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Leader of Lakeville Area Chamber of Commerce resigns

Bornhauser held job for 14 years by Laura Adelmann

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After 14 years, Lakeville Area Chamber of Com-merce Executive Director Todd Bornhauser has sub-mitted his resignation. Bornhauser, 52, said he is seeking other opportu-nities and a career change. His last day is set for July 31. “I think I’ve accom-plished all that I can accom-plish, and it’s just time for a new voice,” Bornhauser said. Under Bornhauser’s leadership, the Lakeville Chamber has more than doubled its membership, going from 200 to 450 mem-bers, said Chamber Presi-dent Bob Curtis.

He cred-ited Born-h a u s e r for spear-h e a d i n g successful init iat ives that have i n c l u d e d the annual Landscape

and Home Expo and the “rejuvenated” the Visitors and Convention Bureau. “He’s been a great advo-cate for the businesses that are here,” Curtis said. “He’s always looking out for the best interest of the business-es.” Bornhauser’s most recent undertaking was the Young

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A Lakeville woman was involved in a head-on crash that killed a Chaska man on June 10, according to the Minnesota State Patrol. Jeanna Meyer, 55, was driving northbound on Highway 13 near Washburn Avenue in Burnsville when a 2014 Dodge Caravan driven by Darwin Berg, 71, abruptly swerved into the 2007 Ford Edge Meyer was driving. Meyer’s vehicle was then rear-ended by a 2008 Nissan Altima driven by Patrick Bye, 31 of Hampton, ac-cording to the State Patrol.

Berg was transported to the hospital where he was pronounced dead at 5 p.m. Meyer suffered non life-threatening injuries and Bye showed no apparent inju-ries, the report stated. The crash occurred at 4:37 p.m. and the pavement on the two-lane road was reportedly dry. None of the people involved in the acci-dent were found to have any alcohol in their systems, ac-cording to the State Patrol. State Patrol records say Berg had been wearing a seatbelt and airbags de-ployed. Laura Adelmann is at [email protected].

The artistry of summer Lakeville Area Arts Center classes open



Summer’s arrival was welcomed at the Lakeville Area Arts Center with a variety of summer camps that began this week, in-cluding the Messy Hands art class that tapped chil-dren’s creativity Magic markers, stick-ers and glue were used to create designs that in-cluded 5-year-old Paige Distel’s “rainbow ba-nana.” The class was led by experimental mixed me-dia artist Dar Brooks, who has been teaching art worldwide for adults and children for 20 years. “I love working here,” she said, describing the atmosphere as one of en-couragement and excite-ment with classes for all ages and abilities. Arts Center summer camp classes offered in-

clude painting, pottery, drawing, jewelry and mixed media. “We present our class-

es in a fun way to entice youth to try a variety of

Oliver Benjamin, 6, of Lakeville, smiled broadly after seeing how the design he transferred to a card turned out in color. (Photo by Laura Adelmann)

Experimental mixed media artist Dar Brooks shows children at the June 18 Messy Hands class how to make geometric shapes. The class is part of the Lakeville Area Arts Center summer arts programs. (Photo by Laura Adelmann)

Pedal the Parks event setNew Kenrick Avenue trail part of ride



Lakeville Friends of the Environment member Howard Schneider will host family-friendly local bike rides this summer. As a volunteer Pedal the Parks guide, Sch-neider will lead three 12- to 16-mile long rides on Lakeville trails and roads that will last up to two hours.

The “Nor’easter tour on June 28 starts at Steve Michaud Park at 17100 Ipava Avenue and will pass eight parks, four conservation areas and ride around East Lake Park. Lakeville Parks and Recreation Director Brett Altergott will join partici-pants on the tour. On the Aug. 9 Big Lakes District, riders will meet at Casperson Park,

19720 Juno Trail and ride around several lakes including Lake Marion, which features the new trail and bridge on Ken-rick Avenue. For the Sept. 20 South-ern Charm tour, riders meet at Pioneer Plaza, 20801 Holyoke Avenue and ride trails close to downtown, including the bike parade at the Lake-

Lakeville Friends of the Environment member Howard Schneider will serve as a guide for three Pedal the Parks tours planned this summer. (Photo submitted)

Lakeville hires search firm for administrator job

Interim city administrator to be named by June 23



Lakeville City Council and staff members are de-vising plans to keep opera-tions and projects on track as the city undergoes its first top leadership change in a decade. City Administrator Steve Mielke’s last day is July 10, and City Council members at a June 16 special meeting approved hiring Dave Un-macht with Springsted Inc. for a maximum of $15,900 to lead the search for his re-placement. According to Unmacht’s proposal, the process will take about four months, with a new city administra-tor starting in the position by Nov. 1. Unmacht’s proposal states he will prepare a pro-file of the position and pre-ferred candidate qualities derived from meetings with City Council members and department leaders. Applications will be accepted July 7-Aug. 11; screened applicants will pro-ceed to interviews involving the City Council in August, with top candidates continu-ing through September.

The finalist must pass a background check before being sent a draft offer of employment on or before Oct. 1. Council members se-lected Unmacht to lead the search since he had recently completed the search for a new police chief and was familiar with the city and its needs. The council also indi-cated a preference to name an interim city administra-tor at its next meeting June 23 to allow the person time with Mielke before he leaves to become physical develop-ment director for Dakota County. The interim hire would be ineligible for the permanent job, so City Council mem-bers questioned how many city staff leaders would be interested in the interim po-sition. If an internal candidate is not an option, the city could recruit an experienced retiree to serve as interim, according to Mayor Matt Little. Until the new adminis-trator is hired, the council is proposing to divide Mielke’s

Lakeville woman survives front and back-end crash

Chaska man dies after swerving into oncoming traffic in Burnsville

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Combating deadly drug use The ECM Editorial Board says everyone can help prevent deaths due to use of legal and illegal drugs.

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Sharing the magic of tapDance and music troupe Rhythmic Circus is set to take the stage of Burnsville’s Ames Center next month.

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Lakeville teams meet at stateLakeville North won the battle of Lakeville during the state tournament. The team defeated South, 12-4.

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Governor’s race takes offPlymouth’s Jeff Johnson received the GOP endorsement to challenge incumbent Mark Dayton for governor.

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Two adults charged in Apple Valley McDonald’s brawl Large fight left one teenager with brain injury

by Andrew MillerSUN THISWEEK


Two men involved in a 10-person brawl at the McDonald’s restau-rant on County Road 42 in Apple Valley were charged in district court last week with felony as-sault. The fight, which in-volved suspects ranging in age from 14 to 23, erupted the afternoon of Sept. 27, 2013, and involved two groups of people throw-ing punches, kicking and wrestling throughout the

dining room and cash reg-ister area. One teenager involved, a 17-year-old male, was transported to Regions Hospital in St. Paul fol-lowing the fisticuffs, where he was diagnosed with a broken nose, bleed-ing in his brain and other traumatic injuries. Eric D. Hodo, 19, of Lakeville, and 24-year-old Mario T. Wills of Chicago were the only two adults involved, ac-cording to a criminal complaint, and each has been charged with felony

third-degree assault. The fight broke out around 2:20 p.m. Sept. 27 when one of the groups entered the restaurant and approached the table where the other group was seated, the complaint said. Violent chaos quickly ensued, and the fight was captured on the restau-rant’s video surveillance system. Video footage shows the 17-year-old male who was subsequently hospi-talized being thrown to the floor and surrounded

by Wills and three teen-agers, who repeatedly hit and kicked the prone boy. He is later seen in the video lying lifeless on the floor, apparently uncon-scious. Police arrived on the scene at about 2:24 p.m. and “had a difficult time controlling the crowd,” the complaint said. A customer, who identified himself as a retired law enforcement officer, was stabilizing the injured 17-year-old’s head when police entered. A total of 11 officers

responded to the fight, and statements were tak-en from the fight’s par-ticipants, restaurant staff and customers. Customers in the res-taurant when the mayhem broke out were primarily retired persons, and one customer was wheelchair-bound, the complaint said. The injured 17-year-old remained in hospital for two days, until Sept. 29. His injuries also included multiple bruises, a cut on his scalp, memory loss, hearing loss in his right

ear, and weight loss, with the teen losing 27 pounds between Sept. 27 and early November of last year, prosecutors said. If convicted, Hodo and Wills each face a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a fine of $10,000. Court pro-ceedings for the others in-volved have not been pub-licly disclosed because the suspects were minors at the time of the fight.

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Assault charge follows chainsaw showdown by Andrew Miller


Tree trimming can be a dangerous occupation — especially when tempers flare and a chainsaw is close at hand. A heated verbal dis-pute between two tree trimmers in Lakeville on June 4 intensified into a confrontation with one of the men charging at the other with a chainsaw yelling “I’m going to kill you!” as the other man at-tempted to fend him off

with a shovel, according to the criminal complaint. The man wielding the chainsaw — 34-year-old Jason W. Schultz of Lit-tle Falls, Minn. — was booked into the Dakota County Jail following the incident and charged with felony assault. Police were called to the 16700 block of Jalisco Terrace in Lakeville at about 5 p.m. June 4 on a report of two men fight-ing. Upon arrival, officers observed Schultz and an-other man arguing and

separated them without incident before taking statements from each. The other tree trimmer — identified in the com-plaint only by his initials — told police that Schultz had been in a tree cutting branches and throwing them down in the area where he was working. When he asked Schultz to stop throwing branches in his direction, Schultz got angry, using vulgar lan-guage and calling him a racial epithet. Schultz got down out

of the tree and the two men continued yelling at each other, the other tree trimmer reported. Schultz then grabbed a chainsaw and ran toward him yell-ing threats; Schultz, hold-ing the chainsaw in an up-right position, got within a couple feet, but no con-tact was made, with the other man using a shovel to defend himself. In Schultz’s statement to police, he said he was “hot and upset” because the other man had been yelling at him while he

was working. He admit-ted to police that he had chased his co-worker with a chainsaw, but alleged that the other man had “started it,” the complaint said. Police also took state-ments from three inde-pendent witnesses, who all confirmed that Schultz had charged at the other tree trimmer with the chainsaw. One witness also described seeing Schultz throwing branch-es at the other man from the tree as well as yelling

racial slurs. If convicted of the assault charge, Schultz faces a maximum penalty of one year and one day in prison and a fine of $14,000. Schultz remained in the Dakota County Jail as of Tuesday morning, await-ing transport to Morrison County on an unrelated warrant through that county’s sheriff ’s office.


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State faces transportation questionsGov. Mark Dayton

looks ahead to issues facing the next governor

by Howard LestrudSUN THISWEEK


Transportation will be a key issue in the fall gu-bernatorial election and for the next governor, ac-cording to Gov. Mark Dayton. Dayton, who was in Coon Rapids on June 4 to serve breakfast to local school children and talk with the ECM Editorial Board, said it is imperative that the state invest more in transportation. “The trouble is, nobody wants to pay for it,” he said. Dayton said a propos-al has been formulated to dedicate $6 billion to transportation for main-taining and improving sys-tems throughout the state. A solid transportation system is “essential to maintain the economic vi-tality” of the state, Dayton said. Asked how he would plan to pay for an ambi-tious transportation pro-gram, Dayton mentioned

a sales tax and a reallo-cation of funds from the general fund to help with issuance of construc-tion bonds. He predicted “something significant” will be passed the next ses-sion. Dayton said lessons were learned following the controversy surrounding the Southwest Light Rail Transit Line from Minne-apolis to the west metro. Those lessons might help the process with the proposed Bottineau Tran-sitway (METRO Blue Line extension), extending approximately 13 miles from downtown Min-neapolis to the northwest serving Golden Valley, Robbinsdale, Crys tal and Brooklyn Park. He said he has been critical of the Metro-politan Council staff and board for the processes used in trying to settle the future of Southwest Line. “They had to foresee the choke point” as early as 2004, Dayton said. Other issues that might be pressing the next gov-ernor, Dayton mentioned, not necessarily in order, were education, legaliza-tion of marijuana and job creation.

In education circles, Dayton said he was very pleased to sign the new law to authorize $569,000 for an initiative ensuring all 64,000 Minnesota kin-dergartners have access to a healthy breakfast, free of charge. He said he will look into expanding the free breakfast program for all elementary and even for middle school students. “We will try to give kids good nutrition and teach better eating habits for kids,” Dayton said. Dayton also said he favors a more rigorous school year. He said no more waivers will be au-thorized for four-day school weeks. “We need more hours in school,” Dayton said. Dayton said it is very likely that supporters of the legalization of mari-juana will again be at the Capitol next year. He said much of the criticism he received for supporting adopted medical marijua-na legislation came from Washington, D.C.-based organizations whose mis-sion is to legalize marijua-na. “They want the abil-ity to grow and smoke the leaves,” Dayton said. The

governor said the mat-ter could be resolved by a constitutional amendment or by legislation. He said he would oppose it. “It’s a sticky wicket,” Dayton said. In talking about the economy, Dayton said 145,000 more people are working today than when he took office four years ago. He is concerned, how-ever, that 60,000 jobs are unfilled because the quali-fied applicants are not there. He listed engineers, mechanical draftsmen and toolmakers as examples of potential job openings. Dayton said he hopes to work with the Minneso-ta State Colleges and Uni-versities system and the University of Minnesota about a need to align the curriculum and training with the jobs of the future. Under-funding educa-tion programs causes a shortage of workers, Day-ton said. He said Minne-sota ranks 49th in the U.S. for guidance counseling, an area that could lead to more available workers, he said.

Howard Lestrud can be reached at [email protected].

Gov. Mark Dayton stopped by the ECM Publishers of-fice in Coon Rapids on Wednesday, June 4, to meet with the ECM Editorial Board. He discussed myriad subjects with the board. He had helped serve breakfast to Coon Rapids elementary school students earlier in the day. (Photo by Howard Lestrud)

Plymouth’s Jeff Johnson makes a run at governorHennepin County Commissioner is

a former state rep

by Brian RosemeyerSUN THISWEEK


Campaign season is beginning to heat up, and Plymouth is home to a candidate for the biggest political chair in the state – governor. Hennepin County Commissioner Jeff John-son announced his cam-paign in May 2013 and received GOP endorse-ment at the party’s state convention in late May. Johnson, 47, has lived in Plymouth for the past two decades. His first run at political office was a campaign for a seat on the Plymouth City Council, which he lost to current Council Member Judy Johnson in 1996.

However, Jeff Johnson wasn’t finished. He set sights on the Minnesota House of Representatives and was elected in 2000 and served for six years. In 2008, Johnson was elected to the Board of Commissioners in Henne-pin County and ran once more, unopposed, in 2012. Johnson graduated from Concordia College in Moorhead in 1989 and Georgetown Law School in Washington, D.C., in 1992. He founded his busi-ness, Midwest Employ-ment Resources, in 2001, through which he provides employment law and hu-man resources training, workplace investigations and lawsuit mediations. Johnson’s sons – Thor (15) and Rolf (11) – attend Wayzata Public Schools; Wayzata High School and East Middle School, re-spectively. His wife, Sondi, works for Wells Fargo in

downtown Minneapolis. Johnson took some time recently to answer some questions from the newspaper. Q: How long have you been living in Plymouth? A: About 19 years now. We were in Chicago, then we moved to Minneapolis for a year. And now we’ve been in the same home ever since. Q: What do you like about living in Plymouth? A: It’s a big town, but it feels more like a small community. Plymouth has that small-town feel and both of our boys are in Wayzata Public Schools. So we’ve been very happy about that. Q: Where did you grow up and what did you learn from it? A: I grew up in Detroit Lakes. It was a great place to grow up and it was, for me, about the right size – you knew most the people

in town and it was big enough where there were things to do. Growing up in a small-er town, you learn a cer-tain work ethic and a cer-tain set of values that kind of stick with you for the rest of your life. Q: When did you decide to get involved in politics and why?

A: I had been interest-ed in politics since I was in high school and prob-ably knew early on that, at some point, I would get involved by running for something. I ran for the House in 2000 and that was my first win. Q: What spurred the de-cision to run for governor? A: It’s been in the back of my mind. Almost any-one in the Legislature, if they are honest with you, would say they have thought they would make a good governor at some point. For me, it kind of came to reality during the (2013) legislative session. I really watched where we seemed to be headed as a state, and I think we’re headed in the wrong direc-tion. Everything seems to be about government and how to make government bigger and give it more

control over people’s lives. I feel we should be head-ing in the opposite direc-tion. Q: What are some of your goals if you are elect-ed to governor? A: If I am elected, I have three goals. One is to improve the business climate in Minnesota. Number two is education reform. And number three is auditing government programs so that we’re focusing dollars on pro-grams that can prove they get results. Q: What would you do if you were not elected? A: If this doesn’t work out, I’ll likely just focus on my business and my fam-ily. If I’m not governor, I can handle that. But I would love to be governor.

Contact Brian Rosemeyer at [email protected].

Jeff Johnson

Nominations are being accepted for 2014 Veterans’ Voices Award This Sept. 11, the Min-nesota Humanities Center will again honor Minneso-ta veterans who have gone above and beyond the call of duty with the 2014 Vet-erans’ Voices Award. The Humanities Center invites anyone to nominate can-didates who fall into two nomination categories: On the Rise (40 and under) or Legacy (over 40). Awards will be present-ed at the second annual Veterans’ Voices Award Ceremony being held at the Humanities Center on the east side of St. Paul on Sept. 11. Reg Chapman, WCCO-TV reporter and

veteran, will emcee this ceremony. The Veterans’ Voices Award recognizes Min-nesotans who served hon-orably, are thriving, and are making extraordinary contributions to their communities. These for-mer and current military service members make exceptional, positive con-tributions that improve the lives of people across Minnesota. Veterans’ Voices is a long-term initiative of the Humanities Center that draws on the power of the humanities to call at-tention to the stories and

contributions of veterans, empowering Minnesota veterans to speak in their own voices through plays, art, discussion groups, and the Veterans’ Voices Award. Nominations must be accompanied by a 500-word maximum narra-tive describing the nomi-nee’s contributions to the community. Nomination prompts include: • How do you define the community that this indi-vidual has made a signifi-cant and exceptional posi-tive contribution to? • How is this individual actively involved in the

community? How does her or his involvement go above and beyond what one might expect? • What is this individu-al’s significant and excep-tional positive contribu-tion to the community? What lasting impact has

this had within the com-munity? • Is there anything in this individual’s back-ground that is important to know? The nomination form can be found online at http://www.mnhum.org/

vets. All nominations must be received by 11:59 p.m. on Wednesday, July 9. Nominees selected to re-ceive an award will be no-tified by July 31.


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Recognizing legal and illegal drugs as serious threats

Cyberbullying is real – here’s help

Tanner James Pap of Lino Lakes was hoping to counsel others on the dangers of drug abuse. Instead, he died from a heroin overdose as a student at the Uni-versity of Minnesota in 2012. He was 21. Nick Moore of Fridley, a 25-year-old bioengineering student at the University of Minnesota, died of a heroin overdose in 2012, using the drug to help dull the pain for a shoulder injury sustained dur-ing a rugby match. Miranda Gosiak, 19, died of a heroin overdose in 2012 after the invasive drug found its way from the streets of Minne-apolis to the serenity of Little Falls. We are losing people at an alarming rate in Minnesota because of heroin use and opiate abuse. Opioids are drugs that are commonly prescribed by physicians throughout Minnesota and generally end up in medicine cabinets where oth-ers have access to them. The heroin being consumed in Minnesota is now consid-ered among the purest that comes out of Mexico, the main supplier of heroin to Minnesota. Because of its purity it doesn’t take much for an abuser to over-dose. One of the state’s foremost experts on prescription opioid and heroin abuse is Carol Falkowski. In her work at Ha-zelden Foundation, Falkowski worked in various capacities involving research, public policy and communications. She has also worked at the Minnesota De-partment of Human Services as director

of the Alcohol and Drug Abuse Divi-sion. Today, she operates Drug Abuse Dialogues, offering training workshops about drug abuse. She spoke with the ECM Editorial Board late last year and shared some startling facts. Nationally, 35 million people have used prescription pain re-lievers for non-medical reasons at least once in their lifetime. Roughly 12 million have reported doing so in the past year. The amount of Oxycodone seized by law enforcement in Minnesota increased by 174 percent from 2010 to 2011. Heroin arrests rose 90 percent during that same stretch. In just one year, from 2010 to 2011, addiction treatment admissions for heroin rose 47 percent in Minnesota. In Hennepin County, 69 opiate-related deaths were reported in the first half of 2013 alone. That compared with 84 for all of 2012. The marriage between prescription opiates and heroin is the story of two paths that converge out of convenience and ultimately, necessity. In November 2013, just a single month, 106,153 prescriptions for Hydro-codone were prescribed in Minnesota. It represented 20 percent of all prescrip-tions dispensed that month. Most of those prescription drugs get used for le-

gitimate pain relief. But many also end up being abused by the patient or some-body else in the family who has access to them. As abuse of prescription medica-tion progresses, many users discover they can often purchase heroin for less than prescription medication. And adults are not the only abusers. The largest national study of adolescents shows that 15 per-cent of high school seniors reported us-ing prescription drugs in 2012. It is paramount we recognize this prob-lem now. Parents need to be ever vigilant of the dangers prescription medications pose for adolescents in their homes. They also need to familiarize themselves with the danger signs that accompany drug abuse: withdrawal from responsibilities, being verbally or physically abusive, de-fiance of authority, mood swings, lying, weight loss or gain, sloppy appearance and excessive amount of time spent in their rooms. As a society we should not expect some faceless expert to fix this problem. It will take all our efforts. Doctors must educate themselves more extensively about opiate prescriptions, addiction treatment, and become more effective at identifying substance abusers. The courts must continue to aggres-sively prosecute suppliers. These are the drugs that are killing people from our communities. We need to recognize that and hold accountable those people who make it possible. Law enforcement

should also consider partnerships with school districts, as Eden Prairie is plan-ning for 2014-15, to implement curricu-lum specific to the migration of prescrip-tion drugs to heroin use. We need to continue drug take-back events, ridding our homes of excess pre-scription drugs so the temptation is re-moved. More organizations such as Min-nesota Adult & Teen Challenge should continue to work with students, sharing frank details about the dangers of drug abuse and the lives it has altered or extin-guished. And finally, parents must play the most important role in this process. Ado-lescents learn from what they see and parents are the best role models they like-ly have. Parents should never be afraid to talk with their children and ask them probing questions about their friends, their activities and their interests. They need to know adults support them; even when difficult discussions are necessary. There is so much in this world that we cannot control, but this is not one of those areas. We just need to recognize it as a serious threat and protect our fami-lies now.

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by Joe Nathan SUN THISWEEK


A teacher’s recent email note to me asking for information about cyberbully-ing triggered powerful, unhappy memo-ries. Her inquiry led me into the fascinat-ing world of “cyberbulling.” The more I learned, the more convinced I became that this definitely is something families should discuss with youngsters this sum-mer, if they haven’t already. My unhappy memories include a mid-dle school music class about 50 years ago, where I was the subject of repeated verbal and physical harassment. The bully was a much larger student who threatened to “really mess me up” if I reported him. A 2013 University of Texas study found that victims of bullying reported “anxiety, de-pression, confusion, lowered self-esteem” and even thoughts of suicide. I felt all of that. Finally, I mentioned the situation to my parents. They urged me to talk with the teacher, despite the bully’s threats. The teacher skillfully brought the bully and me together. We talked about what was acceptable and the consequences of bul-lying. Fortunately, he stopped bothering me. Bullying is not always so simple or eas-ily ended. But I recalled that experience when I began gathering information in response to the teacher’s request. Facebook, which can be a source of problems, was very helpful in this case. Within an hour of posting a question, eight people responded with very helpful resources. Minnesota Sen. Scott Dibble urged use of an excellent federal website, http://www.stopbullying.gov/cyberbullying. Let’s start with their definition: “Cyber-bullying is bullying that takes place using electronic technology. Examples of cyber-bullying include mean text messages or emails, rumors sent by email or posted on social networking sites, and embarrassing pictures, videos, websites or fake profiles.” The National Center for Education Statistics reported that about 10 percent of more than 24 million middle and high school youngsters reported being a victim of cyberbullying in 2011. Josh Collins of the Minnesota Depart-ment of Education shared the 2013 Min-nesota School Student Survey, which in-volved 80 percent of Minnesota’s district and charter public schools, and about two-thirds of the state’s students in grades five, eight, nine and 11. This survey found that 10-15 percent of students in grades five through 11 reported they had been victims of cyberbulling in the past month. A great feature of the Minnesota Student Survey is that you can find responses for participating districts and individual schools; it’s online at http://bit.ly/MNStu-

dentSurvey. One of the best resources is the Na-tional Bullying Prevention Center, run in Minnesota by the nonprofit PACER Cen-ter, http://www.pacer.org/bullying/about. Julie Hertzog, who has a master’s de-gree in counseling and is herself a parent, directs the Bullying Prevention Center. She suggested that in thinking about cy-berbullying, parents think about how they prepare youngsters to go to a mall or shop-ping center. First of all, have a conversa-tion. Don’t just “send them off, whether it’s to the mall or to the cyber world found on a phone or computer.” Secondly, agree on some rules. For example, if there’s a problem, let the parent know. Don’t just keep problems to yourself. And third, “Have an awareness of what your child is doing in the cyber-world.” PACER has many helpful resources including a book-let, “Cyberbullying: What Parents Can Do,” sponsored by Century Link. The booklet is at www.pacer.org/publications/bullypdf/BP-23.pdf. A great one-page summary of tips about cyberbullying comes from two pro-fessors who have studied this issue: http://www.cyberbullying.us/Top_Ten_Tips_Parents_Cyberbullying_Response.pdf. Nancy Riestenberg, school climate specialist at MDE, urged conversations with youngsters that establish “expecta-tions of helping — not hurting.” Agreed. MDE offers other suggestions at http://bit.ly/1pgy3RA. One of the most intriguing resources was an eight-page report done by two University of Texas researchers; it’s on-line at http://www.hindawi.com/journals/jcrim/2013/735397. I will return to this study in another column, and other re-sources that people suggested, because they are focused on what schools should do about cyberbullying. But I do want to recommend the article to educators. Everything I read stressed: Don’t ig-nore cyberbullying. It’s real; it’s here. If you haven’t discussed this with your youngsters, please do. I hope the resources mentioned above are useful. Please email any stories you care to share about your experiences with cyberbullying.

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

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Excited to support Koznick To the editor: With the close of this year’s legisla-tive session, we can see that one-party Democrat control of all branches of government must end. Over the last two years government grew by 11 per-cent, taxes skyrocketed by $2 billion, parents were removed from their role in the education of their children and schools were handed the $20 million bill for complying with the so-called “Bullying Bill.” Worse yet, Democrats voted to build themselves a new $90 million legislative office building, in addi-tion to voting to give themselves a pay raise. Incredible! They then try to take credit for cutting taxes when all they did was undo taxes they increased just the year before. Further, Minnesota taxpayers paid over $1.2 billion in ex-cess tax dollars to state government this year – only to see state spending increased even further. Democrats truly have put themselves above ser-vice to Minnesotans. We can’t afford more wasteful Democrat control. We need more private sector ex-perience in St. Paul. I’m excited to support Jon Koznick, the Republican endorsed candidate for the Lakeville House District.

BECKY GOODWINLakeville

Matt Little creates positive changeTo the editor: This letter is to reinforce Matt Lit-tle as Lakeville’s mayor. Matt has had numerous accom-plishments that are important to Lakeville, and one such area of vital importance is ensuring that our senior population is well served. He has also been a strong supporter of the Lake-ville Heritage Center. I have personally seen how Matt

interacts with our senior population when he and I worked together at a senior community in Lakeville several years ago. He has been a solid propo-nent of seniors and passionate about ensuring their services and well-being are a priority for Lakeville. He was instrumental in getting se-nior transportation to Lakeville. He worked with DARTS to get a grant for a bus and then reached out to Celebra-tion Church for help. With Matt’s initiative, Celebration Church was amazing enough to fund a program for our city for the next four years. I look forward to seeing what Matt does next for the city. I hope you will join me in supporting his re-election.

JACQUE MIHMLakeville

Tea Party affiliations To the editor: I read with interest last week’s story about the anniversary of the South Metro Tea Party and its claim to be non-partisan. I am curious as to how a “politically active” group can be non-partisan when they only endorse and invite Republicans such as U.S. Rep. John Kline, R-Burnsville, and Joe Arpaio, the questionable sheriff from Arizona. They are all conservative Re-publicans. That seems very partisan to me. Who were the political commenta-tors they invited? Were they non-par-tisan? What independent leaders have they invited? As for credentials, Kline speaks only to those who agree with him and attacks those that don’t agree with him and does not have the courage to go against any Republican. Arpaio has done more harm than good with his outrageous conduct as sheriff of Mar-icopa County. I have lived in Arizona and I am glad he is not my sheriff. LARRY SCHLUTERLakeville


Business BuzzJenkins joins Biothera board Pharmaceutical exec-utive Dr. Annalisa Jen-kins has joined the board of directors of Eagan-based Biothera. Jenkins is the former executive vice president and head of global re-search and development at the biopharma divi-sion of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany. During her tenure at Merck, she was also responsible for global medical affairs, regula-tory, clinical operations and quality. Previously, Jenkins held a number of senior positions during her 14-year career at Bristol-Myers Squibb, includ-ing senior vice president global medical. Jenkins began her ca-reer as a medical officer with the British Royal Navy, and served with the Minesweeper Squad-ron during the Gulf

Conflict. A decorated officer, she achieved the rank of surgeon lieuten-ant commander. Jenkins graduated in medicine from St. Bar-tholomew’s Hospital London and trained in cardiovascular medi-cine in the UK National Health Service.

New leadership at Think Mutual Eileen Oliver has been appointed to suc-ceed Tom Floyd as se-nior vice president and chief technology officer at Think Mutual Bank when Floyd retires at the end of this month. The transfer of respon-sibilities has been taking place over the past sev-eral months. Oliver will formally assume the role on July 1. Oliver has 29 years of experience in the bank-ing industry, 22 of those

with Think. She has held positions in a variety of areas at the bank includ-ing direct customer care, deposit operations, lend-ing operations, project management and tech-nology. She joined the organization as a teller and has held roles as a banker, loan processor, deposit account sup-port specialist and loan services system admin-istrator, as well as di-rector-level positions in lending. Floyd is retiring after more than 17 years with the bank. He has served as marketing manager, chief operating officer, chief administrative offi-cer and senior vice presi-dent of marketing. He

was named chief tech-nology officer in Sep-tember 2012. Think Mutual Bank is a community bank head-quartered in Rochester, with offices locally in Apple Valley and Eagan.

Sample recognized Flint Hills Resourc-es Medical Coordina-tor Jeanne Sample is the 2014 winner of the Medique Leadership Award from the Min-nesota Association of Occupational Health Nurses. The award, presented by Medique Pharmaceuticals, rec-ognizes occupational health nurses who ex-hibit leadership in their field through participa-tion in their state asso-ciation and professional activities. Sample is a 14-year employee of Flint Hills Resources, Rosemount, and has been an active

member of MAOHN since 2000.

Couillard receives award Craig A. Couillard has been selected for the 2014 Best of Lakev-ille Award in the Chiro-practors category by the Lakeville Award Pro-gram. Each year, the Lakev-ille Award Program iden-tifies companies that have achieved excep-tional marketing success in their local community and business category. These are local compa-nies that enhance the positive image of small business through service to their customers and the community. Various sources of in-formation were gathered and analyzed to choose the winners in each cate-gory. The 2014 Lakeville Award Program focuses on quality, not quantity. Winners are determined

based on the information gathered both internally by the Lakeville Award Program and data pro-vided by third parties.

ConvergeOne acquired Eagan-based Conver-geOne has been acquired by Clearlake Capital Group LP, Santa Moni-ca, Calif. Terms were not disclosed. ConvergeOne offers one source for compre-hensive multivendor solutions – from initial design and implementa-tion through ongoing consulting, technical support, and managed services across the spec-trum of IT, contact cen-ter solutions and unified communications. The company has more than 4,100 customers, includ-ing 46 percent of the Fortune 100 companies.

Eileen Ol-iver

Tom Floyd

Eagan teen gets rare taste of music industryMikey LaSusa

to attend Grammy Camp

by Jessica HarperSUN THISWEEK


Like many young mu-sicians, Mikey LaSusa hopes to one day make it big in the music industry. But unlike most teens, LaSusa will be able to get a taste of the indus-try by recording songs and working with music professional in Los An-geles. The 16-year-old Ea-gan resident is among 167 teens from across the nation to be selected for the Grammy Founda-tion’s Grammy Camp, a

week-long camp that is aimed at helping teens hone in on skills while exposing them to the mu-sic industry. This year, the camp also includes six students from China, Japan and England. The Santa Monica-based nonprofit aims to develop an understand-ing and appreciation for music through various programs. The founda-tion works in partner-ship with The Recording Academy, an organiza-tion of music profes-sionals that oversees the Grammy Awards. Unlike other music camps, Grammy Camp provides opportunities for teens who are not only interested in be-coming musicians, but

also those who have an interest in audio engi-neering, electronic music production, songwrit-ing and music journal-ism, among other career paths. “We want kids to know how each career interacts with each oth-er and how to prepare themselves to have a suc-cessful career,” said Da-vid Sears, executive edu-cation director for the Grammy Foundation. “Being a good musician is not enough.” The 5-year-old pro-gram has a rigorous se-lection process that in-cludes an application, audition and video essay. “We want to get a sense not only of stu-dents’ skills but also their

personality and whether they fit into Grammy Camp,” Sears said. LaSusa, who will be a junior this fall at Eagan High School, was accept-ed into two camps: one at the McNally Smith College of Music in St. Paul from June 13 to 21 and one at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles from July 12 to 21. At $2,200, the Los An-geles camp doesn’t come cheap, but the founda-tion provides scholar-ships to defray the costs. While there, LaSusa will perform live and record music with other teens and work with pro-fessional musicians to learn the tools needed to successfully pursue a ca-

reer in the industry. The teens will also visit The Village studio in LA where famous mu-sicians such as the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Lady Gaga and The Rolling Stones have recorded several hits. This will be LaSusa’s second time attending Grammy Foundation’s camp in LA. “I’m really honored and excited to be going a second time, because now I know what it’s all about and I can take more out of it,” he said. LaSusa, who has played the guitar since he was 6 years old, said his love for music was in-spired by listening to 70s rock music such as that from Led Zeppelin and

Jimi Hendrix with his fa-ther and uncle. Since then, he has played a number of in-struments such as the drums and the French horn, but has always fa-vored the guitar. LaSusa said he hopes to become a professional musician someday. After graduating from high school, LaSusa plans to attend either the Univer-sity of Southern Califor-nia Berkeley or Belmont University’s School of Music in Nashville. For more informa-tion on Grammy Camp, visit www.grammyinthe-schools.com.

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


Photographer at Kingsley Shores Kingsley Shores Senior Living in Lakeville is host-ing Doug Ohman, award-winning photographer, author of several books and storyteller, at 2 p.m. Wednesday, June 25, in the Activity Center. Ohman explores the history, culture and beau-ty of the Mississippi River from Lake Itasca to just north of the Twin Cities. His photography is fea-tured in the “Minnesota Byways” series. His books will be available for pur-chase and signing. The event is free and open to the public. Kingsley Shores Senior Living is located at 16880 Klamath Trail, next to the Chart House Restaurant. RSVP by June 21 at 952-435-8002.

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-Friday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. For information, call 952-953-2345 or go to www.cityo-fapplevalley.org. Monday, June 23 – Int. Line Dancing, 9:30 a.m.; Morning Stretch, 10 a.m.; Bridge, 12:45 p.m.; Pool, 1 p.m.; Happy Stitchers, 1 p.m. Tuesday, June 24 – Quilting Bees, 9 a.m.; Bike Group, 9 a.m.; Zumba Gold, 9:15 a.m.; Tuesday Painters, 9:30 a.m.; De-fensive Driving, noon; Pi-nochle, 12:30 p.m.; Span-ish, 1 p.m.; Cribbage, 1 p.m.; Hand & Foot Cards, 1 p.m.; Table Tennis, 1 p.m. Wednesday, June 25 – Donated Bread, 9 a.m.;

Bicycle Club, 9 a.m.; Dia-per Sewing, 9:15 a.m.; Yoga, 9:45 a.m.; Morning Stretch, 10 a.m.; Histo-rians, 10:30 a.m.; Domi-noes, 1 p.m.; Mahjong, 1 p.m. Thursday, June 26 – Beg. Line Dancing, 9:15 a.m.; Int. Line Dancing, 10 a.m.; Duplicate Bridge, 12:30 p.m.; Tap Dancing; 12:30 p.m.; Pool, 1 p.m.; 500, 1 p.m.; Hardanger, 1 p.m.; 500, 1 p.m. Friday, June 27 – Bicy-cle Club, 9 a.m.; ES Com-mittee, 10 a.m.; Morning Stretch, 10 a.m.; Women’s Pool, 11 a.m.

Burnsville The Burnsville Senior Center is located in the Diamondhead Education Center at 200 W. Burns-ville Parkway. Call 952-707-4120 for information about the following senior events. Monday, June 23 – Sunrise Stretch, 8:30 a.m.; Cribbage, 11 a.m.; Card Recycle, 12:45 p.m.; Pi-nochle, 12:45 p.m.; SS Flex. Tuesday, June 24 – City Tour, 8:30 a.m.; Quilters, 9:30 a.m.; Cedar Lanes Bowling, 10 a.m.; Scrab-ble, 10:30 a.m.; Dupli-cate Bridge, 12:30 p.m.; Troubadours, 1 p.m.; Line Dancing. Wednesday, June 25 – Woodcarvers, 8 a.m.; Sunrise Stretch, 8:30 a.m.; Tai Chi MS, 11 a.m.; 500 and Bridge, 12:45 p.m.; SS Flex; Wednesday in the Park, 7 p.m. Thursday, June 26 – Blood Pressure, 10:15 a.m.; Fun & Friendship (program, entertainment, lunch, cards and bingo), 11 a.m.; Wood Carving, 6 p.m. Friday, June 27 – Sun-rise Stretch, 8:30 a.m.; Painting, 9 a.m.; Hand & Foot, 12:15 p.m.; SS Flex; deadline, Centennial.

Eagan The following senior activities are offered by the Eagan Parks and Rec-reation Department in the Lone Oak Room at the Eagan Community Cen-ter, 1501 Central Park-way. Call 651-675-5500 for more information. Monday, June 23 – De-fensive Driving, 8 a.m. to noon; Zumba, 9 a.m.; FFL and FFL+ (Oasis), 10 and 11 a.m. Tuesday, June 24 – Health Insurance Coun-seling, appointment only, 8:30 a.m. to noon; Quilt-ing, 9:30 a.m.; Euchre and 500, 1 p.m.; Asian Brush Painting, 1 p.m.; Zumba, 5:30 p.m.; Yoga (Oasis), 6:20 p.m. Wednesday, June 25 – LORockers, 9 a.m.; Pot-luck/Picnic on the Patio, 10 a.m.; Hand & Foot, 1:30 p.m. Thursday, June 26 – Dominoes, 9 a.m.; Nimble Fingers, 9:30 a.m.; Bridge, 1 p.m.; Zumba, 5:30 p.m.; Yoga (Oasis), 6:30 p.m. Friday, June 27 – Zum-ba, 10:15 a.m.; Yoga (Oa-sis), 11:10 a.m.; Bingo, 1 p.m.

Farmington The Rambling River Center is located at 325 Oak St. For more infor-mation on trips, programs and other activities, call 651-280-6970. Monday, June 23 – Coffee Guys, 9:30 a.m.; Welcome Coffee, 10 a.m.; Dulcimer Club, 10 a.m.; Newsletter Fold, 10:30 a.m.; Dominoes, 10:30 a.m.; Recycled Cards, 12:30 p.m.; Day Old Bread, 12:30 p.m.; 500 Cards, 12:30 p.m.; Line Dancing, 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, June 24 – Cof-fee Guys, 9:30 a.m.; Fit-ness Center Orientation, 9:30 a.m.; Chair Exercise, 10 a.m.; Wood Carving, 1 p.m.; Bowling, 1 p.m.; Table Tennis, 2 p.m.

Wednesday, June 25 – Wii Games, 9 a.m.; Cof-fee Guys, 9:30 a.m.; Sit -n- Stitch, 9:30 a.m.; Se-niors on the Move Fitness, 10 a.m.; Day Old Bread, 12:30 p.m.; Lap Robes, 1 p.m.; Bridge, 1 p.m. Thursday, June 26 – Zumba Gold, 9:15 a.m.; Coffee Guys, 9:30 a.m.; SNAP, 9:30 a.m.; Pinoch-le, 12:30 p.m.; Table Ten-nis, 2 p.m. Friday, June 27 – Wii Games, 9 a.m.; Coffee Guys, 9:30 a.m.; Day Old Bread, 9:30 a.m.; Recycled Bingo, 1 p.m.

Rosemount The following activities are sponsored by the Rose-mount Parks and Recre-ation Department and the Rosemount Area Seniors. For more information, call the Rosemount Parks and Recreation Department at 651-322-6000. Monday, June 23 – Bridge, 9 a.m., Do Drop Inn; 500, 1 p.m., DDI. Tuesday, June 24 – Cof-fee, 8 a.m. to 1 p.m., Rose-mount Cub; Bid Euchre, 9 a.m., DDI; Bunco, 1 p.m., DDI. Wednesday, June 25 – Card Bingo, 1 p.m., DDI. Thursday, June 26 – Advisory Board, 9 a.m., Rosemount Community Center. Friday, June 27 – Eu-chre, 9 a.m., DDI; Lunch Out, 11:30 a.m., Hong Kong Bistro in Rose-mount; Bowling, 1 p.m., Apple Place in Apple Val-ley. Glass Blowing Tour & Lunch, Wednesday, Aug. 13, Minneapolis. The trip will start with a glass blowing demonstration in a rustic building with no elevator; wear stable foot-wear suitable for climbing stairs. Following the dem-onstration, have a soup and sandwich lunch at Hell’s Kitchen in down-town Minneapolis. The

bus will depart from the Rosemount Community Center at 9:45 a.m. and return at 2:45 p.m. Cost is $61, which includes bus transportation, demon-stration and lunch. Regis-tration deadline: July 18. Senior Driver Improve-ment four-hour refresher, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Tuesday, July 8, Rosemount Com-munity Center. Cost: $20. Preregistration required; call 651-322-6000 for more information. The Rosemount Area Seniors “Do Drop Inn” is open to senior citizens 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday-Friday. The room is lo-cated in the Rosemount Community Center and allows seniors a place to stop by and socialize dur-ing the week.

Lakeville All events are held at Lakeville Heritage Center, 20110 Holyoke Ave. Call 952-985-4622 for informa-tion. Monday, June 23 – Computer Lessons, 9 a.m.; Knitting Class, 9:30 a.m.; Day Old Bread, 10:15 a.m.; Legal Advice, 11 a.m.; Tap Dance Boot Camp, 11 a.m.; Health-ways Flex Fitness 2, noon; Hearts, 12:15 p.m.; Cards, 1 p.m.; Mahjong, 1 p.m. Tuesday, June 24 – City of Lakes Trip, 8:45 a.m.; Dominoes & Cards, 9 a.m.; Montana Trip Briefing Meeting, 9 a.m.; Scrapbooking, Recycled Cards, 9:30 a.m.; Travel Show/Upcoming Trips, 10 a.m.; Day Old Bread, 10:15 a.m.; Walking Club/Weight Control, 11:30 a.m.; Party Bridge, 12:15 p.m.; Tap Dance, 2:30 p.m.; Zumba Gold, 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, June 25 – Men’s Golf at Gopher Hills, 8 a.m.; Learn to Line Dance, 8:30 a.m.; Health Angels Biking, 9 a.m.; Cards, 9 a.m.; Line

Dancing, 9 and 10 a.m.; Day Old Bread, 10:30 a.m.; Pinochle, noon; Dime Bingo, 1 p.m.; Chess Club, 1 p.m.; Healthways Flex Fitness 2, 3 p.m. Thursday, June 26 – Motorcycle Ride to Hen-derson, 10 a.m.; Senior Tour of Homes, 10 a.m.; Red Hat Chorus, 10:30 a.m.; Day Old Bread, 10:15 a.m.; Euchre, Hand & Foot, noon; Ping Pong, 1-3 p.m.; Zumba Gold, 3:30 p.m. Friday, June 27 – Yoga, 8:15 a.m.; Cards, 9 a.m.; Pickleball at Bunker Hill Park, 9 a.m.; Day Old Bread, 10:15 a.m.; Health-ways Flex Fitness 1, 11 a.m.; Healthways Flex Fitness 2, noon; Duplicate Bridge, 12:30 p.m.; Red Hat Chorus at Carefree Assisted Living, 2:30 p.m. Saturday, June 28 – Driver Safety Class, 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Glass Blowing Tour and Lunch at Hell’s Kitch-en, Wednesday, Aug. 13. See a glass-blowing dem-onstration and have lunch at Hell’s Kitchen in Min-neapolis. Stable footwear suitable for standing is advised. Leave the center at 9:15 a.m. and return at 3:15 p.m. Cost: $61 mem-bers, $71 nonmembers. Registration deadline: July 18. Stillwater Trolley Tour, Thursday, Sept. 18. Board the old-time trolley for a narrated tour of Stillwater. After the trolley tour, walk the city’s historic streets to shop or relax along the waterfront. Lunch is at the Gasthaus Bavarian Hunter. After lunch, stop at Aamodt’s Apple Farm and the St. Croix Win-ery store for apples, wine, baked goods and fresh apple cider. Leave Heri-tage Center at 8:45 a.m. and return at 4:15 p.m. Cost is $64 members, $74 nonmembers. Registration deadline: Aug. 22.

Church of Christ VBS The Church of Christ in Eagan will hold Vaca-tion Bible School for chil-dren age 4 through sixth grade July 7-10 at Camp Sacajawea (Lebanon Hills Regional Park), 5120 McAndrews Drive, Apple Valley. The theme will be “It’s a Blue Ribbon Life, Learning the Fruit of the Spirit.” Registration will be 6:45 p.m. with activi-ties from 7-8:30 p.m. The

sessions will include Bible study, crafts, refreshments and more. There is no charge. Preregistration is by phone. Call 612-269-1080 to save a spot. Leave a message with your name and telephone number.

Celebration for pastor at Mary Mother A Mass to celebrate the ministry of the Rev. Jim Zappa will be 10 a.m. Sunday, June 29, at Mary, Mother of the Church,

3333 Cliff R o a d , Burnsville. Zappa, 64, is step-ping down for health r e a s o n s and he has asked the Arch-diocese of Minneapolis and St. Paul for a medical retirement. His last day as pastor will be June 30. Zappa was diagnosed in February with NASH dis-ease, non-alcoholic cirrho-

sis of the liver. The only treatment is a transplant, for which he has qualified but it is not in his treat-ment plan for another 18 to 24 months. Zappa came to Mary Mother in 1991, as co-pastor with the church’s founding pastor, the Rev. Donald Burns. When Burns retired in 1993, Zappa was named pastor. Zappa was ordained a priest by Archbishop John Roach on May 29, 1976, and was assigned as an as-sociate pastor at St. John

the Baptist in Savage. He also served at parishes in South St. Paul and Frid-ley, and at Clinical Pas-toral Education in Provi-dence, R.I., before coming to Mary Mother.

Community meals at Grace Grace Lutheran Church in Apple Valley will serve free community meals on Mondays, July 7 and 28. Dining hall doors will open at 5:30 p.m. Din-ner will be served from

6-6:30 p.m. The meals are for se-nior citizens, single-parent families, families in transi-tion and all others in the surrounding community seeking a healthy meal in a relaxed and fun environ-ment. Although the meals are free, donations are ac-cepted. Grace Lutheran Church is located at the intersection of Pennock Avenue and County Road 42. For more information, call the church at 952-432-7273.

The Rev. Jim Zappa

Religion

Seniors


District 194 School Board Following is the agenda for the 6 p.m. Tuesday, June 24, special meeting of the District 194 School Board in the District Of-fice.

1. Preliminary Actions a. Call to Order b. Roll Call 2. Discussion a. Discussion and Input on Impact Academy Future Expan-sion Planning b. Update on School Road Safety Task Force Report3. Adjournment

District 194 School Board

Following is the agenda for the 7 p.m. Tuesday, June 24, regular meeting of the District 194 School Board in the District Of-fice.

1. Preliminary Actions a. Call to Order b. Pledge of Allegiance c. Roll Call and Board Intro-ductions d. Good News e. Public Comment f. Board Communications g. Agenda Additions2. Consider Approval of Consent Agenda a. Board Minutes b. Employment Recommen-dations, Leave Requests and Res-ignations c. Other Personnel Matters d. Payment of Bills & Claims e. Wire Transfers/Investments

f. Verizon Cell Tower Propos-al g. Other Business Matters h. Resolution Regarding Ac-ceptance of Gift Donations i. Field Trips 3. Consent Agenda Discussion Items 4. Reports a. First Reading New/Re-vised Policies – Mr. Massaros 5. Recommended Actions a. Intermediate District 917 Health & Safety Resolution – Mr. Baumann6. Additions to Agenda 7. Information a. Superintendent’s Report b. Board Members Reports 8. Closed Session – Contract Negotiations per MN Statute 13D.05, Subd3(d); Superinten-dent Evaluation per MN Statute 13D.05, Subd3(a)9. Adjournment

Agendas Perry Abdulkadir of Eastview High School and Syndey Grossman of Lakeville South High School were selected as winners in the Dave Os-wald Homes Scholarship Program. The graduating seniors were selected by a team of local business profession-als based on their leader-ship qualities and accom-plishments during high school. The two were presented with the scholarships in a June 16 ceremony at Dave Oswald Homes - Coldwell Banker Burnet in Lakev-ille.

Michigan Technologi-cal University, Houghton, Mich., spring graduate, Jon Knutson, of Lakeville, B.S., mechanical engineer-ing. University of Wiscon-sin-Stout, Menomonie, Wis., spring graduates, from Lakeville – Adam Beck, B.S., business ad-ministration; Kira Stro-hbehn, B.F.A., interior design; Kalea Suihkonen, B.S., business administra-tion; Megan Wieczorek, B.F.A., art; Jonathan White, B.S., applied sci-ence; Audrey Rivard, B.S., business administration; Allen Peterson, B.S., pro-fessional communication and emerging media. Minnesota State Uni-versity Moorhead, spring dean’s list, from Lakeville – Michelle Blasko, Mat-thew Miller, Britta Nye, Katherine Schwinden. The College of St. Scholastica, Duluth, spring graduates, from

Lakeville – Jake Verduz-co, B.A., biology; Danae Bachtle, B.S., nursing; Ry-ann Gallagher, B.S., nurs-ing, cum laude. The College of St. Scholastica, Duluth, spring dean’s list, from Lakeville – Rachel Han-sen, Nicole Jackson, Brett Jahnke, Emily Risvold, Brenda Vizenor, Kaley Wypyszynski. University of Minne-sota Duluth, spring dean’s list, from Elko New Mar-ket – Ruby Buro, Connor Edlund, Matison Han-son, Morgan Rose, Em-ily Seaberg, Nikolas Shun; from Lakeville – Brenden Bungert, Taryn De Rosia, Desiree Drentlaw, McCall Halliday, Megan Hel-berg, Taylor Huber, Rylee Knips, Danielle Locascio, Thomas Lonergan, Claire Olsen, Benjamin Pieper, Alexis Podraza, Leah Rod-gers, Katelyn Schwartz, Kathryn Scislow, Senja Smith, Jacob Solberg,

Taylor Sturlaugson, Ryan Todorovich, Sierra Wolff. Minnesota State Col-lege - Southeast Technical, Winona, spring president’s list, James Lawman, of Elko New Market. Ridgewater College, Willmar, spring graduate, Zane Petersen, of Lakev-ille. Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter, spring graduates, from Lakeville – Abigail Barrett, B.A., management; Elliot Bell, B.A., physics, cum laude; Adam Bouchareb, B.A., environmental studies, magna cum laude; Grant Fitzgerald, B.A., psycho-logical science; Hanna Ibrahim, B.A., sociol-ogy & anthropology; Blair Riegel, B.A., psychologi-cal science; Cassandra Rogness, B.A., health fit-ness; Charles Stokes, B.A., physics. Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter, spring dean’s list, from Lakeville

– Morgan Cronin, Hanna Ibrahim, Ian McKeag, Grace Mundt. Creighton Univer-sity, Omaha, Neb., spring dean’s list, from Lakev-ille – Josephine Bungert, Alexander Continenza, Courtney Dockter, Ben-jamin Remarcke, Megan Waletzko. Southeast Technical In-stitute, Sioux Falls, S.D., spring president’s list, Kipp Stearns, of Lakev-ille. St. Cloud State Uni-versity, spring dean’s list, from Lakeville – Devin Smith, Kaitlin Zutz. University of Dubuque, Iowa, spring dean’s list, Anders Haukoos of Lakeville. Bemidji State Universi-ty, spring dean’s list, from Elko New Market – Kelsie Anderson; from Lakeville – Paige Muenchow, Blake Sherman, Breanna Sollie.

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Births

Francesca Emil Tudisco

Was born May 30th, 2014 at the Ridges Hospi-tal, Burnsville. 10 pounds 6oz. Proud parents are Tony & Mindy Tudisco

Weddings

Whalen/GarzaSarah Whalen and

Joel Garza were wed on May 3, 2014, on the River Walk in San An-tonio, Texas. Attending the bride were Crystal Pi-eschel, Amanda Pieschel, Haley Casey, Kellie An-derson, Ashley Lothrop, Lupie Zavala Leone, and Kelsey Gorshe. Attending the groom were Gabriel Gallegos, Greg Whalen, Chad Petersen, Branden Seira, Alonzo Zavala, Joe Zavala, and Eric Ramirez. Flower girls were Rowan Petersen and Grace Gal-legos. Ring bearer was Gabriel Gallegos, Junior. Parents are Mike & Jean Whalen and Martha Gar-za.

The couple makes their home in New Ulm, Min-nesota, where Sarah is a scientist with Minnesota Valley Testing Labs and Joel owns and operates the Sears Home Town Store.

by Jennifer ChickSUN THISWEEK


A Farmington woman died in an early morning house fire Sunday. Karen Jean Fortman, 69, died due to thermal injuries and inhalation of products of combustion, sustained in a house fire, according to the report released by the Hennepin County Medical Exam-iner. Farmington Fire Mar-shal John Powers said the Farmington Fire Depart-ment was called to the

single-story home at 5775 Upper 182nd Street on Sunday morning at 3:36 a.m. after several neigh-bors called to report the fire. The house is owned by Kenneth and Karen Fortman. The fire department ar-rived within five minutes of the call to find the entire second story of the house on fire. Approximately 40 firefighters responded and began suppression efforts. Powers said the fire was under control in about 35 minutes, but it took ap-proximately two hours to

completely extinguish the fire. Powers said Fortman’s husband woke up after hearing the smoke detec-tors. Kenneth tried to help his wife, who was sleep-ing in another room, but smoke and fire kept him from getting into the other bedroom. “The fire appears to be accidental and it started in the bedroom where she was at,” Powers said. An exact cause has not yet been determined, and the Farmington and Min-nesota fire marshals and

the insurance company will work together to de-termine the exact cause. Kenneth Fortman was transported to a nearby hospital with minor inju-ries. He was treated and released. Powers estimates there is approximately $250,000 in damage to the home and its contents. According to Powers, the Farmington Fire De-partment has been try-ing to trace when the last fire fatality occurred in Farmington. Water dam-age destroyed many of the Farmington Fire Depart-

ment’s past records, but the department has de-termined that it has been at least two decades since Farmington has had a fa-tality due to a fire. Powers urges residents to make sure their smoke detectors are working. He said that is what saved Kenneth Fortman’s life. Powers also encourages residents to install fire sprinklers to reduce the risk of serious injury and death due to fire.

Early Sunday house fire kills one

Lakeville Area Com-munity Education will of-fer the following classes. Call 952-232-2150 or visit www.LakevilleAreaCom-munityEd.net to register or for more information. Lego WeDo Robot-ics, grades K-5, 9 a.m. to noon June 23-26. Get ready for summer soc-cer by building your own robotic soccer goalie and cheering fans. Other proj-ects include motorized airplane, boat, waking

giant, pterodactyl and more. Lego X: Pump it Up … Pneumatics Style, grades K-5, 9 a.m. to noon June 23-27. Drag racers, cranes, go-carts, motorized dogs and more. Build them all, connect them to an engine and watch them go. Plug your Lego projects into a solar cell, wind turbine or hydro turbine to investi-gate green energy, all us-ing Lego bricks and mate-rials.

Drama Kids: Slap-stick Comedy Workshop, grades 3-6, 9 a.m. to noon June 24. Discover why and how the Three Stooges, Bugs Bunny and clowns have continued to delight audiences of all ages over the years. This class fo-cuses on having fun while learning how to laugh at yourself and laugh with others. Session two of week-day swim lessons begins Monday, June 23.

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Lakeville Parks and Recreation will offer the following activities. Reg-ister at www.lakeville-rap-connect.com or in person at 20195 Holyoke Ave., Lakeville. Nickelodeon Universe Mall of America, Bloom-ington: Purchase all-day discount wristbands for $24 online at www.lakev-ille-rapconnect.com or at the Lakeville Parks & Recreation office in City Hall, 20195 Holyoke Ave., Lakeville. Pick up tickets at City Hall. Puppet Wagon, June 16 to Aug. 8. Bring your blanket or lawn chairs, re-lax and enjoy the shows. For the 2014 schedule, log onto www.lakevillemn.gov under City Departments,

Parks & Recreation tab. Sports Unlimited Camps: • Cheer Camp, ages 4-8, 9 a.m.-noon July 7-10, Steve Michaud Park, 17100 Ipava Ave., $110. • T-Ball, ages 4-7, 9 a.m.-noon July 7-10, Da-kota Heights Park, 9550 175th St. W., $101. • Soccer Camp, ages 5-12, 1-4 p.m. July 7-10, Steve Michaud Park, 17100 Ipava Ave., $101. • Badminton Camp, ages 5-12, 1-4 p.m. July 7-10, Bunker Hill Park, 6755 Gerdine Path, $101. • Mini-Sport Sampler, ages 4-6, 9 a.m.-noon July 14-17, Steve Michaud Park, 17100 Ipava Ave., $101. • Pickleball, ages 5-12,

9 a.m.-noon July 14-17, Dodd Trail Park, 17035 Flagstaff Ave., $101. • Skateboard, ages 6-12, 9 a.m.-noon July 14-17, Farmington Skate Park, 4200 208th St. W., Farm-ington, $96. • Flag Football, ages 5-12, 1-4 p.m. July 14-17, Steve Michaud Park, 17100 Ipava Ave., $101. • Lacrosse Camp, ages 5-12, 9 a.m.-noon July 21-24, Steve Michaud Park, 17100 Ipava Ave., $101. • Game On Camp, ages 4-6, 10 a.m.-noon July 21-24, Steve Michaud Park, 17100 Ipava Ave., $88. • SNAG, ages 5-12, 1-4 p.m. July 21-24, Bunker Hill Park, 6755 Gerdine Path, $101. • Mini-Sport Camp,

ages 4-6, 9 a.m.-noon July 28-31, Steve Michaud Park, 17100 Ipava Ave., $101. • Sand Volleyball Camp, ages 5-12, 1-4 p.m. July 28-31, Antlers Park, 9740 201st St. W., $101. Kamp Kermit, ages 4-6, 9-11:30 a.m. or 12:30-3 p.m. Mondays and Wednesdays, July 14 to Aug. 6, at Steve Michaud Park, 17100 Ipava Ave.; or 9-11:30 a.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays, July 14 to Aug. 7, at Prairie Lake Park, 18179 Kingsway Path. Cost: $70. Medieval Masterminds, grades 2-6 (2014-15 school year), 12:30-2:30 p.m. Monday through Thurs-day, June 30 to July 3, Prairie Lake Park, 18179

Kingsway Path. Cost: $78. Destination Mars: Rocketry Course, grades 2-5 (2014-15 school year), 9 a.m. to noon Monday through Thursday, June 30 to July 3, at Parkview Park, 6833 Gerdine Ave., Rosemount. Cost: $126. Lynch Summer Day and Evening Tennis Camps, ages 5-12, Mon-days through Thursdays, various times and dates, at Lakeville South High School, Kenwood Trail Middle School and Bun-ker Hill Park. Cost: $88. Lynch Multi-sport Camp, ages 6-9, 9 a.m. to noon Monday through Thursday, July 7-10, Bun-ker Hill Park, 6755 Ger-dine Path. Cost: $108.

Activities for Hampton Community Days, June 20-23, include: • Movie in the Park – “The Lego Movie” at dusk Friday, June 20, in Hampton City Park. In case of inclement weather, the movie will be moved to Saturday, June 21. • Dakota County Bike Rodeo, 10 a.m., Saturday, June 21, City Hall. • Food concessions,

bouncy houses and fun for all ages, Saturday, June 21. • Enviro-Show with Tricia and the Toonies, 4 p.m. Saturday, June 21, Hampton City Park. • Hampton Cardinals Baseball, 2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, June 21 and 22. For more information, visit facebook.com/The-HamptonNews.

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Farmington Dew Days Schedule Most editions of the Dakota County Tribune reach homes on Thurs-day, so the newspaper is including the Dew Days schedule of events for June 19-21. NOTE: A story in the special section noted that registrations for the Bed Race could be taken until race day. The cor-rect deadline for the Bed Races was June 18. This is a tentative schedule and will be subject to change up to the day of the events. More about the events is at farmingtondewdays.com or SunThisweek.com/tag/Dew-Days-2014.

Thursday, June 19 10 a.m.-6 p.m. – Bouncy House, Downtown 2-3 p.m. – Cookie Con-test, Library Event, regis-tration required, Farming-ton City Hall, Room 169 3-4 p.m. – Coloring Contest, sponsored by Market on Oak (pick up entries at Market on Oak) 2:30-6:30 p.m. – Farm-ers Market, downtown Farmington on Third Street, click here for more information 3:30-5:30 p.m. – Big Band Era Dancing, Li-brary Event, Rambling River Center 5-10 p.m. – Beer, Brats and Bingo, sponsored by Long Branch/Gossips (all proceeds to CEEF)

Friday, June 20 10 a.m.-6 p.m. – Bouncy House, downtown 10:30-11 a.m. – 30 Books in 30 Minutes with the Splatter Sisters, Library Event, main stage by the Beer Gardens 12-midnight – Lions Beer Gardens, stage by Beer Gardens 12-midnight – Vendors open 12 noon-1 p.m. – Chalk drawing contest, sponsored by Janie’s Home Team, in front of Janie’s Home Team 12 p.m. – Crazy hair,

face painting and much more for boys and girls 12 noon-5 p.m. – Model Train Club Display, in Se-nior Center All Day – Pick a Duck, sponsored by Outback Dancers 12 noon-8 p.m. – Art Fair and Business Expo, Crafters 3 p.m. – Pizza eating contest, sponsored by Long Branch/Gossips, stage by Beer Gardens 4 p.m. – Bubble blow-ing contest, age 3 to 103, in front of Hiekkila Studio 5 p.m. – Kids Big Wheel Race and Horse Race, sponsored by Pellicci Ace Hardware (registration at 4:30 p.m.), Big Wheels sup-plied 5:30-6 p.m. – Pie Eat-ing Contest, sponsored by Farmington Bakery, stage by Beer Gardens 6:30 p.m. – Bed Races, down Oak from Second to Fourth Streets in down-town Farmington 7:30 p.m. – Car Cruise, starting at the Dakota County Fairgrounds 8 p.m.-midnight – Live music featuring Rockin Hollywoods, stage by Beer Gardens

Saturday, June 21 8 a.m. – Dew Run, get map online, old City Hall at 325 Oak St. 8-10 a.m. – 8th annual Bike Auction, old City Hall at 325 Oak St., bidding be-gins at 8:40 a.m. 8 a.m.-5 p.m. – 2nd An-nual Two Cylinder Tractor Club Swap Meet, Dakota County Fairgrounds 8:30-11:30 a.m. – Ma-sons Waffle breakfast, sponsored by the Farming-ton Masons, 326 Oak St. 8:30 a.m. – Rib Cook-off, in front of Farmington Independent, cooking be-gins 9-11 a.m. – Fishing Tournament, Prairie View Park in Farmington, spon-sored by the Southern Da-kota County Sportsmen’s

Club. Ages 0-15, bait pro-vided. 9 a.m. -3 p.m. – Model Train Club Viewing, Old City Hall (325 Oak St.) 10 a.m. – Zumba, spon-sored by Anytime Fitness All day – Pick a Duck, sponsored by Outback Dancers 10 a.m.-6 p.m. – Bouncy House, downtown 10 a.m.-8 p.m. – Art Fair and Business Expo 10 a.m.-midnight – Ven-dors open 11 a.m. – Kiddie Pa-rade, sponsored by An-chor Bank (registration at 10:30 a.m.), Theme: Crazy About Cartoons 1-2 p.m. – Hula Hoop Contest, sponsored by Anytime Fitness (stage by beer gardens) 1-2 p.m. – Gerster Jew-elry Ring Toss, in front of Gerster Jewelry 1:30-2:30 p.m. – Fan Club Sponsored Event, in front of Fan Club 2 p.m. – Pizza eating contest, sponsored by Car-bone’s Pizza and Sports Bar, downtown stage area 2:30-3:30 p.m. – Lillians sponsored event, in front of Lillians 3 p.m. – Bean Bag Tour-nament, downtown Farm-ington 4-8 p.m. – VFW Steak Fry, hosted by Farmington High School Dance Team tickets sold at the door, at VFW 5 p.m. – Grand Pa-rade, starts at the Dakota County Fairgrounds, trav-els north on Third Street to Spruce Street east to Fourth Street and south to the fairgrounds. 5 p.m. – Rib Cook-off Judging, sponsored by Family Fresh Market 6 p.m. – Kiss the Pig, stage by Beer Gardens 6:30 p.m. – Synergy Dance Studio, stage by Beer Gardens 8 p.m.-midnight – Mid-night Live featuring Brat Pack Radio, stage by Beer Gardens

Principal Jason Berg aims to help teachers realize their vision

by Jennifer ChickSUN THISWEEK


As Jason Berg be-gins his new position as principal for Farm-ington High School, he will be bringing his ca-reer full circle. Berg began his teach-ing career in Farm-ington in the fall of 1993 as a math teacher and head boys bas-ketball coach. He has left Farmington High School and come back several times over the years but what brought him back in December 2012 was Farmington’s plan to purposefully in-tegrate technology and the personaliza-tion of education the district is moving toward. He said the future at the high school is exciting as the school looks to deliv-er education in a way that hasn’t been done before. “Personalization has not been done to this scale and it’s hard when people haven’t seen it done this way before,” he said. “We have to continue to do a good job of explaining the why of how we are doing stuff.” Since December 2012, Berg has been an assistant principal at the high school so stepping into the principal position should not be a tough transition, he said. “In my mind, it’s not going to look a lot different,” he said. But as principal, he will be step-ping back a bit to take a bigger view of things, he said. He will also continue to do some of things that will allow him to stay connected on a daily basis. Farmington Area Public Schools an-nounced that they had hired Berg to re-place Principal Ben Kusch on April 21. Kusch resigned to take the position of principal at Shakopee High School. Kusch had been principal since July 2008. He said he was taking the posi-tion at Shakopee because that school is facing some of the same decisions and challenges that Farmington had faced in the time Kusch had been there. “I think my expertise here will serve me well there,” he said. “It’s not very of-ten as an administrator you get to do over what you have already done and

apply it there.” For the past 1 1/2 months, Berg has been working closely with Kusch to make the transition as smooth as pos-sible. Berg first got his administrative de-gree in athletic administration, but while he was working for Farmington Area Public Schools as a district math coach, helping other teachers align their classrooms with the math curricu-lum, he decided to get his specialist de-gree in school administration. “The more teachers you are able to help, the more kids you can help be-sides those in your classroom,” Berg said. “It’s exciting to help people come up with a vision and make that vision a reality.” He earned his administrator’s license from St. Thomas in August 2010. He earned his bachelor’s degree from St. Olaf College. Berg and his wife, Connie, have two boys in the Farmington school system. Lucas will be in 11th grade next fall, and Kyle will be a seventh-grader. As his kids participate in activities, Berg said it gives him a unique oppor-tunity to meet parents and students outside of school, something that helps develop better relationships and better communication. As Berg looks forward to next fall, he intends to make sure both students and parents have a clear idea of where the district is headed in terms of tech-nology and personalization. He sees an exciting future ahead.

Farmington High School Principal Jason Berg talks to members of the girls basketball team he coached in the 2010 season. (Photo by Jim Lindquist – sidekick.smug-mug.com)

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Liliana Amdahl, 4, of Lakeville, showed off the drawing she made with magic markers at the Messy Hands class. (Photo by Laura Adelmann)

art mediums,” said Lakev-ille Area Arts Center Manager Tom Barnard. He said classes include Pet Paintings, Beads & Bling, Drawing Friendly & Ferocious Monsters, Gar-den Sculpture Totems and Clay Animal Boxes. Samples of projects are on display at the Arts Cen-ter weekdays from 8 a.m.-

4:30 p.m. Children can be intro-duced to theater by at-tending weeklong Prairie Fire Theater camps; three are scheduled this sum-mer. All instruction, cos-tumes, music and scenery are provided and included in the registration fee. Adult classes include pottery and Wine & De-signs one-evening painting workshops where instruc-

tors walk the class through step-by-step instructions for creating the featured picture. Limited spots are still available for classes. For more information or to register, go to www.Lakev-illeAreaArtsCenter.com or call 952-985-4640.

Laura Adelmann is at [email protected].

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duties among staff mem-bers, the interim administra-tor, the personnel committee and City Council members. The full City Council will be responsible for employee hiring, firing and suspen-sions. They would weigh those decisions on recommenda-tions of the Personnel Com-mittee, which includes City Council Members Colleen LaBeau and Bart Davis. Human Resources Director Cindi Joosten would be in-volved in the process as well.

The council tentatively agreed the interim admin-istrator’s job would include oversight of the approved budget, city departments and monitoring contractors. The interim hire would also be required to attend all City Council meetings, including work sessions, and would be in charge of the agenda. Council members stressed the importance of the city continuing to be rep-resented at outside meetings Mielke has attended. They said more than one city representative should

not attend the same meet-ing, and agreed they would also attend local functions to help carry the extra work load. “For this interim period of time, it’s another place where we can help and fill in the gap,” Council Member Doug Anderson said. “And, we don’t have to put ad-ditional stuff onto already loaded up staff that are go-ing to help fill the gap inter-nally.” Laura Adelmann is at [email protected].

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Entrepreneurs Academy, a program that paired Lake-ville middle school students with local business mentors, who helped them develop a real bor. Through Bornhauser’s leadership, Lakeville was the first Minnesota city to organize an academy, a huge undertaking that involved about 100 volun-teers. Bornhauser also has served as an ambassador for the business community, often attending City Coun-cil meetings or leading and planning community events. “I think he did a really good job of building rela-tionships with people,” Cur-

tis said. “You weren’t just a member, you had many people who would call him friends in the chamber. That’s a testament to the kind of leader he was.” Bornhauser said he is thankful for the years he has had with the chamber. “I’m so grateful I was given the opportunity to be-come executive director,” he said. “I’m extremely proud of this organization. We’re one of the finest chambers in the metro, and I have a sense of pride that I’m leaving this organization in good financial and organi-zational standing.” The next leader needs to be able to pick up where Bornhauser left off, Curtis said.

He said the chamber has a goal of building member-ship to the 500 mark within the next year or two. Curtis said they hope to have a new leader in place by the time Bornhauser leaves. A search committee will be established to interview candidates and select a fi-nalist. Resumes with a cover letter and salary require-ments by June 30, 2014, can be sent to: Lakeville Area Chamber of Commerce and CVB Presidential Search Committee, 19950 Dodd Boulevard, Suite 104, Lake-ville, MN 55044 or to [email protected].


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Sports

Notebook: Rozell wins Ms. Softball award by Mike Shaughnessy


Athletes from local high schools on Sunday won two major individu-al awards. Lakeville North catcher Erika Rozell received the Ms. Softball award at a banquet in Minneapo-lis. Rozell, who has signed with the University of Minnesota, batted .400 in 2014 with four homers and 25 runs scored. She also threw out 14 baserunners. She is the third player from Da-kota County in the last five years to win the Ms. Softball award. Sara Moulton of Eagan won it in 2010 and Burnsville’s Kelsey Anderson was the winner the following year. Rozell also is the first non-pitcher to win the award since it was estab-lished in 2010. Lakeville North pitcher Michaela Zins and Lakeville South pitcher Kylie Stober also were finalists for the Ms. Softball award. Brad Mathiowetz of Rochester Mayo won the Mr. Baseball award, also presented Sunday. Lakeville North pitcher/first baseman Dalton Lehnen was one of the finalists. Rosemount senior Conner Yep-

sen received the Mr. Lacrosse award at a banquet in St. Paul. He led the Irish in scoring and helped his team win the South Suburban Confer-ence and finish second in the state tournament. He had 79 points in 2014 (53 goals, 26 assists).

Clay target tourney Lakeville South finished sixth in the state clay target tournament Sat-urday at Minneapolis Gun Club in Prior Lake. This is the first year the Minne-sota State High School League has been a “presenting partner” of the state tournament with the Minne-sota State High School Clay Target League. The MSHSL is the coun-try’s first high school sports associa-tion to sanction a clay target compe-tition. Teams and individuals qualified for Saturday’s competition through the clay target league’s state champi-onship, which took place earlier this month in Alexandria. Lakeville South had a team score of 472 (out of 500). Buffalo scored 489 to win the team championship. Michael Huebner and Nick Ce-plecha scored 95 individually for Lakeville South (100 is a perfect

score). Brandon Tatge, Andy Krebs and Cade Bianchi all scored 94.

State golf Lakeville North finished fourth at the state Class 3A girls golf tour-nament last week at Bunker Hills in Coon Rapids. The Panthers moved up one spot after holding fifth place after the first round of the 36-hole tourna-ment. They finished with a two-day total of 681. Wayzata was first at 622, 19 strokes ahead of runner-up Alexandria. Rosemount had a 696 total. North’s top player was eighth-grader Megan Welch, who had rounds of 80 and 81 for a 161 total and a tie for 19th place. Sophomore Brianna Vetter shot 83-79-162 to tie for 22nd. In the boys Class 3A tourney, Lakeville North senior Bobby Thomas tied for ninth at 79-70–149. His brother Freddy Thomas, one of the pre-tournament favorites, was at 153 after rounds of 75 and 78. He tied for 22nd.

Email Mike Shaughnessy at [email protected].

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Hall of Fame banquet tickets Tickets are available through June 30 for the Lakev-ille Panther Hall of Fame banquet, which will be July 13 at Crystal Lake Golf Course. Social hour begins at 4:30 p.m., with dinner starting at 5:30 p.m. Tickets are $25 and are available through the activities office at Lakeville North High School (952-232-3620) or online at www.LNHSpanthers.com (click on the Hall of Fame tab on the top of the page).

Pan-O-Prog Run The Pan-O-Prog Run will be Saturday, July 12, at Casperson Park, 19720 Juno Trail, Lakeville. The run-ning 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 cat-egories: 9 and under, 10-11, 12-14, 15-19, 20-29, 30-39, 40-49, 50-59, 60-69, and 70 and over. Schedule: 6:45 a.m. registration 4-mile: 7:45 a.m. start (#7057) 1-mile: 8:45 a.m. start (#7058) Cost: $16 if preregister by July 8; $24 if register after July 8. Both 4- and 1-mile runs (#7059). Cost: $18 if prereg-ister for both by July 8; $24 if registering 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.

North boys 4th; South girls win

2 of 3 by Mike Shaughnessy


The offseason for Lakeville North’s boys la-crosse team started Sun-day. And ended Wednesday. If there was one thing obvious about the 2014 Panthers, it’s that they were willing to put in the effort necessary to be good, coach Jeff Wright said. After finishing fourth in the state tourna-ment – and with most of this year’s team eligible to return next year – Wright said the Panthers’ goal now is to return to state and finish higher. North held its end-of-season banquet Tuesday and several of its play-ers were to begin summer league action Wednesday.

The Panthers went 14-5 one year after graduating 15 seniors from their ros-ter. This season, they had just two seniors but got to the state tournament for the first time. “It was a great run, and a lot of people didn’t see it coming,” Wright said. “I couldn’t be prouder of our players. They worked hard for it, and we had a blast this season.” Lakeville North opened the state tournament with an 11-9 victory over Blake on June 10 before losing to Rosemount 12-6 in the semifinals two days later. Wayzata defeated the Panthers 11-6 in the third-place game last Saturday. “We had seven turn-overs in the Blake game, which I think was a season low for us,” Wright said. “Rosemount’s a tough team to play. They’re very fast and have a lot of fire-power.

“We beat Wayzata ear-lier in the season but (Sat-urday) their goalie had a great game. And we had some opportunities we couldn’t convert.” Lakeville North junior attackman Roman Rohr-bach was named to the all-tournament team after getting seven goals and two assists in three games. Ryan Bissonett, another junior, also had a strong tournament with six goals. Midfielder Ian Klotz, one of two seniors on the Pan-thers roster (defender Cal-vin Hedberg is the other) had two goals and two assists in the victory over Blake. The Panthers have players on three different high-level summer teams, Wright said. They also will compete as a group in fall and winter leagues as they begin their campaign to get back to state in 2015.

South girls 5th Lakeville South lost its opening game at the girls state lacrosse tournament in heartbreaking fash-ion – on a Stillwater goal with less than 40 seconds remaining. After that, the Cougars got everything they could out of their state appearance, winning their final two games and taking the consolation tro-phy. The consolation cham-pionship game – an 8-5 victory over Robbinsdale Armstrong last Saturday – was particularly challeng-ing for the Cougars. They were not a team that sub-stituted frequently, but in the Armstrong game they were without several play-ers who were taking col-lege entrance exams. Then one of the Cougars’ better players left the Armstrong game after two yellow-card fouls. “Even though we were

missing some players, we still played really well as a team,” coach Patrick Crandall said. “Some girls really stepped up for us. It was our goal to go to state this year, and we had a good tournament.” South finished 15-4, and the record could have been even better. The Cougars lost three games – including a 10-9 loss to Stillwater in the state quar-terfinals – by one goal, and their other loss was by two. They had leads in sev-eral of the games they lost. Brooke Galle, Logan Halvorson and Tea Baker scored two goals each against Stillwater. Mad-dy Canney had six goals and Halvorson five as the Cougars drubbed Maple Grove 14-2 in the conso-lation semifinals. Canney had three more goals in the Armstrong game and finished the season with 105 points (63 goals, 39

assists). Halvorson had 79 points this season. Both will be back next season on a South team that figures to score a lot of goals. The Cougars graduate just four seniors, but that group includes Galle, who was their third-leading scorer. Even though South had a young team, Crandall said he never doubted that it had the ability to play well in the state tourna-ment. “We looked at what Lakeville North did last year,” Crandall said, re-ferring to the 2013 North squad that finished second in the state tournament. “They improved steadily and were playing their best at the end of the season. That’s what I thought we did this year.”

Email Mike Shaughnessy at [email protected].

Lakeville teams competitive at state lacrosse

Panthers, Cougars take the field togetherLakeville teams

play for 3rd place at state baseball by Mike Shaughnessy


The third-place game at the state Class 3A base-ball tournament was not a battle of sworn enemies. In fact, it’s likely that most of the fans who stayed around Midway Stadium early Friday evening want-ed to see both teams do well. The question was, how to cheer? Finally, one fan had an idea. “Let’s go Lakeville!” he yelled, drawing some laughs from others in the stands. North or South, it didn’t necessarily mat-ter as the community ob-served the end of the high school baseball season with its two teams on the field. For the record, North defeated South 12-4 to take third place at the state tourney in what is likely to be the last high school game at Midway Stadium. The St. Paul ballpark, for years the home of state tournament games, is scheduled to be demolished while its main tenant, the St. Paul Saints, plan a move to a new field in downtown St. Paul. Lakeville South ath-letic director Neil Strader asked the players from both teams to gather for a group photo. The Pan-thers, the No. 1-ranked team in the state entering the tournament, and the Cougars, the surprise team of the playoffs, stood side by side. The teams wanted to play each other at state, but were hoping it would take place in the championship

game at Target Field. The third-place game was bet-ter than nothing, though. “It was nice to end it this way,” Lakeville North senior catcher Ben Jensen said. “I’ve been playing against some of their play-ers for 10 years. Looking at them, it seemed like they had a lot of fun being here, and so did we.” “Fourth in the state tournament. Who would have believed that a few weeks ago?” said Lakev-ille South senior pitcher Mitch Maurer. “This is unbelievable.” After both Lakeville teams opened the state tournament with victories on June 12 – North rout-ing Brainerd 10-0 in six innings and South edging No. 2-seeded Mahtomedi 4-3 – they played back-to-back games in the semifi-nals on Friday. That was where the dream of an all-Lakeville state championship game was crushed. Mounds View scored in the bot-tom of the seventh to edge North 2-1. Eden Prairie

defeated South 13-3 in six innings. For the Panthers (23-5), it was a bitter end to their state championship hopes. For South, it meant the playoff magic was over. The Cougars had won six of their previous seven postseason games, dating to the start of the Section 1 playoffs. “We had a few hours to wait until we played the third-place game, and that gave us a chance to process things,” Lakeville North coach Tony Mar-ket said. “We talked about how only three teams get to end their season with a victory – the state cham-pion, third-place team and consolation champion.” Lakeville South (8-20), meanwhile, fully embraced its underdog status. In-stead of being testy about their 2-17 regular-season record, the Cougars had T-shirts made to com-memorate it. “Road to State: 2-17,” it read on the front. On the back, it said, “We Dem Boyz.” Timely hitting and

stout pitching, rarities during South’s regular sea-son, keyed the Cougars’ playoff run. “That made a huge difference, and we also started playing better defense,” said Maurer. North’s A.J. Sayer and Drew Stewart each had three hits in the third-place game. Kyle Rhodus drove in three runs. An-gelo Altavilla scored three runs and drove in two, and Dalton Lehnen had two RBI. South’s Cory Reiter and Patrick Daly had two hits each. A one-out single in the bottom of the seventh in-ning drove in the winning run in Mounds View’s 2-1 semifinal victory over Lakeville North and sent the defending champion Mustangs back to the Class 3A title game. North senior pitcher Nick Dorfman allowed only four hits over 6 1/3 innings, but the Panthers managed just three against Mounds View left-hander Kellen Rholl. Designated hitter Kyle Sticha doubled on the first

pitch of the sixth inning, moved to third on Stew-art’s sacrifice bunt and scored on Sayer’s sacrifice fly as North tied the game 1-1. Eden Prairie had 15 hits in its semifinal game against Lakeville South and scored five times in the bottom of the sixth to end the game. Reiter and Luke Peiper had two hits each for the Cougars. Maurer, the winning pitcher in six of Lakev-ille South’s eight victo-ries, threw a four-hitter in South’s opening-round victory over Mahtomedi. Shane Marker was 3-for-4 and scored a run; Jeff Brandt went 2-for-3 and scored twice. Lehnen pitched five scoreless innings and had three RBI in North’s state quarterfinal victory over Brainerd. Jensen, Rhodus, Bryce Buckley and Joseph Haider had two hits each. The Panthers moved Lehnen from pitcher to first base after five innings of the Brainerd game in hopes he would be avail-

able to pitch an inning or two in the state champi-onship game – if they got there. As it turned out, the championship game, originally scheduled for Saturday, was postponed twice because of inclem-ent weather and took place Tuesday afternoon. If North was in that game, its ace left-hander likely would have been able to start. It didn’t happen, al-though Jensen said the Panthers went into the tournament believing they had a good chance to win. “On our spring break trip to Florida, we formed a bond,” Jensen said. “We have a teammate who’s go-ing through some tough stuff, and we rallied around him. Things like that make you closer as a team.” And as a community. There is little if any bitter-ness in the North-South baseball rivalry. Market and Lakeville South coach Allen Iversen used to be assistant baseball coaches at Lakeville High School under Mark Zeise. Zeise coached Lakeville to a state championship in 2005, then became Lakev-ille South’s first head base-ball coach the next season. He’s now helping with the North program. Bringing together some of the longtime Lakeville baseball coaches was one of the best things about both high school’s teams making the state tourna-ment, Market said. And as the sun set over the third-base line Fri-day at Midway Stadium, Lakeville baseball hon-ored its past, celebrated its present and looked op-timistically toward its fu-ture.

Players from Lakeville North and Lakeville South go through the handshake line after the third-place game at the state Class 3A baseball tournament. Lakeville North won 12-4. (Photo by Mike Shaughnessy)



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Apple Valley Estate Sale, June 20 and June 21, 8 am to 6 pm. Furniture, bed-room set, piano, end ta-bles, beds, kitchen ware, seasonal decorations, women’s clothing and shoes 13010 Garrett Lane

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Bloomington, 6/27-28, Fri 2-7; Sat 8-Noon. Moving- Furn, HH, Woman’s Sz 10, Cloth-ing/Shoes, Electronics, Tires, Luggage, Misc. 9333 Nesbitt Road

Bloomington, June 20 & June 21, 9-4. Downsizing! antiques, sports equip, hh.

6100 West 105th St


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Bloomington, Moving Sale! 6/19-21 (8-5), Lots of yard equip. 5715 Mount Normandale Dr

Bloomington: Multi-Fam-ily Sale! Sat. Only! 6/21, (8-1). Old Shakopee Rd & Normandale Blvd.

Brklyn Park X-mas, HH, Butcher block Tbl, Wmns 8.5 shoes, drapes. 6/19-21 (9-5) 8524 Telford Crossing

Brooklyn Center, 6/21-22 (8-5), Lvg & BR furn, 2 bikes, rugs, deep freeze, fish tanks, HH. 4558 58th Ave N

Brooklyn Park Multi-Fam: 6/25-27, 8am-5pm, Cloz, HH, misc., collectibles, de-cor 7541 Dupont Ave N.

Burnsville Multi-FamilySale 6/26-27 (8-4); 6/28 (8-12) Cloz, furn, HH, applcs & toys 12901 16th Ave. So.

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Eagan Estate Sale Thur-Sat 6/19-6/20, 9-5, 6/21, 9-2. Collectibles: Harley, Boyd’s Bears, Pre-cious Moments, Avon, etc; decor, art, hh, tools, more! 4555 Acorn (off Cliff Rd)

Eden Prairie Moving SaleFurn., exercise equip, misc HH. 6/26 (9-4), 6/27 (9-1). 10115 Gristmill Ridge

Eden Prairie: Downsizing! Furn, books, clothes, HH & more! 6/19-21 (8a-4p)

10910 Purdey Rd

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Fridley, 6/19-21, 9-5. Big Sale with TONS of STUFF!! Cleaned out parent’s place. Pickers de-light! 101 Hartman Cir NE

Golden Valley2205 Wisconsin Ave N 6/19-21, (9-5). CSAC, 3 ga-rages. Misc. items.

Hopkins Moving SaleMoving after 50 years!

Furn., appliances, books, cloz, record albums, dish-es, blue glass, tools, etc.

June 26, 27, 28 (8-5)312 Jefferson Ave. So.

Hopkins: Annual ParkValley Association Sales.

Multi Homes 10+ June 21, 8-2p. 6th Av. S & 7th St. S

Houlton Wi- 6/20 & 6/21,9a -4p. ESTATE SALE-Mov-ing Sale! Antiques,Cash 1411 Thelen Farm Trail

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MUST GO! Furniture * 100’s of

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LAKEVILLE: 17718 King-sway Path 6/26 3-8pm, 6/27 & 28 8-4pm, Multi Family Sale! Loft Bed, HH, dorm furn, baby items, cloz (brand nms) jewelry, col-lectibles & Crafts. Albums.

MedinaANNUAL RUMMAGE SALE

Holy Name of Jesus155 County Rd 24

June 26-27-28; Th 9-8,Fri 9-6, Sat 8-12 (Bag Day).Clothing, books, HH, decor, baby supplies & kid things.


Minnetonka Estate Sale9703 Ann Lane

6/26-27 (9-5); 6/28 (9-1)Antiqs, collectibles, books,

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Minnetonka Sale!June th - th, -.

Childrens cloz, HH, Furn. 5733 Cedar Lane

Minnetonka, 6/19-21, 9-6. Furn, appliances, child & adult cloz, glassware, yarn books. 5721 High Park Dr

New BrightonMulti-Family Something for Everyone! 6/26-27 (8-5); 6/28 (8-12) 510 Inca Ln

Plymouth Moving Sale Cash only. 6/19-21; 6/26-27 (9-6) Toro lwnmower, Char-broil gas grill, wrt iron deck furn, ping-pong tbl, elec. space htr, BR set, tools, equip. 17100 32nd Ave. N.

Plymouth West Ridge Townhomes Nbrhd Sales

20+ Families! Sat., 6/21 (7:30-4) Old Rockford Rd

& Goldenrod Ln North

Plymouth: Estate Sales June 20-21 , 9-5. Reming-ton Bronzes & Gun safe, Check out estatesales.net 4125 Black Oaks Lane N

Robbinsdale - Estate Sale Inside and out. Cash only. June 20, 8-4; June 21, 8-12

4257 Zenith Ave N

Robbinsdale Moving Sale6/27-28, Fri 8-5; Sat 8-2. Furn., HH, garage/tools.3709 Quail Ave. North

Savage, 6/28/14, 8:00 am to 3:00 pm. 20 year daycare going out of business. 5000 W. Hidden Valley Ct.

ST. FRANCISESTATE SALEWorth the drive!

22905 Lake George Blvd6/20 (10-4); 6/21 (10-3)

6/22 (12-3) #’s at 9:30 amGo to: gentlykept.com

St. Louis Park 6/26-28 (9-5)Multi-Family: HH, furn, sleeper sofa/love seat, etc., Ex equip 3141 Idaho Ave S


W Bloomington, Thurs. 6/26, 8 am - 6 pm. Furniture, household items, clothing, misc. 4641 Kingsdale Rd. (off Poplar Bridge Rd.)

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4530 Houses For Rent

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5500 EMPLOYMENT

5510 Full-time

Anchor Bank, N.A.Farmington seeks FT Cus-tomer Service Represen-tative. Requirements: H.S. Diploma or equivalent, 2 yrs. customer service/cash handling exp. required, previous exp. working in a bank customer service role preferred. Must be flexible & available M-F 7:45 am- 6:15 pm, Saturdays 8:45 am - 12:15 pm. Apply online at https://www.anchorlink.com/careers.htm. Anchor Bank - EEO/AA employer

Carpenters WantedEstablished company

seeking self motivated, hard working individu-

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Company DriversFarmington. Class A CDLat least 24 yrs old with 2 yrs experience. Must have current health card and

able to pass drug test. Local, 5-6 days a week Call: 651-423-5388

5510 Full-time

CLASS A DRIVERS NEED-ED IN BROOKLYN PARK & EAGAN!

Local runs, home daily, new equipment, competi-tive pay and benefits!

Local P&D and Linehaul 1st & 2nd shift

3 Years P&D or 1 Year OTR experience required.

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Do you have experi-ence in custom cabi-netry or interested in learning the trade?

Designed Cabinets, Inc.

located in Lakeville, MN is looking to add members to our fam-ily owned and operated business. We are seek-ing experienced and entry level cabinet mak-ers and installers. Also, Lead, experienced and entry level finishers. Please stop in to fill out an application or send us a resume to: [email protected]

Finish CarpentersSchwieters Co. is hiring

finish carpenters. Benefits: medical/dental/401k/

holiday/vacation/tools. Year round work through-

out the metro area. Please call 612-328-3140 to schedule an interview.

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FT OTR Driver must have clean record. Current health card. 3 yrs exp. re-quired. If interested call 507-330-3863

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Hardwood Floor Sanders and or Installers. All Elec-tric Floor Finishing. Full time, with benefits, clean driver’s license and crimi-nal background check. Can start quickly. Burnsville, 952-885-9780

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Receptionist - Burnsville Person to answer phones, greet customers, main-tain service schedule, do invoices & various paper-work. Exp. in Quickbooks & Microsoft office [email protected].

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Sales

HOME IMPROVEMENTS$1,000 Hiring Bonus!!

Custom Remodelers is a Twin City based

multi-million dollar home improvement company.

Due to an over abundance of leads, we are in need

of 2 more sales people for our siding and window

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Customer ServiceBloomington delivery ser-vice seeks experienced individual who enjoys a fast paced environment & working as part of a team. Duties include: Heavy in-bound phones, contact with clients, data entry, typing speed of 60 wpm. Ideal candidate will have excellent phone manner & attention to detail. Hours are Full Time M-F 10:30am - 7:30pm & pay begins at $12.50/hr with medical, sick/vacation time, 401K &

more. Call Diane at 952-767-2560 or email at [email protected]

DRIVERS - SCHOOL BUS

Are you looking for a 4 to 6 hour position?

We need safety conscious people, who like working

with children. Bloomington Public

Schools is offering paid training, health and

dental insurance, pen-sion plan, sick time, paid holidays, flexible hours. Pay is $14.44-17.18/hr

Please call for applications: (952) 681-6300

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PT day cleaner needed immediately in Rogers, $16 per hr. cleaning a small business. Back-ground check & drug test, must have own transpor-tation. Hours are flexible. Contact Bob at rnlundygbpm@gmail .com

Reimbursed Senior Volunteer Positions

Lutheran Social Service of MN is looking for Volun-teers (age 55 & older) to serve in our Senior Com-panion Program by provid-ing friendly in-home visits to elderly adults in Apple

Valley, Burnsville, and Inver Grove Heights. Our volunteers receive a tax-free hourly stipend, as well as mileage reimbursement

and other benefits. Contact Melissa Grimmer at 651-310-9443 or email

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Houseaides FT & PTCommunity Assisted Living is looking for

Houseaides to work in our residential homes

taking care of 5/6 Seniors in Farmington & Apple Valley. We have open-ings for PT Evenings, & FT, PT Nights. All shifts include E/O weekend.

Previous direct care exp. is preferred.

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5540 Healthcare

Individualized Care Provider wanted $13/hr cer-tification req. 651-999-9131




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River Valley Home Care is seeking RN/LPN’s Hast-ings for every other week-end 12hr DAY shifts and every other Saturday 12hr NIGHT shifts. Client is young female requiring “total care”. Email your resume to:[email protected]

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LEGAL NOTICES

EUREKA TOWNSHIPJOB POSTING FOR PART TIME CLERK

The Town Board of Eureka Township isposting for Part time Clerk. Applicants for part time Clerk, should be organized, beable to have flexible hours. Previous Clerkexperience a plus, zoning experience,people skills, communication skills, com-puter skills, familiar with Microsoft Office,and Excel, filing and record keeping.

Position will require evening meetings,2-4 nights a month and 2 days a week(8-15 hours per week). Position will offercompetitive pay. Email resume to: [email protected].

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INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT NO.194

REGULAR SCHOOL BOARD MEETING

MAY 27, 2014This is a summary of the Independent

School District No.194 Regular SchoolBoard Meeting on Tues, May 27, 2014with full text available for public inspec-tion on the district website at www.isd194.k12.mn.us or District Office at 8670 210thStreet W., Lakeville, MN 55044

The meeting was called to order at 7:00p.m. followed by pledge of allegiance. All board members and administrators were present.

Agenda Additions: Summer ProgramsReport moved to June 10; change the or-der of two recommended actions.

Consent agenda items approved: Min-utes of the meeting on May 13; employ-ment recommendations, leave requestsand resignations; payment of bills &claims; wire transfers and investments; altfacilities change orders; donations; fieldtrips and 2015 Jan-June board meetingdates.

Report presented: District/Chamber partnership: Young Entrepreneur Acad-emy (YEA!); consideration of 2.0 art spe-cialist; history of rock and roll resource.

Recommended actions approved: Graduates for class of 2014; Resolutionawarding the sale, determining the form and details, authorizing the execution, delivery and registration, and providing for the payment of $5,065,000 general obli-gation alternative facilities bonds, series2014A; AP government resources; Poli-cies 528-Student Parent, Family & MaritalStatus Nondiscrimination; 529-Staff Noti-fication of Violent Behavior by Students; and 530-Immunization Requirements; ratification of Kid Zone non-licensed in-structors 2013-15 collective bargainingagreement; ratification of LEAF 2013-15 collective bargaining agreement.

iLearn 2.0 BYOD was tabled for further discussion at study session.

Adjournment at 9:52 p.m.Published in the

Burnsville/Eagan, LakevilleJune 20, 2014

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INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 194

SPECIAL BOARD OF EDUCATION MEETING

JUNE 2, 2014This is a summary of the Independent

School District No. 194 Special Board ofEducation Meeting on Monday, June 2, 2014 with full text available for public in-spection on the district website at www.isd194.k12.mn.us or 8670 210th StreetW., Lakeville, MN 55044

The meeting was called to order at 7:00

p.m. All board members and administra-tors were present.

Recommended Actions Approved:John Braun as LSHS Principal; Bret Dom-strand as LME Interim Principal.

Discussions: Long-term technologyinfrastructure finance plan; iLearn 2.0 re-fined proposal; capital levy for technol-ogy; and capital/alt facilities budget re-finements.

Meeting adjourned at 9:17 p.m.Published in the

Burnsville/Eagan, LakevilleJune 20, 2014

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CITY OF LAKEVILLEADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS

Sealed bids in duplicate will be receivedby CITY OF LAKEVILLE for 2014 SkylightReplacement at Heritage Center until 2:00 pm, Monday, July 7, 2014 at which time they will be publicly opened and readaloud. Bidders are invited to attend. Bids received after this time will be returned unopened.

Bids shall be upon form provided inthe Bidding Documents. Envelopes con-taining bids must be sealed and marked “2014 Skylight Replacement at the Heri-tage Center”, with the name and addressof the bidder, and the date and hour of the opening. Bids shall be delivered to:

City ClerkCity of Lakeville20195 Holyoke AvenueLakeville, MN 55044Direct communications regarding this

Project to Gary Larson, Inspec, telephone763-546-3434; [email protected].

Bidding Documents are available for afee via digital download at www.inspec.com. Contact Quest CDN at 952-233-1632 or [email protected] for assis-tance in free membership registration,downloading, and working with this digitalproject information. Paper copies of Bid-ding Documents can be ordered by con-tacting Northstar Imaging Services, Inc.,651-686-0477, for a non-refundable feeplus shipping and handling.

Copies of the Bidding Documents willbe on file and available for inspection atInspec, 5801 Duluth Street, Golden Valley,Minnesota 55422.

Each bidder shall accompany the Bid Form with bid security as described in the Instructions to Bidders.

Bid result information may be viewed at www.inspec.com or may be obtained by sending an e-mail request to [email protected]

A mandatory pre-bid conference will be held at 2:00 pm, Tuesday, June 24, 2014at the Project site.


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SPECIAL BOARD OF EDUCATION MEETING

MAY 27, 2014This is a summary of the Independent

School District No. 194 Special Board ofEducation Meeting on Tuesday, May 27, 2014 with full text available for public in-spection on the district website at www.isd194.k12.mn.us or 8670 210th Street W., Lakeville, MN 55044

The meeting was called to order at 5:00p.m. All board members and administra-tors were present.

Discussions: 2014-15 budget plan up-date and budget book review; iLearn 2.0 BYOD research sites.

Meeting adjourned at 6:55 p.m.Published in the

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DAKOTA COUNTY COMMUNITY

DEVELOPMENT AGENCY(CDA)

ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDSEAGAN, MN 55123

Notice is hereby given that sealed bids will be received by the Office of the Director of Community and Economic Development, Da-kota County Community Develop-ment Agency (CDA), until 2:00 PM, Tuesday, July 8, 2014, at the office of the Dakota County CDA, 1228 Town Centre Drive, Eagan, MN 55123, at which time they will be publicly opened and read aloud for the furnishing of all labor and mate-rials for the abatement and demoli-tion of property located at 938 and 940 South Robert Street, West St. Paul, Minnesota, 55118.

Bids received after this time and date will be rejected. No telephone bids or fax bids will be accepted. Bids shall be on the forms provided for that purpose and according to the bidding documents prepared by Dakota County CDA. Bid forms and specifications may be seen and obtained by contacting Lisa Henning at (651)-675-4467 or [email protected]. A bid tabulation or other bid result will be furnished to the Bidders. Bids shall be addressed to: Dakota County CDA, 1228 Town Centre Drive, Eagan, MN 55123, securely sealed and endorsed upon the out-side wrapper, with the Project Ad-dress and Bid Due Date.

The CDA hereby notifies all bid-ders that in regard to any Contract entered into pursuant to this adver-tisement, Disadvantaged Business Enterprises (D.M.E.) will be afford-ed full opportunity to submit bids and / or proposals and will not be subjected to discrimination on the basis of race, color, sex, age, reli-gion, or national origin. The work to be performed under this Contract is subject to the requirements of Sec-tion 3 of the Housing and Redevel-opment Act of 1968.

The Dakota County CDA re-serves the right to reject any and all bids, to waive irregularities and informalities therein and to award the Contract in the best interest of the CDA.LISA HENNING, ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF COMMUNITY AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENTDAKOTA COUNTY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AGENCYEAGAN, MINNESOTA

Published in theSun Thisweek Apple Valley, Lakeville, Burnsville, Eagan

June 20, 27, 2014239250

NEW MARKET TOWNSHIPPUBLIC NOTICE

New Market Township is accepting sealed bids on a 2006 Caterpillar 143 HMotor Grader with approximately 4200hours, but is still in service. Grader has a14 ft moldboard, RDO Packer, and a oneway snow plow. Any questions regard-ing the Grader contact Chairman MarkoPopovich 612 247 0967. Sealed bids willbe accepted until 12:00 noon, TuesdayJuly 8, 2014. Bids should be mailed or

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delivered to New Market Township Clerk,8950 230th St E Lakeville, Mn. 55044.Bids will be reviewed and awarded at the monthly meeting July 8, 2014 at 8:00 PM. The Grader will be sold to the highest bidder,however, the Township will have areserve price based on fair market value. Ifthe reserve is not met, New Market Town-ship reserves the right to terminate thesale of the Grader until further notice

LeRoy Clausen, ClerkNew Market Township


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ROSEMOUNT-APPLE VALLEY-EAGAN

PUBLIC SCHOOLSCALL FOR BIDS

RESOURCE MANAGEMENTNotice is hereby given that

sealed bids will be received for the service of Resource Manage-ment (Waste Processing, Re-cycling and Composting) at the Independent School District 196 Facilities Department, located at 14445 Diamond Path, Rosemount, MN 55068, until 2 p.m., local time on Tuesday, July 1, 2014 at which time and place bids will be publicly opened and read aloud.

Bid forms and specifications maybe obtained at the Facilities Department of Independent School District 196, 14445 Diamond Path West, Rosemount, Minnesota 55068.

A 5% Bid Bond, Certified Check or Cashier’s Check must be sub-mitted with the bid.

The School Board of Indepen-dent School District 196 reserves the right to reject any or all bids and to waive any informality in bidding.

If you should have questions regarding this bid you may contact the Mike Schwanke at (651) 423-7702.Gary Huusko, Board ClerkIndependent School District 196Rosemount, MN 55068

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Lakeville, Burnsville/EaganJune 13, 20, 2014

235597INDEPENDENT SCHOOL

DISTRICT NO. 194ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS

Child Nutrition ProgramMilk Products Bid

ISD #194 Lakeville Area Schools will receive sealed bids at the District Office,attention Pam Lundberg-Schmidt, Pur-chasing Coordinator, 8670 210th Street West, Lakeville, MN 55044, on July 8,2014 until 10:00 a.m., at which time and place all bids will be publicly opened and read aloud for the Child Nutrition Program -- Milk Products.

Specifications may be picked-up on orabout June 19, 2014 at the office of thePurchasing Coordinator, at ISD #194,8670 210th Street West, Lakeville, MN55044.

ISD #194 Lakeville Area Public Schools8670 210th Street WestLakeville, Minnesota 55044Michelle Volk, Clerk

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ville Arts Festival. All rides start at 9 a.m. Schneider, a retired Da-kota County employee, said the rides are fun, en-vironmentally responsible and allow people a fun way to exercise. The events could also serve as an aid for par-ents interested in teaching children about bike riding safety. “When we have stop signs or red lights, we all wait and go together so we can safely cross the street,” Schneider said.

People of every age and ability are invited to take part in the rides. All par-ticipants are required to wear helmets and will re-ceive a Rules of the Road card and Minnesota Trails Summer 2014 Biking is-sue. The rides cost $5 per family and registrations are being accepted online at www.ci.lakeville.mn.us or at City Hall, 20195 Holyoke Avenue.


PEDAL, from 1A

Burnsville man wins $1 million in PowerballWinning ticket nearly ended

up in the wash Burnsville resident Joe McGlynn was one of two Minnesotans to win $1 million in the Saturday, June 7, Powerball drawing from the Minnesota State Lottery. “I sat on $1 million for days,” McGlynn said in a lottery press release, refer-ring to the $1 million win-ning Powerball ticket that he had unknowingly car-ried in his wallet for four days. McGlynn purchased his winning ticket at Cub Foods, 300 E. Travelers Trail in Burnsville, on June 7. He put the ticket in his wallet and didn’t discover that it was worth $1 mil-lion until June 11. “I didn’t sleep last night,” he said as he claimed the prize at the lottery’s headquarters in Roseville on June 12. The $1 million winning ticket had a close call with a washing machine earlier

that week, but luck was still on his side. “I put my pants in the washing machine and saw my wallet at the last second and got it out of there,” he said. McGlynn’s ticket was one of two that matched the first five winning Pow-erball numbers drawn on June 7 to each win $1 mil-lion. Being just one num-ber away from winning the jackpot, which was worth $227.3 million, doesn’t bother McGlynn. He said he is very happy with $1 million. The winning numbers on June 7 were 28-30-35-58-59 and the Powerball was 15. The other $1 million winner from Saturday’s drawing, Todd Solarz, of Duluth, purchased his winning ticket at Holiday Stationstores, 9314 W. Skyline Parkway in Proc-tor.


Kids will be tapping their feet to the music of the Women’s Drum Center next week at Caponi Art Park in Eagan. The St. Paul-based percussion group will showcase drum-ming styles from around the world during a performance June 24 that’s part of the summer-long Family Fun Tuesdays series held each week in the art park’s sculpture garden. All of the Family Fun Tuesdays events run from 10-11 a.m. and admission is free with a $4 per person suggested donation. (Photo submitted)

Global beats at Caponi

theater and arts briefs

theater and arts calendar

Kelley Park concert Jaybee and the Rou-tine, a funk and rhythm and blues band, will per-form 6-9 p.m. Friday, June 20, in Apple Valley’s Kelley Park located at Founders Lane and West 153rd Street. Admission is free to the outdoor concert, which is part of the sum-mer-long Music in Kelley Park series hosted by the Apple Valley Arts Foun-dation. Food vendors will be on hand offer-ing festival food such as burgers and brats along with wine and beer. More information is at www.av-artsfoundation.org.

Eagan Art Festival The 20th annual Ea-gan Art Festival will be held June 28-29 at Eagan Central Park, 1501 Cen-tral Parkway. There’s no cost for admission to the festival, which features a juried art show of 100 artists, musical entertain-ment, food, children’s art activities and a commu-nity art project. More is at www.eaganartfestival.org.

Yanni at Mystic Lake Composer and pianist Yanni takes the Mystic Showroom stage at 8 p.m. Friday, Sept. 5. Born Yiannis Chrys-somallis, the boy who would one day become

internationally known as Yanni spent his child-hood in Kalamata, Greece, before coming to the Twin Cities to study psychology at the Uni-versity of Minnesota. After touring regionally with Minneapolis-based rock group Chameleon,

he moved to Los Angeles and embarked on his solo career. Since then, Yanni has sold more than 20 million albums worldwide, scor-ing a total of 35 platinum and gold certifications to date. Tickets are $49 and

$59. Contact the box of-fice at 952-445-9000 or visit mysticlake.com for more details.

Summer art classes Space is still available in several summer classes

at the Eagan Art House. Classes include: The Great Art-doors, Clay & Sculpture, Painting, Drawing, Bookmaking, Art Around the World and Storybook Art. Visit www.eaganart-house.org for detailed class information or call the Eagan Art House at 651-675-5521.

On Tap craft beer fest Mystic Lake will debut On Tap @ Mystic Craft Beer Fest 2-6 p.m. Satur-day, Aug. 9. The outdoor party will feature live music by Pert Near Sand-stone and The Dan Band, food trucks and craft beer from more than two dozen local brewers. Admission includes a T-shirt, coupon book, beer samples and a col-lectible glass. Festival-goers will have the op-portunity to vote for the best craft beer in several categories, and the top 12 brewers will each win one month on tap at a Mystic Lake bar. Tickets are $40. Des-ignated driver tickets are $10. Guests must be at least 21 to attend. Infor-mation: www.mysticlake.com/ontap14.

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

[email protected].

Books Mystery Writer’s Work-shop with authors Marilyn Jax and Craig MacIntosh, 1-3 p.m. Saturday, June 28, Barnes & Noble, 14880 Flor-ence Trail, Apple Valley.

Dance Jawaahir Dance Compa-ny: Middle Eastern Dancing, 6:30 p.m. Sunday, July 6, Ca-poni Art Park’s Theater in the Woods, Eagan. Suggested donation of $5 per person. In-formation: caponiartpark.org.

Events/festivals Farmington Dew Days, June 17-21. Information: farmingtondewdays.com. Rosemount ArtBlast, June 23-29. Information: http://sunthisweek.com/tag/artblast/. Apple Valley Freedom Days, June 27 to July 4. In-formation: avfreedomdays.com. Eagan Art Festival, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, June 28, and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sun-day, June 29, at Central Park, Eagan. Information: www.ea-ganartfestival.org. Eagan Funfest, July 3-4. Information: www.eaganfun-fest.org. Lakeville Pan-O-Prog, July 4-13. Information: www.panoprog.org.

Exhibits East Asian painting ex-hibit, June 1-Aug. 31, Robert Trail Library, 14395 S. Robert Trail, Rosemount. Digital Impressionism photography exhibit by Bec-qi Sherman, June 2-July 31, Lakeville Area Arts Center, 20965 Holyoke Ave. Informa-tion: 952-985-4640.

Music Music in Kelley Park fea-turing Jaybee and the Rou-tine, 6-9 p.m. Friday, June 20, at Kelley Park, 6855 Fortino St., Apple Valley. Free. Food and beverages available for purchase. Jonny Lang, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, June 21, in the am-phitheater at the Minnesota Zoo as part of Subway Mu-sic in the Zoo. Tickets: $65, $77.50 VIP box seat. Informa-tion: http://mnzoo.org/plan-your-visit/music-zoo/. Minnesota Sinfonia, 6:30 p.m. Sunday, June 22, Ca-poni Art Park’s Theater in the Woods, Eagan. Suggested donation of $5 per person. Rain date: June 29 at 6:30

p.m. Information: caponiart-park.org. Los Lobos, 7:30 p.m. Sunday, June 22, in the am-phitheater at the Minnesota Zoo as part of Subway Mu-sic in the Zoo. Tickets: $45, $57.50 VIP box seat. Informa-tion: http://mnzoo.org/plan-your-visit/music-zoo/. John Hiatt/Robert Cray, 7:30 p.m. Monday, June 23, in the amphitheater at the Min-nesota Zoo as part of Subway Music in the Zoo. Tickets: $54, $66.50 VIP box seat. In-formation: http://mnzoo.org/plan-your-visit/music-zoo/. Rufus Wainwright with Lucy Wainwright Roche, 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, June 24, in the amphitheater at the Minnesota Zoo as part of Subway Music in the Zoo. Tickets: $39, $51.50 VIP box seat. Information: http://mn-zoo.org/plan-your-visit/mu-sic-zoo/. Ageless, pop rock by teens and preteens from the Twin Cities, 7 p.m. on June 25 as part of the Wednesday in the Park Concert Series at Civic Center Park, 75 Civic Center Parkway, Burnsville. Free. South of the River Com-munity Band, 7 p.m. Thurs-day, June 26, Central Park Amphitheater near City Hall, Rosemount. Free. Weather-related updates: 651-322-6020, option No. 6. Big Head Todd & The Monsters, 7:30 p.m. Friday, June 27, in the amphitheater at the Minnesota Zoo as part of Subway Music in the Zoo. Tickets: $36, $48.50 VIP box seat. Information: http://mn-zoo.org/plan-your-visit/mu-sic-zoo/. Rosemount Sings, 3 p.m. Sunday, June 29, Steeple Center, 14375 S. Robert Trail, Rosemount. Information: www.RosemountArts.com. Taj Mahal & Mavis Sta-ples, 7:30 p.m. Sunday, June 29, in the amphitheater at the Minnesota Zoo as part of Subway Music in the Zoo. Tickets: $50, $62.50 VIP box seat. Information: http://mn-zoo.org/plan-your-visit/mu-sic-zoo/. Chico Chavez World Music Blend, 7 p.m. Sun-day, June 29, as part of Sun-day Night Music in the Park at Nicollet Commons Park, 12600 Nicollet Ave., Burns-ville. Free.

Theater “Barefoot in the Park” presented by the Front Porch Players, June 20-21, Steeple Center, 14375 S. Robert Trail, Rosemount. Information:

Eagan Market Fest is getting jazzed up next week with a performance from the BBB Jazz Orchestra. The group’s concerts capture the spirit of the “big band” era of Glenn Miller, Duke Ellington and Count Basie, presenting a vari-ety of styles encompassing jazz, blues, swing and Latin. Admission is free to Market Fest, a weekly farmers market and community festival held on Wednesday nights throughout the summer at Eagan’s Central Park festival grounds, with live music each week at the Rotary Band Shell. The BBB Jazz Orchestra concert on Wednesday, June 25, runs from 4-8 p.m. More on the event is at www.cityofeagan.com. (Photo submitted)

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www.RosemountArts.com. “The Jungle Book” pre-sented by Children’s Castle Theater, 7 p.m. June 27-28 and 2 p.m. June 28-29, Lakeville Area Arts Center, 20965 Holyoke Ave. Tickets: $10 adults, $8 seniors and children 12 and under. Infor-mation: 952-985-4640.

Workshops/classes/other Art-themed birthday par-ties are offered by the Eagan Art House, 3981 Lexington Ave. S. Cost: $125-$135 for up to 10 people. Additional guests are $12.50 per child. Supplies provided. Informa-tion: 651-675-5521. Arts classes for all ages are offered by the Eagan Art House, 3981 Lexington Ave. S. Information: www.eagan-arthouse.org, 651-675-5521. Teen Poetry Jam/Rap Battle, 4-5 p.m. the first Tuesday of each month at Ap-ple Valley Teen Center, 14255 Johnny Cake Ridge Road, Apple Valley, 952-953-2385. Ages 12-18. Adult painting open stu-dio, 9 a.m. to noon Fridays at the Eagan Art House, 3981 Lexington Ave. S. Fee is $5 per session. Information: 651-675-5521. Drawing & Painting (adults and teens) with Chris-tine Tierney, 9 a.m. to noon Wednesdays, River Ridge Arts Building, Burnsville. In-formation: www.christinetier-ney.com, 612-210-3377. Brushworks School of Art Burnsville offers fine art education through draw-ing and painting. Classes for adults and teens. Informa-tion: 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., Burns-ville, www.cokartscenter.com, 952-736-3644. Join other 55-plus adults at the Eagan Art House to create beaded jewelry. The Jewelry Club meets on the third Friday of each month from 1-3 p.m. Information: 651-675-5500. Soy candle making classes held weekly in Eagan near 55 and Yankee Doodle. Call Jamie at 651-315-4849 for dates and times. $10 per person. Presented by Making Scents in Minnesota. Country line dance classes held for intermedi-ates 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. Begin-ners, 9-10 a.m.; Intermediate, 10 a.m. to noon. $5/class. Call Marilyn 651-463-7833. The Lakeville Area Arts Center offers arts classes for all ages, www.lakevillemn.gov, 952-985-4640. Rosemount History Book Club meets 6:30-8 p.m. the second Tuesday of each month at the Rob-ert Trail Library. Information: John Loch, 952-255-8545 or [email protected].

Front Porch Players offer two distinct performances

by Nick HassettSUN THISWEEK


One show is a Tony-nominated Broadway the-ater production. The other is a melodrama in which audience members are provided marshmallows to hurl at the villain. The common thread is they’re both being staged by Rosemount’s Front Porch Players. The theater group, spon-sored by the Rosemount Area Arts Council, opened its first major production, “Barefoot In The Park,” last weekend. The classic Neil Simon play will run through this weekend at the Steeple Center in Rosemount. “We’re brand new, and just getting into summer,” said Keith Reed, president and artistic director of the Front Porch Players. “But the people that came really enjoyed it.” Rehearsals for “Bare-foot In The Park” ran four or five nights a week for four weeks, and required a lot from the actors. “It’s a highly scripted performance,” Reed said. Alan Davis, a theater veteran who plays the char-acter Victor Velasco, said he enjoyed watching the show come together. “The cast here is a lot of people who don’t have much experience, and it’s been a learning process,” he said. “It’s fun to watch peo-

ple come to terms with the work involved and develop their characters.” In that regard, Davis had a leg up on his peers. His character is one he played before, 7 years ago in Bloomington. “Victor is one of those roles for mature males that is just a delight to do,” he said. This weekend marks the final performances of “Barefoot In The Park,” and the theater group be-gins showing an entirely different kind of play the following week. “They’re not on the same level,” Reed said. “But they’re not meant to be.” “A Penny Saved,” a melodrama, will be per-formed Wednesday June 25, at Rosemount’s Central Park Amphitheater. It’s a part of the council’s first Art Blast, and encourages the audience to “cheer the hero and boo the villain.” “We’re able to take a lot more liberties with the act-ing,” Reed said. Beth Adams, who helped with the production of “Barefoot In The Park” and plays a character in “A Penny Saved,” said the 45 minute melodrama is like an “old black and white film, with the lady on the train tracks.” “We’ve had a lot of fun with it,” she said. “It’s silly, it incorporates the audi-ence and the fourth wall

disappears.” The creation of the Front Porch Players was something of a dream for Reed. “It’s his baby, so to speak,” Adams said. “It’s been a pleasure to see his dream come into fruition, and neat to see (theater) come to Rosemount. I think it’ll just grow from here.” Originally started with the help of the council, the Front Porch Players is an independent corporation run by Reed, who intends to direct most of the group’s major shows. He plans to enlist the help of other di-rectors to put on three to four shows in a year. “My goal has been to eventually create a com-munity theater for Rose-mount,” Reed said. “This is happening now.” Davis said the interest has been there for some time. “For years I’ve heard people talk about wanting to start a (theater) group in Rosemount,” Davis said. “But they just didn’t have the venue.” The Front Porch Players found such a venue in the Steeple Center. Formerly a church, the Steeple Center is the de facto performing space for the Front Porch Players. Though construc-tion on the Steeple Center

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Friday, June 20 Outdoor movie, “Fro-zen,” rated PG, 7:30 p.m., dusk showtime, Nicollet Commons Park in the Heart of the City, Burnsville.

Saturday, June 21 Movies in the Park, “De-spicable Me 2,” at dusk at the Central Park Amphithe-ater near City Hall, Rose-mount. Bring blankets and lawn chairs. Weather-related updates: 651-322-6020, op-tion No. 6.

Tuesday, June 24 Family Fun Tuesday – Music and Styles Around the World with the Women’s Drum Center, 10-11 a.m. in the Sculpture Garden at Ca-poni Art Park, Eagan. $4 per person donation suggested. Information: 651-454-9412 or www.caponiartpark.org. Tuesday Evenings in the Garden – Lemon Trees with Kay Schutte, 6:30-8 p.m. in the red barn on the Dakota County Fairgrounds, 4008 220th St. W., Farmington. Lemons and other citrus can be grown in Minnesota. This class covers plant selection, soil and care of a variety of citrus plants. Free. Class size is limited; register by calling 651-480-7700. Information: www.dakotamastergarden-ers.org.

Wednesday, June 25 Eagan Market Fest, 4-8 p.m., Eagan Festival Grounds at Central Park, 1501 Central Parkway. Farmers market, entertainment by BBB Jazz Orchestra. Information: www.cityofeagan.com/marketfest or 651-675-5500.

Third party/grandparent custody informational clin-ic, 1-3 p.m., Dakota County Northern Service Center, 1 Mendota Road W., West St. Paul, Room 520. To register, contact Legal Assistance of Dakota County Ltd. at 952-431-3200.

Thursday, June 26 Music in the Parks – Wonderful World of Woody, 10 a.m., Camfield Park, 14795 Canada Ave., Rose-mount. Weather-related up-dates: 651-322-6020, option No. 6. Thursday Rockin’ Read-ers, 11 a.m., Nicollet Com-mons Park, 12600 Nicollet Ave., Burnsville. Sioux Trail Elementary Principal Shan-non McParland will read books to children. Books are geared toward elementary and preschool children. Kidz Dance will perform at noon for the Thursday Rockin’ Lunch Hour concert at Nicollet Commons Park, 12600 Nicollet Ave., Burns-ville. Free.

Friday, June 27 Ladies Night fundraising benefit, 6-8 p.m., Waterford Commons clubhouse, 2930 146th St. W., Rosemount. Features hors d’oeuvres, wine, art gallery, massage, gift basket auction and more. RSVP: Narate Judie Keys, 763-607-2752; Karri Abbott, 651-983-3825; Nicole Major, 612-910-8971. Donations ac-cepted at www.NarateKeys.com.

Sunday, June 29 Tea and meditation event, 1-3 p.m. YogaSoul Center, 3348 Sherman Court, Eagan. Donation requested. Information: www.yogasoul-center.com.

Ongoing Garage sale, June 19-21 at St. John the Baptist Catho-lic Church, 4625 W. 125th St., Savage. Hours: 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. June 19-20; bag sale, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. June 21, $5 a bag or five bags for $20. Information: 952-890-9465, www.stjohns-savage.org.

Reunions Henry Sibley Senior High School Class of 1974 – 40 Year Reunion, Aug. 9, Lost Spur Golf & Event Center, Eagan. For details and reg-istration 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 redcrossblood.org to make an appointment or for more information. • June 23, 8 a.m. to 2 p.m., Southwest Area YMCA, 550 Opperman Drive, Eagan. • June 24, 1-7 p.m., Amer-ican Legion, 12375 Princeton Ave., Savage. • June 26, 8 a.m. to 2 p.m., Eastview High School, 6200 140th St. W., Apple Val-ley. • June 27, noon to 6 p.m., Qdoba, 1298 Promenade Place, Eagan. • June 28, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Kowalski’s Market, 1646 Diffley Road, Eagan.

Homegrown troupe shares the magic of tap Rhythmic Circus performs at Burnsville’s Ames Center July 25-26

by Andrew MillerSUN THISWEEK


Since its debut in 2008, Rhythmic Circus has em-barked on something of a global odyssey. The Minneapolis-based dance and funk music troupe has performed its show, “Feet Don’t Fail Me Now,” for h u n d r e d s of audienc-es across the United States, gone on a seven-week tour of China, and claimed the coveted “Spirit of the Fringe” award at the Fringe Festival in Edin-burgh, Scotland. “For us, it’s all about sharing this with as many people as we can,” said Nick Bowman, executive director of Rhythmic Cir-cus and one of the group’s four tap dancers. “Our goal initially was to just share what we were doing with dance, and we never really imagined it would grow into this.” Rhythmic Circus will be staging two perfor-mances of “Feet Don’t Fail Me Now” at Burns-ville’s Ames Center on

July 25-26 before heading out on the next leg of its international adventure — 25 shows at this year’s Fringe Festival in Scot-land, followed by a tour of the Netherlands. “The name ‘Feet Don’t Fail Me Now’ comes from

an old New Orleans chant dating back to the 1800s,” explained Bowman. “They’d have parades in New Orleans every Sun-day, just to celebrate, and we adopted that chant as a rallying cry to bring back that spirit of celebration.”

The Burnsville shows will include Rhythmic Cir-cus’s new dance number, “The Great Big Ending,” as the finale to the first act. The troupe, which fea-tures four dancers and a seven-member band that includes a beatboxer, is

rooted in the Minneapo-lis arts scene. The dancers first met as kids through the Twin Cities’ dance competition scene, and Rhythmic Circus’s core group of musicians share a childhood connection — they shared the same bus

route as elementary school students. The dance contingent first crossed paths with the musicians at the Min-nesota State Fair Amateur Talent Competition in the summer of 1998. They connected backstage at the state fair’s Grandstand while waiting to perform, and soon decided to join forces for what would eventually become Rhyth-mic Circus. The coming year holds a performance of special significance for the group — in May 2015 they’ll be headlining a show at the famed Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. “We’ve been lucky to play our music and dance for people all over the world,” Bowman said. “It’s been so exciting to watch it unfold and see the momentum we’ve built.” Tickets for the Burns-ville performances of “Feet Don’t Fail Me Now,” which is an all-ages show, are available at the Ames Center Box Office and through Ticketmaster. More about the troupe is at www.rhythmiccircus.com.


Rhythmic Circus features four dancers and a seven-member band that includes a beatboxer. The troupe will perform two shows at Burnsville’s Ames Center in July before heading overseas for the Fringe Festival in Scotland. (Photo submitted)

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and an adjacent building will force the group out of their theater home for months, Reed thinks the renovations will be worth the wait. “It’s a little disappoint-ing,” he said. “But progress is progress, and we’ll be able to do things bigger and better.”

The renovations will re-place the Steeple Center’s single bathroom with a larger restroom area, add blinds to the windows in the theater to shutter out sunlight during matinee performances, and connect the Steeple Center to an activity center next door, among other improve-ments. Adams says she wants

to continue working with Reed to bring more plays to the south metro. “Theater can bring such joy to people. It’s a good way to get involved,” she said. “It really helps the community come together. I definitely want to stay in tune and work with Keith to make his dream come true.”

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Lewis House offers children support Children find support at 360 Communities Lewis House

by Dawn WillSPECIAL TO SUN THISWEEKDAKOTA COUNTY TRIBUNE

A little boy pulls out a Jenga block from the tow-er and has an older girl beside him read the saying on it aloud. “What makes you cry?” she says. It’s a typical weekly children’s support group session at the 360 Com-munities Lewis House in Eagan. The boy doesn’t know how to answer so others help by suggesting situations. “I’d probably cry if I was stung by a bee,” he ad-mits. A moment later, his hands are touching the blocks, eager to help oth-ers pull out their own phrases. “Feelings” Jenga is played like regular Jen-ga, but with a twist – the blocks have handwritten statements such as “What makes you angry?,” “Talk about your family,” and “What makes you spe-cial?” 360 Communities Par-ent/Child Advocate Do-reen L’Allier, the group fa-cilitator, uses the modified game to get these school-aged children to talk about their feelings because they are from families where domestic violence is com-mon. A typical child sup-port group has 10 to 12 children. There are three children attending to-night. “It’s a safe place for them to talk about what’s going on in their lives,” L’Allier said. “The ben-efits of this group is that it breaks the isolation that many kids feel because of that violence. The abusive person uses power and control to hurt them. This

is very shameful and hurt-ful and our group works to break the silence of what has been happening.” 360 Communities oper-ates two Lewis House sex-ual and domestic violence shelters, one in Eagan and another in Hastings. In 2013, more than 3,000 people benefited from 360 Communities’ violence prevention intervention programming, including nearly 500 children. The game continues until the little boy takes off the entire top part of the Jenga tower and asks the older girl again to read the phrases. Each one an-swers them until the tow-er collapses. The timing is perfect because that’s when Molly arrives. The kids rush to the door and bend down to pet her.

Molly, a 5-year-old chocolate cocker span-iel therapy dog, wags her stubby tail in greeting. She’s been here before and her nose immediately starts sniffing the floor, searching for the Cheerios she knows are hiding near-by. Soon, the adults hand the children small cups of Cheerios so they can feed her. “Molly the Dental Dog” visits the child sup-port group once a month. She’s been a therapy dog for two years and lives with owner Mary Reck, her husband and other foster dogs on a hobby farm in Hampton. “It was something I al-ways wanted to do,” she said. This is Reck’s first therapy dog. Molly spends most of her time at Apple-

wood Family Dental in Woodbury, but ventures out to help others. Reck learned about the children’s support group after visiting a similar group in St. Paul. They’ve been visiting for more than a year and are members of Pet Partners, a nonprofit that promotes “positive human-animal interaction to improve the physical, emotional and psychological lives” of the people they serve. Studies have shown the benefits of pet therapy in treating depression, post-traumatic stress disorder and more. According to Paws for People, another nonprofit that provides pet therapy visits to people in need, pet therapy can have a calming effect by causing the release of endorphins

(oxytocin) in the body. They say that interaction with therapy animals can also decrease feelings of isolation and alienation, as well as provide comfort. It’s not difficult to see the effect Molly has on the child support group kids. “She’s cute,” says one of the girls. “She makes me feel very happy.” These are common sen-timents. The girl then tells Reck stories about dogs she’s known. “Molly brings joy to the kids especially if they’re missing their own dog,” L’Allier said.

Reck tells the story a 4 or 5-year-old boy at a pre-vious visit to Lewis House. She was told ahead of time that he was afraid of dogs. She said he stayed in the corner away from Molly for a while. Eventu-ally, he came up to Molly and even started feeding and petting her. At the end of the evening, the little boy gave Reck a big hug. “Molly has that effect on kids,” Reck said.

Dawn Will is a freelance writer covering the Twin Cities metro.

“Feelings” Jenga is played like regular Jenga, but with a twist – the blocks have handwritten statements such as “What makes you angry?,” “Talk about your family,” and “What makes you special?” The game is played at 360 Communities Lewis House in an effort to help chil-dren share their feelings. (Photo submitted)

Molly, a 5-year-old chocolate cocker spaniel therapy dog, and owner Mary Reck visit children at 360 Communities Lewis House in an effort to help give comfort to those who may have been affected by domestic assault. (Photo submitted)

For information on support groups for adults, school aged children and teens, contact 360 Com-munities Lewis House in Eagan at 651-452-7288 or in Hastings at 651-437-1291. Interested in helping at 360 Communities? Visit the website www.360Communities.org or call 952-985-4017 for more information. People can like “Molly The Dental Dog” on Facebook and follow her latest adventures at www.facebook.com/pages/Molly-the-Dental-Dog/1433738006839683.

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