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Dakota County

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Farmington | Rosemount www.dakotacountytribune.com

NEWS Cooperation for more ice time?

and the surrounding areas Feb. 8, 2018 • Volume 132 • Number 49

Farmington dancers at Super Bowl High school dance team performed at the halftime show

The city of Rosemount is in discussions with the city of Inver Grove Heights for a cooperative ice time agreement. Page 3A

OPINION Addressing succession The appointment of former Lt. Gov. Tina Smith to the U.S. Senate has revealed cracks in the state’s succession plan. Page 4A

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Left: The Farmington dance team braves the cold outside U.S. Bank Stadium. The dancers performed with Justin Timberlake during the Super Bowl LII halftime show. Right: The dance team poses with their spoke director Mark Evans at U.S. Bank Stadium. by Jody Peters SUN THISWEEK DAKOTA COUNTY TRIBUNE

Baby tapir calf goes on display The Minnesota Zoo is ready to show visitors the new Malayan tapir calf that was born earlier this year. Page 15A

SPORTS

Regardless of how people felt about Justin Timberlake’s halftime performance last Sunday, it did have one special feature — Farmington dancers. Members of the Farmington dance team, including Aubrey Mohr, Abbey Egerstrom, Kamryn Stevenson, Belle Thompson and Lindsey Brugger, performed with Justin Timberlake during the Super Bowl halftime show.

It all started with a phone call head coach Madi Salisbury received in December. She was confused to see the call was coming from a New York phone number, but answered anyway. The caller asked if Salisbury was interested in having her team casted for the halftime show. Seizing the opportunity, Salisbury submitted a video of her dance team in action and soon afterward got the news that the team was casted.

The team’s first rehearsal was just two weeks before the Super Bowl and was kept quiet, Salisbury said. “That was a full day and it was really secretive. They wouldn’t tell us where we were going (or) how long we were necessarily going to be there,” Salisbury said. Before the first rehearsal, the team was given a video so they could go over the choreography on their own. However, the team had

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to get permission from the Minnesota State High School League to participate in the halftime show, because they practiced a lot on Sundays, Salisbury explained. Because the Super Bowl halftime show’s legal team only allows performers who are 16 and older, not all members of the dance team could participate. But Salisbury said they kept the entire team informed as a way to involve them. “That was really dif-

ficult to only have part of our team present. We really wish that it could have been our whole team that was given the opportunity, but we did discuss it as an entire program so everybody knew about it. So even though they weren’t casted, they still got to kind of know what was happening,” Salisbury said. While the dancers couldn’t tell their friends outside of the team what See DANCE, 7A

Lewis taken to hospital after train-truck crash 2nd District representative was evaluated for concussion, released by Tad Johnson

rector, said on the day of the crash that the first-year representative from the U.S. Rep. Jason Lewis 2nd District, that includes was treated and Dakota County, released from was evaluated for a hospital near a concussion, disC h a rl o t t e s v i l l e, charged and travVirginia, after the elled onto a reAmtrak train that treat that had been he was riding in as planned for Repuba passenger along lican lawmakers. with several other Jason Lewis “Rep. Lewis is GOP lawmakgrateful for the ers crashed into a care of the clinical truck Wednesday, Jan. 31. staff at the UVA Medical A passenger in the truck Center in Charlottesville,” died at the scene while the Bradford said at the time. other two occupants were “He looks forward to partreated and taken to an ticipating in the retreat as area hospital. much as he is able.” Stephen Bradford, According to the New Lewis’ communication diSee LEWIS, 7A SUN THISWEEK DAKOTA COUNTY TRIBUNE

Ready to achieve The Farmington girls hockey team (19-7) received the No. 1 seed as it seeks a second consecutive Section 1AA championship. Page 9A

PUBLIC NOTICE The Dakota County Tribune is an official newspaper of the Rosemount-Apple Valley-Eagan School District. Page 10A

The Rosemount High School marching band performed at the NFL Experience at the Minneapolis Convention Center on the day of Super Bowl 52 during what was billed as a Tailgate Party. The Convention Center was crowded on Sunday with fans who saw the band play in front of the Lombardi Trophy. The performance was broadcast on television, and many of the attendees who congratulated the band members after the show said they were not surprised to learn they were from Rosemount.

INDEX

Teacher read different book every day

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Jodi Hansen started ‘Book a Day’ program this year by Jody Peters SUN THISWEEK DAKOTA COUNTY TRIBUNE

Every morning at North Trail Elementary, Jodi Hansen’s students gather around a reading nook set up in the corner of her classroom. The 32 fifth-graders cram together, eagerly waiting to hear which story they’ll hear today. Ever since the 2017-18 school year started, Hansen has read a different book each day to her students. She got the idea after attending a conference this summer that featured teacher and author Donalyn Miller. Miller spoke about creating a safe environment for children from an emotional and social standpoint, which resonated

with Hansen when she saw the diversity on her class roster. “A little bit over a third (in my class) are either low income level, African American, Asian — just a variety of beautiful students. … I kind of went, ‘Wow, it’s like she’s speaking to me,’ ” Hansen said. After attending the conference, Hansen found a Facebook group called Classroom Book of the Day. The group is made up of teachers who can share book recommendations and bounce ideas off each other. She explained that she takes the class’s diversity into account when choosing books, because she wants all of her students to be motivated to read. “I want to make sure

that I am taking into consideration their uniqueness and their diversity and bring books to them that they’d be interested in,” Hansen said. Hansen also wants to build her students’ social and emotional skills, so she chose books like “Dream Big,” which tells the story of a young Michael Jordan, to teach empathy. Hansen said that every year, she tries to do something to change and grow professionally. So far her program is helping her reach that goal, and her students “absolutely love it.” Sometimes, if the stuPhoto by Jody Peters dents really enjoy a book, Jodi Hansen shows some of the books she’s read to her Hansen said they will ap- fifth-grade students this year. Every morning, Hansen reads a different book to her students as part of the See BOOKS, 7A “Book a Day” program.


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