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Dec. 13, 2018 • Volume 133 • Number 41

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Farmington raises levy by 2.87 percent Lowest increase in past five years

by Jody Peters SUN THISWEEK DAKOTA COUNTY TRIBUNE

With last year’s property tax levy increasing by nearly 5 percent, the Farmington City Council had a goal of lowering the levy for 2019.

While the 2019 levy did increase, it is the lowest increase in the past five years.

During its Dec. 3 meeting, the council approved a 2.87 percent increase to the 2019 levy.

The net tax levy in the amount of $10,795,765 is

a $301,580 increase from the 2018 levy.

City Administrator David McKnight noted that there were some decreases in expenditures. The parks and recreation budget decreased by over $50,000 due to the closing of the municipal pool this spring.

The increases in the 2019 budget are partly because the city is adding new positions.

The city plans to add a full-time deputy fire chief

by July, making this the second full-time employee in the fire department.

The city will also transition from contracted cleaning services to two full-time building maintenance positions. McKnight said the city hopes to fill those positions by the beginning of January.

“We have $30 million in city facilities that we need to make sure that we’re taking care of both cleaning-wise and maintenancewise so these buildings last a long time,” McKnight said. “We think this is a better investment of our dollars.”

The city plans to hire a

community development specialist by July. The position would focus primarily on code enforcement, McKnight said.

There will also be increased administrative support for the Rambling River Center and the community development and engineering departments.

Other expenditures include the purchase of a new fire engine, which is expected to be received by the end of February, and pavement management.

The city has $400,000 set aside in 2019 for proj-

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ects like seal coating, mill cilities over that time peand overlays and crack riod.” sealing, McKnight said.

That money is still paying for things like Fire StaDebt repayment tion 2, the police station, One of the city’s biggest Schmitz-Maki Arena imgoals, paying off debt, is provements, City Hall, the “reaching its peak in 2018 First Street garage and a and 2019,” McKnight number of street projects said.

(Ash Street, Elm Street “The biggest issue that and 195th Street to name we’ve faced over the last a few).

10 years is the repayment The city expects to pay of debt for the growth that off a number of bond iswe’ve seen in Farmington sues over the next three over the past 20 years,” years, McKnight said. For McKnight said. “We’re example, the 2019 budbasically still paying for get includes the first debt street projects and city faSee Levy, 20A

District 196 considers $7 million in budget adjustments School Board to hear recommendation in January

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The Rosemount Fire Department responded to a report of an explosion in the garage of a home Tuesday in the 13000 block of Dellwood Way in Rosemount. KSTP identified Mason Zacharias, 21, as the man who was injured in the garage explosion. He was transported to Regions in St. Paul.

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Rosemount-Apple Valley-Eagan School District officials are considering $7 million in budget adjustments for the 2019-20 school year.

These could include reductions in staffing, allocations for instructional supplies to schools and professional development that requires substitute teachers to be used, according to focus group presentations the district gave during the first week of December.

The district held three focus group sessions at schools in Eagan, Rosemount and Apple Valley Dec. 4-6 to get feedback on the potential adjustments.

Superintendent Mary Kreger said the meetings drew participation from

over 150 people including parents, students, employees and community members.

“It was quite an impressive turnout and it really was great because we understand how much our community does care about this school district,” she said during the Dec. 10 School Board meeting.

During the sessions, attendees heard a presentation of the recommended adjustments and then divided up into small groups to discuss the proposal with a facilitated discussion.

A volunteer facilitator asked attendees if they were aware of the reasons for the district’s projected shortfall; which adjustments they would and would not support; if there are other adjustments they See Budget, 6A

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New programming to be offered at FHS Tiger House program will be offered for 2019-20 school year

by Jody Peters

interest. Then the adviser can help connect the students’ personal interests to learning targets and competencies.

“Most of the learning and validation of learning is going to be done through projects,” said Jason Berg, District 192’s executive director of educational services.

The idea for Tiger House started about 2 1/2 years ago, after the dis-

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Students at Farmington High School will soon have the chance to sign up for new programming.

Tiger House, an optional ninth- through 12th-grade program, is a project-based learning pathway.

Students will work with a learning adviser to identify projects and areas of

trict received two $50,000 grants from the Minnesota Department of Education for the high school and Gateway Academy.

The district used those grants for professional development, Berg said.

It partnered with KnowledgeWorks and Buck Institute to help staff learn more about project-based and personalized learning.

Those professional development opportunities

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inspired a group of teachers at the high school to dig deeper into project-based learning, Berg said. From there, about eight to 12 teachers got involved with planning Tiger House.

One staff member who has been involved with the planning process is FHS assistant principal Laura Pierce.

Pierce worked as the district’s director of innovative programming from 2013-15 and helped guide the creation of Gateway Academy, another projectbased learning opportunity.

She has used that experience to help plan for Tiger House. Both she and Berg said Tiger House connects to the district’s overall strategic intent: helping students be agents of their own learning.

“Having the opportunity to help and support the development and growth of Gateway Academy and seeing our students develop their own learner agency there, I feel like this is just the next step for our students here at Farmington High School,” Pierce said.

The planning process for Tiger House isn’t quite finalized, Berg said. There will be more information available during FHS parent-teacher conferences on Jan. 17.

Currently staff are working on putting together information for students and families. An informational video is in the

works, and information will also be in the 2019-20 registration handbook.

The program will look different depending on a student’s grade level, Berg and Pierce said.

For example, when Tiger House students enter 11th and 12th grade, they will be matched with a community expert.

A community expert is someone in a trade or field that the student is interested in pursuing. Partnering with that person gives the student hands-on experience outside of the classroom, Pierce said.

During their senior year in Tiger House, students will also create a sort of capstone project. They’ll work at least 300 hours on that project, Pierce said, meaning they may have to work outside of the school day.

“That’s where it goes back to working with a community expert, research, really diving deep into whatever they are choosing to study,” Pierce said.

Teachers will be there to support students and ensure that they’re demonstrating specific competencies required for graduation.

However, instead of teachers telling students how to demonstrate competencies, the students get to choose how to demonstrate their knowledge of competencies.

Guiding students versus telling them what to

do helps students problem solve and think critically, Pierce said.

Berg said it gives students agency so they are “drivers of their own learning.”

“Staff will help them connect that to standards and competencies and graduation requirements, but the kids are going to have a lot of say in how, what, where, when — all those learning things that typically can’t happen in more traditional high school classrooms,” Berg said.

The benefits of personalized learning can be seen in other district programs, Pierce said.

Now that Gateway Academy is in its fifth year, its inaugural students are attending high school.

Pierce said many of those students’ teachers are seeing “absolutely amazing things out of those students.”

“They advocate for themselves, they are demonstrating student agency, they have time management skills.

“There’s things that they learned through project-based learning while they were at Gateway Academy, and we’re recognizing we want to be able to offer more of that for those students that have that interest and desire here at the high school,” Pierce said.

Jody Peters can be reached at jody.peters@ecm-inc.com.

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Bartholomay bids farewell Has served eight years on Farmington City Council

by Jody Peters

ton,” Bartholomay said.

Another notable change has been investing in the fire department, he said. One fire engine was added in 2013 and another is expected to be received by the end of February 2019.

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The year was 2008.

The recession was in full swing, but Farmington resident Jason Bartholomay had heard the City Council was giving itself a raise.

In addition, the city was having trouble bringing in new development.

For Bartholomay, that was incentive to get involved and “try to change something,” he said.

His first City Council campaign was unsuccessful, but in 2010, Bartholomay became a council member and has been serving ever since.

Now, with his term wrapping up on Dec. 31, Bartholomay is remembering eight years of serving residents and looking ahead to what’s next.

Background Originally from the Minnetonka area, Bartholomay moved to Farmington in 2007.

He and his wife Jennifer have two children, Ethan, 10, and Maddie, 12.

Outside of his council duties, Bartholomay works as a licensed psychotherapist at the University of Minnesota Medical Center.

When he first started on the council, Bartholomay said he was full of ideas on how to improve the city.

“When you first get elected, I’m not going to lie, as a council member you think you’ve got all the best ideas, right? But I’m not the professional in that — I’m not an engineer, I’m not a specialist in park and rec,” he said.

His viewpoint changed quickly after getting to know city staff, Bartholomay said. Over the years, he said he’s learned to trust in staff members’ expertise.

“My relationship’s been really rewarding. I’ve learned a lot from our city staff,” he said.

The City Council position has taught him other things as well. When he first started, Bartholomay said he didn’t realize how much of a time commitment the position was.

“I thought it was honestly like two meetings a month. I was in for a rude

Challenges

Jason Bartholomay awakening,” Bartholomay said.

Between council meetings, workshop meetings and other board meetings, weekday evenings fill up quickly.

In addition, Bartholomay estimated that it takes him three to four hours to prepare for a council meeting: reading the agenda, asking staff questions and doing research.

That said, Bartholomay believes Farmington is now moving in the right direction.

“I’ve been a part of a team that’s changed a lot of things for the city,” Bartholomay said.

Accomplishments Bartholomay considers the city’s financial turnaround one of Farmington’s biggest accomplishments.

With the lowest property tax levy increase in five years and an increased focus on debt repayment, he said the city’s financial state has significantly improved since he started on the council.

The municipal liquor stores have also turned around. There was talk of closing the liquor stores around 2012, but now liquor store profits have helped fund things like Parks and Recreation projects.

Bartholomay cited other accomplishments during his time as council member, like improving economic development.

He said hiring a community development director and updating codes and ordinances to be more business-friendly have helped boost development.

“I believe now we’ve provided a good foundation for businesses to desire to come into Farming-

Though Bartholomay believes he’s helped Farmington change for the better, he acknowledged that he’s had to cast some tough votes.

Two decisions that he has struggled with involve the Farmington police department: the 2013 layoff of Officer Dane Tukua and the August 2018 separation agreement between the city and former police chief Brian Lindquist.

At the time, Tukua’s layoff seemed necessary when looking at the city’s budget, Bartholomay said.

“I believe there was another way we could’ve probably accomplished what we needed to but still not have had to lay off that officer,” Bartholomay said.

Tukua was eventually hired back and still works for the Farmington Police Department, but Bartholomay said the decision was still difficult.

“I’m very pro-police and grew up with a stepfather as a police officer (retired sergeant). And that was hard laying off a cop,” Bartholomay said.

As for the separation agreement between the city and Lindquist, Bartholomay said the situation could’ve been handled differently.

He said the council had discussed Lindquist’s position in council workshops, but said the controversy surrounding the separation might’ve been lessened if workshops were taped like City Council meetings.

Vision for future councils Bartholomay believes greater transparency is an issue that the council needs to work on.

Hiring a new police chief and staffing the department appropriately is another issue.

With Sgt. Gary Rutherford as acting police chief, the department is essentially down an officer until

a formal decision is made.

Regardless of its decision, Bartholomay said he thinks that the new council needs to act quickly. He said he is supportive of hiring Rutherford as the new chief.

“I believe that if we have somebody that can do a good job inside and they’re proving that they can do it, then we should probably stick with that,” Bartholomay said.

Another challenge for future council members is the budget process.

Bartholomay was the lone dissenting vote for the 2019 property tax levy, which increased by 2.87 percent.

He said he thinks future council members will have to revise the budget process.

“Right now, it’s basically an annual request for increased spending is what we get,” Bartholomay said.

Instead, he thinks each department head should submit three proposed

budgets: one increased budget, one decreased budget and one neutral budget. “(That way) it’s not just increases, because I believe we do have extremely high taxes,” Bartholomay said.

Other challenges include maintaining the city’s $30 million in buildings and potentially looking at alternatives to city-organized garbage collection, Bartholomay said.

What’s next

“I’ve done my time. I feel like if I were to continue serving, I don’t know how effective that would be.

“After two terms, I just don’t have that same drive. … My kids are getting older and they need more of my time. My wife is probably very happy that I’m not running again. And quite frankly, I do believe we need new faces,” Bartholomay said.

Public service has come with its share of challenges, but Bartholomay said “it’s been a complete honor to be able to serve (residents) and be their voice.”

“As a council member, the residents are ultimately the bosses … and I’m just the one they picked to be their voice … to look out for their best interests when making the decisions for the city. So I sincerely thank them.

“It was a rewarding eight years.”

As his time on the council draws to a close, Bartholomay said he’s looking forward to spending more free time with family and friends, and is considering getting involved in coaching.

He’s phased out some of his duties on boards like the Economic Development Authority to newer council members to allow new voices to be heard.

He adopts that same view when looking at his Jody Peters can be reached at time on the City Council. jody.peters@ecm-inc.com.

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Opinion The state will flourish or fail with ‘One Minnesota’

by Keith Anderson SUN THISWEEK DAKOTA COUNTY TRIBUNE

Produce, protect, prepare.

That is a simple trajectory many of us subconsciously follow in life. Our jobs allow us to be part of something that creates a product or a service, which in turn pays us a wage to sustain our way of life, protect our families and set us on a course of preparation for retirement.

It’s a comfortable routine to repeat, until something gets in our path. That “something” can easily be viewed as an irritant or even a threat.

In 2018, the polarization of politics may be that threat.

Never before has the political climate been so charged, acrimonious and deliberately divisive that long-time friends have stopped talking. Family members have sidestepped critical community topics in order to avoid the weary battles about the left and the right. This “us” vs. “them” mentality is preventing real growth as a state and nation because it’s so easy to be consumed in protecting what is ours.

When we are unable to engage in discourse with a shared goal of trying to make our community, county, state and union a better place for today and the future, we are missing an opportunity.

We can’t arrive at solutions if we dig in

Staff Columnist Keith Anderson so deep that compromise isn’t even an option.

According to a July 2018 Pew Research Center survey of 4,581 U.S. adults, when it comes to important issues facing the country, 78 percent of Republicans and Democrats disagree not only on plans and policies, but also on basic facts. Can’t agree on basic facts. That is a problem.

We see the chasm, but feel helpless to correct it, even if deep down we truly want a solution because we know for the nation and our children, we need to do better.

So, we are in this moment, almost suspended, when it feels as though silently we are waiting for somebody to shed some light, offer something that will help us feel more unified and connected as Minnesotans.

Enter Gov.-elect Tim Walz. He promoted the “One Minnesota” theme throughout his campaign. And it’s remained in the curriculum during his jeans and flannel journey ramp up to

the governorship.

Fresh on the heels of a weeklong listening tour of Minnesota, he has continued to underline that idea. Is it lip service or a weapon to disarm the tunnel-vision mentality that has plagued our political system and tainted the populace? Time will reveal the true motivation of that message.

But make no mistake, as governor of a split Legislature, he may be in the perfect place and time to be the voice of reason and lead as a statesman who understands citizens come first, party second.

There is an army of residents who have been waiting for somebody to remind them, mostly through example, that it’s noble, meaningful and necessary to step forward and serve their community and state to be part of something bigger than self. Their nonpartisan skills and time are needed at food shelves to help feed the hungry, at local schools where volunteers can reduce the burden for our teachers, in our places of worship, where important work is being done in the area of poverty and housing, at sexual violence centers, where women and children need support, in our hospitals, service clubs and numerous other organizations where volunteers can literally change lives.

The Rotary’s motto of “service above self ” was never more appropriate to the health of our nation than it is now. And that applies equally to elected officials.

We want to believe we can be better. We want to be beacons of hope. We want to share rather than take. Help rather than hide. Communicate instead of criticize. But we, and our representatives in elected office, may just need a nudge in that direction.

Leadership does matter in our society and when it’s handled with responsibility, respect and grace, it can inspire.

One Minnesota is possible. But it must not be squandered or dismissed by the governor when it no longer serves as a springboard. The state’s highest leader cannot solve every problem, but he can be a bridge to compromise in a divided Legislature and serve as a visionary for a fractured citizenry.

People want a better Minnesota and now more than ever are ready to participate in the process. Please don’t break this promise, Mr. Governor, and don’t obliterate the hope that is waiting to blossom. This is a collective moment and Minnesotans are ready to heal and serve.

Keith Anderson is director of news for APG of East Central Minnesota. Columns reflect the opinion of the author.

Letters Tax would make medications more expensive To the editor: Minnesota is home to some of the brightest and most innovative minds in the country, and it is the

duty of our state legislators to ensure that these creative individuals and organizations have the tools necessary to thrive and succeed. Unfortunately, over-taxation and mismanagement of our ever-growing state budget are holding Minnesota,

its businesses, and its taxpayers back from reaching maximum economic opportunity.

More taxes are a real possibility as legislators prepare to head back to St. Paul. Over the last few months, there has been renewed interest among

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some of our lawmakers to revisit taxes or surcharges on prescription opioids. A similar idea, the “penny-per-pill tax,” failed last session because the Legislature ultimately recognized how deeply flawed an additional cost on our health care system, and the patients it serves, could be. And these new considerations are no different, risking shortages of important medications and increased health care costs for consumers and business owners.

Our state is currently experiencing a budget surplus of $1.5 billion, not to mention the federal government’s decision to award Minnesota with tens of millions of dollars to combat the opioid epidemic — including $18 million this past October.

Yet, we’re still considering reaching into the pockets of taxpayers and vulnerable patients to fund opioid abuse and misuse prevention.

Legislators need to consider using the funds that they already have to put an end to the opioid epidemic. Taxing the health care industry

will only lead to economic ing, electronics, household losses and worse quality items, tickets to events, of life. and many other things.

These goods are shipped ROBYN CRAIG to our favorite big box reFarmington tailer or local business, or our homes from an online retailer. Our roads and bridges are used daily to Long-term transport these goods to solution to a gas our homes or stores near us and our infrastructure tax increase plays a vital role in this To the editor: process.

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How we can all support students through a stressful time of year

by Michael Berndt SPECIAL TO SUN THISWEEK DAKOTA COUNTY TRIBUNE

We all know that the holidays can be stressful. Winter travel, family responsibilities, holiday preparations, short days, and long nights can leave us feeling a bit overwhelmed.

College students, including our students at Dakota County Technical College and Inver Hills Community College, have the additional stress of completing their courses and getting ready for next term. This time of year hits some of our learners especially hard because they are already dealing with insecurities in food, housing, clothing, child care, and transportation.

We are the community in our state’s community colleges. We can honor the season by encouraging these learners to persist and to use the colleges’ and communities’ support services.

The University of Minnesota’s 2018 College Student Health Survey found that 73 percent of college students reported that stress was an issue. It was reported that 40.5 percent were managing mental health issues, with anxiety

Guest Columnist Michael Berndt and depression being the most common.

These statistics are concerning. We want to do everything we can to help students feel supported, so they can thrive in our Dakota County learning environments.

At Inver Hills and DCTC, we provide holistic support services that include career development and academic planning. These services help students stay on a path to learning and completion of their programs of study.

Our colleges work proactively with students to identify potential barriers to their success – from health issues and lack of housing to food insecurity. Our staff meet with students regularly to assess their situation, recommend possible solutions, and refer them to additional resources or services as appropriate.

For example, we provide access to a mobile pantry, connect students to

affordable housing options, and help them find temporary transportation solutions. We also provide resources for students who have mental health challenges, including self-care resources, workshops, and referrals to professional mental health service providers. Our financial aid office and foundation also provide emergency grants to students in need.

At Inver Hills and DCTC, we provide additional assistance to veterans through our Veterans Service Centers, which provide space for fostering camaraderie, studying, volunteering, and accessing support services. Both colleges have been nationally recognized for our support of veterans and their families.

Sometimes students have a challenging first semester, but this does not mean they will be unsuccessful in college. Students can meet with our counselors and advisors to develop a success plan for the following term, which can include regular check-ins and academic tutoring. We also provide peer mentoring opportunities, especially for students who are the first in their families to go to college.

If we don’t have needed resources at DCTC or Inver Hills, we can connect learners to local agencies like the Lewis House, the Community Action Partnership, or 360 Communities. We also collaborate with outreach agencies to support veterans, including the VA Medical Center, St. Paul Vet Center, and the Family Assistance Center. We are fortunate to have committed public and private organizations in Dakota and Scott Counties and greater metropolitan community to support our learners.

By pursuing a degree, our students are investing in themselves and in their community. I encourage you to support them in that investment. Please take time this holiday season to check in with the learners around you –whether in your own family, neighborhood, place of worship, or workplace. Ask them how things are going, and let them know you are cheering for them. It can make a significant difference.

Michael Berndt is interim president of Dakota County Technical College and Inver Hills Community College. Columns reflect the opinion of the author.

Letters Following in Congressman Lewis’ footsteps?

To the editor: It was interesting to watch the 2nd District race for Congress, and it’s going to be notable as we go forward because so much was new and so much stayed the same.

For example, U.S. Rep. Lewis initiated and delivered on legislation that provided benefits to these issues: career and technical education, tax breaks

for families and businesses, the individual mandate portion of ObamaCare eliminated and criminal justice reform. Now, U.S. Rep.-elect Angie Craig says she was for all those things too, with an emphasis on health care (although she provides no details to her policy positions).

So, Lewis has already done these things and now Craig will be the “new and improved” model of the Lewis accomplishments?

Or, scrap the reforms and

let the Democratic Party and Nancy Pelosi give her, her marching orders?

I’m putting my money on Craig’s loyalty to the Democratic Party vs. loyalty to constituents of the 2nd District.

The thing that we can be thankful for is that Lewis left her a model to follow.

Now the gauntlet is in place — and the citizens are watching.

JANALEE COOPER Northfield

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BUDGET, from 1A would recommend in addition or instead of the proposed cuts; if they would support a levy referendum in 2019 and what they want the School Board to consider.

Why the deficit?

According to the district, $34 million in budget adjustments were made from 2009 to 2012 which included cutting 200 positions, reducing transportation service, eliminating activity buses, raising student activity participation fees and freezing employee salary schedule improvements for two years.

A levy referendum was approved by voters in 2013 after the district promised that no additional cuts would be made for at least two years. The district went without making cuts to the classroom from 2014 to 2018.

Now, officials are projecting a $25 million budget shortfall from 2019 to 2022 “due to years of inadequate funding from the state.”

“For many of you it’s the first time you’re hearing this. For the School Board, the budget advisory committee, for administration, we’ve seen this coming for quite some time,” Mark Stotts, director of finance and operations, said. “This isn’t a new phenomenon. The School Board has done a great job of managing the budget and they’ve tried to maintain programs for as long as possible. We’re trying to get ahead of the

Photo by Patty Dexter

Rosemount-Apple Valley-Eagan School District Superintendent Mary Kreger speaks to attendees of a budget adjustment focus group session at Falcon Ridge Middle School, Dec. 6. curve here.”

The general education formula per-pupil allowance has not kept pace with inflation over the last 15 years and there’s a $618 per-pupil gap between the actual amount and the inflation adjusted figure. If the formula had kept pace with inflation since 2003, District 196 would have received an additional $19 million in state aid this year, according to the presentation.

Stotts said there’s also a difference between funding received and the cost of providing special education services. The state and federal governments mandate services but those are not fully funded. Last

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“It’s a significant amount. That comes directly out of the general fund,” he said, later adding that districts all over the state are dealing with the same issue.

The district is proposing to make budget adjustments totaling $7 million for 2019-20 that include $3.4 million from cutting staff positions, $1.4 million from reductions in non-staff areas and $2.5 million from “revenue enhancements.”

the district is recommending that 31.55 full-time equivalents be eliminated for nursing support and teaching positions. The breakdown for those positions was: • Classroom staffing (increase the ratio by 0.5 at all levels across the district): 20 FTE. • Literacy coaches (restructure an intervention support program and cut 0.25 FTE for Greenleaf Elementary): 4.25 FTE. • Teachers on special assignment in the district office (eliminate three positions): 2.10 FTE. • Nurses (restructure program nursing support): Staffing reductions 2 FTE. For staffing reductions, • English learner teach-

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The recommendation proposes eliminating 12.16 FTE for clerks and secretaries including: • 10-month clerks (5 percent reduction to school allocation): 6.10 FTE. • Paraprofessionals: 3.3 FTE • 10-month secretaries (5 percent reduction to school allocation): 1.76 FTE. • District office clerical (eliminate literacy support position): 1 FTE.

ments are being considered. One is to access $2.3 million from a trust fund for retiree benefits as a one-time revenue source.

Communications Director Tony Taschner said the state Legislature gave school districts the authority in 2009 to levy locally to establish an Other PostEmployment Benefits fund. The School Board chose to pursue that option, so the fund is used to pay for retiree benefits, mostly health care premiums.

“The investments in our fund have performed very well, to the point that it is greater than our total liabilities. This allows us to make a one-time withdrawal of $2.3 million to help with the budget adjustments. This will not affect any current or future retirees,” he said.

The other revenue enhancement is to increase student co-curricular participation fees by 10 percent which would total $152,200. Kreger said even with increasing the fees, the district would still be in the middle range of fee rates compared to surrounding districts.

Kreger said a committee considered other items for budget cuts but they were not recommended.

They could become reality if additional adjustments are needed for 2020-21 and 2021-22. Those were: • More cuts in all staff areas.

• Reduced transportation to the state minimum of two miles.

• Program cuts and elimination of some programs.

• Restructure high school schedule to a sixperiod day.

Other adjustments

What’s next?

The district is recommending to cut about $1.24 million through other non-staff reductions.

These are: • Reduce future employee contract costs: $576,589.

• Reduce instructional supply allocations to schools by 4 percent: $213,000.

• Reduce professional development that requires substitutes to be used: $200,000.

• Reduce non-required testing – writing portion of ACT and NNAT: $51,550.

• Eliminate cellphone reimbursement costs: $163,000.

• Reduce costs for travel, mileage and conference registration by 5 percent: $40,200.

Two revenue enhance-

Taschner said a budget steering committee and administrators will review feedback from the focus groups and any received through the website. Community members who were unable to attend the focus group meetings can submit feedback through the district’s website until Jan. 31 at www.district196.org/ budgetadjustments.

Kreger said recommendations will be presented to the School Board on Jan. 7, and the board will be asked to vote on the recommendations Feb. 11.

The district may also seek a levy in November 2019 to avoid an additional $18 million of budget adjustments.

Patty Dexter can be reached at patty.dexter@ecm-inc. com.

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News Briefs Kids ’n Kinship mentors needed Kids ’n Kinship is a local nonprofit organization making successful mentoring matches for over 45 years in Dakota County.

Individual, couple, and family mentors are needed to provide friendship to youths age 5-16 in need of a positive role model.

Training and support are provided. Find out more at an information session 6-7 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 19, at the Burnhaven Library, 1101 W. County Road 42, Burnsville. RSVP to jpkinship@ aol.com. Visit www.kidsnkinship.org for more information.

Helping Students Succeed workshop in West St. Paul NAMI Minnesota is sponsoring a Helping Students Succeed workshop 6-8 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 8, in West St. Paul at the Wentworth Library, 199 Wentworth Ave. E., in the large meeting room.

The free workshop provides information to parents of school-age children about special education services, the evaluation process, Individualized Education Programs, 504 plans, accommodations and modifications.

To register, contact NAMI at 651-645-2948 or go to “classes” at namimn. org.

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Education Eagan High School sponsors Dec. 28 blood drive

of Tech Titans, a student technology club, came in to help students code some new Ollie robots at the school.

“They used the apps Tickle, Tynker and Sphero EDU on their iPads to code the Ollies around the school and through a maze,” she said.

Eagan High School is sponsoring a Red Cross blood drive 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Friday, Dec. 28, at the Hilton Garden Inn, 1975 Rahncliff Court, Eagan.

The California wildfires and the snowstorms across the nation have created a serious shortage of blood.

All presenting donors will receive a coupon for a free pint of ice cream and a free long-sleeve T-shirt.

Anyone 16 and older can donate blood, but 16-year-olds need a parent consent form, which can be found on the Red Cross website. Schedule an appointment to donate blood by going to redcrossblood. org and entering keyword Hilton.

Scott Highlands continues Hour of Code tradition

Photo contributed by Tracy Hansen

Gavin Beutler works on coding an Ollie robot during Scott Highlands Middle School’s Hour of Code event on Dec. 6.

Scott Highlands MidSeven students partici- ago, said Tracy Hansen, dle School held an Hour pated in this year’s event, Spanish teacher and techof Code event on Thurs- which the school began nology coordinator. day, Dec. 6. hosting about five years Hansen said a member

The architectural firm is teers, the group turned 600 located across the street boxes and 20 rolls of tape from the K-8 school. into a 20-by-40-foot maze Hanson is an Apple with 6-foot walls. She said Valley resident, who is a the completed project was graduate from the School incredibly rewarding,” the of Environmental Stud- release said. ies in Apple Valley and Students told Hanson Eagan High School. She during the process that the is an alumna of the five- project was the most fund year bachelor of architec- they’d had at the school, ture program at Iowa State the release said. The projUniversity and is a LEED ect took place over a fourGreen Associate. week period and came toArchitect gives “Hanson met with the gether on schedule. advice for school’s class a half dozen times, cardboard maze and, working with stuWhen a teacher from dents and parent volunFIT Academy in Apple Valley was looking for professional expertise for a seventh grade design and modeling class, CNH Architects was there to step in.

Earlier this fall, teacher Susan Nelson’s class was going to plan, design and construct a larger cardboard maze for the school’s fall festival. CNH Architectural Designer Kelly Hanson was able to Photo contributed by Zach Rivera provide guidance from the initial design and planning FIT Academy students and parent volunteers turned to the final construction 600 boxes and 20 rolls of tape into a 20-by-40 foot maze and assembly, according with 6-foot walls. Architectural Designer Kelly Hanson to a CNH news release. provided professional advice during the project, according to CNH Architects.

Three things to know about the District 196 tax levy

by Patty Dexter SUN THISWEEK DAKOTA COUNTY TRIBUNE

The Rosemount-Apple Valley-Eagan School Board certified on Monday the final tax levy, which is an increase over the previous year.

The final levy of $95,300,392 approved by the board provides funding for the 2019-20 school year.

The public had the chance to give input about the levy and the budget during the annual truth in taxation hearing the district held before the board’s vote. However, no residents spoke at the hearing.

Here are three other things to know about the school tax levy.

1. The school tax levy is increasing by 4.76 percent over the previous year.

Last year’s final tax levy was $90,966,644.

The annual tax impact for the 2019 average valued home worth $298,665 is $1,374. In 2018, an average valued home was $276,999 and the tax bill was $1,305.

According to the presentation, the average val-

ued home figure has been increasing since 2013, when it was $216,768.

The final levy for school taxes has also increased each year since 2013.

“The main source of that growth is due to that referendum inflation component. It is also due to the increasing size of our district,” said Jeff Solomon, director of finance and operations.

2. Local property taxes make up about 20 percent of the school district’s revenue sources.

State aid represents the largest portion of the school district’s revenues at 60 percent. Other local sources – levies approved by the School Board – make up 16 percent of revenues while federal sources comprise the remaining 4 percent of revenues, according to the district.

The school district levies taxes for the general fund, community service and debt service. About 79 percent of the levy ($75.77 million) will go to the general fund; 19 percent ($17.8 million) will go to debt service and 2 percent ($1.69 million) will go to community service, the

district said.

3. The levy certification process began months ago.

Solomon said the process began over the sum-

mer when the district submitted data to the Minnesota Department of Education.

The School Board certified the preliminary

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Looking to the future for history’s sake Dakota County Historical Society aims to continue community

by Tad Johnson SUN THISWEEK DAKOTA COUNTY TRIBUNE

Most people have a hard time managing the photos and videos they take as their lives evolve.

Whether it’s the hundreds of photos they captured on a recent vacation or the thousands they have of their young children, downloading, printing and archiving them seems like a full-time job.

Now think of the task the small staff of the Dakota County Historical Society has in documenting the lives of the third most populous county in Minnesota. Think of all those photos, all those videos, and all those artifacts predating the formation of the county 169 years ago.

As the Historical Society looks ahead to a new year, it aims to enlist the help of county residents in documenting history through their participation in events, volunteerism and financial support.

Executive Director Matthew Carter says the society will continue to focus its efforts on community outreach to show people how history matters in their lives, as it encourages local residents to consider visiting one of its three sites, donating their time or money, or becoming a member of the society.

All of those ways help the society better document Dakota County’s history since the majority of its budget depends on admissions, fees, donations and memberships.

Carter, who has been with the society since 2016, said it made about 50 presentations in 2018 to school, community and service groups. A couple hundred events, including private special occasions, were held in the past year.

“We know a lot of people want to learn about history,” Carter said.

In addition to the many programs it hosted at the Lawshe Museum in South St. Paul, Le Duc Mansion in Hastings and Sibley Historic Site in Mendota Heights, it also organized events like the Old Time Base Ball games played this summer at Dakota City Heritage Village in Farmington.

This outreach not only aims to educate folks about Dakota County’s rich history, but also raise

Photo by Jody Peters

In addition to the many programs the Dakota County Historical Society hosted at the Lawshe Museum in South St. Paul, Le Duc Mansion in Hastings and Sibley Historic Site in Mendota Heights, it also organized events like the Old Time Base Ball games played this summer at Dakota City Heritage Village in Farmington. awareness of the society’s work and how people can help enhance its mission.

Carter said allowing people young and old a chance to try out the equipment and rules of “base ball” (two words back in the 1800s) makes history come alive for them.

They can also learn about the past through research that says a creative promoter named Ignatius Donnelly organized what is believed to be first “base ball” game in Minnesota in Dakota County’s Nininger Township.

“People are always interested in history,” Carter said. “They have to find the way in which they most appreciate it.”

For some people, it’s discovering new branches of their family tree, or through an activity like playing “base ball,” or hearing a docent paint a visual picture of what life was like back then.

“When I was a high school student, I got interested in history because I had a teacher who presented it in a fun way,” Carter said.

That’s good for some people, while others like a more intellectual approach.

No matter what the method, Carter wants people to know that the society exists to “preserve, interpret and promote the history of Dakota County.”

Into the future

ghostly activity.

Regular operational hours and special events are key in helping the society increase its membership, which is currently around 500.

Like many organizations, the society offers a discounted membership for “first time” visitors already paying the admission price.

Members get free or reduced priced admission to sites, events and special presentations. Members also get discounts on gifts and publications, along with the society’s print newsletters.

Carter said special events are a great way to tap into new members since they can be geared

toward different demographics or different interests.

Some events cater to older folks, others are ideal for parents and small children, while others can pique the interest of teens.

He said offering free admission for children at its sites is a great way to get families attracted to the sites.

The society is increasingly turning to digital ways to reach members new and old.

Its website has been redesigned to include a modern presentation with historic images and links to its Facebook and Flickr pages.

The website also includes links to databases of census records and other resources.

“We are thrilled with the way it turned out,” Carter said. “We hope it draws in a new demographic.”

The society hopes that a recent merger with the Dakota County Genealogical Society will bring greater intellectual and financial resources to bear.

Currently there are four genealogy presentations held each year along with a fair that feeds a deep fascination for family history research in Dakota County.

Carter says the society plans to launch a project where volunteers will document the stories of every World War I veteran from the county in 2019.

He says it’s estimated that there were 1,300 county residents who fought in the war, but information is known about only 850 or so of them.

In the past year, the

society has had 250 volunteers log 6,500 hours, a value of $160,000 to the society.

Volunteer activities are varied. Some people help stage events, perform as re-enactors, complete landscaping projects, work as greeters, index artifacts or scan images to be filed.

Some volunteers, like those affiliated with the former Lockheed Martin facility in Eagan, are cataloging thousands of items that were delivered from the longtime government defense contractor to the museum in a semi-truck.

The items include artifacts such as old computers, photographs and blueprints for products.

Work by such volunteers aim to catalog all of the item and possibly help Dakota County lay claim to being the birthplace of the “high speed digital computer.”

It’s projects like that through which interest in a particular subject, place or person can bring more people into supporting the society.

Carter says the society’s communications aim to let people know about the tax benefits of donating one time, ongoing or in their wills.

Last year the society received an endowment that the society is using interest from for operational costs.

“We are letting people know how they can secure their legacy,” Carter said.

To find out more about how to tap into Dakota County history, or leave one’s own legacy, go online to dakotahistory.org.

In the coming year, the society aims to use a grant to hire a consultant to analyze why people come to visit its sites and what they felt about their experiences.

Carter says they plan to use the information to provide more of the kinds of experiences people want, whether that be hands-on activities, reader boards or spoken word, self-guided or audio tours.

They will review current presentation materials and methods, and explore virtual reality components.

Good news is that attendance is on the upswing at all three DCHS sites.

Tad Johnson can be reached The Sibley Historic at tad.johnson@ecm-inc.com.

Site, which is open Memorial Day to Labor Day, is completing its first year of operation under DCHS while still being owned by the Minnesota Historical Society.

The addition of the Sibley site allows the society to offer more special events such as Fur Trade Weekend, along with the Civil War Weekend and Putting Through History at LeDuc Historic Estate.

In recent years, the society has added variety to its offerings such as after hours events with adult beverages served, along with presentations related to paranormal investigaPhoto submitted tions done at the 150-yearold LeDuc, where there The addition of the Sibley Historic Site in Mendota allows the Dakota County has been a history of Historical Society to offer more special events such as Fur Trade Weekend.

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News Briefs Farmington Library events

Taco Saturdays at Rosemount VFW Rosemount VFW Post 9433 will hold Taco Saturdays from noon to 5 p.m.

Saturdays during December and January. Post 9433 is located at 2625 120th St. W., Rosemount.

Job Transitions Group meets The Easter Job Transitions Group will hold its holiday potluck Dec. 18.

Alumni are welcome.

The group meets 7:30 a.m. Tuesdays at Easter Lutheran Church – By the Lake, 4545 Pilot Knob Road, Eagan. Call 651452-3680 for information.

NAMI class on understanding children’s mental health system Understanding the Children’s Mental Health System, a free class sponsored by NAMI Minnesota, will be held 6-8 p.m.

Tuesday, Jan. 15, at the Farmington Library, 508 Third St. The two-hour class helps parents, school staff and other providers gain information about the different types of services and supports available to families who have a child with a mental illness, and how to access them. The class also provides an understanding of the best practices and the rights of children and their families in the clinical treatment setting as well as the school.

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Lunds & Byerlys plans to build near Cobblestone Lake

by Patty Dexter SUN THISWEEK DAKOTA COUNTY TRIBUNE

Apple Valley residents and visitors may one day be able to shop at a Lunds & Byerlys store built on reclaimed mining land.

Lund Food Holdings Inc. announced on Dec. 4 that it has signed a purchase agreement with AVR Inc. to purchase a seven-acre parcel of land in the planned Orchard Place development in Apple Valley for a future Lunds & Byerlys store.

“Apple Valley is a magnet for high-quality commercial development,

and we are thrilled that Lunds & Byerlys has chosen Apple Valley,” Mayor Mary Hamann-Roland said in a statement. “We look forward to Lunds & Byerlys bringing their premier shopping experience to our residents and the whole region.”

The Orchard Place development will be on 414 acres of land that is being mined south of County Road 42, east of Flagstaff Avenue and west of Pilot Knob Road. Of the total acreage, about 40 acres of land has been identified for commercial use and the Lunds & Byerlys store

would be part of that area, said Community Development Director Bruce Nordquist.

According to the company, the new store would be located on the southwest corner of Pilot Knob Road and 155th Street West. Nordquist said this means the store will be located across the street from the Target store that’s in the Cobblestone Lake area. He added that 155th Street West is a planned future road that does not yet exist.

Lund Food Holdings anticipates opening the new store by 2021, but the

company does not have a timeline determined for a groundbreaking or construction, said company spokesman Aaron Sorenson.

“We knew we wanted to be in this site. We’ve committed to that and we know that it’s going to be a bit of time before our store opens, given this site needs a bunch of work done to it,” he said. “We do think a three-year timeline is a natural progression for this project.”

Sorenson said the size of the store hasn’t been finalized but he expects it could be about 45,000 to

50,000 square feet, which is the average size of some of its newer stores.

“That’s kind of the right size for us and our customers,” he said.

While there are multiple grocery stores in Apple Valley including Target, Walmart, Fresh Thyme, Aldi and Cub Foods, Sorenson said the company views the site as a separate trade area. It’s seeing rapid growth and development, so the company believes it will have a great opportunity to serve new customers going forward, he added.

Lunds & Byerlys is the

type of development that’s been sought after by the city, Nordquist said.

“Lunds & Byerlys is a very regarded grocery food operation and to have them come in has been sought after by both the land owner and the city,” he said.

Lund Food Holdings, a family owned company, operates 27 stores throughout the metro and surrounding area. The closest location to Apple Valley is its Burnsville store at 401 E. County Road 42.

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Tuesday, Dec. 18 – Coffee at Cub, 8 a.m.; Bid Euchre, 9 a.m.; Craft Club, 1 p.m.

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December Issue

Woman writes about journeys traveling to all 50 states

By SUE WEBBER Contributing Writer

Growing up in a family of 10 kids living on a farm a mile north of Morgan, Minnesota, Lori Spangler’s biggest travel experience was a 20-mile trip to her grandparents’ home in Wanda, Minnesota.

“I was child number eight, a typical farm kid,” Spangler said. “I had five older sisters, two older brothers, and two younger brothers.”

She recalls visiting Iowa when she was 10 years old, a trip to the Minnesota State Fair, periodic trips to Minneapolis to visit her godparents, and one short hop over the border so, as her father pointed out, she and her siblings could say they’d been to Canada.

When Spangler was 23, she took a train to Texas to visit one of her brothers. And she once rode the Greyhound bus to work as a waitress in a resort in the Black Hills in South Dakota. “That was very mindopening,” she said.

The next state she visited was Wisconsin, accompanied by another waitress she’d met in the Black Hills. She recalls the two attending a Quaker church service in LaCrosse.

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Lori Spangler has visited all 50 states, and has written a book detailing her travel experiences.

After college, she moved to Colorado and worked at a summer camp for children ages 10-12, which included a sevenday backpacking trip with six girls, carrying all their supplies on an uphill hike.

Colorado gave Spangler a chance to climb Pike’s Peak.

Seven years later, she moved back to Minnesota.

Her horizons broadened, and by 1996, after completing a master’s degree in training and development at the age of 39, Spangler decided she needed she needed a new challenge.

“I’d never married, I had no children and no pets,” Spangler said. “I had plants.”

By then, she’d traveled to 20 different states. But the new challenge she set for herself was to travel to the remaining 30 states. In the next 15 years, she achieved that goal. In 2016, Spangler wrote a book about her adventures, titled “Miles of Memories: One Woman’s Journey to All 50 States.”

“I never thought in 2 million years that I would write a book,” she said. “I thought at first it would be a pamphlet, but it became a memoir.”

Having become used to living alone, she liked traveling alone, Spangler said.

‘I tried to make the most of it,” she said.

Each chapter of the book contains “Lori’s learning” notes at the end of the chapter, as well as each state’s history and

trivia she picked up along the way.

She claims she didn’t have a favorite state. “Each region of the country has its own personality, and I appreciated them all,” she said.

“I thought I wouldn’t like Alabama and Mississippi, but then I found the birthplace of Helen Keller. I thought the people would be country hicks, but I was totally wrong. I met so many nice people.”

She enjoyed a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and a place in Corinth, Mississippi, where the North-South, East-West railroads meet. “There was a huge Civil War battle there,” Spangler said. “It’s hard to imagine how it must have been.”

She recalls the Lyndon B. Johnson Library and Museum in Texas, the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum in California and the JFK Presidential Library in Boston. She saw Graceland, St. Jude’s Medical Center and the Indianapolis Speedway.

“I liked to go to local pottery places, or places where people had crafts,” she said.

The second-to-last state was Wyoming, where she spent a weekend at the Sylvan See Journeys, Next Page

Mindful travel builds new memories for seniors More seniors are traveling today than ever before. Travel has become an integral part of many senior’s retirement plans; because they now have the time, money and health to go where they want to go, when they want to go. It also helps that accommodations for older travelers have improved immensely all around the world.

The new generation of older adults is choosing to travel for a variety of reasons. Some travel for adventure, learning opportunities or to complete a “bucket list”. Others travel just for fun or to seek warmer weather.

And some are like Robert Louis Stevenson who said, “I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake.”

Perhaps, the best reason for late-life travel is simply to build new memories that can be enjoyed for the rest of your life. The problem is that memory-building doesn’t just happen because you go

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someplace. It has to be mindful and intentional.

Some people who travel the most remember the least. They rush through trips so quickly they don’t know what they’ve seen or why it’s worth seeing.

Some of these travelers only see

the sights and highlights of their trip through the lens of their smartphone.

They return home with lots of selfies for Facebook, but better to slow down and smell the local roses than to hurry through a packed itinerary that only skims the surface.

That’s why Zach Beattie, founder of Off the Grid Travel, says the focus of his tours is “mindful travel and not just cramming ever site into our trip.”

To bank lifelong memories, mindful travel requires digging beneath the surface. The impressions etched in your heart and mind are more important than the images recorded on your cellphone.

To soak up as many meaningful memories as possible, some travel experts offer the following tips: -Under schedule. Allow time to see and do what you want. Don’t let a travel agent or tour guide dictate what you want to remember for the rest of your life.

-Practice what journalist Maria Shriver calls the “power of the pause.” Stop occasionally to be in the moment and fully appreciate what you’re experiencing.

-Limit use of cell phones. As Beattie explains, “When you’re someplace new, there’s a lot to see and lots of cool people to meet. Your phone can distract you.”

-Use all five senses. Try to become completely immersed in each location, sight or experience – even if it is only for a moment.

-Keep a journal. A picture may be worth a thousand words. But sometimes, only words can capture the emotion or mood of the moment.

Travel can be fun, entertaining, educational and life-changing. It can also be a gift that keeps on giving if you practice mindful travel. So the next time you drag your body off on a trip, take your mind along. You can’t have too many meaningful memories. Bon voyage!

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Discovering The Mature Lifestyle Dec. 13, 2018

Longtime friends travel together for 21 years

By SUE WEBBER Contributing Writer

Twenty-one years ago, New Hope Mayor Kathi Hemken and a woman who had been her elementary school classmate decided to go to Ireland together.

They rounded up 10 other friends who also wanted to make the trip.

“After that first trip, we knew what we had was magic,” Hemken said.

Little did the group know then that an annual trip would figure prominently on their calendars for the next two decades. Since that first trip, the women have planned vacations together in Spain, New York, England, Seattle, Quebec, Chicago, Connecticut, Vancouver, Nova Scotia, Boston, Savannah and Memphis. They even spent a couple of trips exploring downtown Minneapolis and St. Paul.

The group is down to eight women now. Their trips vary between one and two weeks in length.

“After we get home from an adventure, we talk about where we want to go next,” Hemken said. “We meet a few times during the year, and people bring ideas. We all keep in touch.”

Organization is key. Each person in the group has a job to do, and the jobs rotate. One is in charge of making flight arrangements a couple of months in advance of the trip, another takes care of booking hotels or sometimes renting a house for their stay, someone else arranges for transportation, and another orders tickets in advance for shows or tours.

“Before we leave town, we have an

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Longtime traveling partners are, from left: Joanne Holme, Monticello; Vera Burgoyne, Zimmerman; Betty Zehringer, Elk River; Kitty Schumacher, Maple Grove; Kathi Hemken, New Hope; Mary Ostdiek, Annandale; Rickie Buttweiller, Elk River; and Joann Peterson, Big Lake.

itinerary,” Hemken said. “We do a little homework first. There are no decisions left to make on the trip. We already have the tickets and passes we need. We do some touristy things, and some not.

We visit food trucks during the day; we don’t eat at fancy places for dinner, and we don’t go out every night. We always leave a day to two to shop. We never go anywhere alone. That’s kind of an unspoken rule, and we’re OK with that.”

They try to walk whenever possible.

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Occasionally, the group has hired a driver for the week who is given their itinerary and knows where they’ll be going and when.

“In New York, we walked when we could; in Boston, we took the subway,” Hemken said.

“We’ve been on ghost tours, we’ve ridden on pedal bikes and ferris wheels, we went on a gondola in Venice,” she said.

When they went to Washington, D.C., the son of one of the group’s members had connections that enabled them to get tickets and a tour of the Black History Museum before it opened.

“One gal’s family had hosted a foreign exchange student from Austria, and he later became the Austrian ambassador to the U.N.,” Hemken said. “When we went to New York, his wife invited us to lunch. We were picked up in a limo, driven to the U.N. and got a tour of the chambers, and then to their residence. It was just so elegant.”

Another member of the tour group has a brother who is a priest stationed at the Vatican, and that resulted in a chance to see the pope on their trip to Italy.

“This year we went to Toronto because one of the women had never seen Niagara Falls,” Hemken said.

They were touring a winery in Seattle one year when Hemken got word that her husband, the late Bud Hemken, had suffered a heart attack and needed bypass surgery. “The women figured out how to get me on a plane back to Minneapolis,” she said. “Two of them packed my bag.

They made arrangements for me to be picked up at the airport in Minneapolis and taken to the hospital.

“We all help each other out. It’s like having seven sisters. Actually, it’s just wonderful. The group is important to all of us. We’ve never had an argument in 21 years.”

To ensure that members don’t forget their tours, one of the members who is a jeweler gives each of the women a charm after every trip. The necklace holding the charms is treasured, according to Hemken.

One of the members is entrusted with the job of journaling during the trip and printing out a copy for each member.

“It’s a nice reminder,” Hemken said.

Ever mindful of her duties as New Hope mayor, Hemken said, “I always arrange to go so I won’t miss a city council meeting.”

She has always enjoyed traveling, Hemken said. In addition to her 21year travel group, she has been sailing with another group of women for 32 years. “We took a sailing class together at North Hennepin Community College because we needed a physical education credit,” she said. “For the final, we took a sailing trip on the instructor’s boat in Lake Superior.”

They’ve continued to take an annual three-day sailing trip with their instructor each year since then. “We pull in the anchor and pull up the sail, and he cooks the chicken,” Hemken said. “We have really good food. We bring tablecloths and candlesticks We started with 12 women; now we’re down to five.”

For many years, Hemken said, she went on skiing trips with another group of women.

“I have a lot of women friends,” she said. “Bud thought it was really important for me to have women friends. He encouraged that.”

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Lake Resort and saw Devil’s Tower.

Spangler used AAA Tour Books and researched things that would be of interest to her in each state.

She treasures a sweetgrass basket she bought in South Carolina. Another fa-

vorite souvenir was a glass turtle necklace she bought in Hawaii, after meeting a saleswoman who told her it symbolized long life and prosperity. “I wear it as my good luck piece,” she said.

One of Spangler’s nieces has compiled a scrapbook of all her travels.

Now that she’s completed her goal, Spangler has a word of advice. “When you get invited to visit a relative or friend, go,” she said. “Don’t wait for a funeral.”

It took her five years to write her book, Spangler said. “I didn’t have a deadline,” she noted. She has appeared at book clubs, book fairs, and on a couple of local TV stations. “It’s just been fun talking about my book and traveling,” she said.

After she completed her goal, she discovered the existence of the All Fifty States Club, which could have been a resource for her.

She has done some international travel,

and would like to do more, Spangler said.

Spangler has a bachelor’s degree in corrections, plus one graduate degree in training and development, and another in communications and public speaking.

During her college years, she worked at a group home for juvenile delinquents and a shelter for battered women. Since then, she has taught communications at the college level.

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Scores of families attended Breakfast with Santa on Saturday, Dec. 8, at the Rosemount Community Center Gymnasium. During the Rosemount Parks and Recreation event, children created holiday crafts and played games, and also had a continental-style breakfast of cereal, muffins, doughnuts, fruit, juice, hot cocoa and coffee.

Religion Christmas at The Well The Well, a United Methodist Church, will celebrate Christmas Eve, Dec. 24, at both the Rosemount and Apple Valley campuses.

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Music events at The Well The Rosemount campus of The Well, a United Methodist Church, offers the following music events.

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• The Sawtooth Brothers, 7 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 20, part of a Bluegrass Early Christmas at The Well. The band’s sound is rooted in traditional bluegrass instrumental and harmony work and is influenced by modern acoustic sounds, blending pop and indie rock sensibilities with heartfelt Americana.

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Quiet Christmas Dec. 16 at Advent UMC Advent United Methodist Church, 3945 Lexington Ave. S., Eagan, offers a Celtic Contemplative service 7 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 16. The worship experience features Northumbrian smallpiper Dick Hensold and offers comfort, hope, wholeness and renewal. Call 651-4543944 for more information.

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Sports Tigers crack the North code Girls basketball team ends long losing streak to SSC rival

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Containing Lakeville North sharpshooter Lauren Jensen takes more than one person. It takes a village, or at least a coordinated effort by all five opposing players.

Farmington was able to limit the damage Jensen inflicted in a South Suburban Conference girls basketball game Tuesday night. North’s star player had 16 points, but the Tigers pulled away in the second half for a 61-47 home-court victory and improved to 3-0 overall.

Jensen had scored more than 30 points in Lakeville North’s previous two games, including a schoolrecord 39 in a victory over Centennial. She averages 23.4 points a game.

“We did a good job of executing our defensive game plan,” Farmington coach Liz Carpentier said.

“We talked on the back side, had great rotation on our help and played team defense. One thing that went well for us was a lot of times we limited them to one shot. We were in

there rebounding, all five kids.”

Although it’s still early in the season, it was an important victory for a Farmington program that has had little success against Lakeville North.

Before Tuesday, the Tigers were 0-11 against North since joining the South Suburban Conference in 2014.

“We’ve been talking all season long that we don’t care who we play, we have a lot of confidence in our team and our players,” Carpentier said. “But to get over that hump is really important for our mindset.”

Sophomore guard Paige Kindseth had 21 points and was one of three Farmington players in double figures. Junior guard Molly Mogensen scored 17 points and sophomore forward Sophie Hart had 16.

Senior guard Analiese Tschida added 15 points for North, 2-3 overall.

Geneva Mattis and Sarah Kuma had seven and six points.

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Farmington’s Kaitlin Winston and Lakeville North’s Sarah Kuma reach for a loose ball during the Tigers’ 61-47 victory Tuesday night. ille North made runs, we came back with something,” Carpentier said.

Farmington returned most of its top players from a team that was 1910 last season and reached the Class 4A, Section 1 championship game. The Tigers lost three times to Lakeville North in 201718, including the section

final. The returnees included six of the top seven scorers, including Mogensen, who led the Tigers with an 11.6 average last season.

Most of the Tigers played on different AAU teams in the summer and did individual skill work at the high school a couple of days a week in the

summer. But they have been playing together long enough that the chemistry returns quickly when they assemble in the fall for varsity basketball practice, Carpentier said.

Mogensen, junior guard Morgan Ebel and seniors Kaitlin Winston and Myiah Scott are captains. Forward Sophie

Hart and guard Peyton Blandin, both sophomores, also are back.

“We have a core seven players, but the next couple are right there, playing well and making the people around them better,” Carpentier said. “They’re an unselfish group. It’s not See Tigers, 19A

Youthful Irish girls basketball team starts 4-1 Rosemount drops its South Suburban opener

by Mike Shaughnessy SUN THISWEEK DAKOTA COUNTY TRIBUNE

Rosemount held Prior Lake guard McKenna Hofschild, perhaps the state’s most prolific scorer, to a season-low 20 points in a South Suburban Conference girls basketball game Tuesday night.

It wasn’t enough for a victory, however, as the Irish lost 67-53, falling for the first time this season after opening 4-0 in non-conference games.

Defense had been a staple for the Irish, who didn’t allow more than 42 points in any of their first four games. But the tandem of Hofschild and junior guard Haidyn Pitsch, who also scored 20 points, drove the Lakers (2-2) to the victory Tuesday night.

Hofschild, who has committed to Seton Hall, is averaging

34.2 points a game. She scored 63, a state record for varsity girls basketball, in a 99-95 loss to Park Center on Dec. 1.

The Irish, who have 17 conference games left, plan to learn from it. They went into the game knowing they would have to change their defensive strategy to deal with Hofschild. In their non-conference games they got most of their points off steals and in transition, but coach Chris Orr said that’s the kind of pace Prior Lake wants.

“We won’t get in a track meet with them,” Orr said Tuesday, a few hours before his team took the court at Prior Lake.

Rosemount returns to action at 7 p.m. Thursday in a nonconference game against Holy Angels at home. The Irish play host to South Suburban rival Shakopee at 7 p.m. Friday.

The Irish, a young team to begin with, are even younger right now because their captains, senior guard Megan Larson and junior guard Gianna

Freking, are recovering from knee injuries. Larson is the team’s only senior. The captains are expected to be ready to play by mid-January.

Returning starters such as sophomore forward Helen Staley and junior forward Taylor Janssen have taken the leadership mantle. “They’ve been awesome,” Orr said. “They’ve been willing to be more vocal on the court, they play 36 minutes when needed. They’ve stepped into that role really well.”

Staley, a varsity player since seventh grade, is averaging 9.8 points a game, as is Janssen.

The Irish’s leading scorer is guard Alexa Ratzlaff, a ninthgrader who is averaging 14 points a game. She’s part of an influx of ninth-graders into the Rosemount program. Seven ninth-graders are in the varsity/ junior varsity group, with Ratzlaff, forward Tayah Leenderts and guard Anna Tauer seeing varsity minutes so far this season.

“I think (the ninth-graders) were in second or third grade when I took over” as Rosemount head coach, Orr said.

“You could tell then they had a chance to be a special group.

They had a lot of energy and were very talented.”

The Irish have six players who have scored at least 10 points in a game – Staley, Janssen, Ratzlaff, Leenderts, sophomore forward Ivory Finley and junior guard Grace Willmott. Orr said he likes that the Irish have multiple players capable of scoring, and that they have the depth to play the fast-paced style he wants to use against most opponents.

“Right now we’re about eight or nine deep and when we get our captains (Larson and Freking) back, it’ll be 10 or 11 deep,” the coach said. “We think that will be an advantage when we get deeper into the season.

We’ll be able to keep our players fresher and maybe wear down other teams a little bit.”

Ratzlaff had 18 points, Fin-

ley 15 and Janssen and Leenderts nine each against Prior Lake. Ratzlaff scored 19 points, Staley 13 and Janssen 11 in a 5942 victory over Henry Sibley last Friday.

One aspect of the Irish’s game that hasn’t been fully tested yet is their half-court offense.

Orr said Rosemount got almost all of its points in transition in the first three games, but had to run more plays in the Henry Sibley game. The half-court offense figures to be more important for the Irish as they begin playing South Suburban opponents that will be tougher to pressure into turnovers.

Rosemount takes on Lakeville South at home at 7 p.m.

Tuesday, Dec. 18, in its last conference game before the holiday break.

Mike Shaughnessy can be reached at mike.shaughnessy@ ecm-inc.com.

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Tigers, Irish duel in the South Suburban waters

Photos by Mike Shaughnessy

Seth Krause (left) of Farmington swims to victory in the 100-yard butterfly during a South Suburban Conference boys swimming and diving meet last Friday against Rosemount at Rosemount Middle School. The Irish’s Cody Spaeth (right) swims the 500 freestyle, where he finished fourth. The Tigers held a slim lead throughout the meet, then clinched a 98-88 victory when Krause, Zach Nelson, Eric Heddinger and Ben Moorlach won the 400 freestyle relay.

AV’s Randa retires as girls soccer coach His teams won 325 games and 1995 state title Keith Randa, one of longest-tenured coaches in Apple Valley High School history, has retired as head coach of the girls soccer team.

Randa, who was the Eagles’ head coach for 29 years and spent 35 years overall in the program, led Apple Valley to a state championship in 1995 and state runner-up finishes in 1992 and 1993. His teams were 325-167-57.

“It is time in my life to turn to other interests, family, and travel,” Randa said in a news release issued by the high school.

He will continue as a science teacher at the high school and plans to remain involved in soccer as executive secretary of the Minnesota High School Soccer Coaches Association.

“Coach Randa’s knowledge of the game is widely respected across the state of Minnesota, but ultimately he’s doing what’s best for him, what’s best for his family,” Apple Valley athletic director Virgil Jones said. “We absolutely respect and appreciate that, and wish him nothing but the best.”

Eagles assistant coach Katie Osborne said, “In the short time that I have been fortunate enough to learn from and work with coach Randa, he has become the single most in-

fluential person for me at Apple Valley. Coach Randa has a way of making every moment and every conversation count. His care and devotion to progress in young athletes and students is profound. He truly has led the program by example, living each day by his closing locker room words, ‘pride, poise, confidence.’”

Randa’s teams won five section championships and were runners-up five times. He led his teams to five conference championships and five conference runner-up finishes.

The school will begin searching for Randa’s replacement shortly. Jones said he will look for a coach that will continue Apple Valley’s soccer tradition and culture.

“We’re looking for someone who can come in and continue to build on the legacy that coach Randa leaves behind,” Jones said. “We’ll get that process started here in the next day or so, and see what candidates are out there.”

Jones said Randa’s departure will bring about a transition period for the program.

“It’s definitely going to be a new environment next year, and it’s going to be a challenge transitioning into a new season without him here,” Jones said.

“He’s been a part of the overall athletic tradition at Apple Valley for over four decades.”

Tigers, from 18A necessarily all about wins and losses for them. They just want to see their hard work pay off.”

But Tuesday’s victory was big. “We have longterm goals and shortterm goals,” Carpentier said after the victory over Lakeville North. “This was one of the short-term goals.”

While Lakeville North slipped back below .500, it should be noted that its three losses have been against teams ranked in the top 10 in Class 4A. The Panthers have faced No. 1-ranked Hopkins, fourth-ranked St. Michael-Albertville and No. 8 Farmington.

Jensen set her school record of 39 points in an 83-81 victory over 11thranked Centennial on

Dec. 6. She broke a record set in the early 2000s by Liz Podominick, a Miss Basketball award winner and McDonald’s AllAmerican who went on to play in a Final Four at the University of Minnesota and later became one of the nation’s top discus throwers.

Tschida, a University of Minnesota Duluth commit, had 24 points against Centennial.

Farmington and Lakeville North return to South Suburban Conference play later this week, with North playing at Lakeville South at 7 p.m.

Thursday and Farmington going to Burnsville at 7 p.m. Friday.

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Legals INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL DISTRICT 917 REGULAR SCHOOL BOARD MEETING MINUTES This is a summary of the Intermediate School District 917 Regular School Board Meeting on Tuesday, December 4, 2018, with full text available for public inspection on the district website at www. isd917.org or the District Office at 1300 145th Street East, Rosemount, MN 55068.

The meeting was called to order at 5:00 PM. Board members present: Jill Lewis, Dick Bergstrom, DeeDee Currier, Bob Erickson, Russ Rohloff, Vanda Pressnall, Byron Schwab, Wendy Felton, and administrators were present. Absent: Melissa Sauser. Good news reports were presented. The following Consent Agenda items were approved: minutes, personnel, bills to be paid, wire transfers and investment report. Recommended actions approved: Donation in the amount of $1000; 2017-2018 Audit Report; and Policy 506-Student Discipline. Employee of the Fall quarter was Jason Johnson and Teacher of the Fall Quarter was Kelsey Mlodozyniec. Adjournment at 6:07 PM. Published in the Dakota County Tribune, Sun Current, Sun Thisweek December 14, 2018 887507

INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT 196 This is a summary of the November 19, 2018 special School Board meeting.

The full text is available for public inspection at www.district196. org, at the District Office, or by standard or electronic mail.

The meeting was called to order at 5:30 p.m. at the District Office.

Present: Albright, Angrimson, Coulson, Isaacs, Magnuson and Superintendent Kreger. Absent: Roseen and Schutte.

Motion by Coulson, seconded

by Angrimson and carried with a 5-0 vote, to approve the agenda.

Motion by Magnuson, seconded

by Albright and carried with a 5-0 vote, to approve the resolution to expel a student immediately for the remainder of the 2018-19 school year.

Motion by Isaacs, seconded

by Angrimson and carried with a 5-0 vote, to approve the following consent items: employment agreements; 2018-19 snow removal services program, and MSDLAF trustee appointment.

The board received a report on the financial audit for the fiscal year 2017-18.

Motion by Coulson, seconded

by Albright and carried with a 5-0 vote, to adjourn at 7 p.m.

Published in the Dakota County Tribune, Sun Thisweek December 14, 2018 888145

INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT 196 This is a summary of the November 5, 2018 regular School Board meeting.

The full text is available for public inspection at www.district196. org, at the District Office, or by standard or electronic mail.

The meeting was called to order at 6 p.m. at Dakota Ridge School, followed by the Pledge of Allegiance. Present: Albright, Angrimson, Coulson, Isaacs, Magnuson, Roseen, Schutte and Superintendent Kreger.

Motion by Coulson, seconded

by Schutte and carried with a 7-0 vote, to approve the agenda.

Board members and the superintendent recognized students and staff.

A resident in the district expressed concern about the official bid form for a snow plowing contract.

Motion by Roseen, seconded

by Angrimson and carried with a 7-0 vote, to approve the following consent items: board meeting minutes; gifts; personnel; pay rates for substitute, temporary and part-time employees; student teacher agreements; assurance of compliance, and agreement for clinical nursing experience.

Board members received updates on the district’s student information system Infinite Campus and enrollment projections for 2019-20 through 2023-24.

Connections Preschool fees for 2019-20 and revisions to middle and high school courses for 201920 were presented as new business. The board will be asked to approve the proposed changes at its December 10 regular meeting.

Motion by Angrimson, seconded

by Roseen and carried with a 7-0 vote, to approve a resolution declaring the week of November 1216, 2018 as Maintenance Support Employees Appreciation Week in District 196.

Motion by Schutte, seconded

by Coulson and carried with a 7-0 vote, to approve a resolution declaring the week of November 1216, 2018 as Clerical and Secretarial Employees Appreciation Week in District 196.

Motion by Albright, seconded

by Coulson and carried with a 7-0 vote, to approve the superintendent’s contract retroactive to July 1, 2018 through June 30, 2021.

Board members and the superintendent gave updates.

Motion by Isaacs, seconded by Roseen and carried with a 7-0 vote, to adjourn at 6:49 p.m.

Published in the Dakota County Tribune, Sun Thisweek December 14, 2018 888155

dow after receiving the notice to do so.

Council Member Jason Bartholomay, who cast the dissenting vote, noted that the school district levy could also affect taxpayers.

“I wish we could’ve been able to decrease (the city levy) a little more after seeing what the school district did,” he said.

Bartholomay, who is finishing his last term on the council, added that he believes future councils “are going to have some work to do with trying to find innovative ways to do code enforcement.”

That might mean revising city codes rather than adding extra staff, he said.

Council members voted 4-1 to approve the levy.

One resident, Wes Fischer, attended the Dec. 3 meeting, and said that his property taxes have increased by 7.1 percent from 2018.

Fischer said he has lived in Farmington since 2011 and he believes this year is the largest tax increase he has seen.

Mayor Todd Larson noted that a lot of that has to do with the estimated market value of homes.

The valuation is listed on property owners’ Truth in Taxation notices, which Graphic submitted Farmington’s 2019 property tax levy is the lowest levy are mailed in March.

Property owners can increase in the past five years. The levy was approved 4-1 appeal the market value, Jody Peters can be reached at at the Dec. 3 City Council meeting. but they have a short win- jody.peters@ecm-inc.com.

Sen. Matt Little hosts roundtable discussion Working towards lower insulin costs during 2019 legislative session

by Kayla Culver SUN THISWEEK DAKOTA COUNTY TRIBUNE

A bipartisan roundtable discussion at the Capitol organized by Sen. Matt Little, DFL-Lakeville Dec. 11 aimed to highlight the rising cost of insulin.

“We need to reign in the immorally high cost of insulin,” he said. “According to the American Diabetes Association, the average list price of insulin nearly tripled between 2002 and 2013. In the last four years I believe it has gone up another 16 percent … I think we need to ask ourselves the question why are these prices increasing so fast.

“It’s my personal belief that the insulin market is not a free market. Folks living with diabetes deserve an explanation from insulin manufacturers to why this happened and a commitment from their Legislature to lower the cost.”

The Legislative panel included Sen. Jim Abeler, a Republican, and DFL Sens. Chris Eaton, Melisa Franzen, Jeff Hayden, Matt Klein, John Marty, Melissa Wiklund and Rep.-elect Alice Mann, DFL-Lakeville.

Before the panelists spoke, seven people who have been affected by diabetes and the cost of insulin shared their stories.

Lakeville resident and college professor Rob Kilbourn was one of them.

Kilbourn was diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes two years ago. Unlike those with Type 1 diabe-

tes his body still produces some insulin. He said many of those with Type 2 diabetes rely on insulin to stay alive.

“I worked in the diabetes field for the last 13 years, and I know how important it is because I’ve had so many family members with Type 1 and Type 2,” Kilbourn said. “You’ll hear people say insulin isn’t that expensive. They’ll talk about Walmart insulin. This is called NPH. It was created in the 1950s.”

Kilbourn said his father, who is a veteran, goes to the Veteran Affairs doctors and is prescribed NPH for his Type 2 diabetes. NPH has worked for his father, but it requires a strict regimen, constant food intake throughout the day and has many problems.

While on NPH, Kilbourn’s father needed a colonoscopy, which required fasting.

“He was fasting and taking this insulin under the order of his doctor and within a 24-hour period his blood sugar level fell to a level that was insanely low. Most of us need to keep our sugar levels between 80 and 120.

During this fasting period, his levels fell to 22, 24, 25 and 26,” Kilbourn said.

Because his father’s blood sugar levels were so low, Kilbourn said his father blacked out and his mother had to pour honey down his throat to keep him alive. Kilbourn then pulled out a calculator from the 1950s and says

that even though that occurs when it works, it is difthe body producficult to use and es high levels of the math should be blood acids. Alec checked with a curwas newly off his rent calculator. mother’s insur“I think insulin ance, his job did is the same way. If Sen. Matt not offer health we are using com- Little benefits and he plex calculations was paying for and we are being told we his insulin out-of-pocket. can use something from When he couldn’t afford the 1950s to fix this, that is insulin, Smith-Holt benot the answer,” he said. lieves he tried to stretch A 10-milliliter vial of out the insulin he had. insulin can cost between Legislative panelists $300 to $400. Kilbourn agreed the cost should be used a current calculator brought down as well as to figure out how much health care costs in gena gallon of insulin would eral. cost.

“As a family medicine “There are 3,785 millili- doctor I work with people ters in a gallon. I know we with diabetes in the clinic are all worried about the and as an ER doctor I take price of gas per gallon. If people in when they don’t we talk about the price of have access to their mediinsulin per gallon, at $300 cine,” Mann said. “The (for a milliliter), which is cost of insulin as well as the low end, we’re talking asthma inhalers is one of about $113,000 for that the big reasons why I’m gallon of insulin. That here today. … We need to makes it one of the top look at what we can do in expensive liquids in the health care as a whole beworld,” Kilbourn said. cause it’s not just insulin.

Other presenters shared It’s other medications and the same concern as Kil- services.” bourn.

The 2019 legislative sesAlexis Stanley was re- sion begins Jan. 8, 2019. cently diagnosed with Little said he will be reType 1 after her 19th questing public hearings birthday. She expressed for new legislation to reign concerns about being in the cost of insulin. able to afford insulin after A full video of the she goes off her parents’ roundtable discussion health insurance. She said is available at http:// her mother is only staying mnsenate.granicus.com/ at a job she does not like MediaPlayer.php?view_ because of the health ben- id=1&clip_id=3053. efits.

Nicole Smith-Holt’s Kayla Culver can be reached son, Alec, died in 2017 of at kayla.culver@ecm-inc.com. diabetic ketoacidosis, a complication of diabetes

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We proudly serve more than 100,000 member-owners throughout Dakota County and portions of Goodhue, Rice and Scott counties for over 80 years. We are the second largest electric cooperative in the state of Minnesota and ranked among the 25 largest electric distribution cooperatives in the nation. As a Member-Owned Cooperative we are committed to providing service with integrity, accountability, innovation and commitment to community.

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DAKOTA COUNTY TRIBUNE Dec. 13, 2018

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Candidates should apply online:

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Mechanic Wanted Schmitty & Sons, a local, employee-owned company is seeking mechanics for our locations in: Eagan, Burnsville and Lakeville.

We offer: *Competitive Pay *Advancement Opportunities *Laptop computers *Tuition reimbursement *PTO *Continued Training Interested candidates should apply at

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Transit Bus Driver

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Family Calendar To submit items for the Family Calendar, email: d a r c y. o d d e n @ e c m - i n c . com.

Saturday, Dec. 15 Lakeville Friends of the Environment 2018 Coffee and Conversation, 9:30 a.m., Main Street Coffee Cafe, 20790 Holyoke Ave., downtown Lakeville. All are welcome. Information: Debbie at 952-250-3320.

Eagan Indoor Market, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., Oasis Room, Eagan Community Center, 1501 Central Parkway, Eagan. Information: https://www.cityofeagan. com/visit-the-indoor-market.

Movies in the Outfield – “Solo: A Star Wars Story” (PG-13), 7 p.m., Savage Sports Center, 13450 Dakota Ave., Savage. Seating begins at 6:30 p.m. Free. Bring lawn chairs or blankets for seating. Concessions available.

Rosemount High School students presented “Shrek: The Musical” during main performances Dec. 6-9 at the school’s Performing Arts Center. The Tony Award-winning musical based on the Oscarwinning DreamWorks Animation film recounts the fairy tale adventure of an ogre turned unlikely hero. Nick Tentis played Shrek and Alex Robinson is the Donkey. More photos are online at SunThisweek.com.

Photos contributed by Bruce Maeda

Jazzing up the holidays Genesis Jazz Orchestra performed during the Rosemount Community Band concert on Sunday at the Steeple Center in Rosemount. Many of the Genesis band members are also in the Community Band. The groups performed a selection of holiday classics as part of the concert.

Photo submitted

Tuesday, Dec. 18 Small Business Counseling with SCORE, 5-7 p.m., Wescott Library, 1340 Wescott Road, Eagan. Free confidential counseling from SCORE, a nonprofit business counseling and mentoring organization. An experienced SCORE counselor will help you navigate all aspects of planning or operating your small business. Appointment required.

Email Ron at ron.seipp@ gmail.com.

Wednesday, Dec. 19 Kids ’n Kinship mentor information session, 6-7 p.m., Burnhaven Library, 1101 W. County Road 42, Burnsville. Information: kidsnkinship.org or dakinship@ aol.com.

Friday, Dec. 21 Obstacle Course, 10:30-11:30 a.m., Galaxie Library, 14955 Galaxie Ave., Apple Valley. Drop in for a full-body movement experience navigating tunnels and hoops, hopping down a path and zigzagging through cones. Space is limited.

Ages: 2-6. Free. Information: www.co.dakota.mn.us/ libraries.

Beginning snowshoeing, 3-4:30 p.m., Cleary Lake Regional Park, Prior Lake. Guided hike; equipment provided. Cost: $5.

Registration required at 763-559-6700.

Saturday, Dec. 22 Full moon snowshoe, 6-8 p.m., Cleary Lake Regional Park, Prior Lake.

Equipment provided; will hike if no snow. Cost: $5.

Ages: 6 and older. Registration required at 763-5596700.

Ongoing Eagan parkrun, a free weekly timed 5K run, 9 a.m.

Saturdays at Thomas Lake Park, 4350 Thomas Lake Road, Eagan. Rain or shine.

To get a time recorded and stored online, register at w w w. p a r k r u n . u s / re g i s t e r and bring your barcode with you. Information: www.parkrun.us/eagan.

Emotions Anonymous, 7:30-9 p.m. Tuesdays at SouthCross Community Church, 1800 E. County Road 42 (at Summit Oak Drive), Apple Valley. EA is a 12-step program for those seeking emotional health. All are welcome. Information: http://www.emotionsanonymous.org/out-of-the-darkness-walks.

Recovery International, 3 p.m. Tuesdays at Mary, Mother of the Church (Room 9), 3333 Cliff Road, Burnsville. Park in lower lot. Selfhelp group for depression, anxiety, fears, panic attacks, anger and more. Information: Rita at 952-890-7623 or www.recoveryinternational.org.

Al-Anon Finding Hope Beginners Group, 9:3010:30 a.m. Saturdays at Mary, Mother of the Church, 3333 Cliff Road, Burnsville.

Troubled by someone’s drinking? Al-Anon can help.

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Blood drives The American Red Cross will hold the following blood drives. Call 1-800-RED CROSS (1800-733-2767) or visit red crossblood.org to make an appointment or for more information.

• Dec. 15, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., Eagan Community Center, 1501 Central Parkway, Eagan.

• Dec. 18, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Culver’s, 15225 Galaxie Ave., Apple Valley.

• Dec. 20, 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., Dunn Brothers, 15265 Galaxie Ave., Apple Valley.

• Dec. 24, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Culver’s, 17800 Kenwood Trail, Lakeville.

• Dec. 26, 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., Minnesota Zoo, 13000 Zoo Blvd., Apple Valley.

• Dec. 26, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Wescott Library, 1340 Wescott Road, Eagan.

• Dec. 26, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Culver’s, 4725 Highway 13 W., Savage.

• Dec. 28, 12-6 p.m., AMC Apple Valley 15 Theatres, 15630 Cedar Ave., Apple Valley.

• Dec. 28, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., Hilton Garden Inn, 1975 Rahncliff Court, Eagan.

• Dec. 29, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Wescott Library, 1340 Wescott Road, Eagan.

• Dec. 29, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., Caribou Coffee, 3868 150th St., Rosemount.

• Dec. 29, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., Eagan Community Center, 1501 Central Parkway, Eagan.

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Obituaries

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Nancy Ada Evenson ( Sept. 9, 1941 - Dec. 6, 2018 )

Evenson, Nancy Ada (Ekberg), 77 of Apple Valley passed away peacefully surrounded by her family on December 6th, 2018.

Nancy loved Christmas so the timing of her death is appropriate for the season. She was known for her elaborate decorations and Christmas Village many pieces of which she had painted herself.

She prided herself in gardening and had many beautiful gardens, a skill she passed on to her daughter Melissa. She was also a collector with an extensive Snowbaby and angel collection. She had a love for animals, volunteered at the local hospital and you FRXOG ÂżQG KHU VWXIÂżQJ EXOOHWLQV DW FKXUFK RU UHFRYHULQJ the pews. A stubborn Swede, Nancy had a witty sense of humor and she always wanted to do things â&#x20AC;&#x153;her way or it was the highwayâ&#x20AC;?.

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Nancy was preceded in death by her beloved husband, James R. Evenson and parents Erik and Esther Ekberg.

Nancy is survived by her children, Jeffrey Evenson, Melissa (Terrence) Williams, and Rebecca (Christopher) Pedretti; Grandchildren Garrett, Ethan, Taryn, J.D., and Noah; siblings Linnea (Dennis) Friemann and Arne Ekberg; nephews Russell (Paula) Friemann, Curt (Jennifer) Friemann and niece Susan (David) Schaefer.

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Lee M. Anderson, age 82, of Burnsville, passed away suddenly on December 1, 2018.

Preceded in death by his parents and infant brother.

Survived by wife of 48 years, Sue (Tillmans) Anderson; son Philip (Liz) Anderson of St. Paul; daughter Nancy (Antonio Dirzo) Anderson of Burnsville; grandchildren Lucia, June, Anders, Ruby, and Melody; brother Orlando (Darlene) Anderson of Red Wing, sister Nancy (Joel) Wiberg of Minneapolis and many other relatives.

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They moved to Farmington, Minnesota in 1973, where Wanda resided the rest of her 5/3/36 - 12/19/14 life.

Wanda is survived by her husband John Prinsen; Goodbye is not forever. son Mark Prinsen; daughter Jill McRaith; sister Norma Goodbye is not the end. It DeHaan and 14 grandchildren. simply means we will miss She was preceded in death by her parents, Henry you, until we meet again. and Grace deBoer and sisters Arlene deBoer and Vesta Vincent.

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Theater and Arts To submit items for the Arts Calendar, email: darcy.odden@ecm-inc.com.

Comedy Louie Anderson, 6:30 and 9:30 p.m. Monday, Dec. 31, Ames Center, 12600 Nicollet Ave., Burnsville. Tickets: $32.95-$102.95 at the box office, 800-982-2787 and Ticketmaster.com.

Exhibits Norman Crouch, photographer, and Jim Keefe, cartoonist, exhibit runs through December at the Steeple Center gallery, 14375 S. Robert Trail, Rosemount. Information: rosemountarts.com. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Navigating Impossibleâ&#x20AC;? acrylic painting exhibit by Annie Young runs to Jan. 2, 2019, at the Lakeville Area Arts Center gallery, 20965 Holyoke Ave., Lakeville. Information: LakevilleAreaArtsCenter.com. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Best of Bonnie and Friends III,â&#x20AC;? a visual arts show led by Burnsville painter Bonnie Featherstone, runs through Jan. 30, 2019, in the gallery of Burnsvilleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Ames Center, 12600 Nicollet Ave. Information: ames-center.com.

Music ENCORE 2018: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Home,â&#x20AC;? presented by Eagan High School, 7 p.m. Dec. 13-15.

Tickets: $9 adults, $7 senior citizens, $5 students at seatyourself.biz/eaganhs, at the box office 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. school days and one hour prior to each performance. Information: 651683-6964.

BRAVO 2018: â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Forecast!â&#x20AC;? presented by Eastview High School, 7 p.m. Dec. 1315. Tickets: $9 adults, $7 senior citizens, $5 students at seatyourself.biz/evhs. Information: 952-431-8900.

BHS choir concerts, 6:30 and 8 p.m. Friday, Dec. 14, Burnsville High School. Information: 952-707-2100.

Rhythmic Circus: Holiday Shuffle, 7:30 p.m. Dec. 14-15, Ames Center, 12600 Nicollet Ave., Burnsville. Tickets: $45.50-$65.50 at the box office, 800-982-2787 or Ticketmaster.com.

Grand Symphonic Winds, 3-4:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 15, Steeple Center, 14375 S. Robert Trail, Rosemount. Free.

Information: grandsymphonicwinds.org.

Christmas with Cantus, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 15, Shepherd of the Valley Lutheran Church, 12650 Johnny Cake Ridge Road, Apple Valley.

Tickets: $10-$32 at www.cantussings.org or 612-435-0055.

An Andy & Bing Christmas featuring Mick Sterling, Ben Utecht and the Dakota Valley Symphony, 2 and 7 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 16, Ames Center, 12600 Nicollet Ave., Burnsville.

Tickets: $25-$40 at the box office, 800-982-2787 or Ticketmaster.com.

EVHS winter choral concerts, 6 and 8 p.m. Monday, Dec. 17, Eastview High School.

Free. Information: 952-4318900.

AVHS winter choir concert, 7 p.m. Monday, Dec. 17, Apple Valley High School. Information: 952-431-8200.

FHS vocal holiday concerts, 6 and 8 p.m. Monday, Dec. 17, Farmington High School. Information: 651-2522501.

LNHS holiday choir concerts, 6 and 8 p.m. Monday, Dec. 17, Lakeville North High School. Tickets: $5 adults, $3

senior citizens, free for students. Information: 952-2323600.

EHS winter jazz concert, 7 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 18, Eagan High School. Information: 651683-6900.

LNHS winter band concert, 7 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 18, Lakeville North High School.

Information: 952-232-3600.

Bluegrass Early Christmas with The Sawtooth Brothers, 7 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 20, The Well, a United Methodist Church, 14770 Canada Ave. W., Rosemount. Free admission.

LSHS Holiday Cabaret, 7 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 20, Lakeville South High School. Tickets: $5 adults, $3 students and senior citizens. Information: 952-232-3300.

An Unforgettable Nat King Cole Christmas starring Evan Tyrone Martin, 8 p.m. Friday, Dec. 21, Masquerade Dance Theater at Ames Center, 12600 Nicollet Ave., Burnsville. Tickets: $60 at the box office, 800982-2787 or Ticketmaster.com.

Jim Brickman: A Joyful Christmas, 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 27, Masquerade Dance Theater at Ames Center, 12600 Nicollet Ave., Burnsville.

Tickets: $40-$70 at the box office, 800-982-2787 or Ticketmaster.com.

Theater â&#x20AC;&#x153;Church Basement Ladies: You Smell Barn,â&#x20AC;? runs to Feb. 14 at the Black Box Theater at Ames Center, 12600 Nicollet Ave., Burnsville. Tickets: $32-$42 at the box office, 800-982-2787 or Ticketmaster. com. â&#x20AC;&#x153;A Christmas Carol Radio Play,â&#x20AC;? 7:30 p.m. Dec. 14-15 and 2 p.m. Dec. 16, Lakeville Area Arts Center, 20965 Holyoke Ave., Lakeville. Tickets: $15, $12 ages 60 and older at LakevilleAreaArtsCenter.com. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: The Musical,â&#x20AC;? 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 18, and 2 and 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 19, Masquerade Dance Theater at Ames Center, 12600 Nicollet Ave., Burnsville. Tickets: $38-$73 at the box office, 800-982-2787 or Ticketmaster. com. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Arsenic and Old Lace,â&#x20AC;? presented by Trinity School at River Ridge, 7:30 p.m.

Wednesday, Dec. 19, and 1 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 20, 601 River Ridge Parkway, Eagan.

Free admission. Information: trinityriverridge.org or 651-7892890.

Workshops/classes/other Loft Literary now offers writing classes in Rosemount. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Personal Writingâ&#x20AC;? with Peter Blau, 1-4 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2019, Rosemount Area Arts Council/Steeple Center, 14375 S. Robert Trail. Register: loft.org/classes.

Tinkergarten, a playbased, outdoor learning experience for children ages 18 months to 8 years and their parents, offers classes in Lakeville and Eagan. Information: https://tinkergarten.com.

Creative dance classes, ages toddler to 7, Ballet Royale Minnesota in Lakeville. Information: balletroyalemn.org or 952-898-3163.

Yoga wind down class is the first Thursday of the month at Precision and Flow Pilates, 13708 County Road 11, Burnsville. Information: www.precisionandflowpilates.com.

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‘Unforgettable’ Christmas Theater and Arts Briefs ‘Rudolph’ musical in Burnsville “Rudolph the RedNosed Reindeer: The Musical” performs Dec. 18-19 at Ames Center, 12600 Nicollet Ave., Burnsville.

See favorite characters from the television special including Santa and Mrs. Claus, Hermey the Elf, Bumble the Abominable Snow Monster, Clarice, Yukon Cornelius and, of course, Rudolph. It’s an adventure that teaches that what makes you different can be what makes you special.

Performances are 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 18, and 2 and 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 19. Tickets are Photo submitted $38-$73 at the box office, Artists Lounge Live presents “An Unforgettable Nat King Cole Christmas” starring by phone at 800-982-2787 Evan Tyrone Martin 8 p.m. Friday, Dec. 21, at Ames Center, 12600 Nicollet Ave., or online at Ticketmaster.

Burnsville. Actor and singer Martin intimately relates Cole’s personal journey com. while presenting a festive cocktail of hits including “L-O-V-E,” “Mona Lisa,” “The Christmas Song,” and “All I Want For Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth.” Tickets are Rhythmic Circus $60 at the box office, by phone at 800-982-2787 or online at Ticketmaster.com.

‘A Christmas Carol Radio Play’

presents ‘Holiday Shuffle’

Rhythmic Circus presents “Holiday Shuffle” 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Dec. 14-15, at Ames Center in Burnsville.

Four world-renowned hoofers and a swingin’ seven-piece band inject the signature Rhythmic Circus style of rapid-fire tap into upbeat holiday classics.

For over a decade, Rhythmic Circus has been an icon in the world of tap dance. The troupe has performed its productions in over 250 cities worldwide.

Tickets are $45.50 and $65.50 at the box office, by phone at 800-982-2787 or online at Ticketmaster. com.

Sibley New Year’s tea set Dec. 29

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“A Christmas Carol Radio Play” performances are 7:30 p.m. Friday, Dec. 14, and 2 and 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 15, at the Lakeville Area Arts Center, 20965 Holyoke Ave. The Charles Dickens holiday classic comes to life as a live 1940s radio broadcast, complete with vintage commercials for fruitcake, and the magic of live sound effects and musical underscoring. A handful of actors bring dozens of characters to the stage as this familiar story unfolds. Tickets are $15 ($12 for ages 60 and older) at the box office, by phone at 952-985-4640 or online at LakevilleAreaArtsCenter.com.

ARTS, from Previous Page with Dan Petrov Art Studio for six consecutive Thursdays, 4-7 p.m., 190 S. River Ridge Circle, Burnsville. Preregister by phone at 763-843-2734.

Drawing & Painting (adults and teens) with artist Christine Tierney, classes 9 a.m. to noon Tuesdays and 9 a.m. to noon Wednesdays, River Ridge Studios, 190 S. River Ridge Circle, Burnsville. Information: www.

christinetierney.com, 612-2103377.

Brushworks School of Art Burnsville offers fine art education through drawing and painting. Classes for adults and teens. Information: Patricia Schwartz, www.Brushworks SchoolofArt.com, 651-2144732.

The Lakeville Area Arts Center offers arts classes for all ages, www.lakevillemn.gov, 952-985-4640.

Rosemount History Book Club meets 6:30-8 p.m. the second Tuesday of each month at the Robert Trail Library. Information: John Loch, 952-2558545 or jjloch@charter.net.

SouthSide Writers, Saturday workgroup for aspiring writers, offering critique, submission and manuscript preparation information, support and direction, 10 a.m. to noon, Wescott Library, 1340 Wescott Road, Eagan. Information: 651-

The Dakota County Historical Society will host a Sibley New Year’s Tea 5:30-7:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 29, at the Sibley Historic Site’s DuPuis House.

Participants will celebrate the holidays by indulging in a royal tea consisting of a three-

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Dakota Speakers Toastmasters meets 6-7 p.m. Mondays at Apple Valley Ecumen Seasons Learning Center. Information: http://dakota.toast mastersclubs.org/.

Community Spirits Toastmasters meets 7 p.m. Tuesdays at Ebenezer Ridges Care Center, 13820 Community Drive, Burnsville. Information: h t t p s : / / 6 7 4 2 . t o a s t m a s t e rsclubs.org/.

course meal and a sample of champagne. Each meal will be paired with a variety of teas.

Throughout the event, visitors will be greeted by a re-enactor who will provide additional information on how the holidays were celebrated in the 1800s and explore the history of royal teas.

Admission is $40 per person, or $35 for members of the Dakota County Historical Society, Minnesota Historical Society, or Friends of the Sibley Historic Site.

The Sibley Historic Site is located at 1357 Sibley Memorial Highway in Mendota. Registration is limited. Contact the Sibley Site at 651-452-1596 to reserve a spot. For more information, or to reserve online, visit www.dakotahistory.org. Each admission for adults 21 or older comes with a champagne sample.

Basement Ladies in “Rise Up, O Men” will take the stage 1 p.m. Feb. 19-20, 2019, at the Masquerade Dance Theater at Ames Center, 12600 Nicollet Ave., Burnsville.

Tickets for the musical comedy are $32 at the box office, by phone at 800982-2787 and online at Ticketmaster.com.

PL Players hold auditions for ‘Seussical’

The Prior Lake Players will hold auditions for “Seussical the Musical” 6-8 p.m. Monday, Jan. 14, and Tuesday, Jan. 15, at Twin Oaks Middle School in Prior Lake.

Auditions will be on a first-come, first-served basis. Callbacks, as needed, will be Thursday, Jan. 17.

Rehearsals will be Monday, Tuesday and Thursday evenings with one possible Saturday after Presidents Day. ‘Rise Up, O Men’ Performances are 14-17 and 22-24. opens in February March More details are at plplayTroupe America’s pro- ers.org. duction of The Church

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To submit items for the • Wednesday, Dec. 19, 9-10 Business Calendar, email: dar- a.m., Meet the Chamber, Spire cy.odden@ecm-inc.com.

Credit Union, 1251 Town Centre Drive, Eagan. For new and Burnsville Chamber of Com- prospective members. Free. merce events: RSVP required. Information: Ni• Friday, Dec. 14, 3-4 p.m., cole McCarthy at nmccarthy@ ribbon cutting, Bright Birch dcrchamber.com.

Real Estate, 12550 W. Frontage Road, Suite 206, Burnsville. Lakeville Area Chamber of Free. Information: Tricia An- Commerce events: drews at tricia@burnsvillecham• Friday, Dec. 14, 3:30-4:30 ber.com. p.m., ribbon cutting (4 p.m.), Advanced Oral Surgery, 19925 IdeDakota County Regional alic Ave., Lakeville. Registration Chamber of Commerce required. Information: Shanen events: Corlett at 952-469-2020 or

shanen@lakevillechamber.org.

Business networking group events: • Leads to Referrals Chapter of BNI meets 7:30 a.m. Tuesdays at Vivo Kitchen, 15435 Founders Lane, Apple Valley. Information: Helen Peterson, 952412-0265.

• Sunrise Results meets Thursdays at 7:45 a.m. for networking and an 8-9 a.m. meeting at Vivo Kitchen, 15435 Founders Lane, Apple Valley. Information: Tom Van Delist, 612-325-7275.

Name change for real estate brokerage Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Lovejoy Realty announced a name change for its brokerage that better reflects its growing regional presence in Minnesota and western Wisconsin. The brokerage now operates as Berkshire

Hathaway HomeServices North Properties with aspirations to serve all of Minnesota and fortify its presence in Wisconsin.

“Our brokerage has come a long way since its start in 1991,” said Peggy Lovejoy, company founder and president. “With our sights set on growth and the ability to serve more clients throughout our region, it became time

to change our local-styled name for one with greater regional flexibility and appeal.”

North Properties, a full-service real estate company, operates 12 offices with more than 130 agents. Local offices are in Apple Valley, Lakeville and Savage. More information is at http://www. b h h s n o r t h p ro p e r t i e s. com/.

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