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Villager City takes steps in aquatic battle Funding targets zebra mussels

BY RICHARD CRAWFORD editor@chanvillager.com

A pr o g r a m de sig ned to prevent the spread of zebra WHAT’S YOUR VIEW mussels and other OF THE CITY’S PLAN aquatic nuisances TO FIGHT ZEBRA MUSSELS? is planned for three more Chanhassen www.chanvillager.com lakes this boating season.

Chanhassen city officials Feb. 27 unveiled a plan not to exceed $10,000 in city funding to help conduct boat inspections at Lake Ann, Lotus Lake and Lake Susan.

The lakes all have city-owned public accesses.

The program would pay for about 2,000 hours for inspectors to check boats and provide education at the three lakes from May 15 through September. The city also to plans to spend up to $20,000 for educational signage and new paved areas at the Lake Ann and Lake Susan public access sites.

The city is already pursuing grants through the state Department of Natural Resources to help support the program. The city also plans to collaborate with other potential partners — including local watershed districts and lake associations — to potentially obtain more funding and volunteer support.

Tom Devine, who lives near Lotus Lake, has been among residents who have lobbied the city to take a more active role in the fight against zebra mussels. Devine called Monday’s City Council “a turning point night” that shifts discussions from “us vs. them” to a more cooperative approach.

But not all residents think the city plan goes far enough to protect lakes.

Steve Donen, who has served as president of the Lotus Lake Clean Water Association, said the only proven method to keep zebra mussels out of the lake is with 100 percent inspections.

He said Lake Tahoe in California provides an example of a lake with an inspection program that has worked.

Donen said Chanhassen lakes are “one boat away from becoming infested.”

Last year, he said, residents conducted 980 inspections at Lotus Lake and learned that about 15 percent of the boats were coming from lakes that have already been infested with zebra mussels. Lake Minnetonka and Prior Lake have infestations.

According to the DNR, mussels can attach to boats, nets, docks, swim platforms, boat lifts, and can be moved on any of these objects. They also can attach to aquatic plants, making it critical to remove all aquatic vegetation before leaving a lake. Microscopic larvae may be carried in water contained in bait buckets, bilges or

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Jenna Wormuth celebrates a goal earlier this season with teammate Megan O’Brian (14). Chaska/Chanhassen will not be a part of the Missota Conference girls hockey schedule next year.

No more Missota celebrations for hockey program Storm Hawks bumped from conference

BY ERIC KRAUSHAR scores@swpub.com

After just two years of competition and one league title, Chaska/Chanhassen girls hockey’s relationship with the Missota Conference is over.

Chaska Assistant Principal/Activities Director Troy Stein requested approval

from the Missota Conference athletic directors in early February to continue with the merged program, but was denied by a 6-2 vote.

With Section 2AA approving the co-op by a 9-1 vote, Stein and Chanhassen Assistant Principal/Athletic Director Dick Ungar decided it was best to remain as one team for the 2012-13 season rather than split. The Minnesota State High School League has agreed to allow the co-op as an independent for next season.

Since joining the Missota Conference, the Storm Hawks have posted a 20-3-1

FOR AN IN-DEPTH REPORT ON THE STORM HAWKS PENDING DEPARTURE FROM THE MISSOTA CONFERENCE SEE PAGE A7 record in league play, including an 11-0-1 mark this season. The conference title was the program’s first since it was the Lake Conference champion in 2003.

Now, the two District 112 schools are looking at starting a new conference with seven metro-area high schools.

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Redistricting shuffle will add two state seats

BY RICHARD CRAWFORD editor@chanvillager.com

With the unveiling of new state legislative districts, politicians are already angling to fill two new seats coming to Carver County.

The city of Chanhassen is at the epicenter of the redistricting shuff le in Carver County, with the northwest portion of the city — bordered by Highway 41 on the west and Highway 5 on the south — being shifted into Senate District 33 and House District 33B. Current Republican state office holders, Rep. Joe Hoppe, of Chaska, Rep. Ernie Leider of Mayer, and Sen. Julianne Ortman, of Chanhassen, will be in Senate District 47 and House districts 47A and B. Republican Rep. Steve Smith of Mound said he plans to seek re-election in the

new House 33B district.

Smith is the most senior Republican in the House, having served for 22 years.

Republican Sen. Gen Olsen, of Minnetrista, who has served in the state Legislature since 1982, is not seeking re-election in the new Senate district.

However, two Republicans have already announced they will be vying to fill the Senate seat. They are current state Rep. Connie Doepke, of Orono, and David Osmek, a Republican state delegate and member of the Mound City Council.

Richard Donnay, DFL Party chair in the county, said no DFL candidates have officially announced plans for pursuing state seats.

The official filing period for state offices doesn’t open until May. As a result of the redistricting, local party officials are busy coming to

terms with the new districts and where delegates will need to go to participate in upcoming conventions. The new U.S. C on g r e s sion a l b ou nd a r ie s spl it t he county between U.S. District 3 (currently occupied by Republican Erik Paulsen) and U.S. District 6 (with incumbent Michele Bachmann). The new District 6 covers the western portion of Carver County.

The new districts will present a challenge for local party activists.

“It does complicate life immensely having Carver County carved up in so many different ways,” said Republican Party Chairman Steve Nielsen. “Sure it gives our county more representation that the population says we ought to have.”

DFL Chairman Donnay said he wasn’t pleased with the splitting of the state

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Tentative Agenda – Chanhassen Planning Commission Tuesday, March 6, 2012, 7:00 p.m.

City Council Chambers, 7700 Market Boulevard Call to Order

Anderson – Planning Case 2012-02

Public Hearings 1. PRIMROSE SCHOOL: Request for site plan approval for the construction of a daycare center on property zoned PUDMixed Use; and a Planned Unit Development Amendment to the standards governing the development. Applicant: Kraus-

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Approval of Minutes 2. Approval of Planning Commission Minutes dated February 7, 2012.

3. Approval of Planning Commission Work Session Minutes dated February 21, 2012.

What was your favorite childhood book, and why? What book character can’t you get out of your head, decades later?

And, what are today’s favorite books for your children or grandchildren?

We’re looking for readers to tell us about the best children’s book they ever read – whether that was last week or 50 years ago.

Send your story about a favorite children’s book (200 words or less, please) to Editor Richard Crawford, editor@ chanvillager.com, before noon on Friday, March 2. Include your name, city of residence, and a daytime phone number.

We’ll run some submissions online at chanvillager.com and some in the March 8 Villager print edition.

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The PROP Shop in Eden Prairie has found another way to market and sell some of the donated items it receives from the community.

In early February the shop added an online store to its website. Volunteer Jody Russell came up with the concept and

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any other water moved from an infested lake or river. Once infesting lakes, zebra mussels can take over an ecosystem and harm fishing and cause problems for swimmers. The zebra mussel shells are sharp and can cause infections.

The plan outlined by the city doesn’t include 100 percent inspections. Inspectors, who p ot ent i a l ly wou ld b e employees contracted by the city and trained by DNR staff, would conduct inspections primarily on weekends and

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Even though Donen wasn’t convinced the plan goes far enough, city councilors agreed that protecting the lakes was “good environmental stewardship,” according to Councilor Denny Laufenburger.

Laufenburger said, however, there may be no way to guarantee zebra mussels don’t get into local lakes unless access is shut off.

The funding for the project is expected to come from the city’s stormwater management fund. City Manager

Todd Gerhardt said the budget could “absorb” the amount and councilors asked for more information about what, if any, programs would be affected by the expense.

The program is also contingent on receiving the DNR grant money, which is expected to be confirmed in the next month.

The city now joins Carver County as one of the first local units of government to pay for the fight against zebra mussels. The county has planned an inspection program at Lake Minnewashta this summer at the county’s public access in Lake Minnewashta Park.

The city plans to review the program at the end of this boating season and determine whether a city-backed program would continue in the future. ”All we can do is the best we can with what we know,” said Councilor Bethany Tjornhom. “I think we’re doing the right thing by stepping up and trying to be a leader.”

Tjornhom said she’s seen estimates that it would cost the DNR $600 million to conduct inspections at lakes statewide. ”We know that’s not going to happen,” she said.

to preserve communities of interest,” Donnay said. “It’s annoying and a frustrating thing to deal with.”

Representatives from both parties didn’t think the re-

districting would have a signi f icant ef fect on whet her districts would tilt one way or another politically. “ I d o n’t t h i n k t h e n ew (state) districts change the

math a whole lot,” said Sean Olsen, a left-leaning Chaska resident. “For a Democrat to be competitive, it will take a well organized candidate.”

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The Smith kids of Chanhassen used their snow day Wednesday to shovel their driveway on Frontier Drive. No one had to twist their arms. They just moved to Chanhassen from Florida, and relished their fi rst real Minnesota snowfall.

The National Weather Service reported 3.9 inches of snow by noon Wednesday.

From left, Grant Smith, who attends Chanhassen High School, Kailee who attends Pioneer Ridge, and just out of frame, sledding is Jackson, who attends Chanhassen Elementary. See more snow day photos at www.chanvillager.com.

NEWS BRIEFS

District 112 has received the Association of School Business Officials International’s (ASBO) Certificate of Excellence in Finan-cial Reporting Award for last fiscal year.

“This award represents a very significant achievement and reflects the district’s commitment to the highest standards of school system financial reporting ... The Certificate of Excellence (COE) award confirms the school Business Office’s commitment to fi-nancial accountability and transparency,” states a District 112 press release.

This is the first year that Eastern Carver County Schools has participated in the program.

Recognition through the COE program can help strengthen a district’s presentation for bond issuance statements and promotes a high level of financial reporting, the release stated.

The district was recognized for its Comprehensive Annual Financial Report for the fiscal year ending 2011. (Finance documents can be found on the district’s Finance & Operations webpage.)

The Association of School Business Officials International is a professional association of more than 5,000 members that provides programs and services to promote high standards of school business management.

For more information on the COE award, visit www.asbointl. org/COE.

App for local bus schedules Now available in the Apple Store, “SouthWest Transit Schedule Information” provides up-to-date route information and real-time arrival information for SouthWest Transit riders.

Last fall a University of Minnesota student approached SouthWest Transit with a proposal for a phone app, according to a SouthWest press release.

Now SWT riders can access the most current schedule information at any time. When time changes are made on www. swtransit.org, the app will immediately notify the rider that new schedules are available and ready for download.

The app also makes it easy for riders to save and check the scheduled times of their most commonly ridden routes through the app’s “favorites” feature. Real-time bus arrival information is available using the capabilities of the NexTrip system. Riders will know when their bus is going to reach a stop and can be ready to board, the release stated.

A SW T app for A nd roid phones is currently in development. Its expected release date is June 2012.

SouthWest Transit (swtransit.org) provides transit services to the residents of Chaska, Chanhassen and Eden Prairie as well as riders from other surrounding cities.

SouthWest Transit has four main Park & Ride lots: SouthWest Station at 13500 Technology Drive in Eden Prairie; Chanhassen Transit Station just south of the Chanhassen Dinner Theatre in Chanhas-

sen; SouthWest Village at the intersection of Highway 212 and County Road 101 in Chanhassen; and East Creek Station at the intersection of Highway 212 and Highway 41 in Chaska.

Other information, including additional Park & Ride facilities, route maps and schedules, is available at www.swtransit. org or (952) 949-2287.

Grow Minnesota! program honored Grow Minnesota! is a winner in the inaugural Progress Minnesota awards sponsored

by Finance & Commerce. The subsidiary program of the Minnesota Chamber is conducted with 57 local partners statewide, including the SouthWest Metro Chamber of Commerce. The private-sector initiative is in its ninth year and focuses on business retention and job creation.

The award recognizes individuals, companies and associations that are driving business and industrial growth and development in the Twin Cities and Minnesota. Grow Minnesota! and other Progress Minnesota winners will be formally recognized April 11.

“We share this award with our 57 local partners across the state,” said Bill Blazar, senior vice president of public affairs and business development at the Minnesota Chamber. “They are at the foundation of our successes.”

More than 400 business volunteers assisted staff at local chambers of commerce and private-sector economic development or-ganizations in conducting nearly 1,000 one-on-one conversations with owners or top management of companies as part of Grow Minnesota! year Grow Minnesota! provided oneon-one assistance to 122 firms that resulted in protecting 4,900 jobs, according to a SouthWest chamber press release.

“The Minnesota Chamber truly has a two-pronged strategy for building the state’s economy,” Blazar said. “We’re still working to strengthen the statewide business climate.”

If your business would like a Grow Minnesota! visit, contact Deb McMillan of the SouthWest Metro Chamber of Commerce at (952) 474-3233.

Mild winter, few fire calls Chanhassen has been experiencing a record lull in fire calls, according to Chanhassen Fire Chief John Wolff.

In a monthly update to the Chanhassen City Council Feb. 27, Wolff said calls are down 40 percent at the start of the year.

“I’ve never seen this sort of lull,” he said.

Wolff attributed the down time, in part, to the mild winter.

He said he expects ice out to come earlier and the lack of precipitation this winter to contribute to a busy wild fire season this year.

Goodwill store gets approval A new Goodwill store at 80 West 78th Street, the current Chanhassen Office Complex, received unanimous approval from the Chanhassen City

Council Feb. 27.

The proposal calls for removing the existing office building and replacing it with a 20,600-squarefoot-retail facility. A drive-through donation center will accept items such as clothing, furniture and toys and the items will be resold at the Goodwill store. Donations to Goodwill are tax-deductible.

The mission of Goodwill, according to Lisa Ritter, director of marketing, is to assist people with barriers to education, employ-ment and independence in achieving their goals. Goodwill is a non-profit that helps people prepare, train and obtain employment.

Chanhassen-based Center Companies will be the developer and owner of the new building. Donations to Goodwill are tax-deductible, Ritter said.

County supports security legislation Carver County commissioners are supporting proposed state legislation that would allow a court security fee to be added to criminal and civil cases.

The fees would be used to pay for security improvements at the Carver County Government Center in Chaska.

While Carver County has made a variety of security improvements to its facilities over the past several years, there are a number of significant changes that are still required, according to a memo from County Administrator David Hemze. A major concern related to these improvements is the lack of funding allocated toward either capital upgrades or ongoing operational expenses.

That proposed legislation proposes a fee not-to-exceed $15 is added in criminal and civil manners at the discretion of the County Board. The estimated annual revenue from this fee for Caver County would be $123,000.

Courthouse security has received increased attention throughout the state in the wake of a December shooting at the Cook County Courthouse in Grand Marais. In that incident a prosecutor was critically wounded.

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Sheriff OT costs cut 23 percent According to an update from Carver County Sheriff’s Lt. Jeff Enevold, overtime hours in Chanhassen were cut 23 percent in Chanhassen in 2011.

Enevold highlighted some annual crime statistics for the Chanhassen City Council on Feb. 27.

In general, he said Chanhassen remains a safe community.

He noted, however, that thefts were up in the city in 2011 while bur-glaries were down, compared to 2010. Many of the thefts remain crimes of opportunity and he said the Sheriff’s Office plans to con-tinue efforts to educate the public not to become victims of crime.

DUI arrests were also up 122 percent, he said. Enevold said taking intoxicated drivers off the street was “good news.”

City councilors asked for additional information regarding how Chanhassen crime statistics compare relative to surrounding communities.

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Putting a thumb in the debate I’m a pastor. But there are days when I wonder whether I belong in the Christian Church, whether I’m really a Christian. Ever wonder that about yourself? Or have you left the church as a matter of dissent, embarrassment, or protest?

Take the last two weeks. President Obama shares his faith at a National Prayer Breakfast. He declares that we are “our brother’s keeper.” I feel proud. The comments on CNN run heavily against him. Ayn Rand’s “the virtue of selfishness” — not the story of Cain and Abel or the teaching of Jesus — has won the hearts of the people.

Rick Santorum tells an Ohio audience that Obama’s agenda is based on “some phony theology, not a theology based on the Bible.” I feel sad ... and angry.

I read the story about the church court case of the Rev. Jane Spahr, a lesbian Presbyterian minister rebuked for officiating at same-gender marriages, one of them the wedding of Lisa Bove. Lisa was an ordained student elder at the church I served at The College of Wooster. She went on to seminary and was ordained a Minister of Word and Sacrament. I feel proud of Janie and Lisa, their tenacity, their courage, their strong and gentle spirits, their deep faith. I feel sad that the church still doesn’t get it.

I’m embarrassed by how ridiculous the church debate is and how absurd this church family feud looks to the world. I want to withdraw, pull the covers over my head, go to sleep, take a sedative maybe. But I’m also angry.

I want to fight. I want to weigh in on the debate. Yet to do so will only continue the polarization, the disrespect for others, the tendency on all sides of a church argument to proclaim with Little Jack Horner, “What a good boy am I!” If I stick my thumb in the pie, I’ll just continue the ludicrous display of Christian arrogance. What to do? To keep silence feels like abdication of conscience. To speak adds my voice to the appearance of the church’s absurdity. But I’m a big fan of the Theater of the Absurd and Albert Camus, as well as Jesus.

I decide to stick my thumb in the story. My comment is the first thumb in a hot pie: “I know Jane Spahr and Lisa Bove as colleagues and love them both. Lisa was a student leader at the Westminster Presbyterian Church at The College of Wooster where I served as Pastor. Jane is that rare minister of the gospel who has managed to remain gentle and bold, acting in conscience and ecclesiastical disobedience without becoming hard or cynical. Lisa is the same.

“When you’ve been working for GLBT full inclusion as long as Jane and Lisa, that’s a testimony to their soulfulness. For Jane, Lisa, and so many of us, the Bible calls disciples of Jesus to live in love and to be advocates for justice. The Presbyterian

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Church (USA) last year restored an older principle of church order that removes the restriction against ordaining GLBT members.

“The issue of marriage remains contentious in the church, as it is in the society as a whole. Some pastors have declared that until church and civil law permit them to officiate at same-sex marriages, they will not marry anyone as a witness to justice.

Jane and Lisa are sweet, sweet spirits whose lives bear witness to justice, love and peace, working from that inner light of courage, conscience and consolation that keeps them sane and strong.”

Three replies come quickly: 1) “You are a faithful and honest servant of God. It has taken a long time, but every year there are more like you.” (i.e., “What a good boy am I! Good boy!”); and 2) “Pastors should know and preach the truth of God’s word. Please read: 1 Tim: 3:1-7 and Titus 1: 5-9 When folks go against the truth of God’s word, then they are following deceit and you should know who the great deceiver is.” (“Bad boy! Bad boy!”)

3) “Let’s hope this church sees the light and retracts the rebuke. And perhaps even apologizes.”

Then this morning a classmate sends me this story about an apology: “Christian Group Shows Up to Chicago Gay Pride Holding Apologetic Signs.”

I wish I’d been there to hold one of these signs.

I’ve experienced the forgiving hugs of gay and lesbian church members like the guy in the underwear. And when I write a comment or a commentary like this one, I hear a little voice inside myself: “Good boy! Good boy!”

Then, as soon as I feel the relief, I know I’ve fallen into the very selfrighteousness I despise in others.

“Bad boy! Bad boy!” and I’m back where I started: “God help us ALL!” The Rev. Gordon Stewart is pastor of Shepherd of the Hill Presbyterian Church, 145 Engler Boulevard in Chaska; and host of the First Tuesday Dialogues. Stewart’s guest commentaries air frequently on “All Things Considered” (MPR 91.1 FM) and his perspectives are published by the Chaska Herald, Presbyterian Outlook, MinnPost.com and MPR. His “Views from the Edge” blog can be found at http://gordoncstewart.com.”

LETTERS

Another surprise for local soldier As grandparents of Kelly Collins, we want to thank you ever so much for your help in making her homecoming from Afghanistan a memorable event.

Her boyfriend was also home on leave from Afghanistan, and at Toby Keith’s restaurant after the music stopped, on bended knee on the dance floor, he flipped open a small box, and proposed.

A gala event to say the least. Happiness all around.

She left for an air base in Afghanistan on Saturday, Feb. 18, 2012, and will be there until her one-year deployment is satisfied. Whereupon she then returns to Fort Hood, Texas, her home base. Her eventual goal is to be a civilian air traffic control operator, when she departs from the service, which she is currently doing in the military. Thank you again for your kindness.

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Kelly Collins is pictured with her grandparents, Dave and Priscilla Cassin of Edina, after she surprised her father with the news that she was home on leave from Afghanistan.

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LETTERS

What’s wrong with the picture?

At the Feb. 12 Chanhassen City Council Meeting, as reported in the Villager, Councilor Vicki Ernst made three simple motions to direct that the windfall of $625,000 received from Mediacom be directed in one of three ways.

First motion: I move that we return the $625,000 received from Mediacom to Mediacom and direct they refund it to the customers that paid the fees through a credit to their bill.

The motion died due to the lack of a second from the mayor or the other councilors.

Ernst then made a second motion: I move that the $625,000 received from Mediacom be refunded to the resident taxpayers as a credit on their property tax bill. This motion also died due to the lack of a second. Councilor Ernst then made a third motion: I move that the $625,000 received from Mediacom be used to reduce next year’s property tax bills and not to fund new spending.

This mo-tion likewise died due to the lack of a second.

I would say it is pretty obvious that there is only one city councilor working for the best interests of the citizens of Chanhassen. Help me in applauding Councilor Vicki Ernst, and say shame on you to Mayor Tom Furlong, Councilors Bethany Tjornhom, Jerry McDonald and Denny Laufenburger.

These are the same four people that effectively vote 99.9 percent of the time for whatever the staff recommends, including hiding the $625,000 windfall from Mediacom that we paid so they can use it for their own purposes.

These are also the same four people that all showed up in fine fashion to the Chanhassen Republican caucus extolling their con-servative virtues as friends of the taxpayers. Get the picture? More appropriately what is wrong with this picture?

Mark Senn Chanhassen

Do something before it’s too late I am writing in response to the letter writer that stated that we do not have a voter fraud issue (“We do not have a voter fraud is-sue,” Feb. 16).

He states it as if the information in his letter is fact, when in reality; it is at best only assumptions on his part!

Assumption No. 1: The fact is there is no way he can “know” that we do not have a voter fraud problem anymore than I can “know” there is a problem.

There is one thing we all should know and that is we have somewhere between 12 million and 20 million illegal residents and many millions more of legal non-citizen residents in the U.S. and that number continues to grow.

I am sure that no U.S. citizen wants non-citizens voting and deciding who our elected representatives are at any level of govern-ment, local, state or federal.

Yes, we do want and need to keep the “wrong” voters out of the process as he states, but it is the non-citizens we want kept out, not the citizens that he listed.

It was not long ago that we heard

nothing about identity theft, and now almost every news report has a story about it? Now the federal government and most states are trying to catch up with legislation and laws to combat that issue. Why not get ahead of this voter fraud issue instead of waiting until it is too late. Why should we wait until we have such a massive voter fraud problem that even those on the left can recognize it?

Assumption No. 2: He believes the poor won’t be able to vote because they won’t invest money in a photo I.D. Lack of money will not be an issue for the poor, since the current proposed bill in Minnesota would provide “free” voter identification to those that can prove their citizenship.

Assumption No. 3: Apparently he believes that all of the people he categorizes as poor, elderly and young will be “overwhelmed by the process of getting another I.D. card” and those three groups also only vote for the Democrats. I belong to one of those groups and know many people in all three, and I can tell you for sure they do not all vote Democratic. Plus, I think very few things can “overwhelm” the young people of today.

As for the poor and elderly, if they do not have a photo I.D.,I would think that the same friends, family or organizations that get them to the polls would be able to assist them in obtaining their I.D. Think about this: We didn’t used to have a gang problem, now we do. We didn’t used to have a drug problem, now we do. Let us do something now about this voter fraud issue in the state of Minnesota before it gets so out of control that the left can finally see it but it is too late to fix the problem!

Robert Hoyt Chaska

Bills would restrict rights of citizens I appreciate that Sen. Ortman took the time to write to her constituents in defense of vetoed legislation that she co-sponsored (“Reform would offer more affordable judicial system,” in this edition).

This type of communication is valuable and essential between legislators and constituents. Unfortunately, she did leave out a few important details.

The four bills that Sen. Ortman and her fellow Republicans sent to Gov. Dayton are actually bills pulled directly from a manual produced by a national organization that is funded

by America’s largest corporations.

The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) is a highly secretive corporate front group that works to pass corporate-friendly bills in state legislatures. The bottom line is that these bills would have restricted the rights of citizens and made it harder to hold big corporations responsible — great for big business but bad for you and me.

My expectation for our legislature is that they will write their own bills based upon the actual needs of Minnesotans. I would suggest some real attempts to put Minnesotans back to work, invest in the future of our state and to strengthen rather than destroy the middle class.

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Would banks use the honor system?

No ID equals no integrity!

Minnesotans have been for many years been relying on the honor system at polling places, and our elections have sorely lacked integrity.

It’s an absolute fact that the state of Minnesota has no way to confirm the identities of many thousands of its voters, including “vouched for” voters and those who have only a utility bill to prove residency.

In fact, Minnesota Sen. Warren Limmer said last year that 23,000 Election Day registration postcards were “returned to sender” in 2008, a year when Democrat Al Franken somehow overcame Norm Coleman’s Election Night lead and won Minnesota’s U.S. Sen-ate seat by just 312 votes.

In a letter to the editor, Robert Perschmann of Chaska said that the photo ID issue in Minnesota is a “big fat lie” (We do not have a voter fraud issue,” Feb. 16). In fact, continuing with the current honor system at Minnesota polling places would be every bit as absurd as it would be to rely on the honor system at our banks. Mr. Perschmann, would you save at a bank that relies on the good will of all customers just because a handful of persons may be challenged by having to verify their ID? Would it be OK with you if IDchallenged customers just leave a note to let your banker know what they’ve deposited and withdrawn?

Don’t ask us to continue to settle for election results that can’t be verified!

The people we elect make decisions that profoundly af-fect all of us every day and the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled already that Indiana’s Photo ID requirement is constitutional.

Democrats, fighting desperately to maintain the current system that enables massive fraud, won’t tell you that any proposed Minnesota photo ID ballot question will ensure that everyone can vote on Election Day, but only once. Those without proper ID would vote provisionally, their ballots to be counted (if an election is close) when their ID is verified.

Integrity and fairness problems both solved!

Vince Beaudette Victoria

Against funding transit project Recently, Gov. Mark Dayton asked the Legislature to approve $25 million in funding for the Southwest Corridor Light Rail pro-ject as part of his request to improve the transportation infrastructure in Minnesota.

However, when the project is said and done the estimated cost would be $125 million — which means an additional $95 million would need to be approved during the 2013 legisla-tive session.

Many more millions of dollars would be needed to complete the project.

I like trains, they seem more sleek and sophisticated than buses. Eastern U.S. cities and Europe have trains.

Having said that, I am against the proposed light rail line for the southwest metro area. We already have a great transit system in place in our area.

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A more affordable judicial system G ov. Day ton put his po litical agenda ahead of the best interests of Minnesota by vetoing lawsuit reform bills that passed both the Senate and the House with bipartisan support. These common sense refor m s wou ld h ave m ade our courts more accessible and affordable for all Minnesotans: individuals, families and businesses, plaintiffs and defendants alike.

As all who have ever been in Minnesota’s justice system know, our courts are busy, over-burdened, and the time to trial is lengthy. The reforms were designed to provide more cost- ef fective resolution of disputes.

Conciliation Court is the fastest court in Minnesota; it is an informal venue where litigants can seek quick and inexpensive review of disputes of less than $ 7,500. Neither party is required to have an attorney, which makes the process cost-effective. Examiners review and assess evidence, and issue non-binding decisions (either party can take the matter to the District Court if not satisfied).

The governor vetoed a proposal to raise the limit for disputes to $10,000, which would allow more cases to be heard in Conciliation Court. This is about equal access to justice as many Minnesotans cannot afford to bring their disputes to the District Court.

Minnesota’s statutes of limitation (the deadline for filing a lawsuit), varies depending on

Julianne

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the type of case. Our state’s default statute of limitation is six years, unless it is otherwise specified by the law.

Minnesota is one of only three states with a six-year default statute; the national average is only three years. The governor vetoed our proposal for a four-year default, which would shorten the length of time in many cases. Courts often hear cases filed on the last day of the six-year period and these cases can then require an additional two years to even reach trial.

It is in all our best interests to ensure that parties in our courts do not bear overly burdensome or unnecessary legal costs. For businesses, as for individuals, there’s a price to be paid for spending that much time engaged in litigation.

For ou r cou r ts (a nd t he taxpayers that fund them) it means a heavier caseload when lawyers can file lawsuits here when other states have decided that the claims and the evidence are probably too old

to be fairly adjudicated.

Our six-year statute was adopted at statehood, when the pony express delivered mail, it took weeks to travel to interview witnesses, and lawyers hired clerks to prepare handwritten copies of court documents. This is one way to reduce the cost of doing business in Minnesota. The governor shouldn’t take issue with our attempts to bring Minnesota’s courts in to the 21st century.

Gov. Day ton also vetoed ou r bi l l aut hori zi ng ea rly review by Minnesota’s appellate courts to conduct an early review of a district court’s decision to certify a few named plaintiffs to advance a class action lawsuit (ginormous litigation on behalf of hundreds or thousands of plaintiffs).

Now our appellate court may only review the decision after the lawsuit has concluded, which in most cases is too late. These are the complex questions appel late cou r ts are designed to review, and early review would provide the parties an assessment of the merits of the claims, and assessment of risk and liability — which often leads to an earlier settlement, and lower costs to consumers.

Finally, Gov. Dayton vetoed t he bi l l to tie Mi nnesota’s pre -judg ment interest rate to t he U.S. T reasu r y R ate (with a floor of 4 percent as a minimum). Legislation from 2009 set the interest rate at 10 percent! This can be a perverse

incentive to invest in litigation, because the 10 percent return on investment is way better than any rate in the marketplace.

In 2010 Minnesota’s schools, cities and counties complained that the pre-judgment interest produced too big a strain on their budgets; they lobbied for and received an excep tion (now they pay only the Treasury Rate or the 4 percent minimum). Clearly the same is true in the private sector, and the same rate should be applied to them. Claimants in court should earn a reasonable amount of interest, but 10 percent goes too far in today’s economy.

Minnesotans deserve swift justice, and the ability to reach fair resolution of their disputes wit hi n a reasonable amount of time and expense.

The House and Senate passed these reforms with bipartisan support. Sixty-two thousand employers and individuals across Minnesota formed a coalition to support these proposals and asked the governor for support.

By vetoing the bills he denied the reasonable requests of the residents he was elected to serve, and has denied us all a more accessible and affordable judicial system.

Julianne Ortman (RChanhassen) represents District 34, which encompasses Carver County, in the Minnesota Senate. She is deputy majority leader and chair of the Senate Taxes Committee.

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In March we get to watch as four planets group into two pairs. Three of the planets are in the sky and one is right under our feet.

Mars reaches opposition on the 3rd, the day Earth passes it and it appears directly opposite the sun. The Red Planet will be up all night, burning its ruddy fire below the belly of Leo, the lion. The bright star west of Mars is Regulus, the brightest in Leo. On the 5th, Mars will sweep closest to Earth and shine at maximum brightness for this visit. If it seems strange that our two worlds make their closest approach after Earth has lapped Mars, remember that both orbits are noncircular, with points of perihelion and aphelion when the planets are nearest and farthest, respectively, from the sun. Earth is heading out toward aphelion while Mars, having passed its aphelion in February, is now closing in. These motions continue to bring our two planets closer until two days after Earth has left the Red Planet behind.

Unfortunately, being so near aphelion means Mars won’t come nearly as close as it did

in 2003, when its opposition and perihelion fell only two days apart. This time it will be about 63 million miles away, compared to only 35 million miles in 2003.

Also in Mars news, recent data from the European Space Agency’s Mars Express probe suggests that a large ocean once covered the planet’s northern plains. The probe’s radar picked up evidence of marinelike sediments in locations already suspected to have been ancient shorelines. Researchers speculate that the ocean enjoyed a rather brief life some 3 billion years ago.

The second planetary pairing happens on the 13th, when Jupiter drops past Venus on its way down into the sun’s afterglow. The king and queen of planets come within three degrees of each other, then separate as Jupiter continues its freefall.

On the 25th, a thin crescent moon comes out close to Jupiter. The next night, a slightly fatter lunar crescent appears next to Venus, just as the brilliant planet reaches its highest point before beginning a dramatic fall. With the Pleiades star cluster hovering just a few degrees above Venus, this is a night to grab your binoculars.

Saturn is well up in the east packs about 60 percent of the by midnight all month. Just sun’s mass into an orb smaller southwest of the ringed planet than Earth. Procyon isn’t esis its companion, the bright pecially bright; it just looks star Spica in Virgo. Above and t hat way because it ’s on ly left of the pair about 11.5 is A rctu r us, l i g ht-ye a r s the brightest from Earth. star in Bootes, Procyon whi le Ma rs forms one shines high p oi nt of t he to their upper Wi nt e r T r i right. angle of A lgonquin stars. The tribes called other points the full moon Deane Morrison are Sirius — of March the below Procywor m moon, on a nd on ly for the casts of earthworms 9 light-years away — and the that now begin to appear on the gigantic red star Betelgeuse, softening earth. In more north- which forms Orion’s northeast erly areas, it was known as the shoulder and burns brightly crow moon, for the cawing of despite being some 600 lightthese feisty birds, or the crust years away. moon, because during this seaSpri ng a r rives wit h t he son snow acquires a crust from vernal equinox at 12:14 a.m. cycles of melting and refreez- on the 20th. At that moment ing. This year it rises the night the sun crosses over the equaof the 7th and reaches perfect tor into the northern sky and fullness at 3:39 a.m. on the 8th. the Earth — the other side of High in the south during it, of course — will be lighted the evening is Procyon, the from pole to pole. brightest star in Canis Minor, Deane Morrison, with the the smaller of Orion’s hunting University of Minnesota, can dogs. Procyon is actually a be contacted at morri029 @ double star consisting of a star umn.edu. Find U of M astronotwice as wide as the sun and mers and links to the world nearly seven times as bright of astronomy at www.astro. and a white dwarf star that umn.edu.

“Researchers speculate that the ocean enjoyed a rather brief life some 3 billion years ago.”

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Growing program feeds growing need

BY TOM REDMAN

On Feb. 18 the Bountiful Basket Food Shelf of Eastern Carver County moved to its new location at 1600 Bavaria Road in Chaska.

Thanks goes out to the many individuals, young and old alike, that helped with the morning move. A special note of appreciation to Cooper’s, Appliance Service and the Chaska Public Works Department for their assistance with the move.

The Bountiful Basket Food Shelf serves individuals and families who are in need of food assistance from the communities of Carver, Chanhassen, Chaska, Victoria and adjacent townships. The food shelf is 100 percent volunteer managed and operated and has been in operation since 2007. At the present time over 60 individuals give freely of their time to assist in helping customers.

It seems appropriate that the food shelf move to its permanent home coincided with the start of a new Lenten season.

All food shelves are dependent

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A well-run efficient system that can do right now what the rail system is proposed to do — while not costing taxpayers huge sums of money.

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on the caring and giving nature of individuals, churches, businesses, and organizations who believe that any measurement of our communities success is predicated in part on what we do to help our neighbors and friends who are in need.

In January of 2012 over 26,000 pounds of food was distributed to over 1,200 individuals. On the first day of operation at the new site over 30 families were assisted with 11 being first time visitors. The need is there and it is not lessening.

Minnesota Food Share facts show that in 2010 that there were more than three million visits to Minnesota food shelves. There are many measures that reflect the impact of hunger and poverty in the state of Minnesota.

From 2008 to 2012, visits to food shelves increased by 62 percent statewide and 39 percent of these visits were for children under 18 and 9 percent for the elderly.

Minnesota Food Share is a program of the Greater Min-

neapolis Council of Churches and it has conducted its food drive in March of each year for almost three decades. In 2010 the campaign raised 4.6 million pounds of food and $7.4 million with 100 percent of the cash going to purchase at Minnesota food shelves.

T he Bou nti fu l Basket is encouraging area churches, corporations and organizations to be a part of this year’s c a mpa i g n. T he mor e fo o d and cash generated locally the more it will increase the a mou nt of c ash sha red by Minnesota Food Share with Bountiful Basket.

Typically, food shelves can make a dollar stretch further than any individual dollar at a food store. If your business or group would like to be a part of this year’s Minnesota Food Share effort as it will benefit the Bountiful Basket please call (952) 556-0244 or simply drop off food at the site or checks made payable to “Bountiful Basket.”

As the Bountiful Basket moves forward in 2012 we are

operating budget was $8 million. They operate 60 buses with express service to downtown Minneapolis, the University of Minnesota, and Southdale Mall.

Southwest Transit experienced double digit ridership growth from 2004-2009 and provides over 1 million rides each year.

They also have the highest

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Thank you for caring.

Tom Redman is chairman of the Bountiful Basket Food Shelf Board. ment for Minnesota. We already have a fan-tastic transit service in place in the southwest metropolitan area with Southwest Transit, and spending north of a billion dollars on a “cooler” version of transit is simply not acceptable.

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Crisis awareness workshop planned by local BTYR

BY UNSIE ZUEGE uzuege@swpub.com

With the recent end of the Operation Iraqi Freedom, one of the longest wars in U.S. history, soldiers across the country are returning to their families and their communities. Many of the soldiers, including Minnesota’s National Guard 34th Infantry Red Bull division, have experienced multiple deployments.

Multiple deployments both stateside and overseas disrupted life for them and their families. Recently, Chanhassen launched a Beyond the Yellow Ribbon (BTYR) program to support service men and women and their families as they adjust to civilian life in Chanhassen and elsewhere.

One of the first BTYR programs is planned Thursday, March 22, and will feature safeTALK, a mental health counseling center in the Twin Cities that operates a crisis hotline.

The three-hour training session will provide insight and information about recognizing and responding to signs of stress and crisis that veterans and their families may experience, as well as resources to crisis hotlines and counseling programs.

Traci Chur of safeTALK will be joined by Chanhassen residents Tim Lindquist, an Army veteran trained in behavioral health and combat stress control, and Craig Mertz, whose son Army Spc. David Mertz committed suicide in November 2011.

SEPARATION AND STRESS Lindquist, a Gulf War vet, was trained as an occupational therapist in the Army, eventually moving into both prevention and restoration of behavioral health. Later, as an administrator, he mobilized specialists, psych nurses, and

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psychologists to go where they were needed in the field to work with enlisted service men and women.

During the first Gulf War (Operation Desert Shield/Operation Desert Storm — 19901991) he was stateside, embedded with a combat area support hospital unit in San Antonio. In Operation Iraqi Freedom (20032010), Lindquist was deployed to Iraq several times during a three-year period, where he worked with a combat stress control unit.

When he was first deployed to Iraq in 2003, his wife, Amy, was eight months pregnant.

One day, he sensed something wasn’t quite right.

“I couldn’t shake that feeling,” Lindquist said. “I went to one of my sergeants and asked to borrow a satellite phone. We didn’t have any communications (like today) while we going into Iraq,” Lindquist said.

“No Skype or cell phones. I tried calling Amy, my folks, her folks. I couldn’t get through. I tried again the next day. I finally learned that Amy had given birth to our daughter ... I talked to Amy for about 30 seconds and then we lost the connection. I handed the phone back and the sergeant said, “What did you name her?”

“I didn’t know,” Lindquist said. “We had gotten cut off.

I did n’t k now for a not her month.”

Crisis Connection A nonprofit mental health counseling agency providing telephone counseling services, specializing in crisis counseling, intervention resources and referral, based in the Twin Cities. HSI Crisis Connection is supported by donors, the<span> </span> United Way, Hennepin County and others, in order to provide free hotlines to residents throughout the state of Minnesota.

Presenters include Traci Chur of safeTALK, Tim Lindquist, and Craig Mertz.

WHAT: A safeTALK training session (3-hours) that prepares participants to identify persons with thoughts of suicide and connect them to suicide intervention resources.

WHO: Anyone over the age of 15 may participate.

WHERE: Chanhassen Recreation Center, 2310 Coulter Boulevard UNSIE ZUEGE

Tim Lindquist and Craig Mertz understand the stresses of deployment—Lindquist as an Iraqi war vet and Mertz as a father to a soldier. They are presenters at a safeTALK training program on Thursday, March 22.

David, age 26 when he died, had been stateside, stationed at Fort Bliss, Texas. His wife, Jesse, and their two daughters were on base with him. But David was having a hard time, Mertz said. A complex series of events led David to becoming despondent. David seemed preoccupied with his previous deployment in Iraq, and a painful back injury prevented him from regular Army work.

“When these guys and girls get back from A fghanistan and Iraq, they have a lot of trouble adjusting to civilian life,” Mertz said. “The skills that help you survive, don’t serve you stateside, like hyper vigilance, dealing with traffic on I-494. And, they can’t tell civilians what they’ve gone through. The typical civilian is going to be horrified.

“On military bases, the guys and gals can find each other at the PX or the bowling alley and talk and hang out. But here, they’re isolated. You’ve just spent 13 months clearing land mines. When you say ‘I was a SAPPER,’ people know how dangerous your job was.

In the civilian world, they have

IT’S NOT JUST ONE THING For Mertz, the pain of his son’s suicide at Fort Bliss, Texas, last November, is too recent to abate.

His son David, who attended District 112 schools, enlisted in the Army, which his father could see was a good fit. David was deployed twice — the first time to South Korea and the demilitarized zone; the second time to Iraq where he cleared mine fields.

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“It spills over into their marriages, too.” Mertz said. “Your wife may not want to hear in great detail about a buddy who got a shrapnel frag in the gut.

What do you talk about? And if you’ve been deployed, the spouse at home has made all the major decisions about finances, schools, doctors, dentists.

“Then the spouse comes home and wants to get back in the loop. It’s a hard adjustment,” Mertz said.

“I’m not criticizing the Army.

But you’re not the same guy after you see buddy go home with a foot or a leg gone, or a mental disability. It can’t help but weigh on your mind,” Mertz said. “Who do you talk to?”

Mertz pointed out that every school in Carver County has students who’ve had a parent deployed.

“The Legion posts might know who they are, but most people around them don’t. Kids are proud of their parents, but there’s also a sense of abandonment.

“With all the people in the Red Bulls returning, families

WHEN: 6:30 p.m., Thursday, March 22.

TO REGISTER, CONTACT: Tim Lindquist, (763) 235-3825 or (612) 490-5642

BTYR Beyond the Yellow Ribbon is a comprehensive program that creates awareness for the purpose of connecting service members and their families with community support, training, services and resources.

We do this by: 1. Creating awareness through the Yellow Ribbon Community Campaign and synchronizing sustainable community support networks.

2. Connecting and coordinating organizations, agencies and companies to provide resources and support to service members and their families.

3. Delivering a series of formal Yellow Ribbon Training events to service members and their families before, during and after deployment.

4. Providing an opportunity for Minnesotans to support service members and their families.

Beyond the Yellow Ribbon is united to bring service members all the way home. need support.”

Beyond the Yellow Ribbon wants to restore service men and women and their families to civilian life.

In Iraq, people like Lindquist and his team debriefed units that got attacked, lost a soldier or experienced a bomb explosion.

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William Douglas Luecke, age 8 months, of Chanhassen, died Monday, Feb. 27, 2012, peacefully in his sleep in Chanhassen.

Funeral service will be held Friday, March 2, 11 a.m. at St. John’s Lutheran Church, 4th and Oak Street, Chaska, with the Rev. Greg Snow officiating. The visitation will be Thursday, March 1, from 4-7 p.m. at the Bertas Funeral Home, 200 W. Third St., Chaska, and also one hour prior to service at the church.

William was born June 10, 2011 in Waconia, MN, to Todd and Misty Dawn (Kloos) Luecke. William Douglas Luecke was an amazing little boy that touched the hearts of so many in his unfairly shortened life. What he could not express in speech, he made up for in expressions (especially smiles) and actions. He was an active little boy that lived life to its fullest, and never missed a beat. William loved his mom and dad unconditionally, and they loved them back ten times over. William will be missed every day on this Earth, but we anxiously await the day to be together again in Heaven.

William was preceded in death by his grandpa, Douglas Kloos; great-grandparents, Collins and Ardis Rief, Donald and Ruth Kloos, William and Mary Luecke, Albert Dittman, Glenn Ingebrigtson.

Survivors include his loving parents, Todd and Misty Luecke of Chanhassen; grandparents, Grace Kloos of Chaska, Larry and Lorna Luecke of Las Vegas, NV, Bonnie Luecke of Brookings, SD; great-grandmothers, Thelma Dittman of Brookings, SD, Almarie Ingebrigtson of Canton, SD; aunts and uncles, Josh (Beth) Kloos of Carver, Jason (Katie) Kloos of Edina, Terry (Kristi) Kloos of Deforest, WI, Jana Barr of Las Vegas, NV, Mark (Amber) Luecke of Sioux Falls, SD, Scott (Tammy) Luecke of Maple Grove, Anne (Dallas) Dryden of San Antonio, TX; cousins, Hannah, Zach, Cassidy, Hayden, Vivian, Evelyn, Kennedy, Leyton, Avery, Ayden, Isaac, Delaney, Helene; great uncles and aunts, many other relatives and friends.

Funeral arrangements were with the Bertas Funeral Home of Chaska, 952-448-2137.

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MISSOTA CONFERENCE

Future in Missota Conference is cloudy from Chanhassen High School (14 on varsity). All seven players are eligible to return next season for the Hawks. Still, at minimum a varsity team must field five defenseman, seven forwards and a goaltender.

Without injuries or illness, Chaska would be six skaters

BY ERIC KRAUSHAR short. scores@swpub.com Looking at the U14 program, only five of the 26 players on When Chaska and Chanhas- the two teams list residence as sen joined in a co-op in girls Chaska. Stein said the school hockey in 2009 — the same could only “hope” the five playyear Chanhassen High School ers would enroll at the high opened its doors — the plan was school. Some could opt to open to split the two teams in the enroll to other neighboring disnear future. tricts or even a private school Three years into the co-op, such as Holy Family Catholic producing an overall record or Blake School. of 49 -32-1, district officials “The numbers tell us how say a split is at least two more many players they have and years down the road. Chaska what city they live in. It’s hard Assistant Principal/Activities to know what school they will Director Troy Stein requested go to as they enter ninth grade. approval from the Missota The District has a 20 percent Conference Athletic Directors rate of open enrollment to other in early February to continue districts so there is no guaranwith the merged program, but tee,” Stein said. was denied by a 6-2 vote.

Even if all seven players With Section 2AA approving return and the team adds five the co-op by a 9-1 vote, Stein and new players from the U14 proChanhassen Assistant Princi- gram, it would still have to pa l /At h letic draw from sevDirector Dick enth or eighth Ungar decidgraders. ed it was best “Our goal is to remain as to split teams one team for as soon as it t he 2 01 2 -1 3 is safely posseason rather sible. We do than split. not view pullThe Minnesoing up current ta State High seventh grade School League girls that are has approved not able to the co-op as an skate at a vari ndependent sit y level as for next seaappropri ate, son. safe or fair for “We don’t their developfeel it is ap ment,” Stein propriate to said. make seventh “ W h e n Troy Stein a nd eig ht h we spl it t he graders skate Chaska Assistant Principal/ boys hockey varsity hock- Activities Director program last ey at Chaska year, we did so to field a varsity team. We feel because the youth numbers we this is not developmentally, had dictated we could do that. emotionally or physically ap- Now at Chaska we’re looking at propriate,” Stein said. only fielding a varsity team the This season’s varsity and ju- next three seasons. The girls nior varsity rosters saw seven program is worse than that players from Chaska High situation,” Stein added.

School (four on varsity) and 25 Other programs in the Mis-

Girls hockey will remain as a co-op next year, but will play an independent schedule

“We don’t feel it is appropriate to make seventh and eighth graders skate varsity hockey at Chaska to field a varsity team.

We feel this is not developmentally, emotionally or physically appropriate.”

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Lauren Kohler (5) was one of six seniors on the Chaska/Chanhassen roster that won the program’s fi rst Missota Conference title this season. sota Conference are forced based on available numbers to pull from middle school. Stein said it is a developed “culture” that he’s not sure will be successful in a Metro-area school such as Chaska.

I f pa rent s b elieve t hei r daughter is being forced to play at a level they are not ready for, they may choose to send their kid to a different school. Or, more likely, the girl may quit the sport.

“This year there has been heightened scrutiny and awareness placed on injuries and safety in hockey statewide. In fact, in asking the Missota Conference to approve our co-op in January we expressed great concern over the prospect of using seventh and eighth graders to field a varsity only roster.

That is a concern we stand by for a number of reasons, but the main reason is physical safety,” Stein said. “It is one thing to have a seventh or eighth grader to play varsity hockey because that player is an exceptional

athlete, and has the size and skills to compete safely at a varsity level (although there are still concerns about emotional development). It is an entirely different matter asking an underdeveloped player to participate at the varsity level simply because we need a body on the ice. That is no better way to make sure our underdeveloped player gets hurt or hurts someone else.”

Looking at the other Class AA schools in the conference, Fa r mi n g ton h ad on ly one eighth-grader on this year’s roster. Shakopee had f ive, while Holy Angels, which recently dropped down a class, had three.

In Class A, Red Wing had four middle school hockey players, while New Prague two and Northfield one. Of those four players on the Red Wing roster, one played six minutes all season in goal, while the other three skaters combined for six total points — only one, Caitie Turcotte, is listed among the

top two lines.

For Chaska to fill out a team independently, it would likely have to carry five to six seventh or eighth graders. The Hawks would not have the luxury of placing them on the third line — they would be thrust into the top two lines.

And unlike programs such as Red Wing that choose the top kids from those grades, Chaska would have to settle with just having bodies for uniforms.

Forcing girls not ready for high school hockey to play at that level may discourage enrollment and lead to even bigger problems than the program already faces, according to Stein.

Since joining the Missota Conference last season, the Storm Hawks have posted a 20-3-1 record in league play, including an 11-0-1 mark this season. The conference title was the program’s first since it was the Lake Conference champion in 2003.

Chaska was also Section 2A A champion in 20 0 0 and

2001.

Red Wing Girls Hockey Head Coach Scott Haley has been one of the most outspoken conference coaches on the issue. He even went as far to call out the co-op in a recent article in the Rochester Post Bulletin.

Despite losing nine varsity programs throughout the state in recent years due to dwindling numbers, Haley doesn’t buy the ar-gument. It should be known that Haley has two daughters — Paige and Reagan — that return for next season.

“It’s less a function of teams dwindling. I think it’s a function of teams wanting to be competitive. I do feel that Chaska and Chan-hassen do have the numbers to field separate teams, but they like the idea of winning championships, you know? That’s the case with a lot of these co-ops,” he said to the Rochester Post Bulletin.

The Minnesota State High School League lists Chaska/ Chanhassen High Schools with a combined enrollment of 2,425.

Stein said the number is more around 1,050 for just Chaska.

Factor in that the school offers dance, alpine skiing and Nordic skiing — sports schools such as Red Wing does not offer — spreads out the ability to draw in more student-athletes in hockey.

Stein said the program has been actively promoting participation, including having the head coach meet with students at the middle schools; high school youth camps; recruiting meetings at freshman orientation and lunches at the middle school; as well as development and promotion in the youth associations.

There is also talk to promote the sport with the City of Chaska for a “Hockey Day” in the community for next year.

“It is important to note that our goal is to field separate girls’ hockey teams at Chaska and Chanhassen High Schools.

To that end, we have developed a plan in conjunction with the youth association to increase our participation numbers going forward. As previ-ously outlined in our report sub-

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WRESTLING

Five Storm Hawks qualify for the big show Chanhassen is sending Reid Johnson and Brenden Olevson

BY ERIC KRAUSHAR scores@swpub.com

Reid Johnson placed fourth at heavyweight in the Section 2AAA Individual Tournament a season ago, finishing the year with a record of 14-20.

T he Ch a n h a ssen sopho more wanted to be more than ju st a med a l-wi n ner — he wanted to be a state qualifier.

Johnson attended camps du ri ng t he of f- se a son a nd worked hard in the wrestling room. His dedic ation paid off Saturday as Johnson was among five Chaska/Chanhassen wrestlers to qualify for the Class AAA State Meet.

Johnson placed second at 285 pounds to run his record to 30-8 this season.

“He’s learned to wrestle like a heavyweight. We have two bigger coaches (Justin

Franke and Michael Hanson) that work with him. Reid-o is li ke a sponge. He t a kes in everything he’s taught,” Chanhassen Head Coach Mike Schultz said.

Joh n son put h i m s el f i n the position to advance to the state tournament with a 6-4 win over Prior Lake’s Ross Larson in the semifinals. Larson is ranked No. 8 in state.

Johnson lost by fall to No. 2-ranked Corey Anderson of Shakopee in the finals.

“Reid was the No. 1 seed in the Lakeville North Tournament to begin the season and he got beat in his first match.

I lit into him. I told him he wasn’t wrestling the way he was being taught. I told him you need to be better. You need to wrestle as hard as you can for your team and for yourself,” Schultz said. “We call him the ‘closer.’ He always rises to the challenge.”

Johnson will be joined at state by Chanhassen eighth grader Brenden Olevson as wel l a s C h a sk a w r e s t ler s Ethan and Isaac Loos-brock as well as Trent Butcher.

Olevson all but stamped

his date with state with a 4-2 semi final win over Shako pee’s Patrick Casey, a wrestler that denied the Storm grappler 7-4 in last year’s section semifinals.

“We were looking at that match from the start. When you look at that bracket, there were four guys worthy of going to state,” Schultz said.

“Brenden caught Casey for a near-fall with 20 seconds left.

It was a great match. You hate to see a guy lose a match like that.”

Olevson defeated Casey 6-4 in overtime earlier this season. Top-seeded Matt Kahnke of Prior Lake got a reversal and two-point near-fall in the first period to take a 6-2 lead over Olevson in the 138-pound championship match. Neither wrestler scored during the final four minutes of action.

I n tot a l, si x w rest lers reached the medal stand for Chanhassen.

Eighth-grader Logan Larsen lost a hard-fought 6-4 match to teammate Isaac Loosbrock of Chaska in the quarterfinal round. Larsen did come back to place sixth overall.

Luke Finkel, a state qualifier in 2011, fell 1-0 to Farming ton’s Jacob Gabbard in the semifinals. He ended up coming back through wrestlebacks, but was defeated 7-2 in the third-place match to Tanner Johnshoy of Prior Lake.

A l so pl aci ng were Sa muel Vance (sixth) and Sam Grausam (fourth). The Storm senior lost in the quarterfinal round by a single point, but rebounded with two wrestleback victories. He ended up falling 11-6 to Eden Prairie’s Jerry Blise in the third-place bout.

The Class AAA State Meet begins with a 9 a.m. session on Friday at the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul.

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Reid Johnson won just 14 matches a year ago, but the Chanhassen sophomore is heading to state after placing second at last weekend’s Section 2AAA Meet. He is pictured wrestling Ross Larson of Prior Lake — a match Johnson won 6-4.

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BOYS SWIMMING AND DIVING

Richardson the lone state entrant once again Minnetonka is sending 19 qualifiers into the state meet

BY ERIC KRAUSHAR scores@swpub.com

Chanhassen swimmer Benny Richardson qualified for his second Class AA State Meet, but the dominance of the top two ranked teams in the state was the big story out of Section 6AA Saturday in Edina.

Eden Prairie qualified 26 swims for this week’s state meet at the University of Minnesota Aquatic Center. Of those 26, 13 are seeded in state’s top eight and five are No. 1 seeds. Minnetonka also had 17 swims and two diving entrants.

Richardson, the lone state qualifier from the District 112 program last season, missed the state cut in his first event, but the jun-ior was right on target in his second swim of the day.

Competing in the 100-yard butterfly, Richardson hit the wall at 53.99 to beat the state

qualifying standard by seventenths of a second. The Storm swimmer, who was third in the preliminary round, was eighth overall.

A swimmer can reach the state meet by swimming under the state standard in the event or by finishing in the top two.

“We had a really great meet.

It seemed everybody either had a good swim in the prelims or the finals. I am just really proud of the guys,” Chanhassen Head Coach Matt Crees said.

The Class AA State Meet preliminaries are at 6 p.m. Friday.

The top 16 swimmers qualify for the finals at 6 p.m. Saturday.

Richardson is seeded 19th at state in the butterfly event.

Richardson had a near miss in the 200 freestyle. After dropping seven seconds off his season-best effort on Feb. 23 to put himself within a second of the state cut, the junior couldn’t go any lower, placing eighth in a time of 1:49.72.

“I was bummed that Benny missed the cut in the 200 freestyle because he had a great meet. He dropped so much time.

It was good to see him make it in the fly,” Crees said.

JP Currie also gained a medal in the 500-yard freestyle with an

eighth-place finish of 5:03.86.

Other top-16 finishes for the Storm were Currie in the 200 freestyle (12th, 1:51.30); Connor Schrempp in the 200 freestyle (15th, 1:54.70) and the 500 freestyle (ninth, 5:03.50); Casey Bringhurst in the 50 freestyle (ninth, 22.94) and 100 freestyle (16th, 51.97); and Sam Halterman in the 100 freestyle (14th, 51.30).

“JP and Connor put up a good run in the 500. They only missed out on state by a few seconds.

They were very close. Casey did awesome in the finals. I think his fastest time coming in with a 54-high (in the 100 freestyle). To swim a 51 was amazing. I didn’t know he had it in him to do that,” Crees said.

The top relay finish came from the 200 freestyle team of Halterman, Bringhurst, Richardson and senior Jack Getty.

The team combined for a time of 1:33.48.

Getty was the lone diver for the Storm, placing 12th overall with a score of 276.80. He was in seventh after the semifinal round.

Eden Prairie scored 572 points to win the Section 6AA title. Minnetonka was second at 490, while Chanhassen was sixth with 138 points.

Minnetonka will have swimmers in 10 of 11 state events and will have multiple competitors in five events. Noah Busch claimed a pool record with a swim of 51.94 in the backstroke.

Also winning an event on Saturday was Kendall Dunn in the 100 breaststroke (1:00.08).

State qualifiers for Minnetonka were Dunn (200 IM, 1:57.01), Busch (100 free, 46.81), Ryan Current (200 free, 1:44.89; 100 free, 48.04), John Seylar (200 free, 1:46.25; 500 free, 4:53.74), Eric Sirjord (200 IM, 1:58.43; 500 free, 4:46.22), Bastian Ibri (200 IM, 2:02.40), Dan Biel-ski (100 fly, 53.17; 100 back, 53.36), Brett Hakes (100 back, 55.47) and all three relays.

Three of the four state diving qualifiers from the section come from the region. Holy Family Catholic senior Michael Roane, who participates under the Watertown-Mayer/Waconia/Delano name, was second behind teammate Dustin Gens.

Roane, a two-time state qualifier, had a runner-up score of 362.70 behind Gens with 397.0.

Minnetonka sophomores Patrick Quarberg (324.05) and Theodore Goodyear (320.70) placed third and fourth to also qualify for state.

Back-to-back state champions Sydney Rossman made 77 saves in three games to help Minnetonka win the title

BY ERIC KRAUSHAR scores@swpub.com

Eleven Minnetonka players stepped on the ice Saturday for a shot at winning back-toback Class AA Girls Hockey titles. Junior goaltender Sydney Rossman was not one of the 11 players from the 2011 state championship team.

Rossman, though, was the most valuable player in her first state title game, turning away all 23 shots in helping Minnetonka win the school’s second championship in as many years 3-0 over Roseville.

“The girls looked at the (championship) banner we have in our arena,” Minnetonka Head Coach Eric Johnson said. “They really wanted to have another banner that said 2012.”

For the playoffs, Rossman made 138 saves (only four goals allowed) in six wins. In the state tournament alone, she stopped 77 of 79 shots for a save percentage of 97.5.

It wasn’t only the goaltending, but the defense that helped keep Roseville off the scoreboard for the second time this season. It was also the strong defensive core led by All-Tournament selections Sidney Morin and Sydney Baldwin.

The Skippers defense held shots to the outside and kept the Raiders’ stars in check.

Forward Kate Flug, the team’s leading scorer, was held to just one shot in the game.

“We tried to minimize her shots,” Baldwin said. “That was one of our big strategies.

She was definitely up there as one of the most challenging assignments.”

The first goal was huge all season for Roseville and despite outshooting the Skippers in the opening stanza, it was Minnetonka with the lead.

Hol ly Kor n, a third-line forward, knocked in the first goal off a perfectly placed pass from Laura Bowman at the 13:36 mark of the game. The back-handed power-play attempt was just her fourth goal of the season.

At the time, Roseville led the short chart 9-1.

“It was one of those goals that was a turning point for all of us,” Baldwin said. “That gave us another push.”

The push was increased offensive opportunities for Minnetonka, which threw seven shots on Senior Goalie of the Year award winner Erika Allen in the second period.

Allen was superb in keeping the game a one-goal difference. On the other end of the ice, though, Rossman kept on matching her save-for-save.

Minnetonka added two insurance goals in the third period. Morin started a 2-on-1 rush with a pass off the boards

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Sidney Morin (5) and Sydney Rossman (35) embrace as Minnetonka captured its second straight state championship Saturday in downtown St. Paul. to Diana Draayer, who skated down the left side and beat Allen over the shoulder on a quick wrister.

Laura Bowman scored in the final second on an empty net goal for the 3-0 final difference.

In total, eight Minnetonka players scored goals in the state tournament.

“We were feeling pretty good about ourselves coming into this one,” Roseville Head Coach Vic Brodt said. “If we pop one in during the first period, maybe the tide changes and the ending is much different. If we’d lost to someone other than Minnetonka, I would have been so much more surprised. They are just so darn good, and they played better than we did.”

Joining Rossman, Morin and Baldwin on the all-tournament team was Bowman and Amy Petersen.

Minnetonka (24-5-1) is the first repeat big-school champion since South St. Paul won its second in a row in 2003. It was Roseville’s first loss in four championship game appearances.

OVERTIME VICTORY Amy Petersen has a flair for the dramatic goal. The Minnetonka junior assistant captain scored the game-winning goal with 39 seconds remaining to help the Skippers win the school’s first girls hockey title in 2011.

Petersen did it again in the Class AA semifinals Friday, scoring with 1:19 remaining in the first overtime session to vault Minnetonka to its second straight title-game appearance with a 2-1 win over Lakeville North.

With the game knotted at one in overtime, Minnetonka put on the pressure as the line of Petersen-Bowman-Draayer peppered Lakeville goaltender Cassie Alexander.

Alexander, though, like the majority of the game, was up to the task, seemingly turn-

ing away every good scoring chance for the Skippers.

Nearing the end of a shift more than six minutes into the extra session, a clear from the Lakeville defense trickled into the Skippers zone. Rossman, seeing the Panthers going to the bench for a shift change, came out and played the puck to Morin at the blue line.

Morin, the regulation heroine, fed Petersen, who carried the puck into the Panthers’ zone on a breakaway. Keeping her feet moving, Alexander went low, allowing the Skippers junior to go high for the winner, sending Minnetonka to the finals.

“I just knew I had to beat the girl wide. She went down so I knew I had to get it up higher,” Petersen said.

“It’s more about being at the right place at the right time and my teammates getting me the puck,” added Petersen on her knack for big goals.

Minnetonka appeared to be in real trouble deep in the third period trailing by a goal.

Lakeville freshman Riley Tousignant gave the Panthers the lead on a shot from the slot off a feed from Megan Skelly with 3:57 left in regulation.

Minnetonka continued to pressure Alexander, but it appeared the goaltender who wears double-zero would stand true to her jer-sey number. The junior goaltender turned away the first 34 shots faced.

“When they scored that first goal I was a little concerned that the game wasn’t going to go the way we wanted to,” Johnson said. “But even when we were down a goal I felt we would score that next goal. The girls found a way to get it done.”

Lakeville nearly put away the game in the final minute, but a shot missed the net by inches and was instead an icing. The face-off in the Panthers’ end proved to be huge as Bowman eventually corralled the puck on the right boards and fired a

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Chanhassen sophomore Gus Currie just misses qualifying for the consolation heat of the 200-yard individual medley Feb. 23 in Edina.

BASKETBALL ROUNDUP

Missota title clinched outright for Storm boys The depth of Chanhassen wore down host Red Wing F riday as the Storm boys basketball team outscored the Wingers 36-22 in the second half en route to a 64-45 win.

The victory clinched the Missota Conference crown outright for the Storm three days after they grabbed a share with a win over New Prague.

Steven Gitzen poured in 13 points to lead the Storm, which had nine players record at least two points. Cole Otto added 10, while Joey Stark had nine.

Leading 36-29 at halftime, Chanhassen didn’t miss very often the final 18 minutes, outscoring Farmington 47-19 in the second half in an 85-48 win Tuesday.

The victory all but sealed up t he No. 2 seed i n Sec tion 2A A A A for Chanhassen, which ran its record to 20-5 on the season. The full bracket will be released on Saturday.

The Storm hit 14 3-pointers in the Senior Night contest.

Otto led all scorers with 22 points, while Kevin Jensen, Gitzen and Stark each had 10 for Chanhassen.

Mackinley Bassett paced

the Tigers with 17 points.

Chanhassen concludes the regular season at Shakopee at 7:30 p.m. Friday.

FIRST-PLACE FINISH Ch a n h a s s en ende d t he reg ular season with a decisive 77- 5 5 win over Red Wing Friday, concluding the schedule with a 13-1 mark in the Missota Conference.

T he le a g ue ch a mpion Storm opened the playoffs as the No. 4 seed in Section 2AAAA on Wednesday, hosting fifth-seeded Prior Lake.

The section semifinals are scheduled for 6 and 8 p.m.

Saturday at Hopkins’ Lindbergh Center.

Chanhassen (22-5) jumped out to a 38-16 halftime lead in the regular-season finale over the Wingers. Starters Tori Shear (14), Becca Smith (13) and Lauren Shifflett (12) were also in double figures for the Storm.

Brooke Benson, who had scored six points all season, also had 10 points in a reserve role.

Marisa Toivonen led all scorers with 25 points for Red Wing, which lost eight of its final 10 league games after a 4-0 start.

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shot on net.

Alexander made the initial save, but the puck lay in the crease between her pads. An alert Morin charged toward the net and banged it in with less than 21 seconds in the period.

“I came in and crashed the net and the puck was sitting right between her legs. I could see it sitting there and I just went full blast and just shoveled it right in there,” Morin said.

Minnetonka outshot the Panthers 39-31 for the game.

Rossman made 30 saves in her second career start at state.

The junior goal-tender said the pressure was on with Alexander stealing show on the other side of the ice.

Earlier in the tournament, tied at one with Eagan in the quarterfinals, the Skippers didn’t panic, scoring three times in the final stanza in a 4-1 win.

With the game even heading into the final 17 minutes of regulation, Minnetonka knew the first goal would be huge. Kelsey Crow gave the Skippers the lift it needed, scoring on a shot from the point for her fifth goal of the season at the 2:51 mark.

Bowman added a goal less than two minutes later on the power play, while a third tally in the period on a short-handed goa l from senior Ki ra von Steinbergs gave Minnetonka the lead for good.

Rossman made 24 saves in the win for the Skippers.

Minnetonka jumped on the board first with a goal from Maggie Bazany. The lead lasted until early in the second period as Alexia Wilson knotted the contest with an even-strength goal.

Don’t miss this TOURNEY TIME A week after section tournaments sent individuals to the state meet, wrestling gets underway at the X with the individual tournament Friday and Saturday in St. Paul. State swimming is also Friday and Saturday at the University of Minnesota.

WEEKLY SCHEDULES

Chanhassen H.S.

TUESDAY, MARCH 6 Boys Basketball vs. Section 6AAAA, TBA

Web schedule: www.missotaconference.org School: www.district112.org/cns/ Hotline: (952) 361-CHAN (2426) Home basketball games at Chan H.S.

Holy Family H.S.

FRIDAY, MARCH 2 Wrestling at Class AAA State Meet (St. Paul), 9 a.m.

Boys Dive at Class AA State Meet (U of M), 6 p.m.

Boys Basketball vs. Wayzata, 7 p.m.

SATURDAY, MARCH 3 Wrestling at Class AAA State Meet (St. Paul), 10 a.m.

Boys Dive at Class AA State Meet (U of M), 6 p.m.

Girls Basketball vs. Section 2AAAA semis (Hopkins), 6 p.m.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 7 Boys Basketball vs. Section 2AAAA, TBA

Minnetonka H.S. Web schedule: www.lakeconference.org Home basketball games at Minnetonka H.S. West Gym FRIDAY, MARCH 2 Wrestling at Class AAA State Meet (St. Paul), 9 a.m.

Boys Dive at Class AA State Meet (U of M), 6 p.m.

Boys Basketball at Shakopee, 7:30 p.m.

SATURDAY, MARCH 3 Wrestling at Class AAA State Meet (St. Paul), 10 a.m.

Girls Basketball vs. Section 6AAAA semis (Osseo), Noon Boys Dive at Class AA State Meet (U of M), 6 p.m.

Web schedule: www.mnriverconference.org School: www.hfchs.org Hotline: (952) 443-HOLY (4659), ext. 1111 Home basketball games at HFC H.S. FRIDAY, MARCH 2 Boys Basketball at Mayer Lutheran, 7:30 p.m.

SATURDAY, MARCH 3 Girls Basketball at Section 6AAA (High Seed), 7 p.m.

TUESDAY, MARCH 6 Boys Basketball vs. Section 6AAA Playoffs, 7 p.m.

Chaska H.S. Web schedule: www.missotaconference. org School: www.district112.org/chs/ Hotline: (952) 556-HAWK (4295) Home basketball games at Chaska H.S. FRIDAY, MARCH 2 Wrestling at Class AAA State Meet (St. Paul), 9 a.m.

Boys Dive at Class AA State Meet (U of M), 6 p.m.

Boys Basketball at Northfield, 7:30 p.m.

SATURDAY, MARCH 3 Wrestling at Class AAA State Meet (St. Paul), 10 a.m.

Boys Dive at Class AA State Meet (U of M), 6 p.m.

TUESDAY, MARCH 6 Boys Basketball vs. Section 6AAA, TBA

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BOYS HOCKEY

All Jaguars in section playoff romp Chanhassen fell behind 4-0 in the first nine minutes

Jaguars beat the Storm 8-0 in the 2011 quarterfinals.

“As coaches, we talked about being able to get past the first five to 10 minutes — let the guys get used to the pace of the game, but we didn’t do it. Down 4-0 early in the first was just too difficult to overcome,” said Chanhassen Head Coach Chris Wilson. “We started to press and were too anxious with the puck. We even went offsides a couple of times with odd men rushes.”

O ut si d e o f a g o a l f r o m Chanhassen defenseman Eric Bigaouette, it was all Jefferson. The Jaguars outshot the Storm 54-19, which included 39-9 during the final 34 minutes.

Erik Anderson got the start in nets, but the sophomore didn’t last long. After allowing a goal exactly 60 seconds into the game on a shot from the boards off the stick of Colin Hernon, reserve Harlin Paradise was sent onto the ice at the 13:28 mark.

Paradise, the starter in last year’s section loss, didn’t fare much better. He allowed three

BY ERIC KRAUSHAR scores@swpub.com

Entering Thursday’s playoff game between Chanhassen and Bloomington Jefferson, much was talked about the difference in victories, strength of schedule and the overall seeding process in Section 2AA. Would the 20-win and Missota Con ference champion Storm, the lower seed despite 14 more wins this season, be able to gain a lit-tle respect in the second season of the program?

From the opening shot of the game, it was evident it was the Jaguars’ night.

Bloomi ng ton Jef ferson scored four times in the first 9:03 and added single tallies in the final two periods for the 6-1 win over Chanhassen at Bloomington Ice Garden. The

goals — one each from Johnny Panvica, Tyler Johnson and Jack Weiss — to pull away for a 4-0 lead. Two goals came on rebounds just outside the crease, while the third came on a great backhanded effort from Johnson.

Chanhassen got on the board with 2 :19 remaining in the opening stanza on a point shot from Bigaouette that bounced off of the stick of Jefferson goaltender Grant Martens into the net.

Needing a big second period, the Storm had no answer for the attack of the Jaguars. It took 12 minutes for Chanhassen to record its first shot on net and the puck remained in the Storm’s zone for extended periods of time.

A major penalty to Nate T rai na for cross - checki ng led to a power-play goal from Hernon with 2:21 remaining in the second pe-riod.

Hernon added an emptynet tally with less than three minutes to play for the final difference. Paradise stopped 48 saves on 52 shot attempts in the loss.

PHOTO BY ERIC KRAUSHAR

The expression of Nathan Holasek said it all as Chanhassen fell 6-1 to Bloomington Jefferson Feb. 23 in the opening round of Section 2AA Boys Hockey.

“Tough loss for all of the seniors. They worked hard in preparing for the season and gave a good effort all year. I think they would each like

to have a not her cha nce at that game, but they should be proud of a great season,” Wilson said.

“We strengthen the sched-

u le nex t ye a r, add i n g Jefferson, Thief River Falls and Hermantown. It should help us better prepare for the playoffs,” the coach added.

HOLY FAMILY CATHOLIC

STATE GYMNASTICS

The lone guy in the program

Nornes places 11th on State beam routine

BY ERIC KRAUSHAR scores@swpub.com

HFC’s Michael Roane heads back to state for the second time

BY ERIC KRAUSHAR scores@swpub.com

Michael Roane missed hearing forward-one-and-a-half somersault-tuck position. Having played hockey his first two years at Holy Family Catholic High School, he wanted to get back in the pool.

After taking two years off, Roane returned to the diving board and qualified for the state meet in 2011. This season, despite a knee injury, the Fire senior made it 2-for-2 in qualifying for his second trip to the University of Minnesota Aquatic Center.

Roane, who swims under the Watertown-Mayer/Waconia/ Delano name, was runner-up at the Section 6AA Meet Saturday in Edina.

“It was a little less stressful last year because I could always say there’s next year, but this year I couldn’t say that since it’s my last year. I made it again, so I’m really excited about that,” Roane said.

“Things just started to fall into place recently. Things are coming back to me and I’m feeling a lot stronger.”

T he Holy Fa mi ly diver missed much of January with torn meniscus in a knee. He returned just in time to sign a Division I Letter of Intent to play football at Drake University and then was runner-up at the Wright County Conference Meet.

Two weeks later, it was time for the Section 6AA Meet.

“It was tough just getting back into it. I missed a month there. I’ve been back for two weeks now. That hurt me a little bit because I couldn’t do anything. It’s starting to come back to me now,” he said.

Roane sat in second place after eight dives in Section 6AA with a score of 275.40. Three dives later he remained in the same spot with an 11-dive

SUBMITTED PHOTO

Watertown-Mayer senior Dustin Gens and Holy Family Catholic’s Michael Roane pose with diving coach Jennifer Mell after placing one-two in Section 6AA on Saturday. Roane is the lone participant on the Royals Swim Team from HFC.

score of 362.70.

The only diver ahead of him was teammate Dustin Gens of Watertown-Mayer at 397.0. “ I t h i n k we b ot h pu sh each other to do better. We’re friends, but we also want to beat each other because we’re both competitive guys. It’s fun to try to beat him. He’s a great diver,” said Roane on Gens.

Despite coming from different schools, Roane, the lone participant from Holy Family, said it’s been a great experience swimming under the Royals’ name.

“It’s a lot different, but I’m really close with my diving team. I’m with them at practice every day. We hang out outside of practice, too. We get pretty close during the season.

It’s obviously different than football because we don’t go to school together. But we get through it,” Roane said. “It’s for sure weird being called the Royals instead of the Fire.

That’s something I’ve gotten used to. At first it was a bit of shock not being part of the Holy Family Fire, it’s the Watertown-Mayer Royals.”

Roane was in position to medal through five dives last year at the Class AA State Meet. Two of his next three dives, though, were off the mark, dropping him to 17th.

He missed out on diving on

the final day by one-tenth of a point.

C omi n g i nto t he we ek, Roane believes he is seeded sixth overall. Of the top-16 finalists last year, nine were seniors. His goals in-clude bringing home a state medal.

“It’s a cool experience. For me, I do well under pressure.

With football and stuff you have to play well under pressure,” said Roane, who will be making his fifth state appearance between diving and football. “I love it there (the U of M Aquatic Center). It’s such a cool place with all of the fans and being around all the great divers. It’s cool to see how you compare to one another.”

It’s been a long road for Roane — one that started 10 years ago — that comes to a close this week.

“My mom sig ned me up when I was 8-years-old because I was always f lipping and stuff and always running around. She thought it would be fun for me. I’ve been doing it every summer since then. I dove for two years in seventh and eighth grade at Chaska, but took two years off to play hockey and then I came back. I just love the sport. It’s been so much fun,” he said.

The diving preliminaries are at 6 p.m. tonight with the finals for the top-16 on Saturday night.

HOLY FAMILY ROUNDUP

Fire win playoff opener in Section 6AAA Rebekah Dahlman, who earlier this season went over the 3,000-point mark for her career, scored 42 as Class 2A No. 3-ranked Braham topped Holy Family Catholic 75-57 Feb. 23.

The Bombers led 37-20 at halftime.

Dahlman was 12-for-12 from the free-throw line and added four 3-pointers.

Michaela Rasmussen scored a career-high 24 points for the Fire, who finished the regular season with an 18-7 record.

Hannah Schonhardt was also in double figures with 15, while Emily Bauer had eight.

Holy Family Catholic won its playoff opener 67-29 Tuesday over Mound-Westonka. No individual statistics were available.

The Fire, seeded third in Section 6AAA, plays No. 2 seed Benilde-St. Margaret at 7 p.m.

Saturday. Richfield and Waconia meet in the other semifinal at the top-seeded Spartans’ gym.

FIRE SHUTOUT IN 6AA The Benilde-St. Margaret

hockey team sat in the locker room at the St. Louis Park Recreation Center Feb. 23, preparing for a quarterfinal clash with Holy Family Catholic.

And while the Red Knights got four goals from Grant Besse and beat the Fire 7-0 in the Section 6AA, the biggest story of the evening was the return of Jack Jablonski to the arena — his first trip back since the accident in late December.

Maybe it was Jablonski’s return, but whatever it was, B-SM came out f lying in the first period, scoring four goals in the opening 13:29.

Besse, who had 40 goals and 75 points in the regular season, made it 3-0 with a pair of netters less than eight minutes apart.

Dan Labosky and TJ Moore also scored in the stanza.

Besse added two more tallies in the second period, while Jake Horton finished off the scoring with a power-play goal in the third period. Besse completed the game with four goals and two assists.

Holy Family had 12 shots in the opening period, but had only 10 in the final two in being outshot 38-22 for the game. The Fire were 0-for-5 on the power play.

Nick Schreiter made 31 saves in the loss for Holy Family, which concluded the season with an 18-8 record.

SEASON WINDS DOWN Down eight points at halftime, host Holy Family Catholic never gave up, outscoring Waconia 33-30 in the second half, but still falling 65-60 on Friday.

The Fire got a career-high 26 points from Jake Dryer in the loss. Joe Traxler also had 13 points for Holy Family.

Eighth-ranked WatertownMayer jumped out to a 17-point lead at halftime and pushed the advantage over 30 in a 77-48 win over Holy Family Catholic Tuesday.

Dryer was the top scorer for Holy Family (1-22) with 10 points. Traxler also had eight, while post Justin Dahl added six.

Rachel Nornes, competing in her first state meet, didn’t let the nerves get the best of her Saturday in the Class AA Individual State Gymnastics Tournament.

The Chanhassen sophomore had one score of 9.05 for her balance beam routine, finishing with a four-judge average of 8.925 to place 11th overall.

Katie Quigley of Roseville Area won the beam event with a mark of 9.550.

Also making their state debuts for the Storm were senior Alex Dragos and freshman Leah Kutsch.

Dragos had an average score of 8.5 to place 25th in uneven bars. Kutsch scored a 9.1 to take 28th in floor exercise.

Other event winners were Mackenzie Dent of Eden Prairie on floor (9.725) and uneven bars (9.75), while Leah Robinette of East Ridge was the vault champion (9.825).

All-around champion was North St. Paul’s Julia Stedman with a score of 38.4. Dent was second at 38.275.

Competing for Minnetonka in all-around was sophomore Morgan Engel. The Skipper

PHOTO BY TOM SCHARDIN, SAVAGE PACER

Chanhassen senior Alex Dragos makes her state debut at the Class AA State Gymnastics Meet Saturday in Minneapolis. Dragos was one of three Storm gymnasts in action. g ymnast was 17th in vault (9.475), while she scored 8.3 in uneven bars, 9.15 in balance beam and 9.1 in floor exercise.

Also in action were Minnetonka seniors Allie Ryan and Shawna Burroughs. Ryan was 13th on floor with a mark of 9.5, while Burroughs was 23rd on beam with a score of 8.6.

Minnetonka also competed in the Class AA team event on Friday, taking sixth place out of the eight section winners. The Skippers, which previously had

teams at state in 1976 and 1977, ended a 35-year state drought.

Minnetonka finished with a score of 143.025. Roseville upset top-ranked and defending state champion Northfield with a score of 149.325. Three falls on the beam hurt the Missota Conference champions’ chances in the end.

Top individual marks for the Skippers were Ryan in floor (9.450), bars (9.0) and on beam (9.6). Engel had the top vault score for Minnetonka of 9.325.

TONKA ROUNDUP

Skippers reach Section 6AA in hockey Minnetonka beat Wayzata 5-1 and 4-3 in overtime this season, so the Skippers knew it couldn’t sleep on the Trojans.

After getting off to a slow start in the first period, despite holding a 1-0 lead, Minnetonka really exploded in the second stanza, scoring twice in a 3-0 win over Wayzata in the Section 6AA semifinals Saturday at Bloomington Ice Garden.

The top -seeded Skippers played Benilde-St. Margaret on Wednesday in the section final at Mariucci Arena. Minnetonka beat the Red Knights 5-3 in a January meeting.

B-SM had won 12 of the last 14 games since the loss to the Skippers. Results are available on Scoreboard.MN. Leading 1-0 after a first period in which Minnetonka (243) only outshot Wayzata 6-5, the Skippers broke the game wide open in the second stanza.

Minnetonka peppered 17 shots in the period with Erik Baskin and Justin Bader scoring for the three-goal lead.

Paul Ciaccio did the rest, stopping all 15 shots faced, to preserve the win. Sam Rothstein also scored for the Skippers in the first period from Baskin and Connor Thie, who had two assists in the game.

Baski n, Cha rlie Hu mi nski and Steve Johnson each had two goals as Minnetonka outshot Minneapolis 57-8 in a 12-0 win in the Section 6AA quarterfinal round Feb. 23 at Pagel Ice Arena.

Johnson, who had only two goals in 25 games this season, got the Skippers on the board just 45 seconds into the contest. Baskin and Tommy Vannelli made it 3-0 after one period.

Vinni Lettieri and Rothstein added to the lead in the second stanza before Huminski, who had two goals in 15 games, scored back-to-back netters on the same shift for the 7-0 lead.

Baskin, Johnson, Bader, Bjorn Hansen, and Joe Schuldt also scored for the Skippers.

It was the first career goal for Hansen, mak-ing his varsity debut. Schuldt, a Michigan Tech recruit, had only one goal in the regular season.

Baskin had a career-high six assists, while Vannelli and Jimmy Schuldt each had three helpers.

Ciaccio made eight saves in the shutout for second-ranked Minnetonka.

TWO AREA STATE QUALIFIERS Five Mound-Westonka/Holy Family Catholic wrestlers and one Minnetonka competitor qualified for the Class AAA State Meet out of Section 6AAA Saturday in Hopkins.

Oscar Arteaga, a 35-match winner at heavyweight for the Skippers, won the 285-pound bracket with three pins in the tourna-ment. His final victory came over Harrison Wright of Wayzata with a third-period fall.

Minnetonka was seventh in the team standings with 97 points. Other top-four finishers were Andrew Sutton at 138 pounds (fourth, 37- 5 record), Mike Zimmer man at 195 pounds (fourth, 16-23) and Nick Gabler at 220 pounds (fourth, 18-23).

Ju nior Wi l l Van Sant, a former Holy Family Catholic wrestler who missed the team tournament the previous weekend, returned and looked dominating in a pair of victories to grab his first entrant into state.

Van Sant won his semifinal match in a 30-second pin before grabbing the 195-pound title with a 16-0 technical fall over Martin Cabrera of Willmar. Van Sant is 27-5 on the season.

Other state qualifiers for the White Hawks are fourthranked Sam Bennyhoff at 106

pounds (38-2 record), fifthra n ked T yler Hebig at 14 5 pounds (38-2), Ryder Schmidt at 160 pounds (27-15) and sixthranked Bryan Tierney at 170 pounds (35-4).

The Class AAA State Individual Tournament at 9 a.m.

F riday at t he Xcel Energ y Center in St. Paul.

SEASON WINDING DOWN Fou r Hopki n s pl ayers scored in double figures to lead the top-ranked Royals to its 20th straight victory in a 85-63 defeat of Minne-tonka Friday.

T he Roya ls pu l led away from a 10-point halftime lead with a 43-31 effort during the final 17 minutes.

Hopkins is 7-0 in the Lake Conference. Minnetonka sits in fourth place at 2-5, having lost three straight contests during the second loop through the league schedule.

Latrell Love paced the Skippers with 18 points followed by Tommy McDermott with 14.

Zachary Stahl led all scorers with 20 points for Hopkins.

Re su lt s f rom T ue sd ay ’s game against Centennial are available at Scoreboard.MN.

WINLESS IN LAKE M i n net on k a pl aye d No. 1-ranked Hopkins tough, but sti l l fel l 5 4 - 41 on t he road Feb. 23 to conclude the Lake Conference schedule winless at 0-8.

Hopkins, which saw injured star Nia Coffey commit earlier in the day to the University of Northwestern, led 27-17 at halftime.

Her sister, Sydney, netted a game-high 17 points in the win for the Royals. Taylor Anderson and Viria Livingston each had nine points as well.

Courtney Frederickson led the Skippers with nine points followed by Joanna Hedstrom and Anne Hamilton with seven points apiece.

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SPORTS BRIEFS

Rec softball sign-up begins in Westonka Westonka Recreational Area is now accepting registrations for the upcoming 2012 softball season. Teams and players are needed for the following nights:

Second annual Red Birds Rally set for April 14

Tuesday (Men), Wednesday (Women), Thursday (Church) and Friday (Co-Rec).

E-mail TriangleSoftball@ aol.com or call Mike at 952-2001848 for more details. Teams will be accepted on a space available basis and forwarded to the appropriate league director.

The second annual Chanhassen Red Birds Amateur Baseball Rally is less than months

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away. Save the date — Saturday, April 14 at 6 p.m. at the Chanhassen American Legion.

Last year’s inaugural rally was a big hit for the Red Birds.

There was plenty of excitement and prizes galore. The Red Birds will attempt to repeat the event again, with a few new twists as well.

One of the new events will be a silent auction. Interested parties in donating items or prizes can e-mail Tammy Thompson at tammy8511@ embarqmail. com. Visit www.chanredbirds. org for updates on the schedule of league and tournament games for the upcoming season.

WEST Express spring evaluation night There will be an open house for the WEST Express Swim Club on Tuesday, March 6, and Wednesday, March 7, at Chaska Middle School East. The open house is from 7:30 to 8 p.m.

Coaches will be on hand to evaluate swimmers for their readiness to join the swim team for the spring or summer session. Potential swimmers should be prepared to swim

for a short period of time at the open house. If you have any questions, contact head coach Heidi Miler at westexpresscoach@hotmail.com.

The WEST Express Swim Club is a year-round competitive swimming club with team members from Chaska, Carver, Chanhassen, Jordan and Victoria. The team offers professional coaching and instruction for all ages and abilities. You can find out more by checking out the team’s website at www. westexpressswim.com.

improve their skills prior to school sideline or competitive team tryouts. Students will be taught by certified coaches with many years of competitive high school, collegiate and all star experience.

Classes started last Saturday, and run through March 24. Each class is five weeks long. For more information on classes and tryouts, visit www. swallstars.com.

For those interested in the highly athletic and growing sport of competitive cheerleading, Southwest All Stars will hold team tryouts April 18-22.

During the competitive season, athletes will spend three to six hours per week perfecti ng routi nes t hat combi ne stunting, tumbling, jumps and dance.

Founded in 2003, Southwest All Stars is a competitive cheer program serving athletes ages 3-18. Teams compete at the local, re-gional and national levels. Recent college graduate and head coach Lindsay Lockman purchased the program in June 2011. Lockman said, “I wanted to create a program where athletes could experience all of the rewards and life lessons I have received during my career as an All Star Cheerleader.”

Cheerleading classes offered at Southwest All-Stars Southwest All Stars is offering cheerleading classes for athletes 3-18 years of age at its new Eden Prairie facility.

Located at 9940 Hamilton Road near the intersection of Highway 169 and Crosstown just off the Washington Avenue exit, Southwest All Stars is convenient to all communities in the South and West metro area.

Classes are for all age levels and abilities — from beginners who want to learn more about cheerleading to experienced che erle ader s who wa nt to

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New conference

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mitted to the MSHSL, a plan entails a commitment that no 10th, 11th, or 12th graders will be cut from the high school program. At the ninth grade level we will ask players who do not play for the high school team to continue in the U-14 program, as we have done the past three years, knowing that our low numbers will support their participation at the high school level the following year,” Stein said.

With the MSHSL approving the independent co-op for the 2012-13 season, Stein has been busy at work developing the schedule. Missota teams Far ming ton and Shakopee have agreed to a home-andhome series. Lake Conference teams Minnetonka, Wayzata, Eden Prairie and Edina also will play the Storm Hawks.

T his mont h t he Missota Conference will also have to decide on the fate of a future pairing between Holy Angels and Richfield. Af-ter folding the varsity program before the season, Richfield was allowed to send its one senior to play with Holy Angels this season.

Stein said AHA officials said next year Richfield would add seven players to its program.

“We’ll be supporting it,” s aid Stei n on Ch a sk a a nd Chanhassen’s position. “It helps Holy Angels’ program and at the same time it allows

Just last week, both Chaska Assistant Principal/Activities Director Troy Stein and Chanhassen Assistant Principal/Athletic Director Dick Ungar met with six other administrators from metro-area schools to discuss the formation of a new conference.

A school release said, “It is our goal to find a conference of schools which is comparable in size, athletic and activity programming, levels of competition and that is in close proximity. At this time, we are communicating with our key stakeholders, including our school board, coaching staffs, community members, student participants, and current Missota Conference schools.”

Regardless of these conversations, both Chaska and Chanhassen High Schools will remain members of the Missota Conference for the 2012-2013 school year.

“We appreciate being part of the Missota Conference. The conversations currently underway are to determine what is best for our schools, programs, and students. We will continue to communicate with our stakeholders, should these conversations continue,” the release said.

open position.

Both Stein and Ungar hoped for wrestling to split as well for the 2012-13 season, but low participation at both schools has that thought on hold. The team will likely continue to wrestle together during the regular season, be ineligible for the conference title and split for the Section 2AAA Meet.

Gy mnastics, boys swimming and diving and lacrosse has no changes planned for next school year. Stein did allude to the fact that depending on numbers this spring, lacrosse could split in the near future.

“We’re close with that one,” he said.

seven girls an opportunity to play that wouldn’t be able to without the co-op.”

TWO SWIMMING PROGRAMS, TWO COACHES NOW T he on ly ot her c o - op e d pr o g r a m b et we en C h a sk a and Chanhassen that will see changes next school year is girls swimming and diving.

The two teams have been split the past two seasons, but have shared the same varsity coach and practice time.

Kristen Nicholson will continue to lead the Chanhassen team. Stein said he is in the process of accepting and reviewing applications for the

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victoria TOWN SQUARE KICKING IT UP A NOTCH

Who’s willing to step up to keep downtown open?

BY UNSIE ZUEGE

What will it take to keep downtown Victoria businesses busy and in the black during the upcoming Highway 5 road reconstruction project? Lawn signs, a loyalty pledge, a brand new customer points reward program, flash e-mails?

Fingers are crossed that all those offerings, as well as daily downtown events will lure residents of Victoria and neighboring cities to come, shop, and eat in Victoria this summer.

The reconstruction begins Memorial Day weekend, on Highway 5, from Highway 41 in Chanhassen west to Victoria to just past the city’s bridge near the Dairy Queen. Although a lane will be open for through traffic, during one six-week stretch, the entire road will be closed. Last week the Victoria Business Owners Association (VBOA) called a meeting for the city’s business owners and city staff to outline its strategy to keep downtown Victoria open and active.

Jim Crowley, a Victoria city councilor and former chair of the VBOA reacted to the plans.

“You’ve come a long way in 18 months,” Crowley said. He complimented the VBOA for getting ahead of the project.

The most effective kick in the pants for the business commu nity t hough came from

PHOTO BY UNSIE ZUEGE

Michelle Aspelin, at left, holds a “Think Victoria” sign that is part of the Victoria Business Owners Association’s marketing program in preparation for the upcoming Highway 5 road project. guest speaker John Tackaberry, a Delano business owner.

Delano is undergoing a similar road construction challenge.

He spoke to the Victoria Business Committee at its quarterly meeting several weeks ago.

Michelle Aspelin, a downtown business owner leading the marketing initiative, reported on Tackaberry’s succinct advice.

“He said, ‘Tell people how to get to the Dairy Queen, how to get to Fresh Seasons, to the florist, the dry cleaners,’” Aspelin said. “The key is volunteers. We need help to implement these things. We want everyone in the community to know that not a lot of time is involved, but

everyone needs to be involved.

“We want to use the talents and passion of our friends and neighbors to help us get through this,” Aspelin said.

“We want them to Think Victoria. Get them to think ‘How might I need to step up to make sure our friends and neighbors remain in business?’ Encourage everyone to buy it here first before going elsewhere or online.”

A not her Tackaber r y tip was to avoid using the word “closed” or “construction.” He stressed being positive, “Here’s how to get to the post office, to the salon.”

Aspelin outlined a “Think Victoria” sign campaign and a

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StackPoint is a new customer reward program, created by Mark Prondzinski of Eden Prairie. Victoria’s Fresh Seasons Market and Floyd’s Bar are the very fi rst businesses in the country to roll it out. From left, Dale Riley of Fresh Seasons Market, Lois Plocher of Floyd’s, Prondzinski, StackPoint founder/CEO. gift card program.

M a rk P r o n d z i n s k i , t h e founder of StackPoints, a new consumer rewards program, described how it works. No longer will consumers have to keep track of all their laminated customer rewards cards

and keychains. Purchases at any participating business will be tracked by StackPoint.

StackPoint is rolling out the program with two Victoria businesses, Floyd’s and Fresh Seasons Market.

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Developer proposes upper-income rental townhomes Brunsfield America, an international development company based in China, provided a brief overview of a rental townhome development, located at the 2500 Vogel Farm Road, off Church Lake Boulevard (County Road 43), near the Rhapsody development.

The city originally planned a new public works building for the site, but the acreage, a little less than 5 acres, is too small for the city’s public works needs.

Vincent Lim of Brunsfield described the development as having 32 units ranging from studio-size to 3-bedrooms plus.

A sketch plat was presented to the Planning Commission. The townhomes would be aimed at an upper-income market, not necessarily workforce housing, Lim said. The proposal reflects the current housing demand for people in the market for upperincome rental housing.

Councilor Kim Roden was concerned that a rental development could affect the property values for single family owned homes nearby and as well possibly increasing the city’s public safety costs. She said she was also interested in how the neighbors would perceive a rental development. She wondered if a rental development was the best and highest use of the property.

Councilor Tom O’Connor said that his concern was that the development fit the design aesthetics of the community and blend in. Councilor Jim

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better continuity in city projects and initiatives, and that it would draw mayoral candidates with commitment to serve four years.

The first reading of the ordinance change for mayor will be March 12.

BY UNSIE ZUEGE uzuege@swpub.com

Holy Family Catholic High School seniors Brian Kubisiak and Jake Richelsen were recently named finalists in the 2011 National Merit Scholarship Program.

Both boys are heavily involved in the school’s FIRST Robotics competition team.

Their work is wrapping up for state competition with 180 other high school teams.

They also have also re cently advanced to Regionals with the school’s Knowledge Bowl Varsity team.

Brian and Jake are excited about the National Merit finalist status and the potential scholarship money that may accompany the award.

They attribute much of their academic success to their college prep experience at Holy Family including numerous Advanced Placement classes, both being named AP Scholars with Honor.

“Holy Family has given me the tools and resources to expand my knowledge and satisfy my ever growing intellectual curiosity” Brian said.

Both boys plan on pursuing degrees in engineering next year at college.

“I will be furthering my education in electrical engineering” said Brian, who hopes to study at California Institute of Technology or Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering.

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On Monday, the Victoria City Council recognized and honored Victoria firefighters Dean Adams and Tim Walsh for their service. Adams served for 22 years and Walsh for 25 years. Walsh also served as fire chief from 2005-11.

Crowley pointed out that the developer did come before the real estate committee last fall and recommended design changes.

City Administrator Don Uram described the challenges of the property as being in a high-traffic area right next to County Road 43, and that Rhapsody homeowners were aware that the city originally planned to build a public works building there, and that rental townhomes might be less disruptive to neighbors.

City Planner Holly Kreft

reminded the counci l that Brunsfield was only at sketch plat stage, and that the meeting was to provide the developer with feedback. No decisions were needed at this stage from the council.

MAYOR’S TERM CHANGE The city will look at changing the mayor’s term from two years to four, matching the term lengths of council members.

Benefits would be enhanced relationships and partnerships with other entities and communities,

MnDOT will be at the annual Discover Victoria event Saturday, May 12, at the Victoria Recreation Center to update residents on const r uction, shopping access to downtown, a n d up c o m i n g d ow nt ow n events.

 The city administrator provided a positive report on the building inspector job share with the city of Minnetrista.  Daisy Scouts of Troop 15044 led the City Council in the Pledge of Allegiance at Monday’s meeting as part of the city’s outreach to community groups to participate in city meetings.  Council recognized Victoria firefighters Dean Adams, 22 years of service, and Tim Walsh, 25 years of service. Walsh also served as fire chief from 2005-11.

Also approved hiring two new firefighters Ryan Rivers and Brady Lee, at $8.24 per hour, per call of duty.  Approved a public hearing for March 12, about spending down the Build America Bond. The BAB was originally issued in 2009 to fund street reconstruction projects. There is a balance of $442,561 which the city will complete the 86th Street reconstruction (estimated at $257,463) and for Hwy 5 improvements (estimated at $217,309) outside the scope of the MnDOT project.  City still seeks volunteers for several city commissions and committees, including Park and Recreation, Senior Commission, and Planning Commission.

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www.chanvillager.com Jake hasn’t decided yet what college he would like to attend, but he knows he would like to study engineering.

The 2011-2012 school year is the 57th year of the prestigious National Merit Scholarship program, which honors academically talented high school seniors and recognizes many with National Merit Scholarship awards, worth more than $34 million.

To advance to National Merit Finalist, students must possess outstanding academic record throughout high school, be endorsed and recommended by the school principal, and earn SAT scores that confirm their earlier qualifying performance.

More than 1.5 million high school juniors in over 22,000 high schools nationwide entered the 2011-12 National Merit Program by taking the Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test. This year’s semifinalists comprise less than one percent of all United States high school seniors and include entrants with the highest scores in each state.

Our Swedish sister county welcomes an infant duchess and Doris Nelson of Fairfax, and a member of our Nordic Club have also traveled to Ydre.

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be read by Swedish author, Wilhelm Moberg and inspire his novels, “The Immigrants.”

It also spawned a movie, ‘The Immigrants’ and a musical, ‘Kristina från Duvemåla.’”

In recent years, four men from Östergötland have come to work on the old granary at Rock Isle Farm, and the county has hosted visitors from Östergötland twice. Carver County Commissioner Randy Maluchnik and his wife Suzette traveled to Östergötland for its ‘America Week’ celebration in Ydre and tour the countryside.

Burton and Nancy Johnson, Arne and Marilyn Braun, Dave

On March 9, we will celebrate Finnish American St. Urho’s Day. St. Urho’s was created in 1956 by Richard Mattson who worked at Ketola’s Department Store in Virginia, Minn. He founded St. Urho’s Day for Finnish Americans in answer to St. Patrick’s Day for Irish-Americans. St. Urho scared the grasshoppers from the vineyards by saying ‘grasshoppers, ‘go away!’ So come, don the colors of royal purple representing grapes and lime green for the grasshoppers. “St. Urho” will appear at the Nordic Club along with some Finnish music and fun.

Although we have already entered the Lenten season, the club will be serving semlor, a Fat Tuesday bun. These are delicious buns with almond, and whipped crème.

We will also have our Lotteri during refreshments. Bring a white elephant item in good condition for the table, if you have one. We will be asking for

donations of $1 for each ticket for the drawing. This Lotteri is to help fund future programming.

This event is free to the public. Free will donations to the Nordic Heritage Club are tax deductible.

Our April meeting will be moved to Friday, April to enable several of our members to attend the 40th anniversary celebration banquet of the Swedish Council of America.

For any questions call Carolyn Spargo at (952) 443-3312. Everyone is welcome, regardless of heritage! Families are welcome to our club. The meetings are held on the second Friday of the month except in June, July and August. They begin at 7 p.m. at the Victoria City Hall, 7951 Rose Street. Visit the Nordic Heritage Club website at www.nordicheritageclub.com for additional information.

Carolyn Johnson Spargo lives on the border of Chaska and Victoria, and is active in all things Scandinavian including the Nordic Heritage Club. Her column appears monthly in the Victoria Town Square pages and online at www.chanvillager.com.

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Holy Family Catholic High School’s National Merit Scholarship fi nalists are seniors Jake Richelsen, left, of Chaska and Brian Kubisiak of Chanhassen.

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Estelle Silvia Ewa Mary is the newest duchess of Östergötland!

Her infant majesty was born on Feb. 23, 2012 in Karolinska Hospital in Stockholm. Her parents are Crown Princess Victoria and Prince Daniel.

Both mother and baby are doing great.

Estelle is a French name that has been in the Bernadotte family, but within the family she will be known as Stella.

Her second name Silvia is from her maternal grandmother and Ewa is her paternal grandmother. The media guesses that Mary is named after Crown Princess Mary of Denmark.

In addition, the new duchess of Östergötland and Carver County have a connection as Carver County and the County of Ydre are sister counties and Ydre lies in Östergötland.

As many people are learning, the most famous Swede of Carver County is Anders Pettersson or Andrew Peterson who came to the United States in the 1860s, and settled in what is now known as Rock Isle Farm. Andrew Peterson kept daily diaries that would later

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SHERIFF The Carver County deputies assigned to the cities of Chanhassen, Victoria, and Carver and the townships of Laketown, San Francisco and Dahlgren responded to the following calls Feb. 20 through Feb. 26.

Feb. 20 At 1:14 p.m., responded to the 7300 block of Kerber Boulevard, Chanhassen, for report of property damage.

At 3:05 p.m., responded to the 1700 block of Basswood Court, Carver, for report of a theft.

At 8 p.m., responded to the 5600 block of County Road 10 East, Laketown Township, for a personal injury accident.

At 10:38 p.m., responded to the 7300 block of County Road 50, Dahl-

gren Township, for a personal injury accident.

Feb. 21 At 5:56 a.m., responded to County Road 10 East and Juniper Avenue, Laketown Township, for a property damage accident involving two vehicles, one in the ditch. An adult Shakopee male was cited for driving after suspension.

At 3:21 p.m., responded to the 1300 block of 80th Street, Victoria, for report of a burglary, with $60 in cash taken from the residence.

At 4:13 p.m., responded to the 6400 block of County Road 50, Dahlgren Township, for report of a boat trailer theft.

At 9:55 p.m., responded to the 1700 block of Alphon Drive, Victoria,

for report of a domestic.

Feb. 22 At 8:54 a.m., responded to the 7200 block of Bent Bow Trail, Chanhassen, for report of lost or stolen license plate, estimated loss of $20.

At 8:23 p.m., responded to the 7200 block of Minnewashta Parkway, Chanhassen, where an adult female was arrested on an outstanding warrant.

Feb. 23 At 7:40 a.m., responded to the 2900 block of 82nd Street, Chanhassen, where two adult males were cited for disorderly conduct. One adult male was cited for disorderly conduct and driving after suspension.

At 9:15 a.m., responded to the 2200 block of Lyman Boulevard,

Chanhassen, for report of a theft.

At 2:42 p.m., made traffic stop at the 2200 block of Lyman Boulevard, Chanhassen where a juvenile male was cited for possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia.

At 3:25 p.m., made a traffic stop at Lyman Boulevard and Audubon Road, Chanhassen, where two adult males were arrested on outstanding warrants. The driver was also cited for driving after suspension.

At 7:28 p.m., responded to the 7900 block of Market Boulevard, Chanhassen, where an adult Minnetonka female was cited for theft.

Feb. 24 At 5:17 a.m., responded to the 600 block of Fourth Street East, Chaska, for report of an assault.

At 7:46 a.m., responded to the 7600 block of Victoria Drive, Victoria, for report of a missing person.

At 9:47 a.m., responded to the 7800 block of Market Boulevard, Chanhassen, for report of brass ball valves, estimated loss is more than $100.

At 11:18 a.m., responded to the 300 block of Brickyard Drive, Chaska, to assist another agency with a foot pursuit behind McDonald’s and Holiday station.

At 6:45 p.m., responded to the 700 block of Lake Susan Drive, Chanhassen, to make a juvenile warrant arrest.

Feb. 25 At 2:38 a.m., made a traffic stop at Galpin Boulevard and Stone Creek Drive, Chanhassen, where an adult Chanhassen male was arrested for

DAC-IPS. At 11:06 a.m., responded to the 1200 block of 78th Street, Chanhassen, where an adult Montrose male was arrested for domestic assault.

At 1:54 p.m., responded to the 1500 block of Commercial Avenue, Victoria, for report of a theft.

At 5 : 22 p.m., r e sponded t o the 1800 block of Pheasant Drive, Chanhassen, for report of a drug violation.

At 7:32 p.m., responded to the 200 block of Greenleaf Court, Chanhassen, for report of a burglary with an estimated loss of more than $17,000.

Editor’s Note: You can listen to police, fire and sheriff’s calls 24/7 through our online police scanner at www.chanvillager.com/crimebeat.

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Figures are preliminary at this time because fatality reports from Minnesota burn centers and hospitals are not yet final, and the state’s 791 fire departments are still sending data to the State Fire Marshal Division to be compiled over the next few months.

“There are several vital reasons we collect and disseminate fire data,” Rosendahl said.

“First, cause-and-origin information con-firms that most fires are preventable. Suicide and arson are rare, while carelessness, regrettably, is not. In fatalities especially, we need to note smoke alarm effectiveness and things like drug or alcohol impairment. Ultimately, we use this data to fight fire. These numbers contribute to state fire and building codes, and they also guide our public education efforts.”

While Rosendahl states that the only acceptable fire-death number is zero, Minnesota numbers do compare favorably to national statistics. According to the National Fire Protection Association, the national fire death rate per million people is 11.8, while Min-nesota’s is 8.6.

“Continuing to reduce fire fatalities will require every Minnesotan to understand two things: how to prevent fires and how to escape them,” Rosendahl explained. “We must also accept the fact that no one is immune to the danger. Fire is opportunistic — it will take advantage of your mistakes, so you have to learn the safety rules.”

County is No. 13 on deadly list

The announcement of the 13 targeted DWI counties follows a statewide December enhanced DWI enforcement effort that resulted in the arrest of 2,573 motorists.

The caller indicated the body of an adult male was discovered with a gunshot wound to the head.

The body was found on a main trail off of the parking lot in a wooded area, by students from the Oak Grove Middle School in Bloomington, said Katie Beal, a police spokesperson.

“Initial investigation at the scene immediately indicated that it was a self-inflicted gunshot wound. The weapon was recovered. Police aren’t looking for any suspects,” she said.

Approximately 125 eighthgrade students were on an exploratory field trip at the center with a group of teachers. Thirty students and a teacher from the group made the discovery. The students were then moved away from the scene and gathered by the entrance to the center. The teacher called 911 during the process, said Rick Kaufman, Bloomington Public Schools spokesperson.

The trai l was closed for about two hours until police officers and the fire department cleared the scene. Chaplains who serve the police and fire departments talked with the students, Beal said.

Kaufman said the district mobilized its crisis response team once it was notified. The team includes grief counselors.

Students were given the opportunity to speak with counselors. Most students stayed at school, but some elected to go home early with parents.

“We did have a few students who were fairly distraught,” he said.

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PUBLIC SAFETY BRIEF

Learn about flood risks Representatives from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), in conjunction with the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, will host a Flood Risk Information Open House on Thursday, March 8, 2012, from 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. in the Carver County Emergency Operations Center, located in the Carver County Government Center at 604 East 4th Street, Chaska.

The Open House will provide Carver County residents with an opportunity to review a recently completed preliminary Flood In-surance Study (FIS) and its accompanying preliminary Flood Insurance Rate Maps (FIRMs).

The FIS and the FIRMs provide base f lood information, delineate areas subject to significant flood hazards within the county, and offer information public officials may use when permitting development in the floodplain.

The Open House wi l l be staffed with representatives from various local, state and federal agencies who will provide the most current information about flood risk, flood insurance, f loodplain development regulations, and the process for floodplain mapping within Carver County.

The newly prepared preliminary floodplain maps will be on display. Once the maps become effective, these maps

wi l l be used by f loodplain permit officials, builders and developers, lenders, realtors, insurance agents and the general public to determine flood risk, develop mitigation measures, and encourage wise and responsible risk management decision-making.

Property owners, realtors, lenders and insurance agents are urged to attend and take advantage of this opportunity to learn more about flood risk and hazard mitigation within their community.

For more information, contact John Devine, FEMA Region V Program Specialist, at (312 ) 4 0 8 - 5 5 67 or Ma rge Dwora k, F EM A Re - g ion V Outreach Specialist, at (312) 408-5527.

Six fires and 17 fatalities Preliminary figures from the Minnesota Department of Public Safety State Fire Marshal Division (SFMD) show the number of fire deaths in Minnesota increased 31 percent, from 39 to 51, in 2011. The state’s all-time low fire-death figure was 35 in 2009; the high was 134 in 1976. The 2011 number is an anomaly in a downward trend fairly consistent since the 1980s, according to a Public Safety press release.

State Fire Marshal Jerry Rosendahl called 2011 notable in that six fires accounted for 17 fatalities. Three deaths were ruled sui-cide; 16 involved alcohol or drugs. Twelve persons died in fires caused by care-

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Roads in Minnesota’s 13 counties with the highest combined totals of alcohol-related traffic deaths and serious injuries will be hot-spots for increased DWI enforcement through September, according to the Minnesota Department of Public Safety (DPS) Office of Traffic Safety.

The following 13 counties accounted for nearly half of the state’s alcohol-related deaths (202) and half of the state’s serious inju-ries (462) during 20082010: 1. Hennepin; 2. Ramsey; 3.

Anoka; 4. St. Louis; 5. Dakota; 6. Wright; 7. Olmsted; 8. Rice; 9. Washington; 10. Stearns; 11.

Sherburne; 12. Scott; and 13.

Carver.

New to the “13 counties” list is Sherburne County; taken off the list from 2011 was Itasca County.

Carver County had nine alcohol-related deaths between 2008 and 2010, 15 alcohol-related injuries and 943 DWI arrests.

Heightened enforcement in the 13 counties began in October 2011, as part of the 12-month federally funded enforcement program.

Alcohol-related fatalities, injuries and DWIs have dropped in recent years — there were 131 alcohol-related deaths in 2010, the lowest on record. Officials say enforcement and education is contributing to this trend. Still, each year alcohol-related crashes ac-count for one-third of the state’s total road deaths.

Emergency landing near Hamburg At 2 :49 p.m., Feb. 18, the Carver County Sheriff’s Office responded to an emergency landing of an airplane near 13635 County Road 31 in Young America Township, near Hamburg.

The pilot, the sole occupant of the airplane, was a 42-yearold Minneapolis woman who made an emergency landing in a plowed field after losing power to the aircraft’s instrument panel, according to a press release from the Sheriff’s Office. The Sheriff’s Office and Hamburg Fire Department responded to the landing.

The aircraft landed without damage to the plane or injuries to the pilot. An FAA representative inspected the aircraft and it was released back to the owner, according to the Sheriff’s Office.

Students discover body on field trip A group of middle school students discovered the body of a man during a field trip in Eden Prairie’s Richard T. Anderson Conservation Center Feb. 23.

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Mr. and Mrs. Robert and Cheryl Ayo e of Chanhassen are pleased to announce the engagement of their daughter, 1st Lieutenant Elizabeth Ayo e, to 1st Lieutenant Donald Baxter, son of Mr. and Mrs. Donald and Sharlene Baxter of Buffalo, N.Y. Lieutenant Ayo e, a graduate of the University of Minnesota, is a Ba alion Adjutant in the 4th Infantry Division, Fort Carson, Colo.

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Rewriting the book club Book clubs introduce readers to new books, friends

BY AMY LYON editor@savagepacer.com

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n a back corner meeting room at the Burnhaven Library, members of the newlyformed Literary Ladies Book Club gather to talk about their February title, “The Devil

in the White City.”

The small group of six discusses details of the book: How it believes the World’s Fair changed America, the motives of a young doctor and murderer and the reality that truth is sometimes stranger than fiction.

Some members peruse the paperback version while others utilize the technology of their e-readers. Two ladies armed with iPads research questions that arise.

The Literary Ladies Book Club operates in a casual structure with a playful tone that seems comfortable even though some ladies just met for the first time. The book is the bridge; their love of literature fills any gaps.

Literary Ladies first met in January and its book selection process is simple: Each month a member chooses a book in the genre of her choice and leads the discussion during the meeting.

The only rule: “Nothing too obscene,” said group founder Lisa Kvam of Burnsville.

Kvam visited litladies. com for discussion guides and googled “how to start a book club” when laying the foundation for the group.

“It helped to have a base of four people that were interested and would be there no matter what,” said Kvam.

“I also talked to people of successful and unsuccessful book clubs to see how they operated.”

Literary Ladies member Briana Capra of Prior Lake likes that she’s getting involved with this book club at the beginning to see how it grows and evolves. She also likes the opportunity the book club gives her to meet new people.

“I like the selection process,” said Capra, who knits during the meeting. “It opens me up to some books I may not have selected on my own.”

The Burnhaven Library in Burnsville offers free space each month to the group, which meets from 6:30 to 8:15 p.m. the third Wednesday of the month. In March, the Literary Ladies will discuss “The Hunger Games,” “The Night Circus” in April and “The Tiger’s Wife” is the selection for May. Literary Ladies is excited to welcome new members, Kvam said. Visit the group on Facebook (literaryladiesmn) or email at literaryladiesmn@ gmail.com.

Current page-turners “Art of Fielding” by Chad Harbach “Behind the Beautiful Forevers” by Katherine Boo “Catherine the Great” by Robert K. Massie

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Above – The Literary Ladies gather to discuss its February book selection, Erik Larson’s “The Devil in a White City.”

“Defending Jacob” by William Landay “Fault in Our Stars” by John Green “Hedy’s Folly” by Richard Rhodes

At left – Using iPads, the women research background on the book, such as the history of the World’s Fair.

“Last Man in Tower” by Aravind Adiga “Norumbega Park” by Anthony Giardina “Rin Tin Tin” by Susan Orleans

Bookmarks

“Sleeping with the Enemy: Coco Chanel” by Hal Vaughan

Interested in joining or forming your own book club? Try these links:

“Steve Jobs” by Walter Isaacson

Litlovers.com: Start your own book club with this 10step guide.

“The House at Tyneford” by Natasha Solomon

Bookmovement.com: Find out what other book clubs are reading and read book reviews.

“To End All Wars” by Adam Hochschild “Train Dreams” by Denis Johnson

Meetup.com: Find a local book club to join.

Source: Litlovers.com

Club Book author events Utilizing a Minnesota Legacy grant, Club Book brings acclaimed authors to libraries across the metro area. The programs are free and open to the public. For more information, visit clubbook.org.

Richard Louv “Last Child in the Woods” and “The Nature Principle” 2 p.m. Sunday, April 22 Ridgedale Library, 12601 Ridgedale Drive, Minnetonka

Lynne Rossetto Kasper and Sally Swift “The Splendid Table’s How to Eat Weekends”

Julie Schumacher

7 p.m. Tuesday, April 3

“The Unbearable Book Club for Unsinkable Girls”

Prior Lake Library, 16210 Eagle Creek Parkway, Prior Lake

6:30 p.m. Thursday, May 17 Chanhassen Library, 7711 Kerber Blvd., Chasnhassen

Rita Mae Brown “The Big Cat Nap: The 20th Anniversary Mrs. Murphy Mystery” 7 p.m. Tuesday, April 10 Galaxie Library, 14955 Galaxie Ave., Apple Valley

Richard Louv

Jenni Holm “Our Only May Amelia” and “Babymouse”

Lynne Rossetto Kasper and Sally Swift

7 p.m. Tuesday, April 24 New Brighton Library, 400 10th St. N.W., New Brighton

Don Shelby David Rhodes

“The Season Never Ends: Wins, Losses, and Wisdom of the Court”

“Rock Island Line,” “The Easter House” and “Driftless”

2 p.m. Saturday, April 14 Rum River Library, 4201 Sixth Ave., Anoka Anne Fadiman

7 p.m. Thursday, May 3 Jenni Holm

Stillwater Public Library, 224 Third St. N., Stillwater

“The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down” 7 p.m. Monday, May 7 Don Shelby

Highland Park Library, 1974 Ford Parkway, St. Paul

David Rhodes

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Time: 3-4 p.m. Sundays, March 4, 11, 25 Cost: Free Location: Richardson Nature Center, 8737 E. Bush Lake Road, Bloomington Info: (763) 559-9000 or threeriversparkdistrict.org

2. MY PRESCHOOLER AND ME: MAPLE SYRUP Parents and their children ages 2-5 are invited to come to The Landing and find out what makes maple trees special. Tap a tree, collect sap and sample real maple syrup and sugar. Adults and children pay program fee. Reservations required; reference activity 238403-01. Enter the park through the west entrance.

March’s warm days and cool nights are perfect for tree tapping.

Time: 1-2:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 7 Cost: $5 Location: The Landing - Minnesota River Heritage Park, 2187 E. County Road 101, Shakopee Info: (763) 559-6700 or threeriversparkdistrict.org

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Time: 12-4 p.m. Saturday, March 17 Cost: $5 Location: Lowry Nature Center (Carver Park Reserve), 7025 Victoria Dr., Victoria Info: (763) 559-6700 or threeriversparkdistrict.org

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MARCH 1 BARIATRIC INFORMATION Interested in weight loss surgery?

Attend a seminar to learn more about surgery and get answers to your questions without any cost or obligation. Seminars will cover current surgical options, benefits and limitations of weight loss surgery, lifestyle and behavior changes associated with the surgery, and the insurance approval process.

Time: 6:30-8 p.m., Thursday, March 1 Cost: Free Location: Two Twelve Medical Center, 111 Hundertmark Rd., Chaska.

Info: ridgeviewmedical.org/events; (952) 442-7820

DISNEY ON ICE: ‘DARE TO DREAM’ Experience Disney’s hilarious hairraising escapade, “Tangled,” as Rapunzel, her unlikely companions, Flynn and Maximus, embark on an uproarious journey that takes adventure to new lengths. Princess Tiana and Cinderella will also take to the ice during the “Dare to Dream” production.

Time: 7 p.m. March 1-3; 10:30 a.m.

Thursday, March 1; 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. Saturday, March 3; 1 p.m. and 5 p.m. Sunday, March 4 Cost: $10-$65 Location: Target Center, 600 First Ave. N., Minneapolis Info: targetcenter.com or (612) 6730900

MASTER GARDENER: GROWING VEGETABLES 1 This is the first part of a two-part class highlighting the 10 most popular vegetables grown in the area. A Master Gardener and CSA owner has compiled a list of favorites with hints on how to grow them successfully from start to harvest.

The first class will highlight five vegetables that can be planted as early as April for early harvest.

Time: 6:30 p.m. Thursday, March 1 Cost: Free Location: Chanhassen Library, 7711 Kerber Blvd., Chanhassen Info: (952) 227-1500 or www. carverlib.org

Friday

MARCH 2 ANNIE The Family of Christ Lutheran Church congregation presents the musical “Annie.” Ticket proceeds will support the church’s four annual summer mission trips. Annie is Family of Christ’s 5th annual musical production.

Time: 7 p.m., Friday, March 2; 2 p.m. and 7 p.m., Saturday, March 3; 2 p.m. Sunday, March 4 Cost: $10 in advance; $12 at the door; canned goods to donate to food shelf requested Location: Family of Christ Lutheran Church, 2020 Coulter Blvd, Chanhassen.

Info: tickets@familyofchristonline. com; (952) 934-5659; www. familyofchristonline.com

COMEDIAN DWAYNE GILL As a professional stand-up comedian known for his engaging personality and stage presence, Dwayne Gill can be depended on to serve up laughter wherever he appears. And when it comes to protecting, it’s not the audience’s funny bones he’s worried about – it’s the citizens of Michigan

where he works as a cop.

Time: 8:30 p.m. Friday, March 2; 8 p.m. and 10:30 p.m. Saturday, March 3 Cost: $13 for 8:30 Friday and 8 p.m.

Saturday shows; $10 for 10:30 p.m.

Saturday show; law enforcement get in for $10 for any show Location: MinneHAHA Comedy Club, 1583 First Ave., Shakopee Info: minnehahacomedyclub.com/ shakopee

‘ANNIE’ Entirely performed by members of the church congregation, “Annie” is Family of Christ’s fifth annual musical production. Along with Director Carlye Peterson, nearly 100 cast members and many behindthe-scenes helpers are part of the production team. Several children’s main characters were double-cast.

Annie will be played by Emma Nelson and McKenzie Woods.

Time: 7 p.m. Friday, March 2; 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. Saturday, March 3; and 2 p.m. Sunday, March 4 Cost: $10 per person in advance; $12 at door. Audience members are asked to bring a canned good to donate to Bountiful Basket food shelf.

Location: Family of Christ Church, 2020 Coulter Blvd., Chanhassen Info: tickets@familyofchristonline. com

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District 112 music teachers will perform in concert for the 15th annual “Jean M. Lindquist Memorial Scholarship Fund” on Friday, March 2.

ANNUAL LINDQUIST BENEFIT FRIDAY

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istrict 112 music teachers will perform in concert for the 15th annual “Jean M. Lindquist Memorial Scholarship Fund” on Friday, March 2.

Concertgoers will see and hear a variety of

music such as “The Valley Jazz Big Band,” a

Saturday

brass choir playing an antiphonal piece by Gabrieli, the faculty

MARCH 3 COUNTY DIALOGUE A Carver County Community Dialogue, sponsored by the Community Foundation for Carver County. Community members identify key issues and needs in Carver County. This is the second of two dialogues. This feedback will help provide a focus for the foundation as it encourages community support on these key issues.

Time: 8 a.m.-noon, Saturday, March 3 Location: Cologne Community Center beginning with a continental breakfast at 8:00 with the dialogue beginning at 8:30 and finishing noon.

Info: carvercountyfoundation.org; (952) 250-5138

PHOTOGRAPHING THE LAND Nature and humans coexist, and many examples can be seen in the Refuge’s river valley. Take an early morning hike and find your own land ethic through the lens of your camera.

Time: 8-9:30 a.m. Saturday, March 3 Cost: Free Location: Bloomington Visitor Center, 3815 American Blvd. E., Bloomington Info: (952) 854-5900 or fws.gov/ midwest/minnesotavalley

Sunday

MARCH 4 BIRD WATCHING WITH CRAIG Join expert birder Craig Mandel on an early morning hike to look for feathered friends. Program is appropriate for all birding skill levels; binoculars are available for loan.

Time: 8-9:30 a.m. Sunday, March 4 Cost: Free Location: Bloomington Visitor Center, 3815 American Blvd. E., Bloomington Info: (952) 854-5900 or fws.gov/ midwest/minnesotavalley

chorus, a women’s chorus, a large percussion ensemble in the

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Lindquist who was a talented and popular music teacher at

theme from “Peter Gunn,” and more.

Once again, humor will permeate the performance includ-

Chaska Middle School. She passed away from leukemia in 1997.

ing retired faculty in a rendition of “Stinkin’ Garbage,” played

Since it’s inception in 1998, the Lindquist concert has raised

on trash cans. Not to be missed will be the concert’s signature

over $30,000 for the music scholarship fund.

Curtain time is 7:30 p.m. at the Chanhassen High School

closer from the “Sound of Music.”

Past editions of the “Lindquist” have featured a faculty rock

Theater. Tickets can be purchased in advance in both the

band and this year will be no exception. “Love Shack” will be

Chanhassen and Chaska High School Activities Offices, or at

the biggie blow out tune for 2012.

the door. Ticket prices are $10 adult, $6 student, $4 pre-K, $20

The concert and scholarships are in memory of Jean

DEFINED BY NATURE The Twin Cities is home to millions of people and hundreds of species of wildlife. Explore the natural history that created this urban network of wildlife and human habitat. Whether downtown, at home or in the suburbs, visitors will discover how to appreciate and enjoy the diverse and easily accessible natural areas and learn about the history of natural resource conservation in the major metropolitan area.

Time: 11 a.m.-noon Sunday, March 4 Cost: Free Location: Bloomington Visitor Center, 3815 American Blvd. E., Bloomington Info: (952) 854-5900 or fws.gov/ midwest/minnesotavalley

THINGS NATURAL, WILD, AND FREE: THE LIFE OF ALDO LEOPOLD Like her hero, Aldo Leopold, award-winning author Marybeth Lorbiecki shares her excitement for conservation by exploring the relationships of people to each other and to the natural world.

Lorbiecki brings Leopold to life in a new biography, featuring resource and activity sections, a timeline, bibliography and historic photographs. Her previous biography, “Aldo Leopold: A Fierce Green Fire,” earned a Minnesota Book Award and a Distinguished Contribution to History Award from the State Historical Society of Wisconsin.

Lorbiecki is the author of more than 25 books for children and adults.

Books will be available for purchase.

Time: 2-3 p.m. Sunday, March 4 Cost: Free

Location: Bloomington Visitor Center, 3815 American Blvd. E., Bloomington Info: (952) 854-5900 or fws.gov/ midwest/minnesotavalley

KATHY & LEO LARA: MUSIC OF THE ANDES Leo Lara is a native of Ecuador; Kathy is a Minnesota girl. Together they play varied wind and string instruments and percussion handed down through generations in the Andes Mountains on the west coast of South America. They set their music in historical and cultural context and tell of the indigenous European and African influences on their style. This program is funded with money from Minnesota’s Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund Time: 2-3 p.m. Sunday, March 4 Cost: Free Location: Chanhassen Library, 7711 Kerber Blvd., Chanhassen Info: (952) 227-1500 or www. carverlib.org

FEEDING TIME Watch feeding time with snakes, turtles, salamanders and toads. Learn about their diets and the adaptations they each have for eating specific foods. Cameras welcome. For ages 1 and older.

Time: 1-2 p.m. Sunday, March 4 Cost: Free Location: Lowry Nature Center (Carver Park Reserve), 7025 Victoria Dr., Victoria Info: (763) 559-9000 or threeriversparkdistrict.org

MEDALIST CONCERT BAND: ‘SHALL WE DANCE?’ From the minuet to the mambo,

family rate; all sales go to the fund.

dance music has intrigued audiences for centuries. Experience a variety of dance forms in selections by composers such as Malcolm Arnold, Leonard Bernstein and Peter Tchaikovsky.

Time: 4 p.m. Sunday, March 4 Cost: Adults $12; seniors and students $10 Location: Bloomington Center for the Arts, 1800 W. Old Shakopee Road, Bloomington Info: bloomingtoncivictheatre.org

Upcoming TAIZÉ PRAYER People of all Christian traditions are welcome to join in this ecumenical prayer. The candle lit service includes sung prayer, rich silence, scripture readings, and a reflection.

Time: March 8 and 29 at 7:00 p.m., Location: St. Hubert Church, 8201 Main Street, Chanhassen.

BEAD BAZAAR The Twin Cities Bead Bazaar spring show will have 43+ vendors from 10 states coming to sell beads, pearls, silver, findings, beadwork kits, bead storage, vintage beads, crystal and jewelry, pressed glass beads, handmade Lampwork, blown and fused beads, ceramic faces, porcelain cameos, beadwork supplies, stone beads and cabs and much, much more. For anyone interested in beadwork or making their own jewelry.

Time: 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Saturday, March 10 and Sunday, March 11 Cost: $3 admission, good for both days

Location: Hopkins Eisenhower Community Center, 1001 Hwy 7, Hopkins Info: beadsbydee.com

LIL’ LEPRECHAUN PARTY A Tot Time Adventure, for ages 1-1/2 to 6 years. A parent and child class filled with St. Patrick’s Day activities. Paint a shamrock, find the end of the rainbow, frost a cookie and more! Wear green!

Fees are per child, parents free.

Pre-registration is required.

Time: 9:30-10:30 a.m., Thursday, March 15 Cost: $5 Member; $6.50 NonMember Location: Chaska Community Center, 1661 Park Ridge Drive Info: chaskacommunitycenter.com; (952) 448-5633

DOG SLEDDING The Carver County Historical Society sponsors this event. Meet the dog teams of Points Unknown of Watertown, a dog sledding adventure company. Learn how the dogs are trained, see them harnessed and pulling a sled, and learn the history of the company.

Parking costs at Baylor Park will be waived courtesy of the Carver County Parks. Preregistration required.

Time: 1-4 p.m., Saturday, March 17 Cost: CCHS members: $7.50/ adult, $5/child; non-members: $9/adult, $6/child Location: Baylor Regional Park in Norwood Young America, Info: (952) 442-4234; hgould@ co.carver.mn.us; points-unknown. com

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COMMUNITY GATHERINGS WESTWOOD PRESCHOOL OPEN HOUSE — Westwood Community Church will have a preschool open house from 5 to 6 p.m. Tuesday March 6, at Westwood, 3121 Westwood Drive, Chanhassen. Staff will be available for a tour of the facility and to answer questions.

For more information, call the preschool office at (952) 224-7426 or go online at westwoodpreschool.org.

HUMANE SOCIETY ANNUAL MEETING -Area residents of Carver, Scott and southwest Henne-pin counties are invited to attend the annual meeting of Carver-Scott Humane Society at the Chaska Community Center from 6:309 p.m. Thursday, March 15.

This year’s program includes a light buffet dinner, a recap of the Humane Society’s accomplishments and future goals, speaker Dr. Lorna Reichl, who will discuss animal anxieties/ phobias and the human-animal bond and the CSHS 2011 Volunteer Awards. Those who wish to share ideas or become a volunteer are encouraged to attend. The Chaska Community Center is located two blocks east of Highway 41 on Engler Boulevard. For more information or to RSVP for dinner by March 7, call (952) 368-3553 line 4 or e-mail us at info@carverscotths.org.

WEST SUBURBAN GRIEF COALITION — The West Suburban Grief Coalition will have its weekly meetings from March 1 through May 31 at Oak Knoll Lutheran Church, 600 County Road 73, Minnetonka. The phone is (952) 546-5433. The meetings begin at 4 p.m. with a social time. At 4:30 p.m. there is a speaker and at 5 p.m. individual break-out groups are held.

The groups consist of Spouse Loss, Child Loss and Friends & Family (all other).

SCHOOL OPEN HOUSE — Our Savior Lutheran School and Early Childhood Center will have an open house from 10:45 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. Sunday, March 18, at the campus at 23290 Highway 7, just west of Excelsior. Tours of the Preschool/ Early Childhood Center and the Kindergarten through eighthgrade classrooms, gymnasium and school campus will be offered. For more information, call (952) 474-5181 or go online at www.oslcs.org.

F O S T E R P E T H OM E S NEEDED — Volunteers are needed to provide temporary foster pet homes for puppies, cats, rabbits, kitten litters and dogs in Carver, Scott and Hennepin counties. The CarverScott Humane Society is without a permanent shelter, so all abandoned pets are housed in foster care until permanent adoption occurs. Once or twice a month the foster family comes with the pet to a public adop-tion day for 3 hours, held in Eden Prairie and Chaska. The society provides medical care, food and litter. Volunteers provide a safe, loving home for an average of three to six months. Once a month volunteers come with the pet to a public adoption day for three hours; usually held in

Eden Prairie. For more in-formation, call the society at (952) 368-3553, line 4, or check online at www.carverscoths.org.

S O U T H W E S T M E T RO TEA PARTY — The Southwest Metro Tea Party meets from 7-9 p.m. every Monday at the Chanhassen Recreation Center located at 2310 Coulter Boulevard. Each meeting includes a guest speaker and many ‘Calls to Action’ encouraging citizens to get involved in Restoring our Republic. To view past speakers or to receive our weekly e-mails, please visit www.SWMetroTeaParty.com.

CHAMBER MEMBER ORIENTATION — The Southwest Metro Chamber of Commerce invites any prospective or new members to a member orientation session to learn more about the chamber’s programs, benefits and services.

The group meets the second Thursday of the month at the Chanhassen Rec-reation Center at 9 a.m. For more information, call (952) 448-5000.

FRESH START RECOVERY — A Christian 12-step recovery program for those struggling with any type of hurt, habit, or hang-up meets weekly on Thursdays at Grace Church in Eden Prairie from 6:30 p.m. — 8 p.m. The program includes music, teaching, testimonials, and small groups. No cost or registration required.

For more information, go to www.atgrace.com/fresh-start.

MEDITATION CLASS — A meditation class led by a Buddhist monk occurs from 10:10 to 11:30 a.m. Saturdays at Chanhassen Library. Classes are open to all regardless of level of experience. There is no charge; donations are welcome.

For more information, call Ralph at (952) 934-9727 or e-mail info@triplegem.org.

MENTAL HEALTH CRISIS PROGRAM — The Mental Health Crisis Program, serving Carver and Scott counties, has a telephone and mobile crisis response service available 24-hours a day, 7 days a week. To reach the Mental Health Crisis Program, call (952) 442-7601.

W ESTWOOD JOB SUPPORT GROUP — Westwood Job Transition and Networking Group is a faith-based group dedicated to supporting those who have lost their job or are contemplating a career change.

Meetings will consist of curriculum covering a range of topics designed to assist you in your search. In addition, we will build relationships and business connections through networking, sharing, listening and supporting each other.

Employers who have open positions and are looking for great talent are en-couraged to attend.

Westwood Job Transition and Networking Group meetings are on the first Monday of every month from 5:30 to 8 p.m. in Room A112 at Westwood Community Church, 3121 Westwood Drive, Chanhassen. No sign up is required; everyone is welcome. For more information, contact Matthew Beck at matthewpbeck@yahoo.com or Pat DeZiel at patdeziel123@

www.minnetonkacamera.org.

BETA SIGMA PHI MEETINGS — Beta Sigma Phi, an international friendship network providing educational programs and service to the community meets the second and fourth Monday of each month at 7 p.m. around the southwest metro area. Women of all ages, interests, educational and economic back-grounds are welcome to attend. Meeting locations vary. For more information, call Annette Walters at (952) 250-7860.

SUPPORT GROUPS

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LIONS — The Chanhassen Lions meet every fourth Monday at the Chanhassen Legion.

The monthly meeting starts with a social time at 6:30 p.m. and the meeting at 7 p.m. For more information, visit www. chanhassenlions.org or call Gary Haberman at (952) 2002993.

ROTARY — The Chanhassen Rotary Club meets at 7 a.m. every Wednesday at the American Legion Post on Highway 5.

For more information, call Kris Dahl at (952) 454-4544.

CHANHASSEN SAL MEETING — The Chanhassen Squadron 580 of the Sons of the American Legion meet monthly at 6 p.m. on the first Monday of the month at the Chanhassen American Legion in the basement meeting room.

For information or to join, call Bob Synder at (612) 867-5365 or go online at www.sal580.org.

BIBLE STUDY — A nondenominational men’s Bible study meets every Thursday from 7:30- 8:30 a.m. at 1453 Park Road in Chanhassen. Everyone is welcome. For more information, call John at (763) 458-5985 OPERATION MINNESOTA NICE — Operation Minnesota Nice is committed to making a difference in the lives of our soldiers who are serving abroad in war zones. The group meets monthly to pack boxes that are sent to our soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan who have been “adopted” by various individuals or groups and meets on the fourth Tuesday of each month to pack items that have been donated by various organizations, companies, churches, or individuals. If you’d like to donate items, please call Audra Brown at (612) 849-0156. Want to adopt a soldier or know more?

Go to www.operationminnesotanice.com or call (763) 464-1696.

WOMEN IN NETWORKING — Women in Networking meets the third Thursday of the month in the Chanhassen/ Victoria area. For more information, visit www.win-mn.com or call Michelle Aspelin at (952) 484-6015.

W E S T M E T R O N E TWORKING GROUP — West

Metro Network, a professional, referral-based net-work comprised of trusted and experienced business professionals in the west metro area, meets Tuesday mornings. For more information and meeting times, call Vicki Franzen at (952) 9379596.

BNI-CHANHASSEN — Join other small business professionals committed to referring business to each other at our weekly meeting on Thursdays at 7:30 a.m. at the Chanhassen Recreation Center, 2310 Coulter Boulevard, Chanhassen. For more information, please contact Amy Foley at (612) 701-0822.

BNI CHAN-NET- Business Network International has a business networking meeting from 7 to 8:30 a.m. Tuesdays at AmericInn in Chanhassen. For more information, call Vicki Eide, chapter president, at (612) 385-9141.

SOUTHWEST METRO BNI — Business Network International has a business networking meeting from 7 to 8:30 a.m.

Thursdays at the Eden Prairie Community Center (16700 Valley View Road, Eden Prai-rie).

For more information, call Kevin Donlin at (612) 567-6642.

BNI-CHANHASSEN — Join other small business professionals committed to referring business to each other at our weekly meeting on Tuesdays at 7:30 a.m. at the Chanhassen American Legion Post 580, 290 Lake Drive E, Chanhassen. For more information, call Melissa Friedrichs at (612) 961-0632.

TOASTMASTERS — The Rosemount Toastmasters club meets every other Thursday in the Rosemount facility in Chanhassen (8200 Market Blvd.) in the Walnut Conference Room at 12:05 p.m. For more information, call club president Dan Klein at (952) 949-7245 or see the club’s Web site at www.geocities.com/club3096/info.htm.

The “Midday Mumblers” Toastmasters club meets from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. every Friday at the SuperValu office at 19011 Lake Drive East in Chanhassen. Non-SuperValu employees are welcome. For more information, call Dru Jorgensen, president, at (952)

294-7305, or Doug Hobbs at (952) 828-4619.

The Marsh Winds Toastmasters club meets from 9:15 to 10:30 a.m. Thursdays at The Marsh at 15000 Minnetonka Blvd., in Minnetonka. All are welcome. For more information, call Laura Berscheit, president, at (612) 616-1379 or go online at http://MarshWindsToastmasters.ToastmastersClubs.org.

The Carver County Communicators Toastmasters club meets on the second and fourth Mondays of each month at 7 p.m. at Chaska Middle School East, Room E 30 across from the Chaska Community Cen-ter, 1600 Park Ridge Drive, Chaska.

Call Jan Naude at (952) 442-3881 or e-mail him at naude11@yahoo.com for more information.

The H2O Toastmasters club meets the second and fourth Tuesday each month, from 7:30 a.m. to 8:30 a.m., at Culligan Water, 6030 Culligan Way, Minnetonka. For more information visit www.h2omasters.org or call JoAnn at (952) 912.2429.

GENEALOGY GROUP — Group meets the second Saturday of the month from 12 to 3 p.m. at the Carver County Historical Society, 555 West 1st Street, Waconia. The group has informal discussions about genealogy software, Web sites, and tips about research. For more information, call the museum at (952) 442-4234.

HOM ESCHOOL MOMS’ N IGHT OUT — Join other mothers committed to homeschooling their children of any age, for a monthly night out on the first Tuesday of each month, at 6:45 p.m., at Grace Church, 9301 Eden Prairie Road, Eden Prairie, door 4, Terrace level, Room CA214. There is no cost.

For more information or to register, call Shirley at (952) 934-4825, or register online at www.atgrace.org/events.

MINNETONKA CAMERA C LU B — The Minnetonka Camera Club meets on the first and third Thursdays of every month in the Glen Lake area of Minnetonka. Meetings begin at 7 p.m. All skill levels are welcome. For more information, call Linda at (763) 479-1635 or Leanne at (952) 443-4617 or visit

Lake Auburn accepts reservations March 12

located in Carver Park Reserve, Victoria, is situated on the shores of Lake Auburn.

The 57-site rustic campground offers swimming, a play area, p a n - f i sh i n g , a nd m i le s of nearby trails to hike and bike.

Due to high demand, the Park District strongly encourages folks to reser ve their spots early, especially people who are planning on camping

during a holiday weekend.

Three Rivers campgrounds open April 30.

To make a reservation by phone, c a l l (76 3 ) 5 5 9 - 6 70 0 starting at 8 a.m., Monday, March 12. To reserve a site on li ne st a r ti ng M a rch 1 2 , visit www.threeriversparks. org/activities/camping.aspx.

Camper cabin reservations are by phone only.

ALANON — Westwood Community Church in Chanhassen is hosting an Alanon group, a 12-step pro-gram of recovery for any person who feels deeply affected by someone else’s drinking, from 7 to 8 p.m.

Mondays. For information, call (952)224-7300.

MEN’S AL-ANON — Meets at Mount Calvary Lutheran in Excelsior at 7:30 p.m. Tuesdays.

For information, call John at (612) 269-5657.

COMFORT AND CARE — If you’ve lost someone close to you, or know someone who has, please call us to find out more information about our weekly Griefshare seminar/support group sponsored by West-wood Community Church. For more information, call (952) 224-7300.

MOMS CLUB — The MOMS Club of Chanhassen/Excelsior is a support group specifically for at-home moms. If you are interested in seeing if the MOMS Club of Chanhassen/Excelsior is for you, e-mail momsclubofexcelsior@yahoo.com for more information or come to our monthly business meeting at 10:30 a.m. on the first Tuesday of the month at Mt. Calvary Church, Excelsior, room 202.

You qualify for membership to this local chapter if you live in the zip codes of 55331 or 55317.

MOPS — MOPS (Mothers of Preschoolers) meets at Westwood Community Church. The group meets every other Thursday morning or the first Thursday evening of the month in a relaxed atmosphere to connect with other moms and learn from guest speakers. Visit online at www.westwoodcc.org.

MOPS — MOPS (Mothers of Preschoolers) for moms of children from birth through 5 years. Meets twice a month from 9:15-11:30 a.m. on Fridays at Our Savior Lutheran Church and School, 23290 Hwy. 7, Excelsior. For more information, call Lindsey at (952) 465-4194, or visit www.oslcs.org.

A LCOHOLICS A NON YMOUS — Meetings each Saturday at 9:30 a.m. and 11 a.m. at the Living Christ Lutheran Church, 820 Lake Drive, Chanhassen. Call (952) 922-0880 for a listing of other meetings in the area and for information about AA. LA LECHE LEAGUE — La Leche League of Eden Prairie meets on the third Tuesday of each month at 10 a.m. All expectant and nursing mothers and their babies are welcome.

Call (952) 474-5173 for meeting location and discussion topic.

NEWS BRIEFS

‘Religion and politics’ A First Tuesday Dialogues program, hosted by Shepherd of the Hill Presbyterian Church, will be held 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., Tuesday, March 6.

The topic of the dialogue is “Religion and Politics” and it will address, “The role and lim-

its of faith and institutional religion in American public life.”

The free dialogue is open to the public and will be held at Shepherd of the Hill, 145 Engler Boulevard, Chaska.

St. Francis Medical Center is the corporate sponsor of the dialogue. For more information, visit the “Dialog ues” page www.shepherdofthehillchurch.com.

Three Rivers Parks begins accepting family campground reser vations for L a ke Auburn Campground on Monday, March 12.

Lake Auburn Campground,

PETS OF THE WEEK

Maggie When you c ome home Maggie will be at the door and usually will talk to you with her cute trill. Pet her and she’ll loudly purr her gratitude. Maggie likes to be combed, picked up and play with interactive toys. When you sit she jumps into your lap and stays for a while if you pet her. Maggie is a smart, friendly, black /white eight-yea r- old who’d like to be the only cat.

Due to a foreclosure she is looking for a forever home with you.

Gnomeo Gnomeo is a dark chocolate male lap rabbit weighing seven pounds. He was born

October 2010.

Gnomeo is most ly litter trained.

Although he was attacked by a cat, he still gets a l o n g w it h most cats. The hair on his

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ears is growing back from the injury. He is an indoor rabbit and is a bit shy of strangers.

Gnomeo is on the dominant side and is active and wiggly.

He needs time to run around freely for a while each day.

Gnomeo likes brushing. He is microchipped, neutered, and checked by the vet.

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The pets noted are being housed by the Carver-Scott Humane Society (CSHS) and are among the dozens of homeless animals available for adoption.

For more information, go online at www.carverscotths.org.

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For information on any of the programs or activities call the Chanhas-sen Senior Center at (952) 227-1125.

potatoes. Where did the Shamrock come from? Did St. Patrick really chase the snakes out of Ireland? What are the reputed origins of the Blarney Stone?

What is the oldest official symbol of Ireland? Why do we associate the potato with Ireland?

Who are these whimsy little people we called leprechauns.

After a traditional Irish lunch of corn beef and cabbage we will sit back and enjoy the facts and fun of Irish folklore.

Date: Thursday, March 15

UPCOMING ST. PATRICK’S DAY — IRISH FUN AND FACTS — March 17 is St Patrick’s Day. Ireland’s heritage is filled with symbols and legends. Among them are shamrocks, harps, shillelaghs, leprechauns and

Time: noon Cost: $11 resident/ $12 nonresident Payment/registration deadline: March 1 READING FOOD LABELS — Learn from a registered dietitian what to look for and how to interpret food labeling.

Learn about trans fat and whole grains and why it is important to know their meaning. Learn to cut through the hype and glitz of food labeling and advertising.

Date: Thursday, March 22

Time: 10 a.m.

Cost: Free but call to register Reg i st ration de ad li ne : March 14 GRAND TIMES TOGETHER -Grandparent & Me Eggstravaganza! Join us for a morning of Easter fun. We’ll dye and paint eggs, and have fun creating bunny crafts. Spend a fun morning with your grandchild.

Ages: 3-10 with Grandparents Date: Friday, March 30 Location: Chanhassen Recreation Center, 2310 Coulter Blvd

Attention Health Care Providers!

Time: 10-11 a.m.

Cost: $4/child, $15 family max Reg i st ration de ad li ne : March 23 TA X A S S I S TA N C E — Carver County Libraries will offer free tax assistance to moderate-income individuals and seniors. All forms are E-filied. Tax assistance will be held in the Wilder Room at the Chanhassen Library on Tuesday(s) from mid February — April 10. Taxpayers that have unusual or complex tax returns will be advised to seek help from the Internal Revenue Service or a paid preparer.

Drop in during this time for your tax assistance. Check the Library web site www.carverlib.org or stop in for details.

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To diagnose back pain, the chiropractor must look at the spine in the context of its relationship to the rest of the body. There are physical factors related to poor posture and movement that can affect the proper functioning of the spinal column. The chiropractor may look at foot, knee, and leg alignment; muscle strength in legs, buttocks, back, and abdominal wall; abdominal protrusion; hip flexibility; the position of the pelvis, especially if it is tilted forward, back, or to either side; the position of the neck in relation to the shoulders; shoulder carriage and mobility of the arms at the shoulder joints; and the shape and flexibility of the lumbar, thoracic, and cervical spinal curves.

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Your spine is designed to support your weight and protect your spinal cord, the vital link from your brain to the rest of your body. Our concern is your complete health picture. A regular schedule of chiropractic check-ups can help detect, correct, and maintain optimum spinal and nervous system function. Through the use of gentle, non-surgical, drug-free care, we provide treatment from acute symptomatic relief to on-going wellness care. Please call 952.746.8150 to schedule your complimentary initial consultation and exam We’re located at 7975 Stone Creek Dr., Suite 20, Chanhassen.

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PICKLEBALL — Join the fun. Pickleball is a racquet sport that combines elements of badminton and table tennis.

The sport is played on a court with hard paddle and a wiffle ball. Although pickleball appears to be very similar to tennis, there are key differences that make picklebal l more accessible to a wider range of players, particularly and seniors. Pickleball play will be available at the Recreation Center on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons from 1-3 p.m. Use your Rec Center punch or pay the daily fee.

Monday S r. A d v i s o r y B d ( 3 r d ) 9-10:30 a.m.

Women’s Club (2nd ) 9:3011 a.m.

Bridge 12:30-3:30 p.m.

Book Club (4th) Monday 1-2:30 p.m.

Tuesday Foot Care (1st) 8 : 30 a.m.

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Health Insurance Counseling (2nd) 9-11 a.m.

Chan- o -laires — 12 : 3 0 2:15 p.m.

Wednesday Woodcarving 9-11:30 a.m.

Bingo 12:30-3:30 p.m.

Thursday Nintendo Wii (1& 3) 9 : 30 11 a.m.

Card Club (500/ Hand &Foot) 1-4:30 p.m.

Friday Sr Com mission Meeti ng (3rd) 10-11:30 a.m.

Cards & Games (1st & 3) 10 a.m. — noon Woodcarving 9-11:30 a.m.

Cribbage (3rd) 1-3 p.m.

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OPEN SWIM PROGR A M AT A M ER IC I N N — The Chanhassen Senior Center along with AmericInn of Chanhassen is offering an Open Swim opportunity for area seniors. The AmericInn pool ranges from 3-5 feet deep.

All seniors will also have access to the heated hot tub/whirlpool, and sauna. Towels are provided.

The cost is $24 for a 12 session punch card. Punch cards need to be pur-chased at the Senior Center before attending Open Swim. For additional information, call (952) 227-1125 FOOT CARE CLINIC — The Senior Center is offering foot care services on the first Tuesday of the every month. Foot care services include a soak, assessment, nail trimming and a message. Appointments last approximately 45 minutes. The cost is $26 per visit and payment is made the day of your visit.

Appointments are required and can be made by calling (952) 227-1125.

BOOK CLU B — A ll are welcome. Join us for some interesting reads and discussions at the Chanhassen Senior Center book club. The club meets the fourth Monday of the month at the Senior Center from 1 p.m.

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Music in March series begins March 4 at the library At 2 p.m., every Sunday this month, there is music at the Chanhassen Library, as part of the “Music in March” series.

Sunday, March 4, Kathy and Leo Lara perform music of the Andes.

Leo is a native of Ecuador, and Kathy is a Minnesota girl.

Together they play the varied wind, string and percussion instruments handed down over the generations in the Andes Mountains. They set their music in historical and cultural context, and tell of the indigenous, European and African influences on their style.

Leo and Kathy have performed in folk festivals, concert halls, schools, conferences, churches, libraries, and museums, and on radio and television. As co-founders of the Minnesota New Song Committee, they worked to disseminate music and bring Latin America n musicia ns to Midwest states and to encourage identity and a sense of community for Latin Americans living in Minnesota. Funded with money from Minnesota’s Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund.

CHANHASSEN LIBRARY EVENTS Authors Ruth Tremblay and Lois Schulstad will be speaking at 1 p.m., Saturday, March 3, at the Chanhassen Library about their work creating the book Carver County, part of the “Images of America” series.

The book is a collection of historic photos, and they will share a film of their work putting the book together. They will have copies of the book available for sale.

The Thrift Club is schedu led to meet on M a rch 10 from 10:30 a.m. to noon at the Chanhassen Library. The main topic for this meeting will be repurposing. This is defined as giving a new purpose or use to something, for example, placing kitchen utensils in a pottery pitcher. Those planning to attend are encouraged to bring an item they are using in a different way than it was originally intended.

Chanhassen artist Barbara Cobb will have her unique mixed media works on display for the month of March at the Chanhassen Library.

The next Great Decisions Discussion is 1 p.m., Saturday, March 31 on the topic of “Energy Geopolitics.”

The energy markets have been shaken by the instabil-

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ing 101: Edition 2012.

The Thursday Master Gardener classes in Chaska are at 6:30 p.m.: March 1 — Pruning; March 8 — Beginning vegetables; March 15 — Shade gardening; March 22 — Tree selection; and March 29 — Design and redesign of your landscape.

The gardening classes are on Monday nights at the Waconia branch, and on Saturdays at the Norwood Young America branch.

REVIEWS ity of Middle East oil and the vulnerability of nuclear power.

Moreover, developing countries like China are becoming bigger energy consumers, while energy producers like Russia see the opportunity to widen their influence. In this changed landscape, how will the U.S.’s energy needs affect its relations with other nations?

The speaker is Todd Lefko, president of International Business Development Council, an import-export firm, with homes in Minnesota and Moscow, Russia. His weekly articles appear in Rossiske Vesti, a Russian political newspaper.

Sponsored by the Friends of the Chanhassen Library.

Family Storytimes are on Tuesdays and Wednesdays at 10:30 a.m. Children and their caregivers are invited to come and share 30 minutes of stories, songs, and fingerplays that encourage the development of early literacy skills. The program is recommended for 3-6 year olds. No registration is required.

L ap sit S tor y t i me s a re Thursdays at 10:30 a.m. Babies to 18 months old and their caregivers share quality time in a 20-minute session designed to encourage language development through sharing board books and movement activities, followed by time for visiting and play. Call to register at (952) 227-1500.

MASTER GARDENER The talented Carver/ Scott Master Gardeners will be teaching classes. Check out our new website — “events and classes” under “calendar of events” for detailed information on these classes.

The Thursday Master Gardener classes in Chanhassen are at 6:30 p.m.: March 1 — Growing Vegetables 1; March 8 — Growing Vegetables 2 ; March 22 — Container Design; March 29 — Perennial Color All Season; and April 5 — Garden-

“V is for Vengeance,” by Sue Grafton All the various urges for vengeance are in this tale — one man’s wife is killed and he goes after her killer in a rage; another woman has a son who was murdered ... and she forgives. A son discovers his mother was murdered by his father years before. He had been told she left the family.

The story begins with PI Kinsey Millhone observing a shoplifter, and reporting her, which leads to her arrest. A few days later she is dead, an apparent suicide, jumping off a 400 foot high bridge into a ravine.

Her fiancé is convinced she would not have killed herself.

Kinsey goes back and researches the woman — and discovers connections to a huge organized shoplifting ring. This is one of Grafton’s best to date.

“Break Down,” by Sara Paretsky Some preteen girls in a book club, having escaped parental supervision, are dancing and singing in a made up ceremony in an abandoned Chicago cemetery on a bleak and rainy night when one of the girls stumbles across a corpse.

Private investigator V.I. (Vic) Warshawski is there, tracking them down, as a favor to her niece Petra, who is a mentor to the book club the girls belong to.

Vic gets the girls out of the cemetery before the police arrive, and discovers that two of the girls have very important connections: one girl’s mother is running for office, and another girl is the granddaughter of a wealthy Chicago philanthropist.

A local powerful muck-raking conservative TV commentator has discovered the girls were there and is hounding them and the foundation connected with the book clubs, so Vic continues to investigate.

The murder victim is a P.I. as

well, but who was he working for? How is this all connected with a man incarcerated for a murder years before in the Ruhetal Hospital for the criminally insane?

A complicated plot, intriguing characters, and timely situations that might have jumped from today’s headlines all make this one of Paretsky’s best to date.

“Death Comes to Pemberley,” by P.D. James.

Yes, mystery author P.D. James has written a mystery featuring Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy, the Bingleys, Mr. Bennet — the whole cast of characters from “Pride and Prejudice.”

I will not give away much of the unusual story, except to say that that ne’er do well Wickham and his flighty wife Lydia are featured. James has done an excellent job of capturing the era and the people from Austen’s world. “ T h e C o n f e s s i o n” b y Charles Todd This is one of the best and most complicated of the Inspector Ian Rutledge mysteries.

In post-World War I Britain, Wyatt Russell comes in the Scotland Yard, and confesses to Inspector Rutledge that he murdered a his cousin, Justin Fowler, four years previously. He wants to clear his conscience, as he is dying of cancer.

Then the dying man’s body turn up floating in the Thames a week later, but he has been shot, murdered; and it turns out he is not Wyatt Russell, but a man from a village near Wyatt’s family home, Ned Willett.

Rutledge makes many trips to the Essex marshes to the small village where they all lived. It turns out to be quite a struggle to straighten it all out, including the odd disappearance of Russell’s mother just before the war. Who killed Willet? And are Russell and Fowler dead, or missing in action?

“Way between the worlds,”

by Alys Clare 11t h centu r y apprentice healer Lassair is awakened by a voice that warns her that a loved one is in danger. Her sister is a nun at an abbey where one of the nuns was murdered; and she goes to help her.

“City of Whispers,” by Marcia Muller A Sharon McCone Mystery.

San Francisco PI Sharon McCone is ensnared in the problems of her half-brother Darcy, a troubled young drug addict who send her an e-mail asking for help, but gives no more in-

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Kathy and Leo Lara will perform music of the Andes at the Chanhassen Library on March 4. formation.

He is indeed in San Francisco, and Sharon’s investigators can track where the e-mail was sent from, and his next steps. The clues take them to the grave of Gaby DeLucci, a young heiress murdered two years previously, a case never solved.

Sharon becomes convinced that the fate of Darcy and the murder of Gaby are somehow linked.

“The Retribution,” by Val McDermid A Tony Hill and Carol Jordan Mystery. Clinical psychologist Dr. Tony Hill and detective Carol Jordan have captured a lot of sociopath serial killers in England, working out of Bradfield. One of the worst was the deceptive and wealthy Jacko Vance.

After 12 years of suffering in prison, he has finally been able to manipulate things so he can escape, and he is set on revenge.

Carol and her team are also trying to solve a string of murders of working girls, while trying to help in the search for Jacko as he sets about trying to destroy the people who put him away. This one is absolutely grim and chilling.

“That Used to Be Us: What Went Wrong with America — And How It Can Come Back,”

by Thomas Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum Friedman and Mandelbaum focus on four challenges they see as crucial to America’s sur-

vival: globalization; the revolution in information technology; the nation’s chronic deficits; and our pattern of excessive energy consumption.

They feel that the paralyzed political system and the erosion of key American values have made it impossible to address these challenges. They offer some interesting ideas for recovery, looking back to our history and profiling individuals who have not lost sight of the old American habits of bold thought and dramatic action — people like Wendy Kopp, of Teach for America; and Mike Biddle, the founder of MBA Polymers, who has invented a process for separating plastics from piles of junked computers, appliances and cars, and recycling it into pellets which can be used to make new plastic.

Robert Stevenson is another.

He is the owner of Eastman Machine Company, founded in 1888, one of the oldest manufacturers in Buffalo, N.Y. His company successfully worked with the union to keep it up and running the U.S. They also diversified and expanded the types of cutting machines and software they created. This is a readable and insightful commentary on our situation today.

Kathy Perschmann is the assistant branch manager of the Chanhassen Library. She can be reached at kperschmann@ co.carver.mn.us.

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Each March, Minnesota FoodShare directs the March Campaign, the largest food drive in the state and restocks 300 food shelves across Minnesota. It recruits thousands of congregations, companies, schools and civic groups to run local food and fund drives to aid in the effort.

Minnesota FoodShare organizes a statewide media campaign to promote food shelf donations. It produces and distributes free promotional and educational resources for food drive organizers. It acts as a clearinghouse for cash donations and distributes the funds to participating Minnesota food shelves. Throughout the year, Minnesota FoodShare advocates on behalf of hungry Minnesota families with both state and federal lawmakers and educates the public about hunger in Minnesota. mnfoodshare.gmcc.org

Jeans Day is celebrated the last Friday of each month!

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publicnotices NOTICE OF VOLUNTARY MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE SALE You are notified that: 1.

Default has occurred in the conditions of the Real Estate Mortgage dated May 5, 2011, executed by Stonefield Homes, Inc., a Minnesota corporation, as Mortgagor, to Lake Community Bank, a Minnesota banking corporation, as Mortgagee, filed for record in the office of the County Recorder in and for Carver County, Minnesota on May 6, 2011, and recorded as Document No. A537322 (the “Mortgage”).

2.

The original principal amount secured by the Mortgage was Four Hundred Seventy-One Thousand and no/100 Dollars ($471,000.00).

3.

No action or proceeding at law is now pending to recover the debt secured by the Mortgage, or any part thereof.

4.

The holder of the Mortgage has complied with any conditions precedent to acceleration of the debt secured by, and foreclosure of, the Mortgage, and any notice and other requirements of any applicable statutes.

5.

At the date of this Notice, the amount due on the Mortgage, and taxes, if any, paid by the holder of the Mortgage, is Four Hundred Eighty-Eight Thousand Seven Hundred Forty-Six and 11/100ths Dollars ($488,746.11).

6.

Pursuant to the power of sale in the Mortgage, and pursuant to the Agreement for Voluntary Foreclosure between said Mortgagor and the undersigned Mortgagee, the date of which Agreement is January 30, 2012, and a Memorandum of which Agreement was filed for record in the office of said County Recorder on February 2, 2012 and recorded as Document No. A549226, the Mortgage will be foreclosed and the land situated in Carver County, Minnesota, described as follows: Lot 1, Block 2, Stonefield, Carver County, Minnesota 8711 Osprey Lane Chanhassen, MN Tax ID 25.7540030 will be sold by the Sheriff of Carver County, Minnesota at public auction on March 26, 2012, at 10:00 a.m., in the Main Lobby of the Carver County Sheriff ’s Office located at 606 East Fourth Street, Chaska, MN 55318.

7.

The time allowed by law for redemption by Mortgagors, their personal representatives or assigns, is two (2) months after the date of sale.

8.

Each holder of a junior lien may redeem in the order and manner provided in Minn. Stat. § 582.32, subd. 9, beginning after the expiration of the Mortgagor’s redemption period.

Dated: February 14, 2012 LAKE COMMUNITY BANK A Minnesota Banking Corporation Bruce A. Boeder (9349) BRUCE A. BOEDER, P.A. 1000 Twelve Oaks Center Drive Wayzata, MN 55391 Telephone (952) 475-7040 Attorneys for Mortgagee (Published in the Chanhassen Villager on Thursday, February 23 and March 1, 8, 15, 2012; No. 4596) STATE OF MINNESOTA COUNTY OF CARVER DISTRICT COURT PROBATE DIVISION FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT Court File No. 10-PR-12-9 Estate of, LAWRENCE DEAN VELTKAMP, A/K/A LOREN DEAN VELTKAMP, Decedent.

NOTICE AND ORDER OF HEARING ON PETITION FOR FORMAL ADJUDICATION OF INTESTACY, DETERMINATION OF HEIRSHIP, APPOINTMENT OF PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE AND NOTICE TO CREDITORS It is Ordered and Notice is given th that on March 13 , 2012 at 8:30 a.m., a hearing will be held in this Court at Carver County Justice Center, 604 East Fourth Street, Chaska, Minnesota, for the adjudication of intestacy and determination of heirship of the Decedent, and for the appointment of Paul L. Veltkamp, whose address is 592 Muskegon Avenue, Muskegon, MI 49440 as personal representative of the Estate of the Decedent in an UNSUPERVISED administration. Any objection to the Petition must be filed with the Court prior to or at the hearing.

If proper and if no objections are filed, the personal representative will be appointed with full power to administer the Estate, including the power to collect all assets, pay

all legal debts, claims, taxes, and expenses, and sell real and personal property, and do all necessary acts for the Estate.

Notice is also given that (subject to Minn. Stat. 524.3-801) all creditors having claims against the Estate are required to present the claims to the personal representative or to the Court Administrator within four months after the date of this Notice or the claims will be barred.

Philip Kanning Judge 01/31/12 Attorney for Personal Representative Sally K. Mortenson Attorney at Law 2500 County Road 42 West, Suite 160 Burnsville, MN 55337 Attorney License No.: 75632 (Published in the Chanhassen Villager on Thursday, February 23 and March 1, 2012; No. 4598) CITY OF VICTORIA NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING TO REVIEW A REQUEST FOR A MINOR SUBDIVISION FOR DAVID L. COLE FOR PROPERTY KNOWN AS OULOT A, LAKE VIRGINIA FARMSTEAD LOCATED IN VICTORIA, MINNESOTA TUESDAY, MARCH 6, 2012 6:30 P.M. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the Victoria Planning Commission will hold a Public Hearing on Tuesday, March 6, 2012 at 6:30 p.m. or as soon thereafter in the City Council Chambers located at 7951 Rose Street.

The purpose of the public hearing is to review and possibly recommend approval of a request for a minor subdivision for David L. Cole for property known as Outlot A, Lake Virginia Farmstead to create two non-buildable lots within the City of Victoria, Carver County, Minnesota.

All those interested are encouraged to attend or contact the City of Victoria offices at (952) 443-4218 for further information.

Date: February 8, 2012

BY ORDER OF THE VICTORIA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR Holly J. Kreft, Community Development Director (Published in the Chanhassen Villager on Thursday, February 23 and March 1, 2012; No. 4597) ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS 2012 STREET RECONSTRUCTION PROJECT MINNEWASHTA HEIGHTS NEIGHBORHOOD CITY PROJECT NO. 12-01 FOR THE CITY OF CHANHASSEN CARVER COUNTY, MINNESOTA NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that sealed bids will be received by the City of Chanhassen at the office of the City Manager until 2:00 p.m., Friday, March 23, 2012, at the City Hall and will be publicly opened and read at said time and place by representatives of the City of Chanhassen. The office of the City Manager is located at 7700 Market Boulevard, Chanhassen, Minnesota 55317.

The bids will then be considered by the City Council on April 23, 2012, at the City Council Chambers, 7700 Market Boulevard, Chanhassen, Minnesota 55317.

Said proposal for the furnishing of all labor and materials for the construction, complete in-place, of the following major quantities: 5,900 LF Street Reconstruction and Appurtenant Work 1,400 TON Wear Course 1,800 TON Base Course 1,700 LF 15” – 18” RCP Storm Sewer 230 LF 18” HDPE Storm Sewer (Directionally Bored) 1,600 LF 8” Sanitary Sewer 5,500 LF 8” Watermain 14,000 SY Sod The bids must be submitted on the Proposal Forms provided in accordance with the Contract Documents, Plans, and Specifications as prepared by WSB & Associates, Inc., 701 Xenia Avenue South, Suite 300, Minneapolis, MN 55416, which are on file with the City Manager of Chanhassen and may be seen at the office of the Consulting Engineers or at the office of the City Manager.

Complete digital Proposal Forms, Plans, and Specifications for use by Contractors submitting a bid may be obtained at www.questcdn. com. You may download the digital plan documents for a nonrefundable fee of $25.00 (including portions of the City Standard Specifications) by

inputting Quest project #1903941 on the website’s Project Search page.

Please contact QuestCDN.com at 952-233-1632 or info@questcdn.com for assistance in free membership registration, downloading, and working with this digital project information.

An optional paper set of Proposal Forms, Plans, and Specifications may be obtained from the Consulting Engineers, WSB & Associates, Inc., 701 Xenia Avenue South, Suite 300, Minneapolis, MN 55416, for a nonrefundable fee of $75.00 per set, check payable to WSB & Associates, Inc. Bids will only be accepted from Contractors who purchase digital or paper Bidding Documents as specified above.

Bids shall be directed to the City Manager, securely sealed and endorsed upon the outside wrapper, “2012 STREET RECONSTRUCTION PROJECT – MINNEWASHTA HEIGHTS NEIGHBORHOOD.” No bids will be considered unless sealed and filed with the City Manager of Chanhassen and accompanied by a cash deposit, cashier’s check, or certified check, or bid bond made payable to the City of Chanhassen for five percent (5%) of the amount bid, to be forfeited as liquidated damages in the event that the bid be accepted and the bidder fail to enter promptly into a written contract and furnish the required bond.

No bids may be withdrawn for a period of forty-five (45) days from the date of opening of bid. The City of Chanhassen reserves the right to reject any or all bids.

Todd Gerhardt City Manager Chanhassen, MN (Published in the Chanhassen Villager on Thursday, March 1, 8 and 15, 2012; No. 4600) NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING CITY OF VICTORIA COUNTY OF CARVER STATE OF MINNESOTA T O W H O M I T M AY C O N CERN: NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City Council of the City of Victoria, Minnesota (the “City”), will meet on Monday, March 12, 2012 at 6:30 P.M. at the City Hall, 7951 Rose Street in the City, to hold a public hearing concerning: (1) the adoption of a five-year street reconstruction plan (the “Plan”); and (2) the use of a portion of the City’s General Obligation Taxable Permanent Improvement Revolving Fund Bonds, Series 2009A (Build America Bonds – Direct Pay) (the “2009A Bonds”) to finance certain street reconstruction described in the Plan, all pursuant to Minnesota Statutes, Section 475.58, subdivision 3b. The maximum principal amount of the 2009A Bonds to be used under the Plan is $442,561. The major purpose of the Plan is to provide for a mill and overlay project to 86th Street and improvements to Highway 5 in the City. A draft copy of the Plan is on file with the City Administrator and is available for public inspection at City Hall during regular business hours.

All interested persons may appear and be heard at the public hearing either orally or in writing, or may file written comments with the City Administrator before the hearing.

If a petition requesting a vote on the proposed use of a portion of the Series 2009A Bonds, signed by voters equal to 5% of the votes cast in the last City general election, is filed with the City Clerk within 30 days after the public hearing, the City may use the Series 2009A Bonds in accordance with the Plan only after obtaining approval of a majority of voters voting on the question at an election.

BY ORDER OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF VICTORIA, MINNESOTA /s/ Don Uram City Administrator (Published in the Chanhassen Villager on Thursday, March 1, 2012; No. 4601)

The following Chanhassen Park and Recreation Department programs are coming up. For more information, call the Recreation Department at (952) 227-1100. Also look for the City of Chanhassen on Facebook for more information on programs.

COMMUNITY EVENTS Easter Egg Candy Hunt — Join us for Chanhassen’s Annual Easter Egg Candy Hunt at 9 a.m. Saturday, April 7, at City Center Park. Participants will hunt for candy and special eggs in three dif ferent age categories. Each participant will receive a special bag for gathering candy and a free door prize ticket (must be present to win). Bring your camera for a photo with the Easter Bunny!

Open to children ages 12 and under. To register or for more information, call (952) 227-1100

YOUTH PROGRAMS Safe on My Own: A Child’s Guide to Home Alone Safety — This American Red Cross program teaches 8-12 year olds how to be safe when at home alone. Skills taught include: home safety, how to react to strangers, Internet safety, basic first aid, and more. A book and snack are provided. Open to 8-12 year olds on Thursday, March 6, from 5 :15 p.m. to 7:45 p.m. at the Chanhassen Recreation Center. $ 27 Residents/$30 Non-Residents.

Babysitting Training — This American Red Cross Babysitter’s Training Certification course prepares youth to safely and re-sponsibly care for themselves and/or other children in the absence of parents or guardians. Youth will learn important skills in-cluding leadership and professionalism, home emergencies, safety and safe play, feeding and basic care for infants, and first aid. Held on Tuesday, March 13, and Thursday, March 15, from 5:15 p.m. to 7:45 p.m. at the Chanhassen Recreation Center. $52 Resi-dents/$57 NonResidents.

Kindermusik Zoo Train — Kindermusik is an exciting music and movement program for 1.5-3.5 year olds (with parent/adult) designed to increase your child’s developmental evolution in language skills, literacy, problem-solving and musicality. Join us for a morning of fun where we’ll sing songs, play instruments and dance! Program runs on Tuesday, March 20, from 9:30 a.m. to 10:15 a.m. at the Chanhassen Recreation Center. $10 Residents/$13 Non-Residents Grandparent & Me Eggstravaganza — Join us for a morning of Easter fun! We’ll

dye and paint eggs and have fun creating bunny crafts with your grandparents. The event is for ages 3-10 at the Chanhassen Recreation Center on Friday, March 30, from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. $4 per child/$15 family maximum.

Tae Kwon Do Junior Program — This traditional Korean martial art teaches selfconfidence, discipline, self defense and respect for others.

There are multiple sessions available beginning in April.

This program, designed for children ages 5 — 12, is offered at the Chanhassen Rec. Center.

For more information, call (952) 227-1400.

YOUTH SPORTS PROGRAMS Small Fry Sports Football — This program is designed to provide 3 and 4 year olds the opportunity to develop large motor skills. Each session will focus on a particular sport including skill development, fundamentals, and sportsmanship. Sessions will be on Tuesdays, March 6-20 from 10 a.m. to 10:45 a.m. at the Chanhassen Recreation Center. $ 24 Residents/$29 Non-Residents.

After School All Stars Floor Hockey — Do you believe in miracles? Here is your chance to create your own! Join us for floor hockey after school at the Chanhassen Recreation Center. This program is for ages 7-11 and runs on Tuesdays, March 6-27 from 4 p.m. to 5:15 p.m. $21 Residents/$25 Non-Residents.

After School All Stars Soccer — This is a great tune-up for the upcoming outdoor soccer season! Skills, drills, and games will be played to get participants ready for the summer!

This program will be in the Chanhassen Recreation Center gym (or outdoors, weather permitting) on Wednesdays from March 7-28 from 4 p.m. to 5:15 p.m. for ages 7-11. $21 Residents/$25 Non-Residents.

Lil’ Star Sports Indoor Soccer — This program will introduce your child to the basics of soccer. Players will learn new skills and build upon those already known through drills and games. Soccer balls are provided and shin guards are recommended, no cleats though! There are multiple sessions available for ages 4-6, Tuesdays, April 10-May 15 and Wednesdays, April 11-May 16 from 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Or try our new session for ages 6-8 on Tuesdays, April 10-May 15 from 6:45 p.m. to 7:45 p.m. $45 Residents/$53 Non-Residents.

ADULT/FAMILY PROGRAMS Open Pickleball — Pickleball is a racquet sport that

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combines elements of badminton, tennis, and table tennis.

The sport is played on a court with the same dimensions as a doubles badminton court.

The net is similar to a tennis net, but is mounted two inches lower. The game is played with a hard paddle and a polymer whiffle ball. Join us Tuesdays and Thursdays from 1 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. at the Chanhassen Recreation Center. Pay the daily fee or use a punch to play!

Jab Jam — This energy-filled class begins with the basics of a cardio boxing workout. Jump rope, work your abdominal muscles, and box all in one hour.

Learn proper stance, holding pads, form, and basic combinations and moves to progress to Jab Jam II. Thursdays, Feb. 23-April 5 from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Chanhassen Recreation Center.

Introduction to Vinyasa Flow Yoga — This introductory class will focus on traditional yoga postures at a graceful pace, which will lengthen and strengthen muscles with each pose. This class is for those new to yoga or exercise. This program is offered on Tuesdays, March 6-April 24 from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. at the Chanhassen Recreation Center. $70 Residents/$77 Non-Residents.

Advanced Vinyasa Flow Yoga — Vinyasa flow yoga is a physically challenging yoga that builds muscle strength. Slow paced deep stretching allows you to increase flexibility. The program will be on Tuesdays, March 6-April 24 from 7:15 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at the Chanhassen Recreation Center. $ 84 Residents/$91 Non-Residents Zumba Gold — Takes the Zumba formula and modifies the class to suit the needs of the active older adults as well as those start-ing their journey to a fit and healthy lifestyle. It has zesty Latin music and exhilarating easy to follow dance moves; complete with a partylike atmosphere. The program will be on Tuesdays, April 3 — May 15 from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. at the Chanhassen Recreation Center. Walk-ups Welcome! $48 Residents/$56 Non-Residents, $12 Drop-in fee.

Zumba — Exciting Zumba fuses hypnotic musical rhythms and tantalizing moves to create a dynamic workout that is fun and easy to do. The routines feature interval training sessions where fast and slow rhythms and resistance training are combined to tone and sculpt your body while burning fat. All levels welcome. The program will be on Wednesdays, April 18 — May 23 from 6:45 p.m. to 7:45 p.m. at the Chanhassen Recreation Center. $48 Residents/$56 Non-Residents.

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Plant Superintendent Seneca Foods Corporation, a local Food Producer and Distribution Center located approximately 35 miles SW of the Twin Cities in Montgomery, MN currently has an opening for a Plant Superintendent.

Responsibilities include; supervision of personnel, following and overseeing company and regulatory guidelines, schedules of maintenance, budget planning, safety programs and policies, finished product quality, and other duties as assigned.

Requirements include 4-year College Degree and/or equivalent warehouse / production management experience is preferred. Applicant must demonstrate ability to manage multiple priorities, strong leadership and communication skills, along with the ability to function in a team environment.

Seneca offers an excellent benefit package, along with a competitive salary based on experience. If interested please send resume or apply in person to: Human Resources Department Seneca Foods Corporation 600 Fifth Street SE, Montgomery, MN 56069 (507) 364-8641 Phone (320) 364-8273 Fax mgarza@senecafoods.com Seneca Foods is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability or veteran status.

Community Bank Corporation is seeking a qualified individual to join our Commercial Credit Team. The ideal candidate will have 5+ years of credit underwriting, with credit analysis and loan administration experience, a Bachelor's degree, and excellent interpersonal and communication skills. We offer an exceptional compensation/ benefits program for the ideal candidate.

Please forward your resume, including salary requirements to: Nancy Aune Community Bank Corp.

455 Pond Promenade, Chanhassen, MN 55317 naune@cbchanhassen.com or fax: 952-227-2424

Experienced, licensed, commercial lines CSA needed for mid-sized independent agency. SW suburbs. Please email resume: lynda@caminnesota.com

or fax 952-448-3304.

NOW HIRING SCHOOL BUS DRIVERS 2011-2012 SCHOOL YEAR No experience Necessary will train Starting wage $13.25 per hour DOE No DUI's, must have Class D license at least 3 years And be 21 years of age Positive Connections 460 N Hickory Street Chaska, MN 55318 952-361-0899

Full-Time Groomer Our progressive veterinary hospital has an opening for a second full time Pet Groomer with a minimum of 2 years experience. Commission based w/full benefits. If you have excellent customer service skills, a positive attitude and the desire to help us grow contact: Kathy@rivervalleyveterinary.com or call 952.447.4118

Part-Time TRANSPORTATION GUEST SERVICE REPRESENTAIVE 7am-3pm & 3pm-11pm 3-4 days/week, Includes Weekends Must be Flexible Starting at $9.00/Hour Apply in Person Holiday Inn Express Chanhassen, Minnesota BREAKFAST BAR ATTENDANT 6am-11am, 3-4 days/week Includes every other weekend Apply in Person Holiday Inn Express Chanhassen, Minnesota Office Assistant needed: Customer service, data entry, payroll processing, Quickbooks. Small office, PT flexible hours. Bloomington Email Resume: info@the-lawnsmith.com

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Drivers earn up to $15/ hour.

Apply within, Shakopee/ Chaska locations.

Ridges at Sand Creek in Jordan is looking for talented chefs, line cooks and servers. Must be able to work in fast paced environment.

Front line cooks, banquet prep. Bar and Banquet servers. Part time, year round. Day, nights and weekend shifts.

Must be 18. Email application to jallar@ridgesat sandcreek.com

St. Gertrude's Health and Rehabilitation Center has openings for the following positions: RN Supervisor .9 nights RN/LPN .7 eves RN/LPN .7 nights RN/LPN .4 nights Please complete application online at

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Motorcycles

1991 Fleetwood Southwind Motorhome, Class A, 33ft. Only 38k miles!

Smooth runner, fully loaded, sleeps 6, hydraulic leveler, $10,500, 612-669-4172

2000 Harley Davidson 883 Sportster, wife's bike, never rode, must go. 1300 miles, Lots, lots of extras, mint! $7000. 952-890-0905

Boats/Motors

1998 Bayliner Capri Fish & Ski boat, 19 ft.

135HP. Inboard, stored inside. Excellent condition $6900. 952-4126417

2002 Larson 19' FishNSki, SEI 190, 135 HP Outboard, stored indoors. $11,900. or BO, NADA guide suggested $10,500.00, Jon 612730-8116

2006 Crestliner Lsi Angler 2285. Lots of extras. 60 HP Mercury 4 stroke and dual axle trailer. 763-360-6251

94 Starcraft, 17ft. Aluminum. Walleye, Bass ½ Console 75hp.

Mariner & 8hp. Kicker. $6500. 612-554-6725 or

1998 Holiday Rambler Vacationer 36' motorhome, great condition, sleeps 6, 60,000 miles, $31,900 or best offer. Call Gary at 952492-1129.

2001 Camper, 32', 5th wheel 2 slideouts, golfcart, shed $14,500. Excellent condition.

Parked on beautiful wooded lot in Zumbrota, 612-720-8683/ 612-5990184

2004 30' RLDS Fifth Wheel Terry Quantum.

Barely used, 2 slides, heated tanks, lots of extra, includes Rigid Hitch $15,500. 952-210-4102.

2003 Harley Softtail Deuce Anniversary model.

5500 miles. $13,000. 952-447-4280

2005 black Yamaha R6, 6,000 miles. Yoshimurd customized exhaust.

With OEM cover & tank bra. $5,500. 952-3610142

2005 Kawasaki 1600 Vulcan Classic with Vance & Hines pipes.

New tires. 10,895 miles.

Mint condition. $5900 Call (952) 934-7358

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20'. 200 HP+++. Complete restoration. 5 passenger. A real head turner! $6,900 or all trades welcome. 952215-5421

Part-Time

City of Chaska, Minnesota

Customer Service Representative City of Chaska is accepting applications for a part-time (25 hrs/wk) Customer Service Representative working Monday through Friday at City Hall. Duties include phone reception, public reception, cashier tasks, public information inquiries, accounting support, clerical support, and data entry.

Minimum qualifications include one-year accounting experience and clerical experience with excellent keyboard and 10-key skills. Experience using Microsoft Excel and Word desired. Starting pay range is $15.69 to $18.03 per hour DOQ. Required application available at www.chaskamn.com or at Chaska City Hall. Completed applications must be received at City Hall, by 4:00 p.m., Thursday, March 15, 2012. EOE.

2004 41' SportsCoach Elite. Fully equipped.

23,000K. Well-maintained.

3 slides. $100,000. 952-797-6264

2007 27' Colorardo RL 5th Wheel, 2 Slide $29,500 or best offer.

507-934-4834 M-F after 5:30

Motorcycles

Honda style 2007 JMST 250cc Scooter.

1329 miles, original owner, 80 mpg, 4 stroke 2 passenger, $2900.00, call Ray 952-402-9110

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Cars

1994 Harley Heritage Softtail, 26300k, all service records avail, extra set of pipes. $7500. Call Mike @ 612-309-6737

$$ Paid for Junkers/ Repairables FREE TOW. Immediate pickup.

Serving Carver/ Scott counties.

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Chanhassen Teacher and Waconia Assist. Teacher

needed to accept the opportunity of teaching and assisting (FT) a classroom of lovable infants. We are a privately owned childcare center that would like you to join our team! Visit our website; www.childrenoftomorrow.com, complete application, and send it in. Previous childcare experience a must.

Any Questions call Children of Tomorrow WaconiaJudy at 952-443-9900 Chanhassen-Melissa at 952448-7829.

WAREHOUSE Harris Communications, an Eden Prairie based company is seeking a full time warehouse person. This position requires the employee to stand for their shift, be able to read and understand picking tickets, and be able to lift up to 50 pounds. This is a fast paced job where accuracy means everything. Previous warehouse experience and knowledge of shipping software would be a plus. The position would be M-F from 9:00-5:30. If this sounds like something you would excel in please e-mail your resume to jobs@harriscomm.com or fax to 952-906-1099 for consideration.

Support Specialists FT and PT (MRCI WorkSource) Do you enjoy interacting with other people? Would you like to help make someone's day a success? MRCI WorkSource is seeking to hire Support Specialists to work with individuals with developmental disabilities in our DT&H programs and assist with carrying out daily programs. Hrs 8-4pm with flexibility for routes. Includes an attractive benefit package. PT hours T-Fri, 8-3pm.

Must have HS diploma/ GED, strong interpersonal communication, a valid MN driver's license, reliable transportation, good driving record & ability to obtain Class B - CDL within 3 months of hire. Experience working with individuals with autism and sensory needs, highly desirable. Experience in teaching and assisting with curriculum classes in social, education, and work skills a plus!

Applications available at www.mrciworksource.org or call 800-733-9935 (TDD Hearing Impaired 507-3865600; 8 AM - 4:30 PM; M-F) NO COVER LETTERS OR RESUMES PLEASE. EOE/AA

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Cars

1968 T-Bird, 429 automatic, new gas tank, tires, fuel pump, sending unit, brakes. Runs.

Needs Restoration.

Asking $1200. 952-4482015

Cars

1975 Datsun B210 AT. Only 10K miles, runs well, good brakes, great mileage, $800. Don't be a fool, drive something cool! 952-426-5657

Cars

1976 Classic Cadillac Convertible.

Low mileage. 8 cyl. 440 engine. Complete facts available by calling.

559-435-3751

Cars

2009 Chev Cobalt LT. Purchased/ driven locally, like brand new, 21,000K. Black, Spoiler, PW, PL, Cruise, CD, non-smoker, more! $10,950. 952-215-5421

Trucks

Trucks

Sport Util Vehicles

1993 Ford F150, 4x4, new motor, 35k, lift kit, dual tanks. ARIZONA TRUCK, NO RUST, $6000 OBO, Chanhassen, 505-803-8232

2000 Chevy Silverado 4x4, regular cab, long box, am, fm, cd. A/C electric locks, windows, good tires.

142,385 $4,700 612-237-9750

'10 Infiniti QX56, $35,000, Black Ext on Gray Leather, 5.6L V8, low mileage, pristine condition, loaded. 612486-2566

Trucks

1972 rare triple black 'Cuda, with high compression 340 HP. 727 slapstick tranny. Posirearend, PS, bucket seats, Recession reduced!! $42,500. 612804-4074

1976 Chevy Nova hatchback, 305 AT, new tires & exhaust. Runs/ drives great, fun car to drive! $3,000/BO. 952447-8169

1995 Chevy 3/4 ton 6.5 L Turbo Diesel ext cab 4 wd ,8' topper, ladder rack, 8' western plow.

174k , $6000. 612-4905078

2000 Jaguar XJR. Well maintained. $9700 Silver and black interior, 83,000 miles. Call 612655-6680

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2004 Chevy Silverado Z71 Ext. Cab. 77,XXX perfect cond. Loaded, leather, Bose, 6Disc, Topper and many xtras. $15,700 B/O 612-2030804

1964 Chevy C20, 350 engine, 350 auto tranny, every bolt, nut, part replaced, or sandblasted and painted. 8K. REDUCED- $12,500. 952913-7808

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2002 Ford Expedition, original owner, 4.6 liter, A/C, 6CD, third row seat, no accidents, runs, looks very good. $4700.

952-270-8292

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2009 Saturn Outlook XR AWD, leather, power, heated seats, OnStar, remote start, loaded. Great condition 70,600 miles. $19,200 Mary 952-292-7829

Vans

1997 Ford Conversion 244,000 well maintained miles, HD tow package $1,200.00 OBO, lots new, email for details scottlacher@ hotmail.com 612-2107303

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1 1/2hp Witte Hit Miss engine $500. 952-2104592

Black leather office chair. Excellent condition, $75. 952-226-1560

2 end tables, $20. 612267-8242 4 pop up books. 3 by Robert Sabuda. $35.

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Boxer, Flashy fawn.

Male puppy, AKC 10 weeks, $500. 952-4961131 Brand new, Aquaview 360 with remote. $300.

952-496-2697 Chair, glider with ottoman, green, good condition. $25. 952-4451293 Chaise lounge contemporary and comfortable.

A must have, $200.

612-275-8699 China hutch w/original rounded glass. Excellent condition, antique $500. 612-708-3484

5 year old Cockatiel, needs loving family. $60. 612-655-5553 60, brand new. CD/DVD jewel cases for $10.

612-208-6254 Apple laptop iBook G3 latest os. Excellent condition, $120. 612-8392933 Apple Laptop iBook G3 latest os. Excellent condition, $120. 612-8392933 Baby blankets, 4 homemade, never used. 4 cotton, $15. 612-2371300 Bandsaw, 12" tabletop.

New with bands, $125.

612-986-3262 Bar stools, 2, red burgundy vinyl, good condition, $10. 952-937-2472 Bed frame, queen 4poster, carved headboard. $75. 952-4455140

China, seasonal, 6pc for 12. $75. Cash only, 952-220-5339 Clock, New Haven banjo, wall model. $95.

952-934-2883 Clothes, boy 3t, shirts, jeans, pajamas, jackets. $25. 612-237-1300 Cross vice, $50. 952496-1778 First Communion dress, it's beautiful. Size 7, $45. 651-755-2924

Entertainment center 5'wx6't oak, glass doors.

Excellent condition, $350. 612-708-3484 Entertainment center, black 64"t X46"t excellent condition, pics. $100. 952-448-6294 Entertainment center, light oak, "60Hx34 Wx20D", good condition. $50.

952-9372472 Fisher Price newborn rock n play. Brand new $35. 612-876-6566 Free, refrigerator 2h x 1.5w 1.5d, white.

Home, dorm. 952-2330415 German shepherd puppy, purebred, akc. $300.

952-212-9575 Glass top tables. 2 end, 1 cocktail, $150. b/o 952-220-5339 Graco, Snugfit 35 carrier w/2 bases. Like new $65. 612-876-6566 Guitar, Bass, new Peavey Pro, setup plays great. $100. 952-4454177 H.D. aluminum roaster with cover. Good condition, $10. 952-447-4961

Hat Men's summer Stetson. Size 7 1/4 $35.

952-934-2883

Maytag washer 10 y/o & dryer 4 y/o. $200. 651336-9300

HD TV 40” projection, good condition, $85.

952-440-3357

Min Pin/ Rat Terrier Pup. $200. 952-2120366

Horse drawn Moline cultivator. Good shape. $100. 952-210-4592

Moving boxes, 60 large size, & bubble wrap.

Free. 952-445-3799

Insinkerator, model 555SS 3/4hp, used very little. $25. 952-8841434 Kids dresser with hutch.

Picks avail, $275. 612508-6230

New, 40 piece 1/4" and 3/8" socket set. $15.

952-240-1025

Kirby Heritage II, vacuum with attachments.

Good condition, $150.

612-508-1206 Kitchen table, formica, 54x36+18. 4 oak chairs. $25. 952-445-1293 Lancome Tresor set 3.4 perfume, lotion, shower gel. $40. 952-412-7076 Laptop memory 1GBDDR2 (2x512MB PC25300) $12. 612-2086254 Maltese pup 1 y/o.

Housebroken, needs good home. $300. 612419-2766 Min Pin Pup. $250. 952212-0366

New, Samsung Galaxy precedent smartphone.

Straight talk, $120. 952240-1025.

Outdoor patio furniture.

Glass table and 4 chairs. $50. 612-2758699 Outdoor, reclining, patio chairs. 2, comfortable $40. 612-275-8699 Over a thousand stamps, selling at face value. $500. 612-5081206 Piano, Elgin, grand.

Needs tuning service, can deliver. $300. 952445-4177 Pine bead board. New 36 pieces. 8 ft. $35.

952-884-1434 Red exercise ball, $10.

612-267-8242

Pioneer CS-G403 3way speakers.

Freq 3020KHz Max150W $50.

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Sectional, light tan color, Good condition $100., pic available.

952-467-3813

Unique side table, with antique sewing table base. $75. 952-2502377

Portable dishwasher.

Butcher block top. Like new, $250. 612-6690481

Shower stall with base, glass doors, chrome frame. $15. 952-4029110

Vessel sink, St. Thomas stratus, white. New. $180. 612-280-0169

Pottery Barn, kids anywhere chair. Green, white. $35. 952-3616633

Snowblower Simplicity 722, with electric start.

Excellent condition, $475. 952-250-9857

Queen size bed, very good condition. $175.

952-261-3020

Snowblower, needs belt. $100. 952-240-3426

Ralph Lauren Blue perfume for women. 4.2 new, $35. 952-412-7076

Snowblower, Toro 624, 7-1/2 HP, 24”, $325, 612-759-0570

Refrigerator, Kenmore ivory, 22cf. Great condition, $200. 952-4662452

Snowblower, Toro, electric start, $250, 952-4732481

Refrigerator, Kenmore, white, gentle used. Water, ice door. $250. 952388-8000

Waterbed, queen, softsided, waveless. Mattress, liner, heater. $50.

952-445-5140 White, computer desk with hutch. Like new, $80. jlitt27@hotmail.com

Sofa, red and tan. Floral stripe, $50. 952-3689718

Rival, crock pot, $5.

952-403-1567

Sony 32” Trinitron WEGA TV. 2 remotes, $235. Cash, 952-2205339

Rotti, F, 6 months old.

ACA, Reg, $1,000. o/bo 952-239-9044

Tipman 98, with flatline barrel, 2 tanks, supplies. $175. 952-583-5716

Samsung TV, excellent shape, Owner manuals included. $25. 952-4673813

Trunk, light gray. Cloth, 20"Lx14"Wx15"D, older, good condition, $15.

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Mike Lein When Mike Lein, director of Environmental Services in Carver County, earned his biology degree at Bemidji State University, environmental studies was not a specialty.

Instead, Lein’s specialty evolved, in the beginning, as part of his job to implement a new solid waste mandate.

“From there, one thing led to another,” Lein said, “ and we ended up getting into different water quality issues, sewer systems...It started this logical progression into something more.”

In addition to being a key figure in Carver County environmental decisions, Lein is also an accomplished writer.

“A couple years ago I took a couple of courses online which taught me about submitting work to publications,” Lein said. His work can be read in both regional magazines like the “Lake Country Journal” to more nationally known magazines including “Cabin Life.”

“Most of my writing is taking a personal experience and turning it into, one, something an editor will pay for, and two, some-thing someone will enjoy reading,” Lein said. “My writing is fairly light, not at all like what I do at work.”

Lein joined the Jackpine Writers Bloc, based near Park Rapids, Minn., and the Chanhassen Library Writers group.

“I usually run a potential article past both or both groups before submitting it to an editor,” Lein said.

At 10 a.m. Saturday March 17, Lein will speak at the Chanhassen Writers meeting in the Longfellow Board Room of the Chan-hassen Library, and give advice for writing columns and making publication submissions.

Q: What advice would you give to an aspiring writer?

A: Don’t learn to write on your own. Take writing classes, attend writing conferences and retreats, and find a writers group to participate in. These will all help you be a better writer whether you are a poet or a fiction or nonfiction writer. One of the best things I ever did was to take a simple Internet-based class on “how to write and publish magazine articles.” It cost about $70 and paid for itself with the first article I published shortly after taking the class.

Keep writing. Writing is just like a sport. The more you practice, the better you get.

Don’t be shy. Have others read and critique your work. Don’t let rejection letters from editors stop you.

Research a magazine, book publisher, or website to save time and rejection letters. Don’t try to publish a dog story in a cat lover’s magazine or a non-fiction book for a fiction book publisher.

Q: What inspires your topics?

A: Most of my published work is creative non-fiction magazine articles based on personal experiences, usually related to “life” at my lake cabin in northern Minnesota or outdoor activities like hunting and fishing. The stories usually have some humor or a quirky twist. People often ask if I make up these stories about neighbors, big fish that got away, or getting stranded in Montana by mud for days. I don’t. I just get out there and enjoy life and in the process I meet interesting people and have interesting experi-ences. Ideas for articles “happen” without having to make them up. Truth really is stranger than fiction most of the time. The chal-lenge for me is to take a true experience, write a unique or funny story about it, and get an editor to pay me for it and publish it.

Q: Have you considered writing about environmental studies considering you work in this field?

A: People usually assume that I write about environmental issues since that’s been my day job for over 35 years. I do enjoy my job-most days.

But frankly, it’s too much like work.

Much of my motivation for writing is to tackle a different type of challenge and to take a break from serious stuff. Some of my articles do have environmental lessons or information in them. But I would rather sneak these into an article than make them the focus or to preach about them.

And I have to be careful to split managing the County’s environmental programs and carrying out County policies from my own opinions. That is a fine line I try to keep away from.

-Meghan O’Connor

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The Willems family is proud to participate in the Barn Quilts of Carver County art project. The Dutch inspired Triple Tulips is the perfect motif for their historic Dutch-styled barn. Family members are, front from left, Janet Fahey, Eugene Willems and Mary Shimota. Back row, from left, Steve Willems, Judy Rademacher and Tom Willems.

Barn quilt is proud emblem of Dutch heritage The Triple Tulip Quilt block pattern on a barn of similar Dutch design exemplifies the heritage of a Carver County family.

After coming to the United States from Echt, Limburg, Netherlands, William Willems bought 160 acres in Carver County, in Cologne, 148 years ago, on Aug. 24, 1863. Twenty four years later in 1887, he sold the land to two family members who co-owned and homesteaded the land together until December 1899, when Theodore Willems then bought 80 acres from the home place. Since that time, two more generations — Arnold and Eugene — have kept the farm in their family.

In 1956, when Eugene and his wife, Margaret, moved to the farm with their young family, the decision was made to clear more land and build new structures. The original existing log barn was torn down. In 1961, a new barn was built from a similar Dutch design — placing doors at both ends of the building providing easy access for a dairy operation.

The new barn was constructed of timber from the woods on the farm.

The trees were cut down and the logs were taken to the Co-logne sawmill by tractor and wagon to be cut into lumber.

Both oak and ash trees were used. The “stringers” on the hayloft floor were then covered with purchased pine floor boarding. The doors, too, were made from purchased pine wood. The foundation ma-sonry work was done by Fred Matz of Arlington, Minn. According to Eugene, four carpenters, along with the help of neighbors, built the barn in four days.

Now 88 and retired, Eugene rents out the land, but continues to keep the farm in the family, sharing ownership with his children.

Since retirement, the barn has been used only on a limited basis. It provides

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space for light storage. On a number of occasions, Janet and her sisters have used it to hold a “Barn Boutique” -selling crafts, antiques and yard sale items.

And, yes, there are quilters in the immediate and extended family.

Eugene’s aunt, Susan Willems, made quilts for family members, friends and church functions. Everyone in the family remem-bers going to Grandma Stacken’s home to help “tie” quilts in her basement.

Working on the Barn Quilt project reminds the Willems family of their ancestry and the pride that their forefathers would feel knowing the property is still owned by the family. They are proud to display their heritage — Triple Tulips on their Dutch barn.

The Barn Quilts of Carver County project is supported by the Chaska Quilt Club and coordinated by Naomi Russell and Suzanne Thiesfeld.

Barb Hone is an arts enthusiast, piano teacher, and charter member of the Arts Consortium of Carver County.

Her column “Barn Quilts of Carver County” appears periodically in the Chanhassen Villager. To join the ACCC, go to www.artsofcarvercounty.org or e-mail info@arts ofcarvercounty.org.

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Locations: 1. The Andrew Peterson Farm—Swedish Apple Orchard, 8060 Parley Lake Rd., Waconia 2. Deardorff Orchards—“Apple” Tree of Life, 8350 Parley Lake Rd., Waconia 3. At the Farm—TBD, 8880 Hwy. 5, Waconia 4. Carver County Historical Society Log Building—Log Cabin, Carver County Fairgrounds, 501 3rd St., Waconia 5. The Drill-Mellum Barn—Dutchman’s Puzzle, 5850 Co. Rd. 155, Waconia 6. The Kelzer Farm—Double Wedding Ring, 12855 Co. Rd. 32, Waconia 7. The Melichar Barn—Blazing Star, 8020 Hwy. 25, Mayer 8. The Brinkman Farm—Crazy Quilt, 18980 102nd St., Young America 9. The Kramer Barn—Lone Star, 17870 134th St., Norwood/Young America 10. The Pearson Barn—Fannies’ Fan, 17450 134th St., Hamburg 11. The Honebrink Farm—Custom Block, 17175 Co. Rd. 53 Belle Plaine 12. The E. Willems Barn—Triple Tulip, 10720 Co. Rd. 153, Cologne 13. The Schreiner Barn—Trip Around the World (variation), 9380 Co. Rd. 140, Cologne Learn more at www.barnquiltsofcarvercounty.com

Loaded with e-mail — and ready to change A newspaper secret, something article I read last that no one else ever week talked about experienced and people using their something about e-mail inboxes to which I should stash hundreds — or feel ashamed and even thousands — embarrassed. of e-mails in much So I’m out of the the same way that closet, so to speak, people who are and aware that in packrats stash their this day and age physical “stuff” into of information the attic or garage. overload, this is a A few days later, I common problem.

FIND YOUR BURIED TREASURE received a newsletter And now that — by e-mail, of the secrecy and course — that had the emotions are an article on the same subject. But removed from it, it’s easier for me this was more business-related, to simply say, “Okay, so what do I talking about how an inbox do about it now?” full of e-mail dilutes our focus Some of the suggestions in both and concentration, and breeds of the articles I read were basic inefficiency and indecisiveness. and obvious, such as going through I learned a lot from both of these and deleting the garbage — the articles, and probably the most unwanted and unsolicited offers helpful and reassuring was this: I and mailings — as quickly as am not alone. possible. That’s the easy part, and I confess to having a few it’s something I already do. hundred e-mails — not thousands, Others weren’t applicable. A but hundreds — just sitting number of suggestions in the around on each of several e-mail business-related article involved addresses I use regularly. And passing different types of e-mail — even though it would make sense and responsibility for them — over to assume that other people were to your assistant, whom you’ve in the same situation, I always felt now trained on how to handle like this was my own dark little or process them. That’s fine for

Betty

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people who have an assistant, but it doesn’t do anything for me.

What will probably be the most helpful, and will ultimately make the biggest difference, is the simple realization that I need to develop a plan and follow it consistently, and that I need to devote a set and specific amount of time to it every day — until it becomes a habit or I get my inbox occupancy down to zero, which is the ultimate goal. It also helps to know that by forcing myself to do this, I will clear out a lot of clutter — things that were once important but no longer are.

In the process, I’ll probably also find some gems — things that still are important, but that have slipped off my radar as they slid down the list under more recent incoming info.

My New Year’s Resolution this year had to do with getting in the habit of responding immediately whenever I got an invitation, request, or question from someone in person, by mail, or by e-mail.

I’ve been pretty good at the inperson and regular-mail things, but e-mail is another story. And it seems like my inbox is even more loaded than before.

This could be because people and places are sending out more e-mail than ever. Or it could be

for the same reason that you start craving foods you can’t have as soon as you start a diet or develop a medical condition that forbids them. Or the same reason that a room in your house gets messier than ever as soon as you decide to give it a thorough cleaning.

After all, before you can purge and eliminate what you no longer want or need, you have to pull it all out in the open.

Either way, the two articles I read are a good reminder that I still have a lot of work to do. And now is as good a time as any to get started. So I’ll devote a set amount of time and a set time every day — half an hour right after lunch seems like a workable beginning — for going through my e-mail to eliminate what I don’t need, rescue what I do, and discipline myself to start making decisions and taking action more immediately and effectively. And I’ll start dreaming of the sense of accomplishment, power and discipline I’ll feel when I have nothing to show for it — except an empty inbox.

Chanhassen resident Betty Liedtke is a writer, professional speaker, and Certified Dream Coach®. Visit her website at www.findyourburiedtreasure.com.