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Moving on without answers Eden Prairie family lost trust in the school district, gets unflattering goodbye from school board chair

BY PAUL GROESSEL • SUN NEWSPAPERS Republicans running for state office have a good Election Night. At JJ’s Coffee and Wine Bar in Eden Prairie, the candidates thank supporters and organizers before the results show things would go their way. According to the Minnesota Secretary of State results, all three state offices representing Eden Prairie went to Republicans. Kirk Stensrud (left) was shown to have 107 more votes than incumbent Maria Ruud, DFL, in the House District 42A race. He won by a .62 percent margin. An automatic recount occurs if the margin is .5 percent or less, according to Minnesota Secretary of State guidelines. The two incumbents, Rep. Jenifer Loon, 42B, (middle) and Sen. David Hann, 42,(right), retained their seats. (Photo by Paul Groessel • Sun Newspapers)

Big night for Republicans in Eden Prairie

BY PAUL GROESSEL • SUN NEWSPAPERS

2010 ELECTION

MAYOR, COUNCIL MEMBERS ELECTED

More than 20,000 people went out to vote in Eden Prairie on Election Day. At the municipal level, Republican-endorsed candidates may not have earned seats in office, but they did for state and U.S. Congressional districts that represent Eden Prairie. Here’s a brief breakdown for city, county, state and U.S. congressional races.

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When a parent decides to take children out of a public school system, it’s private information. A school administrator or school board member is supposed to have that knowledge on a need-to-know basis.

After concerns about where the Eden Prairie School District was headed, long before any boundary maps became public, Debbie Brandt and her husband Chris decided to take their two children out of Eden Lake Elementary School. This was last spring.

Since the Feb. 23 School Board meeting, when retooling the district’s elementary schools to K-6 was proposed, Brandt became proactive.

She organized the Eden Prairie School Board Accountability group on Facebook that has more than 500 members, and she was part of a petition asking for the K-6 decision to be reversed, signed by more than 700 people.

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After requests from community members for a town hall, question-andanswer style meeting, the Eden Prairie School District administration and School Board offered a workshop Nov. 1, at the Eden Prairie High School Performing Arts Center.

The public did not have a chance to speak, but the administration addressed

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what it considered most frequently asked questions, and the School Board asked questions about the K-6 decision in February, about the proposed elementary school boundary map and about responsibilities and work of various task forces involved in the boundary map and K-6 transition process.

The administration also responded to a letter that was signed by five parents on the 5-year Facilities Task Force and then sent to the School Board and administration Oct. 26.

The task force consisted of parents and administrators. It came up with options for elementary school changes that led up to the Feb. 23 decision to adopt a K-6 elementary school model to replace the current K-4 model.

The letter brought up seven different concerns. Those concerns regard what the task force was charged with and how the criteria didn’t align with criteria other task forces have been given; they were limited in options they could consider, and they are concerned that many of the capacity and enrollment numbers they were given as part of their decisionmaking process have since changed.

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dation for housing [Eagle Heights Spanish Immersion] and a new school at Oak Point and encourage the board to reexamine the numbers, clarify the administration’s objectives and explore other potential options under the change in interpretation of O.E.12.6, student diversity objectives and revised building capacities,” the letter said.

The district’s operational expectations for the administration are abbreviated O.E. On Monday, the administration responded to the letter and the school board asked questions of its own about the concerns for first part of the meeting.

Chief Operating Officer Patricia Magnuson said the facilities task force was working with a different purpose than other task forces, and enrollment numbers were based on a long-term outlook rather than more immediate enrollment for other task forces.

To try to deal with the matter, the administration and facilities task force members will meet to review the concerns.

Boardmembers Chuck Mueller and John Estall urged that everyone (or representatives from each group) then address the school board to review what was discussed.

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To accommodate a large audience, The Eden Prairie School Board and administration hold a workshop Monday, Nov. 1, at the Eden Prairie High School Performing Arts Center. They discussed questions and concerns that have frequently arisen from the community after the proposed elementary school boundary maps were released in early October. (Photo by Paul Groessel • Sun Newspapers)

Workshop FROM PAGE 2 The administration and task force members are expected to meet. After that, they could address the board by the Dec. 7 or Dec. 21 meeting, when the School Board will review the elementary school boundary map and other K-6 plans that are currently in process.

While addressing various topics throughout the meeting, board members Estall, Mueller, Ranee Jacobus, Holly Parker and Susan Kutina brought forth questions for which answers were not immediately available. The board expects to get responses to those questions by the December meetings.

There were many questions and discussions about how the K-6 model was chosen and how the sixth school was chosen as a boundary school instead of a magnet school.

After discussions about how that sixth elementary school classification came about, and Parker and Jacobus raised questions and concerns about parents’ curriculum choices, Superintendent Melissa Krull and board chair Kim Ross said concerns coming from community seemed to be about the boundary maps, which was the intent of the workshop.

Audience members responded saying, “it’s not just the map,” but that’s what the discussion moved to.

At the end of the meeting, which ran approximately four and a half hours, the board reviewed topics that went unresolved during the meeting. Among them: • The facilities task force and administration will meet and then address the board by the Dec. 7 and 21 meetings.

• The financial advisory committee will come up with a model to account for the possible incremental costs of the K-6 transition.

• How Forest Hills-specific programs will transfer to other schools. Krull had said $200,000 had been put into the school, and the administration hasn’t figured out how the money will transfer, but are confident they’ll be prepared for the change.

• The interpretation of what “alternative programs” means.

• A request for the number of students in the five specific residential areas that have voiced concerns about changing schools.

• A request for the administration’s interpretation of “other strategies employed” in the Feb. 23 resolution approving the K-6 change.

An additional boundary input session has been scheduled 6 p.m., Monday, Nov. 8, at the Administrative Service Center, 8100 School Road.

A stakeholder connections meeting (question and answer format to the School Board) has been scheduled 4:30 p.m., Nov. 9, before the 6 p.m. School Board meeting.

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Residents’ water rates rising Eden Prairie balances water rates and sustainability

BY PATRICK LOCH • SUN NEWSPAPERS

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Eden Prairie residents will soon be paying more for their city-provided water services. The new rate structure, effective Jan. 1, has been approved to help shift the city’s water utilities infrastructure from a period of growth to one of sustainability.

In the past, the city has collected $6,500 per acre from new developments and $2,829.50 from each new home in order to get connected to Eden Prairie’s water system. With the city’s developable land nearly gone, about 200 acres remaining, so goes with it the stream of revenue that helped build the system.

However, having most recently expanded the system by 10 million gallons in 1999 to provide 28 million gallons of water to 65,000 residents, city planners are now confident that water utilities are capable of serving Eden Prairie indefinitely — even with an additional 12,000 residents expected in 30 years.

“We believe our 28 million gallon system will be adequate forever,” said Gene Dietz, Eden Prairie’s director of public works.

Yet the city recognized that it must be prepared to repair and replace components of the now-established water system. The current system is expected to last 50-100 years, and with some components already 40 years old, money will have to be reserved in order to continue uninterrupted service to the community.

“We did evaluate the cost,” said Dietz, “and we came up with a schedule for replacement.”

Part of that cost analysis showed that the system now in place cost $180 million dollars and, with inflation, would cost even more to replace.

Additionally, the rate increase was implemented to provide a stable revenue source. In the past, particularly in years of drought, the city collected excess dollars when the demand for water was high. However, in years of heavy rain, as was the case in 2010 when the water system barely operated at full capacity, overall revenues were reduced.

Further, city planners had hoped to promote water conservation with the rate increases. By using less, residents not only pay less but would also reduce the likelihood of having to expand the current system further,

‘We can’t easily expand our system. Using less is a better idea.’

– Gene Dietz Eden Prairie’s director of public works

something that Dietz said would be very expensive.

“We can’t easily expand our system,” he said. “Using less is a better idea.”

Still, some involved in the decision to raise the water rate questioned if an emphasis was placed on using less, would that further reduce the city’s revenue?

City Councilmember Ron Case, who fully supported the idea of conservation, said that the City of Eden Prairie does “rely on a certain amount of revenue.”

However, “They [city managers] are very aware” of the contradictory issue and “plan to monitor it closely.”

The Increase The new rate structure, which will generate money to fund future maintenance projects, is partially comprised of a five-tier flow charge that charges bigusers more.

A brief breakdown, outlined by Dietz: · The first steps of 36,000 and 48,000 are the same as before, except that the rates increase by 5 cents. · For 48,001 to 60,000 customers will pay 50 cents per 1000 gallons more. · For 60,001—78,000 gallons, $1 per 1000 gallons more. · For all use above 78,000, $1.50 per 1000 gallons more.

“This means that for 75 percent of our customers,” said Dietz, “the only change is 5 cents in the first two steps.

But we do have some larger users that exceed 78,000 gallons of water in a quarter. They will be paying a sharply increased rate for the last increment of their use.”

Therefore, the blocked rate structure is designed to have “big-users pay their fair share,” according to Dietz.

Despite the increase, it should be noted that even with the new rate, Eden Prairie is projected to have the sixthlowest monthly utility bill out of 27 metro communities.

Information: edenprairie.org.

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Destiny: Mission Possible The theme of destiny usually conjures up a strong reaction. Some are excited about the idea that there is a God who created each person with a purpose in mind, while others cannot stand the idea of destiny as it seems limiting and fatalistic.

Personally, I believe in destiny; however, there is a lot I still do not understand. For example, if God created me with a specific purpose in mind, then how do my decisions interface with His plans? Or, can I mess things up so badly that I miss my destiny?

If you are curious about how you can come into your destiny, allow me to encourage you with two big things that I’ve learned from the life of David in the Bible. Yes, that’s David as in David and Goliath, who is also known as King David. (See 1 Samuel 16.)

The first thing I am encouraged by is the fact that God makes a way! Even though David, the youngest of his brothers, was just a lowly shepherd boy, God made a way for him. God arranged circumstances and made a way for David to rise all the way to the top, according to His purposes (destiny).

JIM ERICKSON Guest Columnist

Where ever you are in life today, if you put your life in the hands of God, there’s nothing that can keep Him from making a way for you to come into His destiny for your life. The bottom line is that He is able.

So what does He ask of me? What’s my part in coming into destiny? In looking at the life of David, the key was he gave all of his heart to God. This is one of the major themes of the Bible — love God with all your heart, soul, mind and strength.

This is the case in my life today as well. God is asking me to give him all of my heart. If I trust him with my entire life and pursue a relationship with Him through Jesus, He will make a way.

For many years I believed that this was too good to be true. How can it be this simple? I still don’t have all the

answers, but based on account after account in the Bible and many of my own experiences (including mistakes), I am convinced more than ever, that this is true.

Of course, just because the process of coming into His destiny for our lives is simple does not mean it is easy. To the contrary, trusting Jesus with my whole heart and everything that I am, is the most difficult choice I make everyday.

Thank God for His grace (that is, the ability to do what I could never do on my own) that makes such surrender possible.

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So, when it comes to destiny, be encouraged by two big things: 1.

Jesus will make a way, and 2. Give Him all of your heart. If you focus on these two things, the rest will fall into place. Or you might say, the rest is just details.

Erickson is senior pastor of City Hill Fellowship, 12901 Roberts Drive, Eden Prairie. He can be reached at 952-941-7290. Follow Erickson and the congregation at www.cityhill.org and JimCErickson on Twitter and Facebook.

OPINION

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No theme left behind: EP shouldn’t go down a preview on the next a tried and failed path phase of district plan

BY RICK KING • GUEST COLUMNIST

BY ALEXA SMITH • GUEST COLUMNIST I am a parent on the 5-6 Instructional Program Distribution Committee. Most of the committee is made up of school staff. The first phase only dealt with the transition of specials (Art, Music, PhysEd, Spanish).

The staff who served in the first phase came from each of the specials areas. We were instructed to consider only the necessities in distributing the existing 5-6 programs to the new configuration.

The staff led this work and also consulted with their colleagues who were not on the committee. In midJune, the committee submitted a list of requirements and estimated costs of approximately $800,000 to transition the specials. The costs did not include the transportation or storage components that were part of the identified needs. The costs did not include a swimming program.

Yes, $800,000!

During the first feedback session, Patricia Magnuson stated that there were no additional costs to implement the K-6 transition beyond the capital expenditures originally identified.

When I wrote to ask how this was possible, I was told that the principals will choose how, when and whether to implement any of the committee’s recommendations. If they do request funding, the request will be met out of the normal operating budget for the district. Since the district barely made its budget this year, it seems hard to believe that there is this much flexibility in the budget.

And, the second phase of the committee’s work has only just begun. This phase will cover core classrooms, special education, ELL,

Gifted and Talented, moving many teachers between buildings and libraries or media centers.

No extraordinary costs? Does anybody believe that the single library at Oak Point can be split into five separate libraries without either sacrificing standards or incurring additional costs?

Unlike the boundaries, there will be no point at which the administration will be required to report to the community. When asked, they will continue to answer – without detail – that it’s being worked on, it’s on track and we should trust them. You won’t see anything to the contrary on the district website. The meeting minutes are barely worth posting and there aren’t any actions or projects showing from the first set of recommendations.

When our children arrive at school next fall, they will have some form of the same specials and services they would have received at Oak Point. What they get exactly will depend entirely upon the priorities of each school principal and how willing they are to request funding.

This is actually how programming is currently decided in our K4 system and, despite what the administration says about the schools being the same. There are already big differences in the programming among our current elementary schools.

And, when you ask what happened to the great programs that all 5-6 graders shared in a completely integrated facility, guess what the new theme will be? Fiscal responsibility.

Personally, I would like to suggest a theme to our district leaders: education.

Alexa Smith is a parent in the Eden Prairie School District.

Eden Prairie schools are missing the boat.

More specifically, the leadership of the Eden Prairie school district is trying to board a boat that sailed and failed 40 years ago.

Busing does not achieve the goal of socio-economic blending nor does it improve student achievement. This was demonstrated in the ‘70s when cities and towns across our country were forced by state and federal courts to accept busing, boundary manipulation and unilateral personnel transfers as a way to integrate schools and boost achievement.

Failure after failure occurred until these same courts realized that busing does not meet the goal of educational reform.

Research shows that students perform best when schools and parents have high expectations and in schools where there is strong effective leadership.

This is why Anne Duncan, U.S. Secretary of Education, has initiated the “Race to the Top” program providing $3.5 billion to improve performance in the 5,000 poorest-performing schools.

For example, in Charlotte, N.C., Supt. Peter Gorman devised a novel plan to close the achievement gap between the best and worst schools.

Gorman asked principals of the most successful schools to voluntarily move to a different school.

The challenge was accepted by many principals with the provision that they would be supplied the tools to be successful including the

authority to dismiss poorlyperforming staff and use bonus pay as an incentive to teachers.

One year later, results showed marked student improvement in all targeted schools.

Suzanne Gimenez, a principal of a largely Hispanic school in the district, boosted her students’ reading scores by 30 points and math scores by 33 points in only two years by using simple performance charts.

Through the use of these charts, students became accountable for their own performance and marked improvement was shown.

In light of these success stories and many others, why are Eden Prairie schools taking a failed path? Why is the Eden Prairie school leadership not constructing new and innovative ways to solve these problems instead of relying on a tried and failed option?

We all agree that closing the gap in our schools’ performance is an essential goal, but boundary manipulation and busing 1,000 students to new schools is not the answer. It never worked before and it won’t today or in the future.

I would ask our school district to halt the current busing plans and study successful, creative examples, such as the ones in Charlotte and implement a new program – one that provides our students the best leaders and demands high expectations and accountability for their own performance.

King is an Eden Prairie resident and former teacher, coach and school administrator.

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Newspaper over-reacted To the editor: Why does this paper only present one view of the boundary issue? Maggie Wallner (attorney for Eden Prairie School District) wrote a professional letter to the newspaper questioning the paper’s intentions and asking for a direct, private communication from the paper to resolve her concerns. The paper responded with public mockery (“Armed and dangerous desperados on the loose”).

Regardless of Wallner’s position, the paper should be ashamed of itself for its juvenile, unprofessional use of its First Amendment rights.

In addition the paper quotes Dr. George Tadros, hinting (though never claiming directly) that he has some expertise in this area. Tadros’ “Dr.” title qualifies him as an expert – in cardiology, not school redistricting and not civil engineering research.

Tadros’ expert analysis included his examination of a study showing that the school district is unlikely to achieve its goal of racial desegregation – except the school district doesn’t have a goal of “racial desegregation,” only socio-economic desegregation, which their plan achieves. Oh, and why did the newspaper not mention that Dr. Tadros lives in one of the areas affected by the boundary changes?

I am no supporter of Melissa Krull or the School Board. I loathe the idea of Spanish immersion, and don’t approve of how the boundary changes were conceived. But can someone tell me what’s wrong with the plan itself ? Every complaint I’ve heard boils down to “My kid has to move and I don’t like it.”

Under that logic, no improvement plan will ever work, as someone’s kid will always have to move.

Jim Schein Eden Prairie

Tell Eden Prairie School Board members what you think Kim Ross, School Board Chair • kross@edenpr.org • (952) 975-9473 Carol Bomben, School Board Vice-Chair • cbomben@edenpr.org • (952) 942-6356 John Estall, School Board Clerk • jestall@edenpr.org • (952) 937-0140 Holly Parker, School Board Treasurer • hparker@edenpr.org • (952) 937-2552 Ranee Jacobus, Director • rjacobus@edenpr.org • (952) 934-5480 Suzanne Kutina, Director • skutina@edenpr.org • (952) 946-6992 Chuck Mueller, School Board Clerk • chuck_mueller@edenpr.org • (952) 946-1069

Election season a time of stress and some humor The elections of 2010 are behind us.

Hopefully, your candidate won.

Actually, in a manner of speaking, all candidates are winners. They chose to put themselves on the line and suffer the slings and arrows.

Election season is always a challenge for newspapers. This year, Sun Newspapers added nearly 100 pages to its Oct. 21 editions to print profiles of candidates in most races. Some of our community editors compiled profiles for as many as 50 races – no small undertaking.

There are always a few things about election coverage that leave us shaking our heads.

For instance, why would anyone file for public office and then disappear from the face of the earth? We had several of those this year. The contact information on the filing documents in some of these cases was bogus. Isn’t that illegal? We took extra-human efforts to find these people, but some were never located.

Perhaps it’s time to increase the filing fee to $1,000 to eliminate individuals who aren’t serious about running but think filing as a candidate is a résumébuilder.

We also had several letter writers who had difficulty counting the number of words in their submission. I think the longest “letter” we received was 750 words.

When the community editor who received it contacted the individual, he said that since it addressed his point of view on three candidates (250 words each), it should be allowed to run.

It seemed more election letter writers this year stuck to issues, rather than praising the color of their favorite candidate’s shoes or addressing how good a neighbor the candidate is because he once loaned the writer a lawnmower.

PAUL WAHL Managing Editor

A couple candidates had problems with the simple questionnaire we used to gather information. In one instance, the form included a spot for “additional information.” One candidate used the space to say she occasionally enjoyed a croissant with breakfast! We all got a good laugh out of that one.

Another candidate misread the instructions stating that the sum total of his responses to three questions would be limited to 400 words. He thought it meant 400 words per question and was quite irritated when we informed him he was 800 words over our limit.

We also were the subjects of a number of attempts to be razzle-dazzled by certain campaigns. Several campaigns waited until the last day possible before the Oct. 28 edition to alert us to the fact their opponents were scoundrels and criminals, or worse.

Obviously, we’re quite careful about what we publish in that last edition because there is no possibility for rebuttal in print. This has been a long-standing policy of the newspaper, but we had several campaigns (including some incumbents) who used our failure to print this “vital” information as fodder for accusing us of bias.

This week we put our election hats back in the closet for two years and begin getting ready for 2012. We hope you enjoyed our election coverage as much as we enjoyed bringing it to you.

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e e kCouncil l y Sfor u p r S aand v iTalented n g s ! meetings scheduled Eden W Prairie thee Gifted There are two upcoming meetings for the Eden Prairie Council for the Gifted and Talented, an all-volunteer parent group that offers support for parents of high ability children.

The next meeting will be devoted to offering support to parents who may have questions related to their gifted child.

The meeting is 9:30 a.m., Friday, Nov. 5, at St. Andrew Church, 13600 Technology Drive, Eden Prairie.

All are welcome to visit and evaluate if membership in the council would be a benefit.

Participants should bring questions regarding advocating for their child, providing the right amount of

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academic challenge, developing social and emotional connections, perfectionism, underachievement and more for discussion.

Then, on Monday, Nov. 8, the council will host a presentation by Thomas Greenspon on Perfectionism 7-8:30 p.m. at the Star Bank Community Room, 250 Prairie Center Drive, Eden Prairie.

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The 90-minute session includes a presentation and time for questions.

Greenspon will address the negative aspects of perfectionism, which can sap emotional energy, cause difficulties in relationships and interfere with performance.

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EP family welcomes exchange student from South Korea

BY PATRICK LOCH • SUN NEWSPAPERS A smiling and a not-the-least-bit shy girl of 16, Hyeri Yang is one of many exchange students to have arrived recently in Minnesota.

Leaving behind her parents, younger brother and two dogs, she leaped into a new life, school and culture with nothing more than an adequate understanding of the English language.

Only two short months ago, she spent her first night at the home of Jeff and Cari Sheley, her host-parents for the next year.

For the Sheley’s, with all but one of their children in college, it was the perfect opportunity to fill up their large and mostly empty house in Eden Prairie.

And now, after having adjusted to a new school and home, Hyeri is focused on reaching her goals through the exchange program.

“I want to be fluent in English and learn American culture,” Hyeri said.

So far, the language barrier has been one of her biggest challenges. She said she is better at listening than she is at speaking, but even that has its challenges.

“People use ‘like’ and other slang words,” Hyeri said, making it difficult for her to understand some conversations.

But Cari Sheley insists that Hyeri is getting better.

“She has been spending a lot less time on homework,” she said.

The Sheley’s, who have ties to South Korea with their adopted daughter Madolyn and are a first-time host-family.

However, they were prepared for the challenges that would come after an exciting first month.

“Once the euphoria wore off,” said Cari, “the home-sickness set in.”

During a long car ride home from Itasca State Park, Jeff and Cari noticed tears pouring down Hyeri’s cheeks.

“Sometimes I get lonely,” she said.

“Then I cry.”

But with time, and with the help of technology like Skype, which allows Hyeri to stay connected with her family back home, the homesickness has slowly worn off.

A good thing, because the Sheley’s have a lot planned for the remainder of Hyeri’s year.

“We want her to have as full an experience as possible,” said Jeff.

They’ve visited South Dakota’s Black Hills, Devils Tower and Mount Rushmore. Hyeri’s been to the Minnesota State Fair and Mall of America.

‘Hyeri has been amazed at the size of everything in the U.S. Everything is big – high schools,houses,shopping malls … even the fruit is huge!’

–– – Cari Sheley host-parent

Observations so far: everything’s big.

“Hyeri has been amazed at the size of everything in the U.S.,” said Cari.

“Everything is big – high schools, houses, shopping malls … even the fruit is huge!”

At Eden Prairie High School, where Hyeri has enrolled in the 10th grade, she noticed that the student-teacher relationship is much more casual.

“At home, the teacher talks and the student writes,” said Hyeri.

She mentioned that her culture required that students “speak formal to adults in school setting,” and was surprised to see students addressing teachers with hands in their pockets.

“It’s so rude,” she said.

At 16, she hasn’t driven and probably won’t since the exchange program won’t allow it. However, she has expressed an interest in doing so, as the legal driving age back home is 20.

Yet Hyeri hasn’t been concerned with the things that she can’t do. Even before she arrived, she researched all of the things to do and places to visit in the area.

She has been particularly captivated with the region’s Native American history.

For the Sheley’s, the experience has opened their eyes to the world immediately around them.

“To host a student,” said Cari, “it forces you to become a tourist in your own town. I cannot tell you how many times I have driven by the Native American Museum up in Mille Lacs [without ever stopping].”

It was Hyeri’s curiosity that had them finally take a look.

For others interested in participating in the exchange program, the Sheley’s recommend it as a way to broaden their horizons.

Cari also suggested that would-be host-parents have experience raising teenagers.

And someday, after the exchange year is over, the Sheley’s hope that Hyeri can host them.

“It would be a very good experience,” said Cari, “to go back to Korea and be able to visit her.”

The Sheley family has taken in exchange student Hyeri Yang of South Korea while she attends Eden Prairie High School for a year. The family has done much traveling, stopping by popular Twin Cities destinations and traveling to South Dakota’s Black Hills, Devils Tower and Mount Rushmore. (From left to right) Jeff Sheley, Hyeri Yang, Madolyn Sheley and Cari Sheley.

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Eden Prairie’s Parks and Recreation director will be doubling his workload in the next few months.

After Eden Prairie’s former City Manager Scott Neal left last week to work in Edina, the city council appointed Jay Lotthammer Jay Lotthammer to serve until a permanent replacement can be found. Lotthammer is the city’s current Parks and Recreation Director and will be filling both roles in the time it takes to find a permanent city manager.

The city council met Oct. 19 and voted to appoint Lotthammer as interim city manager after Neal recommended him, Lotthammer said.

“I think the council saw it as an opportunity not to have a training-in period,” Lotthammer said.

“They needed somebody that had the past experience here. It made sense for them to select somebody internally.”

Lotthammer had served as Parks and Recreation director for more than 18 years at Brooklyn Park before coming to Eden Prairie 3 1/2 years ago.

Lotthammer says he has worked with many different city managers, which helped him prepare for his new role.

“I’ve never seen one better than Scott, so I’ve been fortunate to see him in action as a role model,” Lotthammer said.

Lotthammer said he also uses his almost 22 years in government as a guideline.

“In Eden Prairie the department head positions are very much leadership positions, and the city manager is also a leadership position,” he said. “What I know that needs to be done is to help support the people that work here and make sure they can effectively get their job done.”

Lotthammer also has experience with advisory commissions.

“The way we prepare for those meetings is very similar to the way we prepare for city council meetings,” he said.

“I’m used to putting together information that allows people to make informed decisions.”

He also said he is very comfortable speaking in groups such as the city council or commissions.

No one will be filling in for Lotthammer as Parks and Recreation director. That means going to a lot more meetings and dealing with a lot more departments. Along with the Parks and Recreation department he will have to run the Office of the City Manager, as well as provide support for the Police Chief, Fire Chief, Public Works Director and Community Development Director.

“You’re really helping a lot of different people,” Lotthammer said. “You’re helping the residents get what they need if they’re not finding it right away.

You’re helping the council get what they need from a scheduling scenario.”

Lotthammer said he will also have a lot of work to do the next couple months in helping plan the city budget for 2011 and help the council search for a new city manager. Because of the nature of the interview process, it could take months. The city manager position is the only job that is appointed by the council in Eden Prairie.

Lotthammer said that he is toying with the idea of applying for the permanent city manager position.

“I’ve had encouragement from community members and from city staff to think about applying,” he said. “I’ve got a great job now but it’s something that I’m willing to think about.”

Lotthammer said he doesn’t feel nervous about taking on a new role over the next couple months.

“I guess I see it as an opportunity to get a different perspective than I’ve ever had before,” he said. “I also see it as a chance to help the city through a transitional period.”

“A lot of the rewarding and interesting parts of the job are the new challenges that all of a sudden pop up,” Lotthammer said.

“I don’t know what that super tough thing might be, but there are a lot of people in this organization that can help.”

According to Lotthammer, he has had had many people come to him to express their support and help if it’s needed.

“That’s a really good sign that this is a good organization,” he said. “People want to work hard and do what it takes to make this a quality city.”

Lotthammer starts work as city manager this week.

“It’s no secret that some of the accolades that this city has received are due to hard work of the employees and elected officials,” Lotthammer said.

“There’s a lot of support from the residents and recognition of the value of the city services we provide.”

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Eden Prairie says farewell to City Manager Scott Neal

BY PAUL GROESSEL • SUN NEWSPAPERS Gene Dietz, Eden Prairie’s Director of Public Works, said he was going to give exiting City Manager Scott Neal the key to the city, but he wasn’t authorized.

So, he gave him the keys to a large utility truck, instead.

Scott Neal Neal didn’t really get that, either, but he was given tons of appreciation during a farewell dinner attended by city staff and community members Oct. 27.

In August, Neal was offered the Edina City Manager job. He’ll start at his new post Monday, Nov. 8.

After finding out what being a city manager entailed while attending Iowa State University, he knew it would be the perfect job for him, he said.

After college, Neal began his career in city management in Norris, Tenn. He has also been a city manager in Mount Pleasant, Iowa and Northfield before he made his way to Eden Prairie in 2002.

Several community members, former interns of his and past and current City Council members attended the farewell.

They all spoke highly of the friendly city manager, a phrase Neal used for himself when he started in Eden Prairie eight years ago.

City Councilmember Brad Aho said he didn’t know what to make of that title when Neal first arrived, but once Neal started settling in, it made sense and was fitting.

“I don’t think it’s an act or a show,” Aho said. “Scott really is a friendly city manager.”

And, by all accounts of those who spoke last week, friendliness was just one of many traits that made Neal popular.

Eden Prairie Schools Superintendent Melissa Krull, Eden Prairie Chamber of Commerce President Pat MulQueeny, Eden Prairie AM Rotary Club President Irene Kelly, Rick King of the Chamber of Commerce and Councilmember Kathy Nelson also praised Neal for his hard work, intelligence, community outreach, ability to resolve conflict and personality.

Nelson said as an incoming City Councilmember in 2006, Neal made sure she met everyone she needed and got up to speed with the right information, making the transition to her new post quick.

“We’re sorry to see you go, Scott,” Nelson said.

She said Neal seemed to have the ability to pick great people to work on city staff, and Neal said his staff is one of the things he’s most proud of.

He said he’s leaving behind a city and organization that’s strong because the characters in it are strong.

“It’s been a great job,” Neal said. “It’s been a very great job for me.”

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EDUCATION Hopkins students earn National Merit honors

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Nine Hopkins High School seniors have received honors as National Merit Program Commended Students, including Ben Badower, Kimberly Baker, Hannah Borowsky, Saxon Dorshow, Shelby Keizer, Alex Lee, Anna O’Reilly and Julianne Queensen.

Commended Students placed among the top five percent of more than 1.5 million students who entered the 2011 competition by taking the 2009 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test.

Although they will not continue in the competition for 2011 National Merit Scholarships, they are being recognized for their exceptional academic promise.

Seven Hopkins High School seniors were announced earlier as National Merit Scholarship Semifinalists, meaning that a total of 16 Hopkins students are being honored by the National Merit Scholarship program this year.

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Minnetonka High Theater brings comical relief to a bad economy WCCO TV’s Don Shelby to lend voice as narrator

BY CHRIS DILLMANN • SUN NEWSPAPERS The condition of the economy has dampened a lot of people’s spirits.

Though a performance by the students who are involved in the Minnetonka High School Theater Department is geared towards making people laugh at the American corporate world.

The school is presenting the awardwinning play, “How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying,” opening Friday, Nov. 5, at the Arts Center on 7’s main stage.

WCCO News TV Anchor, Don Shelby, will be narrating the show.

“I said of course I’ll do it because anything to do with young people you can count me in, plus there is a little bit of actor in me,” said Shelby. “I’ve never run from attention, and if I can make it about the kids, I never turn down the opportunity.”

In the original 1961 Broadway production, Walter Cronkite lent his voice as narrator.

“I thought what better person to try and ask,” said Director Kent Knutson.

“So we thought who in Minnesota would have a voice that instantly everybody would probably recognize without seeing him, and I thought Don Shelby.”

The story revolves around a young window washer named J. Pierrepont Finch who is reading the book “How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying,” which was an actual book published in the 50’s.

Working his way up the corporate ladder, Finch becomes CEO of a company through a series of accidents, blunders and mishaps. The loveable and naive character goes through a series of comical mistakes that all end up for the best.

“I think the audience is going to be very pleasantly surprised with how lighthearted, funny and goofy this show is,” said the lead of Finch, Ryan McCartan.

“Anytime, and especially in a time of economic crisis, it will be heart-warming and a nice little distraction from what the world is like outside the theater.”

The performance features a cast of more than 70, making it one of the largest productions the school has produced. Knutson said this old-fashioned musical brings back the essence of big dance number musicals, while also addressing current issues.

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(Photo by Chris Dillmann • Sun Newspapers) “This is a big, old-fashioned musical with a great story, great songs and fabulous dancing,” Knutson said. “Lot’s of things in the show the kid’s parents and grandparents will relate to … it opened the students’ eyes to some things, so I’m happy we’re doing it.”

The cast is also very excited.

“It’s very funny, it’s making fun of business in a big way,” said Audrey Thayer, who plays Miss Krumholtz. “It’s fun to push things to the limit and find connections in our lives.”

“It’s the typical rags to riches story of how he starts out with nothing then works his way up,” said Kelsey Peterjohn, who plays Smitty. “He actually kind of weasels his way up.”

Because the production is a comical satire on serious issues, the Knutson and the cast hope audiences will walk away from the performance with a more light-hearted approach on the economy and corporate world.

“Primarily, one of theater’s main function is escapism, people come to the theater to be transported somewhere else, and where better to be transported to this goofy world where business a lot of times in these days is falling apart, can really be played up in a funny light,” said Ryan Fargo, who plays Bud Frump.

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One life started, one life saved Burnsville man suffers heart attack while visiting newborn grandson at Fairview Ridges Hospital

BY JOSEPH PALMERSHEIM • SUN NEWSPAPERS The day a first grandchild is born is memorable for many powerful reasons.

But for George Yarbough of Burnsville, the Oct. 11 birth of Drake Devaughn Stewart marks something more: the day his own life was saved by being at the right place at the right time.

George was upstairs with his wife, Jacqueline, visiting their daughter Bernadette Stewart at Fairview Ridges Hospital in Burnsville. Bernadette had given birth shortly before 4:30 a.m., and George, who got off work at his bindery job around 8 a.m., came with Jacqueline to visit. By the time he was done eating breakfast, Bernadette called to say she was getting ready to leave.

George didn’t know it at the time, but he was having a heart attack.

“A lot of the symptoms I had felt like everyday pain,” he said. “I was prepared to blow it off like I normally do. Both my shoulders had been hurting for months, and I had some discomfort in my chest.”

By the time George and Jacqueline arrived at the hospital, it was obvious something was wrong. He couldn’t catch his breath, and Jacqueline, who is battling breast cancer, beat him up the stairs to the room. When a cough brought on sweating that wouldn’t stop, George knew something was wrong.

“He was sick, and sweating, so I told him to go to the ER. I followed him five minutes later, and they were already working on him,” Jacqueline recalled.

“I just thought I was under the weather,” George said. “I was going to blow off going to the ER. I don’t know what it was that made me go, but I walked down from the fourth floor, and they immedi-

ately put me into a wheelchair and brought me into an exam room. They knew what was happening. They didn’t waste any time.”

“Things moved really fast,” said Dr. David Laxson of Plymouth, the interventional cardiologist on duty that day. “The cath lab was called after the EKG, and he was put on a gurney and wheeled back.”

“They were moving him so fast I couldn’t keep up,” Jacqueline said.

“I couldn’t believe this was happening,” Bernadette said. “I mean, cancer, and now a heart attack? What if I had gotten out a day earlier? My mom said that, knowing him, he would have just gone and laid down, brushed it off.”

“I was thinking I’d see him sitting in the ER, but when I went in there, it was like, ‘What happened in a few minutes?’

Jacqueline said. “I didn’t know what was really happening. I didn’t know if he was alive or dead. You had to see it to believe it.”

“He was swarmed by a tech, two nurses, a doctor, put on monitoring leads, and prepping the area we were going on,” Laxson said. “He was awake, talking to us.”

The blockage was in George’s right coronary artery. Laxson said that most heart attacks are caused by plaque causing blood clots to form in major blood vessels to the heart. The sooner it is unblocked, the less damage there is to the heart, he explained, and it is possible to prevent a heart attack entirely if the clot is caught in time. Nearly a decade ago, Fairview Ridges went to using a procedure called angioplasty (surgical opening of an artery) full-time instead of using drug combinations.

“Even in the middle of the night, we can do it far faster than we can with [drug therapies],” Laxson said. “We put a

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“The only thing I remember asking if I could go back to work the next day,” George said. “I felt better right away.”

“You’ve got to build experience,” Laxson said. “It’s time for us now to do emergencies, and George is the first formal one we’ve had. The whole system was ready for it. It was fortunate for him he was here, and a good pickup by the staff. When it comes to medicine, there’s a lot that is like that – people being in the right place at the right time. There’s serendipity.”

“If I hadn’t been at the hospital, I would have died. If I’d been at home, they wouldn’t have known what to do. I would have brushed it off, I’m telling

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I’ve always told my wife that I’m a strong man, that nothing could take me down.”

“It was a timing thing,” Bernadette said.

“It just hit him so quick. I’ve never known someone who had a heart attack at the hospital. It’s really the best place you could be.”

“It’s all a miracle,” Jacqueline said. “I was with her in the delivery room and with him when he had a heart attack.

When we look back on this, we’ll also smile, and we’ll be able to tell [Drake] about it, that things happen for a reason.”

“He saved my life,” George said, glancing down to the newborn baby boy Vikings hat on his head, gurgling in his sleep in his car seat. “If he hadn’t have gotten out when he did, they’d be burying me now.”

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Beyond baking brownies

BY MARC INGBER • SUN NEWSPAPERS “It’s not about baking brownies or sewing an apron,” as Gayle Durand likes to say of Hopkins’ family and consumer sciences classes. “It’s really changed.”

Visit Durand teaches foods, culinary and child psy- minnlocal.com chology classes at for videos, more Hopkins High School. photos and daily news updates She also coaches the Hopkins ProStart Culinary Team.

As part of the district’s family and consumer sciences department, she gave an update on Hopkins’ review of the program to the School Board at its Oct. 28 meeting.

The district reviews its curriculum in four-year phases. The family and consumer sciences review is in phase II, when department heads present recommendations for the future of the program.

Diane Schimelpfenig, district director of teaching and learning, prepared the recommendations report with technology education coordinator Tim Amlie.

Family and consumer sciences used to be referred to as home economics, they said in their report.

With its roots in domestic science, it was at one time designed to prepare women to become full-time stay-athome homemakers.

But as family roles have changed over time, those changes have had an impact on the definition of a homemaker, as well as the image of family and consumer science curriculum.

Culinary classes are now aimed at preparing students who are interested for a career in the industry. Seven years ago, Hopkins updated its food labs with new appliances, stainless steel commercial kitchens and other upgrades.

“We’re a true leader in the west metro for family and consumer sciences,” Amlie said. “We really are keeping up with the times as we move ahead.”

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Hopkins Public Schools aims to make its family and consumer sciences curriculum a leader Culinary classes are an elective at Hopkins High School and Durand said enrollment has been consistent in recent years. The classes are designed to teach students 21st-century skills.

“What we’re doing at Hopkins is valuable to students,” she said. “We want to prepare these students for a future career.”

To see how far from “baking brownies” curriculum has come, look no further than Hopkins’ Culinary ProStart team. It won the 2008 Minnesota Culinary ProStart Competition with a menu that included salmon fritter with hot citrus sauce, Szechwan duck with pomegranate sauce and a dessert of raspberry caviar.

The district’s report stated that Hopkins has been seeing pressures at the state and national level to develop more college-level courses at the high school.

In the past year, it has been working with post-secondary partners at Hennepin Technical College and Normandale Community College to develop courses that will allow for “ease

of transition” between the institutions.

Amlie and Durand said the department partnered with local community members and businesses in the culinary industry when possible to serve as guest speakers in classes. General Mills, based in Golden Valley, is a great model for a large company, Amlie said.

But there is more to the department than culinary classes. A new element of the family and consumer sciences curriculum is a financial literacy course, which will be required for all ninthgraders beginning next school year.

The course was one of the recommendations of a secondary program study the School Board approved in May. Other areas of study in the curriculum include family and community services, hospitality, nutrition and wellness, parenting, fashion and apparel and food science.

“Our family and consumer sciences teachers continually work to expand their knowledge base,” the district’s report stated, “allowing students to experience the best in what (the department) offers to prepare them for life.”

Minnetonka students learn valuable life skills in DECA program

BY CHRIS DILLMANN • SUN NEWSPAPERS Preparing students for the “real world” is what the Minnetonka Diamond Club and the DECA club at Minnetonka High School strives to do for students, while also building a sense of community.

DECA is an organization for marketing students that helps prepares them for life with leadership in entrepreneurs in marketing and the business world. Formed in 1946, DECA High School Division includes 185,000 members in 5,000 schools nationwide.

Yet, it’s not just for students interested in marketing or business, said Minnetonka High School Business Chair and DECA Adviser Erik Sill.

“I always tell kids it doesn’t matter what industry you are going into or what career path you choose,” Sill said. “You’re going to benefit being in DECA because it helps students with communication skills, helps them build their self-confi-

dence in everything they do. So it really goes beyond the business world.”

When DECA was introduced to Minnetonka High School three years ago, it began with a group of about 80 students. The program this year is the largest in the state with more than 250 students participating in the organization.

Partnering with the Diamond Club, the students are divided into teams of six to eight who are partnered with a mentor. The mentors are people in the community who are or have been in the business field, and they work with the students on a sales curriculum that helps them with their presentation skills, sales skills and how to identify unique characteristics of a product.

“It really gives us a chance to become a community in our own chapter, as well as a better opportunity for learning in small groups,” said Sill. “I think the students see the relevance of the curriculum, and a lot comes from families who

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are really involved in the business world and they like how applicable all these skills are to pretty much every aspect of life.”

The fundraising effort this year is selling calendars featuring photography from around the Lake Minnetonka area. Calendars are $20 and the money benefits the Diamond Club and the school district. Also, it helps students pay for their expenses traveling to competitions. This year, the international competition is in Orlando.

“Our primary goal is to help the DECA students prepare for their competitions and help them better with their communication skills, help them with the skills they need to succeed in DECA,” said mentor and Diamond Club member Charlie Kanan. “It’s really bringing the private sector to work with the DECA program, but it’s also about helping our students, and if we don’t sell one calendar but help them in their skill sets better prepare for life … so it’s been a fun project.”

Making sure the program benefits the community as a whole is another objective of the program and the mentors.

“This whole program is about a full circle, these kids are giving back to the community by selling these calendars because it’s going to the Minnetonka community,” said DECA mentor Jane Phillips. “I’m giving back leading by example through giving my time, energy and background to these students. We’re just expanding their horizons by creating kids that know how to do more than just take a test, they know how to interact in business and life skills.”

The students also see the benefit of being a part of an organization such as DECA. “I want to become a better salesman, and better at business in general,” said DECA student Wynn Bigham, who shared his sales secret. “I’m going to try to use my connections and hit big businesses to try to sell hundreds at a time.”

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COMMUNITY NOTES EPHS Dance Team hosts annual fundraiser Nov. 14 The Eden Prairie Dance Team fundraiser brunch has been scheduled 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., Sunday, Nov. 14 at Buca Di Beppo, 7711 Mitchell Road, Eden Prairie.

Tickets are $15 each and can be purchased from any Eden Prairie Dance Team member or calling for information.

Information: 952-975-2527.

Meetings focus on current research and treatment, tips for managing daily activities of living, and psychological coping skills.

The discussion group is facilitated by physical therapists from Prairie Adult Care and the American Parkinson’s Disease Association.

Free respite care is available with advance reservation in the licensed daycenter, Prairie Adult Care, for care receivers who do not choose to participate in the support group.

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Many foreclosure questions will be answered at a free mortgage foreclosure information workshop offered by the Minnesota Home Ownership Center, a counseling agency that provides foreclosure prevention education and outreach and pre-purchase information for homeowners.

The workshop has been scheduled 6:30 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 18, at the Eden

Prairie Library, 565 Prairie Center Drive.

The workshop is for homeowners who are worried about making upcoming mortgage payments, are already behind on payments or just want to learn more about foreclosure.

It’s also intended for renters whose landlords may be facing foreclosure.

Participants can ask questions and get free, confidential advice from foreclosure counselors.

The Home Ownership Center is hosting it in collaboration with Hennepin County Taxpayer Services and the Hennepin County Library.

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EP native on winning computing team An Eden Prairie native was part of an award-winning University of Minnesota-Morris computer science team.

Justin Mullin and his teammates placed first and sixth overall out of sixteen teams at the 2010 Digi-Key

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Collegiate Computing Competition in October in Thief River Falls, Minn.

Team Reptilian Agenda earned a commanding first place overall, scoring more than 300 total points, more than 60 points ahead of the second-place team.

The Morris computer science discipline will host the bronze traveling trophy for the next year and receive a $5,000 award to support computer science activities such as student travel to conferences and special lab purchases.

Vikings great Blair to offer healthy living tips Viking All Pro Matt Blair and Full Circle Walkers Mike Link and Kate Crowley will bring healthy living tips to seniors 1-6 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 9, at Cedar Valley Church, 8600 Bloomington Ave. S., Bloomington.

Blair, Link and Crowley have teamed with Medica’s Center for Healthy Aging to help seniors understand how to stay active and maintain their health.

Info: www.medica.com.

Big Green Conference set Environmental and sustainability issues will be discussed at the Big Green Conference 2010: Where Business and Government Meet.

The conference will be 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Thursday, Nov. 11, at the Mall of America.

Presentations, keynotes and panel discussions will cover topics including sustainability among major retailers and consumer groups; environmental challenges and solutions; and renewable energy and effects on public policy.

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German fellowship Nov. 6 The German-American Fellowship Association is holding a meeting Saturday, Nov. 6.

German multiculturalism is the topic of the presentation to be given by Ginny Steinhagen, senior lecturer in the German department at the University of Minnesota. She spent last summer in Berlin researching the topic.

The meeting is at the Bloomington Living Hope Lutheran Church, 9350 Portland Ave. S. in Bloomington. A German language class starts at 7 p.m., the main meeting starts at 8 p.m.

An optional donation of $3 for nonmembers is encouraged.

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Fiber arts of yesteryear to be demonstrated Try carding wool, see it spun into yarn and take home yarn you have colored with natural dyes this Sunday at Bloomington’s historic Pond House.

Educator Pauline Bold will demonstrate fiber arts that Bloomington settler Agnes Pond considered everyday tasks.

The demonstrations will be held during tours of the historic house 1:30-4 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 7, at Pond-Dakota Mission Park, 401 East 104th St., Bloomington.

Information: 952-563-8738.

Overeaters Anonymous Convention set Nov. 5-7 The 37th annual Minnesota Overeaters Anonymous will be held Friday, Nov. 5 through Sunday, Nov. 7 at Hotel Sofitel, 5601 West 78th Street, Bloomington.

The convention will feature two national speakers who will describe how they found a solution to eating issues. Both have lost more than 100 pounds and one has maintained the weight loss for 22 years.

There also will be group meetings and keynote speakers with topics including compulsive eating, binging, body image and sponsorship.

Info: 612-562-6601 (Jon).

Normandale has new CIO Normandale Community College has hired Andrea Kodner-Wenzel as the new Chief Information Officer.

Kodner-Wenzel was Chief Information Officer at Northwestern Health Sciences University in Bloomington for nine years.

She also served as a college instructor and adjunct faculty member in the music department of Carleton College.

Kodner-Wenzel will start at Normandale Nov. 29.

“While I have enjoyed my work at Northwestern very much, I am looking forward to the challenges of working in a larger setting at Normandale,” Kodner-Wenzel said.

Church Bazaar Nov. 6

Seeds for Change event

A variety of unique home-crafted items including holiday decorations, jewelry, art, cards and baked goods will be on sale at the Redemption Lutheran Church annual bazaar. The church will hold the event 8 a.m. to 3 p.m Saturday.

Nov. 6, 927 E. Old Shakopee Road, Bloomington. The Dorcas Widows Fund will sell necklaces, bracelets and earrings made by Ugandan widows.

Info: 952-881-0035.

A silent auction, dinner reception and live entertainment are lined up in the Seeds for Change event.

The fundraiser will go 5:30-8:30 p.m.

Thursday, Nov. 11 at Embassy Suites Bloomington, 7901 34th Ave. S. Seeds for Change is a nonprofit designed to give junior high school students something to do after school. The organization offers the students educational activities, tutoring and sports.

Info: www.seedsforchangedlives.org.

Active Living workshops Two workshops will be offered by the Statewide Health Improvement Program of Bloomington, Edina and Richfield to build healthier communities. The Active Living workshops will be noon to 4:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 8 and Wednesday, Dec. 1, 8-11:30 a.m. at Bloomington Public Works, 1700 W. 98th St., Bloomington.

The workshops will focus on creating active and healthy communities including local needs, identification of opportunities and prioritization of activities.

Info: 952-563-8917 (Robyn).

‘Harvest Tea’ at church Zion Lutheran Church in Hopkins will host a “Harvest Tea” for women in the west metro 3-5 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 14.

Oliver Krause of Hopkins will be the guest musician and Paula Zukowski of Maple Grove will be the guest inspirational speaker. Refreshments will be served and free-will offering is suggested at the door.

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Edina singer celebrates life after near-death experience Peterson’s 40-year career as a working artist includes four solo albums, background vocals for national recording artists, and gigs with bands T.C. Jammers, Casablanca Orchestra and others.

Turning 56 this year, she’ll celebrate life with her annual birthday concert Friday, Nov. 5, at the Music Box Theatre in downtown Minneapolis. She will perform songs from her new EP “The Very Thought of You” during the intimate set.

“I don’t live from that place of having aortic disease,” said Peterson. “I live from the place of sheer gratitude now. No question, my life has changed. Everything has a deeper and richer meaning to me now.”

On stage, she is reuniting for the first time with the guests that comprised her comeback tour after suffering aortic dissection – a tear in the wall of the aorta. She will be joined by Jason Peterson DeLaire, Bobby Vandell, Billy Franze and Peter Schimke, along with cabaret star Lori Dokken and her 89-year-old mother, who’s in the Minnesota Music Hall of Fame.

BY KATIE MINTZ • SUN NEWSPAPERS More than three years after Edina jazz artist Patty Peterson survived a life-threatening health emergency, her career is back on track but with new meaning.

“My life was spared, and I think one reason was to remind people we Patty Peterson have to live our gift,” said Peterson, who underwent heart surgery for a burst aorta in February 2007.

Peterson, a Richfield native from “Minnesota’s First Family of Music,” said people owe it to themselves and others to realize their own gifts and use them.

One of hers is singing. With musical parents Jeanne Arland Peterson and the late Willie Peterson, she was singing before she talked. Her siblings Linda, Billy, Ricky and Paul are also professional musicians.

“To have them back on one bill is a recognition of how far I’ve come in the last three years,” said Peterson.

Since the medical emergency, Peterson has been named spokesperson for the American Heart Association’s Go Red for Women campaign, and the John Ritter Foundation for Aortic Health. The actor and comedian died following a misdiagnosed aortic dissection.

Peterson said after her own near-death experience, many people wanted to know how it would affect her.

“What’s on the other side of [the experience] is the joy of living,” said Peterson, who counts communication, compassion, her four sons and 18-month-old granddaughter among her gifts.

For her birthday concert, Peterson and the Music Box Theatre are also teaming up on a food drive that aims to feed local families this Thanksgiving.

“We’re not hearing enough about taking care of people in our own backyard,” said Peterson, who also performed a

What’s Next What: Patty Peterson’s Birthday Celebration Where: Music Box Theatre, 1407 Nicollet Ave., Minneapolis When: 7:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 5 Tickets: $12 advance, $15 at the door Info: www.musicboxtheatre.org or 612- 4241407

benefit concert for VEAP, Minnesota’s largest food shelf, in October. “We might not feel like we can do enough to solve all the problems around the world, but we can still do something for the people in our own country.”

Concertgoers who bring a canned food item for donation to Second Harvest Heartland will be entered into a drawing for season tickets for the 2011 lineup at the Music Box Theatre.

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Donovan and Myrna Schwichtenberg of Edina announce the engagement of their daughter Ashley Schwichtenberg to Donald Landru, son of Dean Landru and Paula Landru of Apple Valley.

WEDDING

Ashley is a 2007 graduate of Concordia Academy of Bloomington. She will be graduating in May from Bethany Lutheran College in Mankato with a degree in Elementary Education.

Donald is a 2004 graduate of Eastview High School in Apple Valley, and is currently employed by Charter Communications while pursuing a degree in Computer Network Engineering.

A July 2011 wedding is planned at Mt. Olivet Lutheran Church in Minneapolis.

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Sparks flew on White Bear Lake over Fourth of July weekend!

Kristie Hewitt of Bloomington, Minnesota and Ben Altstatt, of Lino Lakes,

Minnesota tied the knot on July 3 at St. Jude of the Lake Catholic Church in Mahtomedi, Minnesota, followed by an outdoor lakeside reception on White Bear Lake.

Kristie is a 1998 graduate of Bloomington Thomas Jefferson High School and a 2003 graduate of the University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa. She is the Marketing and Communications Manager at Mpls.St.Paul Magazine in Minneapolis.

Ben is a 1998 graduate of Centennial High School in Lino Lakes and attended St. Mary’s University in Winona, MN. He is the Production Manager at Western Spring Manufacturing in Hugo, Minnesota at his family business.

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Weekend Masses Saturday Sunday

5:00PM 9:00AM, 11:00AM, 5:00PM

Progressive Christian Worship

SUNDAY 10:30 AM . MORNING WORSHIP 6:00 PM . . . . EVENING WORSHIP

Giờ thờ phượng của người việt vào lúc 11:15 sáng mỗi chúa nhật.

THURSDAY

Pastors: Elizabeth Macaulay, Max Richter, Phillip Nguyen

7:30 PM EDUCATION FOR ALL AGES

www.richfieldumc.org

Spiritual Openess & Social Justice

HOUSE OF PRAYER LUTHERAN CHURCH

Sunday, Nov. 7 10:30 am “Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway”

Sunday Worship 9:30 AM Sunday School & Adult Education 10:40 AM 6th-12th Gr. Music 10:40-11:30 AM

Unitarian Universalist

All are Welcome!

Wednesday Evenings

Nursery, Children’s & Teen Programs, 10:30am Minnesota Valley Fellowship 10715 Zenith Ave. So., Blmgtn

Simple Suppers 5:30-6:15pm Confirmation, God Squad, and Music School - 6:30 PM Adult Bible Study - 6:30 PM Pastors: Charles R. Carlson, Anne Hokenstad

www.house-of-prayer.com 7625 Chicago Ave. S., P Richfield, MN 612-866-8471

BEREA LUTHERAN CHURCH

FALL FESTIVAL

St. Alban’s 6716 Gleason Road Edina, MN 55439 (952) 941-3065

www.stalbansedina.org Come Grow With Us In Christ

Sunday: 8:00 & 10:00 a.m.

Wednesday: 6:00 p.m.

Holy Communion 8:30 am & 12:45 pm

Nursery Provided Pastors: Don Eslinger, Otis P. Borop

9100 Russell Ave. So. Bloomington, MN 55431

Paul M. Youngdahl, D.D. Senior Pastor

Sunday Worship 8:45 & 11:00 am Christian Education, all ages - 10:00 am Nursery Provided

www.good.org

Lunch Arts & Crafts Baked Goods Used Book Sale

• White Elephant Sale • Greeting Cards • Gifts

We will hold a drawing for a handmade quilt.

There will be a silent auction 9am-1pm with proceeds going to benefit

FAMILIES MOVING FORWARD,

an emergency homeless shelter for families.

Specialty items will be available this year from various vendors.

BEREA LUTHERAN CHURCH 7538 Emerson Avenue So, Richfield, MN 612-861-7121 www.berealutheran.org

(2 Blocks W. of Penn on 91st)

(952) 881-8601

ECKANKAR— What’s in It for Me? Sunday Worship, 10 a.m., Nov. 7

www.peacebloomington.org

Pastor Mark Nelson 952-944-6510

Nursery Available

www.nhylandsumc.org

8600 E. Bush Lake Rd. Bloomington, MN 55438

Children’s program 3–13 Classes Tours Temple Contemplation of ECK

ECKANKAR

7450 Powers Blvd., Chanhassen (952) 380-2200, Templeof ECK.org

Past Lives • Dreams • Soul Travel

SIMPLY HIS

UNITED METHODIST CHURCH OF PEACE 6345 Xerxes Av. So. • Richfield A Place Where You Matter!

Sunday School All Ages 9:00 am Coffee & Fellowship 10 am Worship 10:30 am Nursery Provided Pastor: Rev. Barbara Moore

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www.umcop.com 612-866-0069

8:45 a.m.

Traditional Service

November 13th from 9am-2pm

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9920 Normandale Blvd. S. Bloomington • 952-835-7585

9:00, 10:00 & 11:00 am

PEACE LUTHERAN CHURCH EPISCOPAL CHURCH

Hillcrest United Methodist Church 9:30am Sunday Worship & Church School

Sunday Church School

8:30AM 8:30AM 6:00PM 6:45AM 8:30AM

Normandale Hylands United Methodist Church Sunday Worship 8:30 & 11:00 am Education For All ages 9:45 am

9:00, 10:00, 11:00 am and 12 noon

“Learn, Grow, Support”

Robert Bledsoe, Ministerial Intern

952-884-8956 www.mnvalleyuu.org

James & Knox Ave. So., P Minneapolis 612-926-7651 • www.mtolivet.org Sunday Mornings

Weekday Masses Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

Mount Olivet Lutheran Church 50th Street between

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Richfield Church of Christ

We Are A Reconciling Congregation Events - Calendar - Sermons

Worship & Education – 9:00 & 10:30 am Nursery Provided

5730 Grove St., Edina • 952-929-0049 (one block west of Tracy) Opening Hearts and Minds in a Divided World

7314 Humboldt Avenue South Richfield, MN • 612-869-2677

COME WORSHIP WITH US

SUNDAY Bible Class 9:00 a.m.

Worship 10:00 a.m.

WEDNESDAY Bible Study 7:00 p.m.

“SIMPLY SEEKING TO FOLLOW JESUS”

10:00 a.m.

Contemporary Service with Sunday School

Saturdays, 5:00 p.m.

Chapel Service 76th St. at Newton Ave. Richfield, MN 612·866·8449 woodlakechurch.org

ST. RICHARD’S Catholic Church

7540 Penn Ave. So. • Richfield, MN 55423 612-869-2426 www.strichards.com

Masses: Sat 5pm Sun 9 & 11am Wed 12:15pm Thurs/Fri 8am Morning Prayer with Communion: Mon & Tues 8am

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Eden Prairie Sun-Current – Thursday, Nov. 4, 2010 – www.minnlocal.com

Election

Municipal results are from the City of Eden Prairie.

Eden Prairie mayor • Nancy Tyra-Lukens – 12,332 votes • Jon Duckstad –11,044 votes

FROM PAGE 1 With all 19 Eden Prairie precincts reporting, Nancy Tyra-Lukens earned the most votes for Eden Prairie mayor.

Sherry Butcher Wickstrom and Kathy Nelson won the most votes for the Eden Prairie City Council races.

The following preliminary vote counts are from the Minnesota Secretary of State.

EP City Council (2 seats) • Sherry Butcher Wickstrom – 9,025 votes • Kathy Nelson – 8,800 votes • Donna Azarian – 6,701 votes • Dan Kitrell – 6,038 votes • Scott Pollino – 3,574 votes • Jeremiah Pilon –1,624 votes

In the Community, With the Community, For the Community

The terms for City Council and mayor are four years each.

The mayor earns $9,000 a year and a City Council member earns $7,500 per year.

Hennepin County Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman and Hennepin County Sheriff Rich Stanek ran unopposed in this election. __John Gibbs narrowly defeated Rosemary Franzese for the Three Rivers Park District 5 seat, with 49.97

LEGAL NOTICES Foreclosure Notice (Official Publication) NOTICE OF ASSESSMENT LIEN 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 THS ACTION 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 Valley View Condominium Association, Inc., (hereinafter the “Declaration”) recorded in the office of the Registrar of Titles of Hennepin County, Minnesota as Document No. 1617761, which covers the following property: Unit No. 7581, Common Interest Community No. 538, Condominium No. 538, Valley View Condominium, a condominium located in the County of Hennepin, Minnesota, Certificate of Title No. 769410 7581 Villa Court, Eden Prairie, MN 55346 PIN: 10-116-22-42-0092 THAT pursuant to said Declaration, there is claimed to be due and owing as of September 23, 2010, from Debra Hornig, to Valley View Condominium Association, Inc., a Minnesota non-profit corporation, the amount of $4,392.21, 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 her financial obligation to pay said amount; THAT pursuant to Minn. Stat. § 515B.3-116, said debt creates a lien upon said premises in favor of Valley View Condominium Association, Inc., as evidenced by a lien statement recorded on August 24, 2009, in the office of the Hennepin County Registrar of Titles as Document No. T4680271; THAT pursuant to the power of sale granted by the owner 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 Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office, Civil Division, Room 30, 350 South 5th Street, City of Minneapolis, County of Hennepin, State of Minnesota, on November 23, 2010, 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 May 23, 2011. If the foregoing date is a Saturday, Sunday or legal holiday, then the date to va-

cate 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 PREMISES ARE IMPROVED WITH A RESIDENTIAL DWELLING OF LESS THAN FIVE UNITS, ARE NOT PROPERTY USED IN AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION, AND ARE ABANDONED. Valley View Condominium Association, Inc., Lienor Dated: September 23, 2010 By /s/ Thomas P. Carlson Thomas P. Carlson (024871X) Carlson & Associates, Ltd. 1052 Centerville Circle Vadnais Heights, MN 55127 (651) 287-8640 ATTORNEY FOR VALLEY VIEW CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION, INC. (Oct 7, 14, 21, 28, Nov 4, 11, 2010) D4 Hornig Foreclosure

Probate Notice (Official Publication) STATE OF MINNESOTA DISTRICT COURT COUNTY OF HENNEPIN Fourth Judicial District PROBATE COURT DIVISION Court File No. 27-PA-PR-10-1142 Estate of ALFRED OLIVER NYBO A/K/A ALFREDO O. NYBO, Decedent NOTICE OF INFORMAL APPOINTMENT OF PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE AND NOTICE TO CREDITORS (INTESTATE) Notice is given that an application for informal appointment of personal representative has been filed with the Registrar. No will has been presented for probate.

The application has been granted.

Notice is also given that the Registrar has informally appointed Dennis O. Nybo, whose address is 17462 Haralson Drive, Eden Prairie, Minnesota 55437, as personal representative(s) of the Estate of the Decedent. Any heir or other interested person may be entitled to appointment as personal representative or may object to the appointment of the personal representative. Unless objections are filed with the Court (pursuant to Minn. Stat.

524.3-607) and the Court otherwise orders, the personal representative has full power to administer the Estate including, after 30 days from the date of issuance of letters, the power to sell, encumber, lease or distribute real estate.

Any objections to the probate of the will or appointment of the Personal Representative must be filed with this Court and will be heard by the Court after the filing of an appropriate petition and proper notice of hearing.

Notice also given that (subject to Minn. Stat. 524.3801) all creditors having claims against the Estate are required to present the claims to the personal representative or to the Court Administrator within four months after the date of this Notice or the claims will be barred.

Dated: October 7, 2010 Alonna J. Warns, Registrar Mark S. Thompson, Court Administrator Attorney for Personal Representative:

Wendy L. Brandt 1609 West County Rd. 42, #294 Burnsville, Minnesota, 55306 Attorney License No. 0292928 Phone: 952-451-2225 (Oct 28 Nov 4, 2010) D4-Alfred Oliver Nybo Probate

Certificate of Assumed Name (Official Publication) MINNESOTA SECRETARY OF STATE CERTIFICATE OF ASSUMED NAME Minnesota Statutes Chapter 333 The filing of an assumed name does not provide a user with exclusive rights to that name. The filing is required for consumer protection in order to enable consumers to be able to identify the true owner of a business.

State the exact assumed name under which the business is or will be conducted: Diane Lidenberg Designs State the address of the principal place of business.

8292 Red Rock Rd, Eden Prairie, MN 55347 List the name and complete street address of all persons conducting business under the above Assumed Name.

Diane Lidenberg 8292 Red Rock Rd, Eden Prairie, MN 55347 DBA: I certify that I am authorized to sign this certificate and I further certify that I understand that by signing this certificate, I am subject to the penalties of perjury as set forth in Minnesota Statutes Section 609.48 as if I had signed this certificate under oath.

FILED: Oct 14, 2010 /s/ Diane Lidenberg, Owner (Nov 4 & 11, 2010) D4- Diane Lidenberg Designs dba

Certificate of Assumed Name (Official Publication) MINNESOTA SECRETARY OF STATE CERTIFICATE OF ASSUMED NAME Minnesota Statutes Chapter 333 The filing of an assumed name does not provide a user with exclusive rights to that name. The filing is required for consumer protection in order to enable consumers to be able to identify the true owner of a business.

State the exact assumed name under which the business is or will be conducted: Grow Your Sales Pipeline State the address of the principal place of business.

19056 Barrington Drive, Eden Prairie, MN 55346 List the name and complete street address of all persons conducting business under the above Assumed Name.

Michael C. Ciccolella 19056 Barrington Drive, Eden Prairie, MN 55346 DBA: I certify that I am authorized to sign this certificate and I further certify that I understand that by signing this certificate, I am subject to the penalties of perjury as set forth in Minnesota Statutes Section 609.48 as if I had signed this certificate under oath.

FILED: Oct 25, 2010 /s/ Michael C. Ciccolella, Founder (Nov 4 & 11, 2010) D4- Grow Your Sales Pipeline dba

percent of the vote to Franzese’s 49.32 percent.

State Legislature In Minnesota Senate District 42 incumbent David Hann, R, defeated Ron Case, DFL. Hann earned 55 percent of the votes.

In Senate House District 42A newcomer Kirk Stensrud, R, narrowly defeated incumbent Maria Ruud, DFL. Stensrud received 8,689 votes, and Ruud received 8,582 votes. There were 10 write-ins.

In Senate House District 42B incumbent Jenifer Loon, R, earned more than twice the votes than Ray Daniels, DFL. Loon earned 67 percent of the votes in the district.

U.S. Congress Erik Paulsen, R, won the 3rd Congressional District race over Jim Meffert, DFL, and Independent Jon Oleson.

Paulsen received almost 59 percent of votes, Meffert had nearly 37 percent and Oleson 4.5 percent.

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Moving on FROM PAGE 1 She and petitioners felt the decision was made too quickly, without enough public input or detail.

Much of Brandt’s correspondence with the school board and questions she posed went through board chair Kim Ross.

When the Brandt’s decided to move their children out of the district’s classroom, they had only informed a few close friends and the Eden Lake principal. Brandt was shocked to receive an Aug. 18 Facebook message from Ross titled “Transparency.”

The message from Ross: “Hi! I’m please (sic) you’re still following the great results the district has achieved. Just curious, do you plan on advising those following the Facebook page that you have pulled your kids out of the district? And did you know that charter schools nationwide are yielding poorer results than public schools? I wish the best for you and your children.”

Brandt responded with a message on Aug. 19.

“I haven’t decided what to disclose yet; I’m still considering that. It was a very difficult and painful decision for our family to make, and I believe it is an individual decision for every family. I wouldn’t want to influence others to make a decision that I and my husband deliberated over and considered for much time, just because I decided to do so. I think that leadership is an important and difficult role, and I consider what I do with it very carefully.

“I still care very much for the district and would consider putting our kids back in in the future. Despite your publicly aired perceptions, I am one who volunteered regularly, loved our elementary school (admin and teachers, alike), and wants the best for our schools and district. I truly feel, however, that, at this time, things are too up in the air for our family.”

Debbie finished her response by saying she would continue advocating what she felt was best for her children, the schools, community and tax-paying citizens.

After that, Brandt forwarded the exchange to the Eden Prairie School Board and Superintendent Melissa Krull. Ross e-mailed an apology to Brandt. School board members and Krull were also forwarded that e-mail.

School board members would not comment individually for this story. The district maintains a policy that requires an internal process when board members have a concern about another board member’s conduct. The Sun Current could not confirm if a complaint-type process had been sought against Ross.

‘Hi! I’m please (sic) you’re still following the great results the district has achieved.

Just curious,do you plan on advising those following the Facebook page that you have pulled your kids out of the district? And did you know that charter schools nationwide are yielding poorer results than public schools? I wish the best for you and your children.’

– EP School Board Chair Kim Ross in a Facebook message sent to Debbie Brandt on Aug. 18

Boardmember Ranee Jacobus said she did respond to Brandt after notifying the board. She said whenever a parent or community member comes to her with a concern, she helps them locate the appropriate district channels to help them with that concern.

Brandt said she’s surprised that the board has not done enough about Ross’ behavior and only three have responded to her in-person or by e-mail.

Ross told the Sun Current she didn’t know for certain the Brandt’s had pulled their children out of the schools.

“I guessed,” she said.

She said it repeatedly.

Her initial message, however, appears to suggest she knew exactly what the Brandts were planning.

She said she guessed based on a post Brandt had made in May about looking at another school outside the district.

“It was a guess, and she confirmed it,” Ross said.

Brandt doesn’t believe Ross was guessing. They never corresponded socially, Brandt said. Brandt’s close friends were not friends with Ross. Ross may have heard it through the grapevine, but Brandt doubts that.

If Ross was truly concerned about the family leaving the district, Brandt said, why didn’t she ask why and try to come to a better understanding of the situation?

“If, in fact, she guessed,” Brandt said, “why does she need to know?”

Brandt said she doesn’t know why they were singled out for comment.

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When it was pointed out student transfer is private information and administration is supposed to have that information on a need-to-know basis only, Ross said she didn’t have access to anything she wasn’t supposed to.

“She’s chosen to put herself out in front of this,” Ross said about Brandt’s involvement questioning the school district. Doing so has made her a public figure, Ross said, and with that comes responsibility.

Brandt said she is not an elected official, Ross is. And, Brandt said she had never made personal attacks against Ross as she claims but only questioned the administration and school board’s decision-making, made requests for more information and asked detailed questions.

“It’s alarming that she thinks its okay to attack somebody … I know I’ve challenged her. But, my attempt is to challenge her with the facts and doing her job, not as a person,” Brandt said. “If I failed to do that, I apologize. But, I don’t think it’s very professional of her to feel like its okay to attack me personally because she in her elected position feels attacked.”

Brandt said since she and Ross had never corresponded socially, only in regard to school district topics, Ross was acting in her capacity as school board chair, the duties of which in Eden Prairie School District include speaking on the board’s behalf.

Ross later sent an e-mail apology (which was sent to the school board and Krull as well) after Brandt notified them of the situation. Brandt felt the apology was disingenuous.

When Ross was asked (speaking of transparency) if she thought about phrasing the message to indicate it was a guess, or to include wording such as “I heard that …” or “Is it true that you took you’re children from the district?” she said: “To be honest, I didn’t wordsmith it to death,” Ross said. “I just wrote it.”

“She’s right,” Brandt said. “She could have wordsmithed it better, but she didn’t.

So, I’m only left with what she wrote and the impression that gives. And, I would expect more thoughtful wordsmithing, to use the phrase, from someone who’s chairing the board of a large suburban school district.”

When the Sun Current asked via email for an in-person follow-up interview, Ross included School District Communication’s Director Camie Melton Hanily in her e-mail reply and wrote: “I believe that I addressed your questions comprehensively Tuesday night.

“In this particular case since the parent had such major concerns, voiced them publically (sic) for many months, and led efforts to organize concerned parents, my goal was to open a line of communication to better understand her decision and to learn how her experience at her children’s new school compares to

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her experience in the Eden Prairie schools. I would welcome that dialogue in the hopes of increasing understanding.”

The tone, wording and overall message from Ross had no indication of attempting to open a line of communication, Brandt said.

“If she would welcome the dialog,” Debbie wrote in an e-mail, “then she needs to approach me appropriately and ask me to have a dialog. She has never asked me to talk about our choice to go to another school.”

Why they left the district The message from Ross was an example of just one minor reason they left the school district, Brandt said.

Brandt has continued to ask questions and voice concerns about decisions made without proper community input and decisions that lack planning and detail.

Her questioning and concerns began after the Feb. 23 meeting when she addressed the board, giving a speech that asked them to reconsider the K-6 option, providing a personal story about her son, something difficult to do, Brandt said. She brought up concerns about the decision being made too quickly, without much input from the community. She had concerns about process.

After the K-6 decision was approved, after she concluded her speech made no impact on the board, she began to ask more questions, became more active and was thinking about her children’s future.

“They didn’t have a plan for how things were gonna’ move forward,” Brandt said.

“It became apparent to me that they weren’t operating in an honest and open way, with stakeholders, with parents. And, because of that, I started contemplating whether or not I wanted my kids to stay. And it was very stressful, very painful to do so.”

By spring, she was considering moving her children out of the district. She loved the education her children were receiving, loved the teachers in the classrooms but could not trust the administration would carry out such large changes in an open and transparent manner, she said.

Since one of her children would be directly affected by the switch from K-4 to K-6, ultimately eliminating Oak Point’s 5-6 grade structure, she said she and her husband would rather have their children go through changes in a school system they trusted, rather than one they didn’t.

“It’s not that we think everything should go our way,” Brandt said about the K-6 decision, “but, what I really hoped for was a community dialogue, in which opinions were acknowledged and really worked on and thought through, so you could come to something that made sense in some ways.”

SUN SPORTS

MARK YOUR CALENDAR Eden Prairie High School’s girls and boys cross country runners are headed to the state Class AA meet Saturday, Nov. 6, at St. Olaf College in Northfield. Class AA boys and girls races are at 1 p.m. and 2 p.m.

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Larson runs wild in Eagles’ 42-20 win over Minnetonka Eden Prairie junior back rushes for 180 yards and five touchdowns

BY GREG KLEVEN • SUN NEWSPAPERS

(Above) Eden Prairie’s Andrew Larson sprints through a hole for a long gain against Minnetonka in the Eagles’ 42-20 Class 5A, Section 6 semifinal win Oct. 30 at Aerie Stadium. Larson rushed for 180 yards and scored five touchdowns. (Below) Eden Prairie sophomore Derek Soderberg tries to elude Minnetonka defender Charles Webb after catching a pass during the Eagles’ section semifinal victory Oct. 30. (Photos by Brian Nelson • Contributing Photographer)

Eden Prairie senior running back Andrew Larson had plenty of rest for his team’s Class 5A, Section 6 semifinal football game against Minnetonka.

Larson was sidelined in the second quarter of his team’s overtime loss to Wayzata in the regular-season finale Oct. 20.

He was held out of half that game for precautionary reasons after receiving a hard hit to the head.

Then he was able to rest a few more days as top-seeded Eden Prairie received a first-round bye in the playoffs.

Larson displayed fresh legs against the Skippers in the semifinals Oct. 30.

The 5-10, 185-pound halfback carried 26 times for 180 yards and scored five touchdowns in the Eagles’ 42-20 victory.

Larson increased his season rushing total to 1,322 yards on 162 carries.

He has 17 touchdowns.

“We missed Larson’s running ability in the second half of the Wayzata game,” said Eden Prairie coach Mike Grant. “But he really ran well against Minnetonka.

“You have to give our offensive line a lot of credit for blocking so well for Larson and all of our backs.

Minnetonka has a big, physical line on both sides of the ball but our guys responded well to that challenge.”

Eden Prairie improved to 8-1 and will play Hopkins (7-3) in the Section 6 finals Friday, Nov. 5, at Aerie Stadium.

The Eagles defeated the Royals 4536 in a Lake Conference game Oct. 1 after falling behind early.

“It took awhile for our defense to get used to Hopkins’ quick-rhythm offensive attack,” said Grant.

“Hopkins has a good quarterback [Billy Gregg].

“But I have been really pleased by our team’s defensive play. We have some excellent athletes on that unit, including end Adam Bray, linebacker Mitch Hugdahl and defensive backs Grayson Levine and Rumeal Harris.”

Slow start Eden Prairie recovered from early adversity in its semifinal victory over Minnetonka (5-5).

The Skippers’ DeAndre Singleton recovered an Eden Prairie fumbled punt at the Eagle 20.

Minnetonka scored a few plays later on a 1-yard run by quarterback Scott Benedict.

That 7-0 lead evaporated quickly in the second quarter.

Larson scored on runs of 3, 5 and 4 yards. David Platner kicked all three extra points as Eden Prairie led 21-7 at halftime.

Larson’s first touchdown was set up by a botched 36-yard field goal attempt. Holder Ryan Bull bobbled the snap and flipped the ball back to Platner, who connected with Matt Griffin on a 14-yard pass to the Minnetonka 6.

Eden Prairie continued to dominate in the third quarter. Larson ran 3 yards for one touchdown and senior defensive back Ben Wahlquist returned an interception 35 yards for another score as EP increased its lead to 35-7.

Minnetonka countered with a 25yard scoring pass from Benedict to Austin Harrington.

Larson answered with a 47-yard run on the final play of the third quarter to push the Eagles’ lead to 4214.

Minnetonka finished the scoring in the fourth quarter on a 45-yard pass from Benedict to Malcom Moore.

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Mike Tourville The Eden Prairie golfer scored a hole-in-one on the 130-yard, ninth hole at Baker National Golf Course.

Tourville used a 9-iron to shoot his ace.

No. 1-seeded EP blanks Lakeville South, 3-0

Taylor Uhl

BY GREG KLEVEN • SUN NEWSPAPERS Lakeville South knew the only way it could contend with No. 1-ranked and top-seeded Eden Prairie in the state AA girls soccer tournament quarterfinals was to be on the defensive and hope for the Eagles to make a costly mistake.

That strategy worked for the first half as the Cougars and Eagles battled to a scoreless tie.

But the talented and deep Eden Prairie squad wore down Lakeville South in the second half and earned a 30 victory Oct. 28 in Cottage Grove.

Eden Prairie improved to 18-0-1 and was scheduled to meet unseeded Mounds View (14-5-2) in the semifinals Nov. 1 at the Metrodome.

Winner of that game advances to the state finals at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 4, at the Metrodome against second-seeded Stillwater (21-1) or third-seeded Wayzata (15-2-3).

“We anticipated that Lakeville South would play very defensive against us,” said Eden Prairie coach Tony Bidwell.

“Our players showed patience in the first half, but we decided to open things up offensively in the second half.

“I knew it was only a matter of time before we put the ball into the net. I was very impressed with the way our girls responded in the second half.”

Eden Prairie dominated play throughout the game and had a 9-1 shot advantage over the Cougars (9-9-3). Eagle goalie Kathleen Charley had to make only one save to preserve the shutout.

Lesley Chilton almost put the Eagles up 1-0 in the first half, but her scoring attempt hit the crossbar.

Katie Thyken got the first of her two goals with 54 minutes, 10 seconds elapsed in the match. She scored on a shot from 20 yards out.

Taylor Uhl connected on a penalty kick at 58:28 to give the Eagles a 2-0 lead.

Then Thyken delivered again, scoring off a free kick at 64:51.

Eden Prairie won the Lake Conference championship during the regular season.

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Eagle patience pays off in girls state Class AA quarterfinal win

It was quite a week for the Eden Prairie senior. Uhl was named Minnesota’s Class AA Ms. Soccer and first-team All-State by the state coaches association. The senior forward scored one goal in the Eagles’ 3-0 state quarterfinal victory over Lakeville South Oct. 28 at Park of Cottage Grove.

Aaron Bartnik The Eden Prairie senior was medalist in the boys 5K race at the Section 6AA cross country championships Oct. 29 at Gale Woods Farm in Minnetrista. Bartnik’s winning time was 15 minutes, 43.4 seconds. He is defending state Class AA individual champion.

Lesley Chilton The Eden Prairie senior midfielder was an All-State first-team selection by the state soccer coaches association. Chilton has played a major role for the No. 1-ranked Eagles this season. Eden Prairie had an 18-0-1 record heading into the state Class AA semifinals.

Katie Thyken Thyken scored two goals to spark the Eagles to a 3-0 victory over Lakeville South Oct. 28 in the state Class AA girls soccer quarterfinals. Thyken also was named first-team All-State by the state coaches association.

Eden Prairie’s Katie Thyken heads the ball away from a Bloomington Kennedy opponent during a section tournament game. Thyken scored twice for the Eagles in a 3-0 state Class AA quarterfinal victory over Lakeville South Oct. 28 at Park High School in Cottage Grove.

(Photo by Brian Nelson • Contributing Photographer)

(Editor’s note: Send nominations for Stars of the Week honors to sports editor Greg Kleven at gkleven@acnpapers.com. Youth, high school, college and adult recreational sports athletes will be considered.)

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State CC meet is Saturday

BY GREG KLEVEN • SUN NEWSPAPERS

The state’s top high school cross country runners are headed to St. Olaf College in Northfield for Class AA and A competition Saturday, Nov. 6.

Class A boys’ 5K race begins at 10 a.m. followed by the Class A girls’ 4K event at 11 a.m. An awards ceremony will be approximately 30 minutes after the final race.

Class AA boys competition starts at 1 p.m. followed by the Class AA girls race at 2 p.m. An awards ceremony will follow.

Eden Prairie’s girls cross country squad has unfinished business this fall.

The Eagles coasted to a comfortable first-place finish in the Section 6AA championships Oct. 29 at Gale Woods Farm in Minnetrista.

Eden Prairie scored 39 points.

Second-place Wayzata had 78 points and also secured a state trip. Rounding out the top five team positions were Hopkins (116), Minnetonka (123) and Edina (139).

Eden Prairie and Wayzata will compete in the state Class AA girls meet at 2 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 6, at St. Olaf College in Northfield. The Class AA boys race starts at 1.

“The girls ran pretty good at the section meet but feel they can run better at state,” said Eden Prairie coach Jeff Lindlief. “This is a mature team that doesn’t rest on its laurels.

“We should be battling with teams like Monticello, Rosemount and Andover for the state title.”

Eden Prairie’s girls team was third at last year’s state meet and won the championship the previous season.

Talent and balance have carried the Eagles to the brink of another state championship. Six Eden Prairie runners placed 14th or better in the Section 6AA meet.

State football hopefuls State football tournament fields will be filled this weekend throughout Minnesota.

Most Class 5A and 4A section championship games are 7 p.m.

Friday, Nov. 5, at the site of the highest seeds.

Eden Prairie, Wayzata, CretinDerham Hall and Blaine are four of the powerhouses in Class 5A. St. Thomas Academy, South St. Paul and Totino-Grace are strong contenders for the state Class 4A championship.

Cretin-Derham Hall and TotinoGrace are defending Class 5A and 4A champions.

State soccer title games The Metrodome is the site of the state Class AA and A boys and girls soccer title games Thursday, Nov. 4.

Action begins at 10 a.m. with the state Class A boys championship match. Prairie Seeds Academy is the No. 1 seed in that tournament.

The Class A girls championship match begins at 12:30 p.m.

The Class AA boys soccer championship will be decided in the next match at 3 p.m. Apple Valley was the heavy favorite entering the tournament with its 20-0 record. Jefferson was seeded fourth with a 13-3-4 record entering the state playoffs.

The Class AA girls title game is 5:30 p.m. Eden Prairie was seeded No. 1 entering the tourney with its 17-0-1 record. The Eagles won the Lake Conference championship.

– Compiled by Greg Kleven

Eden Prairie senior Laura Lawton finished fourth (15:06.9) and senior Alexandra Rudin placed 10th (15:21.5). Ninth-grader Hannah Jeter was 11th (15:29.8) and junior Dana Jeter placed 12th (15:33.1).

Eagle junior Carlin Schultz came in 14th (15:38.1) and sophomore Brittany Platt was 25th (16:12.1).

Bartnik is medalist

Eden Prairie’s Megan Platner (right) sprints side by side with Minnetonka’s Megan Bailey to the finish line in the Section 6AA girls cross country meet Oct. 29 at Gale Woods Farm in Minnetrista. Bailey edged Platner for first place.

(Photo by John Sherman • Sun Newspapers) Eagle senior Megan Platner was second in the girls’ 4K race with a time of 14 minutes, 58.7 seconds.

Eden Prairie’s boys squad was edged out in its quest for a state AA meet berth. The defending state champion Eagles placed third in the Section 6AA meet with 58 points.

Wayzata won the team title with 44 points and Edina finished second with 52 points. Those two squads advance to state.

“Our boys squad got beat by the two best teams in the state,” said Lindlief.

“Wayzata had six of its seven runners post their best times of the season in the section meet.

“It wasn’t our best performance of the season, but we still came within six points of Edina. We had a great bunch of kids who worked hard.”

Eden Prairie will be represented by three of its runners at state.

Eagle senior Aaron Bartnik won the 5K section race in 15:43.4. Senior Mohamed Mohamed finished third (15:54.4) and senior Kyle Bratrud was eighth (16:09.1).

Ninth-grader Cal Lawton showed future promise by placing 22nd (16:54.7). Junior Andrew Hansen was 24th (17:10.2) and junior Ricardo Reyes finished 35th (17:27.3).

Sophomore Henry Zurn was 36th (17:28.7).

SHORTS Eagle players honored Eden Prairie High School’s girls soccer team had three members earn AllState honors. Senior forward Taylor Uhl was a Class AA All-State first-team selection and was named Ms. Soccer in Minnesota.

Senior midfielder Lesley Chilton and senior defender Katie Thyken also were named first-team All-State.

Fastpitch meeting set Eden Prairie Fastpitch Softball Association’s annual board meeting is 710 p.m. Monday, Nov. 15, in Room 201 at the Eden Prairie Community Center.

Individuals interested in the community softball program are encouraged to attend. Board candidates are urged to attend this meeting as well.

Several current and tenured board members’ terms are expiring. Vacant positions include secretary and treasurer.

Baseball coaches needed The Eden Prairie Baseball Association is accepting applications for traveling team coaches for the 2011 season. Coaches are needed for youth teams (players ages 10-15) along with the Mickey Mantle and Senior Babe Ruth squads.

Travel coach application forms are online at www.epbaseball.com, or call Doug Kaufman at 952-210-4094 and leave a message with name, address, phone number and age/level you are interested in coaching. E-mail completed applications to doug_kaufman@comcast.net or send to: Doug Kaufman, EPBA, 9504 Olympia Drive, Eden Prairie, MN 55347.

Interviews will be conducted in November.

Youth volleyball program The Eden Prairie Junior Olympic traveling volleyball program is accepting registrations. Girls in grades 4-12 who live or attend school in Eden Prairie are eligible to register for the 2011 season. Registration information is available at www.epvolleyball.com. Registration is open until Nov. 20.

Brattensborg aids Blazers Jenny Brattensborg of Eden Prairie is a sophomore member of the College of St. Benedict women’s soccer team. She contributed an assist during her team’s 2-1 win over Wisconsin-River Falls Oct. 24.

The Blazers were 10-4 after defeating River Falls.

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Maddie Buxton works overtime in EPHS state girls tennis losses Eagle junior endures four tiebreakers in two singles defeats

BY GREG KLEVEN • SUN NEWSPAPERS Eden Prairie junior Maddie Buxton came away from the state Class AA girls tennis tour nament without any medals. But the Eagle singles standout didn’t go out easily after being involved in two close matches.

Buxton earned a trip to last week’s state tennis tourney by placing second in the Section 2AA individual competition.

She had a 20-5 record entering state play and came away with two frustrating losses.

Buxton lost 7-6 (8-6), 6-7 (8-6), 6-2 to Andover sophomore Faith Lee in

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In consolation play, Buxton dropped a two-set match to St. Cloud Apollo senior BriAnn Anderson, 7-6 (7-5), 7-6 (7-2).

“It was tough to lose those matches, but I thought I played well and competed hard,” said Buxton. “I’m excited that I will have one more season left and get a chance to qualify for state again.”

Buxton is no stranger to state competition. She and teammate Makenna Borg won the 2009 Class AA doubles title.

This year, Buxton qualified for state in singles after winning five of six matches to place second in the Section 2AA tournament.

Buxton defeated Heather Sullivan of Mankato West 6-3, 6-0 in the true second match after losing to section champion Jessa Richards of Minnetonka 6-4, 6-4.

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Eden Prairie junior Maddie Buxton displays her serving technique during regular-season action. Buxton competed in the state Class AA singles tournament Oct. 28 at the Baseline Tennis Center on the U of M campus.

She lost two close matches in the tournament and finished 20-7.

(Photo by Brian Nelson • Contributing Photographer)

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Music Lessons

Music Lessons In Your Home! 20+ Yrs exp. U of M Music Graduate. Piano, Clarinet, Sax, & Flute. $30/half hr. Melanie Hoffman, NCTM. 612-719-6498

2420

Painting

Ext/Int Painting Reasonable Rates FREE Est. EARL 952-944-7983

*A1 CEILING & WALLS* Expert Texturing-Ptg -Water Damage Reas. Prices-Senior Disc. *Free Est. 612-927-5532*

Fall Gutter Cleaning & Yard Clean-Ups. Seamless Gutters: Repaired, Covers. Sr Disc. 763-300-1106 Field of Green Lawncare Resid & Comm Free Ests Fall Clean Ups, Wkly Mowing 952-807-1612 & Plowing.

2420

Painting

A German Craftsman

Paint, Plaster, papering 30yrs quality work, Ref's Seasonal Rates. Reliable roosterpainting.com Est. Int/Ext 952-484-4867 Allen's Perfect Painting Ceiling & Drywall Repair BBB Member. Call anytime.

Lic/Ins. Free Est. 612-388-2884

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 DAVE'S Painting Int/Ext 3 Rooms $175. Paper rem Enamel Refs avail. 952-201-1577 Escobar Painting & Drywall, LLC We offer professional services for your Painting & Drywall Int/Ext Paint Comm/Res Free Ests Ins'd Mbr: BBB Prof./10yrs 952-292-2349

*A and K PAINTING* Int./Ext Painting/Staining & texturing. Free Est. 952-474-6258 Ins/Bond Major Credit Cards Accepted 3 Interior Rooms/$250 Wallpaper Removal. Drywall Repair. Cabinet Enameling and Staining. 25 yrs exp.

Steve 763-545-0506

2430

Paperhanging

PRO PAPER HANGING Removal, Paint/Plaster Work Guar/Refs/Ins 25yrs Exp. 952-377-4612

Scofield's Decorating Paint, Removal, Papering, Free est. 612-670-3740

RETAINING WALLS

Fall Cleanups, Gutter Cleaning Aeration & Snowplowing.

No Job Too Small. Sr Discounts

Hauling

#1 All Area Hauling Lg/Sm I haul all rubbish Move, Sr. Disc 612-532-1162

HOME SPARKLERS Reliable Fussy Reasonable Ref/Ins 612-869-3661

Handyman Service Go The Green Guys, LLC Small jobs OK 763-370-7288

$45-75, quality work.

Call Jason 612-296-3180

2280

www.bestcleaningservices.com

2360

763-546-PANE (7263)

Jim@JimPane.com

Prof House & Office Cleaner High Quality, Comm/Res Ref/Ins/Bond. Call Lola 612-644-8432 or 763-416-4611

Carpentry, Remodeling, Repair & Painting Services.

I'd love to do it all! 612-220-1565

GUTTER-WINDOW

Cleaning Since 1990 Cover's & Screening

Housecleaning

*10% off 1 st Cleaning* BEST CLEANING WE CLEAN YOU GLEAM

2320

Ceramic & Marble

Desperately Need Work!

2310

100% Satisfaction Guaranteed

Concrete Dumpster Service Carpentry Baths & Tile Fencing Windows Gutters Water/Fire Damage Doors Lic•Bond•Ins Visa Accepted

651-457-7776

#1 in Hardwood Refinishing

(952) 431-9970 or (612) 850-6335

Flooring & Tile

Above & Beyond

TEAM ELECTRIC www.teamelectricmn.com Lic/ins/bonded Res/Com All Jobs...All Sizes Free Est 952-758-7585 10% Off w/ad

2230

Call for a free estimate

2230

Quality Residential Painting & Drywall Ceiling & Wall Textures H20 Damage – Plaster Repair

Wall Paper Removal INTERIOR EXTERIOR CHEAP IS GOOD Good & Cheap Is Better!!

Call STOA's Painting Free Est 612-716-7349

2470

Plumbing

763-792-2999 Geno's Sewer & Drain

Special $89/with ad!

An Honest Plumber Ins/Bond Lic. #57327-MR Dan 952-465-2926

2420

Painting

BLUE LADDER PAINTING “I take pride in my work so you can take pride in your home”

Professional painting service designed to meet all of your residential and commercial painting needs.

Free Estimate

CALL KEVIN MCNEALEY FOR SPECIAL FALL RATES:

15 Years Experience

(612) 825-1809 • (612) 685-0210 Ref. Available • Licensed • Bonded • Insured

A Fresh Look, Inc. Interior/Exterior Painting by the Pros Bonded & Insured Free Est. • Senior Discounts

Lic. #20626700 Credit Cards Accepted

612-825-7316/952-934-4128 www.afreshlookinc.com

Right Way PAINTING 20 years exp. Degreed Shop Teacher Exterior/Interior Painting Powerwashing • Decks • Fences Window Glazing & Repairs 2 Year Labor / 10 Year Paint Warranty

612.839.2239 • 612.866.0949 WWW.RIGHTWAYMN.COM

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2470

Plumbing

2510

Roofs, Siding, & Gutters

612-802-8100

*A One Man Company* Toilets, Faucets, Sm jobs Steve 763-497-2280 Lic#4040

Shingles /Cedar Shake Reas rates-. 20+ yrs exp. Lic/Ins

RAINBOW ROOFING

Roofs, Siding, & Gutters

2510

SAVE MONEY - Competent master plumber needs work.

Lic#M3869 Jason 952-891-2490

2510

Roofs, Siding, & Gutters

Quality Work @ Reas. Rates .

Siding & Windows LIFE TIME GUAR. Ins/ Lic. BBB

Roofing for LESS $$$ Re-roofing-Tearoffs.New Const . Large crew done in a day! Immaculate cleane-ups Ins Lic # 20073200 Ref's

952-472-5670

BBB

Office: 763-476-8412 Jeff Doyle: 763-228-1656 Chad Doyle: 763-228-1873 www.jdasc.com

Roofing • Siding Custom Porches/Decks Kitchen and Bath Remodels Finished Basements Room Additions

Tear-offs & New Construction Siding & Gutters Over 17 yrs exp. Free est.

Rodney Oldenburg

612-210-5267 952-443-9957 Lic #20156835 • Insured Offering the Best Extended Manufacturers Warranty

Residential Remodeling Licensed • Insured

Why Wait Roofing LLC

www.blomquistexteriors.com

TOP QUALITY Re-roofs Tear-offs BBB Free Est. MC/Visa No Subcontractors Used.

Lic/Ins. 952-891-8586

LOOK for a new pet in Sun Classifieds

2570

Residential Snow Removal We use a snow blower & shovel on your driveway & sidewalk.

Monthly or Per-Time Rates

MISSION STATEMENT

ROOFING // WINDOWS // SIDING Free Estimates & Inspections Serving Entire Metro Area INSURANCE CLAIMS SPECIALIST

CALL NOW & SAVE 10% OFF 6465 Wayzata Blvd, #400 St. Louis Park, MN 55426

The Asphalt Company

2510

ROEN ROOFING INC. FREE ESTIMATES www.RoenRoofing.com Fully Insured • References • Lic #20626353

Roofs, Siding, & Gutters

• All types of Roofing • Seamless Gutters • Siding • Masonry • Insurance Claims

952-442-1002 612-875-7747 Cell

952-544-ROOF (7663)

qiar

WINDOWS/SIDING

Limited Offer Triple Glass for the Price of Double Glass

(651) 644-6900 (952) 920-8888

ACCREDITED BUSINESS

Call For Free Estimate www.WesternConstructionInc.com

2490

Powerwashing

2490

Powerwashing

Reas. Rates/Very Dependable Yearly Contract 612-968-2311

GOODE SNOWPLOWING

2620

ROOFING • SIDING • WINDOWS • EXCEPTIONAL SERVICE • Hardiplank® Siding • QUICK RESPONSE TIME • HAIL DAMAGE 763-550-0043 • FREE INSPECTIONS 952-476-7601 • STATE LIC# 6793 • ESTABLISHED IN 1984 651-221-2600 www.GatesGeneralContractors.com

2490

Trimming & Removal Free Estimates & Insured

612-275-2574

952-888-5885

2630 Plowing/Shoveling

peterdoranlawn.com

Custom Drapes, Blinds, Upholstery, Bedspreads 35 yrs. Lake's 952-447-4655

Comm & Resid Sr. Discounts

Insured

Kevin 612-810-2059

2600

Stump Removal

2660

763-225-6200 www.sparklewashcmn.com

Window Cleaning

0$ A Bid Bill's Tree & Shrub Care.

Save 33% - Insured Sr. Discounts 612-845-0957

Window Cleaning 612-529-4444

Will Beat Anybody's Price!

NEW HORIZONS TREE & LANDSCAPING

BIG TREES & STUMPS CHEAP!!

Fully Licensed & Insured “We take pride in our work”

612-203-4309 15% Fall Discount Tree Trimming & Removal

Premier Tree Service

612-396-9345 25% Disc.

Lic/Ins

Free Ests

3000

3050

Merchandise Boutiques/Craft Shows & Gifts

Bake & Craft Sale Benefit - Sat, Nov. 6 (10-2) $5 Soup & Bread Lunch (11-2) Bethlehem Lutheran Church 5701 Eden Prairie Rd, Mtka (N. of Hwy 62) 952-934-9633 Crafters Needed for Bazaar on Nov. 6 (9-2) @ Brooklyn United Methodist Church in Brooklyn Center. $25 for 6 ft space. Sheila 763-566-7262

Ideal Tree Service Tree Trimming & Removal 952-881-2122 612-599-6385 A Good Job!!

15 yrs exp.

Thomas Tree Service

Classifieds Work for YOU!

2570

Snow Removal

HOLIDAY BAZAAR Friday, 11/12 (9am-8pm) Saturday, 11/13 (9am-3pm) Handmade holiday décor w/ free personalizing, silent auction, wooden & needlework items, baked & canned goods Portland Ave Methodist Church 8000 Portland Avenue So. www.paumc.org

2570

Jim Cooper, Jr.,Inc. LANDSCAPING

Snow Removal

Quality Work Since 1983

SNOW PLOWING ~ Seasonal Contracts Available ~

Licensed Insured www.jimcooperjrlandscaping.com Free Estimates

(612) 869-2454 Tree Service

2620

Tree Service

Arbor Tech Tree & Landscape, Inc. • Tree Trimming • Storm Cleanup • Tree Removal • Land Clearing • Stump Removal • And Much More...

FREE ESTIMATES Winter Discounts Senior Discounts Senior Discounts

763-219-7796 Great Service • Affordable Prices Serving the Entire Metro Area LICENSED/INSURED

www.arbor-tech.com

Ladder – 16' Aluminum Extension $29.

952-881-6612

Plymouth, MN

Ideal Firewood

2.5yr Dried Mixed Hardwood

4'x8'x16” $120; or 2/$210 Free Delivery

Cemetery Lots

3090

Fireplace & Firewood

3150

952-881-2122 612-599-6385

2 lots Garden of Devotion.

Glen Haven Mem. Gardens, $1500 for both. 651-213-0610 2 lots–Glen Haven Mem Gardens In Garden of Nativity. + 2 Vaults. $1200 621-309-6833

Dawn Valley Memorial Park, Bloomington, 1 lot $600. 952-888-2958 Dawn Valley Memorial Park Eden Prairie. 1 lot, $1000/BO Dawn Vlly: 2 lots-open, close, vault, marker all incl. Must sell $3500 ea. Sue 952-447-2962

Tree Service

2620

Building Supplies

3060

320-762-8111 651-260-1335

NOVAK STUMP REMOVAL Free Est Lic/Ins 952-888-5123

2620

Our job is to make you look good!

Upholstery & Slipcovers

Affordable Custom Uphols Upholstery – Slipcovers Visa/MC Jan 612-824-7376

SNOWPLOWING

Powerwashing

Commercial and residential pressure washing Decks strip & seal, roof washing, house washing, concrete cleaning and staining. Full exterior washing.

Tree Service

AJ's Tree Service LLC

“We Stand By Our Name!”

Immaculate Clean-up!

Tree Removal/Trimming Lot Clearing Free Estimates 952-440-6104

Family Owned & Operated Since 1949

Fast Turnaround SERVING THE Reduce Energy Bills ENTIRE METO AREA Free Estimates MN LICENSE Bank Financing #20316811 Available BONDED • INSURED

Snow Removal

2570

763-670-0260

State Lic. ID#20637218

“Your Home, Our Reputation”

Snow Removal

#1 All Area Snow Guys Driveways/walks/roof Reas, Sr disc 612-532-1162

Quality at a Reasonable Price

We are a Leader in the Home Improvement Industry.

Our Focus is Professional Behavior, Quality Workmanship, Diligent Production Management and Follow-Up. James Hardi Siding Factory trained installers

Roofs, Siding, & Gutters

SNOW PLOWING

Roofs-Soffit-Fascia-Gutters Lic#20172580 763-754-2501

612-724-2672 Local Owner/Installer. High A Family Operated Bus.

2510

BLOMQUIST EXT Siding-

RC EXTERIORS

A RENEW PLUMBING •Drain Cleaning •Repairs •Remodeling •Lic# 004914PM Bond/Ins 952-884-9495

In the Community, With the Community, For the Community

FIREWOOD

100% Premium Dried Oak 24+ yrs Exp 507-280-7780 www.procutfirewood.com FIREWOOD

Clean Oak/Mix Firewood

Very dry! 4'x8'x16” $125 Solid stack. Quantity disc.

763-238-5254

3160

Furnishings

BED: $145 New QUEEN Pillowtop; KING $265; FULL $135. Can deliver.

612-419-2707

Glen Haven, Crystal, MN: 3 lots in Christus Garden.

Retail $2595 ea. asking $750 ea. 218-251-3767 320-676-8944

Blck leather, couch & love seat, good cond $1200/set.

3 mod glass tables set, $150. Maytag W/D (gas) $150 both. 763-559-3134

Glenhaven Mem. Gardens Garden of Good Samaritan 4 lots $1000 each / or $3500 for all. 763-537-8296

Buffet end, coffee tbles, 4 antq. chairs, iron bed frame, brass/glass bkcase, train set. 952-406-0329/Jeff Entrtnmt cntr, lgt oak, glss doors , 64x18x44”, fts 27” TV, $299. 952-432-2657

Fireplace & Firewood

3150 FIREWOOD

Affordable Firewood OAK & BIRCH, 2 YRS DRIED

4 x 8 x 16. Free delivery & stack. 612-867-6813

Sofa & Recliner, matching, $325. Antiq. kidney shape desk, $225. 763-535-4608

Oak/Birch - Super Dry! 4'x4'x16 inch $95; 2 / $170 Deliv'd & stacked. Satisfaction guaranteed! 612-600-8513

3050

Machinery & Tools

3240

Firewood

Craftsman Air Compressor, 2 hp, 220 volt, gd condition, $150. 612-751-6324

Boutiques/Craft Shows & Gifts

3050

Boutiques/Craft Shows & Gifts

Holiday Bazaar Church of the Assumption Crafts, Food, Vendors and more!

Saturday, November 6, 2010 9:00 am - 3:00 pm

305 E 77th St • Richfield, MN 30th Anniversary Year!

The

Holly

New n io Locat

House Boutique

2010

Nov. 4 - 7 Nov. 11 - 14 Nov. 18 - 21

Thursdays & Fridays 10am - 8pm Saturdays & Sundays 10am - 6pm Last Sunday closes at 4pm

The Crossing Shopping Center 1964 Rahn Cliff Court, Eagan, MN Located in the southwest quadrant of Cliff Road and 35E, directly behind Cliff Road Burger King

Offering you handcrafted and carefully selected items for your home and gift giving.

No strollers please.

In celebration of Holly House Boutique’s 30th & the city of Eagan’s 150th Anniversary, we will be collecting food shelf donations for the Eagan Resource Center. Please bring a non-perishable food or personal hygiene item to donate!

www.hollyhouseboutique.com The Holly House ... THE ULTIMATE BOUTIQUE

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In the Community, With the Community, For the Community

3250

Medical Supplies

3500

Medical REVO 3-wheel pride scooter, new, $1,000.

763-559-3134

3260

3509

Garage Sales this week Burnsville

Artist used supplies & furn

Misc.

For Sale

sale! Easels. 190 S River Ridge Cir. 11/4-6 (9-4)

Comic Books – Superhero 1,000's @ .25 cents each.

Must sell. Carl 612-849-4874

3565

Fish Tank - 46 Gal Bow front & access. Woodgrain stand. $250/bo 651-456-9211

November 5-6 (9-4) Cash only. 16405 9th Ave. North

3270

Misc.

Wanted

Department 56 Sale

3700

Buying Old Trains & Toys

STEVE'S TRAIN CITY

952-933-0200 Polaris Snowmobile & ATV's. Non-working only.

Will pick up, will pay cash! 612-987-1044 WANTED: Clean used furniture & household goods for Low Income Store. Prompt, free pickup. 612-859-9615

Plymouth

3720

Leisure Boats, New & Used

Herters Fiberglass Duck Boat $475. In good shape Call 952-934-1835

4000

Family Care

4100

5600

Rooms For Rent

Move in Special / Furn.

Studio Rooms for Rent Incl. all utils., phone, cable & Internet from $799/mo.

Call Michael 763-227-1567

5700

Storage

Winter Storage available for motorcycle or jet ski. $50 per month. 952-474-1956

5800

Roommates Wanted

Edina-Room nr S'Dale for F, furn 2 br apt, now–May Month-month ok. NS $450 Teresa 952-922-8065 EP - Furn 1 BR + den, wifi 60� plasma, cleaning lady.

M 45-60 $550 612-810-0111

6400

Apartments & Condos For Rent

EDEN PRAIRIE 952-934-5109

The Best Deal In Town!

14017 Chestnut Drive Near E.P. Mall Outdoor Pool & BBQ's Easy access to 494 & 169 Wood-burning F/P Garage incl. with Rent 1BR $750 2BR $850 NO Pets Please!

Hopkins - Opus Area Attractive, lg 1 BR condo, built-ins, DW, pool, nice! $595 952-432-4515

Apartments & Condos For Rent

3280

952-392-6888

FABULOUS AND WARM SPLIT ENTRY 3 bedroom, 2 bath home with an abundance of open living space. New kitchen and bath, sunny solarium on a quiet cul-desac minutes from the Hyland Lake Park Reserve. Cozy LL family room with fireplace. Over 2,200 sq. ft. $229,500.

Yvonne Hanson 612-812-8270 RE/MAX Results

COMMERCIAL PROPERTIES FOR SALE • FOR LEASE

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FOR LEASE - Bloomington 8147 Pleasant Ave S 3,244 sf office/warehouse Loading dock, industrial power.

Near 35W & 494 intersection. $1,650/month net.

Jim 952-888-9225 or 612-799-0755

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Small plastics company for sale. Operate full or part time. Move to your area. 563-872-4671

9050

Health Care

Live in PCA Needed in Hopkins for client with high personal care needs. Experience preferred. Need someone ASAP. Call Molly: 952-814-7400

Health Care

9100

Help Wanted/ Full Time

ASSOCIATE TRAINEE Real Estate Career Fast Growth Potential Rolland 952-949-4724 Irene 952-949-4759 rsmaagaard@cbburnet.com Coldwell Banker Burnet cbburnet.com EOE

9050

Health Care

Help Wanted/ Full Time

Administrative Assistant Responsibilities include servicing new and existing account processes, providing administrative, sales and customer service support, database management, general office duties & various projects as needed. Must have strong organization & communication skills, aptitude for detail & numbers, proficiency in MS Office & the ability to learn and work within deadlines on multiple programs. Email: info@qais.biz or send to: QA Investment Services, Attn: Shelley Hall, 10225 Yellow Circle Drive, Suite 101, Minnetonka, MN 55343.

Biz-2-Biz Interviewing Home Based

9100

Help Wanted/ Full Time

9100

Help Wanted/ Full Time

Business proj experience.

No home calling. 10+hrs/ wk avail from your home M-F days? $12-$18/hr.

Please call 952-252-6000 infotechmarketing.com

Help Wanted/ Full Time

Small Burgers, Huge Career TEAM MEMBERS & CREW MANAGERS Accepting Applications for our Bloomington Location November 15th-20 th 10am-6pm at Holiday Inn 1201 West 94 th St. White Castle is now accepting applications for happy, smiling and energetic Team Members and Crew Managers.

We provide training and an excellent opportunity for future growth along with competitive pay and one of the best benefits packages in the food service industry.

Please bring reference names and phone numbers when coming in to fill out an application.

651-646-1811 ext. 11

Dock Trucks and Cargo Vans

Dynamex a national leader in the same day courier industry is in need of InOpen to Current City of dependent Contractors with their 24-26 ft dock Richfield Firefighters trucks with lift gates and Only 16 foot cargo vans. Work immediately, The City of Richfield is available currently accepting appli- Mon- Fri. cations for the position of Must be able to pass back Fire Lieutenant. Promoground and drug screen. tional position open to Must be able to obtain current City of Richfield commercial insurance.

Firefighters only. Testing Must be able to speak and interviews will be conducted December 6 & 7, clearly on Nextel.

2010. City of Richfield onIf interested please call line application is reJodi 651-746-5945 or quired. Applications must Jim 651-746-5943 be submitted by Wednesday, November 24, 2010.

EOE/MFD

The Monticello Times seeks a full-time editor to cover a variety of activities, including city council, school board and various community events.

Knowledge of QuarkXpress and page design desirable. Photography part of the job. This position offers great benefits.

The Monticello Times is a small town newspaper with a strong commitment to community journalism.

EOE

9100

FIRE LIEUTENANT

Full Time Editor

Approximately 6400 sq ft of warehouse space, with one dock, private warehouse office and one drive in door. South Blmgtn $3500 per month gross rent.

(Includes taxes, insurance, utilities, all operating expenses.)

Call 651-414-6055 for details/showing.

9100

X-ray tech-Peds PT 5-9 PM two eves/week and rotate Sat am's. Edina office. Fax 952-278-6947 or call 952-278-6950.

GREENBRIER

5400

This space could be yours.

Business Opps & Info

9050

6445 Queen Ave. S. Spacious 1BR & 2BR Apartments in quiet, residential area. On bus line, near Southdale.

Heat & storage incl., A/C, elevator, BBQ.

5300

Reach More Readers Place your classified ad with us and automatically get an ad on our Web Site!

Employment

612-866-6797

Bloomington 2br Shining East Bloomington Musical Clean corner apt! All new Lic. Home Daycare Immed. windows, heat pd. $795.

Instuments FT Infant/Tddlr & Preschl 9948 Penn 952-881-8373 Opgs. Shar 952-881-6388 2 Accordions for sale. $75.00 each.

Edina - 50th & France 763-572-9028 1BR w/ deck. $685 + elec.

1BR $635 5000 Rentals 612-210-9744 320-274-3398 Baldwin Console Piano 2BR $750 w/bench, medium oak fin., TWO MONTHS Excelsior 1BR $695, 2BR Duplexes/Dbl built 1980, $800. 952-935-1566 FREE! $790, 1 block to Lake Mtka!

Bungalows For Rent No Pets Please Quiet, clean, ht pd, Gar avl , Clarinet. Good condition. cat OK. 952-401-3457 Clean, one owner. $500.

West Blmgtn- 3BR 2BA 763-227-4570 5820 Old Shakopee Road 1100 sq ft, w/d GRAND PIANO: 6 foot, Bloomington 2+ car gar, privt backHaddorff, Cherry. Exc conyd, $1260/mo. + util. dition! $5,000. 952-881-3125 $500 gift certificate Piano Boston Baby Grand, w/signed lease! designed by Steinway. Pol952-994-6723 ished Ebony, model GP-156 Superb sound & touch, like Houses new! Priced new $16,900.

Asking $9,000 612-723-1882 For Rent Cologne: 3BR, 2BA, 3 Car, Blt 2005, $1,300/mo + util.

Call Shawn 952-334-0227

9020

RICHFIELD

6400

Child Care

Piano: Story & Clark, studio. One owner, Exc cond! $1,950/BO. 612-865-3525

9000

Resumes should be mailed to Keith Anderson Attn: Monticello Times PO Box 5, Waconia, MN 55387 Email: kanderson@acnpapers.com

Education

Teachers New Horizon Academy is accepting resumes for Teachers for our in-house substitute network.

Candidates must have experience in a licensed early childhood program, and college credits in Early Childhood or Elementary Education or related field of study. Full or Part time flexible Schedules are available, two or more days per week, typical shifts are 8-5 or 9-6. Send resumes to: katier@nhacademy.net E.O.E. Reach More Readers Place your classified ad with us and automatically get an ad on our Web Site!

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9100

Help Wanted/ Full Time

Be a Superstar at Sun Newspapers

9100

Help Wanted/ Full Time

Requirements 0-2 years sales and customer service experience Strong persuasive prospecting and interpersonal closing skills Professional communication skills and presence on the phone Energy, self-motivation, enthusiasm, integrity Outstanding organization skills Computer proficiency If you believe you have what it takes to be a superstar, send your resume to:

careers@ acnpapers.com

Med. Receptionist Full-time position in Edina. Experience a must.

Benefits. Fax resume to: 952-920-0232

If you like music-sports and $$$ Generous base + bonus, incentives, spiffs and awards. Clear speaking voice and positive attitude are all you need. Casual atmosphere. Day hours, off at 2:00pm on Fridays.

Immediate openings.

Call--952-252-4150

Help Wanted/ Part Time

Quality Assurance Editor Class A license required

9810

Junkers & Repairable Wanted

Service Technician

$ $150 + UP $

year round work. Full benifits. 401K. Call Blaine @763-519-3928

JUNK& REPAIRABLE Cars/Truck JACK'S AUTO 612-919-2707 OR 763-533-7122

INSIDE SALES Are you outgoing, positive and self-motivated?

Sun Newspapers has an immediate opening for an entry level inside sales professional to join our team. With this position, you will be responsible for using your business development skills to identify and build long-term relationships with new and existing accounts.

Duties and Responsibilities: Identify sources of sales leads, prospects and referral sources to build account list Analyzing customer needs and identifying solutions Develop and maintain good business relationships Closing sales over the phone Tracking and achieving/exceeding sales goals

9200

In the Community, With the Community, For the Community

WE WANT TAILORS! PT/FT positions for exp. tailors. Very nice, brand new store.

Excellent starting pay+benefits.

Lisa (320)-339-0045 (952)-474-5243 Tailors on 79th Chanhassen

Local market research firm is looking for 25 detail oriented people to edit mystery shop reports. Excellent spelling, grammar & phone skills a must! Requires minimum of 4 hrs/day & 1 wknd/mo. We offer paid training, flexible hours, & the opportunity to work from home.

Pay averages $12-14/hr.

Email resume & cover letter to: QEApps@BestMark.com

9500

GMC

9630

Help Wanted/ Part Time

Administrative Professional

2000 GMC Yukon XL 162K, Excellent Condition $7500 952-466-2508

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9810

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