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South Burnsville noise walls may be built in 2015
Former Rosemount school building to be demolished St. Joseph’s Catholic School to be removed to make way for senior housing
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BY JOSEPH PALMERSHEIM CONTRIBUTING WRITER Nearly three years after class was last dismissed, a former school building in Rosemount might be facing its last summer vacation. Demolition work could begin this summer at the former St. Joseph’s Catholic School at 143rd Street West and South Robert Trail to make way for senior housing. According to Community Development Director Kim Lindquist, a concept plan for the site calls for a 68-unit senior housing development (with a third of that total devoted to memory care) SCHOOL: TO PAGE 14
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are under control, Scheerer said, and massive winter fishkills are a thing of the past. Alimagnet reached a milestone late last year, the first time it met Minnesota Pollution Control Agency
Noise walls on both sides of Interstate 35W in southernmost Burnsville could be built in 2015. A proposed 1,150-foot wall on the west side would reduce traffic noise at the Sunny Acres mobile home park. A 1,700-foot wall on the east side would shield single-family homes, duplexes and fourplexes next to the frontage road. First, the Minnesota Department of Transportation will survey affected property owners and residents. Neighborhoods nearly always answer “yes” by a large majority to MnDOT’s rare proposals to build new noise walls, said Peter Wasko, the agency’s metro noise abatement program manager. At a March 13 work session,
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The former St. Joseph’s Catholic School building on 143rd Street and South Robert Trail could be demolished this Weekly summer to make way for senior housing. The school moved to a new building in 2009. The adjoining church at Super the site was renamedSavings! the Steeple Center, and is a multi-use community center. (Photo by Joseph Palmersheim – Contributing writer)
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Lake FROM PAGE 1 standards to be removed from the state’s impaired-waters list. Such readings averaged over a decade are needed to actually remove a lake from the list, but Alimagnet seems to be on its way, said Daryl Jacobson, Burnsville’s water-resources specialist. Alimagnet had “the lowest water quality in the city for a number of years,� Jacobson said. “It’s been pretty remarkable,� he said. “I’m always cautiously optimistic because the environmental factors in water quality are unpredictable because there are so many. The weather, the climate, all those different things play a big role. “But we have seen improvement, I think, every year for the past five years, with phosphorous reductions every year, clarity increasing, and the amount
of algae decreasing every year as well. Between 2008 and 2011, clarity has about doubled.� Another Burnsville lake, Earley Lake, came off the list in 2010, Jacobson said. Crystal and Keller lakes remain on the list, along with Lac Lavon. The latter — “one of the cleanest lakes in the entire metro� — is on the list for mercury levels, not the typical pollutants, Jacobson said. A total of 3,638 Minnesota water bodies are labeled impaired by the PCA. Scheerer, who is president of the Alimagnet Lake Association, said the lake is in the best shape since he moved there in 1994. “I think last summer we saw marked improvement,� he said. He gives much of the credit to the banning of phosphorous fertilizers at least a decade ago. But the cities of Burnsville and Apple Valley, each of which contains LAKE: TO PAGE 22
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City: Lakeville is ‘Positioned to Thrive’ New marketing effort coming to the city BY AARON M VEHLING – SUN NEWSPAPERS When it comes to selling Lakeville to the region, state and neighboring states, the city is “Positioned to Thrive.” That is the new tag line developed as part of an overall marketing effort the city is undertaking with the help of urban planning consultants Arnett Muldrow of North Carolina. Among the goals is the idea of showing prospective businesses, residents and tourists what sets Lakeville apart from other suburbs in the metro. It is a way to recruit new businesses by targeting and engaging corporate site selectors and decision makers, said Community and Economic Development Director Dave Olson. “There are a lot of cities (in the metro) with populations of 40-to-50,000,” Olson said. “It portrays a positive brand image for Lakeville.” Olson will present the full plan at the March 21 State of the City presentation, but he offered a preview at the Downtown Lakeville Business Association meeting on March 14. The strategy is not just a method for attracting new people to the city, though. It also is about growing and retaining existing businesses, according to the plan. The $32,000 marketing plan, paid for by a grant from Dakota County, was borne of an extensive process that involved more than 36 interviews, a number of roundtables and Arnett Muldrow’s detailed “community reconnaissance,” regional tours and photo shoots. The firm also interviewed local high school students to get feedback from the next generation. Ongoing funding of the effort, an amount less than the front-loaded costs, is set aside in the 2012 and 2013 budgets, Olson said. The strength behind the effort was a steering committee that consisted of members of the city’s Economic Development Commission, the Chamber of Commerce, the DLBA and city staff
over the course of three meetings. The decision for the prevailing tag line was a unanimous one, Olson said. Arnett Muldrow had recommended the city replace its current tag line, “The southern gateway to the Twin Cities,” because of its implication. “It has served us well,” Olson said, “but their perception of that was in some people’s minds a gateway is something you pass through on the way to someplace else. Obviously, that’s not what we want to portray.” Implementation of the plan includes a redesigned economic development website, the use of Google Analytics to measure the web success of the message, online and print advertising and improved use of social media options. The advertising campaign will center on variations of the tag-line theme, if not the tag line itself. Production samples show variations such as “Positioned for business” and “Thriving downtown” for those ads aimed toward economic development. Arts-themed ads might use “The arts thrive here.” For families looking to locate in Lakeville, there is “Positioned for life.” The next step is the creation of a Partners Committee, Olson said, which will discuss joint uses of the identity and creative pieces. The Lakeville school district administration has expressed an interest in becoming part of this process, Olson said. The initial marketing efforts will begin locally and regionally and spread statewide and to neighboring states as the process progresses, Olson said. National efforts are not likely, though. “To do anything nationally gets expensive real quick,” he said. Ultimately, the effort is the city’s opportunity to carve a unique identity for itself outside perceived conceptions of the municipality. “Lakeville is a full-service city,” Olson said. “It’s not just a bedroom community. We have jobs, retail... All aspects of a full-service city.” Aaron M. Vehling is aaron.vehling@ecm-inc.com www.facebook.com/sunthisweek.
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When the U.S. Supreme Court hears arguments on the validity of portions of the Affordable Care Act March 26-27, Danette Coleman will be paying more attention than most. Coleman is vice president of public policy and government relations for Medica, based in Minnetonka. She has spent most of her professional career in the health care industry, the past year as a member of the Minnesota Health Insurance Exchange Advisory Task Force. If the federal legislation approved in 2010 – sometimes called Obamacare — runs afoul of the justices, it could mean long hours of work for nothing. The Court is expected to rule on various aspects of the health care reform legislation in June. Most Americans eventually will have a legal obligation to carry health insurance or face a fine. Coleman believes if the courts determine that requiring Americans to purchase health insurance is unconstitutional, it will likely be a “dealbreaker” for this chapter of health care reform. “If you get rid of the mandate to purchase health insurance, you lose the mandate for guaranteed issue – no preexisting conditions,” Coleman said. “Those hang together. One without the other is like adding home insurance when you’re standing outside your house that’s burning down.” An exchange is a marketplace – essentially a website – where Minnesota consumers and employers can find, compare, choose and purchase health care coverage that best fits their person, family and business needs, according to the Minnesota Department of Commerce. It would be the only place where a consumer can receive a federal subsidy to cover the cost of health care insurance, Coleman explained.
Under federal law, if Minnesota does not create its own exchange, a one-sizefits-all model would be imposed upon the state. “We have been of the position that we have always done things better when we do them as Minnesotans,” said Coleman, who is one of 15 members of the task force. “The federal government does not understand our communities.” The work of the task force has been politically charged and controversial. Its efforts were funded initially with a $4.2 million federal grant. The money had no more hit the state’s bank account before Republicans objected, alleging Gov. Mark Dayton was spending money not authorized by the state legislature. Sen. David Hann (R-Eden Prairie) has been the point man for Republican opposition to the task force. Hann is chair of the Senate Health and Human Services Committee. In February, Hann said spending money to hire nine staffers in the State Department of Commerce to do nothing is a clear misuse of public tax dollars. Republicans were offered two slots on the task force but declined to participate. Another $26 million federal grant to continue design of an exchange was announced in late February. A Minnesota-specific exchange would have to be approved by the Republican controlled House and Senate and signed by Dayton. Bills calling for creation of an exchange were introduced last legislative session and again this year. They have not been considered in either body. Minnesota has until Jan. 1, 2013, to develop its exchange and prove to the federal government is will function. Exchanges will become the law of the land in January 2014 unless court challenges are successful. Last week, the Minnesota Senate conducted a hearing on a bill that would place limits on a health insurance exchange. The bill’s sponsor, Sen. Chris Gerlach (R-Apple Valley), said the idea is to prevent the Obama administration from establishing exchanges without
legislative consent. Another bill, sponsored by Hann, would allow consumers to save for healthcare expenses in specialized accounts. For the second time in recent weeks, GOP legislators have found themselves in opposition to business organizations that generally support conservatives. TwinWest Chamber of Commerce, which represents businesses in a wide swath across the West Metro, has spoken in favor of the exchanges. “Requirements like individual insurance mandates, government-mandated coverage inclusions and insurance exchanges are largely yet to be sorted out, bringing a level of uncertainty to businesses as they make decisions about employee benefits,” said Bruce Nustad, president of TwinWest. “These uncertainties, coupled with potential penalties and taxes, stifle private sector job growth.” Nustad said the chamber supports “exchanges that are structured around market-based, consumer-driven principles reflecting both quality of care and price.” Coleman has been affiliated with TwinWest in a variety of capacities for a number of years. The chamber and Republican legislators have also differed recently on funding the SouthWest Light Rail plan. Other supporters also argue that the idea for exchanges originated with the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think-tank, and only when they became part of Obama’s plan did Republican opposition surface. For Coleman, a Brooklyn Park native and graduate of Park Center High School, the partisanship issues are “unfortunate.” “In an election year, it makes it difficult for Republicans to look like they support moving forward with anything related to health care reform favored by President Obama,” she said. A number of organizations are pushing for the 5½ hours of Supreme Court hearings to be televised. Both Obama and the GOP have said they are confident their side will prevail.
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Teachers, District 191 approve contract that have a hard freeze,� she said in an interview. “We have some that have a soft freeze, where you get steps and lanes and don’t have any increase in the salary schedule. We weren’t there.� The contract is “reflective of economic reality,� Superintendent Randy Clegg said in a news release. “It allows the district to attract and retain quality teachers and to offer a contract that is competitive with neighboring school districts.� Times are indeed lean for Minnesota school districts. District 191 is looking at a $5 million to $6 million cut in next year’s general fund budget, Duethman noted. The district is studying ways — such as cutting the number of school days — to make up an estimated $15 million shortfall over the next three years.
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“The economy should, we hope, pick back up, and things will be better for everybody,� Duethman said. The con– LIBBY DUETHMAN, tract includes BURNSVILLE EDUCATION no increase in ASSOCIATION PRESIDENT the district’s contribution to health insurance coverage. Nor will teachers see an increase in the percentage they pay for insurance, Duethman said. Under the last contract, teachers’ contribution to family coverage rose from 15 percent to 20, and for single coverage from zero to 5 percent, she said. The new contract includes a wellness incentive that’s part of a district-wide wellness campaign aimed at containing health insurance costs. The contract includes no increase in stipends paid to coaches and activities advisors. Teachers had bemoaned what they
‘I think that in the beginning of January things turned toward the better and the two teams made some serious progress.’
BY JOHN GESSNER – SUN NEWSPAPERS A new contract in Burnsville-EaganSavage School District 191 will give teachers a 1 percent raise in salary schedule over the next two years. That’s half the raise teachers got in the previous two years under a contract that expired last June 30. That two-year pact raised the salary schedule by 1 percent a year. Teachers ratified the new contract by a wide margin on March 8. The School Board unanimously approved it on March 13. District and Burnsville Education Association negotiators reached a tentative deal on Feb. 21, following nine bargaining sessions that began Nov. 30. The deal may be slightly better than the metro average for settled teacher contracts in the current two-year cycle, BEA President Libby Duethman said. “We do have neighbors in the metro
said was slow progress in negotiations. Twice they appeared in large numbers at school board meetings to show their displeasure. “I think that in the beginning of January things turned toward the better and the two teams made some serious progress,� Duethman said. Negotiations were collaborative and respectful, Stacey Sovine, the district’s human resources administrator, said in a news release. “It takes time to discuss issues like this,� he said, “but it is valuable time.� Under the new contract, a first-year teacher with a bachelor’s degree will be paid $34,810 in 2011-12. A teacher with 20 or more years of experience and a master’s degree plus 60 additional credits (or a doctorate) will be paid $83,420. The contract will be retroactive to July 1, 2011, and continue through June 30, 2013, for the 720 teachers, nurses, psychologists, counselors and other employees in the district’s largest union. John Gessner is at john.gessner@ecminc.com.
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Thanks and we’ll see you again soon The Sun-Current will cease publication; new newspaper ready to hit the ground running They say with every ending comes a new beginning. We certainly think so. This is the last edition of the Sun-Current in Dakota County. As of this printing, a chapter in the newspaper’s history, which dates back to the mid-1970s, will
come to an end and a new one begins. For decades, you’ve been able to turn to our pages and discover the news and events that have defined our communities. For the wedding announcements and crime reports, feature stories and city council roundups, we’ve been there. We’re proud of the paper’s history and the work we’ve done here. But more so, we’re excited for what comes next. As you may have read in these pages, ECM Publishers, the company that brings ThisWeek Newspapers to
Dakota County, recently purchased Sun Newspapers. Frankly, we couldn’t be happier. Since our mission is serving the community, increasing our power to do so can only be a positive. Especially, when it brings the opportunity to do something bigger, something better. Beginning March 30, the new, improved newspaper of the county, Sun ThisWeek, will launch and continue to bring you the high-quality community news, information and discussion you’ve come to expect from our organizations.
You’ll still be able to find the great content you’ve always seen in the Sun-Current and ThisWeek. City news, school information, crime reports and the in-depth commentary and analysis you deserve regarding local issues will still populate our pages. Thank you for your readership. Thank you for your support. And thank you for recognizing the value of community journalism. We’re excited about where we’re going with Sun ThisWeek and hope you’ll come along for the ride.
Speak up for county library funding At a time when more people than ever are using their community libraries, the funding gradually is being reduced. A good library is essential in a community now more than ever when people cannot afford to buy books and more people are using its computers, downloading Ebooks and checking out audio materials. At this time, advocates of local libraries need to protest some of these reductions during a time when services are most needed. Counties are responsible for providing a library system. Libraries get some revenue from the state while most of it comes from taxpayers in each county through special and general property tax levies. Hennepin and Ramsey County and its suburban libraries, bolstered by supportive county commissioners, are weathering the reductions better than most. Despite a $2.5 million reduc-
DON HEINZMAN Editorial Writer tion this year for the Hennepin County library, neither hours nor staff were cut. The director decided to buy fewer materials. The annual total budget for 2012 is $69.9 million. Thanks to some money from the Target ballpark sales tax revenue, worked out by the county board of commissioners, Hennepin opened some libraries on Sunday and added hours to the Central Library. They are, however, expecting revenues to be tight for a while. Hennepin library users checked out 18.3 million items in the 41 libraries last year. In Ramsey County where there are separate tax levies for St. Paul and its suburban libraries, hours have not been
reduced and a reduction of $100,000 has resulted in a loss of two staff and less for the collection. The collection revenues have been hit the hardest dropping from $1.3 million in 2003 to $850,000 in 2012, Revenue to buy materials for the libraries has gone down from $1.3 million in 2003 to 850,000 in 2012. Fortunately, Ramsey and other libraries purchase materials through the Metro Library Service Agency (MELSA) at a lower price. Last year, the Ramsey County system circulated 4,317,000 materials and had 1.8 million visitors. The Dakota County Library system expects to circulate 5 million materials this year. No hours have been reduced and most of the nine libraries are open Sunday. Last year the county system circulated 4.9 million materials through its nine-library system. This year’s total budget from
all sources is $11,691,000. Over the last few years, mostly through attrition and not filling positions the number of fulltime equivalents has dropped from a high of 159 to 136. The counties’ revenues are suffering because tax capacity is going down due to all the foreclosures and shrinking commercial tax base. State legislators have cut local government aid and are requiring counties to do more with less and mandating more expenses with no extra money. The state auditor reports that cities and counties in the state have cut public library operating budgets and capital outlay by 42 percent between 2005 and 2009. Meanwhile, more people than ever are using libraries. More students are going to the library, because school districts are short-changing their media centers, once called libraries. Homeschooled children are using the HEINZMAN: TO NEXT PAGE
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Parents question teachers and journalists BY JOE NATHAN – GUEST COLUMNIST Two frustrated questions at a recent Stillwater “Conversation in the St. Croix Valley” community meeting mirrored each other. One came from a parent of a teacher. The other came from a senior citizen, also a parent. Together, they help illustrate two passionate, opposite polls in our national debate about improving schools. One person identified herself as the mother of a teacher working with special needs students. She asked, “What can be done about the constant attack in the news media on teachers? It’s very demoralizing.” Last week I mentioned a national poll published by Met Life Insurance showing that teacher job satisfaction has dropped 18 points since 2008, to the lowest level in more than 20 years. Some teachers write to me and affirm what this poll found … many teachers feel under attack. Yes, there is criticism. But any fair description of how newspapers and television depict teachers would find a variety of stories, not just “a constant attack.” Journalists also describe outstanding work that students and teachers are doing. There is coverage of awardwinning teachers. It’s not all negative. There is a big disconnect between what some educators and many journalists see as the responsibility of the news media. Over the last 40 years, I’ve learned that some educators think the job of the news media is to promote local schools. Many journalists quote a Chicago writer named Finley Peter Dunne. He believed newspapers “comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.” While I understand some educators’ frustration with criticism sometimes found in a paper, I think that IS part of what journalists should be doing. The other side is that journalists should, and often do, report on progress and accomplishments. But there
Heinzman FROM PREVIOUS PAGE libraries more. Senior citizens are attending computer classes so they can use the library’s computers. Of course, the economy and particularly reductions in local government aid from the state to the counties partly are to blame for the underfunding and reduction in services.
is not room or time to cover every event, every potentially interesting story. This brings us to the second speaker at the Stillwater meeting. He asked what could be done about the constant teacher union opposition to needed reforms. I responded that I think, again, the picture is more complicated. Some unions and their leaders have strongly supported changes that produced progress. I’ve written before about the successful effort in Cincinnati (district) public schools to close graduation gaps between white and African American students, and students from low and middle income families. The Cincinnati Federation of Teachers was a strong supporter of these efforts. Closer to home, I know of unions that have recommended laws, allowing, for example, site-governed public schools, new approaches to teacher training that make better use of the most effective K-12 teachers in our schools, and more support for high quality early childhood programs. But statewide teacher unions and some local unions in Minnesota also have opposed programs like Post Secondary Option, open enrollment and chartered public schools. In both instances – coverage of teachers and impact of teacher unions, I think the picture is more mixed than sometimes described. What’s best for students? Recognizing we won’t always agree, I think students gain and schools improve when we acknowledge good work that is being done, along with mistakes that have made and problems that need attention. Joe Nathan, former public school teacher, administrator, PTA president and parent of three public school graduates, is director of the Center for School Change at Macalester College. He can be reached at jnathan@macalester.edu. Columns reflect the opinion of the author.
Advocates of community libraries need to speak up particularly to legislators about this slow erosion of library hours and services unless policy makers hear protests from users, funding for libraries will continue to be reduced. Don Heinzman is an editorial writer for ECM Publishers. Sun Newspapers welcomes responses to this and any other editorial page commentary. Send to: suneditor@acnpapers.com.
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Let’s keep property tax changes fair for all Minnesotans This November, Minnesotans will cast ballots to fill the seats of all 201 members of the State House and Senate. As usual in an election year, property taxes will be a hot topic. As mayors of seven Twin Cities suburban communities, we are well versed in the complexities of our property tax system. At the city level, the rubber literally meets the road. Our city councils have made tough decisions over the past several years to maintain critical services while doing our best to keep property taxes down. Last year, the legislature and Gov. Dayton enacted property tax changes that have caught some homestead and commercial property taxpayers by surprise. The biggest change was the transition from the Market Value Homestead Credit to an exclusion for homes valued under $413,800. Under the old program, the state directly paid a portion of homeowners’ property taxes. However, the state frequently failed to pay the full amount. In 9 of the past 11 years, the state did not fully reimburse cities for credit payments, creating unan-
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In the midst of its Centennial Celebration, the Better Business Bureau will move from its St. Paul location to Burnsville. The business will be relocating after 45 years in St. Paul and 22 years at its current location on Gannon Road. The new location will be the former Farmers Insurance building at 220 South River Ridge Circle, Burnsville. An open house and Grand Opening will be held later this spring.
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North Stars reunion tickets available North Stars fans can get their memorabilia autographed or inscribed by the players of Minnesota’s former professional hockey team. There will be a North Stars reunion at the Earle Brown Heritage Center, 6155 Earle Brown Drive. It will start at noon, Saturday, March 31, and go until 3 p.m. Sunday, April 1. Featured players on Saturday include Shawn Chambers, Brad Maxwell, Steve Payne, Willi Plett, Glen Sharpley, Bobby Smith, Greg Smith, Fred Barrett, Barry Gibbs, Pete LoPresti, Dennis Maruk, Murray Oliver, J.P. Parise and Carl Wetzel. All of proceeds go to the Minnesota NHL Alumni Association nonprofit, which supports charitable causes and fosters the growth of youth hockey. The players are donating their time for this event. The event is selling daily admission tickets. Adult tickets cost $6. Children 10 and under are admitted free. Autographs are $10 each in advance and $15 each the day of the event. Autographs from Broten, Plett and Smith cost more. Inscriptions from any player are $10 each with a four-word maximum. Discount tickets and ticket packages are available. Info: 952-545-6460.
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New ‘discovery art’ helps those with Alzheimer’s Twin Cities woman believes supernatural phenomenon is at work BY ANDREW WIG – SUN NEWSPAPERS Residents at Sunrise Senior Living in Minnetonka are seeing things. They see birds, flowers, dancers, men combing their facial hair. The visions have been appearing for the past several months, on the third floor of the assisted living community, in what is called the Reminiscence Neighborhood, a place set up to comfort for those with Alzheimer’s disease. Every Tuesday afternoon the residents gather around the dining room table in the homey space and stare at glossy 8½by-11-inch cards — colorful, splashy abstract prints painted by a Richfield resident who believes she is channeling something from a spiritual realm, in a kind of Alzheimer’s therapy that by all accounts is unprecedented. After about five months of the weekly exercise, of gazing into the work Sheila Van Houten, the results from inside Sunrise’s memory care community are phenomenal, staff there say. Normally taciturn residents are
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Art FROM PREVIOUS PAGE facility in Edina next. “It’s a great tool. Every place should have them,” said Jodie Kneip, a life enrichment manager at Sunrise who leads the art therapy sessions. Van Houten is hoping her art can help veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, too.
An artist is born The gregarious Van Houten offers 30 different personal services out of her home in southeast Richfield. Among them, she is a palm reader, a career coach and a ghost buster. She remembers the exact day she added “artist” to the list: May 5, 2011.
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“I woke up one morning,” Van Houten said. “I just started to paint and I had no idea whether I was good or not.” The native of south Minneapolis said that without thinking, she decorated the canvas with a wild procession of brush strokes, with intriguing results. She showed her kaleidoscopic work to an artist friend. “She said, ‘Sheila, you’ve got talent.’” The palm reader kept painting, and noticed a peculiar phenomenon. When she finishes a painting, she walks away, “and when I come back an hour later,” she said, “faces show up.” They appear by the hundreds in each work, Van Houten said. “I’m still finding them.” In one painting, even Willie Nelson showed up. To Van Houten, the faces, plus the random assortment of images — from ani-
mals to landscapes to humanoid figures and a seeming preponderance of birds — that appear are not merely the result of random brush strokes. She believes something else is happening. “The only thing I can say is I’m spiritdirected. I’m what’s called a pure channel,” she said. When painting, “I don’t think of anything. I’ll just go and allow whatever to come through, come through.” “She kind of goes blank during these sessions … and something just kind of tells her to swoop up here, or mush here,” observed Scott Anderson who works alongside Van Houten offering services as a psychic. Despite her inclination toward the supernatural, Van Houten describes herself as “a very practical person,” and she wanted her work to do something other than just sit there.
“I thought to myself, how in the world are we going to make use of all these paintings?” she said. “We don’t really have any wall space left.” She remembers comforting her dying father by bringing him pictures of ice crystals that were supposed to have been charged with positive emotions, “and he got very peaceful and he sort of fell asleep,” she remembers, “and he died the next morning.” Van Houten also is motivated by the memory of her mother, whom she lost to Alzheimer’s. “I thought, ‘I think what I’m supposed to be doing is to put this art in the hands of Alzheimer’s patients,’ so that’s what I’ve been doing,” she said. “It’s just been a riot to see how people respond to it.”
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Art FROM PREVIOUS PAGE Reminiscence Neighborhood sat around the table last week, with the wildly vivid prints spread out, staff member Jodie Kneip asked the ladies to describe the first thing they notice in the pink and yellow arrangement lying before them. “There’s a man there,” said one woman, smiling. “He looks like a lot of fun.” Kneip asked what they would call the painting. “‘Bouquet of Flowers,’” said one. “‘My Mother’s Garden,’” another offered, sparking a strain of conversation among the women about their mothers and gardens. One resident saw a tree on fire. Kneip asked where at. Yellowstone National Park, the woman replied, prompting a short round of recollections on trips out west. Kneip brought out another painting. One of the ladies called it “‘Midnight Dream.’” The others agreed: This is a very good name for the strokes of purple and pink, and black and white. One saw a snowy hill. So did some others. Another saw two girls dancing. “How do you think they know each
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other?” Kneip asked. She has learned to give such prompts in the past five months leading what they call “art critiques.” She has taught herself as she goes, because “discovery art,” fresh from van Houten’s brush, came with no instructions. Results have improved as Kneip has refined her guidance. “The first time, I was like, ‘Isn’t this a cool painting?’ And they were like, ‘Yeah that’s cool.’” That was about it. But a light bulb went off during a trip to the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. The museum hosts tours as therapy for those with Alzheimer’s and Kneip noticed how the tour leaders instigate lively discussion by asking the right questions. She has since borrowed from these methods of effacement. The effects of the past several months of guided gazing have been clear, Sunrise staff say. “It seems to promote a feeling of bonding,” Kneip said. “People who … maybe spend time with themselves in the other room, maybe don’t sit with other ladies … Certain residents really seem to become more attached to the residents around them after (the art sessions).”
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with this specific intension seems to be a novel development in the world of memory care. “I’ve never heard about it. I mean, it’s interesting,” said Dr. Robert Kane, Director of the University of Minnesota’s Center on Aging. While Van Houten’s work appears to be unique in its aim, the question remains: How does it work? Dolliff and staff at Sunrise are hesitant to venture toward a supernatural explanation such as Van Houten’s, but there is one term they feel safe using. “I’m into energy, so I can relate to Sheila (Van Houten),” said Emily Figueroa, who also guides the gazing sessions at Sunrise. “The energy she puts in there, I think it transforms into the individual. … Who she’s going to touch with the energy, only the energy would know.” Kneip is sometimes left puzzled as residents see images that escape her. “One time someone was saying, ‘Oh, I see a man combing his mustache.’ It’s these strange, specific things they see so vividly that I’m just like, ‘Whoa,’” she reported. “It could be some sort of magical language that we can’t see just yet.” Anecdotal evidence seems to be mounting, but Dolliff would like to some day see formal study. “I really am inter-
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ested in kind of both the personal experiences and feedback, and eventually, I think, more science-based evaluation of it,” he said. Kane agrees. While “there is no theoretical basis for why Alzheimer’s patients would be attracted to (the paintings) … it’s provocative; it’s interesting, and it needs more work.” Kneip theorizes that part of the art’s efficacy is its open-endedness and the creative, judgment-free environment it fosters in a daily world that has become sometimes befuddling for the residents of the Reminiscence Neighborhood. “They know they’re not going to be wrong,” she said. “Anything they say is right and beautiful and valuable, and it kind of starts to build.” In a world where life goes by one moment at a time, memory care providers see proof — that something is working — in the expressions they see. “If there is a smile, just for that moment, that lights up my day completely,” Figueroa said. Dolliff called it “that little pocket of joy and happiness.” How it works is up to interpretation and study, but those exposed to Van Houten’s burgeoning form of therapy agree on one conclusion: Something is going on here. Whatever it is, Figueroa said, “it’s happening, here at Sunrise.”
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Dennis Carney brings his comedy show to Casa Nostra in Lakeville BY ANDREW MILLER – SUN NEWSPAPERS F. Scott Fitzgerald said there are no second acts in American lives. Dennis Carney begs to differ. The 70-year-old Savage resident retired in 2000 after nearly four decades working in the production department at the Pioneer Press. And that’s when the fun began. He’s now a professional standup comic, producing and performing in shows a few times a month at venues throughout the Twin Cities. Carney got interested in doing comedy after joining Toastmasters, the nonprofit which aims to build public speaking and leadership skills. “I was giving a speech at Toastmasters and people were laughing – found out I had a flair for comedy,” he said. Carney began honing his standup skills at open-mic nights at Twin Cities comedy venues such as the Joke Joint and Acme Comedy Club. Recruiting some of the other comics he met at those events, Carney formed a comedy troupe and started staging his own shows. “I have a loose group of about 30
comedians. We started doing shows in American Legions and VFWs and have since branched out,” he said. A fan of Jack Benny and Jay Leno, Carney said self-effacing humor is at the heart of his act. “I’m a loser – I’m short, old, overweight. I’m divorced, I’m lazy, I drive a Toyota – bought it from Denny Hecker,” he said. Though his shows are intended for adult audiences, he restricts himself and the other comics to clean material. “Most national touring comedians do jokes so dirty you can’t use ’em, and it’s just not me,” he said. “We don’t do anything you wouldn’t see on network TV. I do a joke about Viagra – that’s probably my dirtiest one.” Carney is bringing his “all-star comedy troupe” to Casa Nostra restaurant, 20198 Heritage Drive, Lakeville, on March 23. The 8:30 p.m. show features Carney and fellow comics Carol Vnuk and Rod Blanchard; PizPor the Magician, a Renaissance Festival veteran, is the headliner. Admission is free. Andrew Miller is andrew.miller@ecm-inc.com.
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School FROM PAGE 1 along with a senior center, facilities for intergenerational use, and public space. The total number of units was determined based upon market demand and what the site could accommodate. Rosemount partnered with Development Representation Associates last fall after narrowing its choices to three redevelopment proposals. Ebenezer Management Service, which is part of Development Representation Associates, would manage the senior housing. If past projects of this nature in other communities are any indication, Lindquist estimated a yearlong construction process. An architect is currently working on preliminary plans regarding how to disengage the school building from the adjoining Steeple Center (the former St. Joseph’s Catholic Church). Last year, Rosemount received a $120,000 grant to pay for removal of asbestos from, and for the demolition of, the old school building. The grants allow 18 months for project completion, with a potential one-year extension available. The school, built in 1953, moved to a new building across town in 2009. The city acquired the 1924-built church and
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Senior housing need projected to grow According to the Dakota County Community Development Agency’s 25page Comprehensive Housing Needs Assessment completed in 2005, senior housing makes up nearly 15 percent of 80,000 estimated new housing units required between 2000-2030 to keep up with demographic changes. At the turn of the last century, seniors over the age of 65 made up 7 percent of Dakota County’s total population. This total will grow to 13 percent by 2020 and 18 percent by 2030, mirroring similar aging trends in other communities, the assessment states. “Between 2020 and 2030, the senior population is projected to grow by about 30,000 people, while the younger population remains stable,” a segment on page 8 of the assessment reads. “As a result, seniors seeking products ranging from
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the two. Staff will now be able to make timely changes that are essential in this fast paced internet society. The Chamber can better market its members, the location, and assist visitors to the site with many new options and features. Finally, the new website and data management systems will allow the Chamber to expand into social media. Be sure to check out the new website scheduled to go live in the first quarter of 2012 at www.LakevilleChamber.org. For more information on the new system or to join the Chamber, please contact Executive Director Todd Bornhauser at 952-469-2020 or todd@lakevillechambercvb.org
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Q: Will having an accident make my insurance rates increase, even if the accident was not my fault?
Q. Hey Doc, why are my eyes itchy, red and watery?
Q: What is Invisalign and how does it work?
A: Most insurance companies will “surcharge” your policy, meaning they can increase your premium based on an accident or a traffic violation. The surcharge is imposed as a result of the claim payment and not based on who was at fault. Sometimes there is a dollar threshold, or sometimes the second or third “not at fault” accident can trigger a surcharge. The surcharge is usually limited to a specific period of time, such as 36 months. (Read the surcharge disclosure sheet provided with your policy.) A surcharge would not apply, of course, if the other party’s insurance company paid the claim or reimbursed your company for 80 percent or more of the costs for repairing your vehicle.
A: With a mild winter and an early spring upon us, it’s going to be quite the allergy season. Itchy, red, weepy eyes can be managed with just a drop and itching your eyes alone can make the symptoms worse. There are prescription allergy drops, Lastacaft or Pataday, which can be used once per day or over the counter drops (OTC) that can be used twice a day. The OTC drops are generic, Ketotifen or brand name like, Zaditor, Alaway or Claritin. For best results, you should start the drops one month before your allergy symptoms typically start. These drops should not be used while your contact lenses are in your eyes. For extra relief, try refrigerating the drops. If eye drops are not enough, consider an OTC allergy pill without decongestant. If your symptoms do not improve with drops, see your eye care provider to take a look at the health of your eyes.
A: Invisalign is the invisible way to straighten your teeth without braces. Invisalign uses a series of clear removable aligners to straighten your teeth without metal wires or brackets. You wear each set of clear aligners for about 2 weeks, removing them only to eat, drink, brush, and floss. As you replace each aligner with the next in the series, your teeth will move - little by little, week by week - until they have straightened to the final position. You'll visit your doctor about once every 6 weeks to ensure that your treatment is progressing as planned. Total treatment time averages 6-12 months. If you are interested in straighter teeth without the hassle of traditional braces talk to your dentist about Invisalign today!
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Technology Advice My business is too small to employ an IT person. How can I avoid the cost and downtime of taking our computers in for tune-ups and expensive repairs? A: Proactive Managed Services is actually a cost effective way to keep your computers & network up-to-date and available. It includes: • PC tune-ups & routine maintenance • Anti-virus & malware protection • 24/7 monitoring to find issues before they become problems • Automatic backup of critical data • Faster repairs due to familiarity with your equipment
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Heating Advice Q. What should I do to prep my HVAC system for spring? A: With spring right around the corner there are a few things you as a homeowner can do to prepare your HVAC system. If you covered your a/c for the winter, remove the cover. If your a/c was left uncovered, ensure it is clear of debris such as sticks, dirt, salt, etc. As always, change your furnace filter every 3-6 months for a 4”, or each month for a 1”. When temperatures reach 65 degrees, call to schedule your a/c maintenance by a professional HVAC company.
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the dance floor to talk to her, one of the “tough guys from Guadalcanal.” It didn’t take her long to see he was the man she would marry. More than 50 years later, she saw his death coming, and they had time to prepare. But one thing Moberly didn’t see coming was
June Moberly was always one to see things coming. She saw the start of World War II and joined the Navy, serving as a pharmacist mate in a Maryland hospital. It was there she saw a man crossing
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“When I tell people what I do, I always say I won the lottery when I got June. She is the sweetest person with the most positive outlook on life. She’s become like a part of my family.”
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Modifying your home (StatePoint) More seniors than ever before are living healthy, independent lives well into their golden years. And a vast majority want to remain in their homes as long as possible, according to the National Aging in Place Council. However, most houses were not built to adapt to our changing needs as we age. For those wishing to make agingin-place easier, there are several things to consider. Eliminate clutter that could get in your way, such as planters and small console tables. Pay attention to area rugs and other tripping hazards. And if you have wood floors and carpeting, install transition strips where they adjoin. Housing/To next
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Hope, where there had been none DARTS/From page 17 For a woman who had always valued her independence, and loved living in Apple Valley’s Orchard Square senior apartments, it presented the 89-year-old with a tough challenge. “I thought of assisted living because of my eyesight,” she said. “But I don’t really need it because this building takes care of me perfectly.” Moberly and her husband moved into the apartments the day they opened in 1995, and her husband passed one year later to the day. She soon saw light at the end of the tunnel when a neighbor told her about DARTS (Dakota Area Resources and Transportation for Seniors), a community-based nonprofit that offers assistance to seniors like Moberly throughout Dakota County. According to Moberly’s DARTS service coordinator Mary Cordell, the organization’s mission is to help keep people independent in their
homes. “When we get a request for a volunteer, the service coordinator does a home visit with the client to learn about their situation,” she said. “Our volunteers’ interests and availability are matched with the needs of the older adult.” As a result, Moberly uses DARTS bus service, and she was matched with a volunteer for grocery shopping and a DARTS homemaker for house cleaning services. “Barb, who helps me clean, and Kati who takes me shopping, are sweethearts. They are wonderful, dear friends. I couldn’t exist without friends like DARTS,” said Moberly. When Kati Rainwater of Apple Valley gave up her job to stay home with her two girls, Callie (now 6) and Rylie (3), she immediately began looking for volunteer opportunities. “I heard about DARTS grocery shopping for seniors and I thought, ‘I could do that.’ ” “When Kati first came, we just
Home modifications help as you age Housing/From previous To ideally accommodate a wheelchair, the doorway to your home should be at least 32-inches wide. Even without a wheelchair, a wider opening can be beneficial when entering and exiting. There are different doors you can install to meet your mobility needs and personal style, which can allow for easier access and for dramatic and elegant curb appeal. Also consider how the door swings. A door that swings in may be easier to operate than one swinging out. A remodeling contractor can help determine what your home can accommodate structurally, provide recommendations for styles and handle installation. Lowering countertops in your kitchen and bathroom can make using them easier. And consider grab-bars for showers and bathtubs. For their part, curbless showers and bathtubs with entrances that open can reduce the possibility of falling. According to the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention, 67 million adults will have doctor-diagnosed arthritis by the year 2030. For them, just turning a doorknob can be painfully difficult. Consider installing lever-style handles on exterior and interior doors. And choose ones with a multi-point locking system for ease of opening, which also provide greater security and stability. Making life easier can be as simple as choosing low-maintenance entry doors with easy-to-use levers instead of doorknobs. Or, to allow more fresh air and light into the home, a homeowner can request vented sidelites on their doors that swing open easily on hinges. Patio doors tend to receive more traffic than front doors. If your patio door is due for an upgrade, you can choose the classic elegance of a hinged door or the modern convenience of a sliding door. Above all, when adapting your home, keep an eye on making your daily life easier.
clicked right away,” Moberly remembered. “She had her two girls, and we fell in love with each other. They’d say, ‘Can I walk with you Miss June? Can I take your hand Miss June?’ ” Moberly believes that after a year and a half Kati knows her so well she could probably shop without her, but what fun would that be? “We’re usually gone for about two hours. Kati and I have become close.” For Rainwater, time spent with Moberly has become much more than a volunteer opportunity. “When I tell people what I do, I always say I won the lottery when I got June. She is the sweetest person with the most positive outlook on life,” she said. “She just draws people to her with her amazing stories. I love her so much. She’s become like a part of my family.” Friends like Rainwater are particularly important to Moberly, who has lost two sons in the past 10 years. Her remaining son, a minister, lives in
Albuquerque, New Mexico with his family. She’s thought of relocating there to be closer to them, but her son’s frequent international travel convinces her she is better where she is. “I have so many friends here. At this stage of the game, my friends are very important,” she said. “I’m content because of all the help I get from the people that do these things for me. Without that, life wouldn’t be worth too much, would it?” In 2011, 1,324 people volunteered their time with DARTS. As a result of volunteer and staff work, 2,268 callers got answers to their agingrelated questions; 515 found assistance with everyday chores and shopping; 470 people found resources and support for their eldercare journey; and 2,048 riders with special needs had door-through-door assistance. For more information, call DARTS at 651-455-1560 or visit www.darts1.org.
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Have you learned some good legal advice you can share with your fellow generation? If so, we want to talk to you for our May issue, which will focus on legal issues. Please contact Krista Jech at 952-392-6835 or krista.jech@ecm-inc.com
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LEGAL NOTICES Foreclosure Notice (Official Publication) NOTICE OF ASSESSMENT LIEN FORECLOSURE SALE THIS COMMUNICATION IS FROM A DEBT COLLECTOR. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT AND ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that default has been made in the terms and conditions of the Declaration of Lakeville’s Lake Place Homeowners Association, (hereinafter the “Declaration”) recorded in the office of the County Recorder of Dakota County, Minnesota as Document No. 1914328, which covers the following property: Legal Description: Unit No. 76, CIC No. 330, Lake Place, a condominium, located in Dakota County, Minnesota Property Address: 17074 Eagleview Way, Farmington, Minnesota 55024 PIN: 22-44076-15-076 THAT pursuant to said Declaration, there is claimed to be due and owing as of February 20, 2012, from Troy Dowdell, title holder, to Lakeville’s Lake Place Homeowners Association, a Minnesota nonprofit corporation, the amount of $9,688.80, for assessments, late fees and collection costs, plus additional assessments and other amounts that may have accrued since the date of this notice, including the costs of collection and foreclosure; THAT prior to the commencement of this foreclosure proceeding, Lienor complied with all notice requirements as required by status; that no action or proceeding has been instituted at law or otherwise to recover the debt secured by said lien, or any part thereof; THAT the owner has not been released from his financial obligation to pay said amount; THAT pursuant to Minn. Stat. § 515B.3116, said debt creates a lien upon said premises in favor of Lakeville’s Lake Place Homeowners Association, as evidenced by a lien statement recorded on April 14, 2010, in the office of the Dakota County Recorder as Document No. 2724786; THAT pursuant to the power of sale granted by the owners in taking title to the premises subject to said Declaration, said lien will be foreclosed by the sale of said property by the sheriff of said County at the Dakota County Sheriff’s Office, 1580 Highway 55, in the City of Hastings, County of Dakota, Minnesota on April 18, 2012, at 10 a.m., at public auction to the highest bidder, for cash, to pay the amount then due for said assessments, together with the costs of foreclosure, including attorney’s fees as allowed by law. The time allowed by law for redemption by the unit owners, their personal representatives or assigns is six (6) months from the date of said sale. DATE TO VACATE PROPERTY: The date on or before which the owner must vacate the property if the account is not brought current or the property redeemed under Minn. Stat. § 580.23 is October 18, 2012. If the foregoing date is a Saturday, Sunday or legal holiday, then the date to vacate is the next business day at 11:59 p.m. REDEMPTION NOTICE THE TIME ALLOWED BY LAW FOR REDEMPTION BY THE OWNER, THE OWNER’S PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE OR ASSIGNS, MAY BE REDUCED TO FIVE WEEKS IF A JUDICIAL ORDER IS ENTERED UNDER MINNESOTA STATUTES, SECTION 582.032, DETERMINING, AMONG OTHER THINGS, THAT THE PREMIS-
ES ARE IMPROVED WITH A RESIDENTIAL DWELLING OF LESS THAN FIVE UNITS, ARE NOT PROPERTY USED IN AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION, AND ARE ABANDONED. LAKEVILLE’S LAKE PLACE HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION, Lienor Dated: February 20, 2012 By /s/ Thomas P. Carlson Thomas P. Carlson (024871X) Carlson & Associates, Ltd. 1052 Centerville Circle Vadnais Heights, MN 55127 (651) 287-8640 ATTORNEY FOR LAKEVILLE’S LAKE PLACE HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION (Mar. 1,8,15,22,29, Apr. 5, 2012) C3-DowdellForeclosure
Foreclosure Notice (Official Publication) NOTICE OF ASSESSMENT LIEN FORECLOSURE SALE THIS COMMUNICATION IS FROM A DEBT COLLECTOR. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT AND ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that default has been made in the terms and conditions of the Declaration of Lakeville’s Lake Place Homeowners Association, (hereinafter the “Declaration”) recorded in the office of the County Recorder of Dakota County, Minnesota as Document No. 1914328, which covers the following property: Legal Description: Unit No. 11, CIC No. 330, Lake Place, a condominium, Dakota County, Minnesota Property Address: 17093 Eagleview Way, Farmington, Minnesota 55024 PID: 22-44078-15-011 THAT pursuant to said Declaration, there is claimed to be due and owing as of February 20, 2012, from Brian Holman, title holder, to Lakeville’s Lake Place Homeowners Association, a Minnesota nonprofit corporation, the amount of $2,861.50, for assessments, late fees and collection costs, plus additional assessments and other amounts that may have accrued since the date of this notice, including the costs of collection and foreclosure; THAT prior to the commencement of this foreclosure proceeding, Lienor complied with all notice requirements as required by status; that no action or proceeding has been instituted at law or otherwise to recover the debt secured by said lien, or any part thereof; THAT the owner has not been released from his financial obligation to pay said amount; THAT pursuant to Minn. Stat. § 515B.3116, said debt creates a lien upon said premises in favor of Lakeville’s Lake Place Homeowners Association, as evidenced by a lien statement recorded on December 12, 2011, in the office of the Dakota County Recorder as Document No. 2835923; THAT pursuant to the power of sale granted by the owners in taking title to the premises subject to said Declaration, said lien will be foreclosed by the sale of said property by the sheriff of said County at the Dakota County Sheriff’s Office, 1580 Highway 55, in the City of Hastings, County of Dakota, Minnesota on April 18, 2012, at 10 a.m., at public auction to the highest bidder, for cash, to pay the amount then due for said assessments, together with the costs of foreclosure, including attorney’s fees as allowed by law.
The time allowed by law for redemption by the unit owners, their personal representatives or assigns is six (6) months from the date of said sale.
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DATE TO VACATE PROPERTY: The date on or before which the owner must vacate the property if the account is not brought current or the property redeemed under Minn. Stat. § 580.23 is October 18, 2012. If the foregoing date is a Saturday, Sunday or legal holiday, then the date to vacate is the next business day at 11:59 p.m.
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REDEMPTION NOTICE THE TIME ALLOWED BY LAW FOR REDEMPTION BY THE OWNER, THE OWNER’S PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE OR ASSIGNS, MAY BE REDUCED TO FIVE WEEKS IF A JUDICIAL ORDER IS ENTERED UNDER MINNESOTA STATUTES, SECTION 582.032, DETERMINING, AMONG OTHER THINGS, THAT THE PREMISES ARE IMPROVED WITH A RESIDENTIAL DWELLING OF LESS THAN FIVE UNITS, ARE NOT PROPERTY USED IN AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION, AND ARE ABANDONED. LAKEVILLE’S LAKE PLACE HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION, Lienor Dated: February 20, 2012 By /s/ Thomas P. Carlson Thomas P. Carlson (024871X) Carlson & Associates, Ltd. 1052 Centerville Circle Vadnais Heights, MN 55127 (651) 287-8640 ATTORNEY FOR LAKEVILLE’S LAKE PLACE HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION (Mar. 1,8,15,22,29, Apr. 5, 2012) C3-HolmanForeclosure
Foreclosure Notice (Official Publication) NOTICE OF MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE SALE THE RIGHT TO VERIFICATION OF THE DEBT AND IDENTITY OF THE ORIGINAL CREDITOR WITHIN THE TIME PROVIDED BY LAW IS NOT AFFECTED BY THIS ACTION. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN: That Default has occurred in the conditions of the following described mortgage: DATE OF MORTGAGE: 11/18/2004 ORIGINAL PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF MORTGAGE: $150,000.00 MORTGAGOR(S): Kathleen A. Arp and Dudley M. Arp, husband and wife as joint tenants MORTGAGEE: Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee for Provident Funding Associates, L.P. DATE AND PLACE OF FILING: 12/23/2004 as Document Number 2279132 in the Office of the County Recorder, Dakota County, Minnesota LEGAL DESCRIPTION OF PROPERTY: Lot 4, Block 1, Wood Park Plat Twelve, Dakota County, Minnesota STREET ADDRESS OF PROPERTY: 14306 Portland Avenue S., Burnsville, MN 55337 COUNTY IN WHICH PROPERTY IS LOCATED: Dakota TAX PARCEL I.D. NO.: 02-84811-01-040 LENDER: Provident Funding Associates, L.P. RESIDENTIAL MORTGAGE ORIGINATOR: Provident Funding Associates, L.P. RESIDENTIAL MORTGAGE SERVICER: Provident Funding Associates,
TRANSACTION AGENT: Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. THE AMOUNT CLAIMED TO BE DUE ON THE MORTGAGE ON THE DATE OF THE NOTICE: $139,074.98 No action or proceeding has been instituted at law to recover the debt secured by said mortgage, or any part thereof. There has been compliance with all preforeclosure notice requirements of said mortgage and/or applicable statutes. Pursuant to the power of sale contained in said mortgage, the above described property will be sold by the Sheriff of said county as follows: DATE AND TIME OF SALE: 04/13/2012 at 10:00 A.M. PLACE OF SALE: Dakota County Sheriff’s Office, 1580 Highway 55 Hastings, MN 55033 to pay the debt then secured by said mortgage and taxes, if any, on said premises and the costs and disbursements, including attorney fees allowed by law. The time allowed by law for redemption by said mortgagor(s), their personal representatives or assigns is six (6) months from the date of sale. TIME AND DATE TO VACATE PROPERTY: If the real estate is an owner-occupied, single-family dwelling, unless otherwise provided by law, the date on or before which the mortgagor(s) must vacate the property if the mortgage is not reinstated under section 580.30 or the property is not redeemed under section 580.23 is 11:59 p.m. on 10/13/2012 MORTGAGOR(S) RELEASED FROM FINANCIAL OBLIGATION ON MORTGAGE: None THE TIME ALLOWED BY LAW FOR REDEMPTION BY THE MORTGAGOR, THE MORTGAGOR’S PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVES OR ASSIGNS, MAY BE REDUCED TO FIVE WEEKS IF A JUDICIAL ORDER IS ENTERED UNDER MINNESOTA STATUTES, SECTION 582.032, DETERMINING, AMONG OTHER THINGS THAT MORTGAGED PREMISES ARE IMPROVED WITH A RESIDENTIAL DWELLING OF LESS THAN FIVE UNITS, ARE NOT PROPERTY USED IN AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION, AND ARE ABANDONED. Dated: 03/01/2012 Provident Funding Associates, L.P., Mortgagee/Mortgage Assignee Dunakey & Klatt, P.C., By Brian G. Sayer and Crystal W. Rink, Attorneys for Mortgagee/Mortgage Assignee 531 Commercial Street, P.O. Box 2363, Waterloo, IA 50701. THIS IS A COMMUNICATION FROM A DEBT COLLECTOR AND ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. (Mar. 1,8,15,22,29, Apr. 5, 2012) C3-ArpForeclosure
City of Burnsville (Official Publication) PUBLIC NOTICE PUBLIC HEARING A Public Hearing will be held on March 26, 2012, at 6:30 p.m. or as soon thereafter as possible by the Burnsville Planning Commission, 100 Civic Center Parkway, in the Council Chambers on the application of Burnsville Leasing LLC, for an Interim Use Permit for three years to allow outdoor storage of materials located at 801 Cliff Road. The application will be scheduled for the
next appropriate City Council meeting following the Planning Commission meeting. All persons desiring to speak on this application are encouraged to attend. For more information concerning this request, please contact Planner Chris Slania (952) 895-4451 at the City of Burnsville. Chris Slania On Behalf of the Chair of the Burnsville Planning Commission (Mar. 15 & 22, 2012) C3-BurnsvilleLeasingLLC
City of Burnsville (Official Publication) PUBLIC NOTICE PUBLIC HEARING A Public Hearing will be held on March 26, 2012, at 6:30 p.m. or as soon thereafter as possible by the Burnsville Planning Commission, 100 Civic Center Parkway, in the Council Chambers on the application of Quarry Property LLC, for a Planned Unit Development Amendment to allow outdoor storage of materials as an interim use in the floodway located at 1001 Black Dog Road (L2, B2, Burnsville Amphitheater). The application will be scheduled for the next appropriate City Council meeting following the Planning Commission meeting. All persons desiring to speak on this application are encouraged to attend. For more information concerning this request, please contact Planner Chris Slania (952) 895-4451 at the City of Burnsville. Chris Slania On Behalf of the Chair of the Burnsville Planning Commission (Mar. 15 & 22, 2012) C3-QuarryPropertyLLC
City of Burnsville (Official Publication) NOTICE TO BIDDERS CITY HALL BOILER REPLACEMENT CITY OF BURNSVILLE, MINNESOTA Notice is hereby given, that the City of Burnsville will be accepting sealed bids at Burnsville City Hall, 100 Civic Center Parkway, Burnsville, Minnesota 55337, to be publicly open on April 16, 2012, at 10:00 am CST for the following: City Hall Boiler Replacement The work of this contract includes replacement of an older boiler with two new condensing boilers and other miscellaneous HVAC upgrades. Documents will be available for inspection at the following locations: City of Burnsville 100 Civic Center Parkway Burnsville, MN 55337 Contact: Gary Novotny Phone: 952-895-4513 Martin Pevzner Engineering 8030 Old Cedar Avenue South, Suite 100 Bloomington, MN 55425 Contact: Boris Pevzner Phone: 952-854-1925 Interested parties can obtain contract documents from the office of Martin Pevzner Engineering in a PDF format. Please send a request including the company name and contact person’s phone number to bpevzner@martinpevzner.com. A mandatory pre-bid walk-through will be held on March 30, 2012 at 9:00 am CST at Burnsville City Hall.
Bids must be made on the basis of cash payment for work and accompanied by a cash deposit, certified check, or a bidder’s bond made payable without conditions to the City of Burnsville, MN, in an amount of not less than 5% of the total amount of the bid. Detailed information about the project including bid requirements is included in the bid documents. No bid shall be withdrawn for a period of thirty (30) days after the bid due date. The City Council reserves the right to reject any or all bids and to waive irregularities and informalities therein and to award the bid in the best interests of the City. BY ORDER OF THE CITY COUNCIL MACHEAL BROOKS, CITY CLERK CITY OF BURNSVILLE, MINNESOTA (Published March 22, 2012) (Mar. 22, 2012) C3-BoilerReplacement
City of Burnsville (Official Publication) CITY OF BURNSVILLE BURNSVILLE, MINNESOTA NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING ON PROPOSED ASSESSMENTS April 3, 2012 TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Burnsville City Council will meet at the Burnsville City Hall, (Council Chambers) 100 Civic Center Parkway, Burnsville, Minnesota at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, April 3, 2012 to pass upon proposed assessments for the improvements described in this notice. The proposed assessments are on file in the office of the City Clerk. Written or oral objections to the assessment by any property owner will be considered at the hearing. The designation of each improvement, its nature, its total estimated project cost, its total amount proposed to be assessed, and the area proposed to be assessed for it, are as follows: 1. 2012 STREET RECONSTRUCTION IMPROVEMENT: GENERAL LOCATION & TYPE OF IMPROVEMENT: The 2012 Street Reconstruction (12101C) consists of bituminous pavement and gravel base reconstruction, partial or total curb replacement and watermain, sanitary sewer and storm sewer replacement, repair or extension. City’s Reconstruction area as described below. TOTAL ESTIMATED PROJECT COST: $1,148,000 TOTAL AMOUNT OF PROPOSED ASSESSMENT: $82,884.12 AREA PROPOSED TO BE ASSESSED: The following parcels of land abutting/benefiting in the City of Burnsville, Dakota County, Minnesota: 143rd Street (12-101C): Parcels adjacent to or having frontage along 143rd Court East and included in the Portland Homeowners Association including Block 1, Bots 1 thru 52, Wood park Plat 8, Dakota County, Minnesota; Block 1, Lots 1 thru 44, Wood Park Plat 9, Dakota County, Minnesota 2. 2012 STREET REHABILITATION: GENERAL LOCATIONS & TYPE OF IMPROVEMENT: The 2012 Street Rehabilitation (12102C) consists of the bituminous pavement being rehabilitated using the mill and overlay method; curb and gutter, Legal Notices continued on next page
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Walls FROM PAGE 1 the City Council gave Wasko the green light to survey residents. The noise abatement program requires cities to pay 10 percent of the cost of new walls. Burnsville’s share would be $120,000. The proposal follows the 2010 completion of noise walls on both sides of the freeway from Burnsville Parkway to McAndrews Road. Construction of those walls was triggered by a mandatory environmental review that preceded expansion of the MnPASS and SmartLanes systems from Burnsville Parkway to Southcross Drive. Noise walls are welcome in a city
where residents have been asking for them since the freeway came through in the 1960s, Council Member Dan Gustafson said. “It’s taken 50 years to get the attention of MnDOT,” he said. The proposed south Burnsville locations are among 285 MnDOT has identified as priority sites for noise walls. Only two or three of those are built each year from an annual budget of about $2 million, Wasko said. Projects that rise to the top are typically in the loudest and most densely built areas on the list, Wasko said. The two qualifying Burnsville sites were grouped together because money can be saved by doing them together, he said. Despite pleas, another Burnsville neighborhood won’t get noise relief.
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The city has repeatedly asked for a wall for the Carriage Hills neighborhood south of Southcross Drive and east of the freeway. The area doesn’t meet MnDOT’s criteria for a wall and has a tall berm that already mitigates freeway noise, Wasko said. News that Carriage Hills is being bypassed won’t sit well with some residents, Mayor Elizabeth Kautz predicted. Burnsville could cover its share of the cost for the proposed locations by drawing on its annual allocations of state gasoline-tax funds to repay bonds, City Manager Craig Ebeling said. “This would not be reflected in your tax levies,” he told the council. “It could be financed from our share of the gas tax.”
It’s a rare opportunity to get the walls built, Ebeling said. If cities reject such proposals, those locations are stricken from MnDOT’s list. A MnDOT map shows 19 benefitting properties at Sunny Acres, where the park’s owner and the homedwellers, who rent their lots, will be polled. There are 10 benefitting properties, some of them duplexes and fourplexes, on the east side of the freeway, according to Wasko.
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ber of stormwater outlets that do drain directly into Alimagnet Lake,” Scheerer said. “It’s just cost-prohibitive to take them all away.’ Other projects have included winter aeration of the lake, installation of barley straw in three key storm ponds to reduce phosphorous loading, a curlyleafcontrol program done by the lake association, and fish management. The Department of Natural Resources has removed some sunfish and bullheads and introduced catfish, and the lake association has added some large-mouth bass, according to Jacobson. The bass and catfish are predators that feed on younger bullheads and sunnies, he said. When there are too many bullheads and sunnies, they have to root around in the lake-bottom sediment to find food, which releases phosphorous into the water.
FROM PAGE 2 about half of Alimagnet Lake, have taken a number of steps since 2005 to cleanse the water. Burnsville has spent about $400,000 since then, which included a $65,000 grant from the Board of Soil and Water Resources, according to Jacobson. The grant helped build a stormwater pond near County Road 11 to treat water before it enters the lake. Apple Valley made significant improvements to its stormwater pond in Redwood Park, Jacobson said. “But there’s still a really large num-
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ALL-STAR SERIES Lakeville North seniors Tyler Flack and Ryan Saarela have been selected to play in the Minnesota High School All-Star Basketball Series. Games will be March 30 at St. Cloud State University and March 31 at Macalester College in St. Paul.
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Panthers put a scare into Hopkins – for a while Girls basketball team concludes 21-9 season with state tourney trip BY MIKE SHAUGHNESSY – SUN NEWSPAPERS The Lakeville North and Hopkins girls basketball teams have few secrets to keep from each other. North plays in Hopkins’ annual preseason jamboree. The teams have met in non-conference games the last few years. And even though Hopkins received the No. 1 seed in last week’s state Class 4A tournament, the pairings put a frown on the face of Royals coach Brian Cosgriff. Hopkins’ first-round opponent? Lakeville North. “Everything about that team scares me,” Cosgriff said. Unseeded Lakeville North was pesky for the first 20 minutes or so of the March 14 Class 4A quarterfinal game before Hopkins pulled away for a 51-29 victory. North and Hopkins were tied 17-17 early in the second half before the Royals scored 20 of the next 22 points. “Hopkins usually scores in the mid70s,” Lakeville North coach Andy Berkvam said. “The problem was, we couldn’t get into thee 50s.” Lakeville North (21-9) gave Hopkins, the eventual state champion, one of its toughest games in the regular season. The Panthers took the Royals to overtime in a December game at Lakeville North before losing 46-41. In part because of that game, Cosgriff said he voted Lakeville North second behind Edina in the polling that determines state tournament seeding. Coaches aren’t allowed to vote for their own teams. “We scored the first five points of the second half and we were right in the game,” Berkvam said. “Then we started giving up too many second and third shots.” Junior guard Taylor Stewart scored 11 points for North and was the only Panthers player with more than five. Junior forward Simone Kolander grabbed 11 rebounds and senior center
Lakeville North’s Simone Kolander tries to drive to the basket against Sydney Coffey of Hopkins in the state Class 4A girls basketball quarterfinal. (Photo by Rick Orndorf – Sun Newspapers) McKenzie Hoelmenn had eight. Next season Lakeville North will build around Stewart and Kolander, who combined to average about 24 points a game this year. Another key element of North’s success was a group of five seniors – Hoelmenn, center Rachel Ganske and guards Caroline Sjoberg, Amanda Goodman and Lindsay Erstad – who had been toiling in the shadows. Lakeville North won the state title in 2010 and finished third last year, and the Panthers have had the last two Miss Basketball award winners, Cassie Rochel and Rachel Banham.
“We have a good program, and we have kids who have come up through our program and didn’t get many opportunities to play,” Berkvam said. “This is the first time we’ve been to the state tournament three straight years, and those seniors are part of that. I’m so proud of them.” Hopkins went on to beat Osseo in the Class 4A championship game March 17. There are some parallels between this year’s Royals and Lakeville North’s 2010 state championship team. Lakeville North went undefeated in 2009-10 with Banham and Rochel in the
starting lineup. This year’s Hopkins team featured five players who had signed with or verbally committed to Division I college programs (one of those players missed the state tournament because of an injury). Coaching a team with that kind of talent “is a lot of fun,” Berkvam said. “Well, after you win it.”
State tournament notes • Lakeville North’s Sjoberg made one three-point field goal against Hopkins, giving her 46 for the season, one short of the school record set by Marissa Lingenfelter in 1999.
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Playing days probably over, but Grogan ready to move on Still recovering from concussion, Eagan native gets one last chance to skate for Gophers
Eagan native Alyssa Grogan returned to the net for the final 9.8 seconds of a University of Minnesota women’s hockey game last month. She had been out since Oct. 2010 because of a concussion.
BY MIKE SHAUGHNESSY AND TAD JOHNSON THISWEEK NEWSPAPERS Alyssa Grogan has played exactly 9.8 seconds of hockey in the last 17 months, and chances are she’ll never play again. But Grogan not only is at peace with that, she said she believes it was a great way to go out. Playing the final few seconds of a game the University of Minnesota women’s hockey team had already safely tucked away allowed Grogan the chance to say goodbye on her terms. Now she can move on with her life, which might one day include training young girls to play goalie – the position where she excelled for years at the high school, college and international levels. Grogan, an Eagan native, suffered a concussion in practice in October 2010. What followed was a long, frustrating, debilitating battle with concussion symptoms, not unlike what Minnesota Twins first baseman Justin Morneau and Pittsburgh Penguins forward Sidney Crosby have gone through. Last Nov. 30, the Gophers’ team physician and athletic trainer told Grogan her playing career was over. They said they couldn’t clear her to return because she was still experiencing symptoms and the risk of another concussion was too high. “It’s hard to imagine what my recovery from a second concussion would be like,” Grogan wrote in recent e-mail exchanges with Thisweek Newspapers reporters. “It was something I was praying I wouldn’t hear but something I unfortunately wasn’t completely shocked to hear.” Grogan celebrated on the ice with her teammates when Minnesota beat Wisconsin 4-2 in the championship game of the NCAA Women’s Frozen Four last weekend in Duluth. But her closure came when she was allowed to sit on the bench for the Gophers’ Senior Night game Feb. 18 against North Dakota. It was the first time Grogan had suited up since her injury. The Gophers weren’t planning to put her in the game. They held a 5-2 lead with 9.8 seconds remaining with a faceoff in the North Dakota zone. At that point, coach Brad Frost removed his goalie and sent out a sixth
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skater with the intention of having six seniors on the ice when the game ended. The skater who was to replace the starting goalie suggested that Grogan take the ice instead. With the trainer’s OK, Grogan skated to the Minnesota net as more than 2,100 fans at Ridder Arena roared their approval. “As I skated to the net, I wasn’t really thinking,” she said. “I honestly just couldn’t believe it was happening. I don’t know if I’ve ever had that big of a smile on my face in my entire life.” Better still, her parents, who had attended every home game for four years, were in the crowd, as were about 10 family members from out of town. Grogan’s brother Derek had his Senior Night hockey game for St. Olaf College the previous day. “I’ve been asked quite a few times if it makes me want to play again,” she said. “And to be completely honest, that moment was so special to me, it almost makes me never want to suit up again. Nothing will ever top that moment on the ice to me.” In the weeks following her injury, Grogan slept as much as 20 hours a day and experienced severe headaches. She missed three semesters of classes. It cut short a career that included
playing for Eagan High School in the state Class AA tournament and for the gold medal-winning Team USA in the Under-18 World Championships in 2008. As a freshman at Minnesota, she ranked sixth in the nation with a 1.67 goalsagainst average. Recovery took place slowly, but she was able to resume a full-time course load this semester and is working out almost every day. Grogan is on schedule to graduate in spring 2013. Her degree will be in business marketing with a public relations emphasis, and she’s working toward a minor in management. She also is interested in broadcasting after serving as a radio analyst on Gophers games this season. She expects coaching to be part of her future. “I spend a lot of time in the summers coaching at all levels,” she said. “I have a huge passion for the game and for being a positive role model to young kids. I’m a goalie coach for a lot of different camps and still have great connections with my old high school coaches at Eagan. Eventually I’d like to go back and help coach with them.” Grogan said she expects to field numerous questions about her concus-
sion rehabilitation. “I am not fully through with my journey yet,” she said. “But the most frustrating part of the whole process for me was there wasn’t anybody for me to turn to who knew what I was going through. I didn’t have anyone to talk to who understood. And that was really hard.” She has spoken about her experience at a University of Minnesota Mini Med School presentation as well as Fellowship of Christian Athletes and Athletes in Action functions. “I love sharing my testimony. My faith has held me up through this storm,” she said. Player safety in hockey came under intense scrutiny following injuries to high school players Jack Jablonski and Jenna Privette this winter. A “Player Safety Summit” was held last week in St. Paul in conjunction with the state high school boys tournament. “All my prayers go out to [Jablonski and Privette] in their continued recovery and I have found a tremendous amount of inspiration from Jabs and the way he’s handled his injury,” Grogan said. “Mine was a complete accident – an GROGAN: TO PAGE 26
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Eastview has tough road ahead in state title quest Lightning one of three teams to qualify for boys hoops tourney with 28-1 records BY MIKE SHAUGHNESSY – SUN NEWSPSPERS Wearing a wide grin on his way to the Eastview team room, Darin Haugh stopped to embrace his coach, Mark Gerber. “We’re almost there,” Haugh said. “We’re almost there.” That statement says a lot about the attitude the Lightning took into the boys basketball season. For some teams, getting to the state tournament is the objective, and they’ll accept whatever happens once they get there. Eastview’s players have made no secret of their goal, and it wasn’t just reaching the state tournament. “Ever since last season ended, we’ve had our sights set on the state championship,” senior guard Chris Narum said. “We’re hoping we’ll be on the court Saturday night.” The Lightning got to the state tournament by beating crosstown rival Apple Valley 57-53 in the Class 4A, Section 3 final March 16 before a packed house at Burnsville High School. As difficult as it was to beat fifthranked Apple Valley three times in one season, No. 3-ranked Eastview might face an even tougher route to the state championship that Narum said the team wants. Despite being 28-1, Eastview received the third seed in the state Class 4A tournament. The top two seeds, Hopkins and Lakeville North, also are 28-1. Eastview drew Eden Prairie (22-7), the 2011 state runner-up, in the Class 4A quarterfinals Wednesday at the Target Center. The winner will play second-seeded Lakeville North (28-1) or Moorhead (18-9) in the semifinals at 8 p.m. Thursday, March 22. The championship game is 8 p.m. Saturday, March 24. It’s a tough draw for the Lightning, but “that’s what you have to expect in the state tournament,” Gerber said. In the Section 3 final, Eastview trailed Apple Valley early, took the lead by halftime, build a bigger lead in the second half then had to hold on at the end. The Lightning led by as many as 12 points in the second half before Apple Valley staged a furious rally. Apple Valley junior forward Chris
Laymon, who had just entered the game after two Eagles starters fouled out, hit a three-pointer with 12.5 seconds remaining to cut Eastview’s lead to 55-53. The Lightning then was called for a five-second violation, giving Apple Valley a chance to inbound the ball under Eastview’s basket. Eagles star guard Tyus Jones twisted his way into the lane, but his shot rolled off the rim and was rebounded by Eastview’s Joey King, who then was fouled and made two free throws to seal the victory. Eastview took control on the boards in the second half as the Lightning’s lead grew. Eastview outrebounded Apple Valley 40-28, and 6-foot-9 junior Ben Oberfeld brought down 16. “I saw Joey and Ben getting rebounds at key times,” Haugh said. “I saw Chris [Narum] dive on the floor for one, too.” Apple Valley (23-6) had plenty of opportunities to win, coach Zach Goring said. “We didn’t shoot,” Goring said. “If you shoot 34 percent like we did, it’s tough to win a game like this. We had a lot of open shots, but some nights you shoot well and some nights you don’t.” Eastview won two high-scoring games against Apple Valley in the regular season, getting 91 points in its first victory and 84 in the second. But in the section final, it was clear shortly after tip-off the Lightning had no intention of playing another game like that. “We played the first two games at their pace,” Narum said. “This game, we wanted to keep it at our pace, a little slower. When we play at our pace, we feel we have a big advantage with our big guys, Joey [King] and Ben [Oberfeld].” King had 20 points and eight rebounds. Oberfeld scored 11 points to go with his 16 rebounds. The Lightning found senior guard Jordan Bolger open on several cuts to the basket in the second half, and he finished with 14 points. Jones had 20 points, eight assists and six rebounds, leading Apple Valley in all three categories. Harry Sonie added nine points for the Eagles, all on three-point field goals. While the Eastview players may view this week as state championship or bust, Gerber’s view is somewhat different. “That’s a reward you’re talking about,” he said. “The things we talk about in our program are what we have to do to be a better team. Working hard in the weight room. Being consistent about what we do. Playing together in the offseason and building a team.”
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Grogan FROM PAGE 24 unfortunate accident from poke-checking a puck, and I have no hard feelings toward the player who hit me.” Grogan said collisions are unavoidable at the highest levels of competition, but “I think the focus needs to get back to the fundamentals – puck movement, skating, passing, shooting. The girls game is a bit different from the boys, but nobody should be focusing primarily on leveling another player.” Although it appears Grogan will not return to hockey as a player, there is one big athletic test she wants to pass in the next few months. “I love to golf in the summer,” she said. “Last summer I wasn’t able to because it made me too dizzy and I couldn’t contact the ball. I’m super-excited for it to warm up and the snow to melt because I have a feeling I’ll be able to do that again. “It seems like a little thing, but that would make a big difference to me.”
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Panthers get No. 2 seed at state tourney BY MIKE SHAUGHNESSY – SUN NEWSPAPERS Lakeville North teams qualify for state tournaments in so many sports that Panthers fans sometimes don’t have any voice left by late March, boys basketball coach John Oxton says. But it was different this year as Oxton said the school was clearly fired up for North’s appearance in the Class 4A boys basketball tourney. “There’s a buzz around here, not only because we’re in the state tournament for the first time in a while, but because we have a legitimate chance to win the whole thing,” Oxton said last weekend. The Panthers, seeded second in the Class 4A tournament, played Moorhead in the quarterfinals March 21. The winner will play Eastview or Eden Prairie in the semifinals at 8 p.m. Thursday, March 22, at Target Center. That’s right – the teams that shared the South Suburban Conference champi-
onship and split two regular-season games could meet again in the state semifinals. Three-time defending state champion Hopkins received the No. 1 seed, followed by Lakeville North, Eastview and Osseo. The top three seeds each are 28-1, while Osseo is 27-2. Oxton hoped to make a case for Lakeville North getting the No. 1 seed, but wasn’t successful. “I felt we deserved the No. 1 seed and Eastview the No. 2 seed because of Hopkins losing arguably its best player [to a suspension],” Oxton said. “They’re a different team without him. Not to disrespect Hopkins at all, but the team they have right now isn’t the team they’ve had all year.” Lakeville North, on the other hand, might be as healthy as it has been all season. The Panthers don’t hesitate to use as many as 10 players, which could be particularly useful with the potential of play-
ing three games in four days this week. “I think we’ve played at a high level all year long,” Oxton said, “but we’re better now offensively than we were at the beginning of the year.” Lakeville North defeated Owatonna 47-34 in the Class 4A, Section 1 championship game March 16 in Rochester. Owatonna played at a deliberate pace, especially in the first half that ended with North leading 19-12. “You could tell they wanted to shorten the game, and that was a good strategy,” Oxton said. “But our defense was really good. They had a tough time scoring.” Nobody scored more than nine points in the Section 1 final. But Lakeville North had two players with nine points – guard Trey Heid and forward Brett Rasmussen. Tyler Flack and Devin Shockley scored seven points each, and Ryan Saarela and Grant Erickson had six points apiece.
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The Bloomington Lutheran Eagles Girls A-Team captures the Martin Luther College Invitational Championship and finishes Runner-up at the Minnesota State Lutheran Basketball Tournament. To God be the Glory! Pictured front row: Natalie Wendland, Hannah Barrott, Abbey Martinson. Middle row: Cassie Shrader, Sydney Yotter, Brynn Rudie, Elle Marti. Back row: Coach Martinson, Karlie Nelson, Rebecca Sellnow, Sarah Weyrauch, Catarina Carmichael, Krissy Monson, Coach Yotter. Good luck at Nationals in Valparaiso!
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The Bloomington Lutheran Eagles Boys B-Team recently completed an undefeated season. To God be the Glory! Pictured front row: Justin Engels, Joe Schelske, Evan Laleman, Corey Wales, Tyler Larson, Wyatt Blomquist, Zac Hasbrouck. Middle row: Coach Zoellner, Jonny Gustafson, Tyler Salzwedel, Nathan Richard, Christian Levine, Brendon Bittorf, Austin McNeil, Noah Stoerzinger. Back row: Jon Liesener, Chibuike Abakporo, Jack Kuckhahn, Colin Joyce, Peter McCrea, Matthew Peterson, Geoffery McPherson, Drew Kissner. Not pictured: Coach Laleman.
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HANDYMAN Carpentry, Remodeling, Repair & Painting Services. I love to do it all! 612-220-1565
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available to perform, painting, flooring, door & window work plus other handyman projects in your home or business! 651-815-4147 Lic#20639540 Locally owned & operated
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THE CLEAN TEAM Making homes shine since 1994. Honest, Reliable, Detailed. Rena: 763-545-8035
Water Features & Pavers.
30+ Yrs Exp /Owner Operator
763-420-3036 952-240-5533 Offering Complete Landscape Services
alandsapecreations.com
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Mark 651-768-9345 16 Yrs Exp. Wkly Mowing Serving South Metro SORENSEN LAWN CARE Free Ests 651-454-6100 16yrs Exp Owner/Operator Weekly Mowing, Fertilizing, Pruning, Power Rake, Aeration Landscaping. Call 952-406-1229
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Int./Ext Painting/Staining & texturing. Free Est. 952-474-6258 Ins/Bond Major Credit Cards Accepted
A Family Operated Bus.
3 Interior Rooms/$250 Wallpaper Removal. Drywall Repair. Cabinet Enameling and Staining. 30 yrs exp. Steve 763-545-0506
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Painting & Drywall Ceiling & Wall Textures H20 Damage – Plaster Repair
Wall Paper Removal INTERIOR EXTERIOR DAVE'S PAINTING and WALLPAPERING Int/Ext • Free Est • 23 Yrs Will meet or beat any price! Lic/Ins Visa/MC BBB 952-469-6800 St. Christoper Decorating Old World Craftsmanship/24 Yrs
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Plumbing
SAVE MONEY - Competent master plumber needs work. Lic#M3869 Jason 952-891-2490
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Powerwashing
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Window Cleaning
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Why Wait Roofing LLC Tear-offs & New Construction Siding & Gutters Over 17 yrs exp. Free est. Rodney Oldenburg
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Tree Service
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AJ's Tree Service
We Take Care of Insurance Claims Offering the Best Extended Manufacturers Warranty
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Merchandise
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Boutiques/Craft Shows & Gifts
Spring Craft & Gift Market 50+ Vendors Hand-Made Crafts Favorite Gift Companies
Mount Olivet Church 14201 Cedar Ave. Apple Valley, MN 952-432-4332
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Cemetery Lots
Glen Haven: 2 plots, 2 vaults w/companion headstone. Value $8,990. Asking $4,300/BO. 218-828-3608 Grandview Park Cemetery, Hopkins, MN. 2 side by side plots, $950 ea. 602-861-8082
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Collectibles & Art
'91 World Champion MN Twins – Bobbleheads, full set (26). New – in original pkg., $599. Call 952-927-0788
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Estate Sales
EDEN PRAIRIE 11003 Bell Oaks Estates Fri., March 23 (8:30-5:30) #'s Friday at 8am
Sat., March 24 (8:30-4:30) Beautiful fine art! HH furnishings, quality furniture, patio furniture, sporting goods, & much more!
www.willmatthill.com EDINA - 5210 Villa Way Antiqs, furn, collectibles, 50” HD TV, DR sets, more!
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5100 5100 SUN Classifieds You are invited to Senior Rentals
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Silver Fox Jacket. Beaut. 12-14. $95.00 or best offer. Call 952-884-3484
Saturday, March 24 (9-4)
For Sale: 4 Lots Glenhaven Good Samaritan Garden $7,000 for all. 320-243-3165
Window Cleaning 651-646-4000
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Senior Rentals
tour our Model Apartment Home
Tree Service
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General Contractors Storm Damage Restoration Roofing ■ siding ■ windows Established 1984
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Boutiques/Craft Shows & Gifts
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Boutiques/Craft Shows & Gifts
THINK SPRING Arts&Crafts Show Southtown Mall
March 30, 31 & April 1 Fri 10-9 • Sat 10-6 • Sun 11-4 Penn Ave. & 494, Bloomington
Heart Promotions 651-438-3815
Please call Cindy at 952-461-1644 or 612-865-6625 to arrange for a personal tour of the model. Market Village 100 J Roberts Way Elko New Market, MN 55054
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HAM LAKE
1141 133rd Lane NE Sat., March 24 (8:30-4:30)
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Family Care Child Care Wanted
#'s Saturday at 8am
Sun., March 25 (8:30-3:30)
Shakopee - FT Nanny
Model car collection, die cast items, Coca-Cola & vintage memorabilia, high quality furniture & furnishings
Mature, loving Nanny with Infant experience for Twins Beg. 5/15/12 $550 wk
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lovingcarehomeservices.com
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LCHS 651-209-1111
Furnishings
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Rentals
BR Set: Qn. size, light wood, bkcase hdbrd, triple drssr, 2 nite stands. Mint cond! $400. 952-831-2998
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Pine Log Handmade Twin Loft Bed $500or OBO 763559-9344.
LKVILLE RENT2OWN Bad Credit ok. 4Br/3Ba $1850/mo. 612.216.6248
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Misc. Wanted
WANTED Hifi/stereo equip., HAM, & misc. old electronics. Andy 651-329-0515 Buying Old Trains & Toys
STEVE'S TRAIN CITY
952-933-0200
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Musical Instuments
Piano player: mahog. Upright. $849 612-377-4715
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All real estate advertising in this newspaper is subject to the Fair Housing Act which makes it illegal to advertise “any preference limitation or discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex handicap, familial status, or national origin, or an intention, to make any such preference, limitation or discrimination.” Familial status includes children under the age of 18 living with parents or legal custodians; pregnant women; and people securing custody of children under 18.
This newspaper will not Estate 3/24 (8-4); 3/25 (10- knowingly accept any ad4) Furn, tools, china, HH, vertising for real estate misc. 9219 Chicago Ave So. which is in violation of the law. Our readers are hereby informed that all Richfield dwellings advertised in this newspaper are availMoving Sale: Furn, Antiq, able on an equal opportuHH, Fri 3/23 (12-5), Sat nity basis. To complain of 3/24 (8-4) 6800 Oliver Ave S discrimination call HUD toll-free telephone number for the hearing impaired is 1-800-927-9275. 3700 Leisure
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Boat Services, Storage & Slips
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Employment
Don't Be Left Aground Come Boat the Mississippi www.watergatemarina.net Slips available for all sizes Plenty of water!
Call JP at 651-695-3783
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Sporting Goods & Misc
Personal Gun Collection for Sale. High quality! Call for pricing. 612-408-0222
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Agriculture/ Animals/Pets Pets
Peeka & Boo, 2 sweet & beautiful, bro & sis, orange tabby cats, together only to a special loving home. All tests/shots/spay/neut. $75 for both. Jerry 952-888-9524
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Director of Nursing St. Lucas Care Center is looking for a compassionate and dedicated RN who has great leadership ability and long term care experience to be the director of our 109-bed skilled nursing facility. This position will lead a team of nurse managers in clinical and operational outcomes. Functions include people management, customer service, clinical assessments, budget responsibilities, and legal compliance. St. Lucas Care Center is a facility which provides a variety of challenging medical specialties which are unique to what most facilities provide, including Transitional Care, Memory/Dementia Care, along with traditional Long Term Care. To email your resume, or for more information contact Sheri Ferguson, sferguson@ missionhealthcare.org Resumes can also be mailed to:
To find out more please call Donna 651-746-5945
St. Lucas Care Center Attn. Sheri Ferguson 500 1st St SE Faribault, MN 55021
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CSR/Account Rep Responsibilities: Providing Information for Potential Members. Update Current Members Account Information Assist in Setup & Troubleshooting of New Member Equipment General Sales & Marketing Support Efforts
Rosemount • Burnsville Mendota Heights Seasonal Outdoor Work Employee Discount April to July Flexible Hours
We offer a starting salary of $14 - $17 per hour. (PT/FT) Interested Candidates should forward resumes to :
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Full Case Grocery Selector M-F 8am start $13.10/hour.
Loading position M-F 11am start $13.10/ hour. mnhr@mclaneco.com fax: 507-664-3042
Health Care
Social Services
Thomas Allen Inc.:
Registered Nurse: South St. Paul, Burnsville, Bloomington Registered Nurse 5-6 hrs/wk can be split into two positions. Must be RN, Driver's Lic, Insur, clean record, own vehicle. Prefer 3 years experience with developmental Disabled or seniors. Contact: Sandy Q, Fax resume 651-450-7923
Help Wanted/ Full Time
Join Our Team Crew Leads/Crew Members Needed
Prescription Landscape is looking for energetic and motivated persons to join our production teams. We have openings at both locations, Crystal and St. Paul. Job duties include operating mowing equipment, physical labor; up to and including bending, kneeling and lifting up to 45 lbs, and other duties as assigned. Seasonal and year-round positions available. Year-round positions include snow and Qualifications: College degree is a ice management; plowing, strong plus. (High shoveling, etc. Experience School Diploma / helpful but not required, on the job training availGED required) able. Some positions reExcellent verbal and quire a valid and clean written communica- driver's license. Pre-emtion skills required. ployment drug/alcohol Flexible Schedule testing required. Compen(nights, weekends sation: $10.00-$18.00 pendand holidays are a ing experience. For more information visit our web must). site at: Ability to multi task www.rxlandscape.com 1+ year experience in or email sueleatherman@ a customer service rxlandscape.com or phone Sue at 651-379-4713 environment is a strong plus. Knowledge of computers and Microsoft software required (Word/Excel)
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Flower Marts NOW HIRING
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Sales Reps * BURNSVILLE & MINNETONKA BRANCH * Looking for a CAREER, NOT just a pay check? All experience levels encouraged to apply! Competitive base + commission Benefits: Paid Training, benefits package and fuel reimbursement. Required to pass: Drug screen, background and motor vehicle record checks. Apply at: jobs.TruGreen.com Burnsville 952-895-3400 Minnetonka 952-933-7360 AA/EOE/M/F/V/D
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Fantasy Gifts Part time sales clerks Evenings and weekends at our Lakeville, St. Louis Park and Coon Rapids locations. Applications at all locations or email resume to helpwanted@ fantasygifts.com
Mystery Shoppers Earn up to $100/day. Undercover shoppers needed to judge retail & dinning establishments. No exp req. Call 855-219-4443 Part Time Outside Sales
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Social Services
Thomas Allen Inc.: Program MANAGER (South St. Paul)
Hours: 20 hrs/wk flexible, Must be QMRP or DC, valid DL & insurance. 1 year exp. working with persons with DD (2yrs if DC) 1 yr supervisory exp. pref'd. Duties include: Oversee day to day operations of DD home, hiring, training, scheduling staff, writing programs/reports, chairing client meetings, oversee financial status of client/home, med. monitoring, etc. To Apply email letter of interest/resume: Katya@ thomasalleninc.com Visit us at www.thomasalleninc.com AA/EOE
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Seasonal Hiring
Seasonal Openings Lakeville Bachman's has FT Seasonal Openings at our Lakeville Nursery & Greenhouse location. Positions include: Nursery Sales Nursery Worker Equipment Operator Apply at 6877 235th St W. Farmington, MN 55024 between 8am to 4pm. 651-463-3288 Shipping Helpers & Production Helpers Work 7:30-4, M-F & Sat during peak times. Must be at least 18 & HS grad/GED. Ability to frequently lift up to 25 lbs, work on your feet all day, good math & communication skills, understand work direction in English & able to operate equipment. Apply in person at the Lakeville Greenhouse, 23000 Cedar Ave S., Farmington, MN 55024, between 9-3. 952-469-2102 EOE BACHMAN'S
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Automotive
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$$$$ $200 - $10,000 $$$$ Junkers & Repairables More if Saleable. MN Licensed www.crosstownauto.net
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Motorcycle, Moped, Motor Bike
Motorcycles Wanted! Cash for used & Damaged 651-285-1532
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Vans, SUVs, & Trucks
01 GMC Yukon XLT 1500
AT, 4WD, Red w/grey lthr, heated seats, 230K, very well maint., 1 owner, clean inside/out, no rust, 3rd seat, rear heat/ac. $3800 Mike 612 987 1044
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Mail order form to: Sun•Classifieds, 10917 Valley View Road • Eden Prairie, MN 55344 Or fax order form to: 952-941-5431 Deadline: Mondays at 3:00 pm - Earlier deadline on Holiday Weeks Note: Newsprint does not fax legibly, you must fax a photocopy of the completed order form below. Please use this order form when placing your Classified ads.
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■ Sun•Sailor
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Amount enclosed: $________________________ Classification _____________________________ Date of Publication ________________________ Credit Card Info: ■ VISA ■ MasterCard ■ American Express Card # ____________________________________ Exp. Date __________________CID #__________ Name ____________________________________ Address __________________________________ __________________________________________
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