E DEN P RAIRIE ✹ J ANUARY 20, 2011
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Vol. 46, No. 3
In the Community, With the Community, For the Community
Eagle girls top Wayzata PAGE 16
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‘In my 25 years, I have never – I have never worked this much. It’s every other day.’ – Merle Marschall
Stensrud dives into first weeks as a legislator BY PAUL GROESSEL • SUN NEWSPAPERS
Flying Cloud Airport plow crew keeping busy this winter PHOTOS AND STORY BY PAUL GROESSEL
J
oe Moravec angled the rear wheels of his machine to make the gigantic blower dig into the mounds of snow that lined the taxiway at Flying Cloud Airport. On Jan. 15 he was piloting “the blower,” as it is called. The yellow rig isn’t very long, but it rides high like a semi, only with a massive red blade for a bumper — a larger version of blowers that snow-clearing commoners use on driveways.
Moravec parked at the corner of a taxiway facing a snow mound. He adjusted another lever or two. He had already called into the control tower to make sure his position would be safe. “So, here we go,” he said. “Now it’ll get loud.” The cabin shook when the blade started. PLOWS: TO PAGE 15
With a little over a week into his first legislative session, freshmen Republican Rep. Kirk Stensrud of District 42A (covering parts of Minnetonka and Eden Prairie) said the housekeeping details at his office in the capitol are Kirk Stensrud done. His computer and phone are set up. His legislative assistant has been assigned. “It seems to be we’re all ready and open for business,” he said. In December, after his narrow electoral victory over incumbent Maria Ruud, Stensrud said he was already getting a lot of e-mails and contact from groups and individuals he hadn’t heard from during the campaign. He was anxious to get started, he said, and he was hoping to get on the committees he preferred. Well, it’s started, and he did. Stensrud has been assigned to three committees, Jobs and Economic Development Finance, State Government Finance and Commerce and Regulatory Reform. “I’m pleased,” he said. “It kind of fits in with where I’ve been and what I campaigned on.” Stensrud was born and raised in Bloomington and now lives in Eden Prairie STENSRUD: TO PAGE 15
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