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by Laura AdelmannTHISWEEK NEWSPAPERS

On Jan. 19, Rosemount City Council members selected a self-described “numbers guy” to fill the remaining term of Kurt Bills, who was elected as a state representative in November. Matthew Kearney, a self-employed, 16-year Rosemount resident, is anticipated to be sworn in at the Feb. 1 Rosemount City Council meeting. Kearney owns MJK Investments, a real

estate investment company, and said his ex-perience will benefit the city as UMore Park develops. With a distinctly “Bills-esque” quality, Kearney also cited the importance of fiscal discipline, noting his ability to understand budget forecasts, spreadsheets and strong financial background as important tools he could bring to the council. Kearney has also been an involved com-munity member, and has served on many boards, including the SKB Trust Fund, the

Rosemount Facilities Task Force, the Rose-mount Area Hockey Association and the Irish Baseball Booster Club. Other finalists interviewed Jan. 22 for the position were Robert Leuth and Pamela VanderWeil. Throughout the appointment process, council members discussed how impressed they were by all 18 applicants and their cre-dentials, experiences and backgrounds. An open house reception for the commu-nity to meet Kearney is scheduled before the Feb. 1 board meeting from 6:30 to 7:20 p.m. The council meeting will begin at 7:30

p.m. Contacted after he learned of his ap-pointment, Kearney said, “It’s a very nice honor. I know there were a lot of great can-didates, and so it’s a nice feather in my cap to be part of that.” He also commended Bills’ for his work with the city, and said Bills left big shoes to fill. “It’s a great honor to be filling in these final two years of his term,” Kearney said.

Laura Adelmann is at [email protected].

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Apple Valley-RosemountApple Valley-Rosemount

School District 196 prepares for potential funding cuts

by Jessica HarperTHISWEEK NEWSPAPERS

Though Rosemount-Apple Valley-Ea-gan School District 196 is on track to save $4 million by the end of this school year, officials say the district will likely face fi-nancial hardship as the state attempts to tackle its deficit. The Legislature currently faces a $6.2 billion deficit, and 40 percent of its expen-ditures go toward K-12 education. District officials anticipate that the state will reduce education funding by about 5 percent for the 2011-2012 school year. Under this scenario, the district will need approximately $20 million in bud-get adjustments, Jeff Solomon, district fi-nance director, said. “As we make these budget adjustments, it’s going to get real for people,” Board Member Rob Duchscher said at a Jan. 24

board meeting. Programs and staffing would not likely be reduced unless deeper cuts are made to state funding, Solomon said. The district could borrow from its general fund balance next school year — reducing it to 5 percent of operating ex-penditures, which is the minimum set by district policy. The district could balance its 2011-2012 budget by using this year’s projected sav-ings and one-time stimulus money of $5 million from the Federal Education Jobs Fund. Other federal stimulus funds helped the district balance its budget in the past two years, but that money expires at the end of the 2010-2011 school year. In a best-case scenario – no state fund-ing cuts – District 196 would still need $13.5 million in budget adjustments due

Rosemount council selects Matthew Kearney to fill remainder of Bills’ termReception planned Feb. 1 before Kearney’s swearing in

Rosemount businessman gets jail time for failing to pay taxes


A Rosemount man was sentenced in federal court on Jan. 26 for failing to pay slightly more than $600,000 in employment taxes. Stephen John Kopel of Rosemount was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Mi-chael Davis to six months work release in a correc-tional facility, six months of home confinement and three years probation. In his plea agreement,

Kopel, co-owner of S&P Foods Inc., a corporation that operated a McDon-ald’s franchise in Rose-mount, admitted he failed to report and pay federal taxes in 2005. Kopel, who along with his wife owned S&P Foods, was the president and chief executive officer of the company. He allegedly deducted employment taxes from his employees’ wages between 2003 and 2006, but failed

to pay those taxes totaling $627,437.41 to the IRS. Kopel also failed to re-port and pay $28,691.33 in federal employment taxes for 2005, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office. Kopel was charged by the U.S. Attorney’s Of-fice on Feb. 5 and pleaded guilty on March 16 to one count of willful failure to account for and pay taxes.

E-mail Jessica Harper at: [email protected]

by T.W. BudigECM CAPITOL REPORTER

Apple Valley Police Offi-cer Mike Eliason illustrated the “nudge, nudge, wink, wink” conspiratorial men-tality surrounding the sale of synthetic marijuana to a House committee Jan. 20. Eliason, president of the Minnesota Juvenile Of-ficers’ Association, said he recently visited a website selling gum balls coated with K2 – a chemical-laced product sold as incense but often smoked. The gum balls were la-beled not for human con-sumption. “I’m still trying to figure out who’d chew a gum ball that’s not fit for human con-sumption,” Eliason said. Eliason and other of-ficials testified before the House public safety com-mittee in support of legis-lation outlawing the sale and possession of synthetic marijuana in Minnesota. Eliason, Rep. Tara Mack, R-Apple Valley, and others noted that synthetic

marijuana – products such as Spice Gold, Spice Sil-ver, and Yucatan Fire – are readily purchased at gas sta-tions, tobacco shops, and “head” shops. These products are laced with synthetic cannabi-noids, chemicals designed to mimic the THC found in marijuana and originally in-tended for research. Synthetic cannabinoids can produce coma, halluci-nations, heart irregularities, depression, other severe health problems, say offi-cials. One Cottage Grove po-lice officer testified that people who have been ar-rested for smoking actual marijuana have told him they would never smoke synthetic marijuana be-cause it’s too risky. “They spray (synthetic cannabinoids) on God knows what kind of plant materials,” Cody Wiberg, executive director of the Minnesota State Board of Pharmacy, said of factories producing these products.

Mack spoke on behalf of a family in her district whose 16-year-old son abused synthetic marijuana for about nine months. The parents became aware of the abuse when noticing “very danger-ous and scary behaviors in their son,” Mack said. “It’s disturbing to hear what in-dividuals and families go through when they’re in-volved with this drug.” Eliason has received re-ports of synthetic marijua-na abuse from Burnsville, Lakeville, St. Cloud, Ando-ver and elsewhere. “It’s around the state of Minnesota – it’s not just the metro area,” he said. Rep. John Kriesel, R-Cottage Grove, said his syn-thetic marijuana criminal-ization bill has the support of state law enforcement as-sociations. Dakota County Attor-ney James Backstrom has also called for making syn-thetic marijuana illegal. Backstrom testified on

Photos by T.W. Budig

Top: Apple Valley Police Officer Mike Eliason warned during a hearing at the state Capitol of a pattern of synthetic marijuana abuse spreading across the state. Left: Rep. Tara Mack, R-Apple Valley, spoke on behalf of parents in her community whose child had been hurt by synthetic marijuana use during a House committee hearing Jan. 20. Mack is in favor of a bill that makes it a crime to possess and sell synthetic marijuana.

Apple Valley police officer, county attorney testify at Capitol

Local officials warn of drug use

by Andrew MillerTHISWEEK NEWSPAPERS

A weekend of winter fun is in store at Apple Valley’s Mid-Winter Fest Feb. 5-6. Now in its 34th year, the annual celebration hosted by the city’s Parks and Recreation Department features family-oriented activities throughout the weekend at the Apple Val-ley Community Center, Valleywood Golf Course, the teen center and other sites throughout the city. The medallion hunt, a perennial festival favorite, returns this year for teams of sleuths to search out a medallion hidden in one of the city’s 50 parks. Clues will be post-ed at the com-munity center throughout the day on Feb. 5 and 6. N e w events this year in-clude a boot hockey tour-nament, a pick-leball demo, and an African drum concert presented by Val-ley Middle School music students, which will be held at noon Saturday, Feb. 5, at the community center. The Apple Valley Com-munity Center will take on a family carnival atmosphere Saturday with face painting,

inflatable j u m p e r s ,

cotton candy and mini golf.

Other activities at the community center include a reptile show, ice carving, dog sled rides, bingo and a buffalo wing-eating contest. Events geared to senior citizens are set for Feb. 5 at the Hayes Community and Senior Center, with a nine-

ball pool tournament for ages 55 and up in the morn-ing followed by a cribbage tournament and the annual senior volunteer awards cer-emony. Valleywood Golf Course joins the Mid-Winter Fest action Sunday, Feb. 6, with a bonfire and marshmallow roast, horse-drawn hayrides, and activities such as snow

A snow-laden celebration

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Two days of family-oriented winter fun are in store Feb. 5-6 at Apple Valley’s 34th annual Mid-Winter Fest community celebration.

Apple Valley’s Mid-Winter Fest features new events, perennial favorites Feb. 5-6 at sites throughout city

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As more workers reach retirement age and school districts become strapped for cash, many districts are looking to early retirement incentives to prevent lay-offs. The Rosemount-Ap-ple Valley-Eagan School District is no exception.

In a special meeting Jan. 24, District 196 officials discussed whether they should adopt an incen-tive that would give older workers $20,000 to retire early. “We would do this to prevent people from being laid off,” Superintendent Jane Berenz said. In order to avoid future layoffs, the district would need about 80 employees who qualify for the incen-tive to retire in one fiscal year, according to Jeff Sol-omon, finance director for District 196.

About 17 to 18 percent of retired employees would be replaced, but the rest would not, he said. A few other metro area school districts have ad-opted similar incentives, which would be cost neu-tral, he said. On average, about 40 employees retire from District 196 each year, Solomon said. But as the recession continues, more workers are holding onto their jobs longer, he said. E-mail Jessica Harper at: [email protected]

District 196 considers retirement incentives

Officials say encouraging early retirement could prevent layoffs

Football, booze, confrontationand bloodshed in Burnsville

by John GessnerTHISWEEK NEWSPAPERS

An alcohol-fueled foot-ball gathering ended in bloodshed Jan. 23 as one of two Burnsville men al-legedly shot the other to death during a noisy con-frontation. The party‘s host, 46-year-old Robert Mi-chael Thomas Sr., was charged Tuesday with sec-ond-degree murder. The victim, 38-year-old James Edward Koe-nig, died of a single shot-gun blast inside Thomas’ townhouse at 14046 Plym-

outh Ave. S. The confrontation was over photos that Thomas’ 13-year-old son had tak-en that day of a shirtless Koenig, according to the criminal complaint. According to accounts given to police, the boy took photos of Koenig in body-building poses in a bedroom of the town-house. Both Thomas and Koenig’s girlfriend con-fronted Koenig about the photos, which they deemed inappropriate, ac-cording to the complaint. Thomas had invited the

woman, a friend of his, to come to his house with her boyfriend to watch the Packers game. She dropped Koenig off and left to do some things with her children. When she returned shortly before halftime, the two men were drinking straight vodka out of cof-fee cups, the woman told police. Another friend of Thomas’ who came to his house that day also said Thomas and Koenig had been drinking. After the game the woman noticed the pho-tos of Koenig on the boy’s camera. “She said that the de-fendant saw those pictures and asked her what her boyfriend was doing in the other room having the de-fendant’s son take pictures of him,” the complaint said. When confronted, Koe-nig said he wanted a new picture for his Facebook page.See Murder, 3A

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A night of hard partying on New Year’s Eve ended with a car crash and criminal charges for a 21-year-old Apple Valley man. David Ariel Mart has been charged with DWI, criminal vehicular injury and possession of a con-trolled substance fol-lowing the two-car accident the afternoon of Jan. 1. Mart, who allegedly rear-ended another vehicle that was stopped at a red light in Eagan around 4 p.m., told police he had been at a party the night before and had not stopped drinking until about 11 a.m. that morning. Police say Mart failed a field sobriety test, and a pre-liminary breath test revealed his blood-alcohol content

was greater than .20, more than twice the legal limit for operating a motor vehicle. The other driver reported

head and ear pain as a result of the crash, the criminal com-plaint said. A witness told au-thorities that Mart had placed drugs in his trunk before police arrived at the accident scene. Po-

lice searched Mart’s vehicle and found a substance that appeared to be marijuana, a digital scale, a glass pipe,

a silver flask, and a blue pill later identified as the pow-erful prescription stimulant Adderall. Police described damage to Mart’s vehicle as “expen-sive.” Both airbags deployed, and the extent of the damage required that Mart’s vehicle be towed. Mart was arrested by Eagan police at the acci-dent scene and booked into the Dakota County Jail in Hastings. Mart has been charged with fifth-degree possession of a controlled substance, a

felony, for the Adderall pill allegedly found in his vehi-cle; the crime carries a maxi-mum penalty of five years in prison and/or a $10,000 fine. He’s also charged with third-degree DWI and criminal ve-hicular injury; both charges are gross misdemeanors that carry a maximum penalty of one year in jail and/or a $3,000 fine. Mart was still in custody in the Dakota County Jail as of Tuesday afternoon.

Andrew Miller is at [email protected].

Car crash, criminal charges follow New Year’s Eve party

David Mart

Apple Valley When Thomas and Koenig’s girlfriend told Koenig to leave the house, he began yelling at Thom-as, the woman told police. She said Thomas left the room and returned with a “huge gun,” which po-lice said was a single-shot shotgun. Thomas ordered Koe-nig to leave, but he kept coming at Thomas, who shot Koenig in the chest, she told police. Prior to the shooting, Koenig taunted Thomas, calling him a “pussy” who “won’t do anything about it” and threatening to take the shotgun from him, the other man Thomas had invited to his home told police. Koenig, who was asked several times to leave, was also swearing at his girl-friend, the man told po-lice. Thomas asked the man to call 911, and he started to dial as Koenig walked

toward Thomas, the com-plaint said. “The witness stated that the victim lunged to-ward the defendant, at which time the shotgun went off,” the complaint said. Then man then hit “send” on his phone and ran into the garage to talk to the 911 dispatcher. When police responded at 5:36 p.m., Thomas was standing in the garage, waiting for them, the com-plaint said. “I shot him,” he said. Koenig was dead by the time rescuers reached him. Thomas is being held on $500,000 bail without conditions and $400,000 bail with conditions. After appearing in court Tues-day, his next appearance is Feb. 8. County Attorney James Backstrom said he’ll con-vene the Dakota County grand jury to review the case.

John Gessner is at [email protected].

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Opinion

Rosemount council ignored the people’s votesTo the editor: The administrative workings of Rosemount never cease to amaze and disappoint. I recently viewed the film adaptation of George Orwell’s novel “1984” and was chilled at how similar the scenarios were to those in our town. In the story, there is a loss of civil liberties and lies are told so often they become truths. Situations are manipu-lated to the advantage of government, while fear reinforces and keeps the masses under control. Rosemount just had an election for city council. Two incumbents succeeded and another a close third. One seat was vacated because an aspiring mem-ber from last year’s council earned a seat in the Minne-sota House. How to fill the empty seat? Reporter Laura Adelmann wrote June 4, 2010, that if Kurt Bills wins the House seat “a special election would be needed to fill Bills’ vacated City Council seat.” So, the public anticipat-ed a “special election” if Bills won the House seat. The fact that a special election was not the only option to fill a vacant seat was never brought to light until after the election. Suddenly, the City Council would appoint to the position. Instead of appointing the candidate with the next highest number of votes in the 2010 election, they opened the field to the en-tire city. The council ignored 3,410 votes and created the opportunity to pick an ap-plicant of their own liking. Wasn’t this clever? Tim Judy got out and met constituents. Citizens indicated their prefer-ence in the election and Judy barely lost, by just 26 votes. Fourteen applicants for Kurt Bills’ vacant seat did not sign up for the elec-tion. Why didn’t they? Minnesota statutes, the law that regulates filling vacated city council seats, clearly states that City Council must appoint or elect a candidate.

By law, this is all that is necessary; application/in-terviews are not even men-tioned. The council should have better things to do than draw out an easily imple-mented appointment. So, what are the city council members doing by these maneuvers? Call it stack-the-deck, under-the-table or bait-and-switch. It’s not your civil liber-ties at work.

KURT HANSENRosemount

Editor’s note: The writer was a mayoral candidate in the November election.

Thompson’s views will be judged by his constituentsTo the editor: I read the letter in your paper from Sen. Dave Thompson of Lakeville. In this letter he defended his views (from a rather scur-rilous source) that he is a reasonable and caring per-son. Thompson is not my senator but I frequently listened to his radio shows. The dialogue in which he engaged his callers always struck me as totally ob-jective, erudite, and ex-tremely tolerant of those with whom he may have disagreed. Thompson is an extrem-ist only if following the rule of law and our Consti-tution is extreme. He is ex-treme if being pro-life and liberty and the individual’s right to pursue happiness is extreme. Ultimately Thompson will be judged by his con-stituents and those favor-ing civility, objectivity, and reason will decide how he measures up and will then ask him to stay on as their senator.

RICHARD IFFERTEagan

Rosemount should be putting voters fi rstTo the editor: One of the surest ways to increase low-voter con-fidence is to over-ride citi-zen voters. This is exactly what happened at the Rose-

mount City Council work session last week that iso-lated the choice candidate of the Rosemount mayor and three city council members. A citizen close to the political government of our city was the pick. I attended every one of the 21 interviews for the council member who would be Kurt Bills’ re-placement, which included repeats of three finalists. Most candidates had bet-ter credentials than any-thing we have on the coun-cil right now. So, why was the council so fussy? Not one candidate in the lot could step in with-out a fair amount of dili-gence. What if, in Novem-ber, voters had chosen a brand new mayor, two new council members, and a third council member to replace Bills? What then? Council members Mark DeBettignies, Kim Shoe-Corrigan, Jeff Weisensel, and the mayor are pomp-ous for thinking only they can make our election choice for us. This is the mentality of a government that has seized control. Why hold elections at all? We could save money by eliminating them. Why not just let the Met Coun-cil appoint our city lead-ers? Such a silly reason given by the city for not going with voters’ next-highest city council choice on Election Day: A two-year term has different circum-stances. Wow, two years instead of four! How is that a gargantuan differ-ence? Subtract two. The city claimed it did not want to incur the cost of a “special election,” an election they had funds earmarked for that specific purpose. Were they afraid the candidate they had in mind might not win? Were they afraid can-didate Tim Judy, a strong choice of the people during the recent general election, might make it on the coun-cil by election this time? As an alternative to a special election, appointing Judy made a lot of sense as he had already run the race with clear voter support. I will never vote for a pseudo-incumbent, a can-didate who did not have the guts to go through an election “by the people.”

KATHY KLONECKYRosemount

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The immediate need for more jobs, par-ticularly in the construction industry, is a strong argument for the Minnesota Legis-lature to pass a big bonding bill, and the sooner the better. So far, Gov. Mark Dayton has said he favors a $1 billion bonding bill, while the Republicans, who have majorities in both houses, want fewer dollars, if any, in a bonding bill. Last year, the Legislature, then con-trolled by the DFL, sent Gov. Tim Pawlenty a bonding bill for $1 billion. He eliminated projects that got the final bill down to $686 million. Considering this tough economic time, most Minnesotans would agree the Leg-islature should pass a bonding bill that immediately puts construction people to work on worthy and ready projects and does not hurt the state’s credit rating. As of last November, 208,438 people were unemployed in Minnesota. Nation-ally, unemployment among construc-tion workers, who have been hit hardest by the Great Recession, is 20.7 percent. While construction accounts for 3 percent of Minnesota’s employment, it represent-ed one-third of the state’s jobless claims through last November. Paint-brush (renovation) and shovel-ready (capital improvements) projects are in the pipeline, as well as some money for projects that are unfinished and needing funds. The argument for using bonding mon-ey is to stimulate the economy and put skilled people to work. Meanwhile, many Republican legisla-tors say that government does not create jobs, and using public funds in the bond-ing bill takes money in taxes away from

the private sector, which creates real jobs. Republicans are focused on the budget deficit, and chances are any bonding bill will become part of the final settlement on government spending for the next bi-ennium. Dayton will have to step up soon and present his bonding bill, which will be-come the framework for crafting a final bonding bill. There’s every indication he will present a big-dollar bonding bill to the Legislature. Both DFL and Republican legislators face difficult votes on the bonding bill. Republicans used criticism of DFL legis-lative votes on bonding to help take over both chambers. Realizing that, DFL legis-lators will not be so eager to pass a bond-ing bill. On the flip side, legislators want to bring capital improvements and jobs to their districts by renovating buildings and constructing new ones on college cam-puses and at the University of Minnesota. One example is the Coon Rapids dam, which requires $16 million to rebuild the substructure. Republicans will want to show that they can slow spending and not add to the deficit, and one way is to spend less on a bonding bill. The public, however, will understand that passing a very sizable bonding bill that is focused on ready and soon-to-be-ready capital projects and will create many new jobs is necessary in this economy. This is an editorial from the ECM Edito-rial Board. Thisweek Newspapers and the Dakota County Tribune are part of ECM Publishers Inc.

Big bonding bill won’t hurt state’s credit, will boost jobs

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by Larry WernerTHISWEEK NEWSPAPERS

Next week, our newspa-per staff would like you to join us for lunch to honor women who have made a difference in the Dakota County business commu-nity. On Feb. 3, we will be convening the second annual Dakota Coun-ty Tribune Exceptional Business-women Luncheon. It will be at the new LaGrand Conference Center in Apple Valley. It is one of the most enjoyable things I get to par-ticipate in as general manager of the Tribune and Thisweek News-papers. We will present awards to 14 women nominated by our readers and selected by a panel of judges that included some of last year’s honorees and members of our news staff. Darlene Miller, CEO of Permac Industries in Burns-ville and one of last year’s win-ners, will tell her story as our key-note speaker. The Jan. 27 Dakota County Tribune contains the stories of this year’s winners – the 2011 class of the county’s Exceptional Busi-nesswomen. Eva Mooney, the newspaper’s business manager, is the project manager for this event, and she’ll tell you it’s a lot of work. Eva has

been working on the 2011 event since last summer, and it’s tempting to ask why we’re taking on a project like this while publishing three editions of Thisweek and the Dakota County Tribune every week.

The answer to why we do it isn’t a simple one. I suggested the project a couple of years ago after we decided that the Tribune, our 127-year-old subscription news-paper, would start focusing on Dakota County business. A rec-ognition event would be a way of emphasizing that we pay attention to business in our area as no one else does. Why else do we spend months seeking nominees, selecting the winners and writing stories about them? Another reason has to do with the role the newspaper plays in the community. The newspaper is more than a vehicle for conveying news. It’s a community institution that brings people together as few other organizations can. We not only provide information to read-ers and opportunities for advertis-ers to reach those readers, we also connect our neighbors with each other on the pages of the paper, on our website and increasingly through events. A former boss of mine once de-

clared that the mission statement for a newspaper is to “enrich the shared life of the community.” I like that definition of what we do. And there’s no doubt that last year’s event was an enriching ex-perience for the women who were honored and for those of us who honored them. We sold out our

first Exceptional Businesswomen Luncheon at the Lakeville Area Arts Center. We hope we do the same at the new LaGrand at the Grandstay Hotel in Apple Valley’s Central Village area. But why women? That’s not an easy question to answer, especially in a time when

women have risen to top positions in many organizations. A few members of the news staff have suggested we honor business lead-ers, regardless of gender. That might be what we do someday. But studies still show that women are underrepresented in the board rooms and at the top levels of our organizations. And women still make less than men in similar positions. Another important role of newspapers has been to shine a light on those who have overcome the odds. In our most recent edi-tion of the Tribune, we invite you to enjoy the stories of 14 women who have overcome odds and ex-celled as founders and managers of organizations in Dakota Coun-ty while contributing their time and energy to their communities. And if you want to join us in thanking these women for their contributions, go to thisweeklive.com and click on the luncheon-registration button at the top of the page.

Larry Werner is editor and general manager of the Dakota County Tribune and Thisweek Newspa-pers. He can be reached at [email protected]. Columns re-flect the opinion of the author.

We salute 14 exceptional businesswomen The 2011 class of the Dakota County Tribune’s Exceptional Busi-nesswomen are: Mary Ajax, 360 Communi-ties; Jan Beeson, Lily Wellness Inc.; Cheryl Caponi, Caponi Art Park and Learning Center; Jennifer Eisenhuth, Dr. Jennifer Eisenhuth Orthodontics; Elaine Grundhauser, One 2 One Mar-keting, Inc.; Lisa Horn, Eagan Resource Center; JuliAnne Jonker, Jonker Portrait Gallery; Nicole No-gosek, Double N Equestrian Center; Wanda Oland, Rascals Apple Valley Bar & Grill; Nancy Quinnell, Hollstadt & Associates Inc.; Barbara Toombs, The First State Bank of Rosemount; Janie Tutewohl, Janie’s Home Team and Market on Oak; Denise Vogt, Twin Cities Ballet & Ballet Royale MN; Linda Young, Lucky’s 13 Pub. To obtain a copy of the Tribune’s Exceptional Businesswomen edition, stop by our office in Burnsville, 12190 County Road 11, or go online and click on the PDF version of the paper in the menu at the bottom of the main page of www.ThisweekLive.com.

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Megan E.Gaudette

was awarded a Juris Doctordegree, magna cum laude, fromWilliam Mitchell College of Lawon Saturday, January 15, 2011.Megan is the daughter of Johnand Mary Gaudette of Eagan.She is a 2002 graduate of EaganHigh School, and a 2006 gradu-ate of the College of St. Benedict.

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Teacher pay freeze bill gains support by T.W. Budig

THISWEEK NEWSPAPERS

Sen. Dave Thompson, R-Lakeville, wants to see his two-year public and char-ter school employee sal-ary freeze bill hit the Senate floor as speedily as possible. “My hope is it gets on the floor quickly, because these (school) districts need predictability,” Thompson said. “So let’s get this in front of the governor, and get a decision on it.” Thompson is partway to his goal. A Senate education committee on Tuesday ad-vanced Thompson’s bill, which among other things would take away the penalty for school districts failing to complete teacher negotia-tions on time, and sent it to a finance committee. Debate on the bill in committee was intense. Don Sinner, president of Education Minnesota-Lakeville, the teachers union, and a science teacher in the Lakeville School Dis-trict, depicted Thompson’s bill as hurting education. Contract negotiations in Lakeville have never come close to the Jan. 15 dead-line, Sinner said, and his own take-home pay in re-cent years has gone back-ward. Beyond this, the pro-posed salary freeze would probably drive younger, lower-paid teachers out of the profession, Sinner ar-gued. Jan Alswager of Educa-tion Minnesota argued the legislation did nothing to really solve the state budget deficit and walked all over the concept of local control. Matt Toburen, of the Service Employees Inter-national Union, which represents school bus driv-ers, custodians, and other school staff, said some

school staff, such as cus-todians at North Branch, make as little as $10 an hour — and some have no health care benefits, he said. “Our members are mak-

ing sacrifices,” Toburen said, questioning the wis-dom of trying to deal with local school staff wages from the “50,000-foot level”

Lakeville senator advocates to halt salary increases for two years

Dakota County

Rahn Elementary presents ‘Wild, Wild West’ Rahn Elementary School’s third- and fourth-grade music/dance presen-tation, “Wild, Wild West,” will be held at 12:45 and 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 3, in the Mraz Center at Burns-ville High School. The performance will be videotaped and shown on Educational TV channel 18.

Education

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An animated Sen. Dave Thompson, R-Lakeville, argues the merits of his school employee salary freeze bill during a Senate hearing on Tuesday, Jan. 25.

Photo by T.W. Budig

Education Minnesota-Lakeville President Don Sinner, a middle school science teacher in the Lakeville School District, spoke against legislation sponsored by Sen. Dave Thompson, R-Lakeville, that in part would freeze wages for all school district employees statewide through June of 2013.

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Lakeville School Board Roz Peterson testified in committee on behalf of the Thompson’s bill, in part arguing it would provide the school board with more flexibility.


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by Tad JohnsonTHISWEEK NEWSPAPERS

The interim title in front of Diane Lind’s name is no more. Lind, who had been serving as interim execu-tive director of the Dakota Communications Center since July 15, officially took over Jan. 20 as the perma-nent replacement for Kent Therkelsen. Lind, of Lakeville, be-came the DCC’s first op-erations director when the joint emergency dispatch

center opened in late 2007. She is a former communi-cations supervisor with the Burnsville Police Depart-ment. “We are happy to an-nounce Diane’s appoint-ment to the position of executive director with the DCC,” said George Tour-ville, DCC board of direc-tors chairman and Inver Grove Heights mayor. “The Dakota Communi-cations Center board of directors looks forward to a smooth transition as we

continue to serve 911 com-munications.” The DCC board said last year that at the beginning of 2011 a decision regard-ing Lind’s status would be made depending on her per-formance and whether she wanted to assume the lead post on a permanent basis. Therkelsen’s last day on the job was June 30, 2010. He announced his retire-ment in 2009.

Tad Johnson is at [email protected].

Communications center executive director made permanent

Diane Lind had served as interim director since July 15

in St. Paul. Sen. Linda Scheid, DFL-Brooklyn Park, said she understood the idea of shared sacrifice, but indi-cated the burden wasn’t be-ing extended to the wealthy. “(It) just doesn’t seem right,” she said. But Thompson’s bill had supporters. Lakeville School Board Member Roz Peterson en-dorsed the legislation. Charlie Kyte, of the Minnesota Association of School Administrators, ex-pressed hope that education committee Chairwoman Gen Olson, R-Minnetrista, would “fight like a tiger” in the Senate Republican

caucus for more education funding. But Kyte depicted the association’s support of the bill as a bow to budgeting reality. Thirty to 40 percent of Minnesota school super-intendents have had their wages frozen, Kyte ex-plained, and association members would be willing to do it again. Jay Reker, director of human services in the St. Francis School District, ar-gued the legislation would help the school district keep its teachers on the job. The district realizes the state budget deficit will not allow for more school fund-ing, Reker explained. If just a 3 percent salary increase could be avoided, it would save St. Fran-cis about $852,000 — an amount equal to the pay of about 10 teachers, he ex-plained. Still, the need for ad-ditional school funding is only delayed by the bill, Reker said. It doesn’t go away. Education committee

member Sen. Terri Bonoff, DFL-Minnetonka, criti-cized Thompson’s bill as not really solving anything. “Where’s your plan?” she asked of a budget solution. But Sen. Carla Nelson, R-Rochester, argued the bill was not meant as an ul-timate solution but rather a temporary measure. It passed the committee on a 9-7 vote. Thompson said after the hearing he hadn’t known how the vote might go, but he was hopeful. “My sense is, that in the light the fiscal problems our school districts are facing, it (the bill) makes so much sense, I was certainly opti-mistic,” he said. Thompson said he had met with Democratic Gov. Mark Dayton and oth-ers last week to discuss the legislation, but added the governor made no commit-ments. No companion bill has yet advanced in the House. E-mail T.W Budig at: [email protected]

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Don’t be fooled by the highbrow-seeming premise of “Art,” the new show by Burnsville-based Chame-leon Theatre Circle. While on the surface it’s a philosophical inquiry into the nature of modern art, it’s also chock full of boozing, brawling and other rowdy, roadhouse-esque antics. The Tony Award-winning comedy by French play-wright Yasmina Reza opens with a young man bringing home an expensive “paint-ing” he’s purchased which, it turns out, is a large, com-pletely white canvas, em-bellished with a few brush strokes, which also happen to be white. Over the course of a rambling late-night conver-sation, the proud new own-er of the painting (Adam Scarpello) and two friends (Andrew Troth and Jeremi-ah Henriksen) drunkenly debate the meaning of art, love, friendship and life – digressing at times into eso-teric subject matter such as homeopathic medicine and deconstructionist philoso-phy – until, finally, the fists start flying.

Glug, glug Though the play is brim-ming with boozed-up dia-logue – and there’s an ever-present bottle of Hennessy

on the set from which the characters are constantly chug-a-lugging – the three-member cast of “Art” will not actually be imbibing al-cohol during performances. So how does someone act drunk, without actually being drunk? “It comes from sense memory,” Troth said with a laugh. Though the actors will be on the wagon for the 80-minute running time of the show, this should not deter audience members from throwing back a few cold ones before, and dur-ing, stagings of “Art.” In fact, director Barbe Marshall encourages it. “They should all load up on alcohol in the lobby,” said Marshall, noting that the show’s venue, the Burnsville Performing Arts Center, of-fers a fully stocked bar.

Fists of fury Described as “hysterical-ly funny” by its director and laden with witty one-liners and repartee, “Art” also fea-tures one extended scene in which the three actors must don their game faces and start throwing haymakers. The fight scene in “Art” is aided by the fact that all three actors have prior stage-combat experience. And it doesn’t hurt that Scarpello has done fight choreography for an array

of theater groups through-out the Twin Cities. He brings 10 years of martial arts training – karate, tae-kwondo and other disci-plines – to the role. Which isn’t to suggest the on-stage fisticuffs are devoid of levity.

“My goal is to make it as girly as possible,” Henriksen joked.

The painting Because the plot of “Art” hinges on an ever-present all-white painting, Chame-leon Theatre Circle com-

Everything you need to know about ‘Art’Liquored-up buddies punctuate philosophical discussions with bare-knuckle

brawling in Chameleon Theatre Circle’s new show at the Burnsville PAC

Photo by Andrew Miller

Philosophy, hard liquor and fisticuffs – “Art” has it all. The stage comedy presented by Chameleon Theatre Circle fea-tures actors Jeremiah Henriksen (above), Adam Scarpello and Andrew Troth discussing art, love, friendship and life while relentlessly throwing back the sauce.

Chameleon Theatre Circle presents “Art” Jan. 28-Feb. 13 at the Burnsville Performing Arts Center. Fri-day and Saturday shows begin at 7:30 p.m.; Sunday shows are at 2 p.m. Tickets are $15 for adults and $13 for students and seniors, and are available at the PAC’s box office and through Ticketmaster at (800) 982-2787 or Ticketmaster.com. More information about the play is at www.chameleontheatre.org.

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Mike Orensteen, owner of Min-neHaHa Comedy Club, has an-nounced that the club is moving from its current Burnsville location to Shakopee in early February. MinneHaHa’s final night at its current home, Carbone’s Pizza & Sports Bar at 251 W. Burnsville Parkway, is Jan. 29. Tickets are still available for the 10:30 p.m. show featuring John Deboer and David Goldman. On Feb. 4 the club will open in the lower

level of Dangerfield’s, 1583 E. First Ave., Shakopee. Opening weekend at the club’s Shakopee site will feature comics Mike Bobbitt and Stu McCallister. Tickets range from $10 to $13 and a full bar will be available during the shows. More information, including show

times and dining options, is at www.min-nehahacomedyclub.com.

—Andrew Miller

MinneHaHa Comedy Club leaving Burnsville

Orensteen

‘Eat, Pray, Love’ author in Burnsville Club Book will present Elizabeth Gilbert, author of “Eat, Pray, Love,” for a free event at 7 p.m. Friday, Feb. 11, at the Burnsville Performing Arts Center. Gilbert is best known for her 2006 memoir, an international b e s t s e l l e r starring Ju-lia Roberts in the movie version. Gilbert’s newest work, “Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Mar-riage,” is a history of mar-riage across centuries and cultures that includes a per-sonal account of her own impending marriage. At the event, Gilbert will read from her new and pre-vious works, talk about her traveling and writing life, and take questions from the audience. Doors will open 45 min-utes prior to the event. No tickets are required. Seating is first-come, first-served. The event is hosted by the Dakota County Library.

Celtic Crossroads performs at PAC

Celtic Crossroads will perform at 3 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 30, at the Burnsville Performing Arts Center. Celtic Crossroads fea-tures seven musicians play-ing more than 20 instru-ments on stage. Tickets are $29.50 and can be purchased in person at the box office, at Ticket-master.com, or by calling (800) 892-2787.

Gilbert

Symphony celebrates 25th anniversary The Dakota Valley Sym-phony will celebrate its 25th anniversary with a special concert and dinner begin-ning at 2 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 13, at the Burnsville Per-forming Arts Center. The concert will feature Italian pianist Roberto Plano performing Rach-maninoff’s Piano Con-certo Number 2 with the orchestra. The concert will conclude with the chorus, soloists and orchestra in Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy” Finale of his Symphony Number 9. Tickets for the concert are $15 for adults, $12 for seniors and $5 for students. Guests can meet Plano at an after-concert reception and enjoy a special dinner catered by Buca di Beppo at 5 p.m. in the upper lobby. Tickets for this Valentine dinner fundraiser are $30 and reservations must be made by Feb. 9. Tickets can be purchased in person at the box office, at ticketmaster.com, or by calling (800) 892-2787.

Scott Hansen’s comedy has heart Comedian Scott Hansen will present “Comedy With A Heart On” at 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 11, at Apple Valley American Legion Post 1776, 14521 Granada Drive, Apple Val-ley. Special comedy guest will be Pete Borchers. Tick-ets are $15 in advance and $20 the day of the show. Call (952) 431-1776 or visit www.comedyinfo.com for more information.

missioned a local artist, Corinna Troth of Eagan (wife of cast member An-drew Troth), to create such a work of art. The play has cast mem-bers drawing on the canvas (and later erasing their doo-dles), as well as carrying it across the stage while feign-ing drunkenness, so Corin-na Troth ended up creating two such paintings – the second a back-up should di-saster befall the first. Audience members who

take a shine to the paint-ing have the opportunity to make it their own. There will be a silent auction for the painting in the PAC’s lobby during each staging of “Art,” and the high bid-der will be announced the closing night of the show, Feb. 13. Proceeds from the silent auction will go toward future Chameleon produc-tions.


Lakeville Area Arts Center auditions

Expressions Community Theater will hold auditions for “The Dixie Swim Club” from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Jan. 31 at the Lakeville Area Arts Center, 20965 Holyoke Ave. “The Dixie Swim Club” is the story of five women who set aside a long weekend ev-ery year at the same beach cottage. The story focuses on four of those weekends and spans 33 years. The roles are for five women who will be por-trayed at ages 44, 49, 54, and 77. (You must be able to speak with a Southern accent.) The play will be pre-sented April 8-10, 15-17. Re-hearsals begin the first week of February. For more information, contact Tom Barnard at (952) 985-4641 or [email protected].


SportsStandings

Boys basketballTeam Conference Overall W L W LEagan 6 1 13 2 Eastview 6 1 12 2 Lakeville South 6 1 11 3 Lakeville North 4 3 6 9 Burnsville 3 4 8 6 B Kennedy 3 4 8 7 Apple Valley 3 4 7 8 Rosemount 2 5 5 10 Prior Lake 1 6 4 10 B Jefferson 1 6 3 10

Friday, January 28 • Bloomington Kennedy at Eastview,

7:15 p.m. • Lakeville South at Eagan, 7:15 p.m. • Prior Lake at Burnsville, 7:15 p.m. • Bloomington Jefferson at Apple

Valley, 7:15 p.m. • Rosemount at Lakeville North,

7:15 p.m.

Saturday, January 29 • Lakeville South at Wayzata,

7:15 p.m.

Tuesday, February 1 • Eagan at Bloomington Kennedy,

7:15 p.m. • Lakeville North at Prior Lake,

7:15 p.m. • Burnsville at Lakeville South,

7:15 p.m. • Eastview at Bloomington Jefferson,

7:15 p.m. • Rosemount at Apple Valley,

7:15 p.m.

Friday, February 4 • Prior Lake at Apple Valley, 7:15 p.m. • Eastview at Eagan, 7:15 p.m. • Bloomington Kennedy at Burnsville,

7:15 p.m. • Lakeville South at Lakeville North,

7:15 p.m. • Bloomington Jefferson at

Rosemount, 7:15 p.m.

Girls basketballTeam Conference Overall W L W LLakeville North 9 0 15 2 Eastview 8 1 14 3 B Jefferson 6 3 13 4 Prior Lake 6 3 8 8 B Kennedy 5 4 8 8 Eagan 4 5 7 10 Rosemount 3 6 8 9 Burnsville 2 7 5 12 Apple Valley 2 7 4 11 Lakeville South 0 9 1 16

Friday, January 28 • Burnsville at Prior Lake, 7:15 p.m. • South Eagan at Lakeville South,

7:15 p.m. • Apple Valley at Bloomington

Jefferson, 7:15 p.m.

Tuesday, February 1 • Bloomington Kennedy at Eagan,

7:15 p.m. • Prior Lake at Lakeville North,

7:15 p.m. • Lakeville South at Burnsville,

7:15 p.m. • Bloomington Jefferson at Eastview,

7:15 p.m. • Apple Valley at Rosemount,

7:15 p.m.

Thursday, February 3 • Bloomington Kennedy at

Minneapolis Southwest, 7 p.m.

Friday, February 4 • Lakeville South Lakeville North,

5:30 p.m. • Apple Valley at Prior Lake, 7:15 p.m. • Eagan at Eastview, 7:15 p.m. • Burnsville at Bloomington Kennedy,

7:15 p.m. • Rosemount at Bloomington

Jefferson, 7:15 p.m.

Boys HockeyTeam Conference Overall W L T W L TBurnsville 9 0 1 11 4 2 B Jefferson 7 2 1 8 6 2 Apple Valley 7 3 0 12 5 0 Eagan 6 3 1 11 5 1 Lakeville South 6 3 1 8 6 1 Lakeville North 4 6 0 7 9 1 Eastview 3 6 1 5 11 1 Prior Lake 2 7 1 5 9 2 Rosemount 2 7 0 5 11 0 B Kennedy 0 9 0 2 14 0 Saturday, January 29 • Burnsville at Apple Valley, 2:15 p.m. • Bloomington Kennedy at

Bloomington Jefferson, 2:30 p.m. • Rosemount at Lakeville South,

3 p.m. • Apple Valley at Prior Lake, 3 p.m. • Lakeville North at Eagan, 7:30 p.m.

Tuesday, February 1 • Lakeville South at Rochester

Century, 7:30 p.m.

Thursday, February 3 • Bloomington Jefferson at Burnsville,

7 p.m. • Lakeville North at Apple Valley,

7:15 p.m. • Eastview at Lakeville South,

7:30 p.m. • Rosemount at Eagan, 7:30 p.m.

Girls HockeyTeam Conference Overall W L T W L TLakeville South 13 1 2 18 2 2 Rosemount 12 2 1 17 4 1 Eastview 11 3 1 15 5 2 Lakeville North 10 4 0 15 5 0 Eagan 9 4 2 12 7 2 Burnsville 6 8 0 9 12 0 B Jefferson 4 10 0 8 14 0 Prior Lake 4 11 0 6 16 0 Apple Valley 2 13 0 5 17 0 B Kennedy 0 15 0 1 19 0 Saturday, January 29 • Lakeville North at Eagan, 3:15 p.m. • Apple Valley at Prior Lake, 3:30 p.m. • Lakeville South at Rosemount,

7 p.m. • Bloomington Kennedy at

Bloomington Jefeferson, 7:15 p.m. • Burnsville at Eastview, 7:15 p.m.

Tuesday, February 1 • Lakeville North at Apple Valley,

7:15 p.m. • Burnsville at Bloomington Jefferson,

7:15 p.m. • Prior Lake at Bloomington Kennedy,

7:15 p.m. • Eastview at Lakeville South,

7:15 p.m. • Rosemount at Eagan , 7:15 p.m.

Saturday, February 5 • Owatonna at Lakeville South,

2:45 p.m. • Bloomington Kennedy at Lakeville

North, 3 p.m. • Burnsville at Prior Lake, 3 p.m. • Eastview at Rosemount, 3 p.m. • Eagan at Apple Valley, 7:15 p.m.

Blaze stay strong on the ice

by Andy RogersTHISWEEK NEWSPAPERS

In a pool of top-ranked teams in the South Subur-ban Conference, the Burns-ville boys hockey team has jumped out first. Nearly every game for the Blaze in January was against one of the top 20 teams in the state. During the stretch, the Blaze have beaten Eagan, Lakeville South and Apple Valley. The only loss was to Eden Prairie on Jan. 11. The Blaze recently tied with Wayzata 4-4 on Tues-day night. The Blaze were ahead 3-1 after one period with goals from Jake Sena, Mason Wyman and Cory Chapman, but Wayzata tied it up in the third and it stayed that way. The Blaze entered 2011 with a 5-3-1 record, but coach Janne Kivihalme listed their improvements on the defensive side, back checking and penalty kill as reasons for the recent good fortune. “All six players collec-tively are working togeth-

er,” Kivihalme said. “That just gets better as the season goes along.” The first order of busi-ness is to win the confer-ence title; the Blaze are un-defeated in conference play. The games have been close against Apple Valley, Lake-ville South and Eagan, but it helps that the team aver-ages more than 35 shots on goal per game. One of the guys taking a lot of the shots has been Mike Dockry, who averages more than a goal per game. “Going into the season we knew he was going to be solid as a two-way cen-ter for us,” Kivihalme said. “He’s definitely improved his game. He used to be a very unselfish player. He passed up a lot of oppor-tunities to shoot, but now he’s shooting more and it’s helped his production.” Kivihalme also said his defensive play is often over-looked. Jace Childs and Chap-man have also been a boon for the Blaze with more than 30 points each this

season. If it all breaks down, goalie Bodhi Engum has been there plenty of times to save the game. As one of the top goalies in the metro, Engum “still makes one or two spectac-ular saves per game at key times,” Kivihalme said. “It gives players in front of him more confidence knowing that he’s capable of bailing them out if needed.” Kivihalme said if the Blaze are going to win the conference and move on to the playoffs, it’s going to take a team effort. For now the Blaze are focused on the next opponent and nothing else. The Blaze will make the trip to Eastview for a 2:15 p.m. game on Satur-day before playing host to Bloomington Jefferson at 7 p.m. on Tuesday. Kivihalme said they don’t want to overlook any-one.

Andy Rogers is at [email protected].

by Andy RogersTHISWEEK NEWSPAPERS

The Eastview boys bas-ketball team took a big step in separating themselves from the rest of the talented South Suburban field on Tuesday. The Lightning handed Lakeville South, previously undefeated in the confer-ence, a convincing 59-43 loss on Tuesday night. Eastview’s brand of strict defense and team-oriented play kept the Cougars frus-trated. “(Lakeville South) makes a lot of lay-ups and turns a lot of teams over,” Eastview head coach Mark Gerber said. “Really it was all about the glass. Make them miss shots and get the rebounds.” The Lightning limited the Cougars to their lowest point total of the season. South scored more than 60 points in all its other games this season except one. Yet Gerber warned his team not to get too ahead of themselves.

“They have to learn how to handle the success,” Ger-ber said. “A lot of people are going to tell them how great they are, but they’re really young. “They have to take the good with this.” Eastview has beaten good teams before, only to turn around and lose in dis-appointing fashion. The Lightning opened up 2011 with a crushing win against another top 10 team. Eastview beat Eagan 71-45 only to turn around and lose to Burnsville 44-39 two days later. Eastview is all about team play and defense this season, repeating a mantra that the whole team is one player. “We have a locker room full of guys who are all in for whatever we throw at them,” Gerber said. “They’re so coachable. It worked tonight, but it could blow up again.”


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Irish girls hockey team in the midst of best season in yearsby Andy RogersTHISWEEK NEWSPAPERS

The Rosemount girls hockey team already has twice as many victories this season as it had during most seasons in the past de-cade. The Irish are on a seven-game winning streak during which the team has allowed five goals while scoring 36 since Jan. 8. “We have had the best start that the girls hockey program has seen in years,” head coach Tracy Cassano said. “Every season has ups and downs but as a group we have continued to strive for daily improvements by working hard and working together.” Rosemount got to this point with a crew of top-level hockey players. Rachael Kelly is on her way to producing another high season point total. Al-lison Micheletti has been a key component on both of-fense and defense. Taylor Sampson has stepped into a scoring role

this season as a junior. She has played on a line with Kelly and “the two of them work extremely well togeth-er setting each other up for multiple tallies,” Cassano said. Goalie Caitlin Dantzscher has been solid in the net. “She thrives in the clutch having made key saves when we needed them in certain games,” Cassano said. With a few games left be-fore the playoffs begin, the focus is playing at the top of their game. The Irish have never qualified for the state girls hockey tournament; for the past four years either Burnsville or Eagan has ad-vanced from their section. The Irish have beaten every other Section 3AA oppo-nent they have faced except Hastings and Eastview. “I think that there are a cluster of teams that are fairly even at the top of the conference and once again as I have seen in the past, any team can beat or

be beaten by anyone in this conference,” Cassano said. The girls will have a big test Saturday when Lake-ville South comes to town

for a 3 p.m. game. South isn’t in the same section as Rosemount. The Cougars are leading the South Sub-urban Conference with just

two losses this season.


January has been a good month forthe Burnsville boys hockey team

Eagles keeping pacePhoto by Rick Orndorf

Apple Valley’s Michael Berens, No. 16, looks to shoot against Duluth East. After previously losing three of four games, the Eagles got back on track on Jan. 18 with a 6-3 win over Duluth East, one of the top teams in the state. They took that momentum into its next two games beating Rosemount 5-2 on Jan. 20 and Eastview 12-3 on Jan. 22. The Eagles will make the trip to Prior Lake for a 3 p.m. game on Saturday before coming home to face Lakeville Nort hon Thursday.

Photo by Andy Rogers

Apple Valley’s Tyus Jones was back in action Tuesday night for the first time since December’s season opener. The Eagles lost to Lakeville North 83-70, ending a two-game winning streak. “It will take (Jones) some time to be back at 100 percent stamina and basketball skills wise,” coach Zach Goring said. “During the seven weeks that he was injured, he was only allowed to ride a stationary bike and shoot free throws.”

Irish edge out Eagles

Photo by Rick Orndorf

Burnsville’s Jenny Maloney, No. 4, defends against Rosemount’s Taylor Sampson, No. 14, in a game on Tuesday night. Rosemount won 6-3.

Photos by Rick Orndorf

Top: Kathy Aune performs her bar routine

Tuesday night for Rosemount.

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by Aaron VehlingTHISWEEK NEWSPAPERS

Last Friday, Jan. 21, a Lakeville resident hosted a friend at Crystal Lake El-ementary, his neighborhood school, to discuss some heady education issues. It could have been anoth-er day in the monthlong dis-cussion about the Lakeville School District’s budget but for the large group of mov-ers and shakers following the two men around. District administrators, the School Board, Mayor Mark Bellows, some well-dressed aides, security forces and hordes of media stuck by the two men as they tra-versed the school. Along the way, some good old-fashioned science Jeopardy with some spritely kids added some levity. “Welcome to my home-town and my neighborhood school,” the resident said to the masses. The resident, U.S. Rep.

Washington comes to Crystal Lake ElementaryKline, Duncan discuss student achievement, education reform at northern Lakeville school

John Kline, and his friend, U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan, 16th in the line of succession to the presidency, toured Crystal Lake with newly-appointed Minnesota Education Com-missioner Brenda Cassel-lius. The school’s principal, Bill Mack, led the group around the school, stopping by two classrooms for some participation in educational games with excited students. During a question time, the students were allowed to ask questions. One student approached Duncan and said, “My father told me to ask you this.” A smile developed across his face and out came the question: “Do you ever play basketball with (President) Obama?” Duncan, a former pro-fessional basketball player in Australia and Harvard basketball star, laughed and answered in the affirmative. “He’s a very busy man, so he enjoys taking a break to play basketball,” Duncan said. Kline & Co. finished the tour with a press confer-ence, addressing issues such as the federal No Child Left Behind (NCLB) act, Minne-sota’s wide white-to-minor-

ity student achievement gap and alternative licensure to fill much-needed teaching positions in math and sci-ence.

Not failing Duncan and Kline both agreed that the status quo can’t stand. With respect to NCLB, which requires all students to be 100 percent proficient in core subjects by 2014, both men said there is a great need for reform. Duncan pointed out the fallacy of labeling schools as “failures.” “As the Congressman has said, basically every school in his district has been la-beled a failure (according to NCLB),” Duncan said. “I know that’s not the case. I look at this school and it’s not a failure.” Another issue Duncan discussed was alternative licensure, which would pro-vide another pathway to teaching. Education Min-nesota, the teachers’ union, opposed the bill last year, but it has indicated it sup-ports such a method this year, provided high stan-dards are kept. “If you have a shortage of math and science teach-ers,” Duncan said, “why not approve of scientists and mathematicians to come in

and work? You can’t be will-ing to do things the same way.” Duncan also spoke about Minnesota’s need to close the achievement gap be-tween white and minority students, which studies have shown is among the highest in the nation He said he sees Early Childhood/Family Educa-tion (ECFE) playing a role in narrowing the gap, as well as involvement from teach-ers and principals. “Ultimately it’s about building a college-going cul-ture,” he said. But scapegoating won’t help, said Duncan, who got his start working with inner-city kids in Chicago before becoming head of that dis-trict. “Students coming from other countries or impover-ished backgrounds become an excuse for mediocrity, but that’s not right,” he said

‘No’ to status quo How can Lakeville schools prepare more stu-dents for college, close achievement gaps and edu-cate students better over-all when the district has to eliminate entire programs or pare them down so class sizes are in the upper-30s? “The answers to these questions aren’t just spend-

ing more money,” Kline said. “Whether we spend taxpayer money that comes from Washington, St. Paul or Lakeville, the answer too often was for many years ‘it’s underfunded.’” He added that the answer is to change the status quo. Ultimately, the two men, one a Democrat from Chi-cago and the other a Repub-lican from Lakeville, seemed interested in working to-gether toward improving ed-ucation nationwide, thus re-turning to the United States an economic edge that seems to be slipping away. “I think we both know where the country needs to go,” Duncan said. “We both recognize the importance of a leadership role getting there.” Duncan said if the Unit-ed States still led the world in college graduates, then maybe people could take it easy when it comes to the topic. But that’s just not the case. “We’ve got to get a lot better,” he said. “Getting things done in Washington isn’t easy. There’s got to be a give and take on a whole host of issues moving for-ward.” E-mail Aaron Vehling at [email protected].


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PUBLIC NOTICEINDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT 196

Rosemount-Apple Valley-EaganPublic Schools

Educating our studentsto reach their full potential

CALL FOR BIDS

CEDAR LEARNING CENTER RENOVATION

Notice is hereby given that sealed bidswill be received for the Cedar LearningCenter Renovation by Independent SchoolDistrict 196, at the District Office located at3455 153rd Street West, Rosemount, MN55068, until 2 pm, February 24, 2011, atwhich time and place bids will be publiclyopened and read aloud.

Complete instructions on how to obtainBidding Documents from EngineeringRepro Systems can be found at: http://www.district196.org/District/LegalNotices/index.cfm.

If you should have any questions regard-ing this bid you may contact the FacilitiesDepartment at (651) 423-7706.

Art Coulson, Board ClerkIndependent School District 196

2483877 1/21-1/28/11

PUBLIC NOTICEINDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT 196

Rosemount-Apple Valley-EaganPublic Schools

Educating our studentsto reach their full potential

REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS

Advertising in

District Owned Athletic Facilities

Notice is hereby given that Requests forProposals will be received to award a con-tract for advertising in district owned ath-letic facilities by Independent School Dis-trict 196 at the District Office located at3455 153rd St W, Rosemount, MN 55068until 1:00 p.m. on February 24, 2011.

Complete instructions on how to obtainproposal documents can be found at:

http://www.district196.org/District/LegalNotices/index.cfm

The School Board of Independent SchoolDistrict 196 reserves the right to reject anyor all proposals and to waive any informal-ity in Request for Proposal process.

Art Coulson, Board ClerkIndependent School District 196

2483930 1/21-1/28/11

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Community meals at Grace Lutheran Grace Lutheran Church in Apple Valley will serve free community meals on Mondays, Feb. 7, 14, 21 and 28. Dining hall doors will open at 5:30 p.m. Din-ner will be served from 6 to 6:30 p.m. The meals are for se-nior citizens, single-parent families, families in transi-tion and all others in the surrounding community seeking a healthy meal in a relaxed and fun environ-ment. Although the meals are free, donations are ac-cepted. Grace Lutheran Church is located at the intersec-tion of Pennock Avenue and County Road 42. For more information, call the church at (952) 432-7273.

Feed My Starving Children packing The sanctuary of Prince of Peace Lutheran Church, 13901 Fairview Drive, Burnsville, has been turned into a packing facility Jan. 26-29 for Feed My Starving Children, a nonprofit or-ganization that distributes

food for starving children worldwide. By the time the event ends Saturday, Jan. 29, or-ganizers say volunteers will have produced 1 million life-saving meals. Food-packing sessions will take place at the fol-lowing times: • Friday, Jan. 28: 10 a.m.-noon; 1-3 p.m.; 5-7 p.m.; 8-10 p.m. • Saturday, Jan. 29: 8-10 a.m.; 11 a.m.-1 p.m. There are still slots open to volunteer. Register for a shift or donate monetarily at www.princeofpeaceon-line.org/fmsc.

GriefShare Shepherd of the Val-ley Lutheran Church in Apple Valley offers a Grief-Share video series featur-ing Christian experts on grief and recovery topics. The next series will be held Tuesdays from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. beginning Feb. 15. Each night combines a video session with a grief support group discussion time to allow group partici-pants to talk about the con-tent of the video and about how they are dealing with the death of their loved

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one. The group will be fa-cilitated by a pastor and a parish nurse. Cost for the session is $15 and includes the work-book. Register online at www.sotv.org in the event registration section or at the church office by calling (952) 432-6351. Shepherd of the Val-ley Lutheran Church is at 12650 Johnny Cake Ridge Road, Apple Valley.

Military family support group Mary, Mother of the Church, 3333 Cliff Road, Burnsville, facilitates gath-erings of the Military Fami-ly Support Group for family and friends of service mem-bers from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. on the second and fourth Mondays of the month. The gatherings are de-signed to comfort and sup-port spouses, parents, sib-lings and friends of service members currently on active duty in the armed forces. Besides sharing their stories and support, this group fills shoeboxes with necessities for service members.

For more information, call Maggie Sonnek at (952) 890-0045 or e-mail [email protected].

Employment help Prince of Peace and Shepherd of the Valley churches have partnered to create the Job Connections Group, which meets from 6:30 to 8:15 p.m. Tuesdays at Prince of Peace in Burns-ville. The free program is “how to” focused. Topics cover the basic elements of job search such as devising a marketing plan, refining resumes, networking to un-cover new opportunities, preparing for interviews, and making use of all the available resources. For a list of upcoming topics, go to www.princeof-peaceonline.org/jcg. The Job Connections Group continuously seeks volunteers to join its team. Leaders with human re-sources and hiring experi-ence are preferred. Those interested should contact John Brumbaugh at [email protected].

The following activities have been planned by the Apple Valley Seniors. All ac-tivities are at Hayes Commu-nity and Senior Center (14601 Hayes Road), except as oth-erwise noted. For more infor-mation, call (952) 953-2345. Monday, Jan. 31: Morn-ing stretch, 10 a.m.; Executive Committee meeting, 10 a.m.; bridge, 12:45 p.m.; pool, 1 p.m.; Happy Stitchers, 1 p.m.; yoga, 4 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 1: Quilting bees 9 a.m.; Education and Service Committee meeting, 9:15 a.m.; “hand and foot” card playing, 1 p.m.; Tuesday

Painters, 1 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 2: Yoga, 9:45 a.m.; morning stretch, 10 a.m.; Velvet Tones practice, 10 a.m.; First Edition Book Club, 1 p.m.; dominoes, 1 p.m.; mah jongg, 1 p.m.; Path-ways to Better Health class, 1 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 3: Comput-er Help 101, 9:30 a.m.; dupli-cate bridge, 12:30 p.m.; 500, 1 p.m.; pool, 1 p.m.; hardanger, 1 p.m.; recreated cards, 1 p.m. Friday, Feb. 4: Men’s breakfast (pre-registration required), 9 a.m.; morning stretch, 10 a.m.; members only bingo, 1 p.m.

Boy Scouts open house on Feb. 7 Boy Scout Troop 293 will hold an open house from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Monday, Feb. 7, at Community of Christ Church, 5990 134th St. W., Apple Valley. Prospective scouts and their parents can learn about troop camping, merit badges,

and the troop’s commitment to service in the community. Boy scouting is open to all boys who are 11 years old or who have completed the fifth grade. Boys need not have been involved in cub scouting to join. For more information, contact Paul Chellsen, scout-master, at (952) 997-2247, or visit www.troop293.org.


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behalf of the bill. As currently proposed, it would make the sale of synthetic marijuana a gross misdemeanor, punishable by a year in jail and a fine of up to $3,000. It would make the pos-session of synthetic mari-juana a misdemeanor, pun-ishable by up to 90 days in jail and/or a fine up to $1,000. Wiberg explained that synthetic marijuana is al-ready illegal under federal law, but a lack of state laws makes federal enforcement

difficult. The Minnesota legisla-tion, which Wiberg helped write, is broad. That’s necessary, because sellers of synthetic marijua-na in getting around laws can change a molecule or two in their mix and thereby remain legal. More than a dozen states have bans against synthetic marijuana, including neigh-boring Iowa and North Da-kota, according to bill sup-porters.

T.W. Budig is at [email protected].

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to inflation, Solomon said. The cost of disability and retirement benefits is expected to rise between 1 and 1.5 percent, Solomon said. The district’s health in-surance rates are locked for two years, but are expected to rise by 11.4 percent in 2014, he said. If state aid continued to remain flat for the 2012-2013 school year, the dis-trict would need $19.5 mil-lion in budget adjustments, Solomon said. District officials said they will have a better pic-ture once Gov. Mark Day-ton announces his proposed budget Feb. 15. Although the governor

said in his campaign that he would annually increase education funding to meet inflation, Superintendent Jane Berenz said she be-lieves he will back down from that promise. Board Member Rob Duchscher expressed dis-may over this possibility. “We’re getting to the point to where we are do-ing damage in the ability to educate,” he said. District officials plan to present their budget recom-mendations to the board in early March. The board is expected to approve a final budget March 28. E-mail Jessica Harper at: [email protected]

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Joyce Lee has been hired as director of Paideia Acad-emy, where she will head the Apple Valley K-8 charter pub-lic school b e g i n n i n g Feb. 7. Lee replaces Jill G o d t l a n d , who accept-ed a position in Texas in December. Lee has 15 years of pub-lic education experience, primarily as a principal and

vice principal in California at both the elementary and middle school level. Most recently, she was a consul-tant to a Minneapolis char-ter school start-up. Lee holds a master’s de-gree in education and social policy from Northwest-ern University, as well as a bachelor’s degree in elemen-tary education from the University of Illinois. Open enrollment for the 2011-12 school year will be held Jan. 31 through March 4. The school will

hold informational sessions on Feb. 17 at 6:30 p.m. for elementary grades K-5 and on Feb. 24 at 6:30 p.m. for middle school grades 6-8. For more information, call (952) 953-6200 or visit www.paideiaacademy.org.

Joyce Lee

EducationJoyce Lee named director of Paideia As a part of their market-

ing class at Rosemount High School, seniors Taryn Biterly, Emily Lemke and Nathan Olson placed in the top three after submitting a research-based marketing plan to Fin-ish Line, a nationwide sport-ing goods retailer. The three submitted their

project in early December. It consisted of conducting focus groups and administering an online survey to over 600 re-spondents. Once the data was collected they composed real-istic strategies. By placing in the top three, the students will take an all-expense paid trip to Finish

Line headquarters in India-napolis, Ind., on Feb. 28. They will visit a store, have dinner with executives and present their recommendations and implementation strategies to the executives at the corporate campus. The executives will select an overall winning team and utilize their strategies.

Marketing students earn top honors in nationwide competition