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Marion Ross, pictured with Tom Bosley (Howard Cunningham) and Henry Winkler (Arthur “Fonzie” Fonzarelli) in a Happy Days press photo. The show ran from 1974 to 1984. Ross kept a dress from the “Happy Days” set as a souvenir after the show wrapped. “I can’t quite fit into it anymore,” she said wistfully.
‘Happy Days’ in Carver County Beloved TV mom Marion Ross talks about her local ties BY MOLLEE FRANCISCO mfrancisco@swpub.com
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he pages of an atlas flap noisily as Marion Ross fl ips through the book in search of her birth city. “Now I can find Waconia, but where is Watertown?” she asks, her voice as warm and familiar as a mug of hot chocolate on a cold winter’s day. The famous redhead doesn’t have many memories of her time in Carver County – she left the area when she was only 3 years old – but she does have photos. “I have a picture here of mother holding me, wrapped up in blankets at
CARVER COUNTY’S ALIST Everyone loves a brush with fame. Over the years, Carver County has entertained presidents and sports stars. A Chaskan battled Dracula; the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducted Chanhassen residents; and at least one former Watertown resident is a bestselling author. Read about these stars, and many more, on pages 10-11 in the print debut of Carver County’s A-List.
the edge of a lake,” she said in a phone interview. “It must be Watertown.” Ross, 83, grew up the second of three children to Gordon Ross and Ellen Hamilton Ross. “I was the middle child,” she said. “It was a good spot to be in.” She credits her birth order with giving her the push to be successful – most notably playing Marion Cunningham, “Mrs. C.,” for 11 seasons on “Happy Days.” “You have a lot of drive, a lot of initiative,” said Ross.
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MOVIES Motion pictures – especially those starring Greer Garson and Ingrid Bergman – fascinated the young Ross. “The movies were just wonderful,” she said. But Ross wasn’t content to simply sit back and watch them. “My
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On page 2, we debut our fi rst batch of “Herald reports …” As part of the Chaska Herald’s 150th anniversary, on Sept. 4, 2012, the wonderful folks at the Chaska Historical Society have gathered a batch of brief items that we plan to publish every week throughout the year. The items also will be posted online daily. Each repor t comes f rom a Herald article or advertisement published on that exact date at some point in the newspaper’s 150-year history. Chaska resident Norm Oberski developed an algorithm so the historical society volunteers know which annual volume of the Herald contained each date. We asked volunteers to pluck whatever item struck their fancy – exciting, hilarious, sad, interesting, even run-of-the-mill items that the Herald has reported over the years. Combined, we hope that they’ll provide a portrait of our community as it’s grown over the past 15 decades. You may have also noticed an addition to the Chaska Herald f lag at the top left of this page. This logo was developed by Herald designer Traci Zellmann, based on the eagle that graced the top of the newspaper when it was fi rst published in 1862. We plan on community events and more historical news as the year progresses, so stay posted.
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Marion Ross, held by her mother Ellen Hamilton Ross on an area lake, years before she would become one of America’s most beloved TV moms.
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New direction for wind power? Chaska company attempts to change wind industry
“This could make Minnesota the Silicon Valley of wind.” Dr. Daryoush Allaei
BY MOLLEE FRANCISCO mfrancisco@swpub.com
Dr. Daryoush Allaei didn’t set out to revolutionize the wind industry, but he may have stumbled on an idea that could become a major game changer, not only in the wind market, but the entire field of energy production. In a non-descript office in an unremarkable building on the north
side of Chaska’s Jonathan Industrial Park, sits a pair of rudimentary prototypes ready to show the world a different way of thinking. The models illustrate the idea behind Invelox – a wind generation system designed to capture, accelerate and concentrate wind power. Lifesize counterparts will be rolled out in the next few months for testing. And
if Allaei can convince the world that his idea works, he can envision a day when his wind generation systems are atop every building and every home all around the world. “Once people taste something that can coexist with nature and harvest wind, there’s no stopping us,” he said. SheerWind was recently awarded the Cleantech Open’s North Central Region Sustainability Award for the Invelox.
HARVESTING WRONG Born in Iran, Allaei came to the United States at the age of 20 to study
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Dr. Daryoush Allaei is the brainchild behind SheerWind’s INVELOX wind generation system.
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