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Apple Valley’s volunteer fire crews

fought a daytime fire on Freesia Way on a cold March day with

plenty of snow on the ground. Daytime fire

coverage is a chal-lenge for many area fire departments as

some volunteers have full-time jobs that

have them commut-ing out of the local

area. (Photos by Tad Johnson)

Firefighters hard to recruit, retainStations in Dakota County, throughout the state face same obstacles

INDEX

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OPINION

Ranked-choice deserves a lookThe Legislature should allow more cities to try ranked-choice voting in future elections.

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Runestone musicalThe mysteries of the Kensington Runestone are set to music in an Apple Valley writer’s Minnesota Fringe Festival show.

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SPORTS

Freedom Days celebrationApple Valley’s Freedom Days festival reaches its climax July 4 with a parade, community party and fireworks display. The full schedule is at www.avfreedomdays.com.

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Record broken at all-star gameLocal people were heavily involved in the state high school all-star football game, including one who kicked a record-setting field goal.

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by Jeffrey HageSUN THISWEEK

DAKOTA COUNTY TRIBUNE

Shortly before 11 p.m. Jan. 15, a fiery explosion ripped through the Coin-Tainer Co.’s block-long manufacturing facil-ity in Milaca. As fire lit the January night sky, firefighters from four de-partments as close as Milaca and as far away as Onamia (22 miles north of Milaca) left the warm

confines of their homes to fight the fire in 19-degree tempera-tures. All were volunteers. As of 2012, there were 1.1 million firefighters in the United States and 70 percent were vol-unteers, according to data pro-vided by the Mound Fire De-partment. “They don’t do it for the money,” said Greg Lerud, co-chief of the Milaca Fire Depart-

ment. “They do it to give back to the community.” But the demands of train-ing, an increasing number of emergency calls, a desire to be involved in the busy world of family activities and a firefighter candidate pool that is increas-ingly more transient is making fire service less attractive to vol-unteers throughout Minnesota.

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Two chargedin AnaraeSchunk’smurder

by John GessnerSUN THISWEEK


Authorities say they don’t know why Anarae Schunk’s killers wanted her dead. But prosecutors needn’t prove a motive to prove the crime, said Dakota County Attorney James Backstrom, whose office filed murder charges June 27 in the 20-year-old B u r n s v i l l e w o m a n ’ s s t a b b i n g death last Sept. 22. S h a v e -lle Oscar Chavez-Nel-son, 32, and his 24-year-old girl-friend, Ash-ley Marie Conrade of Rosemount, were charged with intentional second-de-gree murder. The pair killed Schunk sometime between 3:30 and 4:30 a.m. in the kitchen of Conrade’s Rosemount town-home, Backstrom said at a news conference in Hastings. He said Schunk was stabbed 22 times. Chavez-Nelson and Conrade are accused of “aiding each other” in the alleged murder, Backstrom said. It occurred hours after Chavez-Nelson, aka An-thony Lee Nelson, allegedly shot and killed 23-year-old Palagor Jobi of Savage in a closing-time alterca-tion outside Nina’s Grill in Burnsville. Chavez-Nelson is charged with first- and sec-ond-degree murder in that case. Chavez-Nelson, Conrade

The art of anime

Seventeen-year-old Jes Kalina of Apple Valley explains the process involved in creating his anime drawings on June 28 at the Eagan Art Festival. Kalina, who will be a senior at the School of En-vironmental Studies in the fall, was Saturday’s featured artist in the “Youth in Art” tent at the festival, which ran June 28-29 in the city’s Central Park. For more photos from the event, turn to 17A. (Photo by Andrew Miller)

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Apple Valley captain among Rosemount police chief finalists Apple Valley police Capt. Mitch Scott is among three finalists for the vacant chief of police position in the city of Rosemount. Scott was named as a finalist Wednesday along with Mark Elliott, commander with the Bloomington Police De-partment, and Richard Schroeder, sergeant with the Dakota County Sher-iff ’s Office and current Rosemount fire chief. The Rosemount City Council is inviting resi-dents and business own-ers to meet the three fi-nalists at City Hall, 2875 145th St. W., on Tuesday, July 8, from 4 to 5:30 p.m. Council members will conduct separate inter-views with each of the finalists that eve-ning. The council will make its final se-lection later in hopes that the new chief will be in place by the end of the summer. The city invited applications for po-lice chief this spring after the resignation of Chief Eric Werner, who had accepted the same position at the city of Maple Grove. Scott has previously run for election to the Dakota County sheriff ’s position.

— Tad Johnson

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Eagan woman gets short jail sentence for arson An Eagan woman was sentenced to nearly a month in jail and probation af-ter pleading guilty to charges related to setting her own house on fire. Patricia Joy Klatt, 63, pleaded guilty on May 21 to first-degree arson and was sentenced to 24 days in Dakota County Jail and 10 years supervised probation. Klatt received credit for one day in jail and will be required to undergo 90 days electronic monitoring upon her release. While serving probation, Klatt will be required to attend an alcohol recov-ery program, abide by a mental health professional’s treatment plan and avoid alcohol. According to court documents, Klatt

started her home on fire on the night of March 2, 2012. Neighbors called police who found Klatt at a neighbor’s home. Officers attempted to speak with her but she was uncooperative and smelling of alcohol. Klatt denied consuming alcohol. Upon being asked additional questions, Klatt cursed at officers and said it wasn’t their business. Klatt was the only person in the home when the fire started. After the fire was extinguished, police found a handwritten obituary for Klatt that had been left on a table along with songs for her funeral.

—Jessica Harper

Apple Valley man among two accused in fraud scheme An Apple Valley man was one of two people indicted last month on charges of defrauding Delta and Northwest Air-lines out of more than $20 million over the course of a decade. Paul Anderson, 57, of Apple Valley, and 62-year-old Michael Yedor of Los Angeles have been charged with conspir-acy to commit mail fraud and 96 counts of mail fraud. Anderson had worked for Northwest Airlines since 1979, and became an em-ployee of Delta when the two airlines merged in 2009. According to the federal grand jury indictment, the pair’s scheme involved submitting false invoices from Airborne Voice and Data — a company purport-

edly owned by Yedor — seeking payment from the airlines for goods and services the company had never provided. Anderson allegedly approved the fraudulent invoices sent by Yedor, caus-ing the airlines to pay approximately $22 million between 2004 and 2013. Ander-son received a portion of the proceeds from Yedor in exchange for approving the invoices, according to the indict-ment. Anderson and Yedor were indicted June 10, but the indictment was un-sealed June 21 after Yedor was arrested when authorities located him and his yacht, the Atlanta-Journal Constitu-tion reported.

—Andrew Miller

Lakeville woman sentenced in Apple Valley crash A 45-year-old Lakeville woman was sentenced on Wednesday to 57 months in prison in connection with a deadly June 27, 2013, crash in Apple Valley that killed Jeff Trondson, 29, of Burnsville. Leah Marie Colwell pleaded guilty to criminal vehicular homicide (with a blood-alcohol of .08 or more) and driv-ing after cancellation (a gross misde-meanor) on May 1, 2014. Judge Michael Mayer also ordered Colwell to pay restitution in an amount to be determined. All other charges were dismissed. Dakota County Attorney James Backstrom stated that around 8 p.m. June 27, 2013, Apple Valley police of-ficers responded to a motorcycle crash near the intersection of 160th and Har-well Avenue.

Trondson was driving his motorcycle westbound on 160th Street when a Ford Taurus, driven by Colwell, was travel-ing eastbound and made a left turn onto Harwell, crossing in front of the motor-cycle. Trondson died at the scene. “This is another tragic example of the extreme dangers of drinking and driv-ing,” Backstrom said. “We are pleased to have brought this defendant to justice for this preventable crime. Our deepest sympathy is extended to the family and friends of Jeff Trondson for their great loss.” Backstrom praised Assistant County Attorney Jennifer Bovitz, who prosecut-ed this case. Backstrom thanked the Ap-ple Valley Police Department and Min-nesota State Patrol for their thorough investigation into this deadly crash.

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Area BriefsHighway 55/149 project begins Motorists near Eagan will encounter lane closures on Highway 149 between Interstate 494 and Highway 55, and on Highway 55 between the east and west junctions of Highway 149. The city of Eagan will be reconstruct-ing highways 149 and 55. Work began on June 30. Reconstruction will include ad-ditional lanes and turn lanes, signal up-grades and drainage improvements along the corridor. During construction motorists should expect to see lane closures, intersections closures and a weekend with full closure of Highway 55 when a culvert is placed beneath the roadway. Weather permitting, the project will be complete by Nov. 1. For more information regarding this project, visit www.dot.state.mn.us/met-ro/projects/149and55eagan.

Criminal expungement info session The Dakota County Law Library and Volunteer Lawyers Network will host a free informational clinic on criminal ex-pungement at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, July 9, in room 1920 at the Dakota County Western Service Center, 14955 Galaxie Ave., Apple Valley. Christopher Hanrahan from Volun-teer Lawyers Network will present the program. Expungement is the process of going to court to ask a judge to seal a court record. Usually, people ask for an ex-pungement when they have been denied a job, housing, or a professional license because of their criminal background. For more information, call the Dako-ta County Law Library at 651-438-8080.

Master gardener talk in Rosemount The University of Minnesota Exten-sion Dakota County Master Gardeners will give a free talk on “Harvesting and Preserving Vegetables” at 7 p.m. July 14 at the Church of St. Joseph, 13900 Bis-cayne Ave. W., Rosemount. The talk is free and open to the public. Master gardeners will focus on how to store some vegetables, such as onions and carrots, and on canning, freezing and dehydrating fresh produce. Garden-ers of all levels of experience and other interested persons are encouraged to attend and bring their questions. Email Donna Matuszewski at [email protected] for more information.

Job Transitions group John Warder will present “Strengths-Finder in Living Color” at the July 8 meeting of the Easter Job Transitions Group. The group meets at 7:30 a.m. at Easter Lutheran Church – By the Lake, 4545 Pilot Knob Road, Eagan. Small group sessions are offered at 9:30 a.m. each week on many different topics. Call 651-452-3680 for information.

Women’s luncheon The Minnesota Valley Christian Women’s Connection luncheon will be held from 12:30-2 p.m. Thursday, July 10, at GrandStay Hotel, 7083 153rd St., Apple Valley. Cost is $16. It includes lunch, speaker and door prizes. Sue Selbin will deliver a talk titled “Lavish … Exquisite … Tantalizing: The Frosting on the Cake of Life.” She will share how she discovered “a special in-gredient that changed her unappetizing life into a culinary creation.” For reservations, call Pam at 612-207-3100 or Jan at 651-434-5795.

Burnsville Mayor Elizabeth Kautz affixed a starfish pin June 29 to the Rev. Jim Zap-pa, who is retiring after serving since 1993 as pastor of Mary, Mother of the Church. Zappa, the second pastor in the Catholic parish’s 49-year history, has been weakened by nonalcoholic cirrhosis of the liver, whose treatment will eventually include kidney and liver transplants. About 1,000 people attended a farewell Mass, lunch and recep-tion for Zappa June 29. (Submitted photo)

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No wake? No problem for annual boat paradeCrystal Lake will host Fourth of July event

by John GessnerSUN THISWEEK


No wake? No problem, at least for the slow-moving boat-ers who will revive an annual tradition Friday on Burnsville’s Crystal Lake. It’s the Fourth of July boat parade, which starts at 8 p.m. af-ter a 6 p.m. picnic social. “The water is high. We’ve been on a no-wake restriction for 12 days,” Crystal Lake hom-eowner Greg Klaus said Mon-day. “But the boat parade goes slow, so the boat parade by defi-nition is a no-wake parade. The no-wake restriction doesn’t af-fect how the parade goes.” Those who don’t live on or near a lake may not realize how entrenched in lakeshore culture Independence Day boat parades are. “I’d say a lake without a Fourth of July parade is like a hamburger without ketchup. It just doesn’t make sense,” said Klaus, current president of the 52-year-old Crystal Lake Im-provement Association. The boaters — mostly lake-shore residents — festoon their pontoons, runabouts and even jet skis in Independence Day garb. Beth Breeden, a Crystal Lake homeowner for 15 years, said she started a contest for the best-decorated boat in 2011. “Obviously, red, white and blue is a theme,” said Klaus, an eight-year lakeshore homeown-er. “And U.S. and pirate flags are a common theme.” The city of Burnsville issued the no-wake restriction, which limits all watercraft to puttering speeds that don’t make waves.

This is a scene from last year’s Fourth of July boat parade on Crystal Lake. (Photo submitted)The restriction, prompted by all the recent rainfall, is in place to protect the 292-acre southeast Burnsville lake’s shoreline from erosion. “If there were areas on our lake that were dangerous be-cause of the high water level, we wouldn’t encourage the parade to go on,” Klaus said. “But the boat launch is open, and as long as people follow the no-wake, people can boat and the parade will go on as planned.” By city ordinance, the no-wake restriction kicks in when the water level reaches 934.6 feet above sea level, according to the lakeshore association’s website. The lake’s normal level is 931.62 feet. A watershed drainage system keeps water moving through several of Burnsville’s main wa-

ter bodies, from Keller Lake to Crystal Lake to Earley Lake to Sunset Pond and on to the Min-nesota River, Klaus said. “It’s all gravity and water-shed,” he said, noting that a 48-inch pipe was installed in the 1970s to transport water away from a then flood-prone Crys-tal Lake. “Keller is what fills up first.” Most of the parade partici-pants are residents and their guests, Klaus said. But, Breeden noted, anyone is welcome to drop their boat at the public boat ramp at Crystal Lake West Park and join in. “We’ve given them root beer floats in the past,” she said of the nonresident participants. “It’s not just for people who live on the lake. Anybody can par-ticipate.”

The parade usually features anywhere from a dozen to two dozen boats, Klaus said. Ho-meowners and their Fourth of July guests often gather on their docks to watch. “Generally the more boats you have in the parade, the few-er people are watching, because they’re in the parade,” Klaus said. The general public can watch, too. Public access points are Crystal Beach on the east side of the lake, West Park Beach (also known as Cherry Beach) on the west, the boat ramp and a public fishing dock. This year’s event, hosted by lakeshore homeowners Pat and Tony Miller, is slated to begin on Pik Nik Island near Crystal Beach, where boaters are en-couraged to tie up and gather

for hot dogs, beans, chips and desserts. Breeden said Tuesday it was uncertain whether the city would grant a permit for use of the island because of the high water. “Our default location is West Park Beach like it has been in the past,” she said. The boat chosen best deco-rated will lead the parade at 8 p.m. “It takes a good 45 minutes to circle the main part of the lake if you’re going slow,” Breeden said. In recent years the lakeshore association has taken a greater role in supporting and promot-ing the resident-managed event, said Klaus , a project manager and supply-chain professional at Medtronic whose wife, Cyndi, is a partner at the Larkin Hoff-man law firm. They have two daughters, one at Echo Park Elementary in Burnsville and one at Valley Middle School in Apple Valley. Life on Crystal Lake is “up-north living with city taxes,” Klaus said. “How many people can have a nice lake experience and then are five minutes from Costco or Sam’s Club?” The lake has been quieter this season with repeated no-wake restrictions. “There are two schools of thought,” Klaus said. “The wakeboarders and the skiers and the jet skiers find it a hard-ship. There are an equal number of people who enjoy the relative tranquility of no-wake. It might be a wash.”

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Correction The story “The Retreat: A place for older adults to solidify sobriety,” pub-lished in the June 19/20 Mature Lifestyles sec-tion, included an incor-rect phone number. The correct number for The Retreat in Wayzata is 952-476-0566. The newspaper regrets the error.

Other people’s money To the editor: Letter writer Paul Hoffinger has again put his hands out for hand outs in his letter June 27. In his latest plea, Hoffin-ger would have our elected federal office holders vio-late their oaths to uphold the Constitution so they might take the earnings from one segment of our society and give them to another. Hoffinger insists that our government officials ignore the invaluable les-sons learned from having free markets, freedom of association and the free-dom to pursue happiness. Instead, he would have us controlled by govern-ment bureaucracies which emerge from the “soft tyr-anny of democracies.” We would do well to heed the warnings of the 19th cen-tury political philosopher, Alexis De Tocqueville, who assured us that despo-tism follows pure democ-racies whereby people are allowed to compete for the fruits of the labors of oth-ers. Apparently Hoffinger would have us believe that the agony, the nihilism, the terror, and the bloodshed that were endemic to Bol-shevism have some unseen rewards. He might believe that taking, through gov-

ernment power, is altru-istic as did Hegel, Marx, Lenin, Stalin and hosts of others. But in the end, those beguiled by this pure fraud suffered incalculably and offered us the most painful lessons of history. Now our progeny is im-periled as we glibly destroy that which has been a so-ciety which rewarded its most productive members so all might benefit. It is time to ask Hoffin-ger and all of his “fellow travelers,” just how much of other people’s money, labor, capital, and their endemic risks are we en-titled? As for me, I will ask that U.S. Rep. John Kline, R-Burnsville, continue to champion the virtues of individual liberties, free markets, freedom of as-

sociation and that he re-nounce those big spenders in Washington, D.C., who find it so delicious spend-ing other people’s money.

RICHARD IFFERTEagan

Support the Minnesota Zoo To the editor: This Fourth of July weekend, consider visit-ing the Minnesota Zoo. I love it so much I spent six summers volunteering there during high school and college. I love it for its realistic habitats, enrich-ment activities for both children and the animals, and efforts the zoo has done to breed animals and reintroduce them into ar-eas where the species are

threatened. I also enjoy seeing the zoo update the exhibits. Although I love all of the zoo, some of my favorite new features are Russia’s Grizzly Coast, the new dhole exhibit, and the ef-forts that have been made to make the entrance to the zoo more welcoming for guests. This year I can’t wait to see the Conserva-tion Carousel and the Big Bugs seasonal exhibit. I want to thank all the pri-vate donors, grant funders, and our state legislators who passed a bipartisan bonding bill to keep our Minnesota Zoo current, educational and entertain-ing. OLIVIA MARTINBurnsville

Jobs for Minnesota veteransTo the editor: In January 2014, while the Minnesota unemploy-ment rate for the general population was 4.7 per-cent, the rate for veterans aged 18-24 was 9.2 per-cent. Recognizing early the urgent need to provide jobs for our soldiers who have bravely served their country, state Rep. Anna Wills, R-Apple Valley, in 2013 authored a biparti-san bill that would have provided tax relief to em-ployers who hire veterans. This measure died in the DFL-controlled Minne-sota House/Senate confer-ence committee. As a retired veteran,

I strongly support Wills and her deep concern for veterans and would like to see this bill enacted into law. Defending your coun-try should not become an obstacle to feeding your family. CARL ROCKRosemountCaptain, U.S. Navy Re-serve, retired

Proud of the Minnesota Veterans Home To the editor: So many negative things have been written about the federal veterans hospitals that I wanted people to know about our Minnesota Veterans Home in Minneapolis. Two years ago a new facility was opened on the campus with private rooms and baths. Now an old building is being torn down so another one can be built like the one my husband is in. I can’t begin to tell you how good the staff is to these military men and women. They are efficient, kind, caring and fun. I know because I am there three or four times a week to see it. They have two chap-lains who meet their spiri-tual needs, physical thera-pist who help them gain strength and very good nurses and aides on every floor. They have many volun-teers and school students who perform and friends who play guitars, etc. There is so much good done there and I wanted Minnesotans to be proud.

DIANA WEIDENHAFTEagan

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Ranked-choice voting worthy of local option Last November, 35 candidates ran for mayor Minneapolis under a ranked-choice voting system. It took 33 rounds of vote counting before a winner was declared. One would think with 35 candidates in the race, it could get nasty, with many candidates going negative against the perceived front-runners. That never happened, and ranked-choice voting is widely credited with keeping the candi-dates focused on their vision for the city instead of knocking their opponents. We are now heading into another traditional election process in which the various parties hold primaries to choose their nominees, and then the survivors go at it hammer and tong. By November, many voters will believe, based on the negative advertising, that the republic is doomed no matter for whom they vote. Reviewing the results from last year’s municipal elections in Minneapolis and St. Paul, however, the campaign atmo-sphere suggests there may be a better way to restore the balance between pos-itive and negative politics. Candidates being elected under a ranked-choice voting system will try to avoid offend-ing those voters for whom they may not be the first choice, but for whom they would be an acceptable alternative. Under ranked-choice voting, voters would be able to rank the candidates by their own preference. Here’s how it would work: If three candidates were in a race, and respectively, Candidate A was the first choice of 40 percent,

Candidate B was the first choice of 35 percent and Candidate C were the first choice of 25 percent, once it was deter-mined that no candidate had 50 percent of the vote, election judges would re-deploy the votes of the candidate with the fewest votes to the second choice of those voters. If those second-choice votes broke so that 60 percent of Can-didate C’s votes went to Candidate A and 40 percent for Candidate B, Can-didate A would win with a vote total greater than 50 percent. Under the traditional primary sys-tem, a small group of voters end up choosing the party nominees. In recent years, turnout for primaries statewide in Minnesota have been around 18 per-cent of all eligible voters. Assuming that there is an equal turnout of DFL and Republican primary voters, that means that only 9 percent of all vot-ers are choosing a party’s nominee, and need only a majority of those, or less than 5 percent to win a primary. The result has often been that ex-treme candidates are able to move for-ward. Although the majority of vot-ers are near the center of the political spectrum, they may be forced to choose between extremists, and thus become disengaged from the political process. As it is, it has been 20 years since Minnesota last elected a governor with at least 50 percent of the vote, the lon-

gest such period in state history. On the other hand, ranked-choice voting forces candidates to campaign more to the center. In our three-candi-date example above, if the candidates are respectively a conservative, moder-ate and a liberal, the candidates will have to be careful what they say about each other, knowing that being the sec-ond choice behind one of the other two candidates may make the ultimate dif-ference. A second solid reason why ranked-choice voting deserves more consider-ation is that it eliminates primary elec-tions, saving substantially on cost. That said, ranked-choice voting was approved by city charter amendment in St. Paul and Minneapolis in 2006, but is not in use elsewhere in Minnesota. While the concept has some support in both the DFL and Republican parties, state Sen. Katie Sieben, DFL-Cottage Grove, chair of the Senate Elections Committee, refused to hear a bill in the last legislative session that would give local governments the option to use ranked-choice voting if they so desired. Sieben thinks ranked-choice voting is too difficult to grasp. She said, “If you have to have an informational session to tell people how to vote, it’s too com-plicated.” A seminar is unneeded. A post-election poll found 95 percent of Min-neapolis voters thought ranked-choice voting was either “very easy” or “easy.” A more likely hang-up to gaining legislative support is that ranked-choice

may adversely affect some legislators, were it to apply to state government elections. In those districts dominated by one party, which is to say most of them, an extremist could easily defeat a moderate in a traditional primary, but would be threatened if the mod-erate were the second choice of the heretofore minority party’s candidate. Ranked-choice changes the whole dy-namic. Because it would change elections so significantly, we do not yet advo-cate applying ranked-choice voting to all elections statewide. The next step ought to be to give local governments an option to use it. If there are flaws in the software used to count the ballots, for example, better to discover them in jurisdictions where hand-counting the ballots is not an overwhelmingly expen-sive task. However, technology now makes it possible to elect candidates who are acceptable to a majority of voters and identify the winner quickly. Instead of using the traditional system that hands victory to some candidates even though they have less than majority support. Minnesota should let local govern-ments have the option to use ranked-choice voting.

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Haley Platts, 6, (left) and Louise Brandt, 7, work intently and patiently to weave bas-kets during Art Sampling & Demos at the Steeple Center in Rosemount last Friday afternoon during the Rosemount Area Arts Council’s ArtBlast. The weeklong celebra-tion June 23-29 included a variety of arts events relating to theater, music, visual art and more. (Photo by Jennifer Chick)

ArtBlast launches funFirst-year event attracts legions of activity-seekers by Tad Johnson

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One could say the Rosemount Area Arts Council outdid itself last week. In less than six months, the nonprofit, all-volun-teer group turned a little idea into an ArtBlast of 36 events from June 23-29. Except for a few hic-cups due to rains that fell Saturday that moved the Bluegrass Americana Festival indoors, scores of area residents gath-ered in several venues throughout the city to ex-perience and participate in writing, visual art, mu-sic and theater events. “Our initial reaction to ArtBlast was, ‘Whew, what a whirlwind of ac-tivity.’ And it was,” said

Jeanne Schwartz, council president. “Overall we feel really good about the entire ArtBlast experi-ence.” She said council mem-bers could feel the festi-val’s momentum building as the week progressed, especially with regard to growing numbers of people who wanted to be part of the One Tile, One Rosemount project. The mural painting project had four differ-ent “signing” events dur-ing the week when local residents had a chance to personalize one of the 9,200 1-by-1 inch tiles that will become part of the 8-by-8 foot mosaic to be installed in the Robert Trail Library lobby. “There was definitely a buzz building,” Schwartz said.

She said council mem-bers were most impressed with the children’s events, such as the Groth Music Meet the Instruments program, Kids Corner and Duct Tape Crafts along with the Art Dem-os when many people were asking how to sign up for RAAC classes. Schwartz said the melodrama “A Pen-ny Saved,” staged by RAAC’s Front Porch Players, was a really fun event. Among the improve-ments for next year is having a rain-day venue set aside for the Blue-grass Americana Festival and possibly other larger outdoor events and more advance notice for events that required registration, such as the Rosemount Sings vocal music con-

test. The contest was won by Madison Holtze, a se-nior All-State singer from Rosemount High School.

“Overall, for a first year event, we are very pleased, and we will work hard over the com-ing year to make it big-

ger and better in 2015,” Schwartz said.

Email Tad Johnson at [email protected].

AV Rotary fundraiser kicks off

New Apple Valley Rotary President Bruce Nordquist kicked off the club’s car raffle by selling one of the first tickets for a 2014 Ford Fusion to Mayor Mary Hamann-Roland at Kelley Park. The Rotary Scholarship Foundation is holding its annual raffle in part-nership with Apple Ford Lincoln in Apple Valley. The drawing will be held Oct. 25 at the dealership. (Photo submitted)

Newly installed Apple Valley Rotary President Bruce Nordquist kicked off the group’s annual car raffle ticket sales by sell-ing one of the first tickets to Mayor Mary Hamann-Roland. Hamann-Roland said the raffle for a 2014 Ford Fusion in partnership with Apple Ford Lincoln is so important, and by selling tickets club mem-bers are making a big positive difference in the community. She said she looks for-ward to drawing the win-ners’ names at an Oct. 25 drawing and celebration at the dealership. The mayor also con-gratulated Nordquist on his elevation to president of the club. Nordquist has been the community development director for the city of Apple Valley since 2007. Nordquist and raffle co-chairmen, Patrick Selchow and Alan Player, recently passed out the raffle tickets to the club’s 49 members. Also serving on the raffle committee are Bill Tschohl, Clint Hooppaw, David Kingsbury, John Hartley, Catherine Magu-ire, Ryan Lynch, Sharon LaComb, Steve Degenaar and Tom Lawell. Tickets are $20 each and are available from any Apple Valley Rotary member. The grand prize is a 2014 Ford Fusion, second

prize is a gas grill from Warners’ Stellian and third prize is $500. This year there will be three $100 prizes. Nordquist stated that in 2013 the raffle raised $41,000 to support local community and interna-tional needs. In 2012, the club raised $34,600. This is the club’s an-nual Apple Valley Rotary Scholarship Foundation fundraiser for graduates of Apple Valley and East-view high schools. The funds also are used to support the Dictionary Project, through which 3,000 dictionaries are de-livered to third-grade stu-dents in Apple Valley. Each year since 1991 the club has sponsored the Teacher Recognition Award at Apple Valley High School. The win-ner this year was Neil Michels, longtime phys-ics teacher who is retiring this year after 30 years at the school. Nordquist said the club is also involved in com-munity projects including Adopt a Park (Legacy and Redwood), Adopt a Highway, 360 Communi-ties food shelf, Feed My Starving Children, Be-yond the Yellow Ribbon, Boy Scouts, Cub Scouts, support for military fami-lies, Lewis House, Youth Exchange Program, Polio Plus, STRIVE Program at AVHS, AVHS Speech and National Honor Society,

Safewater Plus and much more. Last year’s winner of a 2013 Ford Focus was Sha-ron Tadsen. Steve Matt-son, Rotary member, sold the winning ticket. The second prize, a grill from Warners’ Stel-lian, was won by Chris Kelly. His ticket was sold by John Dusek. The $500 cash prize was won by David Kenne-dy whose ticket was sold by Roger Huber. The top three ticket salespeople in 2013 were members Ed Corbett, Mattson and Tschohl. Without the support of the community and the dedication of the club members it would not be possible to offer so much support to the commu-nity, according to Nor-dquist. He said support for the fundraiser from the community has been phenomenal and that the $20 donation for a ticket goes so far in helping so many. Nordquist and Ha-mann-Roland said they wish to thank everyone

for investing in the com-munity. The club will display the car and sell tickets at various events throughout

the city, such as the farm-ers market on Saturday mornings and football games. For more information

about joining Rotary or about the raffle, contact Nordquist at [email protected] or call 952-953-2576.



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and Schunk had gone to the bar together and re-turned together to Con-rade’s townhome at 14500 Shannon Parkway. “As to exactly what hap-pened and the sequence of how it happened, we don’t know,” Backstrom said. “But we have a lot of evi-dence in this case that was analyzed that we believe implicates both of these individuals as having been directly involved in caus-ing her death.” The pair are accused of “aiding each other” in the murder, Backstrom said. Schunk was a 2011 Burnsville High School graduate and graduation class speaker who excelled in competitive chess and was an assistant coach for the powerhouse Metcalf Junior chess program for five years after competing there herself. She was a University of Minnesota sociology student when she met Chavez-Nelson at a Min-neapolis bus stop near the apartment where she was living with three room-mates. The two dated for sev-eral months in 2012 before Schunk broke off the rela-tionship around Thanks-giving. She went to meet Chavez-Nelson at the Caribou Coffee near her family’s North River Hills home the afternoon of Sept. 21 to ask him to re-pay money she had loaned him. Her parents told police she had given him $5,000. “Little did anyone know that Anarae would be dead within 13 hours,” Backstrom said. Chavez-Nelson had a long history of violent crimes and had spent much of his adult life in jail or prison. He’s now serving in Stillwater for a Hennepin County convic-tion of being a felon pos-sessing a weapon, Back-

strom said. “She told her parents (when they were dat-ing) that she had hoped she might be able to save Chavez-Nelson from his troubled past,” Backstrom said. “At some point she loaned $5,000 to Chavez-Nelson and began a physi-cal relationship with him.” A thousand people at-tended Schunk’s Oct. 6 memorial service in Burns-ville. “From all that I’ve learned about Anarae Sc-hunk since her disappear-ance and death, I can tell you she was a lovely, intel-ligent and kind-hearted young woman,” Back-strom said. “She may, unfortunately, have been a little too kind-hearted when she began a rela-tionship with a man now charged with her murder.” Schunk’s naked body was found Sept. 30 at the edge of a cornfield in ru-ral Rice County. Ashes and a charred cornstalk at the scene are evidence of a failed attempt to burn her body, Backstrom said. “She fought for her life,” he said. “She had defensive wounds on her hands.” Schunk, whose fam-ily reported her missing Sept. 23, suffered 22 stab wounds, including two to her neck that severed her carotid arteries and jugu-lar veins. “The medical exam-

iner has told us Anarae could not have lived more than 20 seconds after these deadly wounds were struck,” Backstrom said. Authorities say evi-dence — including Sc-hunk’s blood-stained and punctured Minnesota Golden Gophers sweat-jacket, blood-soaked blue jeans and towels from Conrade’s townhome — was seized from the town-home and from the St. Paul apartment of Chavez-Nelson’s estranged wife. Analysis of DNA and fingerprint evidence con-tributed to the length of the investigation, one of the most extensive in Dakota County history, Backstrom said.

Evidence While Chavez-Nelson and Conrade both denied knowing what had become of Schunk, police worked “around the clock” to gather evidence and find her, Backstrom said. A Sept. 24 search of Conrade’s townhome un-covered a large plastic tote bag in the garage rafters with blood on it. Inside the tote, police found a comforter and two large black plastic bags, all with blood on them, the com-plaint said. A towel on the garage floor also was bloody. Samples of DNA from the items matched Sc-hunk’s, the complaint said.

Inside the townhome, police found a knife block with an empty slot, a pair of kitchen shears and a hacksaw with blood on it. The DNA matched Sc-hunk’s. Cellphone records revealed that Chavez-Nelson had called his estranged wife several times in the early-morn-ing hours of Sept. 22. A Sept. 27 search of her apartment turned up a knife on the roof of the building, where she said Chavez-Nelson had thrown it when he vis-ited on the morning of Sept. 22. She said he had brought a black plastic bag to the apartment con-taining what appeared to be bloody towels. Believ-ing the contents may have been related to Schunk’s disappearance, she called her father and asked him to take the bag “until she could decide what to do,” the complaint said. At the request of of-ficers, she had her father return the bag Sept. 27. They opened it to a “strong rotting smell and the smell of bleach,” the complaint said. The numerous items in-side included the Gophers jacket, most of which was soaked in blood, and other items of bloody clothing. DNA samples from the blood matched Schunk’s. Other items included bloody towels, black plas-tic bags, yellow rubber gloves with blood on them and a black glove with blood on it. DNA analysis of the one of the yellow gloves showed a predominant match with Schunk, but also a mixture of three or more people. Schunk, Conrade and Chavez-Nel-son can’t be excluded as sources of the DNA, but “99.94 percent of the gen-eral population” can be, the complaint said. Conrade, interviewed six separate times by po-

lice, finally admitted on Sept. 29 that she’d seen Schunk’s dead body in her kitchen the afternoon of Sept. 22 after she returned home from work, Back-strom said. She also admitted to helping Chavez-Nelson load Anarae’s body into the trunk of her car later that evening, he said. “She denied participat-ing in the killing of Anarae and offered no informa-tion as to who killed her or how she died or where her body could be found,” Backstrom said. Conrade was told that garbage bags inside the tote bag matched those she and Chavez-Nelson were recorded buying by a surveillance camera at the Apple Valley Walmart store. She was told there was blood on the bags, there were garbage bags lining the trunk of her car, and blood was found in the trunk. “So how is that my fault when he had control of my entire life,” Conrade responded, according to the complaint. She was also shown pic-tures of the bloody towels from the plastic bag taken from Chavez-Nelson’s es-tranged wife’s apartment — towels that Conrade admitted came from her home. “I’m thinking that she’s dead,” Conrade then said of Schunk, later adding, “I know that she’s dead.” Conrade said she saw the tote bag on Sept. 22 and said it was covered with a blue blanket. She said she saw Chavez-Nel-son pull it outside. She said he asked for her help when he was unable to lift it into the trunk of her car. She said she grabbed one side and helped him lift it. She claimed she didn’t see Schunk inside because of the blanket “but as-sumed” the bag contained her body, the complaint said. “Conrade stated that

Chavez-Nelson left her residence in her car and was gone for a long time. According to Conrade, she went to bed and cried herself to sleep,” the complaint said. When Chavez-Nelson returned, he dropped off the car and didn’t come inside, it said. Asked if she looked in her trunk the next morn-ing, Conrade said she “was scared” and “didn’t wanna see her,” the com-plaint said. Conrade’s story “changed numerous times as she was interviewed by police,” Backstrom said. “Conrade was, howev-er, observed by a co-work-er the morning after An-arae’s disappearance with an injured finger, a cut on one of her palms and a cut on one of her arms,” he said. Surveillance video at Conrade’s workplace, the Holiday station in Apple Valley, confirmed the wounds, showing her wearing gauze on her hand and a splint on her right index finger, the complaint said. Conrade was previous-ly charged with aiding an offender, a felony, for al-legedly harboring Chavez-Nelson after the Jobi shooting. She posted bail at the time, Backstrom said. Now she’s in the jail on $2 million bail ($750,000 with conditions). Her first court appearance on the murder charge was June 27. Backstrom said prose-cutors hope to try Chavez-Nelson for the Jobi shoot-ing before trying him and Conrade on the murder charges. The Jobi trial has been continued to Oct. 27, he said.

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

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Farmington council has no appetite for waterpark

by Andy RogersSUN THISWEEK


The Farmington City Council decided a $7 mil-lion to $10 million water-park was more of a want than a need at a work ses-sion on Monday. Instead, the council directed city staff to po-tentially close the current Farmington Municipal Swimming Pool at the end of the 2015 season, and open a free-to-the-public splash pad at that location in 2016. A splash pad is a cheap-er option than a potential aquatic facility that in-cluded a lap pool, water slides and “lazy river.”

A pool committee rec-ommended a potential aquatic facility built on the Jim Bell Park and Re-serve near 195th Street and Diamond Path Road after reviewing a feasibil-ity study by USAquatics at a workshop in June. After receiving feed-back from the public, board members didn’t feel the community was hun-gry for such a project. “I don’t envision Farm-ington with a big water-park,” Council Member Christy Jo Fogarty said. “I don’t see a Cascade Bay in Farmington. I’m not sure the public wants some-thing so grandiose.” Cascade Bay is a water-

park located in Eagan and operated by the city. “The price tag is huge and it’s not without some risk,” Council Member Doug Bonar said. “The economic impact is un-known. It’s all specula-tion.” The council also direct-ed city staff to survey citi-zens to gauge the public’s appetite for new parks and facilities. The Jim Bell Park mas-ter plan features a youth athletic complex that in-cludes tennis courts, out-door ice rinks, baseball fields and soccer/lacrosse fields. “I’m interested in devel-oping that park,” Mayor

Todd Larson said. “We al-ways hear about the need for more athletic fields.” How much would be developed would depend on the desire of the public. The council is also hoping to partner with area orga-nizations to help pay for the development. It was a more attractive option considering a pool would only be in use for about two to three months a year, while athletic fields can be used six to eight months a year. If there’s enough public interest, there could be a levy to vote to raise funds to develop the parcel as soon as 2015. “There’s not enough

time to do a successful campaign this year,” Lar-son said. The city may need a levy to pay for a splash pad, which has a price tag between $600,000 and $700,000. The city would also need to subsidize the park annually with a simi-lar expense to the current facility. The current pool is in need of many repairs and it has compliance issues with the Americans for Disabilities Act. The cost of repairs come between $566,400 and $644,400. With expenses rising, attendance falling and the number of Farmington residents growing, the city

felt it needed to explore options. “Fixing it was not get-ting enough bang for our buck,” Larson said. When making the deci-sion not to pursue the wa-terpark, the council also considered other capital requests such as a ladder fire truck, a second sheet of ice at Schmitz-Maki arena, the costs associ-ated with supporting the economic development of the Vermillion River Crossings, and the general fund/debt fund tax levy for 2015.

Email Andy Rogers at [email protected].

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Business BuzzTitle company expands to AV TitleSmart Inc., a Twin Cities title in-surance company, has expanded its busi-ness with a new branch in Apple Valley. TitleSmart, a certified Women’s Busi-ness Enterprise, has been providing title, escrow and real estate closing solutions to the Twin Cities since 2007 and cur-rently has seven metro area locations. “We are thrilled to provide the Apple Valley area with a convenient location for exceptional title, escrow and real estate closing solutions,” said Cindy Koebele, president and owner. “We are extremely passionate about the work we do and the communities we serve and we look for-ward to building even stronger relation-ships with our partners and customers in Apple Valley.” TitleSmart Inc.’s Apple Valley loca-tion will open on or before Sept. 1 in the Wings Financial Building at 14985 Glazier Ave. For additional information, contact Koebele at 651-779-3075 or [email protected].

Uponor a top workplace The Star Tribune has named Uponor North America, Apple Valley, one of the Top 100 Workplaces in Minnesota. The newspaper’s Top Workplaces special sec-tion was published on Sunday, June 15.

“It’s always an honor to be chosen for an award,” said Bill Gray, president, Uponor North America. “Being named as one of the top places to work in Min-nesota is especially rewarding because it was based on feedback from the people who know us best – our employees. “All of us at Uponor North America – collectively – have created an environ-ment where people respond, not only through exceptional day-to-day perfor-mance, but also by participating and giv-ing feedback,” Gray said. “We are striv-ing to create something special here at Uponor; our employees’ feedback is vital in helping us to continue this journey.”

Korean business and investment seminar The Dakota County Regional Cham-ber of Commerce and Allthatstory America will host a seminar for business-es interested in learning about Korean market exports and investments from 9 a.m. to noon Thursday, July 24, at the Eagan Fire Safety Center. The seminar is supported by a variety of experts includ-ing the Department of Employment and Economic Development, 3M and KO-TRA. The event will include lunch. Register at www.dcrchamber.com or by calling the DCR Chamber at 651-452-9872.

Eagan’s Lone Oak Market celebrated a Dakota County Regional Chamber ribbon cutting and grand opening for its location at 1286 Lone Oak Road. Inside the Shell gas station is what owner Tony Donatell believes to be the only station in Eagan that features a 24-hour full menu restaurant and espresso bar, with fresh wraps, chicken, burgers and pizza. In the summer, the restaurant’s outside Lone Oak BBQ Grill is open from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on weekdays. The business employs a staff of 25. (Photo submitted)

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Apple Valley Chamber of Commerce events: • Tuesday, July 8, 9:30-10:30 a.m., ribbon cutting, Orange Theory Fitness, 15624 Pilot Knob Road, Apple Valley. Information: Kristy Cleveland at [email protected]. Burnsville Chamber of Commerce events: • Thursday, July 10, 4:30-

6 p.m., Business After Hours, Buca di Beppo, 4300 Burn-haven Drive, Burnsville. Free to attend. No RSVP required. Information: Brier Veit at [email protected]. Dakota County Region-al Chamber of Commerce events: • Thursday, July 10, 8-9 a.m., Eagan Coffee Break, hosted by Suit and Tie Deliv-ery at Dickey’s Barbecue Pit, 3090 Courthouse Lane, Eagan. Open to all DCRC members. Information: Chelsea Johnson

at 651-288-9202 or [email protected]. Lakeville Area Chamber of Commerce events: • Saturday, July 12, 10 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., Pan-O-Prog Blood Drive. Memorial Blood Centers bloodmobile will be lo-cated in downtown Lakeville at 208th Street and Holyoke Ave-nue across from Ace Hardware. To make an appointment, go to mbc.org/searchdrives and en-ter sponsor code 4132 or con-tact Debra at [email protected].

Police: Homemade bombs in park posed little danger

by Laura AdelmannSUN THISWEEK


Lakeville police are asking the public to watch for plastic bottles left in odd ar-eas of the city after two, small homemade bombs were found in a local park June 25. Made with aluminum foil, Drano and Works toilet bowl cleaner, the small bottle bombs were reported found in Kensing-ton Park near 205th Street and Kensing-ton Avenue, according to Lakeville police. One of the devices had already explod-ed when police officers responded, and they fired a pellet gun bullet at another to release pressure inside the remaining bottle. Police said there was little or no dan-ger to the public because the bombs were

located in a remote area, but they warned others may be in the city. Residents are being asked to watch out for plastic bottles left in odd areas in city parks or along the streets. If found, resi-dents are asked to leave the bottle undis-turbed, move away from it, tell others to move away, and immediately call 911. Bomb bottles will be capped, have alu-minum foil and liquid visible inside and be swelled or distorted. Police said there may be empty Drano, Works or other con-tainers in nearby trash or laying around it, and there may be other bottles nearby that appear to have exploded.

Laura Adelmann is at [email protected].

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Discover the best beer at Pan-O-Prog’s Brew BattleFirst-time event aims to be a crowd-pleaser

by Laura AdelmannSUN THISWEEK


Something big is brewing at Pan-O-Prog. The first annual Brew Battle on Saturday, July 12, will pit lo-cal and international breweries against each other for the cov-eted distinction of being voted best beer — a competition that is guaranteed to offer the best of the best for Pan-O-Prog but-ton holders 21 and up to sam-ple. Held from 1-4 p.m. at the Lakeville Area Arts Center, 20965 Holyoke Avenue, the tasting event will feature more than 100 types of craft and im-port beers offered by 33 brewer-ies.

“We got a better response than I thought we would,” Lakeville Liquor Operations Director Brenda Visnovec said. She said breweries are com-peting from all over the world, including Lucid, a Minneton-ka-based, family-owned brew-ery; Tallgrass from Manhattan, Kansas, and Stiegl, the largest privately owned brewery in Austria. Other breweries include An-gry Orchard from Cincinnati, Ohio; Crispin Cider of Colfax, Calif.; Curious Traveler made in Burlington, Vt.., and Lake Monster from Minneapolis. Brew masters will be on hand to answer questions and interact with the crowd. “People will hear directly from the people who are brew-ing the product,” Visnovec said. She added the competition is

going to become an annual part of Pan-O-Prog, first proposed by Pan-O-Prog parade chair-man and past president Dan Pellinen. Visnovec called the Brew Battle a “good fit,” noting the logistics worked, but also the popularity of craft beers, typically a one-of-a-kind brew, crated by a small, independent operators who produce limited amounts of beer. “The craft beer segment is on fire,” Visnovec said. “It’s been like an explosion.” Craft beer production is growing in Minnesota, with 35 breweries reported in 2011, 47 in 2012 and 52 in 2013, accord-ing to the Brewers Association. The association said there are 367,681 barrels of craft beer produced annually in the state with an economic impact of

$741.9 million. Minnesota’s beer-loving neighbor Wisconsin is home to 90 craft breweries that crank out 444,311 barrels of beer an-nually with an economic impact of $855.8 million, according to the association. The increased interest and production of craft beers has prompted Lakeville officials to craft an ordinance that allows brew pubs, farm wineries with a tasting room, breweries, tap rooms, and micro distilleries with tasting rooms to locate in Lakeville. Farm wineries would be al-lowed in rural areas as an inter-im use in anticipation of their becoming included in the Met-ropolitan Urban Service Area and designated an urban land use. At the Brew Battle, visitors

will serve as judges and receive a glass they can keep along with a tally sheet and 109 different beers for sample. Food trucks will be available, and at the end of the event, tasters will mark their three fa-vorite beers sampled. Visnovec said the top three winners will be announced, and those beers will be on sale at Lakeville Liquor stores throughout the month of Au-gust. She said a six-pack of craft beer typically costs $9.99-$15.99, about the same price for a 12-pack of regular beer. Tickets are $25 if pur-chased in advance at http://bit.y/1m6zts5 or at any of the Lakeville Liquor stores.

Laura Adelmann is at [email protected].

Environmental melodiesMusician and storyteller Jack Pearson will present his “Forever Green and Blue” show for kids at Eagan’s Caponi Art Park at 10 a.m. Tuesday, July 8. The program, part of the summer-long Family Fun Tuesdays series held each week in the art park’s sculpture garden, is de-signed to promote environ-mental awareness through stories and songs, including the “Earth Day Jig.” More information is at www.caponiartpark.org. (Photo submitted)

Jupes on the FourthThe Apple Valley American Legion will be grooving to the acoustic-rock sounds of the Jupes on Friday, July 4, as part of a full day of activities at the Legion post located at 14251 Granada Drive. Along with the 3-6 p.m. show by the Jupes, the event which runs from 11 a.m.-6 p.m. includes food, raffles, kids activities and DJ music. The celebration at the Legion is part of Apple Valley’s weeklong Freedom Days festival.

Patio hour extension proposal divides Lakeville by Laura Adelmann


Lakeville Mayor Matt Little’s effort to referee neighborhood issues end-ed in a draw after he held two meetings in June that produced completely op-posite outcomes. The three neighbors who met with Little and Carbone’s Restaurant representatives cited more concerns about garbage trucks than a proposal to allow food and liquor to be served on patios an hour later (until 11 p.m. Sunday-Thursdays and until midnight Friday and Saturday) for restaurants within 150 feet of residen-tial properties. After a 25-minute con-versation, handshakes were exchanged before the restaurant/bar representa-tives and neighbors parted ways. The meeting for Babe’s Bar & Grill ended in frus-tration for the 11 neigh-bors who cited numerous complaints about multiple issues and were uniformly opposed to any extension of patio hours. Residents expressed anger at loud music, rev-ving motorcycles, noisy

drunken patrons smok-ing and screaming at all hours, freely dropping “f-bombs” and crossing their yards for a shortcut or using their bushes as a bathroom. They suggested Babe’s owners Tom Tomaro and Mike Tupa, of Stillwater, build an attractive wall with a waterfall and plants for smokers to gather to help keep noise and smoke from traveling. The idea was opposed by Tomaro, who said their customers want to watch downtown traffic from the patio and would not like to have a wall blocking their view. He also said they con-sidered building a wall, but concluded noise would echo off it into an-other direction. He also said multiple walls would make patrons feel like they were in a cave. Neighbor Glenn Nord said the music and noise travels for blocks and called it “an absolute in-trusion” into every other property owner’s ability to enjoy their property. Little promised better enforcement and said he intends to propose the city purchase a decibel meter

to ensure noise levels stay within allowable range of 55 decibels at 10 p.m. and later. He also encouraged residents to report distur-bances to the police, not-ing that the city shut down a Cinco de Mayo celebra-tion at Teresa’s Mexican Restaurant when noise ex-ceeded decibel limits. Nord challenged the city’s ordinances because they allowed Babe’s to expand into a residential area, then build a patio that served as a further ex-pansion. Tomaro said he wants to be a good neighbor, noting the restaurant re-sponds to complaints. Babe’s manager Mark Streefland said they fixed a noisy ventilating fan im-mediately after receiving a complaint from a neigh-bor about it. Streefland added that bouncers regularly walk around the building in an attempt to control noise and manage the crowd. After about 90 minutes of sometimes heated ex-changes, Little declared the parties had hit an im-passe. “We’ll keep the dia-logue going,” Little said.

DFL opens

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office in Eagan With campaign season swinging into high gear, the Minnesota DFL has opened 18 offices across the state, including in Ea-gan. “Eagan is a pretty cen-tral part of the 2nd Con-gressional District, which is a targeted race for us,” DFL Chair Ken Martin said. The 2nd Congressional District office is located at 4555 Erin Drive, Suite 260, in Eagan. DFL leaders cel-ebrated an official opening on June 24 with speeches by Martin, House Major-ity Leader Erin Murphy and Mike Obermueller, the DFL-endorsed candidate for the 2nd District, among others. All 18 offices are tempo-rary sites that will be open only during election sea-son.

—Jessica Harper


SportsLocal players shine at football showcase

by Mike ShaughnessySUN THISWEEK


It’s difficult for a kicker to get noticed at a football all-star game, unless he does what Reid Tauben-heim did Saturday after-noon. The South all-stars were well on their way to victory when they sent the Farmington High School graduate on the field to try a 52-yard field goal. He made it with plenty to spare for the longest field goal in the history of the Minnesota Foot-ball Coaches Association Tackle Cancer All-Star Football Game. Tauben-heim also kicked four ex-tra points as the South all-stars defeated the North 37-22 at St. John’s Univer-sity. “As soon as you kick it, you know (if it’s going to be long enough),” Tauben-heim said. “I kind of knew that one was going to go through.” There is a long history of high school all-star football games in Minne-sota. The first games were played in 1945 and 1946 before the event went on

hiatus, resuming in 1952 and running through 1960. It went away again but was reinstated in 1974 and has run every year since. Not only did Tauben-heim’s record-setting kick come in a game with plen-ty of history, his achieve-ment could stand for a while. There have been only two field goals longer than 40 yards in the event’s history, and the previous longest field goal of 46 yards was in 1998. He also kicked the lon-gest field goal in Farming-ton High School history. “I had a 48 (in a game dur-ing his junior season), but they never let me kick one longer than that,” Tauben-heim said, smiling. Taubenheim was re-garded as one of the top kicking prospects in Min-nesota high school football last fall. He received pre-ferred walk-on offers from Minnesota and Wisconsin but chose instead to sign with North Dakota, which graduated its kicker from the 2013 season. Tauben-heim’s competition for the North Dakota kicking job could come from another Dakota County athlete,

Eastview High School graduate Sam Fluegge. At North Dakota, it will be all kicking (and possibly punting; Tauben-heim said he also hopes to compete for that job). But at Farmington, he was known for more than a big leg. Taubenheim also was a starting safety. In the

opening game of the 2012 season, he kicked four field goals, tying a state record he shares with three other kickers, and also made 10 tackles. Taubenheim said the South all-star coaching staff, headed up by Eden Prairie’s Mike Grant, at least joked about putting

his tackling skills into play. “We had a few guys on our defense who were banged up and the coach-es looked at me and said, ‘You used to play safety, didn’t you?’ ” Taubenheim said. He never did see the field on defense, but the all-star game was still

“an awesome experience,” Taubenheim said. “You meet some people here you played against and after a few days you’re the best of friends.”

Email Mike Shaughnessy at [email protected].

Farmington’s Reid Taubenheim kicks an extra point during the first half of Saturday’s state high school all-star football game. In the fourth quarter, he kicked a game-record 52-yard field goal. (Photo by Mike Shaughnessy)

52-yard field goal capped‘awesome experience’

for Farmington’s Taubenheim

Now, Hyeamang will try to help Columbia turn it around by Mike Shaughnessy


Helping Apple Valley High School reach the state football quarterfinals two years in a row ranks as one of Lord Josh Hy-eamang’s career highlights because the Eagles previ-ously had been in a down cycle. “Down cycle” doesn’t begin to describe where Hyeamang’s new team has been. Columbia Univer-sity, an Ivy League school that started playing colle-giate football in 1870, gen-erates headlines mainly for futility. The Lions haven’t had a winning season since 1996 and had only one .500 season since then. In the 1980s, they had a 44-game losing streak, still the longest in the Football Championship Subdivi-sion. Hyeamang, who signed with Columbia in Febru-ary, said he was attracted to the academic and ath-letic challenges there. “I really liked the coaching staff and they want to turn it around,” Hyeamang said. “They brought in three or four defensive linemen who are my size, so I’m going to have to work to earn a job” in the lineup. Hyeamang was named defensive MVP for the

South at Saturday’s Min-nesota Football Coaches Association All-Star Foot-ball Game at St. John’s University. The 6-foot-4, 240-pound defensive line-man made four tackles as the South team defeated the North all-stars 37-22. “That’s a great honor because there are a lot of

good players here,” said Hyeamang, who was the fifth Apple Valley player to win an MVP award at the all-star game. Hyeamang was one of two AVHS graduates to play for the South team in the 2014 all-star game. The other is offensive lineman Tyler Rolland,

who also will continue his football career at a school (Carleton College) with challenging academics. The all-star game came at the end of a week-long camp. The South all-stars’ head coach was Eden Prairie coach Mike Grant, whose teams have won nine state champion-

ships. Grant played at St. John’s under legendary head coach John Gagliar-di, whose unique coaching philosophy included mini-mal contact during prac-tice. “We had some two-a-days,” Hyeamang said, “but coach Grant is big on saving it for the game. We

were in helmets and shells most of the time.” Hyeamang scored 30 on his ACT exam and was a National Achievement Scholarship semifinalist in 2013, which helps explain why Columbia pursued him. He also proved to be a quick study in foot-ball and wrestling, each of which he started later than many other students. He has played football for five years. In his se-nior year at AVHS Hyea-mang was a force on de-fense with 65 tackles, nine tackles for losses and six sacks. He held down the 285-pound lineup spot for the wrestling team, which won its ninth consecutive Class 3A team champion-ship last winter, and also qualified individually for state. “In football, I started getting better by working on my strength and quick-ness,” Hyeamang said. “That also gave me more confidence. In wrestling, really, it was the same thing.” Now he will try to help Columbia football make news for something other than losing games.


Lord Josh Hyeamang of Apple Valley looks to rush the quarterback during the state high school all-star football game. Hyeamang was named defensive MVP for the South all-stars. (Photo by Mike Shaughnessy)

More who helped make all-star game happen

Here’s a look at other local people who took part in the Minnesota Foot-ball Coaches Association Tackle Cancer All-Star Football Game on Satur-day. The players listed all were members of the win-ning South all-star team. Lakeville North’s Ja-miah Newell rushed eight times for 26 yards and caught one pass. The 5-foot-8, 170-pound run-ning back has signed with Minnesota-Duluth. Lakeville South line-backer Tyler Lattery made one tackle and intercepted a pass on the final play of the game. After being a high school rival of New-ell’s, Lattery (6-3, 230) will join him in college at Min-nesota-Duluth. Rosemount’s Conner Yepsen played perhaps his final game of organized football at Saturday’s all-star game. The cornerback had two tackles. Yepsen (5-10, 160) and his twin

brother Carter, who were starters at defensive back for Rosemount’s state Class 6A runner-up team, will play lacrosse at Robert Morris University. Eastview’s Jacob Bechstein is headed to Carleton College. The 5-11, 195-pound lineback-er made one tackle in the all-star game. Also going to Carleton is Apple Valley offensive lineman Tyler Rolland. A three-year starter at AVHS, Rolland (6-3, 300) shared time at center in Saturday’s game. Joey Marinello of Eastview played offensive tackle for the South all-stars. Marinello (6-6, 300), signed in February with Montana State, a Division I Football Championship Subdivision program. He described getting a schol-arship offer from Mon-tana State as his favorite football memory. Alex Hoffman, a 6-3,

235-pound defensive end from Lakeville South, is headed to Bemidji State. He made one tackle in Sat-urday’s game. Lakeville resident Ray Betton was an assistant coach for the South all-stars. Betton is varsity football coach at Holy An-gels after previous stops as head coach at East Ridge and Simley. Dave Fritze, an Eagan High School counselor and the Wildcats’ former varsity football coach, completed his 15th year as director of the all-star game. EHS social studies teacher Jim Becker is the assistant game director. Eagan resident Dave Giles, the public address voice for numerous Eagan High School and Minnesota State High School League events, also does PA for the all-star football game and is the event’s historian and media relations direc-tor.

Eastview’s Joey Marinello (left) blocks during the state high school all-star football game. Marinello will play in college at Montana State. (Photo by Mike Shaughnessy)


Good as gold

Nick Andrus, who will be a junior at Eastview High School this fall, won a gold medal in the 50-yard breast-stroke at the 2014 Special Olympics USA Games that took place June 14-21 in Princeton, N.J. Andrus, one of eight athletes from Minnesota competing in aquatics at the national meet, also swam on a bronze medal-winning 4x50 freestyle relay. He was fourth in the 50 backstroke and fifth in the 50 freestyle. Twenty-six family members from Minnesota, Montana, Colorado and Ohio traveled to New Jersey to support him. (Photo submitted)

Notebook: Trent Jr. gets basketball offer from Gophers by Mike Shaughnessy


Richard Pitino’s first University of Minnesota men’s basketball team had only one player from Min-nesota – Eastview High School graduate Joey King, who transferred from Drake. But, enter-ing his second season, the Gophers coach is making it clear that Minnesota players will be part of the program’s future. Last week the Gophers offered Apple Valley soph-omore-to-be Gary Trent Jr. a scholarship. Trent, whose father played for four NBA teams from 1995 to 2004, averaged 10.6 points per game last season for Apple Valley, which won the South Sub-urban Conference cham-

pionship and reached the Class 4A, Section 3 cham-pionship game. It’s the second known scholarship offer for Trent, who received one earlier this year from Texas Tech, coached by former Go-phers coach Tubby Smith. Trent has not made a verbal commitment to any college and cannot sign a National Letter of Intent until November 2016.

On the course The championship match of the Minnesota Golf Association Senior Players Championship had two players with Da-kota County ties. Pat Vincelli of Rose-mount won on his home course, Brackett’s Cross-ing Country Club, de-feating Leif Carlson of

Valleywood Golf Course 1-up. Vincelli, 68, is the old-est champion in the his-tory of the tournament, a match-play competition for players 55 and older. He won five matches over four days, two of which went to 19 holes before Vincelli prevailed. The MGA Mid-Players Championship, for players 30 and older, took place at Brackett’s Crossing at the same time (June 17-20) as the Senior Players. Two golfers who play out of Valleywood, Joel John-son and Sammy Schmitz, reached the quarterfinals. In the MGA Players Championship, conducted June 23-25 at Woodhill Country Club, Johnny Larson of Dacotah Ridge defeated Trent Peterson of

Valleywood in 19 holes in the championship match. It was the second consecu-tive second-place finish in the tournament for Peter-son, who won the MGA Players and MGA Ama-teur championships in 2008 and was co-medalist at the state high school Class AA tournament in 2005 while playing for Ea-gan High School. In the semifinals, Pe-terson won 2 and 1 over Justin Doeden, a Lakeville South High School gradu-ate who plays golf at Car-dinal Stritch University in Milwaukee.


Seniors

Pan-O-Prog Run The Pan-O-Prog Run will be Saturday, July 12, at Casperson Park, 19720 Juno Trail, Lakeville. The running course along the west side of Lake Marion will include race lengths of 1 mile and 4 miles, with a half-mile fun run for kids. Categories are divided by gender and race length (1-mile and 4-mile only) in each of the following age categories: 9 and under, 10-11, 12-14, 15-19, 20-29, 30-39, 40-49, 50-59, 60-69, and 70 and over. Results will be available after the

races. Prizes and race med-als will be awarded at the conclusion of the runs. Schedule: 6:45 a.m. reg-istration 4-mile: 7:45 a.m. start (#7057) 1-mile: 8:45 a.m. start (#7058) Both 4- and 1-mile runs (#7059). Cost: $18 if pre-register for both by July 8; $24 if register for both after July 8. 1/2-mile Fun Run: 8:30 a.m. start (no registration necessary) To register for this event, visit http://www.lakeville-rapconnect.com.

Senior Day Senior Citizen Day is Tuesday, July 8, 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 “Deep Sea 3D” will begin at 10 a.m. Cost is $5. For questions or group reservations, call 952-997-9714 or email [email protected].

UCare plan UCare will host the following informational meetings about its UCare for Seniors health plan op-tions: • 2 p.m. Thursday, July 10, Eagan Community Center, 1501 Central Park-way, Eagan. • 2 p.m. Monday, July 21, Lakeville Heritage Center, 20110 Holyoke Ave., Lakeville. To register for a meet-

ing or for more informa-tion, call 877-523-1518.

Driver class The Minnesota High-way Safety Center will offer 55-plus driver-im-provement courses on the following days: • 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. July 22 (four-hour refresher), Apple Valley Senior Cen-ter, 14601 Hayes Road, Apple Valley. • 1-5 p.m. July 16 and 17 (eight-hour first-time course), Burnsville Senior Center – ISD 191, 200 W. Burnsville Parkway, Burnsville. • 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. July 29 (four-hour refresh-er), AAA Minnesota-Io-wa, 600 W. Travelers Trail, Burnsville. The courses are open to the public; however, pre-registration is requested. The eight-hour course is $24; the four-hour refresh-er is $20. For more infor-

mation or to register, visit www.mnsafetycenter.org or call 888-234-1294.

Apple Valley The Apple Valley Se-nior Center, 14601 Hayes Road, is home to the fol-lowing activities, which are organized and run by the Apple Valley Seniors and Apple Valley Parks and Recreation. The facility is open Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. For information, call 952-953-2345 or go to www.cityofapplevalley.org. Monday, July 7 – Blood Pressure Checks, 9:30 a.m.; General Meeting, 10 a.m.; SR Meeting, 11 a.m.; Bridge, 12:45 p.m.; Pool, 1 p.m.; Happy Stitchers, 1 p.m.; Finance Committee, 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, July 8 – Quilt-ing Bees, 9 a.m.; Bike Group, 9 a.m.; Tuesday Painters, 9:30 a.m.; IMAX

Coffee and Show, 9:30 a.m.; Postal Inspector, 10 a.m.; Pinochle, 12:30 p.m.; Spanish, 1 p.m.; Crib-bage, 1 p.m.; Hand & Foot Cards, 1 p.m.; Table Ten-nis, 1 p.m. Wednesday, July 9 – Donated Bread, 9 a.m.; Diaper Sewing, 9:15 a.m.; Bicycle Club, 9 a.m.; Yoga, 9:45 a.m.; Morning Stretch, 10 a.m.; Domi-noes, 1 p.m.; Mahjong, 1 p.m. Thursday, July 10 – Beg. Line Dancing, 9:15 a.m.; Int. Line Dancing, 10 a.m.; Defensive Driv-ing, noon; Duplicate Bridge, 12:30 p.m.; Tap Dancing; 12:30 p.m.; Pool, 1 p.m.; 500, 1 p.m.; Har-danger, 1 p.m.; Social Se-niors, 4 p.m. Friday, July 11 – Bicy-cle Club, 9 a.m.; Morning Stretch, 10 a.m.; Women’s Pool, 11 a.m.; Members Bingo, 12:30 p.m.; dead-line, Hawaiian Luau, Ring of Fire Play/Lunch.

Sports Brief


“To address and attract volunteers, we are much more open with them on the front side to ensure that they know what they are getting themselves into,” said Rosemount Fire Chief Richard Schro-eder. “We make sure to in-form them about the time commitment and what it is going to take to make it through the first two years of training and time away from their family. Even as thorough as we are in ex-plaining things to them, we still lose 30-40 percent of the new hires. It just be-comes too much.” All firefighter candi-dates in Minnesota must complete state-mandated Firefighter I and Firefight-er II courses, which take up more than 200 hours of a candidate’s time in the first two years. Firefighters have always needed to pass physical agility tests, but criminal background checks have become mandatory under state law. All firefighters must receive medical and hazmat training. “The public has an ex-pectation when they call 911 that they’re getting the best possible people, so that’s why we have that process to make it tough to get on – because we want quality people,” said Doug

Nelson, assistant fire chief with the Burnsville Fire Department and former 23-year firefighter with the Spring Lake Park-Blaine-Mounds View Fire Department. These time-consuming requirements can turn away potential firefighters, Dayton Fire Chief Jason Mickelson said. That time commit-ment concerns Loretto Fire Chief Jeff Leuer, who foresees an impending de-cline in volunteer firefight-ers. “The mandated train-ing that a firefighter needs to take and sustain is a lot of hours,” Leuer said. “I tell someone you need to commit at least eight hours a week for meeting, training and public events, and they say they just don’t have that.” Schroeder, like many of

his colleagues, attributes those challenges to peo-ple’s time commitments. “The biggest reason that volunteers quit is the tremendous time com-mitment that they must give, which takes time away from their families,” Schroeder said. “I can to-tally relate to them as I have been there and gone through what they are ex-periencing.” “Volunteer or paid-on-call firefighters are a dying breed,” said Farmington Fire Chief Tim Pietsch. In Sun Thisweek and the Dakota County Tribune’s coverage area, only Burns-ville has a full-time fire de-partment. “It takes a lot of sac-rifice from families, full-time jobs,” Pietsch said, “just making the overall commitment, training, making calls, etc.” Scott Anderson, fire chief in Maple Grove, has noticed that most new firefighters leave before five years of service. They encounter more family re-sponsibilities, job changes and the desire to go back to school for advanced training and degrees. N o r w o o d - Yo u n g America Fire Chief Steve Zumberge said recruiting firefighters is not as easy as it used to be. “We used to have a waiting list. ... Now we’re

about to advertise,” Zum-berge said. Pietsch said posting a “help wanted” banner outside the station has been effective in recruiting candidates. Anderson has used cre-ative efforts to recruit day-time firefighters. He has stopped at garage sales and asked about who is home during the day. He then knocks on doors and asks whether anyone there is interested in being a fire-fighter. Maple Grove fire-fighters also use classroom visits as a recruitment tool. They ask kids to talk with parents about becom-ing firefighters.

Old days gone John Wolff, fire chief in Chanhassen, noted about 50 percent of his commu-nity is transient, pulling people who could be valu-able volunteer firefighters out of the community for most of the day. Some surveys have said that 62 percent of Dakota County residents com-mute outside of the coun-ty each day. With the exception of small, rural fire depart-ments where many fire-fighters work in small towns, many other fire de-partments are struggling to recruit crews with mem-bers who are on board for fires in the daytime.

In Rockford, Fire Chief Ben Sanderson told the Rockford City Council re-cently that, due to sched-ules and conflicts, about half the current members show up on calls. “We’re burning out the 15 people who can show up to calls as it is,” he said. Rockford is consider-ing adding a reserve team of 10 that would presum-ably result in an additional five members at a call. Al-bertville, St. Michael and Monticello have added similar programs. Schroeder said Rose-mount having a “duty crew” for daytime calls could be explored in the future. Pietsch said Farming-ton has a number of fire-fighters who work night shifts, so it has been get-ting by for daytime re-sponse. Rosemount recently hired one firefighter as a city employee for daytime response. “This is a concept that was used back in the day when I was hired and I have a feeling that cities may have to move back to-ward that trend to get day-time responders,” Schro-eder said. “Full-time firefighters will cost a lot of money; most cities do not have the resources available to fund such a proposal,” Pietsch said. “We actively try to recruit daytime person-nel.” Maple Grove’s Ander-son grew up in a small town where the fire depart-ment responded to around three calls per week. The owner of a hardware store could post a sign on his door saying something like, “Gone to fire call. Be back soon.” Those days are gone, Anderson noted. Chief Mike Rademach-er, during the recruitment process with Northeast Sherburne, lets his fire-fighters know that family comes first and the depart-ment is comfortable giving its firefighters some lee-way when it comes to fam-ily dynamics. Northeast Sherburne also organizes activities for the spouses of firefighters that bring the department closer as a “family,” Rademacher said. The city of Rosemount is approved to have 50 firefighters. It is currently reviewing a group of new

potential recruits and will likely generate a new pool of candidates in July for activation in October. Schroeder hopes out of those two pools to boost the force to 50 by the end of 2015. “That’s something that hasn’t happened in a long time, he said. Pietsch said the depart-ment is in the process of adding four to six new members to fill its roster of 50.

Retention Wolff said the major-ity of firefighters who join his Chanhassen depart-ment will make it about 10 years. “Some will make it 20,” he said. “It gets harder and harder every year to at-tract volunteers and ones that will stick around for 20 years,” Schroeder said. The city of Rosemount is in the process of increas-ing the yearly retirement amount for each year of service. “I am hoping that the higher dollar figure will play a big part in attract-ing new hires and keeping them around for a mini-mum of 10 years,” he said. Schroeder said the city may also change its cur-rent $10/fire call stipend to hourly pay. “(It is my hope this will) be a better recruiting tool to get and keep person-nel on the department,” Schroeder said. Dayton’s Mickelson said once a new firefighter has signed on to serve the community, it is easier to retain them. “Newer firefighters tend to be tech savvy, where older firefighters sometimes struggle to use items like laptops and iPads,” he said. Some have joined fire departments and stayed on for years, even decades. “I think most firefight-ers join to help others in their time of need, wheth-er it be a fire or a health problem,” Mickelson said. “Most are joining to give something back to their communities.”

Jeff Hage can be reached at [email protected]. Editors Adam Gruenewald, Jessica Harper, Sue Van Cleaf, Theresa Malloy, Eric Hagen and Tad John-son contributed to this story.

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LEGAL NOTICES

INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT 196

ROSEMOUNT-APPLE VALLEY-EAGAN

PUBLIC SCHOOLSMINUTES OF JUNE 17, 2014SPECIAL BOARD MEETING

Vice Chairperson Jackie Magnu-son called the special board meet-ing to order at 5 p.m., June 17, 2014 at the District Office.

Present: Joel Albright, Art Coul-son, Rob Duchscher, Gary Huusko, Jackie Magnuson, Bob Schutte. Absent: Mike Roseen.

Motion by Huusko, seconded by Coulson and carried with four members voting in favor and no members voting in opposition, to approve the agenda.

Business was conducted in a closed session pursuant to Minn. Stat. §13D.05, subd. 2(a)(3) for pur-poses of discussing educational data concerning a student. The motion to close the meeting was made by Magnuson, seconded by Huusko and carried, with four members voting in favor and no members voting in opposition, to close the meeting.

Albright and Duchscher joined the meeting in progress.

Motion by Coulson, second-ed by Huusko and carried, with five members voting in favor and Duchscher voting in opposition, to approve a resolution to expel a student immediately through the second trimester of the 2014-15 school year, continuing through and including March 12, 2015 (Ex-hibit A).

Motion by Magnuson, seconded by Coulson and carried, with six members voting in favor and no members voting in opposition, to open the meeting.

Motion by Magnuson, seconded by Schutte and carried, with six members voting in favor and no members voting in opposition, to adjourn the meeting. The meeting was adjourned at 5:30 p.m.

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CALL FOR BIDSCOMPUTERIZED MEASURES OF

ACADEMIC PROGRESSNotice is hereby given that

BIDS will be received for the pur-chase of the Internet Version of NWEA’s Computerized Measures of Academic Progress and NWEA Instructional Resources – Class Breakdown Reports by Goal and RIT of approved alternate of equal or better quality/functionality by Independent School District 196, 3455 153rd Street W., Rosemount, MN 55068, until 10 a.m., Friday, July 18, 2014 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/Dis-trict/LegalNotices/index.cfm

If you should have any questions regarding this bid you may contact the Michelle DeMers at (651) 423-7856.

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MINUTES OF JUNE 9, 2014REGULAR BOARD MEETING

Chairperson Rob Duchscher called the regular School Board meeting to order at 6:02 p.m. on June 9, 2014 at Dakota Ridge School.

The Pledge of Allegiance was led by the School Board.

Present: Joel Albright, Art Coul-son, treasurer; Rob Duchscher, chairperson; Gary Huusko, clerk; Jackie Magnuson, vice chairper-

son; Bob Schutte and Superinten-dent Jane K. Berenz.

Absent: Mike Roseen.Motion by Huusko, seconded by

Coulson and carried, with six mem-bers voting in favor and no member voting in opposition, to approve the agenda.

The board recognized Desti-nation ImagiNation teams from Diamond Path Elementary School of International Studies; Shan-non Park, Parkview, Greenleaf and Woodland elementary schools, and Dakota Hills Middle School that qualified for the Destination Imagi-Nation Global Finals. They also recognized Diamond Path for being selected one of the top five Magnet Schools of Excellence in the nation.

Berenz congratulated:• Eastview High School Quiz

Bowl team on advancing to the playoff round of the national tour-nament;

• Dakota United Hawks softball teams on finishing runners-up at their state tournaments;

• Jennifer Young, Rosemount High School, on winning first place in a national poster contest;

• Utkarsh Koshti, Eagan High School, on having the high score of any Minnesota student in this year’s American Mathematics Competition;

• Boys’ and girls’ high school state track and field competitors, and Payton Otterdahl, Rosemount High School senior who was state champion in discus and shot put;

• Zach Ekstein, Eagan High School, on advancing to the quar-terfinal round of the singles Class 2A state tennis tournament

• Rosemount High School girls’ golf team members on winning the Section 3 championship;

• Rosemount High School boys’ and Apple Valley girls’ lacrosse teams on winning their Section 3 tournaments;

• Polly Reikowski, Eagan High School principal, on being named Principal of the Year by the National Speech and Debate Association, and

• The more than 2,000 stu-dents who graduated from our high schools and programs.

Linda Krummel, Eastview Com-munity Foundation Grants Chair, presented four grants totaling $4,994 to Eastview High School, Falcon Ridge Middle School and Highland Elementary School.

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

Minutes of May 12, 2014 regular board meeting (Exhibit A1);

District memberships in organi-zations for 2014-15 (Exhibit A2);

ECM Publishers, Sun Thisweek, as the official newspaper for 2014-15 (Exhibit A3);

Authorize Superintendent Jane K. Berenz and her designee Di-rector of Finance and Operations Jeffrey Solomon to approve appli-cations and budgets on Minnesota Department of Education electronic documents (Exhibit A4);

Claims for May 7-June 3, 2014 (Exhibit B1);

Electronic funds transfer sched-ule for May 3-30, 2014 (Exhibit B2);

Schedule of investments for May 3-30, 2014 (Exhibit B3);

Treasurer’s report for month ending April 30, 2014 (Exhibit B4);

Gifts received during May 2014 totaling $68,614.21 (Exhibit B5);

Four grants totaling $4,994 from the Eastview Community Founda-tion (Exhibit B6);

Contract with JS Cates for base bid and alternates 1 and 2 totaling $231,624 for the 2014-15 science lab room upgrade at Valley Middle-School of STEM (Exhibit B7):

Contract with Audio Video Elec-tronics for the base bid of $160,250 for the Eagan High School Audito-rium Sound System replacement project (Exhibit B8);

Contract with School Specialty for educational rugs for elementary classrooms for $96,713.76 (Exhibit B9);

Contract with Malloy, Montague, Karnowski, Radosevich & Co., P.A. (MMKR) to conduct the 2013-14 fi-nancial records audit (Exhibit B10);

Appointment of Kathy Cason, Karen Harrold, Charles McCready

and John Wollersheim to the Bud-get Advisory Council, effective July 1, 2014 to June 30, 2017 (Exhibit B11);

Spring budget adjustments for 2013-14 to accurately reflect ap-proved grant awards and other ap-proved changes (Exhibit B12);

Contract with Hewlett-Packard Company and DSW-G for the pur-chase of computer equipment (Ex-hibit B13);

A $1,000 PPG Industries Foun-dation grant for Diamond Path El-ementary School of International Studies (Exhibit B14);

A $40,000 English Language/Civic Grant for Adult Basic Educa-tion for 2014-15 (Exhibit B15);

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

Resolution confirming the place-ment of David Baertsch, a continu-ing contract teacher, on unpaid, un-requested leave of absence (ULA) effective at the end of the 2013-14 school year on June 30, 2014 (Ex-hibit C2);

Three-year contact with Lin-coln Financial Group for employee group life and long-term disability insurance effective September 1, 2014 (Exhibit C3);

Agreement to extend the proba-tionary period of a teacher during 2014-15 and limit her continuing contract rights (Exhibit D1);

Contract with Glencoe-McGraw-Hill, Macmillian Holdings, LLC and Pearson Prentice Hall to purchase textbooks and instructional materi-als not to exceed $640,000 for high school social studies courses and College in the Schools (CIS) Span-ish (Exhibit E1);

Appointment of Director of Teaching and Learning Steve Troen as the 2014-15 Local Education Agency (LEA) representative ( Ex-hibit E2);

Agreement with the Southwest Area YMCA and the Minnesota Valley Branch of YMCA to provide school-age care for students in grades K-8 from June 12 through August 15, 2014 (Exhibit F1);

Appointment of Michelle Doepke, Josh Gaffke, Deena Lau-gen, Melissa Nielsen and Wendy Sawyer of Apple Valley; Rizwan Hassan and Lori Rogers of Rose-mount, Christopher Knight of Lakeville, and Caroline Koerner and Melissa Rogan of Eagan to the Early Childhood Family Services Advisory Council beginning Au-gust 26, 2014 through September 1, 2017 and alternates Kerry Bullen and Jenny Kidambi of Eagan (Ex-hibit F2), and

Joint Powers Agreement for 2013-14 Interagency Early Inter-vention Services in Dakota County (Exhibit G1).

Director of Communications Tony Taschner and Charles Mc-Cready, a district parent who served on the Legislative Advisory Council (LAC), highlighted the ed-ucation-related legislation that was approved during the 2014 session and the impact of those laws on the district.

McCready recapped the LAC activities and priorities during the session. Priorities included greater local funding authority for addi-tional school space to house all-day kindergarten and expansion of early learning programs; up-to-date technology and access, and providing for the safety of students, staff and visitors. Legislators were informed of a $1.2 billion forecast-ed budget surplus before the ses-sion started and decided to use it to provide $543 million in tax cuts to individuals and businesses, a $150 million increase to state re-serves, $200 million for capital projects not included in the bond-ing bill, and $238 million in new spending, including $54 million that is targeted for E-12 education.

Taschner reviewed plans for the $54 million in new spending for education, which will include a $25 per pupil increase to the gen-eral education formula allowance; increases English Learner (EL) eligibility for a sixth year; small in-creases to early childhood funding and scholarships, a $50 per pupil increase to the building lease levy authority and funding to provide free school lunches to students who currently qualify for reduced-price school meals under federal

income guidelines. He also reviewed education

policy changes, including reforms to English Learner instruction and achievement. Taschner noted the administration worked closely with Senator Greg Clausen on the Safe and Supportive Minnesota Schools Act to influence the approved lan-guage. He also noted Director of Human Resources Tom Pederstuen and Director of Finance and Op-erations Jeff Solomon spent time testifying on the Health and Insur-ance Transparency Act to get self-funded districts exempted from having to get a bid from the Public Employee Insurance Program.

Taschner said the district will fur-ther analyze legislation and imple-ment necessary changes to district policies; meet with education lob-bying organizations to begin plan-ning for the 2015 session and meet with candidates for local House of Representative seats that are up for election this November.

Director of Community Educa-tion Khia Brown asked the board to approve revisions to Administrative Regulation 801.5AR, Community Use of District Facilities, increasing swimming pool rental fees (Exhibit H).

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

Coordinator of Finance Stella Johnson reviewed the 2014-15 preliminary budget (Exhibit I) not-ing that it is slightly higher than presented in the initial estimates from the financial plan. She gave an overview of the budget process, individual funds and fund balances, and revenue sources and expen-ditures. Johnson summarized projections for all funds: revenues of $406,966,903, expenditures of $416,045,019 and a projected fund balance as of June 2015 of $70,967,093, with more than half of that amount directly tied to the restricted Internal Service Funds (Other Post-employment Benefits Trust {OPEB} and Insurance re-serve accounts).

The board is expected to take action on the proposed preliminary budget at its June 23 meeting. By law, the district must approve a preliminary budget before the start of the school and fiscal year on July 1.

Berenz announced that elemen-tary principal vacancies at South-view, Northview and Glacier Hills will be filled by Christine Heilman, Kerri Town and Scott Thomas, re-spectively.

Motion by Schutte, seconded by Magnuson and carried, with six members voting in favor and no member voting in opposition, to adjourn the meeting at 7:03 p.m.

Published in Apple Valley,

Lakeville, Burnsville/EaganJuly 4, 2014

243086CITY OF APPLE VALLEY

NOTICE OF HEARINGON PROCEEDINGS FOR VACATION OF PUBLIC

GROUNDS IN THE CITY OF APPLE VALLEY

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the

City Council of the City of Apple Valley,Dakota County, Minnesota, will meet atthe City Hall, 7100 West 147th Street, at8:00 p.m., or as soon thereafter as pos-sible, on Thursday, July 10, 2014, to con-sider the matter of vacation of the follow-ing described public grounds in the City of Apple Valley, pursuant to MinnesotaStatutes 412.851:

1. All drainage and utility easements as dedicated on the plats of THE LEGACYOF APPLE VALLEY, THE LEGACY OFAPPLE VALLEY SECOND ADDITION,and THE LEGACY OF APPLE VALLEYFOURTH ADDITION, according to the re-corded plats thereof, Dakota County, Min-nesota, lying over, under and across Lot1, Block 1, said plat of THE LEGACY OFAPPLE VALLEY FOURTH ADDITION.

2. Utility Easement per Document No.1611915.

Such persons as desire to be heard withreference to the proposal will be heard atthis meeting.

DATED this 26th day of June, 2014. Pamela J. Gackstetter, City Clerk

Published in Apple Valley

June 27, July 4, 2014241519

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3000 ANNOUNCEMENTS

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QN. PILLOWTOP SETNew In Plastic!! $150

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Apple ValleyRaffle - 2 tickets to

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5420 Tree Care &Stump Removal




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Jason 952-891-2490


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International Festival The International Fes-tival of Burnsville will be 3-9 p.m. Saturday, July 12, at Nicollet Commons Park, 12550 Nicollet Ave., Burnsville. The free festi-val will feature a variety of cultural dance, musical performances, ethnic food, cultural exhibits and chil-dren’s activities. For more information, visit http://intlfestburnsville.org.

‘Grease’ tickets on sale Tickets are on sale for the August performances of “Grease” by The Play’s the Thing Productions at

Ames Center. Performances are 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Aug. 8 and 9, and 2 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 10. Tickets are $14 for adults and $13 for children age 12 and younger. Tick-ets are available in person at the box office, 12600 Nicollet Ave., Burnsville, 952-895-4680; and at Tick-etmaster.com, 1-800-982-2787.

‘Shrek’ in Eagan Tickets are on sale for the Eagan Summer The-atre production of “Shrek, The Musical,” which will play in the Eagan High School auditorium July 18

to Aug. 2. A free senior citizen performance will be 7 p.m. Thursday, July 17. There will be a Fai-rytale Costume Parade before each performance. All children dressed as a fairytale character are wel-come to appear on stage each performance before curtain. Arrive 20 minutes early for instructions. Tickets are $15 for adults, $10 for seniors (62 and older) and children 12 and younger. Tickets can be purchased online at ea-gan.k12.mn.us. All seating is reserved. The box office can be reached at 651-683-6964.

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

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Auditions Eagan Theater Company will hold auditions for its “Back to School Blues” program Thurs-day, July 10, at the Wescott Library in Eagan. Roles for chil-dren (ages 5-18) and adults are available. Child auditions will be 1-4 p.m.; adult auditions will be 6-8 p.m. The program will be presented at the Aug. 27 Eagan Market Fest. Information: www.etc-mn.org, Judy Marder at [email protected] or Amy Ka-marainen at [email protected].

Dance Jawaahir Dance Company: Middle Eastern Dancing, 6:30 p.m. Sunday, July 6, Caponi Art Park’s Theater in the Woods, Ea-gan. Suggested donation of $5 per person. Information: capon-iartpark.org.

Events/festivals Apple Valley Freedom Days, June 27 to July 4. Informa-tion: avfreedomdays.com. Eagan Funfest, July 2-4. Information: www.eaganfunfest.org. Lakeville Pan-O-Prog, July 4-13. Information: www.pano-prog.org. Minnesota Scottish Fair & Highland Games, 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Saturday, July 12, Faithful Shepherd Catholic School, 3355 Columbia Drive, Eagan. Informa-tion: www.mnscottishfair.org. International Festival of Burnsville, 3-9 p.m. Saturday, July 12, Nicollet Commons Park, Burnsville. Free. Information: http://intlfestburnsville.org/. Middle Eastern Festival, July 18-20, St. George Ortho-dox Church, 1250 Oakdale Ave.,

West St. Paul. Information: www.mideastfest.com. Rosemount Leprechaun Days, July 18-27. Information: www.RosemountEvents.com.

Exhibits East Asian painting exhibit, June 1-Aug. 31, Robert Trail Library, 14395 S. Robert Trail, Rosemount. Digital Impressionism pho-tography exhibit by Becqi Sher-man, June 2-July 31, Lakeville Area Arts Center, 20965 Holyoke Ave. Information: 952-985-4640.

Music The Hold Steady, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, July 5, in the amphi-theater at the Minnesota Zoo as part of Subway Music in the Zoo. Tickets: $45, $57.50 VIP box seat. Information: http://mnzoo.org/plan-your-visit/music-zoo/. Gillian Welch, 7:30 p.m. Monday, July 7, in the amphi-theater at the Minnesota Zoo as part of Subway Music in the Zoo. Tickets: $37, $49.50 VIP box seat. Information: http://mnzoo.org/plan-your-visit/music-zoo/. Percolators, danceable ’60s and ’70s rock with a little coun-try and blues, 7 p.m. on July 9 as part of the Wednesday in the Park Concert Series at Civic Center Park, 75 Civic Center Parkway, Burnsville. Free. Music in Kelley Park featur-ing Patty Peterson, 6-9 p.m. Fri-day, July 11, at Kelley Park, 6855 Fortino St., Apple Valley. Free. Food and beverages available for purchase.

Workshops/classes/other The Eagan Art House offers art classes for all ages, www.cityofeagan.com/index.php/rec-reation/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. Drawing & Painting (adults and teens) with Christine Tierney, 9 a.m. to noon Wednesdays, River Ridge Arts Building, Burns-ville. Information: www.christine-tierney.com, 612-210-3377. Brushworks School of Art Burnsville offers fine art educa-tion through drawing and paint-ing. Classes for adults and teens. Information: Patricia Schwartz, www.BrushworksSchoolofArt.com, 651-214-4732. Summer Theatre Camps, ages 4-16, week-long camps June-August, In the Company of Kids Creative Arts Center, 13710 Nicollet Ave., Burnsville, www.cokartscenter.com, 952-736-3644. Soy candle making classes held weekly in Eagan near 55 and Yankee Doodle. Call Jamie at 651-315-4849 for dates and times. $10 per person. Present-ed by Making Scents in Minne-sota. Country line dance classes held for intermediates Mondays 1:30-4 p.m. at Rambling River Center, 325 Oak St., Farmington, $5/class. Call Marilyn 651-463-7833. Country line dance classes on Wednesdays at the Lakeville Senior Center, 20110 Holyoke Ave. Beginners, 9-10 a.m.; In-termediate, 10 a.m. to noon. $5/class. Call Marilyn 651-463-7833. The Lakeville Area Arts Center offers arts classes for all ages, www.lakevillemn.gov, 952-985-4640. Rosemount History Book Club meets 6:30-8 p.m. the sec-ond Tuesday of each month at the Robert Trail Library. Informa-tion: John Loch, 952-255-8545 or [email protected].

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

[email protected].

Friday, July 4 Forever Wild Family Friday: Picnic in the Park, 7-8:30 p.m., Lebanon Hills Visitor Center, 860 Cliff Road, Eagan. Bring a blanket and picnic in the park. Play backyard lawn games with a twist and participate in fun activities for the Fourth of July. All ages. Free. Registration re-quested. Information: www.co.dakota.mn.us/parks.

Monday, July 7 Shriners Motor Corps Show, 8 a.m. to 2 p.m., Burns-ville Center, 915 County Road 42, Burnsville. Learn more about the miniature Shriners cars and see them up close during the 2014 Imperial Session Interna-tional Association of Shrine Mo-tor Corps competition. Open to the public. Information: www.iasmc.net.

Tuesday, July 8 Family Fun Tuesday – For-ever Green and Blue with Jack Pearson, 10-11 a.m. in the Sculpture Garden at Caponi Art Park, Eagan. $4 per person do-nation suggested. Information: 651-454-9412 or www.capon-iartpark.org. Tuesday Evenings in the Garden – Straw Bale Garden-ing with Mickey Scullard, 6:30-8 p.m. in the red barn on the Da-kota County Fairgrounds, 4008 220th St. W., Farmington. Straw bale gardening is an easy and inexpensive way for gardeners with limited space or poor soil to grow herbs and vegetables. Free. Class size is limited; reg-ister by calling 651-480-7700. Information: www.dakotamas-tergardeners.org.

Wednesday, July 9 Criminal expungement information clinic, 1:30 p.m., room 1920, Dakota County Western Service Center, 14955 Galaxie Ave., Apple Valley. Free. Information: Dakota County Law

Library at 651-438-8080. Eagan Market Fest, 4-8 p.m., Eagan Festival Grounds at Central Park, 1501 Central Parkway. Farmers market, en-tertainment by Randy McAllis-ter & Band. Information: www.cityofeagan.com/marketfest or 651-675-5500.

Thursday, July 10 Music in the Parks – Ms. Catherine, 10 a.m., Camfield Park, 14795 Canada Ave., Rosemount. Weather-related updates: 651-322-6020, option No. 6. Thursday Rockin’ Read-ers, 11 a.m., Nicollet Com-mons Park, 12600 Nicollet Ave., Burnsville. Hidden Valley Elementary Principal Jon Bonn-eville will read books to children. Books are geared toward ele-mentary and preschool children. Spin Zone will perform at noon for the Thursday Rockin’ Lunch Hour concert at Nicollet Commons Park, 12600 Nicollet Ave., Burnsville. Free. Minnesota Valley Christian Women’s Connection lun-cheon, 12:30-2 p.m., Grand-Stay Hotel, 7083 153rd St., Ap-ple Valley. Speaker: Sue Selbin, “Lavish … Exquisite … Tantaliz-ing: The Frosting on the Cake of Life.” Cost: $16. Reservations: Pam at 612-207-3100 or Jan at 651-434-5795. Open house for Link12 Lakeville, an online K-12 public school open to any family re-siding in Minnesota, 4:30-6:30 p.m., Crystal Lake Education Center, 16250 Ipava Ave., Lake-ville.

Friday, July 11 Race Car Alley, 5-8 p.m., downtown Lakeville on 209th Street between Holyoke Ave. and Howland Ave. Free ac-tivities for families and children during Lakeville’s Pan-O-Prog Cruise Night to promote short track racing. Sponsored by Cedar View Electric, 952-469-2100. Relay for Life of Eagan begins at 6 p.m., Eagan High

School, 4185 Braddock Trail, Eagan. Silent auction ends at 9 p.m. Outdoor movie, “The Nut Job,” rated PG, 7:30 p.m., dusk showtime, Nicollet Commons Park in the Heart of the City, Burnsville.

Saturday, July 12 Movies in the Park, “Mon-sters University,” at dusk at the Central Park Amphitheater near City Hall, Rosemount. Bring blankets and lawn chairs. Weather-related updates: 651-322-6020, option No. 6.

Reunions Rosemount High School Class of 1984 – 30 Year Re-union, 6-10 p.m. Saturday, July 19, on the back patio at Car-bone’s in Farmington. Henry Sibley Senior High School Class of 1974 – 40 Year Reunion, Aug. 9, Lost Spur Golf & Event Center, Eagan. For de-tails and registration go to class website: www.henrysibley74.com or call Murray or Linda Kieffer at 651-452-7645.

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. • July 4, 1-7 p.m., Eagan Market Fest, Eagan Community Center, 1501 Central Parkway, Eagan. • July 5, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Wescott Library, 1340 Wescott Road, Eagan. • July 7, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Culver’s, 3445 O’Leary Lane, Eagan. • July 9, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., Threads & Inks, 20137 Icenic Trail, Lakeville. • July 9, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., Valmont Industries, 20805 Ea-ton Ave., Farmington. • July 10, 1-6 p.m., Hope Church, 7477 145th St., Apple Valley.

The Runestone enigma, set to music Apple Valley writer presents ‘Ohman Stone’ at Fringe Festival by Andrew Miller


The perennial puzzle of the Kensington Runestone is the focus of a new musi-cal by Apple Valley writer and director Sheridan O’Keefe. “The Ohman Stone,” which debuts at the Min-nesota Fringe Festival on Aug. 2, involves a de-bate among ghosts in the netherworld regarding the authenticity of the myste-rious 200-pound stone, a real-life enigma that has been the subject of intense debate in academic circles since its discovery in 1898 in Douglas County, Minn. Purportedly discovered by Swedish immigrant Olof Ohman, the stone, covered in runes on its face and side, lends itself to the hypothesis that Scan-dinavian explorers found their way to the middle of North America in the 14th century, long before Columbus. Many experts, however, assert the Kens-ington Runestone to be a 19th-century hoax. “The Ohman Stone” adds some theatrical flair to the academic minutiae of the Kensington Rune-

stone debate, featuring ac-tors, singers, dancers and musicians. The production includes original music by Nicholas Mroczek, with lyrics by O’Keefe, that ranges from Russian op-era to Scandinavian-influ-enced hip hop. Most of the charac-ters in the play are ghosts — based on the people involved in the original controversy — with the ex-ception of one. The char-acter Brian Storm, played by actor Andy Rakerd,

is based on present-day Kensington Runestone expert Scott Wolter, host of the History Channel program “America Un-earthed.” O’Keefe said he’d heard about the Kensington Runestone as a boy, but his interest blossomed when he attended a talk by Wolter eight years ago at the Swedish Institute in Minneapolis. The two struck up a correspondence and be-came fast friends. Wolter

served as an informal con-sultant on the script as O’Keefe hashed it out at his keyboard this spring. Another research con-sultant of sorts on “The Ohman Stone” was Olof’s grandson, Darwin Ohm-an, who accompanied O’Keefe on a trip to the Ohman family farm where the Kensington Runestone was reputed to be found, providing family details and other information. While the musical presents an offbeat, oth-erworldly take on the

Kensington Runestone controversy, its intent is serious. “If I were to describe the play in a sentence it would be ‘Hamlet Meets 12 Angry Men: The Mu-sical,’ ” said O’Keefe. “I think this is going to be one of the most contro-versial shows the Fringe Festival has ever done — it doesn’t put academia in a very good light. “Scholars accused Olof Ohman of being a con man. … The way they treated the Ohmans, the

way they slandered Olof, who was an honorable man with nine children, the way they tainted the Ohmans’ name was com-pletely unjustified.” “The Ohman Stone” will open at Intermedia Arts Center, 2822 Lyn-dale Ave., Minneapolis, at 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 2. Other shows are sched-uled for Aug. 3, 5, 6 and 10. Tickets are $12 plus a $4 Fringe Festival button, which can be purchased at the festival’s website, fringefestival.org.

“The Ohman Stone” director Sheridan O’Keefe, left, talks with actors Andy Rakerd and Emily Stevenson during a recent rehearsal at Scott Highlands Middle School in Apple Valley. O’Keefe wrote the script for “The Ohman Stone” this spring with input from Scott Wolter, a Kensington Runestone expert and host of the History Channel program “America Unearthed.”

Olof Ohman, pictured in this archival photo beside the Kensington Runestone he pur-portedly discovered in 1898 while clearing his land of trees and stumps, is among the cast of characters debating the stone’s authenticity in “The Ohman Stone.”

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ThisweekendThisweekendART-FILLED WEEKEND

The Eagan Art Festival celebrated its 20th anniversary with a weekend of art exhibits, activities and entertainment June 28-29 at the city’s Central Park. The event included a community art project that saw festival-goers painting 200 small masks for public display, along with entering a photo booth to take selfies which were then added to a giant 4-foot-by-5-foot mask that will be featured in Eagan’s Fourth of July Funfest parade.

Above: Twin Cities puppet artist Seth Eberle adds papier-mache to the 4-foot-by-5-foot mask he created for the Eagan Art Festival’s community art project. Far left: Guitarist John Della Selva pounds out a solo during a performance by Steve Clarke and the Working Stiffs. Near left: Masks painted by festival guests were displayed on latticework outside the art activity tents. (Photos by Andrew Miller)
