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INDEPENDENT GET HAPPY – IT’S HOMECOMING WEEK
Instructor Greg Hayes talks with Jordan firefighters Jeff Peters (left), Mike Leverson and Jess Soller. Jordan’s Eric Olsen also took part in the training.
Goal of training: ‘Make them tired’ PHOTO BY RON MORNSON
Homecoming king and queen were crowned on Monday, Sept. 26. The royalty are Trisha Laabs and Kurt Schansberg. Behind them are junior attendants Madison Pelowski and Afton Koch.
BY DAVID SCHUELLER dschueller@swpub.com
One goal of a 24-hour fi refi ghter training last Saturday: wear them out. In life, fi refighters have to respond regardless of what tiring, mundane or stressful events were already going on in their lives. This past Saturday, a group of more than two dozen rookie fi refighters spent 24 hours in a training shift at the Scott County Association for Leadership and Efficiency (SCALE) Regional Training Facility in Sand Creek Township, near Jordan. “This is the fi rst time that we’ve tried a 24-hour shift,� said Mike Briese, regional training facility manager. Nearly all the cities in Scott County were represented by 15 rookie fi refighters, and Carver County sent about a dozen. Four were from Jordan.
Jordan Elementary School had its own dress-up days, including crazy hair day. Third-grader Tate Gregor (left) and first-grader Avery Gregor sported funky ’dos.
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JORDAN SCHOOLS
Taxes could go up over the price of air handler Taxpayers in the Jordan Public Schools district are going to be paying for a 2010 installation of an air handler at Jordan Elementary School. The Jordan School Board on Monday, Sept. 26, set the limit of its 2012
PHOTOS BY RON MORNSON
Firefighters Shane Bachman, left, and Tyler Fink rescue an unidentified baby doll from a simulated burning building. They tested their endurance and learned skills on Saturday, Sept. 24 near Jordan in a 24-hour training session.
TAX ABATEMENT SUBMITTED PHOTO
BY DAVID SCHUELLER dschueller@swpub.com
Rookie firefighters work 24-hour shift at nearby facility
tax levy. It can lower but not raise the levy at its final approval after the truth-in-taxation hearing on Dec. 12. The levy comes in at an increase of less than 9 percent, or $333,901, more than last year’s levy. The maximum the district will levy is more than $4.1 million. The increase is the same as the cost of an air handler installed at
the elementary school, Superintendent Kirk Nelson said. The state is reimbursing the district for the cost in 2012. Board members passed the levy with all yes votes. Board members Dan Buresh and Tammy Will were absent from the meeting.
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Jordan set to regain 15 jobs, and more Transmission remanufacturer fills empty building BY MATHIAS BADEN editor@jordannews.com
One of Jordan’s successful sons is returning home. A remanufacturer, wholesaler and distributor of automatic transmissions will move back to Jordan, after the city penned a nearly $123,000 financial assistance agreement to
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woo the business from Shakopee to its prospective new home. Dy notec I ndust ries, for merly located in downtown Jordan, will purchase a building in the Timberline Industrial Park, bringing 15 jobs and the potential for more, City Administrator Ed Shukle said.
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