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September 21, 2017 • Volume 132 • Number 30
Demands on police officers changing While calls for service, intensity of situations have increased in Farmington by Tad Johnson SUN THISWEEK DAKOTA COUNTY TRIBUNE
KIDSPO 2017 is Sept. 30 KIDSPO Kids & Family Expo returns to the Eagan Community Center on Saturday, Sept. 30. Page 8A
As a video rolls, an officer inside a Farmington police car pursuing a suspected drunken driver orders the driver to stop, but the suspect keeps a foot on the gas pedal. When it’s clear the suspect won’t cooperate, the officer executes a pit maneuver that spins the suspect car, which is then boxed in by two other
Farmington squad cars. “These guys are calm on the radio like they are talking about the football game. There is absolutely no air of excitement in their voice – very, very calm,� said Farmington Police Chief Brian Lindquist in reference to another incident involving a high-speed chase after a burglary. “These guys never crack a sweat and you don’t get to that point unless you are very skilled
at what you do and you spend a lot of time preparing for those things to happen.� Lindquist showed a short video to City Council members last month to illustrate the kind of work the police department has done in the past year. The video also included the arrest of a person disobeying simple commands to stop while walking away from a suspicious backpack and reviving an
unconscious suspect who had overdosed on opioids. “They are very professional. They are very calm. They are very skilled,� Lindquist said after the video was played. Most of the situations were very intense, with suspects resisting arrest as they spewed foul language toward the officers. Lindquist said a lot of bad things happen at night when people go to sleep. “I am doing my job and
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they are doing their job if you don’t know it’s ever happening,� Lindquist said. City Council members said they weren’t aware such incidents ever happened in Farmington. “It’s no different than any other community across the metro,� Lindquist said. The chief aimed to give those snapshots to See POLICE, 12A
Principal turns student
THISWEEKEND
Trainer leads and learns at School of Environmental Studies by Amy Mihelich SUN THISWEEK DAKOTA COUNTY TRIBUNE
School of Environmental Studies Principal Lauren Trainer wants to be a student. On Tuesday, she could be seen walking around c a m p u s Lauren in rubber Trainer boots, hoping to join the 11th graders in their first big project: a study of local ponds. This is Trainer’s first year in her new position, and she’s been trying to spend as much time as possible learning about SES’s unique culture and academics from students and staff. “To the extent that I’ve been able, I’ve been trying to be a student,� she said. “I’m trying really hard to learn and be exposed to the program.� Before coming to SES, Trainer spent five years working as a special education coordinator at Dakota Ridge School, a K-12 school in the RosemountApple Valley-Eagan dis-
Ramble Jam rocked again Ramble Jam, the twoday country music festival at the Dakota County Fairgrounds, was declared a success by organizers. Page 17A
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Headline two decks only Farmington ninthgrader Anna Fenske successfully defended her championship at the 52nd Applejack Invite in Lakeville. Page 12A
PUBLIC NOTICE The Dakota County Tribune is an official newspaper of the Rosemount-Apple Valley-Eagan School District. Page 12A
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The Rosemount High School marching band participated in an unjudged exhibition performance during its home Marching Band Festival on Saturday, while Farmington placed third in Class A among seven schools. The festival included three different classes of competition with Eden Prairie and Eastview finishing one, two in Class AAA and Brandon Valley and Grand Rapids as the top two teams in Class AA. The event serves as a major fundraiser for the Rosemount band, which will participate in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade this fall. More photos are inside and online at SunThisweek.com. Photos submitted by Bruce Maeda
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Relic of Rosemount modernizes Fluegel’s celebrates 90 years, new retail space by Andy Rogers SUN THISWEEK DAKOTA COUNTY TRIBUNE
The Fluegel family has fed many animals in the past century. Between their grain elevator, feed mill and now retail store, Fluegel’s Farm, Garden and Pets in Rosemount has touched the lives of countless animals and families in what is now the south metro. When the business first opened its doors, the area around it was anything but metro. Leo Fluegel founded the business in 1927 selling grain, feed and fuel for area farms, before his son Jerome Fluegel took charge for 40 years. A feed mill was
added, and in 1984 a 3,000-square-foot retail store was built. Fluegel’s Farm, Garden and Pets celebrated 90 years last weekend along with the grand opening of its new 12,000-square-foot retail space. “It’s fascinating to me that there’s still an active grain elevator in the heart of Rosemount,� said Wendy Wustenberg of Windswept Hill Farm in Empire Township. “It fits and the new store is a good fit, too, with the rest of downtown.� Wustenberg has been a customer for 27 years. She remembers about 15 years ago when they started to put gifts in the small retail store.
“Their roots were in agriculture, but they were watching the community, seeing it grow around them,� Wustenberg said. “Kim (Fluegel-Mohrhauser) had her finger on the pulse. They started offering a wide variety of gifts.� Fluegel-Mohrhauser remembers it well. “It evolved from being surrounded by farmland to now where we’re surrounded by houses, so the business had to change,� Fluegel-Mohrhauser said. It turned into one unique business. “There’s other grain elevators that have evolved Photo by Andy Rogers to add stores, but not to Fluegel’s Farm, Garden and Pet celebrated its 90th year and grand opening of its new retail store last weekend. See FLUEGEL’S, 7A
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