota Valley Symphony’s Chamber Orchestra will present “The Feeling in Baroque Music II” at 2 and 7 p.m. Sunday, March 15, at the Burnsville Ames Center’s Black Box Theatre. The concert will feature St. Paul Chamber Orchestra harpsichordist Layton “Skip” James performing Bach’s Harpsichord Concerto in D Minor, as well as concertmaster Dr. Angela Waterman Hanson (pictured) and associate concertmaster Erika Hoogeveen performing Bach’s Double Violin Concerto. General admission tickets are $20 ($15 for seniors, $5 for students) and are available at 952-895-4680 and Ticketmaster.com. (Photo submitted)

Going for baroque

952-894-6940. Cost: $15/cou-ple or $10/single for drop-ins. Lessons culminate in a Zoot Suit Romp, 7:30-10:30 p.m. April 11. Information: [email protected] or 612-360-6471. International Festival of Burnsville Planning Commit-tee: Get involved with the July 2015 festival; choose from en-tertainment, marketing, public-ity, sponsorships, and general event planning. Visit www.in-tlfestburnsville.org or contact [email protected]. The Eagan Art House of-fers art classes for all ages, www.cityofeagan.com/index.php/recreat ion/eagan-art-house, 651-675-5500. Teen Poetry Jam/Rap Bat-tle, 4-5 p.m. the first Tuesday of each month at Apple Valley Teen Center, 14255 Johnny Cake Ridge Road, Apple Valley, 952-953-2385. Ages 12-18.

Dan Petrov Art Studio, Burnsville, offers oil painting classes with continuous enroll-ment in fall/winter semester for beginners, intermediate and advanced oil painting students. Information: Dan Petrov, www.danpetrovart.com, 763-843-2734. 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. Brushworks School of Art Burnsville offers fine art education through drawing and painting. Classes for adults and teens. Information: Patricia Schwartz, www.BrushworksS-choolofArt.com, 651-214-4732. Soy candle making class-es held weekly in Eagan near 55 and Yankee Doodle. Call Ja-mie at 651-315-4849 for dates

and times. $10 per person. Presented by Making Scents in Minnesota. Country line dance class-es held for intermediates Mon-days 1:30-4 p.m. at Rambling River Center, 325 Oak St., Farmington, $5/class. Call Mar-ilyn 651-463-7833. Country line dance class-es on Wednesdays at the Lakeville Senior Center, 20110 Holyoke Ave. Beginners, 9-10 a.m.; Intermediate, 10 a.m. to noon. $5/class. Call Marilyn 651-463-7833. The Lakeville Area Arts Center offers arts classes for all ages, www.lakevillemn.gov, 952-985-4640. Rosemount History Book Club meets 6:30-8 p.m. the second Tuesday of each month at the Robert Trail Library. Infor-mation: John Loch, 952-255-8545 or [email protected].


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Swing dance in Rosemount The Rosemount Area Arts Council is holding a swing dance at 8 p.m. Fri-day, March 20, featuring live music by the Hiawatha Hepcats at the Rosemount Community Center Ban-quet Room, 13885 S. Rob-ert Trail. Free dance lessons by the Arthur Murray studio begin at 7 p.m. Cost is $8 at the door or online at www.rosemoun-tarts.com.

Nature art in Apple Valley “Dakota County Nat-urally,” the most recent Dakota County commu-nity art exhibition, is on display for public viewing in the hallway between the Dakota County Western Service Center and Galax-ie Library, 14955 Galaxie Ave., Apple Valley. The exhibition in-cludes two-dimensional art created by 19 Dakota County artists in one of two themes: “Critters of the Minnesota Zoo” and “Natural Wonders of the Parks of Dakota County.” This is the seventh community art exhibition curated by the Dakota County Public Art Citi-zens Advisory Committee. For more information,

call Jean Erickson at 651-438-4286.

Children’s book signing Twin Cities author Kevin Lovegreen will sign copies of his newest book in the Lucky Luke’s Hunting Adventures series from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Sunday, March 8, at Schaffer Performance Ar-chery, 1403 Cliff Road E., Burnsville. The new easy-to-read book is called “Monster Mule Deer.” It takes kids on an archery hunting ad-venture in Alberta, Cana-da. Learn more about Lovegreen and his series of books at www.Kevin-Lovegreen.com.

Martina McBride County star Martina McBride brings her Ev-erlasting Tour to Mystic Lake on Friday, June 19. “Everlasting” is Mc-Bride’s 12th album and it features covers of soul and R&B classics such as Lin-da Ronstadt’s “Little Bit of Rain” and Sam Cooke’s “Bring It On Home To Me.” The Everlasting Tour combines her classic hits and songs from her new album. Tickets go on sale at 10

‘Music During Wartime’ concert

March 15 in Lakeville

by Andrew MillerSUN THISWEEK


The idea behind “Mu-sic During Wartime” is that troubled times can produce great art. The concert, which will be presented by the Ar-taria String Quartet on March 15 at the Lakeville Area Arts Center, features compositions written dur-ing or just after World War II. “Music During War-time” is part of the on-going Coffee Concerts chamber music series at the arts center, and will include Quincy Porter’s String Quartet No. 7, William Walton’s String

Quartet in A Minor, and William Alwyn’s Three Winter Poems. Now in its 28th season, the Artaria String Quar-tet consists of violinists Ray Shows and Nancy Oliveros, cellist Laura Sewell, and violist An-nalee Wolf. The Minnesota-based group has served as Min-nesota Public Radio Artists-in-Residence, and was featured on Twin Cit-ies Public Television as part of the “Minnesota Original” series. As with all the concerts in the series, there will be complimentary coffee and refreshments in the series’ informal cabaret setting, with the musicians pro-viding some background and insights on the pieces they’ve chosen to per-form. The series continues

April 26 with the Wilder Octet, who will perform a full set of the music of American composer Alec Wilder. The Minneapolis Gui-tar Quartet concludes the season May 17 with a program titled “Looking Back, Looking Ahead.”

The Coffee Concerts series was founded in 2007 by the husband-and-wife duo of oboist Car-rie Vecchione and bassist Rolf Erdahl, who each year perform one concert in the series in collabora-tion with other perform-ers. This year the couple

will be joining the Wilder Octet on April 26. All the concerts take place Sunday afternoons at 2 p.m. at the arts center located at 20965 Holyoke Ave. in downtown Lakev-ille. More about the series can be found on Face-book at www.facebook.

com/coffeeconcerts. General admission tickets are $15 ($12 for students and seniors) and are available at www.LakevilleAreaArtsCenter.com.

Email Andrew Miller at [email protected].

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The Artaria String Quartet is composed of violinists Nancy Oliveros and Ray Shows, cellist Laura Sewell, and violist Annalee Wolf. (Photo submitted)

a.m. Saturday, March 7, for $59 and $69. Contact the box office at 952-496-6563 or visit mysticlake.com for more details.

Comedy at Mystic Lake Thomas Dale and Brady Matthews will take the Mystic Comedy Club stage at 7 and 9:30 p.m. Friday, March 20, and Saturday, March 21, in Prior Lake. Dale was brought on as a writer and regular per-

former on “Chelsea Late-ly” in 2013. He appeared on MTV’s “New Year’s Eve Bash” in 2011 and has been featured in The New York Comedy Festival as well as the Bamboozle Music Festival. He provid-ed commentary for VH1’s “100 Sexiest Celebrities” and “100 Greatest Child Stars” and made his late night debut on “The Late Show With Craig Fergu-son” in 2012. He is the co-host of the podcast, “Nobody Asked You” and is a regular on Sirius Ra-

dio, Comical Radio and WOR’s “Joey Reynolds Show.” Matthews is a stand-up comedian and actor. He has appeared in re-curring roles on “Reality Hell,” “Always Sunny in Philadelphia,” “Better Off Ted,” “CSI: New York” and “How I Met Your

Mother.” He has been fea-tured on “TheSmoking-Gun.com” and “Jimmy Kimmel Live” and can be seen on the new webisode series “Clean Break.” Tickets are $19. Mature audiences only. Contact the box office at 952-445-9000 or visit mysticlake.com for details.

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Lakeville twins to open IditarodCarlie and Chloe Beatty to ride in ceremonial start of legendary dogsled race

Identical twins Carlie and Chloe Beatty of Lakeville will be riding March 7 in the ceremoni-al start of Iditarod – the legendary long-distance Alaska dogsled race. The chance to ride in the race came after the twins’ mother, Cheri Be-atty, contacted Anna and Kristy Berington, anoth-er pair of dogsled racing twins who live in Alaska and were featured on an episode of HGTV’s “Living Alaska” that Cheri Beatty saw. After a string of cor-respondence, the Bering-tons invited the Beattys to visit their dog yard in Knik, Alaska. In June 2014, the Be-attys went on a dry-land ride with Anna Bering-ton, who has participat-ed in many races in the past several years. “Carlie and Chloe were enlightened by the visit and said they want-ed to run the Iditarod someday to show all girls that they can follow their dreams anywhere,” Cheri Beatty said. They didn’t think a chance to be involved in

the Iditarod would hap-pen so soon, but after they arrived home from Alaska, the Beringtons asked the Beattys if they would like to ride behind them in the ceremonial start through downtown Fairbanks. They accepted the in-vite and they can be seen on the livestream replay of the start at iditarod.com/iditarod-42-ceremo-nial-start-replay. The Beatty girls fell in love with dogsledding at the age of 10 when their parents took them on their first ride. Without a dog-mush-ing team of their own, it seemed unlikely that the sport would be part of their future. The girls saved money to buy harnesses, bought a small sled at a garage sale, and began training their two cocker spaniels to pull the sled. “They were relent-less drill sergeants and quickly found that treats thoroughly advanced their plan,” Cheri Beatty said. The dogs gained some weight and started pull-

ing things in the sled around the yard. Cheri Beatty said people couldn’t help but take note of their deter-mination as their love of

the sport didn’t fade over the years. They took many rec-reational dogsledding trips to northern Min-nesota and got their own

team of six dogs. The whole family be-came involved in the sport as they added two more dogs to the team. While the twins’ moth-

er, father and brother endured many mishaps while training the dogs, the girls showed an ap-titude for flying around bends and over hills – remaining perfectly poised, balanced, and acutely at one with the dogs, Cheri Beatty said. “The twins don’t just keep their equilibrium on a sled, they are driven to balance schoolwork, horseback riding, and competitive gymnas-tics as well,” she said. “There’s very little social media time for the girls which makes them atypi-cal in this world of tech-nology.” The twins recently gave a presentation at their old school, Lakev-iew Elementary, in the hopes of inspiring other young people to pursue their dreams. More about the Be-attys is at themushing-mamablog.wordpress.com. More about the Ber-ingtons is at www.see-ingdoublesleddogracing.com.

– Tad Johnson

Identical twins Carlie and Chloe Beatty of Lakeville will be riding March 7 in the ceremonial start of Iditarod – the legendary long-distance Alaska dogsled race. (Photo submitted)