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Bloomington
April 28, 2011 • V41.17
In the Community, With the Community, For the Community
Eagles off to 6-0 start. Page 28A
Mediator gets world recognition
Council appoints Busse for District 3
BY BILLIE JO RASSAT SUN NEWSPAPERS “Bulk unhurried time is a matter of how we engage our neighbors in conversation and spend time together,” Stephanie Hope Smith said of her philosophy to mediation. Smith says she is an average woman. She is a wife and a mother, works as an certified athletic trainer at Academy of Holy Angels in Richfield and lives in Bloomington. She is a member of her local Rotary Club and attends Mass every Sunday. But as average as she may proclaim herself to be, Smith has been nominated for the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize by Chief Arvol Looking Horse of the Sioux Nation. Smith “has demonstrated the potential to bring hope and healing across all colors of skin by building innovative bridges between groups as they serve together and by guiding them to use the Rotary Four Way Test as a basis for dialogue and action,” said Looking Horse in a statement to the Norwegian Nobel Committee, the governing body that selects the peace prize winners.
BY MIKE HANKS • SUN NEWSPAPERS
Easter buddies The Purintun sisters of Janesville, Wis., left to right, Ava, 8, Ella, 6, and Julia, 3, pose for a family picture with the Easter bunny at Southtown Shopping Center in Bloomington Saturday, April 23. (Photo by Mike Hanks • Sun Newspapers)
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When the Bloomington City Council District 3 seat opened up last month, Bloomington resident Tim Busse thought his experience as communications director for a city of 80,000 provided experience that would translate well to governing the business of Bloomington. The Bloomington City Council agreed, appointing Busse to the vacant seat at its April 18 meeting. Busse will be sworn in at the council’s May 2 meeting. It’s not really a city Busse works for, it’s Tim Busse the University of Minnesota. Busse, 47, is the communications director of University Services. “We are everything that isn’t academic or athletic at the U,” he said. From overseeing parking and transportation to bookstores BUSSE: TO PAGE 22A
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