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INDEPENDENT CREMATORY
Pleas for civility follow incident During appeal, city won’t force crematory to cease operations BY MATHIAS BADEN editor@jordannews.com
PHOTOS BY LORI CARLSON
Daisy (left), 10, is completely blind. Her son, Duke, 6, sticks close to her side and has become her very own seeing-eye dog. Below — Dog trainer Leda Blom gets a toothy kiss from Duke. Blom has been training Duke and Daisy and helping them adjust to their foster home between Jordan and Prior Lake.
The Ballad of Daisy and Duke Blind dog and her son need a good home – together BY LORI CARLSON editor@plamerican.com
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his is a tale of two very special dogs who are also remarkably normal. Daisy, 10, is completely blind. Duke, her 6-year-old offspri ng, has become her seeing-eye dog. The two are inseparable. If they get too far apart, Daisy barks and Duke runs to her side. Duke watches out for her and guides her throughout the house and yard – he even taught her how to maneuver through the doggy door of their foster home just outside of Prior Lake. Daisy and Duke had a family once, until one day they found themselves lying on the concrete floor of a shelter, their family having lost its home to foreclosure. They spent months in
that Nebraska shelter, the fur on their elbows so worn down by the concrete that their skin was raw. The yellow labs came within about 24 hours of being euthanized because the shelter couldn’t find a suitable home for them. A rescue group in Iowa saved them from death row, and Secondhand Hounds, a Twin Cities rescue, brought them to Minnesota. That’s when a woman who lives between Prior Lake and Jordan signed on as their foster. “She said, ‘We can’t let these dogs be euthanized,’” dog trainer Leda Blom recalls the foster saying. Blom, who has trained the foster’s own dogs, was hired to train Daisy and Duke three days a week.
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Police find stash of guns by school BY DAVID SCHUELLER dschueller@swpub.com
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SCOTT COUNTY FAIR
How? It’s a secret Magician performs 3 types of shows in local debut BY DAVID SCHUELLER dschueller@swpub.com
Magician Kevin Hall performs an illusion called the Las Vegas slicer. It’s a fine illusion – a how’d-he-do-that spot that has you scratching your head. However, Hall talks more about how much he interacts with his audience, and the energy he brings to his shows.
Kevin Hall
“If there’s such a thing as a typical magic show, mine’s a step up as far as energy level is involved,” said Hall, who runs a company called the Halls of Entertainment. At the Scott County Fair, he’ll put on three types of shows on Thursday and Friday, July 28-29. First will be a show called “the magic maniac show” for kids ages 5-12.
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This could go on for a while. The Jordan City Council decided on Monday night that during the impending appeal of a recent court decision, Jordan police will not force the crematory located at Ballard-Sunder Funeral Home to cease crematory operations. Councilmembers, sans Mayor Pete Ewals – who is accused of being involved in an altercation at the funeral home last Thursday night – emerged from a closed session to publicly vote on four motions: I to appeal the Scott County District Court judge’s decision, which declared null and void the Reflections Crematory conditional-use permit (CUP); I to research the appropriateness of changing the city’s zoning ordinance with regard to the crematory; I not to seek to stop the funeral home from operating its crematory, but to research the fi nancial implications of proceeding with such action, which presumably could lead to another lawsuit; I and to issue a press release about the topics of discussion in the closed session to receive advice from City Attorney Annette Margarit and League of Minnesota Cities Insurance Trust lawyer Paul Merwin.
SUBMITTED PHOTOS
A group of four males allegedly stole $19,800 worth of items from a Jordan home, including shotguns, rifles and a bottle of champagne and then stashed them in woods near Jordan Middle School. The car they used? Mom’s Mercedes, according to police. Two adults and two juveniles were arrested for the alleged July 8 burglary of a home, while its residents were on vacation. Zachary Edberg-Anderson, 18, of Belle Plaine and Chad Ruud, 18, of Shakopee were charged with firstdegree burglary. Two juveniles were also expected to be charged. After 9 a.m. July 8, following a tip, Jordan police and a Scott County sheriff ’s deputy saw items being dropped off from the car at two locations. The car also stopped at a Shakopee pawn shop, according to complaints. At about noon, offi cers stopped the Mercedes at the intersection of Highway 169 and Old Shakopee Road.
Put your hands together for an illusion called the arm chopper, a staple in the repertoire of the Halls of Magic.
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