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news Looking for the lucky bounce Rotary raises $1,500 during July 4 fundraiser
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Derek Hanisch, 2010’s Relay for Life honorary chair.
Cancer survivor aims to change the world, one step at a time 24-year-old Derek Hanisch is this year’s Relay for Life honorary chair for July 15-16 event BY JOHN MOLENE
Tall and muscular Derek Hanisch still looks like the offensive tackle he once was. Hanisch was 17, in the midst of his junior year, and training for Eden Prairie High School football when he noticed a severe pain in one of his legs. “My leg was just really killing me,” said Hanisch. “So we went into the doctor’s office and he thought torn cartilage. So they wanted to do an MRI to make sure and they did this MRI scan and the results came back saying I had a tumor in my knee.” A biopsy revea led t he t u mor
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Above — The Eden Prairie A.M. Rotary Club fundraiser involved dropping 150 golf balls from an Eden Prairie Fire Truck ladder during the Fourth of July celebration at Round Lake Park Monday. The balls were dropped on a Rotary banner at the softball fields. The balls closest to the center of the banner won prizes including a $1,000 travel voucher and a round of golf at Bearpath Golf Course.
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Left — A.M. Rotary Club member Jared Chester and son, Blake, went up in the ladder for the golf ball drop. With each ball going for $10, the club raised $1,500 from the event.
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Wings of the North AirExpo lifts off July 16-17 BY MICHELLE STEVENS mstevens@swpub.com
The Wings of the North, a nonprofit organization founded in 1998 to preserve and present aviation history, will be presenting the 11th AirExpo at Flying Cloud Airport from SaturdaySunday, July 16-17. The AirExpo will feature appearances by aviation heroes, aircraft and opportunities to ride in a few of the planes. According to the Wings of the North website, with each year AirExpo attendance has at least doubled. The aircraft scheduled to appear at the 2011 AirExpo are the P-51C Mustang, which was made famous by the Tuskegee Airmen and has rides available; the Flying Fortress B-17 “Yankee Lady”; the B-25 “Miss Mitchell,” which has cockpit tours available; the A-10 “Warthog”; the Hawker Sea Fury “Sawbones”; Clay
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was cancerous. That news turned Hanisch’s world upside down. But seven years later, Hanisch has beaten the cancer and is the honorary chair
Interchange work grinds to halt as shutdown continues BY LEAH SHAFFER lshaffer@swpub.com
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An estimated 6,000 fans attended the annual air show last year. Adam’s 1929 Travel Air 400, which has rides available; the TBM 3-E Avenger; the Navy SNJ; the L-29 Delphin; the T-6 Texan; the Stearman; the BT-13; the Stinson; the Champ; the Harvard and the BT-15 Project. The Commerative Air Force will be
offering flights on the P-51 C Mustang for $1,500 per person for a 30-minute ride. The Yankee Air Force will be offering rides on the B-17 Flying Fortress for $425 a person. The fl ights
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The cars keep coming, but the workers are stuck waiting. Among the many impacts from the Minnesota government shutdown, state construction projects including the Highway 169/Interstate 494 interchange reconstruction have been halted. The deadline (end of 2012) to finish the $125 million project could be threatened if the shutdown drags on. As of Wednesday (the newspaper’s print deadline), Gov. Mark Dayton and Republican leaders had resumed budget talks after taking a four-day break. The shutdown went into effect July 1 after budget talks broke down last week. Since then,
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the ripple effect of the shutdown has been felt through a variety of areas – state parks have been closed, services vastly reduced and workers have been laid off (1,300 in Hennepin County alone). In Eden Prairie, one of the most glaring impacts can be found at the jam-packed 169/494 interchange. The project started shutting down last Monday, according to Mark Olsen, the vice-president of design build at Edward Kraemer and Sons, one of the contractors for the project. As of Tuesday, “we have not moved the equipment off site,” he added. “We’re demobilizing some now but others will remain on site,” he said.
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