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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2011
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EXTRA, EXTRA AT XCEL … EAGLES WIN STATE TITLE
Dayton calls state senator’s action ‘unconscionable’ BY LEAH SHAFFER lshaffer@swpub.com
PHOTO BY DANIEL HUSS
After sweating through six match points, the Eden Prairie bench jumped in joyous jubilation as the Eagles won a state volleyball championship (Lakeville fans behind the bench weren’t nearly as excited). In a match that could go down as the most memorable in state tournament history, Eden Prairie defeated the defending state champion Lakeville North Panthers 22-25, 25-21, 19-25, 25-18 and 22-20 (the last set is played to 15 points, but you have to win by two). For more, go to page 8.
EDEN PRAIRIE SCHOOL DISTRICT
McBroom: Before adjustments, ‘take a look at the big picture’ BY LEAH SHAFFER lshaffer@swpub.com
PHOTO BY KARLA WENNERSTROM
John Teman in his Eden Prairie home.
EP veteran to receive France’s highest honor Teman set to receive Legion of Honor BY KARLA WENNERSTROM editor@edenprairienews.com
John Teman, 91, remembers the night before D-Day, June 6, 1944, in Normandy, France. “I remember taking of f that night,” Teman said last week. “We
got in our planes at midnight.” Teman was the pilot of a transport plane, flying through fl ak to drop paratroopers in strategic spots behind enemy lines. “I wasn’t really scared,” Teman said in a 1994 interview. “I was just f lying them in. … They were the ones that had the tough jobs. They and the ones who went ashore from
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Eden Prairie Schools Interim Superintendent Jon McBroom started work this month. McBroom will serve as the interim superintendent until a permanent replacement is selected next year. He retired from Shakopee Public Schools in May after serving 11 years with that district. Prior to being hired as Shakopee’s superintendent in 2000, McBroom served as superintendent in the Mora and Rush City school districts. Eden Prairie News interviewed McBroom Monday, prior to his first School Board meeting Tuesday. The following interview has been edited and condensed. Q: What do you see as your role in the district? A: “Basically I’m coming in to provide transitional superintendent work until the board is able to search for and select the next superintendent. My intent is to just do the duties of a superintendent and do the same things that I’ve been doing for 28 years and try and help the district move along.”
PHOTO BY LEAH SHAFFER
Jon McBroom is the interim superintendent for Eden Prairie Schools. Q: What do you see as some of the ongoing challenges in this district, compared to where you came from? What are the differences? A: “Probably the biggest difference
Though the legislative session is a few months from getting started, politics are already in play. E den P r a i r ie’s State Sen. David Hann has incurred the wrath of Gov. Mark Dayton a fter Hann blocked the use of $25 million in federal healthcare grants. Sen. David In a letter, and Hann press conference, Dayton called Hann’s move, which temporarily blocks the dispersal of the funds, “unconscionable.” “Sen. H a n n’s u nwa r ra nted imposition of his personal ideology on state agencies’ abilities to help people with urgent needs is unconscionable. He will severely harm 5,000 Minnesota children with cancer and their families who would be helped by the Pediatric Cancer Surveillance grant,” he wrote. Hann has demanded Dayton apologize for such statements and questioned just how urgent the grants really are. The grants affected by Hann’s action include a total of $25 million in federal funds given over five years, which will fund improvements to an electronic screening system that affects pediatric cancer patients; provide funds to prevent chronic disease among low-income populations; develop “home and community-based services for aging veterans” and offer “lower cost care” for Minnesotans affected by Alzheimer’s, according to Dayton. The grants are to be administered t h rough st ate Depa r t ment of Health and Human Services. Hann, who is the chair of the Senate Health and Human Services Committee, has the authority to request more information on the grants. He said he talked to officials from the affected departments about the impact of holding up the funds. If you request more information, then the law says the funds can’t be accepted by administration until next legislative session, Hann noted. So it gives them the opportunity to have a hearing, he said. Hann said he raised questions about grants, which he said total $60 million, because the information provided was “very vague.” Hann said he was told that none of the grants would be used to pro-
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