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AMERICAN COUNTY ROADS 42 AND 17

Unique intersection nearly done

BY SHANNON FIECKE sfiecke@swpub.com

The first-of-its-kind interchange in Minnesota is nearly complete at the three-legged intersection of county roads 42 and 17.

Vehicles began using the overpass two weeks ago, and fi nal striping on the main structure went down last week.

“There’s not much work left, but we want people aware there’s still construction, particularly under the bridge,” said project manager Greg

Felt of the Scott County Highway Department.

The project used a unique “A + B” bidding process that considers the daily costs of motorists waiting in traffic and taking different routes while the road is under construction.

Scott was the second known county in the state to try this method and plans to use it in future projects.

While vehicles can now travel freely on the overpass on County Road 17, those turning onto County Road 42 underneath might have short delays.

Minor grading and curb work is left,

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and some ramps will be bumpy until the final wear-course is laid. Lighting is still to be finished. A storm-water pond also must be landscaped.

Felt asks motorists to drive slowly under the bridge because of work still being done.

Although common on the East Coast, this is the first completed three-legged interchange – also called a partial or flyover interchange – in the Midwest. A second, similar one is under construction at county roads 13 and 101 in Savage.

Felt said the design is intended

to improve the safety of T-shaped intersections.

“We want to eliminate the points where people have the tendency to make mistakes and judgments,” he said. “This one is very unique in the way it’s laid out.”

Because County Road 42 was at the bottom of two hills, motorists might notice the overpass looks like it belongs there, Felt said.

“A lot of interchanges are imposing. This one lays lightly on the land,” he said. “It seems to be working quite smoothly.”

First of its kind Although common on the East Coast, this is the first completed three-legged interchange – also called a partial or flyover interchange – in the Midwest.

A second, similar one is under construction at Highway 13 and County Road 101 in Savage. The design is intended to improve the safety of T-shaped intersections.

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All fifth-graders tested exceed proficiency in math, reading

BY MERYN FLUKER mfluker@swpub.com

If the Minnesota Comprehensive Assessments (MCA) exams were graded, Aspen Academy would’ve earned an A+ for its fi fth-grade students.

On the tests, administered last school year, 100 percent of Aspen Academy fi fth-grade students exceeded proficiency on both the reading and math assessments. Maggie Rowan, Aspen’s curriculum coordinator, called the students’ performance “phenomenal.”

“It’s just astounding,” she added.

“If you never see it, you don’t think it’s possible. Clearly, it can be done.”

This isn’t the fi rst time the charter school, which opened its doors in 2007, has seen that level of success.

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Abby Heiser (right) watches Lauren Mahowald cut felt for her art project on Wednesday afternoon during I Love Art with Abrakadoodle, an after-school art activity offered at Glendale Elementary School through Prior Lake-Savage Area Community Education Services. Abby, 8, and Lauren, 9, made arpilleras – Peruvian three-dimensional textile pictures – for the day’s craft.

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2011 MCA results Percentage of students that met or exceeded standards MATH MCA-III Grade Aspen Academy/State 3 86.4/70.2 4 88.1/67.2 5 100/53.6 READING MCA-II Grade Aspen Academy/State 3 93.2/78.5 4 88.1/75.1 5 100/80.3

Environmental trip funding could see a shift Some say teachers paid too much for trip; others defend their place at Wolf Ridge

BY MERYN FLUKER mfluker@swpub.com

For the Prior Lake-Savage Area School District’s fi fth-graders, this is the time of year they’ve been looking forward to. More than the fi rst day of school or the last, students have

been gearing up for the week when they will take buses up to Finland, Minn. and spend time learning and exploring at Wolf Ridge Environmental Learning Center.

District 719 students have been traveling to environmental learning centers for over 30 years, and

the latest bunch will depart on Halloween for Wolf Ridge. The trip began as a weeklong affair back when there was only one section of fi fth-graders. Now, the district takes two schools’ fi fth-grade sections at a time during three separate weeks.

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The excursion has sprawled into an educational experience that will include 549 students and 125 teachers and chaperones this year, which may be too many teachers in the eyes of some.

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The Prior Lake-Savage Area School District on Monday approved three documents which will play a large role in steering the district’s path: the superintendent’s goals, board goals and the district’s two -year operational plan.

Each objective falls into one of six categories: increasing student growth and achievement; maintaining financial accountability; expanding innovative programming to meet family needs; expanding and embeddi ng envi ron ment a l focus; integrating technology for teaching and communications; and engaging parents, families and community to strengthen a culture of respect and inclusion.

“I think we’ve probably put more work into evaluating our goals and aligning our goals this year with the administrative team than we ever have in the past,” said Board Chairman Eric Pratt. “It’s probably the fi rst time, since I’ve been on the board, that we’ve truly aligned our goals specifically with the strategic plan, and I think it was well worth the effort to do so.”

Aside from recurring issues such as teacher negotiations and budgeting, the document also touches on new initiatives.

Beginning in January 2012, the board will make decisions on whether to move forward with a science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) immersion school, with hopes to open in time for the 2012-13 school year (a steering committee is currently studying that option as well as a foreign-language immersion school). In addition, the board is set to spend January through March assessing its co-curricular activities philosophy, particularly in relation to Prior Lake Athletics for Youth.

Other board goals include funding a technology audit – another step for the district to complete its long-term technology goals – and investing in branding the district.

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Looking ahead Beginning in January, the board will make decisions on whether to move forward with a science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) immersion school, with hopes to open in time for the 2012-13 school year (a steering committee is currently studying that option as well as a foreign-language immersion school). In addition, the board is set to spend January through March assessing its co-curricular activities philosophy, particularly in relation to Prior Lake Athletics for Youth.

GRUVER’S GOALS Superintendent Sue Ann Gr uver’s job per for mance, which is evaluated annually by the board, is tied in part to the amount of progress she makes on meeting her goals.

For 2011-12, there’s a focus on student achievement, marketing and communication.

Gruver is hoping to boost student achievement in math, reading and science by 2 percent during this school year, and make District 719 the top performer in the South Suburban Conference in all three subject areas.

Murray said the goal of having District 719 recognized statewide “as a school district of excellence” resonated most with him.

In addition, Gruver wants to expand technology offerings, including educational use of smart phones at Prior Lake High School, increasing hybridand online-learning opportunities and raising the number of classrooms with technologyembedded curriculum.

Another measurable benchmark for Gruver includes growing the district’s organic recycling program, which should be in 90 percent of buildings by the end of the current school year.

Regarding marketing, Gruver has a number of goals tied to staving off the forecasted drop in elementary enrollment that has already begun to impact District 719. Gruver plans to host five of her Java Jive listening sessions with the community, look for additional money and media to market the district and have Decision Resources do another local survey during winter and spring of 2012.

Also impacting enrollment, Gruver will study the development of the County Road 42 and Highway 13 area and its potential impact on boundaries, which could be felt as soon as the 2012-13 school year.

Other goals include creation of a superintendent commu-

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OPERATIONAL PLAN The board also adopted the district’s operational plan, a document that combines objectives from the board and superintendent’s goals to create a clear compass for the district’s next two years.

The operational plan includes increasing student participation on the ACT by 5 percent – and raising scores on the college-entrance exam by 1 percent – this school year.

Given that the operational plan stretches into the 2012-13 school year, with references to the 2013-14 budget and a possible summer 2013 survey about district space use, Gruver called the roadmap a “living document.”

“It could change very easily,” the superintendent said.

“This is where we believe we’re going to be in 2012-13, but that will be up for adoption next fall, when we look at this again.”

Tentative 2012-13 initiatives include organic recycling in all district buildings and, through continued grants and funding, expanding the district’s Alternate Delivery of Specialized Instructional Services (ADSIS) programming – which the district began last year with dollars from the state – to kindergarten through 12th grade. Currently District 719’s ADSIS programming, which allows paraprofessionals to provide additional instruction time for struggling students who have not been identified as requiring special education, is available for students in grades four through eight in math and grades three through eight for reading.

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“Parents have approached us and said, ‘The parents do all the work when they’re up there anyway. Why do you need the teachers?’ I don’t know. I’ve never gone,” said Tracy Peterson, one of the new heads of Friends of Wolf Ridge, a group dedicated to raising money to fund the annual trip. “There are parents who are very disgruntled because they feel that they’ve done all the work.”

Friends of Wolf Ridge exists under the umbrella of the Prior Lake Savage Educational Foundation and was started after the Prior Lake-Savage Area School Board voted to cut funding for the trip from the budget in 2007.

Through grants, fundraisers and partnerships, Friends of Wolf Ridge has been able to continue to supply the necessary funds for district fi fth-graders to venture to Finland, Minn. each year. The district has not restored funding for the Wolf Ridge trip, but due to community support, fi fth-graders have been able to continue taking the trip.

“This place offers the opportunity for our students in Prior Lake and Savage to see a place different from where they live,” said Sandy Timmerman, a fi fth-grade teacher at WestWood Elementary School and the district’s Wolf Ridge coordinator. “Students learn cultural history, earth science, environmental science, biology, team building and personal growth … Students have the opportunity to participate in activities unlike anything they have ever done before.”

With its certified educational staff, Wolf Ridge offers instruction in all these areas and more.

Students participate in games and activities, with many students mentioning the center’s adventure ropes course as the most-anticipated event.

“This class not only challenges students, it builds trust, encouragement and teaches skills on ways to face fears,” Timmerman said of the ropes course.

In past years, Friends of Wolf Ridge’s price tag has risen from approximately $20,000 in 2008. Each year, the group sits down with district officials, who invoice the group for the cost of teacher stipends, transportation and other associated costs. Julie Cink, director of business affairs for District 719, said the cost from now on should settle to about $43,000, which includes a $1,500 stipend for each teacher on the trip (Friends of Wolf Ridge also subsidizes teachers’ FICA and Medicare costs, for a total of just over $1,700 per teacher).

“Unless something changes in the future, I think we are pretty set on what the district provides and what [Friends of Wolf Ridge] will have to provide,” Cink said.

An idea Peterson and fellow Friends of Wolf Ridge head Peter Schmidt floated, as a way to cut trip costs, is to reduce the number of teachers who go – in favor of more volunteer parent chaperones.

“It’s a possibility because this program is so important to the district’s [environmental education] program that there is no reason why there wouldn’t be a separate group of chaperones and a smaller group of teachers to oversee,” said Schmidt.

Timmerman, who has gone on many Wolf Ridge trips, said teachers are “always extremely busy” at Wolf Ridge, despite the presence of certified staff and parent volunteers.

“As a teacher our role does change up at Wolf Ridge,” she said. “We have much more of a leadership role in helping and supporting our parent chaperones and students in all the different groups. We are often found running from group to group making sure everything is going well …

We also meet with chaperones who have questions or need help with a lesson or a student issue. We are always extremely busy. This trip would not be possible without parent chaperones, but I am not sure if this could be a district wide trip without teaching staff due to the nature of discipline and health and medical needs.”

Peterson and Schmidt agreed that both parents and teachers played important roles not only in the Wolf Ridge trip, but in any child’s education.

“To me, the primary educator for any child is their own parent,” Peterson said.

Schmidt agreed, though he noted the importance of the bonding teachers have with their students, which he witnessed when he chaperoned a Wolf Ridge excursion.

“The teacher supplements that and it’s well-appreciated,” Peterson added.

The trip Prior Lake-Savage Area School District fifth-graders from six elementary schools will head up to Wolf Ridge Environmental Learning Center beginning on Monday, Oct. 31. Students from Redtail Ridge and Five Hawks will go next week, followed by the fifth-graders from Jeffers Pond and Glendale elementary schools on Monday, Nov. 14 . Grainwood and WestWood fifth-graders are scheduled to depart for Wolf Ridge on Monday, Dec. 5.

A ‘scaled-down’ affair The Parent-Teacher-Child organizations at the District 719 elementary schools donated $2,800 each toward this year’s Wolf Ridge trip. One way the groups secured those dollars is through the annual PTC Carnival, the largest fundraiser for the district PTCs. The ability to fundraise may be in peril next year when three of the PTCs opt out of coordinating the carnival.

“Glendale, Redtail Ridge and Westwood elementary schools will be hosting the carnival in 2012,” said Greg Kerr, president of Glendale Elementary School’s PTC. “As of right now, Grainwood, Five Hawks and Jeffers Pond have decided to not participate. This is a great community event, but it does take a tremendous amount of coordination and involvement from parent volunteers as well as help from our middle school children. The carnival will be a bit scaled down, driven by only three schools participating this year, but is sure to be just as fun.”

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Jennifer Laurienzo, president of Grainwood Elementary School’s PTC and a member of the educational foundation, helped coordinate last year’s carnival but is sitting out this year.

“Some of the PTCs are rethinking their present support for the carnival due to the significant time commitment required for its coordination and the numerous essential volunteers needed for its safety and success,” Laurienzo said. “Given that, some PTCs are choosing not to participate for one year in order to consider other options and re-examine their goals pertaining to this event.”

Timmerman said the experience can be educational for the adults who accompany the kids.

“As a teacher, the benefit of this trip is developing a strong cohesive classroom community after going on this trip together,” she said. “When do teachers and students get the opportunity to see each other from morning until night? As teachers, we take the time to check in with our students throughout the day. They see us fi rst thing in the morning and right before they go to bed.

“When we get back to school there is a different feeling. The students have grown, and as teachers we are able to view our students in a totally different setting. We get to see strengths we may not have noticed in the classroom.”

HELP FROM FRIENDS The Wolf Ridge trip carries an approximate $375 price tag per student. They can knock off about half of that, down to $190, if students opt into fundraising. That $190 tuition covers the trip’s fees, which i nclude t he cost of pa rent chaperones.

Some parents foot the entire bill rather than have their children fundraise locally, which is also an option. Students whose families cannot shoulder the economic burden can opt not to go on the trip – Timmerman said each year less than 1 percent of fi fth-graders choose not to go, as Wolf Ridge is not mandatory – or they can apply for scholarships.

W hile the district never funded tuition for the Wolf Ridge experience, it did subsidize transportation and the additional stipend teachers receive – as articulated in their contracts – for supervising and chaperoning the excursion, similar to the stipend coaches and activities supervisors receive.

Friends of Wolf Ridge formed to raise money to replace those dollars, though the district does still pay for teacher salaries and any costs associated with having special-education students attend the trip.

“It was the initiative of Lisa Provost, one of a few passionate parents who chaperoned a trip who saw the need for a long-term plan to keep this program ongoing,” said Martha Hoover, president of the Prior Lake-Savage Area Educational Foundation. “Lisa, et al. took the initiative to fi nd a way to continue the program.”

Layoffs and cuts have become all too familiar as school districts across the state have faced reduced funding. Many local organizations, including Friends of Wolf Ridge, have sprung up to bridge the budget gaps and retain those extracurricular pieces excised from district budgets. After Provost stepped down earlier this year, Peterson and Schmidt took the reins.

“We as a district do appreciate the time and effort it takes to provide that opportunity for kids,” Cink said.

Friends of Wolf Ridge has raised much of its dol la rs through grants from the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community and other organizations as well as through pledged dollars from the elementary schools’ parent-teacher-child (PTC) organizations.

The PTCs get most of their dollars through their annual joint fundraiser, the PTC Carnival, held each spring at Prior Lake High School.

For the current Wolf Ridge

trip, each PTC donated $2,800 to Friends of Wolf Ridge. Peterson is worried about being able to secure that same pledge for next year’s trip.

“Next year’s the tough one,” she said.

The PTCs are not all joining together to host the carnival this year, and with at least one PTC president – Greg Kerr of Glendale Elementary School – foreseeing an event that will be “a bit scaled down,” there could be an impact to Friends of Wolf Ridge.

Looking to preser ve the trip that means so much to the district and its students, the organization is hoping to step in.

“To earn the money that Wolf Ridge needs, we are contemplating taking over the carnival,” said Schmidt.

While nothing is set in stone in terms of whether Friends of Wolf Ridge will help to coordinate the 2012 carnival, the money problems are much larger than that.

“All fundraising is down and it’s been going down for years,” Schmidt said. “Even grant applications are down.”

Pet er s on c ont end s t h at Friends of Wolf Ridge’s fundraising options are also diminished because many organizations’ grants mandate that the dollars cannot be used to pay for individuals.

“A lot of potential grantors, a lot of the places, foundations, say they will not go for teachers or individuals,” Peterson said.

Schmidt and Peterson also noted, that according to their records, if the student-paid portion of the trip increased by $100 apiece, Friends of Wolf Ridge “wouldn’t need to exist.”

No one interviewed for this story discussed plans to raise the student fee.

FUTURE With education funding in perpetual peril at the state level and funding shifts becoming the order of the day, it’s likely that District 719 will not be able to restore funding the Wolf Ridge trip any time soon, if ever. That does not mean, however, that administrators do not value the program.

“It is defi nitely an enhancement to our current educational program,” Cink said. “It is a wonderful enhancement to our program.”

With an eye fixed on the future, Schmidt and Peterson are hoping to eventually transition Friends of Wolf Ridge out from under the educational foundation.

“It does open us up to more grants by not being under the umbrella of another organization,” Schmidt said.

Right now, those plans have halted until Schmidt and Peterson can put together a board and the necessary dollars to file for its own federal nonprofit status. But they’re both devoted to their cause.

“I’m committed to this for however long it takes for it to be self-sustaining,” Schmidt said.

“I was born in Duluth,” Peterson followed. “I grew up on the Iron Range. I appreciate all the things you learn being in the woods.”

If history is any indicator, for the students getting ready to board those buses to Finland, Minn., it will be something worth remembering.

“At the end of the school year we ask our students for their highlights of the year,” Timmerman said. “For most students it is their trip to Wolf Ridge.”

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Prior Lake’s identity, future demand slow, sustainable growth I’m new to Prior Lake but no stranger to the Twin Cities. My parents moved to Bloomington in 1952, when my dad transferred back to Minnesota after several years in Fort Dodge, Iowa and Philadelphia.

He was with Cargill and managed the soybean processing plant in Savage.

Dad was born in Blakely, Minn. and spent much of his youth on his grandfather’s farm near Belle Plaine. His family had roots in Scott County going all the way back to the Civil War. In the early 1950s, dad and I would leave our house on Normandale Road, cross the onelane highway railroad bridge at Savage, then wind our way along what is now County Road 44. This was long before today’s Highway 13 was built. I remember it as a pleasant drive passing farm fields and wooded pastures.

Our destination was a family resort near what is now Lakefront Park. There, we’d rent a boat and spend the day going after crappies and sunfish and the occasional bass or northern pike. These were among the most cherished moments of my childhood, which is why I was so disappointed returning here in 2007 and seeing what decades of development had done to what was once a small, rural, resort community.

Economists call it creative destruction, the relentless grinding down of the old and obsolete and its replacement with the new. It’s also called growth or progress, and we’ve been taught to accept its inevitability regardless of its effects on our heritage, the environment and the quality of our lives. It’s what the County Road 21 controversy was all about. It’s also about how Prior Lake lost its identity, and its ongoing struggle, now, to regain it.

We can’t rewind history. The small farming community of 400 people that was Prior Lake in 1952 may as well be on another planet.

Nor can it be remade into something else by top-down consultants and developers with their assorted plans and visioning exercises.

Their schemes come at too high a price. Communities grow from the ground up, not from the top down. Sustainable change is about incremental growth, welcoming and supporting small businesses that are unique to the community.

Downtown Prior Lake has some of them already, although, ironically, one of them would have been lost to the bypass. A diner catering to the breakfast and lunch crowd would be a nice addition; so would a specialty coffee and tea store. Or how about a five and dime?

There are other possibilities. Above all, the downtown and the nearby area must be pedestrian-friendly and accessible. A pedestrian and bike walkway under County Road 21 would help tie the downtown area together, as would traffic calming and reducing the speeds on County Road 21. Perhaps 21 could be

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transformed into a parkway through the downtown area.

So, what does that mean for Prior Lake’s identity? First, it means all of us have to work together, not at the occasional visioning workshop, but as neighbors and neighborhoods. Nor should we rely on city government to do things for us that we ought to do ourselves.

I was amazed at how the Pleasant Street neighborhood and the greater community came together in opposition to the County Road 21 bypass proposal. It completely shattered the myth that suburbanites are passive players and don’t care about such things. Taking the next step means forming neighborhood associations, getting to know and working with the people around you on issues and projects of mutual interest and importance.

Identity is also about supporting Prior Lake’s three greatest assets: its parks, its lakes and its schools.

We have one of the finest park systems in the metro area. That and the city’s ongoing erosion-control and water-quality programs have earned it awards. Our schools are among the best. My contacts with the principal and the staff at Five Hawks Elementary make me wish I could turn back the clock to first grade and start all over again.

Finally, we need to look to the future. It won’t be anything like the previous 20 years. Our population is getting older. Demographers and economists tell us that the economic engine that drove the rapid growth and development of the ‘80s and ‘90s is running out of steam. Roads and highway improvements are needed, but so is an investment in the information superhighway, and that means working with service providers to bring truly high-speed Internet access to the homes, schools and businesses in Prior Lake and all of Scott County.

Prior Lake is a great place to live.

Incremental, sustainable, thoughtful change, not growth for growth’s sake, will make it even better.

John Diers is a Prior Lake resident who spent 40 years working in the transit industry and author of “Twin Cities by Trolley: The Streetcar Era in Minneapolis and St. Paul.” To submit questions or topics for Diers, e-mail Prior Lake American editor Lori Carlson at editor@plamerican.com.

Prior Lake City Council contacts Mayor Mike Myser Phone: (952) 341-5932 E-mail: mmyser@cityofpriorlake.com Council members Warren Erickson Phone: (952) 440-2171 E-mail: werickson@cityofpriorlake.com Kenneth Hedberg Phone: (612) 382-6143 E-mail: khedberg@cityofpriorlake.com

Richard Keeney Phone: (612) 889-7114 E-mail: rkeeney@cityofpriorlake.com Vanessa Soukup Phone: (612) 385-3686 E-mail: vsoukup@cityofpriorlake.com City manager Frank Boyles Phone: (952) 447-9801 E-mail: fboyles@cityofpriorlake.com

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR LOCAL

Volunteers are valuable resources The Prior Lake-Spring Lake Watershed District Board of Managers and staff would like to honor and recognize the volunteers who have supported the district throughout 2011.

The mission statement is “to manage and preserve the water resources of the Prior Lake-Spring Lake Watershed District to the best of our ability using input from our communities, sound engineering practices and our ability to efficiently fund beneficial projects which transcend political jurisdictions.” The efforts of citizen advisors and volunteers for our monitoring programs are integral to the success of the district’s mission.

By the end of 2011, volunteers will have donated over 275 hours of their time. During 2011, five lakes have been monitored for water quality biweekly from late March to late October, precipitation events have been measured and recorded across the watershed at four gauge locations, and several watershed management projects were supported and advanced using previous year’s monitoring data.

Also new for 2011 was the formalization of the Citizen Advisory Committee to provide representative citizen input, aid the district in planning, increase community awareness and collaborate on new programs.

The contributions by local volunteers have been invaluable to the district’s efforts to manage and preserve water resources. Volunteers have given more than just time and dedication.

Their efforts have provided valuable input and data needed to make informed decisions on water resources management.

With five new volunteers for 2011 and a combined 59 years of service to the district, the board and staff would like to thank Walt Burris, Jonathan Cohen, Paul Krueger, Michael Lorinser, Larry Mueller, Steve Pany, Steve Pierson, Larry Rundell, Richard Schultz, Kim Silvernagel, Tom Sletta, Roger Wahl and Jim Weninger.

Thank you for your efforts as a volunteer to the district throughout 2011. The district’s programs could not be a success without the input, time, efforts and data collected by dedicated volunteers like you.

For more information on volunteering with the Prior Lake-Spring Lake Watershed District, please visit www.plslwd.org or contact us at info@plslwd.org or (952) 447-4166.

Prior Lake-Spring Lake Watershed District Board and Staff

IN RESPONSE

No ‘cooked noodles’ here This letter is in response to last week’s letter to the editor titled “Education is a cooked noodle.” I am saddened at the lack of information and understanding regarding public education. It is easy to criticize, but

the real work comes in participating in the solution.

I am a veteran teacher of 23 years.

According to Mr. Benedict’s sources, I mastered my job in the first three to five years of teaching and likely have only made minor changes since then.

I cannot tell you how insulting it is to think someone really believes that. I love teaching, I thoroughly enjoy my students, I work hard and I am not the minority. I am literally surrounded by people that give hours upon hours over and above what is expected. When test scores come back lower than expected, we take it harder than anyone. We spend hours working on improvement plans at the district, building and classroom levels. What exactly does he think we are not doing?

Mr. Benedict also wrote that our system is not focused on the welfare of the student. This is so absurd it is hardly worth defending, but I will. Every adult in a school building is focused on the welfare of the students. Our business is teaching children, and to insinuate that we do not have their well being at the center of our efforts is absolutely incorrect. I do get paid to teach and I do have union support and I will not apologize for either of those things, but to imply that because of that I am not doing all I can for my students is ridiculous.

Mr. Benedict states that “to improve education we would have to scrap the whole system and start over, which politically is like pushing a cooked noodle up Mount Everest.”

I believe that education is an easy target, but the real “cooked noodle” is the divisive political rhetoric getting in the way of real progress and clarity on important issues.

I want to thank the very system Mr. Benedict criticizes for producing well-adjusted, successful, contributing citizens. I appreciate the partnerships formed by teachers, administrators, parents and students. We all work hard and should be proud of what we do every day for kids. I, for one, will not stand by and let it be criticized.

Kelly Scholl Savage

NATIONAL

Standing with Occupy Wall Street Greed and deregulation of big business and the fi nancial industry caused the mess we face today with unemployment, foreclosures and wage inequality. Occupy Wall Street is fi nally bringing these issues to forefront of the public’s attention.

We fi nally have a true movement for the poor and the middle class. I stand in solidarity with Occupy Wall Street. I am the 99 percent.

Josh D. Ondich Prior Lake

Why protest a plan to help students?

It’s quite interesting that John Kline decries a plan to reduce student loan debt that USA Today says

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will exceed $1 trillion.

With few jobs in their field and so much debt, college grads are back at home in the basement and taking lower-paying jobs. Usually these young adults would be buying cars, getting married and having kids.

Usually they would be purchasing homes and furnishing them, in turn creating demand for housing, goods and services. But these aren’t usual times.

Housing construction has f latlined. This Generation Lost gets needed goods and furnishings at thrift stores. Reducing student debt would allow graduates to resume the lives they’ve put on hold.

John Kline says, “This plan will not create a single job, strengthen our economy or promote fi scal responsibility.” He has good reason to not draw the conclusions I’ve outlined here.

The for-profit college education industry has donated the most to his campaign by three to one. Eight of his top 20 donors are for-profit colleges. Their stock went up 8.5 percent after he became chairman of the House Education Committee after the 2008 election. Becoming their love child after being wined and dined by the subprime lobbyists, Kline opposed new regulations on for-profit colleges to qualify for taxpayer money. Receiving 90 percent of their revenue from the government, these “schools” do not need to now show that a higher percentage of graduates actually gained employment after graduation, thanks to Kline’s diligent and steady work.

We’re not quite done yet. On Sept. 22, 2011, the Star Tribune broke a story about a suit fi led by Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson against for-profit colleges Argosy University and Art Institutes International, because they were paying incentives to recruiters who gave students a hard sell. These subprime schools are saturated with the highest default rates and systematic fraud. Yet, they will receive about $32 billion this year with 11 percent of higher education students and 25 percent of all government fi nancial aid.

Not wanting “more government” regulations coming in the way of his gravy train, John Kline backhands a bailout to this multi-billion-dollar industry. And what did John Kline have to say about the fraud suit brought by attorneys general in Minnesota and five other states against his for-profit college treasures? His eerie silence speaks volumes.

People all over Minnesota are appalled at Kline’s lack of response to this obvious deception and his unwillingness to call them out and clean them up. Even more galling, Kline dares to protest a plan to give students assistance with college loans; his loyalties are glaringly not with his Minnesota constituents.

Empty talk of reducing regulation and less government creates blinders that leave Kline incapable of seeing the dots, much less connecting them. Voters can see and will connect them in 2012.

Barbara Mahowald Savage

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COOL JOBS: JOHN HOKKANEN, TRANSPORTATION GENERALIST WITH MNDOT

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ASPEN RESULTS continued from page 1

The 2010 MCA results showed 100-percent proficiency for Aspen Academy’s fourth-graders in both math and reading.

That’s the same cohort of students that exceeded proficiency this year.

“I think we compare ourselves internally,” Rowan said, referring to cohort data. “We’re heading in the right direction with these kids.”

While 100-percent proficiency is a rare feat on the MCAs – which are administered statewide in math, reading and science to students in elementary, middle and high school – Rowan said those benchmarks aren’t really the focus of the exams for her. Aspen’s remaining tested students also surpassed state averages.

On the reading exam, 93.2 percent of Aspen Academy third-graders met or exceeded proficiency – 14.7 percent more

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John Hokkanen doesn’t have the world’s most glamorous job. He hasn’t been home for Christmas in five years. He occasionally has to stand eight hours on 100-degree pavement. And his Monday morning might start by scraping a dead raccoon off the road.

But Hokkanen knows this drudgery has a purpose, and that’s to keep the roads safe for commuters.

“That is the No. 1 priority: having a smooth road and a clear road so our customers can get to work without any delays,” the 56-year-old said.

In December, Hokkanen, of Cologne, will mark his 30th year as transportation generalist with the Minnesota Department of Transportation – most of them working out of the Shakopee truck station near Highway 41. He has plowed snow over pitch-black roadways, mowed miles of median and filled crater-sized potholes.

“They do such a good job, no one always notices what they do,” said MnDOT spokesman J.P. Gillach.

Of all Hokkanen’s duties and responsibilities, perhaps the least glamorous is removing dead animal carcasses.

Deer, raccoons, skunks, squirrels, birds – Hokkanen has seen it all splattered across the roadway.

Road kill poses a risk for drivers who often swerve to avoid hitting the carcasses, and it’s MnDOT’s job to get the obstacles off state highways as quickly as possible, Hokkanen said.

MnDOT crew members use pitchforks, shovels and a longarmed mechanism that slips around a deer’s feet to hoist the carcass onto a truck bed.

In highly populated areas, Hokkanen and co-workers haul the carcasses back to the Shakopee station’s compost pile where they are covered in woodchips to decompose. For smaller animals, crews dig a hole in the right-of-way ditch and bury the animal.

MnDOT doesn’t keep official records of carcasses, only deer that are reported to the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources. However, raccoons are definitely the most common find, said Rob Hendel, a transportation

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operations supervisor at the Shakopee station.

The Shakopee station’s territory stretches from Norwood Young America in the west to the Interstate 35W/ Highway 13 intersection in the east. It heads as far north as Highway 5 and covers Highway 169 in the south. It’s the third largest sub-area in the metro with 380 lane miles, according to Hendel.

In addition to animal carcasses, Hokkanen and co-workers find a lot of other debris on roadways and ditches: mattresses, blown tires, couches, “trucker bombs” (bottles of urine), branches, spilled gravel and rocks. All has to be removed and discarded.

“They never seem to come back, either,” Hokkanen said.

“Even if the drawer is full of clothes.”

OTHER DUTIES Hokkanen joined MnDOT in 1981 after eight years in the Army. He found the organizations to be similar in regulations and a get-it-done attitude. After two years in the Eden Prairie station, he bought a home in Cologne and

than the statewide average – and 88.1 percent of Aspen fourth-graders passed the reading exam – besting the statewide average by 13 percent.

The reading test administered last year was based on the same standards as prior MCA reading tests. The MCAIII math exam, however, was aligned to new, more rigorous standards. As a result, many districts across the state saw significant drops in their students’ math scores. Aspen, however, managed to buck that trend in third grade, with the proficiency rate increasing by 1.1 percent. In fourth-grade, math proficiency rates dropped 11.9 percent, but still outpaced the statewide average.

“I think we’re just able to achieve because the kids understand the test’s purpose and the role it plays in their future,” Rowan said. “We do have very high expectations for our kids, and they’re meeting them.”

The MCA exams are administered annually in compliance

transferred to Chaska.

When the Shakopee station was built in 1984, he came over the river.

Of all his tasks, Hokkanen’s favorite is snowplowing.

While the 12-hour shift can get long, he enjoys plowing and maintaining his own truck.

Last winter was a tough one for the MnDOT crew, which at one point of the season worked 44 days without a day off.

“You miss a lot of family stuff,” said Hendel, who lives in Rosemount. “But everyone comes here because they know it’s their job.”

Even more impressive was the double duty the crew pulled during the spring 2011 flood.

MnDOT closed the Highway 41 and County Road 101 river crossings in the midst of a snowstorm last spring, forcing Hendel to split his trucks across the river for the remainder of the winter season.

The station crew stood in as 24-hour barricade guards, ensuring no one attempted to cross the flooded highway.

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“We do have very high expectations for our kids, and they’re meeting them.”

Maggie Rowan Curriculum coordinator with the federal No Child Left Behind Act, which mandates that 100 percent of tested students reach proficiency in math and reading (currently, students must take the science test but are not required to achieve proficiency) by 2014.

Each year, districts are required to show a certain amount of growth – deemed Adequate Yearly Progress (AY P) – in each grade level, in both math and reading, and in certain demographics called subgroups, or they can face serious consequences if the district accepts Title I dollars, which are given

roads. In the winter, crews are removing snow from shoulders and keeping bridges free from ice. In summer, crews rebuild shoulders, inspect culverts, collect Adopta-Highway trash bags, mow medians and ditches and clean up spills.

Hokkanen recalled a potato spill on Highway 41 last year.

The slippery potatoes were a pain to pick up.

One of the toughest jobs in the department is guardrail repair, Hendel said.

“Nothing works very well when it’s 30 below,” he said.

Despite the weather and dirty work, Hokkanen enjoys the variety of his job. Hendel rotates his transportation generalists between duties so everyone has basic knowledge of all the tasks.

That’s not only great on-thejob training, Hokkanen said, but it ensures that no one gets bored – even after 30 years.

“Every day is a new day,” he said. “You never know what you’re going to do.”

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Aspen does not receive Title I dollars but is still subject to consequences should its MCA scores fall short and the school not meet AYP. The Wayzatabased organization Friends of Education holds Aspen’s charter and can revoke it, effectively shutting the school down, should Aspen not meet AYP. “Our consequences can be more severe,” Rowan said, in comparison to the punishments non-charter public schools face.

Aspen has added sixth grade this year and is looking to grow to seventh grade next year. The school’s enrollment sits at about 350 students, and thus has outgrown its current location at Bethesda Church in Prior Lake. Rowan said school officials hope to receive the final word on Aspen’s new location in two weeks.

“We’ve completely outgrown this building,” she said.

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RANTS AND RAVES FROM STAFF

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Rave: With an old college friend soon coming from England to stay with me for a few days, I started compiling a list of Minnesota fun for her to consider. My friend revels in quirky roadside attractions, and we here in the Land of Lakes certainly have “quirky” covered. I found a good resource online, and even though it hasn’t been updated in five years, it still serves as a decent one-stop shop for the beautiful and bizarre places, events and general stuff Minnesota has to offer.

Check it out at searchingforminnesota.blogspot.com. For those who want a blog focused specifically on the state’s fiberglassand-wood oddities (think giant walleye and jolly green guys), visit thebigstuffproject.blogspot.com. – Lori Carlson

Rave: I love new music as much as the next fan, but this week I rediscovered the soulful hits of the one and only Stevie Wonder. I found myself bobbing along to “Sir Duke” and “Superstition” in my car for the last few days and having a great time. Somehow, much to my detriment, I’d forgotten about Wonder’s infectious piano playing and funky rhythms. Though the man hasn’t had a hit in quite some time, I’m pretty sure I’ll cue up “Songs in the Key of Life” at my next dance party. – Meryn Fluker

Halloween done right Rave: I never get tired of creative Halloween costumes. I’m usually not one to dress up on All Hallows’ Eve, but that never stops me from appreciating when someone puts some major effort, and a little wit, into his or her Oct. 31 attire. Some of my favorite ideas this year include an Occupy Wall Street protestor and Quailman (a tribute to Nickelodeon’s “Doug,” a ‘90s classic cartoon that made a comeback this year). I even have a friend going as Beatles ingénue Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds. If adults are going to crowd what is rightfully a kids’ holiday, I’m always glad when the grown-ups put in the effort to get it right.

– Meryn Fluker

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Trick-or-treaters should be out in mild and dry conditions as we reach the 20th anniversary of the great Halloween blizzard.

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LIVESREMEMBERED James Allen Link

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James Link, 66, of Lester Prairie and formerly of Jordan, passed away Monday, Oct. 24, 2011 at Abbott Northwestern Hospital, Minneapolis.

He was born in Shakopee Nov. 22, 1944 to parents Wilfred and Mathilda (Colling) Link in New Prague. Jim was a proud member of both the Jordan and Shakopee Fire Departments. He loved to garden, flowers, vegetables and trees. Jim enjoyed NASCAR, model trains and also the real ones.

He will be loved and forever missed by his sons, Jamie Link of Plato, Lance Link of Chaska, Chris (Kate) Link of Hibbing; grandchildren, Brandy, Samantha, Angel, Carson and Suzi; great-grandson, Christian; brothers, Butch Link and Gerry Link, both of Jordan; loving friend, Loretta Lundquist of Lester Prairie; Loretta’s children, Abby and Hannah. He was preceded in death by his sister, Marlene Adamek and his brother, Dick Link.

Visitation was Friday, Oct. 28 from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. at Ballard-Sunder Funeral Home in Jordan with the Celebration of Life service following at 2 p.m.

Arrangements by Ballard-Sunder Funeral Home, Jordan.

Roland “Rollie” Thieling, 91 of Prior Lives of great We would like to thank Lake, passed away Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2011 at McKenna Crossing in Prior Lake. men all remind everyone who helped He was born Feb. 20, 1920 in St. Paul, comfort us at the time of us we can make MN to Louis and Alma (Masourick) the death of Bob Klehr.

Thieling. our lives subSpecial thanks to Father Rollie enlisted in the Army Air Corp following the attack on Pearl Harbor.

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Serving in the Pacific until the end of the staff at BallardAnd departing, World War II, he fought in the battle of Sunder Funeral Home, all Guadalcanal. Returning home he married leave behind us who brought food and Harriet Gilbertson Aug. 7, 1945 at St. John’s Lutheran Church in Lakeville. He and helped serve the lunch, Footprints on Harriet operated Prior Lake Electric from 1945-1973. They the organist & soloist and also operated the Prior Lake Bowling Alley from 1955-1965. the After retiring in 1973, Rollie worked in real estate and tree pallbearers. sand of time Thank you to all who farming, still working on the farm at age 91.

Loved and forever missed by his wife of 66 years, Harriet remembered us with flowThieling; daughters, Barbara Siekmann of Savage and Joni ers, cards, memorials and Thieling of Port St. Lucie, FL; son, Robert Thieling of Port -Henry Wadsworth St. Lucie, FL; grandchildren, Carrie (Trent) Voth, Becky prayers. Your kindness Longfellow (Brian) Durham; great-grandchildren, Tessa and Trevor will never be forgotten.

Voth. Preceded by his parents; brothers, Lyle and Stanley The family of Thieling.

Robert Klehr Visitation will be held Sunday, Oct. 30 from 4-7 p.m. at Ballard-Sunder Funeral Home, Prior Lake and also one hour prior the service at church on Monday. The Rev. John P. Vaughn will officiate.

Celebration of Life Service will be Monday, Oct. 31, 10:30 a.m. at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in Prior Lake. Rollie’s final resting place will be St. Paul’s Cemetery. Military honors will be provided by the Prior Lake Honor Guard.

Clotilda “Clodie” Burmeister, 96 of Jordan passed away Pallbearers are Tom Harris, Dan Harris, Rick Harris, Dave Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2011 at the Belle Plaine Lutheran Harris, Ron Jensen, and Glen Thieling.

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Funeral arrangements by Ballard-Sunder Funeral Home, She was born May 5, 1915 in Jordan to parents, Henry Prior Lake. ballardsunderfuneral.com and Julia (Hoffman) Boeckman. Clodie married John “Jack” Burmeister May 1, 1949 at St. John the Baptist Catholic Church in Jordan.

Clodie was a member of the Ladies V.F.W. Auxiliary, an active member of St. John the Baptist Catholic Church and a long time volunteer at St. John’s Catholic School. She Robert "Bob" John Klehr was born Aug. enjoyed quilting with the ladies at Schule Haus, playing 14, 1929 in Credit River Township, MN to bingo and cards and doing jig saw puzzles. parents Alois and Hildegard (Theis) Klehr.

Loved and forever missed by her children, Ann (Dale) Bob worked on the family farm until age Hoehne of Butterfield, Richard (Suzanne) Burmeister of 30. Bob then continued to work at Owens Belle Plaine, Dennis (Helen) Burmeister of Bloomington, Illinois in Shakopee for 10 years and finJohn (Diane) Burmeister of Burlington, WI, Laura (Thomas) ished his last 18 years of work at Knox Kinning of North Branch; 24 grandchildren; many greatLumber. Bob spent most of his retirement grandchildren; siblings, Delores Stocker of Prior Lake, Sr. years volunteering at St. Michael's Catholic Church mainJulene Boeckman of Mankato, Mark (Evelyn) Boeckman of taining the grounds of the parish. He spent numerous Belle Plaine; brother-in-law, Joe Barlage of Belle Plaine. hours each week keeping everything clean and manicured.

Preceded by her husband, Jack Burmeister; grandson, He built Klehr field (where the current church lies), which Andrew Burmeister; parents; siblings, Leonard Boeckman, was used for many years for sports activities, not just for the Lawrence Boeckman, Margaret Mike, Raymond Boeckman church members but for the community at large. and Alice Barlage He was a devout Catholic, an active member of the Visitation will be held Saturday, Oct. 29 from 9-11 a.m. at Church of St. Michael and a member of the Knights of St. John the Baptist Catholic Church with the Mass of Columbus. Bob enjoyed playing cards, was an avid Twins Christian Burial to follow at 11 a.m. with Father Yanta officifan, loved fishing, gardening, softball and most of all visiting ating. Clodie’s final resting place will be Calvary cemetery with friends and family. in Jordan. Pallbearers will be Joe Burmeister, Mike Bob's passion was his family and church. He truly adored Burmeister, John Burmeister, Brett Carlson, Joe Shaw and and loved his surviving sisters, Mary Ann Mahowald of Prior Michelle Noll.

Lake and Anna Mae VonBokern of Shakopee, and all of his Funeral Arrangements by Ballard-Sunder Funeral Home, nieces, nephews and all of his many friends.

Jordan. ballardsunderfuneral.com Bob will be welcomed into heaven by his parents, Alois and Hilda Klehr; sister, Suverna (Clarence) Hennen; brother-in-laws, Francis Mahowald and Donald VonBokern.

On Friday Oct. 21, 2011, on a clear fall morning, at the age of 82, Bob was welcomed in to heaven at The Lodge on Natchez in Elko, MN. The visitation was Wednesday, Oct. 26 from 10-12 a.m., followed by the Mass of Christian Burial at 12 noon, all at the Church of St. Michael in Prior Lake. Father Tom Sieg officiated. Interment will be at St. Michael's Catholic Cemetery in Prior Lake.

Funeral arrangements by Ballard-Sunder Funeral Home, Prior Lake, MN 952 447-2633. BallardSunderFuneral.com For current information on

James "Jim" P. Rutoski On Dec. 11, 1937 in Lydia, MN, Ignatius and Viola Rutoski welcomed the birth of their son, James Rutoski.

In Jim's early years he lived in Lydia, Washington State, St. Paul, MN and Jordan. The day after high school graduation, Jim and his brother Jerry, drove to Texas and enlisted in the military. After a short stint in the military, he moved back to Jordan and started his career at Minnesota Valley Electric Cooperative. That was the start of a 37 year career at MVEC where he held many different positions until his retirement.

At a Catholic mixer at the Prom ballroom in St. Paul, Jim and Mary Ann first met. After about a year of courtship, they exchanged wedding vows on June 17, 1967 at St. Michael Catholic Church in St. Michael, MN. They were later blessed with two children, Michael and Jon. Jim enjoyed traveling out west, hunting and fishing with his kids, and restoring and flying airplanes. Jim was a devout Catholic who supported his parish by volunteering for several committees.

Jim was called to his lord Saturday Oct. 22, 2011 at St. Francis Regional Medical Center in Shakopee.

He is loved and dearly missed by his wife, Mary Ann Rutoski; son, Jon (Michelle) Rutoski of Jordan. Jim will especially be missed by his grandchildren, Emily and Jacob; brother, Jerry Rutoski of Anchorage, AK.; sisters-inlaw, Kathy Kostick of Columbia Heights, Alice (Mike) Helfert of Monticello; relatives and friends.

Jim will be welcomed into heaven by his son, Mike Rutoski; parents, Ignatius and Viola Rutoski; brother, Ronald Rutoski.

Visitation was Wednesday, Oct. 26 from 4-8 p.m. at Ballard Sunder Funeral Home, Jordan. Additional visitation was Thursday, Oct. 27, from 10-11 a.m., followed by the Mass of Christian Burial at 11 a.m. at St. John the Baptist Catholic Church in Jordan. Father Timothy Yanta officiated.

Jim was laid to rest at Calvary Cemetery, Jordan.

Arrangements by Ballard Sunder Funeral Home, Jordan.

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Lynne (Engfer) Sater Lynne (Engfer) Sater, 49, died Monday, Oct. 24, 2011 at her Oconomowoc, WI home. Lynne is survived by her husband, Terry; daughters, Savannah, Autumn, and Sierra; parents, John and Virginia Engfer of Jordan, brothers, Paul (Mary) of New Prague, Bryan (Beth) of Ft. Atkinson, WI. In all things she lived her life as a witness to her faith in Jesus Christ. She was a dear friend to many. She was a graduate of Brown Institute and the University of Minnesota-School of Journalism. Lynne worked as a news reporter at KARE-TV in Minneapolis, WESH-TV in Orlando, Pampered Chef hostess, and as a teacher’s aide in Iowa and Wisconsin. She was also Miss Bloomington, an athlete, a singer, actress, music composer, vacation bible school leader, and enthusiastic fan of dozens of young performers including her daughters. Funeral services Saturday, Oct. 29, Crosspoint Community Church, Oconomowoc, WI. Visitation 11 a.m.- 1 p.m. with service to follow..

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Trees for sale through conservation district Armed suspect robs bank The Scott Soil and Water Conservation District in Jordan is offering young trees and shrubs for sale, including 35 varieties of conifer young stock, along with deciduous tree and shrub seedlings. New varieties this year include white spruce, golden (weeping) willow, pin cherry, false indigo and staghorn sumac.

Residents can also purchase rain barrels, four types of native seed mixes and other tree-care supplies and information books. Technical advice on

BY FORREST ADAMS fadams@swpub.com

Prior Lake police and the FBI are looking for the person who walked into Prior Lake State Bank last Saturday morning, Oct. 22, with a fi rearm and demanded money.

Bank employees described the individual to police as a man with a medium build and about 5 feet 8 inches tall. He was reportedly wearing a black hooded sweatshirt and a garment covering his face.

Prior Lake police responded to the robbery at 10 a.m. The FBI did not comment, as the robbery is currently an open investigation.

People with information about the crime are asked to contact the Prior Lake Police Department at (952) 445-1411 or the Minneapolis FBI office at (612) 376-3200.

tree plantings for windbreaks and shelterbelts is also available upon request.

The trees, in bundles of 25, are sold on a first-come, fi rst-served basis. If a variety is sold out, individuals will be notified immediately and given the opportunity to either substitute another variety or receive a refund.

Available prices and varieties are indicated on the order form. Payment must accompany every order.

All trees are bare-root seedlings or transplants varying in size from 8 inches to 3 feet tall.

Pickup for purchased trees and shrubs will be in late April at the Scott County Fairgrounds. Customers who place orders will receive a letter about two weeks before delivery with specific pickup information.

Residents can contact Diane Hrabe at (952) 492-5425 or visit www.scottswcd.org for an order form or more information.

CITY NEWS

EDA to meet Monday

Serve on technology advisory committee

The Prior Lake Economic Development Authority will meet in a work session from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 31 at City Hall, 4646 Dakota St. The EDA will discuss business retention and expansion.

The city of Prior Lake is seeking applications from residents interested in serving on the Communications-Technology Advisory Committee.

Members meet on an asneeded basis. Responsibilities include: Review and comment on communications and technology plan and budget.

Monitor progress of implementation of the communications and technology plan.

Make recommendations for communication and technology tools and for communication with the public.

Make suggestions for ways to promote community pride, identity and image.

Suggest modifications to cable television guidelines.

An application form can be downloaded at www.cityofpriorlake.com or requested

from Charlotte Green at (952) 447-9803. Applications should be submitted no later than 4:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 11. Selection is made by interview.

Compost site open through Nov. 12 The Prior Lake compost site at 17073 Adelmann St. is open from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. the second and fourth Saturdays of each month through Nov. 12.

Re sident s c a n d r op of f leaves, grass clippings, brush and branches less than 8 inches wide. Waste containers or bags cannot be left on site. The compost is brought to the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community’s Organics Recycli ng Facility; fi nished compost is available to residents for $12 per cubic yard by calling the SMSC Land Department at (952) 496-6136.

For more information, call Al Friedges at (952) 447-9852.

Dakotah! Sport and Fitness to host annual Turkey Trot 5K Nov. 19 Da kot a h ! Spor t a nd F itness will sponsor its annual Turkey Trot 5K on Saturday, Nov. 19. The 3.1-mile event wi l l star t at Dakotah ! and wind through The Meadows

at Mystic Lake, the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community’s golf course.

Registration is $25 through race day or until the race fi lls, and can be done online at www.

active.com, by downloading the brochure at www.dakotahsport.com, or picking up a brochure at Dakotah!.

Mail-in registration will not be accepted after Nov. 10;

online registration will not be accepted after Nov. 17. Participants must be registered

by Oct. 31 to guarantee T-shirt size.

Race-day registration is at 7

a.m. in the lobby of the fitness facility. The 5K starts at 8 a.m.

An awards ceremony will follow in the gym. All registered runners will receive a T-shirt.

Awards will be given to fi rst-,

second- and third-place overall male and female fi nishers.

For more information, call Race Director Renee Engeman at (952) 496-6875 or visit www. dakotahsport.com.

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Final burst of color and then the leaves – like our daylight – fade

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PHOTOS ONLINE FOR A FALL PHOTO SLIDESHOW OF ALL READER SUBMISSIONS VISIT

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ost autumn leaves have either faded or fallen.

Minnesota tourism officials, in fact, issued their final fall-color report on Oct. 20.

But we still have the memories, thanks in part to readers who responded to this newspaper’s call for outstanding fall foliage photos.

As you can see, the landscape’s peak of color was short, but brilliant. As that American romantic poet and journalist William Cullen Bryant put it: “Autumn, the year’s last, loveliest smile.”

We thank readers for all of the contributions we received. And to those viewing these images of fall’s last great burst of color we say, “Enjoy!”

Above – Diane Cleveland took this photo of her nephew, Parker Hafermann, playing in the leaves. In the background are Parker’s dad, Kevin Hafermann, and his dog, Blondie.

At right – Deb Sunderman of Savage took this shot of a milkweed plant at McColl Park.

Above – Deb Olson of Prior Lake submitted this photo of a fall-themed boardwalk.

At left – Tom Zidon submitted this photo, taken in Candy Cove on Prior Lake on Oct. 1.

Far left – Marvellina Goh of Prior Lake submitted this shot of colorful trees at Lakefront Park.

Above – On Prior Lake, the changing leaves aren’t the only sign of a new season, as boats get winterized and people prepare to take docks out of the water. Prior Lake resident Dave Rech captured this photo.

At right – Stephen Johnson took this photo of a maple tree on a sunny Sunday morning this fall.

Far right – Jones Oldham, 11 months old, basks in the autumn glow. He is the grandson of Dean and Marilyn Baldwin of Prior Lake and the son of Tim and Kelly Oldham of Denver, Colo.

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FOOTBALL

SPORTS EXTRA

Gridiron wipe out

Fall Sports State Polls FOOTBALL CLASS AAAAA 1. Wayzata 2. Cretin-Derham Hall 3. Lakeville North 4. Eden Prairie 5. Shakopee 6. Anoka 7. Mounds View 8. Osseo 9. Totino Grace 10. Minnetonka

Slow start doesn’t hurt Lakers in easy 42-3 quarterfinal win

BY TOM SCHARDIN tschardin@swpub.com

The Prior Lake football team may have looked like it was asleep in the first quarter of the Section 3AAAAA quarterfi nals Oct. 25.

But when the Lakers woke up, they dominated doing what they do best – pound the rock.

Junior Trevor Maxwell ran for a career-high 137 yards and scored three touchdowns in leading the second-seeded Lakers to a 42-3 rout of seventhseeded Bloomington Jefferson.

After the Jaguars connected on a 32-yard field goal early in the second quarter, the Lakers took over.

Junior Jack Johnson had touchdown runs of one and seven yards in the second quarter for a 14-3 lead at the break.

He had a 4-yard scoring run in the third quarter for his ninth

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touchdown of the season.

In the third quarter, the Lakers broke the game wide open with three touchdowns.

Maxwell also had scoring runs of 16 and 20 yards. He added a 30-yard scoring run in the fourth quarter.

“To Jefferson’s credit, they came to play and it took our kids a few series to get going,” said Lakers coach Matt Gegenheimer. “We’ve addressed it many times that you have to play game by game and when you start looking ahead, you get beat.”

Don’t expect Prior Lake to look past Bloomington Ken-

Prior Lake senior Karmichael Dunbar makes a tackle in the Lakers’ 42-3 playoff win over Bloomington Jefferson Oct. 25. nedy (4-5) in the semifinals, which are today (Saturday, Oct. 29) on the Lakers’ home turf at 7 p.m.

Prior Lake may have beaten the Eagles 30-13 in a South Suburban Conference game back on Sept. 30. But Kennedy has ended the Lakers’ season the last two years in the section quarterfinals, winning 21-19 on the road a year ago and 49-20 at home in 2009.

The Eagles were a 28-0 winner over sixth-seeded Apple Valley in their quarterfinal

game.

Top-seeded Rosemount (5-3) faces fourth-seeded Eastview (4-5) in the other semifinal game. The winners meet Friday, Nov. 4 for the title at the site of the higher seed at 7 p.m.

Meanwhile, senior Jack Kaiser fi nished with 77 yards in the win over Jefferson, giving him 976 on the season to go along with his nine touchdowns.

Prior Lake finished the game with 318 yards on the ground

with Johnson running for 62 of them. Sophomore quarterback Nick Rooney fi nished 5 of 9 for 86 yards. Senior Matt Arends caught four balls for 98 yards.

Maxwell had only 193 yards in the regular season, but Gegenheimer said Maxwell has slowly emerged over the season to give the Lakers another weapon on offense.

“He’s a legitimate threat with the ball,” said Gegenheimer. “The more experience

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VOLLEYBALL

Ease into the playoffs Lakers win by sweep in first section match

BY TOM SCHARDIN tschardin@swpub.com

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Prior Lake senior Taylor Scholl finished fourth at the Section 3AA meet Oct. 26, helping the Lakers earn a state berth.

Return to state Laker girls earn ninth straight bid

BY TOM SCHARDIN tschardin@swpub.com

No surprise, the Prior Lake girls cross country team is heading back to state.

It’s become an annual event for the perennial power Lakers.

All No. 12-ranked Prior Lake had to do earn to its ninth straight state berth was run a clean race at the Section 3AA meet Oct. 26, perhaps challenging No. 3 Eagan for the top spot.

But since the top-two teams qualify (along with the top-10 individuals), Lakers coach Dan Saad said running smart and staying focused was the game plan.

“The key thing was not to get too overconfident,” said Saad.

“We knew we had to perform well. We were looking to run the best we could and maybe challenge Eagan. We had a good day.”

Eagan had five runners in the top 15 and won with 44 points. The Lakers had five in the top 25 and fi nished with 69 points, 17 ahead of third-place Rosemount.

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The Prior Lake volleyball team easily won its playoff opener Oct. 26.

Senior Jay me Lubansky had 10 kills, three blocks and two service aces in leading the sixth-seeded Lakers to home sweep (25-10, 25-11, 25-17) of 11th-seeded Mankato West in the first round of Section 2AAA play.

Prior Lake (11-16) had a much stiffer test in the quarterfi nals Friday (results not available at press time), playing at thirdseeded Chanhassen (20-4).

The Storm beat the Lakers in three of four games back on Sept. 1. Both teams have obviously grown since that match.

Prior Lake had won four of its last five matches going into the quarterfi nals, while Chanhassen was 2-2 in its last four.

Prior Lake has not done well against ranked or previously ranked Class 3A teams this season, going 0-5. Chanhassen has been ranked as high as No. 8.

If the Lakers were able to pull off the quarterfi nal upset, the semifinals will are set Tuesday, Nov. 1 at 7 p.m. The Lakers would play at either secondseeded Hutchinson (22-3) or play at home versus seventhseeded Buffalo (19-7).

The title match is Friday, Nov. 5 at site to be determined at 6 p.m.

Other quarterfinal games included top-seeded Shakopee (23-3) versus eighth-seeded Chaska (13 -10) and four thseeded Waconia (20-9) versus fi fth-seeded Delano (21-6).

I n t he wi n over Mankato West, sophomore Jacque Luth and senior Melissa VanBenthuysen each had nine kills. Senior A lex McGraw fi nished with 24 set assists and two ace serves.

Ninth-grader Brittany Luethmers led in digs with 10, whi le Va n Bent huysen had six. Junior Emily Veldman had three ace serves and two blocks, while sophomore Lexy Williams had three blocks.

Going into the quarterfinals, Lubansky led the Lakers in kills (212) and blocks (72).

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1. Lakeville South 2. Eagan 3. Blaine 4. Shakopee 5. Lakeville North 6. Andover 7. Bloomington Jefferson 8. Wayzata 9. Eden Prairie 10. Centennial

BOYS SOCCER CLASS AA 1. Eastview 2. North St. Paul 3. Stillwater 4. Bloomington Jefferson 5. Eagan 6. Edina 7. Minneapolis South 8. Wayzata 9. Eden Prairie 10. Minneapolis Southwest

GIRLS SOCCER CLASS AA 1. Lakeville North 2. Mahtomedi 3. Eagan 4. Woodbury 5. Burnsville 6. Wayzata 7. Centennial 8. Eastview 9. Eden Prairie 10. Park of Cottage Grove

BOYS CROSS COUNTRY CLASS AA 1. Stillwater 2. Rosemount 3. Edina 4. Wayzata 5. Eden Prairie 6. Andover 7. Hopkins 8. Moorhead 9. Eastview 10. Burnsville 11. White Bear Lake 12. Owatonna

GIRLS CROSS COUNTRY CLASS AA 1. Monticello 2. Lakeville South 3. Eagan 4. East Ridge 5. Shakopee 6. Eden Prairie 7. Wayzata 8. Edina 9. Moorhead 10. Andover 11. Hopkins 12. Prior Lake

GIRLS SWIMMING CLASS AA 1. Edina 2. Stillwater 3. Minnetonka 4. Wayzata 5. Eden Prairie 6. Rosemount 7. Rochester John Marshall 8. Prior Lake 9. Maple Grove 10. Woodbury

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Prior Lake senior Alex McGraw had 24 set assists in the Lakers’ playoff sweep of Mankato West Oct. 26.

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Laker Pride Navy and Gold Scrimmage The Prior Lake boys hockey team will kickoff its 2011-2012 season Nov. 23 in the Laker Pride Navy and Gold Scrimmage at Dakotah Ice Rink at 7 p.m.

The public can also meet the coaches, captains and rest of the Lakers, along with registering to win an IPOD as well as Laker Nation hockey t-shirts.

Food donations will be accepted at the front door, which will be distributed to local food shelves in the area.

Annual Turkey Trot 5K race scheduled Dakotah! Sport and Fitness will sponsor its annual Turkey Trot 5K on Saturday, Nov. 19. The 3.1-mile event will start at Dakotah! and wind through The Meadows at Mystic Lake, the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community’s golf course.

Registration is $25 through race day or until the race fi lls, and can be done online at www.active.com, by downloading the brochure at www.dakotahsport.com, or picking up a brochure at Dakotah!.

Mail-in registration will not be accepted after Nov. 10; online registration will not be accepted after Nov. 17. Participants must be registered by Oct. 31 to guarantee T-shirt size.

Race-day registration is at 7 a.m. in the lobby of the fitness facility. The 5K starts at 8 a.m. An awards ceremony will follow in the gym. All registered runners will receive a T-shirt.

Awards will be given to fi rst-, second- and third-place overall male and female fi nishers.

For more information, call Race Director Renee Engeman at (952) 496-6875 or visit www.dakotahsport.com

PL sets wrestling camp, youth signup The eighth annual Prior Lake High School Wrestling Camp will be held Nov. 8-10 in the high school wrestling room. There are three sessions: pre-kindergarten from 5:30-6 p.m., grades 1-5 in Wrestling 101 from 6-7 p.m. and grades 1-5 in Training Camp from 7-8:30 p.m.

Wrestling 101 is for campers with no experience with Training Camp covers basic philosophy, rules, scoring and techniques. The cost is $45 ($30 for the pre-kindergartners) for all three sessions or $15 per session ($10 for pre-k).

The deadline to register is Oct. 31 and registration is limited to the fi rst 40 wrestlers for each camp. For more information contact Joe Block at www.jblock@priorlake-savage.k12. mn.us.

Meanwhile, registration for Prior Lake Youth Wrestling will be held in the lobby of the high school Nov. 8-10 from 6-7 p.m. and Nov. 15-17 from 6-7 p.m.

Youth wrestling is for pre-kindergarten through sixth-grade.

The fee is $80 per child ($50 for the Monday program). The parent orientation and first practice for the Monday program will be Nov. 28 at 6 p.m., while orientation and first practice for the Tuesday and Thursday practices will be Nov. 29 at 6 p.m.

For more info call Selina Kolsrud at (612) 232-5430 or email skolsrud@integra.net.

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Senior defender gets all-state nod PL’s Krueger is named to the first team

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Prior Lake senior Kevin Krueger was named first-team all-state on the boys’ soccer field.

Krueger helped lead the Lakers to an 11-7 record this season (5-4 in the conference).

Prior Lake was the No. 4 seed in the Section 2AA tournament, losing to top-seeded Bloomington Jefferson 3-0 in the semifi nals.

Krueger was a four-year letterwinner on the Lakers’ defense and a team captain this past season. He played a little on the varsity his ninthgrade year getting called up to due injuries. That also gave him a chance to play with his older brother Kyle, who was a senior back then.

Krueger is the Lakers’ fi rst all-state selection since 2008 when then-senior Jeff Butler earned the honor. Chad Dorian was also all-state for Prior Lake in 2 0 07, while Aaron Johnson was all-state honorable mention in 2009.

This past season, Krueger helped the Lakers earn five shutouts. Prior Lake allowed one of fewer goals in 13 of 18 games.

Other SSC players making all-state were Eastview’s Sam Ruelas and Matthew Gweh, Eagan’s A.J. Albers and Jefferson’s Tyler Tumberg.

The Prior Lake Soccer Club has set evaluations for its U9/ U10 traveling programs. They will be held Nov. 1-2 at the Soccer Blast in Burnsville.

Evaluation times for U9 players for both days are 5-6 p.m., followed by U10 players from 6-7 p.m.

For more, go to www.priorlakesoccer.org.

Laker Athletic Booster Club meetings The Laker Athletic Booster Club will have its monthly meeting on the third Monday of every month (except July and December) in the lecture hall next to the auditorium at Prior Lake High School, 7575 W. 150th St., Savage, starting at 7 p.m.

DNR expects good deer hunting season Hunters who venture into fields and forests for Minnesota’s fi rearms deer season can expect a good deer season and ample hunting opportunities, according to the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR).

“We can’t guarantee harvest success,” said Steve Merchant, wildlife programs manager. “But we can assure hunters that good deer hunting opportunities exist throughout Minnesota.”

Nearly 500,000 people are expected to participate in the fi rearms deer season, which opens Saturday, Nov. 5, throughout Minnesota.

Minnesota’s whitetail deer population is about 1 million.

The DNR, which manages the herd based on population goals established with public input, expects this year’s harvest to be similar to the 207,000 deer harvested in 2010.

During the late 1990s, deer populations were at high levels in many areas due to a succession of mild winters. DNR enacted liberal hunting regulations to reduce the population, resulting in Minnesota’s deer harvest peaking in 2003 at 290,000.

“Throughout most of Minnesota, deer populations are now at goal levels,” Merchant said. “Bag limits have been reduced in some areas, but the deer population remains strong.”

Most corn, which provides ample standing cover and can significantly impact deer harvest, likely will have been harvested, and last winter wasn’t so severe that deer populations were significantly affected.

The fi rearms deer season concludes in the northern Minnesota on Sunday, Nov. 20, and Sunday, Nov. 13, in all other parts of the state. A late season in southeastern Minnesota that stretches from Watertown in the north to Caledonia in the south opens Saturday, Nov. 19, and closes Sunday, Nov. 27.

Prior Lake Area Running Club The Prior Lake Area Running Club meets weekly for group runs and also has guest speakers and can provide discounts at local running stores.

All levels of runners and joggers are welcome. You don’t have to be from Prior Lake to join the club.

For more information contact Doug Krohn at doug.krohn@ comcast.net.

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Date Sept. 1 Sept. 9 Sept. 16 Sept. 23 Sept. 30 Oct. 7 Oct. 14 Oct. 19 Oct. 25 Oct. 29

Opponent Result/Time vs. Wayzata L, 47-20 at Bloomington Jefferson W, 43-7 vs. Rosemount L, 13-6 at Burnsville W, 13-10 at Bloomington Kennedy W, 30-13 vs. Eagan W, 21-14 at Lakeville South W, 28-7 vs. Lakeville North L, 21-3 vs. Jefferson (playoffs) W, 42-3 vs. Kennedy (playoffs) 7 p.m.

Date Aug. 25 April 27 Sept. 1 Sept. 6 Sept. 8 Sept. 13 Sept. 15 Sept. 17 Sept. 17 Sept. 17 Sept. 17 Sept. 20 Sept. 22 Sept. 27 Oct. 4 Oct. 6 Oct. 7 Oct. 7 Oct. 8 Oct. 8 Oct. 11 Oct. 14 Oct. 14 Oct. 15 Oct. 15 Oct. 18 Oct. 26 Oct. 28

Opponent Result/Time vs. Owatonna W, 3-0 vs. Chaska W, 3-0 at Chanhassen L, 3-1 at Faribault L, 3-2 vs. Edina L, 3-2 vs. Lakeville North L, 3-0 at Apple Valley L, 3-0 New Ulm W, 2-0 Jordan L, 2-0 Le Sueur-Henderson L, 2-0 Brainerd W, 2-0 vs. Rosemount W, 3-0 at Bloomington Jefferson L, 3-0 at Lakeville South L, 3-0 vs. Bloomington Kennedy L, 3-1 at Eastview L, 3-0 Northfield W, 2-0 Belle Plaine L, 2-0 Visitation W, 2-0 Jordan L, 2-1 vs. Eagan L, 3-1 Eden Prairie L, 2-0 St. Michael-Albertville W, 2-0 Chaska W, 2-1 Stewartville L, 2-1 at Burnsville W, 3-1 vs. Mankato W. (playoffs) W, 3-0 at Chanhanssen (playoffs) 7 p.m.

Boys Soccer Date Aug. 27 Aug. 30 Sept. 3 Sept. 6 Sept. 8 Sept. 10 Sept. 13 Sept. 15 Sept. 17 Sept. 20 Sept. 22 Sept. 24 Sept. 27 Oct. 1 Oct. 4 Oct. 6 Oct. 13 Oct. 15

Opponent Result/Time vs. Chaska W, 1-0 at Edina L, 4-1 at East Ridge W, 2-1 vs. Eagan W, 2-1 at Burnsville W, 1-0 vs. Wayzata L, 1-0 vs. Lakeville North L, 2-1 at Apple Valley L, 1-0 vs. Hopkins W, 1-0 vs. Rosemount W, 2-0 at Jefferson L, 3-1 vs. Rochester Mayo W, 1-0 at Lakeville South W, 4-1 vs. White Bear Lake W, 3-2 vs. Kennedy W, 4-1 at Eastview L, 1-0 vs. Kennedy (playoffs) W, 1-0 at Jefferson (playoffs) L, 3-0

Girls Soccer Date Aug. 26 Aug. 27 Aug. 30 Sept. 6 Sept. 8 Sept. 10 Sept. 13 Sept. 15 Sept. 17 Sept. 20 Sept. 22 Sept. 26 Sept. 27 Sept. 29 Oct. 4 Oct. 6 Oct. 13 Oct. 15

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Prior Lake Soccer Club sets evaluations

Football

Volleyball

BY TOM SCHARDIN tschardin@swpub.com

Kevin Krueger quietly went about his business this past fall defending the goal of the Prior Lake boys soccer team.

But Krueger’s talents didn’t go completely unnoticed.

The senior defender was na med f i rst-tea m a l l-st ate by the Minnesota State High School Soccer Coaches Association (MSHSSCA). He was one of six defenders named to the team and one of two from the South Suburban Conference.

The other was Eastview junior Mike Bonderud.

“Kevin is a very talented player and it’s been fun to get to work with him in the fall for the past few years,” said Lakers coach Mike Shebuski. “He’s been a constant back there for us for three years in a row now, so it will be different next year not having him to rely on.”

“Kevin hasn’t decided on a college yet, but is looking at instate options,” added Shebuski.

“I think any program would be pretty happy to get a player like him.”

LAKERS’ FALL SCHEDULES

Apple Valley was fourth (153) in the 15-team field, followed by Visitation (156), Eastview (173) and Burnsville (206).

The Class AA state meet is set for Nov. 5 at St. Olaf College in Northfield. Top-ranked Monticello is the heavy favorite, while No. 2 Lakeville South also looks strong.

After that, Saad feels the No. 3 spot is up for grabs.

“Our girls are running very confident right now,” said Saad.

“We’ll be pretty competitive at state. It’s pretty much wide open after those first two teams.

We’ll see where we end up.”

Senior Taylor Scholl led the Lakers on the 5,000-meter section course at the University of Minnesota’s Les Bolstad Golf Course. She was the defending champion, but she finished fourth overall this time around with a time of 14 minutes, 44 seconds.

Senior Samantha Anderson was the Lakers’ next-best finisher taking 11th (15:05), followed by sophomore Mackenzie Schell in 12th (15:13), senior Kirsten Anderson in 17th (15:30) and senior Lauren Bruha in 25th (15:47).

Junior Amber Tieman ended up 27th (15:51), followed by junior Madeline Schulze in 33rd (15:56).

Saad decided to rest senior Madison Lesmeister, who had low iron levels. Lesmeister has been a key member of the Lakers’ state teams over the years and will run at state for her last career high school race.

Saad said his seven who will run at state will be Scholl, the Anderson sisters, Schell, Bruha, Schulze and Lesmeister with Tieman as the fi rst alternate. Schulze is the only runner of the eight who has never competed at state, so experience will be on the Lakers’ side.

“We are a deep team,” said Saad. “We have a lot of (state) experience. We’ll be counting on that. It’s nice to know we can sit Madison and still have enough depth to get the job done (at sections). It says a lot about our depth.”

The Lakers’ best-ever team finish at state was second in 2009. The team has finished fourth two times (2005 and 2007), fi fth once (2006), seventh once

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he gets, the more dangerous he will become. He’s defi nitely a good complement to Kaiser, Arends, and Johnson.

“We feel of fensively, we can attack teams with a lot of different playmakers,” added

Opponent Result/Time vs. Byron W, 3-0 vs. Farmington W, 2-1 at Eden Prairie L, 1-0 vs. Eagan L, 1-0 at Burnsville L, 3-1 at Chanhassen W, 1-0 vs. Lakeville North L, 4-0 at Apple Valley T, 0-0 vs. Hopkins W, 1-0 vs. Rosemount L, 1-0 at Jefferson W, 2-1 vs. Northfield L, 3-1 at Lakeville South L, 1-0 vs. Holy Family W, 1-0 vs. Kennedy W, 5-0 at Eastview T, 1-1 vs. Jefferson (playoffs) W, 1-0 at Burnsville (playoffs) L, 2-0

Girls Tennis

PHOTOS BY TOM SCHARDIN

Prior Lake senior Jackson Homstad makes a turn on the Section 3AA course Oct. 26. He finished 32nd overall.

Date Aug. 24 Aug. 25 Aug. 26 Aug. 26 Aug. 31 Sept. 1 Sept. 6 Sept. 8 Sept. 14 Sept. 15 Sept. 16 Sept. 20 Sept. 22 Sept. 23 Sept. 26 Sept. 28 Oct. 4 Oct. 11 Oct. 13

Opponent at Henry Sibley at Burnsville vs. Owatonna at Chanhassen vs. Eagan at Eastview vs. Holy Angels vs. Lakeville North at Lakeville South at Apple Valley at Visitation vs. Rosemount at Jefferson vs. South St. Paul vs. Eden Prairie vs. Kennedy Simley (playoffs) Visitation (playoffs) Rosemount (playoffs)

Result W, 7-0 W, 7-0 W, 6-1 W, 4-3 W, 6-1 W, 5-2 W, 6-1 W, 4-3 W, 5-2 W, 6-1 W, 6-1 W, 4-3 W, 7-0 W, 6-1 W, 4-3 W, 7-0 W, 6-1 W, 4-3 L, 4-3

Cross Country Date Sept. 2 Sept. 8 Sept. 16 Sept. 24 Sept. 29

Prior Lake juniors Amber Tieman (left) and Madeline Schulze run close to each other at the Section 3AA meet Oct. 26.

(1989), ninth once (201), 10th four times (1993, 2001, 2004 and 2008) and 15th once (2003).

The Prior Lake boys wasn’t expected to challenge for the Section 3AA title.

Instead, the 5,000 -meter race on the Les Bolstad course turned out to the fi nal races for the Lakers’ seniors – Josh Schaffer, Jackson Homstad, Paul Evans and Mason Gracia.

Schaffer led the way taking 28th overall with a time of 17:13 (top 10 qualify for state).

Homstad was close behind in 32nd (17:22), while Evans fi nished 52nd (17:50) and Gracia was 79th (18:20).

Junior Jimmy White ended up the Lakers’ third-best fi nisher taking 39th (17:30), while

ninth-grader Shawn Doherty took 54th (17:52) and sophomore Cole Nielsen ended up 74th (18:13).

Prior Lake ended up seventh out 15 teams with 205 points. Second-ranked Rosemount won the title (58), while No. 10 Burnsville earned the other state team spot in second place (66).

Ninth-ranked Eastview ended up third (68), followed

by Apple Valley (161) and St. Thomas Academy (163). Eagan was eighth (206).

“The boys did well,” said Lakers coach Dan Saad. “We were right in the middle of the pack and I was happy that we fi nished ahead of Eagan.

It was a good race for a lot of your guys. I know they were happy with where we ended up.”

Gegenheimer. “When our offensive line blocks as well as they have been, our run game is pretty solid.”

On defense, the Lakers gave up 187 yards to the Jaguars, but allowed just nine first downs.

Arends and senior Karmichael Dunbar each finished with eight tackles, while se-

nior Taylor Case and senior Dylan Jackson had five.

Dunbar and senior Mason Ly t le each combined on a sack.

The playoff win over Jefferson also assured the Lakers of their fi rst winning season since 2007 when the team went 6-4 and lost in the section semifi nals at Eastview.

LAKER BOYS

Oct. 4 Oct. 14 Oct. 18 Oct. 26 Nov. 5

Opponent Result/Time Rosemount Invite Girls, 1st Boys, 9th Redbird Invite Girls, 1st Boys 5th Lakeville Invite Girls, 4th Boys, 9th Milaca Mega Meet Girls 3rd Boys, 8th Prior Lake Invite Girls, 1st Boys ,2nd Victoria Lion’s Invite Girls, 6th Boys, 17th SSC Championships Girls, 3rd Boys, 9th Dundee Invite Girls, 5th Boys, 6th Section 3AA Meet Girls, 2nd Boys, 7th Class AA state meet 10 a.m.

Girls Swimming Date Sept. 1 Sept. 6 Sept. 10 Sept. 15 Sept. 17 Sept. 22 Sept. 24 Sept. 29 Oct. 6 Oct. 11 Oct. 15 Oct. 18 Oct. 19 Oct. 27 Nov. 9 Nov. 11 Nov. 17-19

Opponent Result/Time at Apple Valley W, 99-76 vs. Lakeville North W, 99-86 Minnetonka Invite 5th vs. Kennedy W, 94-30 Prior Lake Invite 1st at Rosemount L, 101-85 UND Invitational 1st at Burnsville W, 86-79 at Jefferson W, 105-76 vs. Eastview W, 99-87 Section 2AA True Team 1st at Lakeville South W, 97-83 State True Team 6th vs. Eagan 6 p.m.

Section 2AA prelims 6 p.m.

Section 2AA finals 6 p.m.

Class AA state meet 6 p.m.

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VanBenthuysen had 219 kills, along with 152 digs.

McGraw led in set assists (484) and ace serves (27). Leuthmers led in digs (424), while Veldman had 25 ace serves and Luth had 124 kills.

This year’s Class AAA state tournament is set for Nov. 10-12 at the Xcel Energy in St. Paul.

Lakeville North is the defending champion.

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Oct. 25: Police pulled over a vehicle The Prior Lake Police Department in the 2300 block of Sioux Trail and responded to the following incidents MORE ONLINE arrested its two occupants. The driver, between Oct.19 and Oct. 26. This is not KEEP UP WITH a 39-year-old man from Bloomington, a comprehensive list of all incidents to BREAKING NEWS was arrested on a counterfeiting warrant which the department responded.

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Path when his vehicle collided with a The passenger, a 50-year-old woman large deer. The vehicle was unable to be from Cohasset, Minn., was arrested on driven from the scene. a Wright County warrant for financial transaction card fraud Assault Oct. 21: Police responded to a fight at Mystic Lake Ca- and an Anoka County warrant for probation violation.

Oct. 25: Police responded to a narcotics complaint from sino, 2400 Mystic Lake Blvd. They cited a 39-year-old Minneapolis man for fifth-degree assault and a 31-year-old Mystic Lake security. They arrested a 48-year-old Alexandria, Minn., man for fifth-degree possession of methamphetMinneapolis man for disorderly conduct. amine.

Disorderly conduct Theft Oct. 23: Police were called to Mystic Lake Casino, where Oct. 19: Police responded to the 5400 block of Fawn security had detained a 48-year-old Minneapolis man. Police Court where a woman reported theft of a radar detector arrested him for disorderly conduct. valued at $400 from her vehicle.

Driving violation Oct. 19: A man in the 1500 block of Island View reOct. 24: Police pulled over a vehicle on 140th Street near Eagle Creek Avenue and cited the driver, a 30-year-old from St. ported the theft of a grill propane tank.

Oct. 19: A man in the 4400 block of Coachman Lane rePaul, for multiple infractions including driving after cancellation, ported the theft of a portable air compressor and trailer hitch. no proof of insurance and no driver’s license in possession.

Oct. 20: Mystic Lake security reported the theft of a walDWI Oct. 23: An officer on Highway 13 near Duluth Avenue let. The wallet was located, but cash and credit cards were arrested a 20-year-old Prior Lake man for fourth-degree DWI, missing.

Oct. 20: Police responded to the 4600 block of Oakwood speeding, careless driving and drinking and driving.

Circle to advise a resident who reported the theft of a garage Harassment Oct. 20: Police took a report from the 14000 block of door opener from an unlocked vehicle.

Oct. 21: A woman at Mystic Lake Casino reported her cell Carriage Lane regarding harassing e-mails that someone was phone, valued at $300, had been stolen. receiving.

Oct. 21: Police looked into a report from Mystic Lake Hit and run Oct. 19: A man whose vehicle was parked at the River security that an individual had taken items from the smoke Valley YMCA reported that someone had sideswiped the shop. They cited a 37-year-old Shakopee man for theft.

Oct. 25: Police responded to the 4400 block of Fountain passenger side of his vehicle.

Oct. 22: A 73-year-old Osceola, Wis., woman reported Hills Drive, where a vehicle had been broken into. The comher vehicle had been struck by an unknown vehicle while it plainant reported a purse, wallet, cell phone, credit cards, driver’s license and $80 in cash were missing. was parked at McKenna Crossing.

Oct. 25: An auto dealer on Highway 13 reported the theft Oct. 23: A Prior Lake man told police someone had run of a vehicle from the dealership lot. Glass on the ground into his vehicle in the 3200 block of Walter Street. indicated the driver’s-side window had been smashed out.

Liquor-law violations Oct. 22: Police stopped a vehicle in the 4600 block of Police are investigating the case.

Warrants Park Nicollet Avenue and issued several citations. The driver, Oct. 21: Police took a 38-year-old Minneapolis woman a 21-year-old Prior Lake man, was cited for open bottle in a motor vehicle and violation of a limited license. Two pas- into custody after she turned herself in because of an outsengers, an 18-year-old man from Elko and a 19-year-old standing Scott County warrant. She was in the 2400 block man from Lakeville, were cited for underage consumption. of Mystic Lake Boulevard.

Oct. 21: Police arrested a 25-year-old Prior Lake man in Oct. 26: Police conducted a traffic stop at Mystic Lake Drive near Dakotah Parkway and cited a 35-year-old Min- the 1600 block of Main Avenue for an outstanding warrant neapolis man for open bottle and driving after revocation, out of South Dakota.

Oct. 21: Police arrested a 41-year-old St. Paul man on a and a 52-year-old Minneapolis man for open bottle.

Ramsey County warrant. He was taken into custody at MysNarcotics Oct. 21: Police stopped a driver at Franklin Trail near tic Lake Casino.

Oct. 22: Police stopped a vehicle and took its driver, a Eagle Creek Avenue. A 23-year-old man from Prior Lake, was 21-year-old Burnsville woman, into custody because of an cited for possession of drug paraphernalia.

Oct. 23: Police responded to a complaint in the 2300 outstanding Scott County warrant, no insurance and a block of Sioux Trail regarding a man in a vehicle who was driver’s license permit violation.

Oct. 23: Police arrested a 22-year-old Prior Lake man in smoking marijuana. They cited a 38-year-old for trespassing. the 1400 block of Bluebird Trail on a Department of CorrecThe man gave no permanent address.

Oct. 23: Police made a traffic stop in the 2400 block of tions warrant.

Oct. 25: Police took a 39-year-old Prior Lake man into Mystic Lake Boulevard and arrested two individuals. The driver, a 44-year-old Minneapolis man, was arrested for a custody in the 4300 block of Colorado Street because of a domestic abuse no-contact order violation, fifth-degree pos- Scott County warrant for driving with no Minnesota driver’s session of methamphetamine and possession of drug para- license and no proof of insurance.

Oct. 21: Police on Highway 13 near Eagle Creek Avenue phernalia. The vehicle’s passenger, a 30-year-old Blaine woman, was arrested for fifth-degree possession of meth- pulled over a vehicle and arrested its driver, a 32-year-old River amphetamine, possession of a small amount of marijuana Falls man, for providing a false name to police and a felony warrant for failure to appear out of St. Croix County, Wis. and possession of drug paraphernalia.

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FIRE CALLS The Prior Lake Fire Department responded to the following fire and medical calls between Oct. 18 and Oct. 25: Oct. 18 Firefighters responded to: A medical lift assist at 7:09 p.m. in the 17100 block of Pheasant Meadow Lane.

Oct. 19 Firefighters responded to: A house fire at 9:28 a.m. in the 5200 block of Hampton Street. They determined there was smoldering insulation due to the electrical malfunction of a bathroom lamp-fan unit. The homeowner smelled smoke and reported it to the fire department. No one was injured.

A fire alarm at 1:15 p.m. in the 9800 block of Towering Oaks Curve in Credit River Township. They determined the alarm had been set off by burnt food.

A fire alarm at 11:37 p.m. in the

5600 block of Credit River Road. It was a false alarm.

Oct. 21 Firefighters responded to: A visible fire at 12:14 a.m. in the 16200 block of Franklin Trail. Police on the scene learned it was a recreational fire, and they canceled the call before firefighters arrived.

Smoke in the area of Texas Avenue and Cleary Place in Credit River Township at 4:08 p.m. The smoke was found to have resulted from a recreational fire.

Smoke at the intersection of Main Avenue and Kop Parkway at 8:01 p.m.

They determined smoke was hanging in the air from a vehicle that had been spinning out its tires.

Oct. 22 Firefighters responded to: A dumpster fire at 2:23 a.m. in the 16600 block of Highway 13. The dumpster belonged to a Prior Lake business,

and the cause of the fire was unknown.

Smoke that appeared to be coming from a business in the 14100 block of Commerce Avenue at 3:51 p.m. They determined someone was burning a recreational fire.

Oct. 23 Firefighters responded to: A fire in the 5100 block of 160th Street (Memorial Park) at 12:41 a.m.

Grass and leaves were on fire. Authorities were unable to determine if the fire was accidental or intentional.

A fire alarm at 7:28 p.m. in the 9500 block of Birch Lane in Credit River Township, but they were canceled en route by the alarm company.

Oct. 24 Firefighters responded to: Smoke in the area of the 16600 block of Five Hawks Avenue at 4:06 p.m. The call proved to be unfounded.

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DISTRICT COURT The following are Scott County District Court felony and gross misdemeanor dispositions. Defendants either pleaded guilty or were found guilty by the court unless otherwise indicated.

Richard Dale Hallgren, 78, Belle Plaine, driving after cancellation (inimical to public safety), a gross misdemeanor. Two years probation, 10 days under electronic home-monitoring, $285 in fines.

Andrea Marina Matthews, 29, Minneapolis, driving while impaired (DWI), a gross misdemeanor. Two years probation, 30 days in jail, follow recommendations of evaluation, $710 in fines.

Shayne Andrew Bily, 24, Burnsville, DWI, a gross misdemeanor. Two years probation, two days in jail, follow recommendations of evaluation, $625 in fines.

Calvin Nigel Howard Jr., 20, Savage, domestic assault, a gross misdemeanor. Two years probation, 45 days in jail, follow recommendations of evaluation, no contact with victim(s), $310 in fines.

Charles David Ecklund, 46, New Prague, DWI, a gross misdemeanor. Two years probation, two days in jail, 28 days under electronic home-monitoring, 16 hours of community service, follow recommendations of evaluation, $610 in fines.

Richard Ward Lytton, 46, Bloomington, driving after cancellation (inimical to public safety), a gross misdemeanor. Two years probation, 45 days in jail, $160 in fines.

Issuance of dishonored check, a gross misdemeanor. Two years probation, 45 days in jail (concurrent), restitution, $85 in fines.

Trinidad Jesus Garcia, 39, Newton, Iowa, receiving stolen property, a felony. Serve 24 months in prison, provide DNA sample, restitution, $155 in fines.

Stacy Lynn Lenard, 20, St. Paul, child endangerment, a gross misdemeanor. Two years probation, 80 hours of community service, follow recommendations of evaluation, provide DNA sample, complete parenting program, $135 in fines.

Cassandra Marie Leser, 24, Shakopee, furnishing alcohol to minor, a gross misdemeanor. One year probation, two days in jail, $385 in fines.

Jason Lynn Cole, 35, Winnebago, Minn., DWI, a gross misdemeanor. Three years probation, two days in jail, 45 days in jail, follow recommendations of evaluation, $860 in fines.

KC Jean Bathel, 20, Prior Lake, fifth-degree possession of

controlled substance, a felony. Adjudication stayed: Five years probation, 90 days in jail, follow recommendations of evaluation, abstain from alcohol, random tests, $85 in fines.

Robyn Lynn Pelovski, 26, Eagan, false name to police officer, a gross misdemeanor. Adjudication stayed: One year probation, $375 in fines.

Dejuanna Lucille Mitchell-Tanney, 46, Lakeville, escape from custody, a felony. Five years probation, 45 days in jail, abstain from alcohol, random tests, provide DNA sample, $185 in fines.

Kyle Steven Andros, 25, Eden Prairie, DWI, a gross misdemeanor. Three years probation, 10 days in jail, 20 days under electronic home-monitoring, follow recommendations of evaluation, abstain from alcohol, random tests, restitution, $685 in fines.

Eugene Harold Young, 78, Shakopee, fourth-degree criminal sexual conduct, a felony. Ten years probation, 30 days in jail, abstain from alcohol, random tests, no contact with victim(s) or males under age 18, complete treatment program, register as sex offender, do not possess pornography, $385 in fines.

Marcos Kenneth Kroupa, 34, Shakopee, DWI, a gross misdemeanor. Two years probation, 30 days under electronic home-monitoring, follow recommendations of evaluation, $525 in fines.

Maureen Louise Okeefe, 34, Bloomington, DWI, a gross misdemeanor. Two years probation, follow recommendations of evaluation, $410 in fines.

Tena Marie Fowler, 28, Robbinsdale, DWI, a gross misdemeanor. Two years probation, follow recommendations of evaluation, $410 in fines.

Sheldon Dennis Hofschult, 30, Victoria, predatory offender violates registration requirements, a felony. Five years probation, one year in jail, provide DNA sample, $85 in fines.

Violation of restraining order, a gross misdemeanor. One year in jail (concurrent).

Rodney Alan Roth, 34, Shakopee, DWI, a felony. Serve three years in prison.

Jesse Joe Vogel, 27, Denver, predatory offender violation of registration requirements, a felony. Five years probation, 120 days in jail, provide DNA sample, $385 in fines.

Justin Ray Watson, 29, Shakopee, domestic assault, a gross misdemeanor. Two years probation, five days in jail, 15 days under electronic home-monitoring, complete counseling, no possession of dangerous weapons, $185 in fines.

Children will be paid $1 per pound of candy and for every pound of candy bought back, St. Francis will donate $2 to the Jordan Area Food Shelf.

The candy will be sent to troops overseas.

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Archery deer hunts will take place Nov. 11-13 in Crow-Hassan Park Reserve (city of Hanover and Hassan Township), Murphy-Hanrehan Park Reserve (Savage), and Cleary Lake Regional Park (Prior Lake). During the archery hunts, these parks will be closed; however, the off-leash dog areas at Cleary Lake Regional Park and Crow-Hassan Park Reserve will remain open.

Shotgun deer hunts are scheduled Nov. 19-20 at Carver Park Reserve (Victoria) and Nov. 26-27 at Lake Rebecca Park Reserve (Rockford).

During the shotgun hunts, these parks will be closed. The off-leash dog area in Carver Park will be closed on Nov. 19-20. However, the Lake Sarah off-leash dog area will remain open on the weekend of Nov. 27-28.

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COMMUNITY HAPPENINGS

FACES IN THE CROWD | A WEEKLY PROFILE OF PEOPLE IN THE COMMUNITY

Go Beyond the Yellow Ribbon Beyond t he Yel low Ribbon South of the River will meet at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 1 in the lower level of the Prior Lake VFW, 16306 Main Ave. The group is getting ready for its November symposium and seeks people to volunteer as well as participate in this first-ever event.

For more information, visit www.btyrsouthoftheriver.org.

Enter VFW contests by Nov. 1 The Prior Lake VFW is sponsoring the Voice of Democracy contest for students in grades nine through 12 with a first-place award of $300, and the Patriot’s Pen essay contest for students in grades six through eight with a first-place award of $200.

Details and applications can be found at www.VFW.org (look for “community” and “programs”).

The deadline to apply at the Prior Lake VFW, 16306 Main Ave., is Nov. 1.

For information, call Denise Schmidt at (952) 994-2588.

Co-op to raise funds for Haiti Minnesota Valley Electric Cooperative (MVEC) will have its annual all-you-can-eat shrimp dinner from 5 to 7 p.m. Friday, Nov. 4 at its headquarters, 125 Minnesota Valley Electric Drive, Jordan.

The event raises funds for an ongoing project to maintain an electrical system in Pignon, Haiti, a small town of about 30,000 people east of Cuba. The menu includes shrimp, salad, potatoes, garlic toast, dessert and beverages. The price is $ 25 for adults, $10 for children 5-11 and free for children under 5.

Reservations are recommended, but paying at the door also is an option. Reserve tickets by calling (952) 492-8210 or registering at www.mvec.net.

Celebrate Marines at Nov. 10 event The North Star DetachmentMarine Corps League, a congressionally chartered veterans organization, will host its annual Marine Corps birthday celebration at the Shakopee VFW, 1201 Third Ave. E., on Thursday, Nov. 10.

Social hour will begin at 6 p.m. with a free turkey dinner from 6:30 to 8 p.m. A cake-cutting ceremony at 7:30 p.m. will precede a brief presentation by a guest speaker.

A dance with a DJ will follow at 8 p.m. A cash bar will be available.

The event is open to the public.

Get one-on-one computer help A Scott County volunteer computer aide is available from 3:30 to 6:30 p.m. Wednesdays at the Prior Lake Library, 16210 Eagle Creek Ave., to provide one-on-one assistance concerning questions about navigating the Internet, creating a free e-mail account, formatting a resume and more.

No registration is required. For more information, call the library at (952) 447-3375.

Free driver safety classes for vets During November, AARP will offer free classes to honor veterans and their spouses at the Prior Lake VFW, 16306 Main Ave. Those 55 or older will receive a 10-percent discount on car insurance for taking the class. For those who have not taken the course before, a class will be sponsored at 6 p.m. on both Tuesday and Wednesday, Nov. 15 and 16.

A free refresher course will be offered at 6 p.m. Monday, Nov. 28 for those who have previously taken the course.

Enroll by calling Ed Speiker at (952) 226-6208.

Deadline The deadline for community happenings items for this section is noon Wednesdays.

For more information, e-mail editor@plamerican.com.

PHOTO BY LORI CARLSON

Bette Block teaches vocal and piano lessons from her home on Prior Lake.

Singer shares passion for music

BY LORI CARLSON editor@plamerican.com

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s family dogs Dood and Dash rest comfortably at her feet, Bette Block excitedly shares some of her success stories as a teacher of private music lessons.

“My favorite thing is to transfer my appreciation and passion for music to them, and to see them master a concept – to see things click and watch them get excited,” says the Prior Lake resident.

But the most gratifying aspect of teaching from home, she says, is realizing her role as a music therapist.

“I’ve used music to help students overcome whatever challenges they face – stuttering, shyness, low self-esteem, ADHD,” she explains.

“That’s the most rewarding thing – to use music to help them become better human beings.”

Block started teaching voice and piano lessons from home 25 years ago before taking a break to work in the corporate world, but she eventually went back to teaching private lessons full-time. She has taught students of all ages – from 3-year-old piano-playing twins to an 80-year-old man who wanted to learn to sing.

In addition to her teaching work, Block stays busy spending time with her husband, Steve; their twin sons Dane and Rush, 17½, who are seniors at Prior Lake High School; and son Evan, 13½, a student at Hidden Oaks Middle School. She also enjoys being a grandma – her stepdaughter, Donna, has a 2½-year-old son named Christian.

Born in Texas, Block moved

“I’ve used music to help students overcome whatever challenges they face – stuttering, shyness, low self-esteem, ADHD. That’s the most rewarding thing – to use music to help them become better human beings.”

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Bette Block Music teacher

around as a child, with her family spending time in Illinois and then settling in the Chanhassen area when she was in fifth grade.

She graduated from Chaska High School and later earned a bachelor of science degree in vocal music education from Bemidji State University.

After college, she did long-term substitute teaching for awhile, but “the classroom setting wasn’t where my heart was,” she says.

Block performed in musicals, including at venues in Milwaukee and Detroit, where she lived for five years, and – upon her return to Minnesota – at the Lyric Theater.

The upbeat singer also has performed with the Prior Lake Players in two productions: “A Chorus Line” and “The Sound of Music.” Crowds attending Lakefront Days celebrations in recent years also might remember Block’s bubbly performances in the “Laker Idol” competition, in which she took second place one year and third place another year.

“My mom was a singer, and I always had performing in my blood,” she says, recalling that the first show she directed, choreographed and starred in was at age 6.

“I believe we called it Swingset

Productions, and we played for all our parents and neighbors,” she remembers.

Block also takes part in music ministry through her church, Trinity Evangelical Free in Lakeville.

She and Steve, a bank vice president, moved from Savage to Prior Lake in 2001 “with the sole purpose of getting on the lake,” she says, smiling and gesturing to her view of the water.

“I love the water – I still waterski,” she says. “I also like taking sunset cruises and watching our kids enjoy tubing and wakeboarding.”

Q AND A WITH BETTE BLOCK Besides singing and teaching, what else do you enjoy?

I enjoy fitness and travel. My best vacation was spending 10 days on a sailboat in the British Virgin Islands.

If you could go anywhere you haven’t been, where would you go?

Italy. I just love the ambience it seems to have – the culture, the scenery, the wine – and of course the music.

What three words would people use to describe you?

Three favorite singers When asked, “Who’s your favorite musical artist,” Block listed three singers from diverse genres: Musical theater: Kristin Chenoweth Christian music: Sandi Patty Pop: Carrie Underwood

Energetic, passionate and outgoing.

If you could meet someone famous or from history, who would it be?

Paul from the Bible. He was very passionate and had a big transformation in his life. He was devoted to his calling.

If you were president, what would you do?

I’d make a complete overhaul – I’d call on all of the people in elected offices to live by the same standards and rules as the people in our country – no exceptions – the same Social Security, no tenures, and their pay would be tied to the national debt and reducing the debt.

Do you know someone who would make a good Faces in the Crowd candidate? Call the editor at (952) 345-6378 or e-mail editor@plamerican.com.

Historical Society hires new program manager The Scott County Historical Society announces the appointment of Allison Drtina as its new program manager.

Drtina has a bachelor of science degree in history from Iowa State University and a master’s degree in

social sciences from the University of Chicago. She is active in the Society of Creative Anachronism (a Medieval recreationist group) and studied Irish archeology and London history in England.

Drtina has experience working in

programming at the Science Museum of Minnesota and the Washington County Historical Society, as well as the Oriental Institute Museum in Chicago. In her new position, she is responsible for the Scott County Historical Society’s adult, children, outreach

and school programs, as well as volunteer management.

Cont act Dr ti na at (952) -445-0378 or adrtina@scottcountyhistory.org.

Allison Drtina

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americanslice COMMUNITY HELP AND SUPPORT (Editor’s note: Listings of organizational meetings and events are free but are not guaranteed in the Prior Lake American. Send information that includes the organization’s name and meeting times/locations and a contact’s name and telephone number. Deadline is Wednesday at noon.

E-mail information to editor@plamerican.com, mail to Prior Lake American, P.O. Box 578, Prior Lake, MN 55372, or fax to (952) 447-6671.)

WEEKLY

Young Life Scott County Young Life is part of a worldwide, nondenominational Christian organization for high school students that offers fun, adventure, friendship and a sense of significance.

The club meets from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. Mondays at the Young Life Office, 13845 Highway 13, Savage.

For more information, call Ben Dodds at (952) 402-9123 or visit www.scottcountymn. younglife.org.

Co-Dependents Anonymous

The g roups meet weekly on Saturdays at 6:30 p.m. at Shepherd of the Lake Lutheran Church, 3611 North Berens Road, Prior Lake.

For more information, call Charlie at (952) 884-9417 or Michael at (952) 607-8619.

Moms in Touch International Moms in Touch International (MITI) is a prayer group that meets weekly to pray for children and schools.

Moms pray one hour each week for their children, their individual schools, administration, PTA/PTC groups, staff, students and every aspect of the school.

For information on your child’s individual school, visit momsintouch.org and click on “group locator.”

day of the month at 10 a.m. at Harbor Community Church, 5995 Timber Trail, Prior Lake.

To join the group or find out more information, contact Mandy Reinert Nash at (952) 226-2410 or Sharlene Czajkowski at (952) 447-1780, e-mail momsclubofpriorlake@yahoo.com or visit www.momsclub.org.

WyldLife Scott County WyldLife is part of a worldwide, nondenominational Christian organization for middle school students.

The club meets every other Friday and offers a high-energy, interactive evening fi lled with games, fun and music.

For more information on the schedule and location, call Jennifer Schroeder at (952) 402-9123 or visit www.scott countymn.wyldlife.org.

Savage Unity AA

T.O.P.S. T.O.P.S., Take off Pounds Sensibly, meets at 5:30 p.m. each Wednesday in the community room at Prior Lake State Bank, 16677 Duluth Ave. For more information, call June at (952) 454-6579 or Mikki at (952) 457-1306.

A handicapped-accessible Alcoholics Anonymous meeting open to men and women takes place Mondays at 6:30 p.m. at Bridgewood Church, 6201 W. 135th St., Savage.

For more information, call (952) 297-4777.

Co-Dependents Anonymous group support meets at 16150 Arcadia Ave., Prior Lake.

Men’s C o - D ep endent s Anonymous meets at 6:30 p.m. every Monday.

Co -Dependents Anonymous (for men and women) meets at 8 p.m. every Tuesday.

PowerNet business

Winner’s Circle

Savage PowerNet, a business referral group, meets every Thursday from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Davanni’s, at County Road 42 and Highway 13 in Savage.

For more information, call Kelly at (612) 861-8300.

The Winner’s Circle Chapter of Business Network International meets from 7:30 to 9 a.m.

Thursdays at 1101 Adams St., Shakopee.

F o r m o r e i n fo r m at io n , call Darren Kurilko at (952) 947-0323.

Overeaters Anonymous

MONTHLY/ SEMIMONTHLY

Gamblers Anonymous

The group Overeaters Anonymous meets from 7 to 8 p.m.

Tuesdays at Christ Lutheran Church, 1053 Jef ferson St., Shakopee.

There are no dues, fees or weigh-ins. Everyone is welcome.

The group has a step format with a monthly open topic.

For more information, call Nancy at (612) 250-0075 or Steve at (612) 845-2672.

Emotions Anonymous A 12-step program called Emotions Anonymous meets 7 p.m. Thursdays at St. Anne’s parish center, 411 N. Fourth St., LeSueur, in the south end of St. Anne’s parking lot.

For more information, call Kathleen at (507) 665-2644.

Gamblers Anonymous Gamblers Anonymous is a fellowship of men and women who share their experience, strength and hope with each other.

Beyond the Yellow Ribbon Beyond the Yellow Ribbon South of the River, an organization that supports military personnel and their families, meets the first Tuesday of every month in the lower level of the Prior Lake VFW, 16306 Main Ave. The group can be reached by calling (952) 440-5011, or emailing btyrsouthoftheriver@ gmail.com.

American Legion The Prior Lake American Legion meets the third Monday of each month at 8 p.m. at the Prior Lake VFW, 16306 Main Ave., Prior Lake.

For more information, call Bob Roe at (952) 447-5811.

MOMS Club MOMS Club of Prior Lake (Moms Offering Moms Support) will have its monthly membership meeting the third Wednes-

Gamblers Anonymous, a support group for those struggling with addiction to gambling, meets at 7 p.m. Tuesdays at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, 5634 Luther Road, Prior Lake.

Alanon Alanon meetings with the “Island of Serenity” group will take place at 7 p.m. Mondays at 16150 Arcadia Ave., Prior Lake.

Other meetings take place at Lakers Alanon, 4646 Colorado St. on the following days: Thursdays: AA meets at 6:30 and 8 p.m.

Fridays: AA meets at 6:30 and 8 p.m.

Saturdays: On the first Saturday of each month, the meeting is open to all recovery groups, with the potluck at 6:30 p.m. and the call-up format meeting at 8 p.m. On the third Saturday of each month, there will be a 6:30 p.m. potluck followed by the 8 p.m. speaker meeting.

Sundays: AA meets at 10:30 a.m., the AA Big Book Study meets at 6 : 30 p.m., and A A meets at 8 p.m.

All people in recovery are welcome to attend.

Domestic violence Southern Valley Alliance for Battered Women offers ongoing weeknight and weekday support groups for women who are currently experiencing or have experienced domestic violence.

On-site childcare is provided. For location and more information, call (952) 873-4214.

National Alliance for Mental Illness The Scott County chapter of the National Alliance for Mental Illness (NAMI) will meet from 6:30 to 8 p.m. the fi rst and third Wednesdays of the month at the Valley Green Workforce Center, 752 Canterbury Road, Shakopee.

The meetings are open to all who are interested (including those living with the illness).

For more information, call Janet Williams at (952) 890-1669 or Kevin Wineman at (952) 496-8513, or visit www.nami. org/namimn.

Marine Corps League The Marine Corps League meets the third Thursday of each month at 7 p.m. at the Dan Patch American Legion, 12375 Princeton Ave., Savage.

F o r m o r e i n fo r m at io n , call Pete Williams at (612) 730-0999.

Suicide grief support A suicide grief support group meets from 7 to 8:30 p.m. the fourth Tuesday of the month at Queen of Peace Hospital, 301 Second St., New Prague.

The meeting location is the Jameen Mape Room. Enter through the emergency room doors; use the southeast elevators to the lower level.

For more information, call Sally at (952) 758-4735.

Mothers of Multiples Minnesota Valley Mothers of Multiples will meet at 7 p.m. the second Tuesday of each month at the Apple Valley Community Center, 14601 Hayes Road, Apple Valley.

For more information, email info@mvmom.org.

Support for RSD/CRPS A support group for anyone affected by Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy Syndrome/Complex

Regional Pain Syndrome meets from 10 a.m. to noon the fourth Saturday of each month at the Savage Public Library, 13090 Alabama Ave., Savage.

T he g roup encou rages a positive, caring group and has a variety of topics. The group is facilitated by Bonnie Scherer, but all members decide on all aspects of the meetings.

For more information, call (952) 457-7586.

River Valley Toastmasters The Minnesota River Valley Toastmasters will meet on the second, third and fourth Mondays of each month from 7 to 8 p.m.

The group now meets at the Prior Lake fi re station, 16776 Fish Point Road.

All visitors are welcome. For more information, call Shirley at (952) 447-4621 or visit www. mnrv.freetoasthost.org.

Widows and widowers Widows’ a nd Widowers’ Circle of Friends is a social group for those who have lost a spouse. The group meets at 5 p.m. the second Saturday of the month.

For more information, call Ethel at (952) 888-1035.

St. Francis support The following support groups meet regularly at St. Francis Regional Medical Center, 1455 St. Francis Ave., Shakopee: Infant Loss Support: Group meets the first Tuesday of every month from 7 to 8 p.m. Call (952) 428-2002 Diabetes Support: Group meets the fi rst Monday of each month from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Call (952) 428-3324.

Diabetes Prevention: Offered monthly. Designed for anyone who has been diagnosed with pre-diabetes or those with a family history of diabetes. For more information, call (952) 428-3324.

Hea r t Suppor t : Group meets the first Tuesday of every month from 7 to 8 p.m. Call (952) 428-2080.

Low Vision Support: Group meets the second Thursday of every month from 10 to 11:30 a.m. Call (952) 428-2002.

Women’s Connection, support for women with cancer: Meets the fourth Monday of each month from 7 to 8 p.m. Call (952) 428-2700.

American Cancer Society’s Look Good … Feel Better meets the fourth Monday of each month from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.

Call 1-800-ACS-2345.

Joint Care group meets every other Wednesday from 2 to 3 : 30 p.m. Designed for

people scheduled for total knee or hip replacement. Call (952) 428-2565.

Smoking Cessation: If you are ready to stop smoking, call 888-354-PLAN (7526).

La Leche League La Leche League offers support and encouragement to mothers who wish to breastfeed their babies.

Join the group for a meeting on the second Tuesday of each month at 7 p.m., and bring your nursing baby. Pregnant women are encouraged to attend before the birth of their babies.

For more information on the meeting or breast feeding questions, call April at ( 9 52 ) 4 4 0 - 6 3 2 0, M ichele at (952) 447-6182 or Traci at (952) 226-2052.

Sexual assault/abuse Survivors of Sexual Assault/ Abuse is a confidential, 10-week support group for survivors of sexual assault or abuse that meets from 6 to 8 p.m. on varying days in the Sexual Violence Center, 510 Chestnut St., Suite 204, Chaska.

For more information, call Kristi at (952) 448-5425.

Support for parents TABLE, a small group at Shepherd of the Lake Lutheran Church created to offer support and information for parents, meets the second and fourth Tuesdays of each month from 7:15 to 8:45 p.m.

Parents whose children have special behavioral, learning or emotional challenges are welcome. There is no cost to attend.

The church is at 3611 North Berens Road, Prior Lake. For more information, call Mary Wangerin at (952) 447-1884 or visit www.sollc.org.

MOPS classes Mothers of Preschoolers (MOPS), a national Christian nondemoninational program, wi l l star t meeting twice a month from September through May at Prince of Peace Lutheran Church in Burnsville.

MOPS moms need not be members of the church to join.

The group offers participants a way to connect with other moms, form friendships, seek parenting advice and learn more about Christian life.

Registration is being accepted and on-site day care is provided for a small fee on a fi rst-come, fi rst-served basis.

Information/registration: (952) 898-9356 or e-mail MOPS@ princeofpeaceonline.org.

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americanslice TROOP TRIP Aspen Academy’s firstgrade Daisy Troop 25467 visited Peter’s Pumpkin Patch in Shakopee recently. The girls went on a hay ride, made necklaces, explored a corn maze and learned about vegetables through a sinking and floating activity. The troop meets monthly and also takes one field trip per month.

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CHURCH NEWS

COMMUNITY EDUCATION

Church to host craft fair, bake sale

provided.

For more information, call (952) 492-6276.

Immanuel Lutheran Church, 2020 0 Fairlawn Ave., Prior Lake, will have a craft fair and bake sale from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Saturday, Nov. 5.

Lunch will be served. Takeout is available.

For more information, visit www.immanuel-fishlake.org or call (952) 492-6010.

Book club to discuss Twain

Glendale hosting fall festival Glendale United Methodist Church will host its “Ten Thousand Villages” fall festival from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 5 and 12 to 2 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 6.

Shoppers will fi nd a market of gifts, home décor, jewelry and accessories selected from artisans around the world.

Purchases will benefit fairtrade artisans and 10 percent of all sales will go to “Imagine No Malaria,” an initiative to overcome malaria in Africa.

Glendale United Methodist Church is at 13550 Glendale Road, Savage.

For more information, call (952) 894-5394 or visit www. glendalechurchumc.org.

The Church of St. Michael’s book club will discuss “The Prince and the Pauper” by Mark Twain on Monday, Nov. 7 in the church’s parish office building at 16311 Duluth Ave. Join the discussion at either the 9:30-11 a.m. or 7-8:30 p.m. sessions. December’s selection will be “The Handmaid and the Carpenter” by Elizabeth Berg.

For more information, call Laura Shupe at (952) 447-9062.

Play Euchre at St. Patrick’s The Church of St. Patrick Men’s Club will sponsor a Euchre tournament on Friday, Nov. 11 in the church’s social hall, at 24425 Old Highway 12 Blvd., Jordan.

Registration begins at 6:30 p.m., with the tournament starting at 7:30 p.m. Cash prizes will be awarded to the top four teams. Food and beverages will be available. The cost is $20 per team.

St. John’s plans craft, bake sale

Play bingo to win a turkey The Church of St. Catherine, 24425 Old Highway 13 Blvd., Prior Lake, will host turkey bingo at 2 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 6.

The cost is $5 per card for the entire afternoon, and $1 per coverall game. Turkey gift certificates will be awarded to the winners. Free lunch will be

St. John the Baptist Catholic Church, 4625 W. 125th St., Savage, will have a bake and craft sale from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Saturday, Nov. 12.

A wide range of handmade items and savory and sweet baked goods will be for sale. For more information, call (952) 890-9465.

This is a listing of some of the classes offered through Prior Lake-Savage Area Community Education. Find out more – and register for classes – at www.priorlakesavagece. com or call (952) 226-0080.

Adults Gentle Yoga: Tuesdays, Nov. 1-22, from 6:15 to 7:15 p.m. at Club Prior in the Prior Lake Library, 16210 Eagle Creek Ave. Cost is $32.

Vi k i n g We ave Jewel r y Wednesday, Nov. 2, from 6 to 9 p.m. at Twin Oaks Middle School, 15860 Fish Point Road, Prior Lake. Cost is $45.

Classic International Cookies Thursday, Nov. 3 from 6 to 9 p.m. at Twin Oaks Middle School. Cost is $55.

P re -Diabetes Education Tuesday, Nov. 8 from 6:30 to 8 p.m. at Twin Oaks Middle School. Cost is $40.

Infant CPR and Child CPR/ AED Wednesday, Nov. 9 from 6 to 9:30 p.m. at the District Services Center, 4540 Tower St., Prior Lake. Cost is $85.

Couponing 101 Wednesday, Nov. 2 from 7 to 9 p.m. at Twin Oaks Middle School. Cost is $25.

4-Hour AARP Driver Safety P rog ram (ages 5 5 and up) Wednesday, Nov. 2 from 5:30 to 9 : 30 p.m. at the District Services Center. Cost is $15 (free for veterans and their spouses).

Yoga/Meditate (all levels) Wednesdays, Nov. 2-Dec. 14, from 5:15 to 6:25 p.m. at Club Prior. Cost is $48.

Getting Kids to Listen with Corwin Kronenberg Tuesday, Nov. 15 from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at Twin Oaks Middle School.

Cost is $10/person or $15/ partners.

BIRTH

WEDDING

Scandinavian Treats Tuesday, Nov. 15 from 6 to 9 p.m. at Hidden Oaks Middle School, 15855 Fish Point Road, Prior Lake. Cost is $29.

H a nd- S t a mp e d Hol id ay Cards Wednesday, Nov. 16 from 6 to 9 p.m. at Twin Oaks Middle School. Cost is $26.

First Annual Community and Military Symposium Saturday, Nov. 19 from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Twin Oaks Middle School. Cost is $ 5/person in advance or $7/person at the door.

Youth After-school classes are offered at all elementary schools.

These classes are starting soon: Mad Science (grades 1-5), Computer Explorers-Video Game Animation: Nintendo Games (g rades 1- 5), Youth Enrichment League-LEGO X:

Maust-Brandt

Urness-Sitzmann

Scott Brandt and Rebecca Maust of Jordan announce the birth of their daughter, Olivia Mae Maust-Brandt, at 2:33 p.m. Oct. 10, 2011 at St. Francis Regional Medical Center, Shakopee.

She weighed 6 pounds, 6 ounces and was 19.5 inches long. She has blue eyes and blond hair.

Grandparents are Robert and Johanna Morano of Mystic Beach, New York; and Mark and Christy Maust of Prior Lake.

Great grandparents are Robert and Elaine Maust; and Lee and Kathy Crone.

Lisa Christine Urness and Josh Richard Sitzmann were married June 25, 2011 at Majestic Oaks Golf Club in Ham Lake, Minn.

Parents are Lee and the late Kathy Urness of Prior Lake; and Roger and Peg Sitzmann of Savage.

Maid of honor was Kari Urness of Prior Lake. Bridesmaids were Cassie Sitzmann, Sh a n non Sit z m a n n, K a ri Dauffenbach, Katie Svenby, Molly Nystel, Clair Goetsch and Kylee Ahlstedt.

Best man was Brian Sitzmann of Savage. Groomsmen were Jake Sitzmann,

Josh and Lisa Sitzmann

Gear Jammers (grades 1-5), Abrakadoodle Art (grades K-5) and more.

Disney Princesses Art (ages 3-6) Tuesdays, Nov. 1-22, from 10 to 11 a.m. at the District Services Center. Cost is $49.

F e n c i n g ( g r a d e s 2 -1 0 ) Wednesdays, Nov. 2-Dec. 14, from 6 to 7 p.m. and 7:15 to 8:15 p.m. at Twin Oaks Middle School. Cost is $79.

Advanced Babysitting (ages 11-15) Wednesdays, Nov. 2, from 3 to 6:30 p.m. at the District Services Center. Cost is $65.

Abrakadoodle-Gifts Galore Friday, Nov. 11 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the District Services Center. Cost is $69.

Outdoor Adventures with Ac t ive S olut ion s ( s e c ond through fi fth grades) Friday, Nov. 11 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Twin Oaks Middle School.

Cost is $39.

Jay Sitzmann, Matt Britton, Darin Radke, Matt Urness, Br ad Sit z m a n n a nd Br ad Masuen.

Personal attendants were Cami Calhoun, Becky Pint and Missy Kerns.

Ushers were Micah Lang, Lance Kusske, Bret Sitzmann and Hannah Sitzmann.

The bride attended Prior Lake High School and Winona State University. She is a legal assistant in the Scott County Attorney’s Office.

The groom attended LeMars Gehlen High School and Iowa State University. He is an insurance agent with The Canopy Group.

PRIOR LAKE CHURCH DIRECTORY Online Church Directory — place your newspaper worship ad on our online worship directory www.plamerican.com. For more information call 952-447-6669

Prior Lake Baptist Church Loving God, Exalting Christ, Revering God’s Word, Building Christ’s Church - together

1026 E 205th St, Jordan (952) 492-2249 www.lydiazionchurch.com

Pastor Ron Groschel 952-447-2824 SUNDAY SERVICES

Morning Worship 9:00 a.m.

Sunday School/ Adult Bible Fellowship 10:40 a.m.

Evening Service 6:00 p.m.

WEDNESDAY SERVICES

Bible Study Awana Club (Oct. - Apr.)

7:00 p.m.

6:45 p.m.

Home of Prior Lake Christian School (Preschool - 12th grade) visit us at: www.priorlakebaptist.org

Join us for Worship Sunday at 8:45 & 10:45 a.m.

Join us for Family Worship Sunday Worship .......................................9:00AM Sunday School .........................................10:15AM Youth Group Meets Sunday 5:00PM - 7:00pm

L.O.R.D. Love Others Rejoice Daily Pastor Larry G. Kasten 952.217.1113 lzumc.pastor@frontiernet.net

Holy Cross Lutheran Church LCMS Pastor Rance Settle (Newly Installed)

Growing in Faith, Living to Serve

952.230.2988

www.sollc.org

One block West of Cty. Rd. 21 on Cty. Rd. 42

14085 Pike Lake Trail Prior Lake, MN 55372 (952) 445-1779 Sunday Worship 9:00 AM Sunday School & Adult Bible Class 10:20 AM www.holycross-pl.org Celebrate Reformation!

County Rd. 42 & Pike Lake Trail

The People of the United Methodist Church Welcome You

Join us as we navigate life together!

Casual Family Worship Sundays at 10:30

Childcare available during service

Sunday Worship 8:30 and 10:30 a.m Sunday School 9:30 a.m. Sept.-May

All-day Preschool & Childcare Year Round Openings Available 33 months & up

HOLY TRINITY UNITED METHODIST

5995 Timber Trail SE Prior Lake

952-447-6191 harborcc.net

www.htumc.org 16150 Arcadia Ave SE 952-447-2990 (2 blocks W. of Hwy. 13 on Dakota)

St. Michael Catholic Church 16311 Duluth Avenue SE Prior Lake, MN 55372 952-447-2491 www.stmichael-pl.org

Weekend Mass Times: Saturday 5:00 p.m.

Sunday 8:30 & 10:30 a.m.

Nursery available during 8:30 & 10:30 a.m. Mass St. Michael Catholic School Grades PreK-8 952-447-2124

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Faith Evangelical Lutheran Church Worship Service | 9:00 a.m.

Bi-Lingual Preschool Coming for 2011-12 School Year ✝ Bi-lingual English and Spanish ✝ Christ centered program ✝ Fun environment

16840 Highway 13 S, Prior Lake, MN

952-447-6955 faithlutheranpriorlake@yahoo.com

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The year that was 1968 History Center exhibit explores the history, culture of pivotal year

BY PAT MINELLI editor@shakopeenews.com

I

wasn’t in high school quite yet in 1968, but as a history buff, I knew that was a year of significant events in U.S. history.

What I didn’t realize was how many or how significant.

A trip to the new “1968 Exhibit” at the Minnesota History Center in St. Paul made me realize how pivotal that year was. In many ways Americans are affected still today by what occurred in 1968, which makes the exhibit appealing to more than those who were young folks back then.

It was a year when the Vietnam War was at its bloodiest and protesters at full force. Riots disrupted the Democratic National Convention. African Americans were demanding civil rights and women insisting on equality with men. It was a year when three American astronauts circled the moon for the first time, a prelude to 1969’s lunar landing. And it was a year when civil rights leader the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy were assassinated, shocking a reeling nation and dashing the hopes and dreams of millions.

1968 was a year so chock-full of news that the exhibit starts with a presentation of events by month.

Here are a few stations that stood out for me: January: The first stop, “The Living Room War,” signified a new phenomenon. For the first time, war — close-up, bloody and deadly fighting — was brought into American homes through television, and this stark view is credited with hastening opposition.

Visitors enter a living room with a reassembled Huey helicopter. A TV shows a newscast about the bloody Tet Offensive and newsman Walter Cronkite expressing doubts about the war effort.

February: Inside the helicopter bay are items from soldiers, including a letter, draft card and recorded memories of battles. Also, a flag-draped coffin. Feb. 11-18 was the deadliest week in the war with 543 American casualties; 2,200 died in the month.

April: The assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. and its impact is displayed in photos and media presentation, which includes King’s “Mountaintop” speech.

June: Robert F. Kennedy, who just won the Democratic

PHOTOS COURTESY OF MINNESOTA HISTORY CENTER

In 1968, the Vietnam War was in full intensity. Feb. 11-18 was the deadliest week in the war with 543 American casualties; 2,200 American soldiers died in the month.

presidential primary in California, was assassinated at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. A blown-up photo of the mortally wounded Kennedy is on display, as well as the camera used to shoot the photo and items from the hotel. A trainwindow shaped video screen shows people honoring Kennedy as the rail car carried his body from New York to Washington, D.C. August: Riots outside the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, including protesters’ battles with police, are depicted along with recorded descriptions.

Minnesota Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey was nominated for president.

September: A re-created setting of protests by feminist activists against things like the Miss America Pageant, bras and high-heels. (Actual employment ads from the Minneapolis newspapers will astound viewers: Most were headlined, “Girl Wanted for ---”) November: The election of Republican Richard Nixon over Humphrey is considered one of the most significant in history because it realigned the political leanings of the South to the Republicans.

Democrats, riding the wave of President Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal liberal politics, had won seven of nine presidential elections since 1933. Between 1968 and 2008, only two Democrats were elected president — and both were southerners.

December: Visitors enter the same living room from January but instead find a full-size replica of the Apollo 8 command module used by astronauts, orbiting the moon for the first time. A TV broadcasts images beamed from the moon orbit, including an astronaut reading from the Book of Genesis.

Minnesota History Center ‘1968 Exhibit’ About: The state-of-the-art, multimedia traveling exhibit — brought here in partnership with the Atlanta History Center, Chicago History Museum and Oakland Museum of California — is open through Feb. 20.

Cost: $10 adults, $8 seniors (65+) and college students (valid ID), $5 children ages 6-17; free to the public Tuesdays from 5 to 8 p.m.

Hours: 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.

Tuesday; 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday; Noon to 5 p.m.

Sunday; closed Monday (open Monday holidays).

At right – The “1968 Exhibit” includes music, television and movies from the year as well as fashion. A Minneapolis woman, a self-proclaimed “flower child,” made these pants and would add a new patch after attending a concert or event.

Far-out!

Location: Minnesota History Center, 345 Kellogg Blvd. W., St. Paul

I was too young in 1968 to understand that beyond my sunshine splashed Flower Power world, the culture was changing, not smoothly, but abruptly and violently, and it all seemed to come to a head in 1968.

Taking a magic carpet ride to 1968

BY UNSIE ZUEGE uzuege@swpub.com

In 1968, I was 9 years old. My world revolved around reading Trixie Belden mysteries, playing with Barbie dolls, watching TV shows like “Family Affair” and “That Girl” and bopping to the Cowsills’ anthem “Hair” and the Monkees’ “Daydream Believer.”

And yet, there was a dark undercurrent. I was too young in 1968 to understand that beyond my sunshine splashed Flower Power world, the culture was changing, not smoothly, but abruptly and violently, and it all seemed to come to a head in 1968.

The Vietnam War was always in the background, hosted on television

by Walter Cronkite. Daily casualty counts of the dead and the wounded were distant until a local boy was killed. His younger sister was a popular high school girl. Still, the war was mostly abstract.

I sensed it was a big deal when civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, though I really didn’t know who he was.

I just knew that assassination is never good. When President John F. Kennedy was killed in 1963, I was

PHOTO BY UNSIE ZUEGE

As a 9-year-old, Mattel’s Francie, Living Barbie and Julia dolls rocked my world. As a college student, the IBM Selectric typewriter was much coveted for writing assignments.

4 and watched his televised funeral with my mom, who cried and blew her nose into tissues the whole time.

It seemed our Catholic neighbors went to Mass. A lot.

When kids were rioting and striking on campuses, our neighborhood was all abuzz because

our neighbors, the Jensens, had to drive to the University of WisconsinOshkosh in the middle of the night to rescue their daughter from her dorm.

At our house, our TV antenna only picked up two stations — CBS and NBC. We watched the coverage

of the Democratic Convention in Chicago simply because there was nothing else on. I think I remember images of placards, shouting and hitting.

Four friends joined me for the recent opening of the “1968” exhibit at the Minnesota History Center in St. Paul, our ages ranging from 65 to 53. As we wandered through the exhibit, it was interesting to see what resonated most for each of us, depending on our age in 1968.

Linda and Karen were in their early 20s, both married and about to join the front lines of the women’s movement. Mary graduated from high school and headed to college to forge a professional career other than teacher or nurse. And Sue was 14, attending a high school that did spot checks on the length of miniskirts.

Later, a group of people clustered around the vintage cabinet TV set that ran a loop of 1968 television shows.

“What were the kids’ names?” a man asked to no one in particular.

“Buffy and Jody and Cissy,” I said without thinking. “And, of course,

Uncle Bill and Mr. French.”

Some things you just never forget.

I plan to return. There was too much to absorb in one visit.

The exhibit is dense with month-bySUBMITTED PHOTO month facts In 1968, I went and trivia from fourth to and filled fifth grade and with iconic looked groovy objects like a in my mod pink Princess Carnaby Streetphone, Beatles styled jacket and posters, images mini-skirt. of Twiggy and the Polaroid camera, as well as symbols of the rapidly shifting social and political landscape – the 1968 presidential election, the war in Vietnam, the Pill and pot.

To quote Austin Powers from Mike Myers’ homage to the Sixties, “It’s groovy baby.”

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Saturday

Sunday

OCT. 29

OCT. 30

COMMUNITY HALLOWEEN PARTY This annual event, offered as a safe and warm alternative to trick-ortreating, includes games, food, prizes and a tour of a haunted house.

Children ages 12 and under can enter a costume contest. All children under 9 must be accompanied by an adult.

Time: 2:30-5 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 29 Cost: $2 per child (nonperishable food donations encouraged) Location: Twin Oaks Middle School, 15860 Fish Point Road, Prior Lake Info: (952) 226-0081 for volunteer information

LEAVES ON THE LAKE The annual craft boutique and bake sale will feature the work of local artisans and crafters. Other highlights include coffee and cider in the morning and lunch at noon, served by the VFW Auxiliary. Prize drawings will take place every hour from 1 to 5 p.m. Funds go to scholarships and to support youth activities.

Time: 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 29 Cost: Items for purchase Location: Prior Lake VFW, 16306 Main Ave. Info: Barb Prindle (952) 447-5984

PORK CHOP DINNER Fishers4Christ will host this dinner, featuring pork chops, choice of potato, choice of vegetable, applesauce, pie, ice cream and a beverage.

Time: 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 30 Cost: $10 adults, $9 seniors, $6 children 12 and under, free for children under 3 Location: Immanuel Fish Lake Lutheran Church, 20200 Fairlawn Ave., Prior Lake Info: (952) 492-6010 or immanuelfishlake.org

SCARY SKATE AND SPOOKY FAMILY FUN NIGHT Test out a scary or funny costume the night before Halloween. Bring family and friends for a night of crafts, open gym and family entertainment. Spin and skate to a spooky beat in the ice arena.

Time: 6:30-8:30 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 30 Cost: Free; limited skate rental at $3 per pair Location: Shakopee Community Center, 1255 Fuller St. S., Shakopee Info: ci.shakopee.mn.us or (952) 233-9500

KIDS KRAFT

Monday

SEVER’S CORN MAZE AND FALL FESTIVAL Sever’s Corn Maze and Fall Festival features activities, food and attractions including jumping pillows, pumpkin slinger, corn cannon, corn pit, pig races, giant slide, petting zoo, straw bale maze and a canary tent. No pets allowed.

Time: 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays through Oct. 30 Cost: Ages 4 and older $13; ages 3 and younger free Location: 1100 Canterbury Road, Shakopee Info: (952) 974-5000 or severscornmaze.com

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Hall and the police station to receive free Oct. 31. Guests should bring trick-or-treat bags. Call (952) 447-9820 in advance for large bags

groups or ffor more information.

Rebecca Skloot) Date: Tuesday, Nov. 1 Time: 10 a.m.

Cost: Free Location: Club Prior, in the Prior Lake Library, 16210 Eagle Creek Ave. Info: (952) 447-9783

Wednesday

NOV. 2

OCT. 31 FALL CHORAL CONCERT Prior Lake High School students will celebrate fall with this annual choral concert.

Time: 8 p.m. Monday, Oct. 31 Cost: Free Location: Auditorium, Prior Lake High School, 7575 150th St., Savage Info: (952) 226-8600

gift store and cookies in the restaurant.

Special story time and spooky live music by Sheri O’Meara at 10 a.m.

Time: 8 a.m.-6 p.m. Monday, Oct. 31 Cost: $9 for adults; free for ages 15 and younger; free for Arboretum members; free admission for everyone in costume Location: Minnesota Landscape Arboretum, 3675 Arboretum Dr., Chaska Info: www.arboretum.umn.edu or (952) 443-1422

‘BEER ME’ EXHIBIT The Scott County Historical Society hosts the “Beer Me! Brewers of Scott County” exhibit.

Time: Through October Cost: Adults $4, students $2, Scott County Historical Society Members free Location: Scott County Historical Society, 235 Fuller St., Shakopee Info: (952) 445-0378 or scottcountyhistory.org

Tuesday

NOV. 1 BOOK CLUB FOR SENIORS Join a book club for seniors the first Tuesday of each month. (“The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” by

The Prior Lake Library will offer a free writing class for adults, “Making it Real,” featuring instructor Kate St. Vincent Vogl, author of “Lost and Found: A Memoir of Mothers.” The class will analyze techniques used by great writers in developing prose, whether memoir of fiction, long form or short. Class size is limited; registration is required.

Time: 6:30-8:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 2 Cost: Free Location: Prior Lake Library, 16210 Eagle Creek Ave. Info: (952) 447-3375

LIL’ NATURALIST Help your children learn about nature through activities that include a nature talk, hike and story. This program is especially for children ages 3-5 and their families. Call (952) 858-0715 to register. The November topic is trees.

Time: 10-11:15 a.m. Wednesday, Nov. 2 Cost: Free Location: Bloomington Visitor Center, 3815 American Blvd. E., Bloomington Info: (952) 854-5900 or fws.gov/ midwest/minnesotavalley

Thursday

NOV. 3 TODDLER STORY TIME Openings are still available for the Prior Lake Library’s second fall session of 20- to 30-minute themed story times for ages 18-36 months with a parent or caregiver.

Time: 10:15 a.m. Thursdays through Nov. 17 Cost: Free Location: Prior Lake Library, 16210 Eagle Creek Ave. Info: Registration is required; call (952) 447-3375 or visit the library

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OLD HOTEL MARKET The historic Old Hotel Market will offer eclectic old and new furniture, jewelry, home décor and more.

Time: 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Thursday through Saturday, Nov. 3-5; 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 6 Location: 441 Main St., New Market Info: theoldhotelmarket.com

DANCETERIA: OLE OLSSON’S OLDTIME ORKESTRA First Thursdays Danceteria features live dance bands and dance instructors. The November Danceteria program will feature Scandinavian music by Ole Olsson’s Oldtime Orkestra. This program is funded in part by the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund.

Time: 7-9 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 3 Cost: Free Location: Club Prior, Prior Lake Library, 16210 Eagle Creek Ave. S.E., Prior Lake Info: (952) 447-3375

Friday

NOV. 4 ALL-YOU-CAN-EAT SHRIMP DINNER Minnesota Valley Electric Cooperative hosts this annual event to raise funds for an ongoing project to maintain an electrical system in Pignon, Haiti.

The menu includes shrimp, salad, potatoes, garlic toast, dessert and beverages.

Time: 5-7 p.m. Friday, Nov. 4 Cost: $25 for adults; $10 for children ages 5 to 11; free for ages 5 and under Location: MVEC headquarters, 125 Minnesota Valley Electric Dr., Jordan Info: (952) 492-8210 or mvec.net

‘PLAID TIDINGS’ “Plaid Tidings,” the holiday edition of “Forever Plaid,” is a holiday musical suitable for the entire family. The Plaid Boys (Sparky, Smudge, Frankie and Jinx) have returned to Earth and are overtaken with the Christmas spirit.

The audience will enjoy their version of “The Ed Sullivan Show” featuring the Rockettes, the Chipmunks and The Vienna Boys Choir.

Time: Evening and matinee showtimes Nov. 4-Dec. 31 Cost: $47-$52

Location: Chanhassen Dinner Theatres, 501 W. 78th St., Chanhassen Info: chanhassentheatres.com or (952) 934-1525

COMEDIAN BOB LARSON A former Toughman competitor, Bob Larson has taken his pull-no-punches attitude from the fighting ring to the comedy stage. Larson’s blue-collar style of comedy has made him a favorite at comedy clubs across the country. Also performing will be comedian Jamie Blanchard.

Time: 8:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 4; 8 p.m. and 10:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 5 Cost: $13 for 8:30 Friday and 8 p.m.

Saturday shows; $10 for 10:30 p.m.

Saturday show Location: MinneHAHA Comedy Club, 1583 First Ave., Shakopee Info: minnehahacomedyclub.com/ shakopee

returning to Prior Lake High School.

More than 50 local vendors will be available for early holiday shopping from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Light lunch available for purchase. All attendees will receive gift bags and will be entered to win door prizes. The Taste of Home Cooking School, hosted by culinary specialist Karen Davis, begins around 2 p.m. Purchase tickets soon as last year’s show sold out weeks before the event.

Time: 11 a.m.-4: 30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 5 Cost: $17 Location: Prior Lake High School, 575 150th St., Savage Info: Call Laurie Hartmann (952) 445-3333 or visit tasteofhometwincities.eventbrite.com

PETER GEYE AUTHOR TALK

Author Peter Geye Geye will talk about his book, “Safe from the Sea,” which recounts the struggles of a father and son to reconcile while reliving a horrific shipwreck that the father POP-UP SHOP survived years earlier.

The book won a 2010 Indie Lit Best The fashion blog WildRuffle.com will host the first-ever Pop-Up Shop in Prior Literary Fiction Award and was a Lake, featuring shoes, handbags, jewelry, Women’s National Book Association home goods and more products from “National Reading Group Month” selection. Books will be available for locally owned women’s businesses. purchase and signing.

Time: 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 5 Time: 7 p.m. Monday, Nov. 7 Cost: Items for purchase Cost: Free Location: Club Prior, Location: Prior Lake Library, 16210 16210 Eagle Creek Ave. Eagle Creek Ave. Info: wildruffle.com or Info: (952) 447-3375 (612) 805-5138

Upcoming

THAO NGUYEN BENEFIT This event benefits Thao Nguyen, a 14-year-old Vietnamese girl who’s staying with a host family in Prior Lake. Thao was severely burned at age 4 and still needs additional surgeries.

The night includes a social hour, dinner, a comedy show by C. Willi Myles and music by Steve Millar and Diamondhead.

Time: 6 p.m. social hour; 7 p.m. dinner; 8 p.m. comedy; 9 p.m. music, Saturday, Nov. 5 Cost: $50 per person Location: Fong’s Event Center, 4770 Pleasant St., Prior Lake Info: (952) 447-3664

TASTE OF HOME COOKING SCHOOL & HOLIDAY SHOPPING SHOW The nationally recognized Taste of Home Holiday Cooking School is

‘SPIRIT OF THE SAINTS’ GALA The Saints Healthcare Foundation has chosen “Spirit of the Saints” as the theme for this gala fundraiser.

All proceeds will benefit the Foundation’s Cancer Care Fund.

Step out for an evening of dining and dancing, with a reception of complimentary hors d’oeuvres, followed by dinner, live and silent auctions, the sounds of The Sevilles, and a special presentation of the Physician Touchstone Award.

The emcee will be Ken Barlow, 5 Eyewitness News meteorologist.

Time: 5:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 12 Cost: $150 per person (reserve by Nov. 4) Location: Hazeltine National Golf Club, 1900 Hazeline Blvd., Chaska Info: saintshealthcarefoundation.org or (952) 428-2072

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AR-BOO-RETUM HALLZOOWEEN AT THE ZOO Enjoy apples for trick-or-treaters in the

Children are invited to dress up as a favorite Zoo animal or other creature of choice and enjoy crafts, critters, and treats. Watch as the animals enjoy some pumpkin action and check out the Scarecrow Alley display Family Farm.

Time: 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 29-30; treats and goodies 10 a.m.-2 p.m.; Halloween craft 11 a.m.-2 p.m.; special creature feature shows on the hour from 11 a.m.-3 p.m.

Cost: Adults $18; children 3-12 and 65+ $12; ages 0-2 free; parking $5; Zoo members free admission and parking Location: Minnesota Zoo, 13000 Zoo Blvd., Apple Valley Info: mnzoo.com or (952) 431-9200

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Meet some of the critters that make DANCE TEAM FOOD DRIVE people go “Ewww!” and learn why we The Prior Lake High School Dance Team think they are creepy. Experience live creepy crawlies up close. Discover will trick-or-treat for nonperishable how they are important to the food and household items to benefit the CAP Agency. People can also drop environment. For all ages. off donations at Prior Lake High School Time: 3-4 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 30 Cost: Free between 3 and 3:30 p.m.

Time: 12:30-3:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 29 Location: Richardson Nature Center, 8737 E. Bush Lake Rd., Bloomington Cost: Donations Info: (763) 559-9000 or Location: Throughout Prior Lake threeriversparkdistrict.org Kids Kraft returns after a long summer holiday just in time for Halloween.

Gather up the kids for a pumpkin story and a Halloween craft at the Scott County Historical Society’s October event.

Time: 10:30-11:15 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 29 Cost: Free (includes free museum admission) Location: Scott County Historical Society, 235 Fuller St., Shakopee Info: Registration required; call (952) 445-0378 or e-mail info@ scottcountyhistory.org

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During this spook-friendly Halloween celebration for the whole family, take the Trick or Treat Trail to the Magical Maze Garden and enjoy family fun in the visitor center. Pre-registration required.

Time: 1-5 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 29 Cost: Free gate admission during the event Location: Garden Maze and Visitor Center, Minnesota Landscape Arboretum, 3675 Arboretum Dr., Chaska Info: www.arboretum.umn.edu/ ghoulsandgoblins.aspx or (952) 443-1422

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The Halloween Haunt at ValleySCARE is a world of terrifying mazes and scare zones that will bring fears and phobias to life. Guests will experience nine haunted attractions, creepy live entertainment and signature thrill rides. Daytimes Saturdays and Sundays, the all new Planet Spooky is open for all ages to join Snoopy and the PEANUTS gang for non-scary Halloween activities and attractions, including a hay-bale maze, trick or treat trail, storytelling and a variety of family and children’s rides.

Time: Halloween Haunt is open 7 p.m.-midnight Thursdays and Fridays, noon-midnight Saturdays, noon-7 p.m. Sundays, through Oct. 30; Planet Spooky is open noon-7 p.m.

Saturdays and Sundays only.

Cost: All-day regular admission for ages 3-61 $41.99; starlight admission (after 7 p.m. Thursday and Fridays; after 6 p.m. Saturdays and Sunday, Oct. 30) $31.99; juniors/ seniors 3 years and less than 48” tall and 62 years and older $9.99 Location: Valleyfair, One Valleyfair Drive, Shakopee Info: ValleySCARE.com or (952) 445-6500

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Thursday, Nov. 10 Location: CUSTOM CREATIONS PHOTOGRAPHY 120 First Ave. E., Suite 1, Shakopee Cost: Free Amy Zellmer, owner and principal photographer of Custom Creations Photography, and her staff will take freee ts Facebook photos of guests. Enjoy treats and the chance to win door prizes.

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Prepare to be scared as you transcend into the secret “History of the Hill” where there lurks an ancient evil. More than 100 ghouls, goblins and vampires have taken over and are ready to welcome visitors into their homes … where the dead are their playmates and visitors are their prey.

This full night of frights includes live music, full bar, dining, a bonfire and horrible haunts including the Victorian Orchard Manor Dead and Breakfast; the Bellharm-Lovejoy Asylum; the Fright Factory; the Haunted Hollow burial ground which is accessed via Buck Hill’s 800-foot “magic carpet;” and the Scream Scene entertainment zone for all ages.

Time: 7 p.m.-midnight WednesdaysSaturdays, 7-10 p.m. Sundays through Oct. 30 Cost: $20 per person; $2 off coupons available at Subway and SuperAmerica locations; Wednesday and Thursdays are Student ID nights.

Present a Student ID to receive $2 off.

Location: 15400 Buck Hill Road, Burnsville Info: frightmares.com

TRAIL OF TERROR The Trail of Terror includes two-anda-half miles of scares with more than 15 scary attractions. New features this year include the Zombie Pub Crawl, bean bag tournaments, costume contests and beer pong.

Time: 7-11 p.m. Thursdays-Sundays through Oct. 30 Cost: Adult $18.95; child $12.95 at the gate; tickets may be purchased at Walgreens in advance for adult $15.95 and child $9.95 Location: Three miles south of Shakopee on Hwy. 169 Info: trailofterrorfest.com or (952) 445-7361

MARKETING EXPO Find the latest products and services for marketing a business. Exhibitors will include advertising agencies, public relations agencies, marketing firms, direct mail, print, radio, television, Internet, signs, banners, displays, logo wear, mailing lists, list brokers, graphic designers and copy writers.

Time: 3-7 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 2 Cost: Free with a business card Location: Golden Valley Country Club, 7001 Golden Valley Rd., Golden Valley Info: mediamaxevents.com; click on Shows and Marketing Expo

CAP/CCRR PLAY AND LEARN Children of all ages and their caregivers are invited to attend this play group for interactive fun focusing on literacy concepts, writing, arts and crafts, music and movement, science, math, large and fine motor skills and the development of social and emotional skills. No registration is required. Please note caregivers must stay in the room with their children.

Sponsored by the Friends of the Shakopee Library.

Time: 10:30 a.m.-noon Thursdays, Nov. 3 and Dec. 1 Cost: Free Location: Shakopee Library, 235 S. Lewis St., Shakopee Info: (952) 233-9590 or scott.lib. mn.us

‘THE CURIOUS SAVAGE’

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Time: 7:30 p.m. Nov. 3-5; 2 p.m.

Nov. 6

Cost: Adults $10; students and seniors $8 Location: Chanhassen High School, 2200 Cty. Rd. 18, Chanhassen Info: ticketturtle.com or (952) 556-3516

SAINT PAUL CHAMBER ORCHESTRA Featured performers will include the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra Chorale and conductor and artistic director Dale Warland. Featured music will include Bach’s “Art of Fugue: Contrapunctus 1, 2 and 4,” Pärt’s “Summa for Chorus a cappella” and Bach’s “Art of Fugue: Canon per Augmentationem in Contrario Motu, Contrapunctus XII, a 4, Rectus, Contrapunctus XII, a 4, Inversus.”

Time: 10:30 a.m. and 8 p.m. Friday, Nov. 4 Cost: Adults $10-40; children $5 Location: Wooddale Church, 6630 Shady Oak Rd., Eden Prairie Info: (651) 291-1144 or thespco. com

‘DRACULA’ A terrifying and passionate new musical based on one of the most frightening novels ever written. It is a thrilling drama and a Gothic romance. Set in Europe at the end of the Victorian age, the production follows Dracula’s lust for blood and a small band of mortal men and women who must face his overwhelming seduction and supernatural powers.

Not recommended for children 12 and under Time: 7:30 p.m. Nov. 4-5, 10-12, 17-19; 4 p.m. Nov. 13 Cost: $12-$18 Location: Minnetonka Theatre, 18285 Hwy. 7, Minnetonka, MN 55345 Info: minnetonkatheatre.com or (952) 401-5898

FAMILY STORYTIME WITH ROYALTY Enjoy Thanksgiving family story time with Miss Minnesota Valley Queen of the Seasons Royalty.

Time: 10:30 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 5 Cost: Free Location: Shakopee Library, 235 S. Lewis St., Shakopee Info: (952) 233-9590 or www.scott. lib.mn.us

‘MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING’ The play centers on two couples: young lovers Claudio and Hero and middle-aged Lord Benedick and Beatrice, sworn enemies who become the victims of a clever scheme. In a world where everyone eavesdrops, meddles and mind others’ business, Benedick’s friends fool him into believing Beatrice loves him and the women do the same for Beatrice.

Thus begins their inevitable and entertaining journey to finding true love late in life.

Time: Evening and matinee showtimes through Nov. 5 Cost: $24-$68 Location: Guthrie Theater, 818 S. Second St., Minneapolis Info: guthrietheater.org or (612) 377-2224

‘AWAY IN THE BASEMENT: A CHURCH BASEMENT LADIES CHRISTMAS’

Arboretum. Those registered will enjoy a pet expo, goodie bags and other pet-related activities.

Time: 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 5 Cost: $25 per dog (plus one human).

Location: Minnesota Landscape Arboretum, 3675 Arboretum Dr., Chaska Info: www.arboretum.umn.edu or (952) 443-1422

BACKSTRAP WEAVING FOR CHILDREN Children will learn the basics of weaving by making a simple backstrap loom on which they will weave a small project such as a pot holder or woven pouch. Reservations required; reference activity #437425-30. For ages 5-9.

Time: 1-4 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 5 Cost: $20 Location: Gale Woods Farm, 7210 County Rd. 110 W., Minnetrista Info: (763) 559-6700 or threeriversparkdistrict.org

REMARKABLE REPTILES Touch a scaly snake, feel a turtle’s shell and watch these reptiles move.

Find out what makes reptiles special animals. Cameras welcome. For all ages.

Time: 3-4 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 6 Cost: Free Location: Richardson Nature Center, 8737 E. Bush Lake Rd., Bloomington Info: (763) 559-9000 or threeriversparkdistrict.org

‘BRIDGE TO TERABITHIA’ Jesse doesn’t fit in. He likes to draw and use his imagination, unlike his family and schoolmates. Enter Leslie, a new girl and potential rival. They become friends and together they create Terabithia, a magical kingdom where they exercise their imaginations free from the pressure of family and peers. When the unexpected occurs, Jesse must use his newfound strength and confidence to move forward in his life. Based on the Newbery awardwinning novel.

Time: Evening and matinee showtimes through Nov. 6 Cost: Adults $15; children 2-7 and seniors 60 and older $12 Location: Stages Theatre Company, 1111Mainstreet, Hopkins Info: (952) 979-1111 or stagestheatre.org

‘THE BURIAL AT THEBES’ Irish Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney delivers an adaptation of Sophocles’ “Antigone,” reviving the Greek tale of love and self-sacrifice. As with the original, “The Burial at Thebes” focuses on the never resolved conflict between a person’s individual rights and the demands of the state.

The timeless struggle for honor is called into question in the face of challenging authority: to whom does loyalty belong – to one’s family and cultural practices or to the law decreed by the state?

Time: Evening and matinee showtimes through Nov. 6 Cost: $24-$62 Location: Guthrie Theater, 818 S. Second St., Minneapolis Info: guthrietheater.org or (612) 377-2224

FILM SERIES: ‘LIFE: PART 3’

How living things stay alive is at the heart of “Life,” the latest series It is 1959 and the day of the Sunday from the BBC to be presented at School Christmas Program. As the the Refuge’s Bloomington Visitor children rehearse in the sanctuary, the ladies of the kitchen are finishing Center. Narrator David Attenborough engages his audience in an up close up the goodie bags and putting final look at the world’s creatures, this touches on the Nativity pieces. Little time examining survival strategies. do they know what surprises are in store for them as they are called upon Exploring the full range of habitats, viewers discover the distinct to, once again, step in and save the adaptations used by living creatures day. Presented by Troupe America. to find food, procreate and escape Time: 2 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 5 Cost: Orchestra seating – adults $39; danger. Each episode includes behind-the-scenes footage. “Life: students and seniors $36; balcony Part 3” programs presented will be seating – adults $34; students and “Insects” and “Hunter and Hunted.” seniors $31 Time: 1-4 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 6 Location: Burnsville Performing Arts Center, 12600 Nicollet Ave., Burnsville Cost: Free Location: Bloomington Visitor Center, Info: (952) 895-4680 or 3815 American Blvd. E., Bloomington ticketmaster.com Info: (952) 854-5900 or fws.gov/ MAKE A FELTED BAG midwest/minnesotavalley

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Learn the technique of wet felting with a resist to create a seamless, no-sew, no-knit felted bag or tote. Fabrics and various fibers will be added as a surface design before the felting process to obtain color, texture and interest. Reservations required by Oct. 31; reference activity #437425-34.

For ages 12 and older.

Time: 12:30-4:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 5 Cost: $45 Location: Gale Woods Farm, 7210 County Rd. 110 W., Minnetrista Info: (763) 559-6700 or threeriversparkdistrict.org

FAMILY NATURE YOGA Learn animal yoga movements with your child and search for camouflaged animals in the woods. Move like a deer, listen to a story and eat a deer snack. Lead by yoga instructor Annalisa Bragg and a Lowry naturalist.

This is an adult/child class; maximum of two children, ages 2-8, per adult.

Reservations required; reference activity #411301-05.

Time: 10-11:45 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 5 Cost: $8 Location: Lowry Nature Center (Carver Park Reserve), 7025 Victoria Dr., Victoria Info: (763) 559-6700 or threeriversparkdistrict.org

ALL ABOUT DOGS DAY Celebrate your canine friend with a walk on Three-Mile Drive at the

INKSLINGERS WRITERS SERIES: PETER GEYE Peter Geye, winner of 2010 Indie Lit Best Literary Fiction Award for his debut novel “Safe From the Sea,” will talk about his books and the writing process. Books will be available for purchase and signing.

Time: 7 p.m. Monday, Nov. 7 Cost: Free Location: Prior Lake Library, 16210 Eagle Creek Ave. S.E., Prior Lake Info: (952) 447-3375 or www.scott. lib.mn.us

JAMS, JELLIES, MARMALADES AND BUTTERS Apples, berries, peaches, oranges and other fruits make beautiful jams and jellies. Learn the difference between the various preserves and taste each type. Discover the secrets of pectin to make perfect preserves and ideas to make preserves one-of-a-kind. The class will prepare a batch of jam from start to finish and each participant will take a jar home to enjoy.

Handouts of recipes and supply fee is included in registration.

Time: 5:30-8:15 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 10; registration closes on Nov. 3 Cost: $40 Location: Shakopee Junior High School Room 126, 200 10th Avenue E., Shakopee Info: (952) 496-5029

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County committees have vacancies The Scott County Board of Commissioners is looking for interested citizens to serve on the following advisory committees. Members of advisory committees are provided with a per diem and mileage reimbursement for attendance at meetings.

F o r m o r e i n fo r m at io n , contact Deb Brazil at dbrazil @ co.scott.mn.us or (952) 496-8601.

For more on a specific committee, visit www.co.scott. mn.us.

All Hazards Committee (two vacancies). Formed after Sept.

11, 2001 to bring agencies and organizations throughout Scott County together to discuss and plan for all types of emergency and/or disaster incidents and events. Goals are that all stakeholders will understand the roles, responsibilities, limitations and capabilities of all response agencies; to reduce unnecessary duplication of services; and identify missing service gaps. Meets on the third Thursday of every other month from 3 to 4:30 p.m.

Board of Adjustment and Planning Advisory Commission (seven vacancies). Holds public hearings on amendments to the comprehensive land-use plan and zoning ordinance amendments; reviews all applications for conditional-use permits, interim-use permits and plans for subdivision of land; and makes recommendations for approval or denial to the County Board for the unincorporated area of the county. Holds public hearings and makes decisions on variance requests. Meets the second Monday of each month at 6:30 p.m.

Commu nity Cor rections Advisory Board (five vacancies). Responsible for making recommendations to the Scott County Board of Commissioners as they relate to community corrections. Comprised of law enforcement staff, corrections staff, judges, attorneys, social services personnel, educators, and citizens. There are five citizen members, one from each Commissioner District.

Advisory board members are appointed to serve two-year terms and are eligible to serve three terms. Persons of color and from various ethnic groups are particularly encouraged to apply.

Community Development Agency (CDA) (one vacancy).

Strengthens communities by providing af fordable housing opportunities to low- and moderate-income families, pro-

moting economic development and fostering coordination of public and private resources.

Meets on the second Tuesday of each month.

Extension Committee (two vacancies). In partnership with the University of Minnesota, assists in formulating programs, establishing budgets and selecting and evaluating professional staff to improve the quality of life and to enhance the economy and environment through education, applied research and the resources of the U of M. Meets four times per year (Wednesday evenings at 5 p.m.)

Human Services Resource Council (10 vacancies). Consists of three representatives from each commissioner district. Members serve two-year terms and are eligible to serve three terms. Participates in the formation of the Strategic Plan for the development, implementation and operation of programs and services of the County Board; makes recommendations concerning the annual budget of the Community Services Division; develops and recommends human services programs, needs, priorities, goals and objectives to the County Board; and receives, reviews and comments on special interest group and community at-large input regarding Human Services plans, programs, services and per formance.

Professional providers and consumers of Human Services prog rams are par ticularly encouraged to apply. Meets quarterly, on the third Monday at 6 p.m.

Library Board of Advisors (one vacancy). Members serve three-year terms and are eligible to serve three consecutive terms. Participates in the formation of the Library Strategic Plan that is used to focus limited resources on library services that meet the needs of customers; evaluates current and future services; and guides the creation of a budget that reflects identified customer needs. Recommends operating policies for the public library system and, by statute, is responsible for the content of the library collection. Meets on the fourth Thursday of each month at 5:30 p.m. Each year, one meeting is held in each of the seven branch libraries and the Scott County Law Library, and four meetings are held at Library Administration.

Mental Health Local Advisory Council (eight vacancies).

Anyone with an interest in mental health services may

apply. Consumers or family members of consumers of mental health services, adults who received mental health services as children or adolescents, and representatives of Scott County’s minority population are particularly encouraged to apply. Meets the fourth Tuesday of each month at 4 p.m.

Parks Advisory Commission (seven vacancies). Provides leadership and direction to staff and elected officials in parks, trails and open space planning and implementation.

Advises the County Board on program priorities and planning for parks, trails and open spaces, and reviews and recommends proposed annual work plans and budgets. Meets the fi rst Wednesday of each month at 6 p.m.

Personnel Board of Appeals (one vacancy). Responsible for making findings and reporting to the County Board upon the filing of an appeal by an applicant, employee or appointing authority under certain circumstances. Members are appointed for three-year terms, and there are no term limits.

Meets as needed.

Scott Watershed Management Organization (W MO) Planning Commission (two vacancies). There is one vacancy representing the Sand Creek Watershed and one vacancy representing the Shakopee Basin and the Prior Lake-Spring Lake Watershed Management Organization.

Reviews and makes recommendations on the Comprehensive Water Resource Management Plan, budgets and program priorities; the implementation of the Comprehensive Water Resource Management Plan; and associated program goals and projects. Consists of seven members representing specific watershed areas.

Vermillion River Watershed Joint Powers Organization (one vacancy). This nine-member committee advises the Joint Powers Board regarding its duties under the Joint Powers Agreement including the responsibility to guide implementation of the watershed ma nagement pla n a nd a nnual work plan and budget, and recommend action regarding disputes pursuant to the joint powers agreement. Meets on the second Wednesday of each month from 4 to 6 p.m. at the Dakota County Western Services Center in Apple Valley. To be considered for appointment, applicants must live in the Scott County portion of the Vermillion River Watershed.

publicnotices NOTICE OF SHERIFF’S SALE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that on September 27, 2011, the District Court of Scott County, Minnesota, First Judicial District, made and entered a Judgment in an action entitled “Krueger Excavating, Inc. v. Michael J. Finley” being Court File No. 70-CV-11-15259, adjudging that Krueger Excavating, Inc. is entitled to a Mechanic’s Lien upon the premises hereafter described in the amount of $26,457.39 and directing said premises to be sold by me as Sheriff of Scott County, Minnesota, to satisfy said Mechanic’s Lien; and a certified transcript of said Judgment has been duly delivered to me with directions to proceed with the sale of said premises as therein provided.

NOW, THEREFORE, NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that pursuant to said Judgment and the statutes in such case made and provided in the premises so described in said Judgment and situated in Scott County, Minnesota, viz: Legal Description: Lot 3, Block 1, Finleys Lakeview Heights Property Address: 15660 Calmut Avenue N.E., Prior Lake, MN 55372 Will be sold at public auction, to the highest bidder, on December 1, 2011 at 10:00 am at the Sheriff ’s Office, Civil Division, 301 Fuller Street, Shakopee, MN 55379.

Dated: 10-04-2011 Kevin Studnicka Sheriff of Scott County, MN By: Duane J. Jirik Deputy Sheriff THIS INSTRUMENT WAS DRAFTED BY: THE LAW OFFICE OF DAVID S. HOLMAN 201 W. Travelers Trail, Suite 225 Burnsville, MN 55337 (952)895-1224 (Published in the Prior Lake American on Saturday, October 8, 15, 22, 29 and November 5, 12, 2011; No. 7590) NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING TO CONSIDER THE VACATION OF DRAINAGE AND UTILITY EASEMENTS LOCATED WITHIN HICKORY SHORES DEVELOPMENT You are hereby notified that the Prior Lake City Council will hold a public hearing at Prior Lake City Hall, located at 4646 Dakota Street SE on Monday, November 7, 2011, at 7:00 p.m. or as soon thereafter as possible.

The purpose of the hearing is to consider vacating the existing drainage and utility easements located within Hickory Shores. New easements will be dedicated with the final plat. The area to be vacated is legally described as follows: Legal Description:

All Drainage and Utility Easements Lying Over, Under and Across Lots 20 and 39, All in Block 1, Hickory Shores, City of Prior Lake, Scott County, Minnesota.

If you wish to be heard in reference to this matter, you should attend the hearing. Oral and written comments will be considered by the City Council. If you have questions regarding this matter, contact the Community & Economic Development Department at 952-447-9810.

Prepared this 18th day of October, 2011 by: Jeff Matzke, Planner City of Prior Lake (Published in the Prior Lake American on Saturday, October 22 and 29, 2011; No. 7595) NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING TO CONSIDER A REQUEST FOR A VARIANCE TO ALLOW A CONSTRUCTION OF A BALCONY You are hereby notified that the Prior Lake Planning Commission will hold a public hearing at Prior Lake City Hall, located at 4646 Dakota Street SE, on: Monday, November 14th, 2011 at 6:00 p.m. or as soon thereafter as possible. Bob Welsch is requesting a Variance from the minimum lakeshore setback on a General Development lake in the R-1 (Low Density Residential) Zoning District.

The property is legally described as follows: Lot 49 and that part of Lot 48, “CONROY’S BAY Scott County, Minnesota, lying easterly of the following described line: Beginning at a point on the northerly line of said Lot 48, distant 25.00 northeasterly of the northwest corner of said Lot 48; thence southeasterly to a point on the southerly line of said Lot 48, distant 20.00 feet northeasterly of the southwest corner and there terminating. EXCEPTING therefrom that part of said Lot 49 lying easterly of the following described line: Beginning at a point on the northerly line of said Lot 49 distant 5-00 feet southwesterly of the northeast corner of said Lot 49; thence southerly to a point on the southerly line of said Lot 49 distant 2.00 feet southwesterly of the southeast corner of said Lot 49 and there terminating.

Together with Lot 50 and that part of Lot 49.

“CONROY’S BAY Scott County, Minnesota, lying easterly of the following described line: Beginning at a point on the northerly line of said Lot 49 distant 5.00 feet southwesterly of the northeast corner of said Lot 49; thence southerly to a point on the southerly line of said Lot 49 distant 2.00 feet southwesterly of the southeast corner of said Lot 49 and there terminating.

Address: 6424 Conroy Street NE PID: 25-114-011-0 Prepared this 25th day of October, 2011.

Jeff Matzke, Planner City of Prior Lake (Published in the Prior Lake American on Saturday, October 29, 2011; No. 7596) NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING TO CONSIDER A REQUEST FOR VARIANCES TO ALLOW A CONSTRUCTION OF A FENCE You are hereby notified that the Prior Lake Planning Commission will hold a public hearing at Prior Lake City Hall, located at 4646 Dakota Street SE, on: Monday, November 14, 2011 at 6:00 p.m. or as soon thereafter as possible. Tracy Morton with Sterling State Bank is requesting variances from the minimum front yard setback and minimum fence hight allowed in the R-1 (Low Density Residential) Zoning District.

The property is legally described as follows: All that portion of Lot 20, GREEN HEIGHTS FIRST ADDITION, Scott County Minnesota according to the recorded plat thereof, lying Westerly of the following described line: Beginning at a point on the Southerly line of said Lot 20, 50 feet Easterly of the most Southerly corner thereof; thence in a Northwesterly direction through a point to the shore of Prior Lake ans there terminating, said point described as follows: Commencing at the most Southerly corner of Lot 20; thence North 28 degrees 48 minutes 20 seconds west along the Westerly line of Lot 20 a distance of 182.4 feet; thence North 56 degrees 05 minutes 40 seconds East 63 feet to said point.

Torrens Property Address: 3904 Green Heights Trail PID: 25-102-023-0 Prepared this 25th day of October, 2011.

Jeff Matzke, Planner City of Prior Lake (Published in the Prior Lake American on Saturday, October 29, 2011; No. 7597)

The Public Notice deadline for the Prior Lake American is at Noon on Tuesday, for the Saturday edition.

Faxes are not accepted.

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SCOTT COUNTY

Holiday

Holiday

HOLIDAY IMPRESSIONS

by Lawns Are Us

Roofline Lighting Branch Wrapping LED & Incandescent Lights Wreaths, Garlands & Swags Outdoor Containers Residential/Commercial Exterior/Interior

952-492-3160 65’ Boom Truck

www.lawnsareus.com

Office/Commercial

MERCHANDISE FOR SALE

Shop/ warehouse space Jordan, 3,450 s.f. $5.00/ s.f. 952-492-6960

Firewood Fireplace/Fuel

Chaska Rentals

Chaska Rentals

2 & 3 level Townhomes Rent $1,112 monthly* 3 BR Townhomes, 1322 - 1830-sq. ft. Private entry w/covered front porch. Single car garage w/opener, Coin op washer/dryer in each unit, Forced heat & central air Conditioning, Range w/self cleaning oven, Refrigerator, dishwasher & breakfast bar.

Brickstone Townhomes 850 Walnut Place Chaska, MN 55318 952-361-6945

1 BR $595 **Heat Paid** 612-874-8183 952-368-9360 Nice Duplex, 3BD, 2BA, W/D, A/C, deck. $1050. 952-955-1889

*Income Restrictions Do Apply

1 cord firewood: mixed, cut & split, $160. Free delivery & stacking.

952-212-1536, Ross

3BR 2BA home in Belle Plaine,1200/month, utilities, no smoking/ pets 507-317-0808

FARM/GARDEN ANIMALS

Carver Rentals 2BR, garage, fenced patio, garden. W/D, $850.

952-484-1895

Horses/Boarding

Chaska Rentals

Horse boarding, lessons and training. Indoor arena, heated barn and lounge.

Located in Lonsdale. Contact Kim at 952-440-2151 or Erin at 612-508-7057 for more info.

1/2 mth FREE, selected units. Boutique Apt. Bldg.... 2 BR Elevator, Heat paid, heated parking included.

Cats Welcome. Available 12/1.

952-914-0357

RENTALS

2 BR apartment from $795 1 BR from $695 Heat & water paid 1 cat OK. Garage/Storage inc.

952-361-6864 2/ 3 BR townhomes, garage included, $795 & $950. 952-448-6549 CHASKA 1 BR $650 2 BR $795 Heat paid. Garage available. Clean/ quiet bldg.

Laundry room. FREE exercise room.

Bring this ad to 1st showing & receive a $200 gas card at move in.

Marathonmanagement.com

Welcome to Highland Shores

Office/Commercial

We have a few luxury apartments remaining.

Trendy upscale apartment suites with spacious floorplans and spectacular views, just blocks from the golf course 952-836-8550 OR 1-800-892-2091 Highlandshoresapts.com

LIGHT INDUSTRIAL Drive-In's & Docks Available Immediately Intersections of 41/ 169.

952-484-9675

2 bedroom apartment with garage. Available November. Scott, 612251-9418, 952-4453182

1 & 2 BR. No dogs allowed. Available immediately.

Starting at $600/mth.

952-4482333 1BR $635, 2BR $735.

Pets ok. 952-356-0611

Large 2 BR, 2 bath, W/D dishwasher, elevator, security system. $800+ utilities. Available now. 952-492-2800 Large 2 BR. Country setting, garage. $875 includes utilities. Pets okay. 952-492-2060

New Prague Rentals

3+ BR, 2 BA, basement with laundry hook-ups, 2 car, spacious. No dogs allowed. Available immediately. $1,100/mth.

952-448-2333 Efficiency Apartment, available 12/1. W/D, all utilities paid, $550. 612709-3289 LIVE AMONG FRIENDS! 55 and better Lynn Court Apartments 4350 West 124 th, Savage, MN 1 & 2 BR starting at $665 Your pet is welcome 952-894-4719

Shakopee Rentals

Prior Lake Rentals 1 BR. Large apartment in secured N/S 4-plex. $685. 763-478-8715

COME HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS!

Prior Lake- Lg 1 BR, $595/ mo. 2 BR. $765/ mo. Available now. Patio/ balcony, cats OK, please call 952-6532105, 952-594-1791, or 651-470-4017

1 & 2 BR apartments, (heat, hot/cold water, garbage included) $575$675, no pets. 612-5996245

2-3 BR homes for rent.

Newly remodeled. Available now. 612-759-2055

Cedar Creek 952-448-6800

1 BR in 8-plex, heat paid. No pets. Available 11/1. $575. 952-4459075

Savage Rentals

Jordan Center Apartments

2 BR condo, garage.

Pet OK. Includes water, sewer, $925. Avail 11/1 952-440-4112 3 BR 1 BA apartment.

Detached garage. $895.

Randy 952-270-9221

Shakopee Rentals

3 BR townhome, garage. New carpet. $1,075. Available immediately. 952-890-9177

Jordan Rentals

4 BR, 2 BA, new carpet/ paint. 2 car heated. $1200. 612-250-8165/ 1-218-758-2109

Belle Plaine Rental

Prior Lake Rentals

1 BR APARTMENT Section 8 project Low income rent to qualifying persons. Age 62 or older. 30% of income Smoke-free units available

Shakopee Housing 952-403-1086

2 BR clean townhouse, 3 car garage, many extras, 3 season porch. $1100. 612-599-2256

Houses REAL ESTATE

House for sale: 9875 Spring Rd, EP $327,400 952-240-8940

Houses Lots/Acreage 3BR, 2BA, 3 car garage.

Contract for deed terms with 5% down. 177,900.

Randy Kubes, Realtor 612-599-7440

Farmland for Sale & Wanted. Randy Kubes, Realtor... 612-599-7440

2BR, 2BA, $950. One level, end unit, excellent condition. 952-361-0271 3 BR/ 1.5 BA townhome 1400s.f. Private end unit! Available, 11/1 $1300/ month 612-7010260 3BR/1BA $800. Apt. Remodel!

Safe,cln,brght,quiet,Priv deck,plygrnd 1yr lse NrCub/Marshall 722Garden Ln 612-325-7954 7494 Derby LaneTownhome. 2 BR, 2.5 BA, W/D, all appliances, fireplace. 2 story+ loft. 2 car garage. $1,150.

Available 11/1.

612-414-3496 952-894-1890

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Arlington Ridge Apts 2 BR Apts. For Rent Updated unit-Ready for move in!

Starting at $805 CALL 952-496-3281 1219 S. Taylor St. #103

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Hillview Motel Micro/ Refrig. Weekly $175 & Up. Daily, $35 & Up. 952-445-7111

email: classifieds@ iMarketplace.mn

Sandalwood Studiosfull kitchenettes, nightly/ weekly/ monthly rates available. 952-277-0100

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BUILDING

BUILDING

CONCRETE/MASONRY

CONCRETE/MASONRY

Highland Home Services Inc. Remodeling ...Repair ... Design www.highlandhomeservices.com

30 years experience

Steve Jenness

cell 612-418-2277

fax 952-447-1211

sjenness@integraonline.com

lic#20628802

• Block Foundations • New Additions, Repairs • Driveways • Patios • Steps • Garages • Pool Decks • Tear-out, Remove, Replace/New • Decorative • Colored, Stamped, Exposed Aggregate Free Estimates

*Lower Level Finishing *Decks & Exteriors

NO JOB TOO SMALL *** Mention this ad for a 10% discount.

Call today for a free consultation (952) 607-6726 MN Lic. 20483289, Fully Insured

MAGNUM CONSTRUCTION CO.

612-221-2181 Free estimates/Insured Decorative stamped concrete, Driveways, Concrete Firepits, Tear-out & replacement, Steps, Floating garage slabs, Swimming pool decks, Poured Wall Foundations & Flat work www.mnvalleyconcrete.com

Over 19 Years Experience Licensed and Insured

Basements • Room Additions Complete Home Remodeling Decks/Porches

Brick Work Stone Work

Big Enough To Help~Small Enough To Care

952-461-4540

www.magnumconstructioncomp.com

New Remodel Chimney Repairs

Builder's Edge Remodeling, Windows, Basements, Additions, Cabinets. Licensed.

952-492-3170 Decks, porches, additions, remodeling. Great ideas/ prices.

Fred Hartgerink, 952-4473733

CABINETRY KB Custom Cabinets Kitchens, Entertainment Centers, Bars, Built-ins Vanities, Counter Tops.

952-445-7790

CLEANING ! 952-239-4110 Bumble Bee Services Housecleaning. Insured www.bumblebeeservices.com

CLEANING ! Country Touch Clean.

Several years in business. Reliable/Trusting 612-483-1092

Above & Beyond Cleaning & Detailing If It Needs it...

We Clean It! 952-217-3619

Expert Cleaning: Hard worker, reliable, trustworthy. Use my own supplies & vacuum.

Very flexible scheduling. What works for you, works for me.

952-406-2478

Free Estimates Licensed Insured

Lowell Russell Concrete From the Unique to the Ordinary... Specializing in drives, patios and imprinted, colored and stained concrete.

Interior acid stained floors and counter tops. www.staincrete.com

Lebens Masonry

952-461-3710

952-233-1099

info@staincrete.com

Drapes, Blinds, Fabrics, Upholstery, Bedspreads.

Lakes Interiors. 38 yrs.

952-447-4655.

Carpet & Vinyl

DRIVEWAYS

Shop-At-Home Save $$

DON WHERLEY MASONRY INC Decorative Concrete Additions - Patios Garage Floors Steps - Sidewalks Aprons - Driveways Stamped, Colored Exposed Aggregate

Free Estimates

Call Joe: 952-492-3671 MonConServ.com

LANDSCAPING

Caola

612-275-2574.

AJ's Tree & Lawn Service.

Trimming/ removal. Snow Removal.

Firewood. Insured.

Complete Landscaping Design, Build, Maintain

Radloff & Weber Blacktopping Inc. Driveways, Parking Lots ~Since 1971~ Free Estimates

952-447-5733

952-445-4056 www.fonderscarpet.com

ABOVE ALL HARDWOOD FLOORS & CARPET Floor Installation Sanding & Refinishing Carpet, Tile & Vinyl Installation Exceptional Quality Great Service

ELECTRICAL

952-440-WOOD (9663)

#Priority Electric Inc. Licensed- Bonded- Insured. No job too small.

952-403-9200

Duffy’s

A Licensed Master Electrician at your service Scheffler Electric, Inc. 952-758-3561

Monyok Masonry 16 years in business Driveways, Sidewalks, Patios, Floors, Steps, Block Foundations, Brick Repairs, Footings

LANDSCAPING

Landscape Services 952 445-0663 X

POWERTECH Electric.

Local. Owner operated.

Licensed, insured, clean.

Rich: 952-292-8683

952-448-7037

FLOORING

952-758-7742

www.chconcretemn.com

~ PARAMOUNT REMODELING, INC. ~ Where Your Dreams Are Paramount *Kitchen & Bathroom Remodeling *Distinctive Hardwood Flooring

DRAPERIES

HARDWOOD FLOORS •Floor refinishing & sanding •Real wood floors •Dustless refinishing •Water damage specialists •Board patching •Custom staining •Best quality •Best pricing •Most experience in your area •Family owned, 28 years • Free Estimates

Water Problems resolved XSprinkler Systems XRock/Mulch/Edger XTrees & Shrubs XBrick Pavers XRetainingWalls Over 30 yrs of quality workmanship X

Visit our website: www.caolalandscaping.com Credit Cards Accepted

R.D. & Associates Specialized Services Inc. • Tree Removal • Stump Grinding • Brush Chipping • Overgrown Areas Mowed • Excavating • Sand & Gravel • Crushed Limestone

952-445-7302

HEATING/AIR COND Cla s 952 sified s -34 5-3 003

Heating, plumbing, remodel and repair, and replacement, new construction. 952-492-2440

Core Aeration

Fall Cleanup Snow Removal Residential/Commercial

952-440-1131 Turfboys.com Hunter Lawn Service.

Fall clean-ups, Aeration Tree, Shrub trimming, 952-451-9275 Kerchner Outdoors Now offering snow removal and yard services, including fall clean up. Serving the Lakeville, Savage, Prior Lake, and Shakopee area. Call today for a free estimate. 612-3859010 Dependable, on time. Flexible & efficient!

www.rdandassociates.com

952-469-5713 952-426-2790 www.duffyshardwoodfloors.com

952-445-1812 Paul Bunyan Tree Service. Tree Removal and Trimming. www.paulbunyantree serviceinc.com

Retaining Walls, Concrete & Paver Drives, Patio & Walks, Boulder walls, & much more!

952-292-2261 Premiere One Landscapes

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Prior Lake American | www.plamerican.com

October 29, 2011 | Page 21

Full-Time

Full-Time

Anchor Bank, N.A. Eden Prairie seeks a full-time Teller (35+hrs/wk). Requirements: At least 1 yr of previous teller or customer service & cash handling exp., exceptional customer service skills & good figure aptitude. Must be flexible & available MF 6:45am 6:15pm & rotating Sat 7:45 am to Noon. Apply on-line at: https://www.anchor link.com/go/careers/jobs EOE/AA CDL Driver needed to run west. 2 year min. exp. 507-380-6496

Busy automotive dealership in the South Metro is looking to add 2 FT Techs to our QuickLane. Qualified candidates must have their own tools & have a minimum of 3 yrs experience changing oil, tires, batteries, etc.

Full benefits, 401k & PTO. Interested candidates send resume to: automotive manmichael@aol.com

Full-Time

Full-Time

Full-Time

EMPLOYMENT

Full-Time Allure Salon looking for motivated, enthusiastic hair designer and nail technician to join our talented staff. 952-4963331, Bonnie www.escapetoallure.com ASSOCIATE TRAINEE Real Estate Career Excellent Potential Fast Growth

Coldwell Banker Burnet Eden Prairie Irene: 952-949-4759 Rolland: 952-949-4724 EOE

DRIVER- OTR truck driver.

Home often.

Start ASAP. Call Mary: 612-247-6263

Finish carpenters wanted with 2-5 years of experience. Position is full time and benefits eligible. Must have valid D/L, reliable transportation and be able to pass background check, drug screen and physical.

Call our job line at 952-380-3720 or send resume to jobs@carpentrycontractors.com

TOOLMAKER Experience required in building, repairing, & maintaining blank, progressive, and compound dies for METAL STAMPINGS. If you are interested in VARIETY & PERSONAL GROWTH, we offer: Excellent wages and benefits including Vacation, Insurance, 401(k), & a Profit Sharing Bonus Plan!

Please fax, mail or email your resume to: EDi, P.O. Box 85, Jordan 55352 F: 952-492-3790 vengelsteffan@engeldiversified.com

Storekeeper Position Shakopee Public Utilities is accepting applications for the position of Storekeeper. Duties include but are not limited to ensuring material availability, including coordinating receipt of materials, pulling materials from stock and checking out in a timely manner for crews; and maintaining inventory documentation on a realtime basis. Managing physical inventory including conducting physical counts, reconciling and notating restocks to inventory with inventory/purchasing specialist and notify inventory/purchasing specialist when reorder points are reached. Responsible for receiving inventory including unloading delivery and utility vehicles with fork lift and other material handling and utility vehicles, checking new materials for damages and comparing packing slips to materials received. Coordinates and maintains warehouse equipment including keeping records of tool usage and locations, cleaning, inspecting and performing minor repairs when returned. Responsible for coordination of snow removal and maintaining a clean and safe working environment.

Qualifications include ability to maintain a high degree of accuracy in all record keeping requirements, ability to become knowledgeable with regards to parts, part numbers and equipment relating to the electric water utility industry. Clerical aptitude, mechanical ability and necessary math background to perform inventory control. Must possess interpersonal skills to facilitate excellent internal and external customer services. Must possess a valid driver's license and pass a written test and driving test for operating a forklift truck. Must be able to obtain a Class B Commercial license with air brake endorsement within six months of employment date. Physical requirements include heavy manual work in lifting and moving stock. High school graduate or equivalent education required.

For standard application form, call (952)233-1508 or visit our web site @ www.shakopeeutilities.com Send applications to: Shakopee Public Utilities Commission Atten: Human Resources P.O. Box 470 Shakopee, MN 55379

Drivers: $1500 Sign-On! Regional, OTR, O/O pkgs. 4-5 days out, Home Most Weekends, Great Pay, Benefits.

CDL-A. 800-973-9161 www.heyl.net Drivers: SW Metro Transportation. Taxi & Medical. All shifts. 612747-3022 buschy22@aol.com Job from Food Call more

Fair Wednesday 9am-12pm for Production Work.

952-924-9000 for information

Cole's Salon is looking for outgoing First Impression Team members!

These stars will be the first point of contact with our guests, along with answering phones, trouble shooting, and educating clients on our products and services.

This is a fast pace and fun environment! Positions open in....

Savage 952-226-5310 PT/FT shifts available evenings 3pm to 10pm and Saturdays.

Retrieve our application online at colessalon.com or call a location of your preference.

Snow plow operator/ shoveler needed. Top pay. Kris 612-987-4868

Open Systems business software powers the companies that are bringing the economy back to life.

Seeking Client Support Advisors- Successful candidates will provide functional and technical support by communicating with clients and providing solutions for their business issues. We're looking for excellent communication and customer service skills, a degree or certificate in a computer-related field and\or accounting, or equivalent experience. An understanding of basic accounting principles is preferred, and experience with accounting software, SQL Server Tools, and software installations is a plus.

Seeking Receptionist- A critical customer service role in our company, responsibilities include answering a multi-line switchboard, greeting visitors, and providing admin and clerical support for team members throughout the company. The ideal candidate will have effective verbal skills, positive attitude, professional demeanor, the ability to work independently, and basic computer proficiency.

Open Systems offers a competitive wage & benefits package. Please send resume and salary requirements to Open Systems, Inc. Attn: HR, 4301 Dean Lakes Boulevard, Shakopee, MN 55379 or email to HR@OSAS.com. EOE.

DUECO, a final stage manufacturer of truckmounted aerial equipment is looking for a Service Mechanic and a Parts Clerk to join its Shakopee Service Staff. For more info, call 952-445-1555.

Applications are accepted Mon - Fri 12565 Hwy 41 Frontage Rd or email resume to: careers@dueco.com Equal opportunity employer

Flagship Franchises of MN, Inc. parent company of SarahCare Adult Day Services is looking for Drivers, Certified Nurse Assistants and a Business Office Coordinator. Please submit resumes to: ddelaney@sarahcaremn.com

Snowplowing, Bobcat operators, loader operators, truck drivers.

FT/PT. 612-749-6480 or 952-445-8996

New and used car and truck sales in our Jordan and LeSueur locations. We need self starters, looking for long term employment and huge earning potential. We are one of the few growing Ford dealerships in Minnesota. Experience preferred but will train the right individual.

Wolf Motors Jordan, MN 952-492-2340 or tim@wolfmotors.com See this & other employment ads in this week’s Classifieds

Framing, Siding and Window carpenters wanted with all levels of experience. Positions are full time and benefits eligible. Must have valid D/L, reliable transportation and be able to pass background check, drug screen and physical.

Call our job line at 952-380-3720 or send resume to: jobs@carpentry contractors.com HELP WANTED SALES

Recreation Supervisor Full time The City of Eden Prairie is currently recruiting for a Recreation Supervisor.

The primary responsibilities will be to organize and supervise City sponsored adult athletic programs, maintain the City Officials Association for adult officiated athletic programs, coordinate field maintenance and be primary liaison to youth athletic associations.

For more information and to apply online, visit www.edenprairie.org under “Employment Opportunities”. Deadline for applications, Monday, Nov. 7, 2011. Starting annual pay $55,827 - $66,976.

EOE

Progressive. Growing.

Engaged.

SCOTT COUNTY Highway Division Program Manager In this position you'll be leading staff, planning efforts, and the execution of activities related to infrastructure and maintenance operations for roadways, facilities, parks, trails, and equipment. This is a highly collaborative role requiring excellent communication and multi-tasking skills in an environment of changing priorities. MQs: Requires equivalency of a bachelor's degree and seven years of related experience in maintenance and infrastructure operations, including two years of supervision. Preference given for experience with highway/street maintenance/plow operations and facilities projects. MNDOT technical certifications and experience, building design/construction project experience, and parks/trails maintenance experience also desired. Valid driver's license is required. Hiring Range: $65,797 to $95,000-DOQ. Selection: Rating of Training & Experience. Closing: 11/4/11.

Obtain application from Scott County Employee Relations at (952) 496-8890 or on the Internet at: www.co.scott.mn.us. EOE TTY/TDD: (952) 496-8170 Let's work together.

TOP JOB HELP WANTED SALES

Full-Time

The Lutheran Home Campus is currently accepting applications for full-time and part-time Nursing Assistants. We are now offering a sign on bonus for Nursing Assistants totaling $500 over the course of one year!

For additional information or to apply online, visit The Lutheran Home Association Web site at www.tlha.org or call (952) 873-2164.

An Equal Opportunity Employer The Lutheran Home: Belle Plaine is also offering a Nursing Assistant Class. Enrollment packets are available the Guest Relations desk. The class will begin on 11/15/11 and will conclude after approximately five weeks. The schedule will be handed out on the first day of class. The class will be held four days each week from 8:30am-3:00pm. Enrollment will be accepted on a firstcome, first-serve basis. The fee for the class is $650 which includes the cost of the class, book and materials.

The enrollment packet and check must be submitted to reserve a place in the class. The check will not be cashed if the person is hired to work at the Lutheran Home and is employed for at least 90 days after completion of the class. The class is open to any interested persons. Please call (952) 873-2164 with any questions.

New and used car and truck sales in our Jordan and LeSueur locations.

We need self starters, looking for long term employment and huge earning potential. We are one of the few growing Ford dealerships in Minnesota. Experience preferred but will train the right individual.

Wolf Motors Jordan, MN, 952-492-2340 or tim@wolfmotors.com South Metro Lawn Service seeking individual to fill lawn crew/snowplow operator positions.

Experience required.

Must have good driving record. Pay DOQ 952445-4336

Full-Time PMT Corp. now hiring for these FT positions: Customer Service Cleanroom Technicians Inside Sales Human Resources Quality Control Apply in person- 1500 Park Rd, Chanhassen, MN 55317. jobs@pmtcorp.com

Shipping & Receiving Full time opening with well established medical device manufacturer. 9:00am- 5:30pm Mon-Fri. Convenient Shakopee location close to Hwy 169 and Cty Rd 83. $10/hr to start with raise and benefits available after 90 days.

Fax resume to 952-884-1726

Tax Preparer Seasonal Chaska CPA firm seeking an experienced, fulltime seasonal tax preparer. Pay based on experience. Flexible hours.

Send Resume to: cpa@dha-cpa.com or fax 952-448-2705.

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LANDSCAPING

LANDSCAPING

ODD JOBS

Handyman Ser vices

TK

Residential/Commercial Landscaping HOME SERVICES Spring/Fall Clean-Up Aeration/Dethatching All types of Home Services Weekly Mowing Call Tom, Chaska: Tree/Bush Trimming &Removal Stump Grinding/Chipping Ph: 952-201-8489 Bobcat/Dump Truck Serv.

Fax 952-448-4690 Snow Plowing Free Est. Insured Bonded Sr. Citizen discount Air Duct Cleaning

LAWNS ARE US

C r e a t e s D i s t i n c t i v e O u td o o r L i v i n g X Complete

Landscape & Irrigation Design & Block, Retaining Walls, Paver Driveway, Patios X Lake Shore Restoration & Drainage Correction X Outdoor Kitchens/ Fire Pits/ Rain Gardens/Ponds X Aeration & Over Seeding/ Fall Clean-Up & Dethatch X Tree/Shrub Trimming & Holiday Lighting X Boulder

952-492-3160 Rock Engraving at Hermans 6 Miles S. of Shakopee on 169 Pulverized Dirt $12.50/ yd.

Colored Mulch $26.50/ yd.

Cypress, Cedar, Hardwood

Flagstone, Steppers Decorative Rock Edging/ Poly/ Fabric Retaining Walls, Pavers

Call for Hours Wever i l 952-492-2783 De

www.HermansLandscape.com

MOVING/STORAGE

MOVING? You Call - We Haul

Completely Enclosed Truck Very Reasonable Rates

952-758-2552 We Haul Moving

ODD JOBS Quality Remodeling and Home Repairs A Minnesota Greenstar Qualified contractor

References, Lic & Ins Mn Lic. 20632058 Kevin Hayes

(612)867-8287 New Prague

kevin@hmwhome.com www.hmwhome.com

ODD JOBS

PROFESSIONAL, PROMPT, COURTEOUS SERVICE 28 YEARS OF TRADE EXPERIENCE Bob Wagner (952) 686-4833 www.bobshandymanservices.com for available services and rates. Fully Insured

PAINT/WALLPAPER MJ Painting Interior/ Exterior painting & staining. 952-445-2904 Marvin Jeurissen

PLASTER/DRYWALL

ROOFING

ROOFING

ROOFING

Regal Enterprises, Inc. Roofing, siding, windows, gutters. Insurance work. Since 1980. regalenterprisesinc.net 952-201-4817

LOW HOURLY RATES, TELL ME WHAT YOU CAN AFFORD AND WE WILL MAKE A DEAL!

NEED HANDYMAN? Little Job Expert!

For all the odd jobs needing Attention!!!

Painting: • Interior & Exterior Finish Carpentry: • Basements • Bathrooms • Ceramic Tile • Sheet Rock & Taping Dennis 952-334-1755 952-445-9034

ODD JOBS Bruce Mackenthun Does It All! WindowDoor- Deck specialist!

Professional services.

952-270-9166.

Lic #BC452534 Ins. www.brucedoesitall.com Ken's HANDYMAN SERVICE Repairs, Installations & Home Improvements. Call Ken: 952-445-1836

PAINT/WALLPAPER

Cal

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S.R. PAINTING: 18 yrs. exp. Insured.

Commercial/Residential.

Interior/Exterior.

Wood finishing, Enameling, Custom Texturing, Water Damage, Wallpaper Removal.

Deck Refinishing.

Quality conscious perfectionist!

Estimates/Consultation

Call er landscap Relax

Storm damage repairs Defective shingle claims Family owned & operated Thousands of satisfied customers Professional and Courteous

Serving SW Metro 18 yrs. Small crew/no subs/ painting. New Const/ Basements/ Repair.

BBB Reg/Ins/Free Est. All work guaranteed Mic 612-685-0476 bestdrywallminnesota.com

Lic# 20632183

Why Wait Roofing LLC

Steve Ries, 612-481-8529

952-448-3761 *A and K PAINTING* Schedule your Fall painting now!

Ext/Int Paint/ Stain ~Carpentry/ Repair~ Free Estimates Ins/ Bonded Major credit cards accepted

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mber

952-492-3842 952-412-4718(cell)

Best Drywall LLC

952-474-6258 l roofer

KREUSER ROOFING, INC.

Breimhorst Painting. Interior/ Exterior. Insured.

Albie: 952-261-2234 Greg Anderson Painting 4 generations experience. Painting, staining, enameling. Taping repairs. 952-445-6816

No wall too small

PLUMBING/SEPTIC Father/ son plumbing company.

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Part-Time 10-15 hrs week. Victoria, Bookkeeper, experienced in Peachtree, AR, AP, GL, Sales tax, Payroll tax. Dave 612-7019482

Auburn home is looking to fill the following positions: *Nursing Assistants *RN or LPN *TMA *Care Attendants *Housekeeping Coordinator Please see our website for full description www.auburnhomes.org Or apply in person at 501 Oak Street No. Chaska, Mn. 55318 No phone calls please EOE

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House Aide $11.20/hr .8 night position awake staff. Residential group home for (6) elderly seniors providing personal cares. Community Assisted Living. Shakopee.

Call 952-440-3955

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Crafters & Vendors Wanted 28th Annual Holly Fair Arts & Crafts Show.

Sponsored by Mora Women of Today. Trailview Elementary, Mora, MN. Sat., 11/12, 9am3pm. Vendor space available. Dawn: 320679-1916. email: mwot.hollyfair@gmail.com

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Boutique/Craft Sale

Jordan Sales

The Wilds Holiday Boutique... 40 high quality vendors. Cash bar for wine & cocktails. Lots of Raffle prizes. Sure to be something for everyone on your list. Thursday Nov. 3rd 4pm9pm. The Wilds Golf Community Clubhouse

Indoor Garage SaleThurs-Fri-Sat., 10/2728-29, 8am-5pm. Stove, refrigerator, gas water heater, furniture, china, tools, cell phone, electronics, clothes, etc. 619 LODGE DR.

Holiday Boutique Deer Run Clubhouse, Victoria Saturday, Nov. 5 9am-2pm

Boutique/Craft Sale Coffin’ up too much money for a place to

PT positions for Dietary Aides for Shakopee Friendship Manor Nursing Home.

Qualified applicants please send resume to: Shakopee Friendship Manor, Attn: Administrator, 1340 W. Third Ave. Shakopee, MN 55379 or email to: bsalmela@spacestar.net

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9th Annual Holiday Expo & Craft Show, Sun. Nov. 6, 9:00 a.m.

-2:00 p.m. Over 45 Vendors. Le Center Middle School 150 W Tyrone St. LeCenter.

For more information call 507-420-5877

The Round Barn Potting Co.

Sparkling Vintage Christmas Boutique Premiere Nov. 5 -6 Open House Nov. 19-20 Saturday 10am - 6pm Sunday 11am - 5 pm

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01-02 Civic 2 dr car mats new light tan $50 952-292-7886 100,000 BTU propane heater $80 call 612-6193694 12ft Jonboat. 2 seater with front rear transom. $150. 952-303-9810 17 inch Dell LCD monitor $50 952-292-7886 1960's small GE fridge.

Great for mancave. $60 952-447-8169 1968 Pontiac Catalina convertible, fair shape, $900, 952-448-3047 1978 Ford Pickup.

4speed, little rust. $500 Dan 952-447-8169 1989 Ford Bronco II Great Fixer-upper! Eddie Bauer $500 612616-4155 2 Antique Oak Chairs, Sturdy, Scalloped Pattern Backrest, $100 (952)401-3786 20 gallon reptile cage w/ accessories, $25 952457-0280 20- & 40-gallon aquariums & stands, free.

952-270-1765 2011 BabyTrend Carrier 2 bases, like new! $65.

612-876-6566 info.

Air Hockey Table, 4'x7', electronic scoring, great condition, FREE; 612986-1599 American Girl and Laura Ashley dress, $58/both, 651-755-2924.

Apple Laptop iBook G4 Latest OS Good Condition $169. 612-839-2933 Automatic garage door opener, w/remote, mint, $50, 952-649-7936 Baby Bouncy with activity bar, like new! $15.

612-876-6566.

Bat costume, 3-5T, great shape, $22 952292-5188 Bed, Sealy Posterpedic, Pillow Top Queen Size, $300/BO, 952-381-5932 Bedroom set, white wicker, double, 4pc., spring/ mattress, $150, 952-368-3851 Bedroom set: Headboard, frame, queen, dresser, dresser/ mirror $250 952-220-5051

50 Cal Muzzleloader Traditions Buckstalker NEW! $80 952-3039810 52" Sony Rear Projection TV. Works Great! $100 952-236-7545

Bengal kitten, gorgeous, first shots, TICA registered. $500. 952-2007637 Bike, 24" Schwinn High Plains, 21sp., excellent condition, $30, 952-9751832 Bike, 24" Schwinn High Plains, 21sp., excellent condition, $30, 952-9751832 Bike, Raleigh 10 sp. like brand new, $20, 952239-2362 Black convertible crib/ dresser/ changing table combo. Beautiful. $500.

952-239-8421 Blaze orange hunting coat & pants, X-large, excellent, $100, 952445-5771 Boys Basketball shoes, size 4, FILA brand, $10 952-292-5188 Cabelas Advanced Anglers Underwater Camera 2yrs w/case, batteries. $50. 952-440-3097

Air Hockey 2005 Shelti.

Like new, $400 952440-2799

China cabinet, maple, good condition. $400.

952-270-1765

24 pcs. LP SmartSiding, wood grain, $290. 612961-3714 26” LCD monitor, $100, 952-292-7886 3 novelty chairs. Tall legs, cushions. $10.

952-496-2493 4 drawer filing cabinet legal w/folders $20 b/o 612-203-4528 Pick-up 5 Box sets of Disney Christmas Ornaments $50. 952-240-3426

China hutch, solid oak, excellent condition, $350, 952-440-5266 Christmas 8-8.5 gorgeous prelit tree in bags w/ wheels, $175, 952934-2435 Christmas lights, $15, 952-403-1567 Coffee and end table. $30. Good condition.

952-445-4680.

Convection oven- wall mount, 28-3/4h-26-3/4w, stainless steel Kitchenaide, nice $450952-649-7936 Couch & Loveseat, like new, Highland House brand, $200, 612-3600837 Counter height stools, 4, oak, light, good condition, $125, 952-4927824 Craftsman lawn tractor cab and wheel weights $175 952-934-6035 Department 56 Dickens Village Heathmoor Castle. Brand New. $66.

612-964-1016 Department 56 Dickens Village McShane Cottage. Brand New. $60.

612-964-1016 Desk, solid oak, light stain, excellent cond. $175, 952-492-7824 Dog kennel, 24"L x 18"W x 21"H. Nice! $30.

952-906-1618.

Douglas the talking tree, $15, 952-403-1567 Dryer, Maytag Neptune, white, excellent condition, $175, 952-9346996 Dryer, Maytag, Heavy duty, gas,,nice, works great. $125. 952-4454177 End Table, white wash, tons of storage, $50, 612-360-0837 Entertainment center, Great Condition. Fits 32” TV. $50. 952-445-4680 Fitness Quest Inc, Ab Lounge 2, excellent condition, $40. 952-4405266

Flannel Sheet Blankets, Queen Size, Yellow, New $10.00 952-4474961 Flute, stand, sheet music, good condition. $150. 612-616-4155 For Sale: Bi-fold closet doors (3), fruitwood, $75. 952-442-1846.

Free Queen size box spring in great shape 612-414-4712 Free Queen size box spring in great shape 612-414-4712 Free Upright Piano, with matching bench. Call 612-578-5891.

Free- Two 24" and 36" oak bi-fold closet doors.

(952)451-2908 Garden tiller, front tyne, $40, 952-445-7620 Goodyear Trailer Tire 18.5X8.5 4 bolt rim NEW $20. 952-4402713 Green large armchair, great condition, slight wear, $150 Amy 952215-1978 Hockey Skates, Size 6 D, Bauer, like new! $30 952-226-2366 Home Gym assembled, never used! $150 or BO (952) 221-7924 Hot tub heater/ pump, 110/220volt, 3/4 hp. $50, 952-215-2092 HP Photosmart 3-1 printer C4380, $50. 952292-7886 Huffy Stone Mountain Bike. 16" wheels, good shape. $25.00. 952-4962493.

Jeanie Halloween Costume, Purple, youth 12, $5. 952-201-9989 Jeff Gordon Halloween Costume, Med. with helmet bucket, $5. 952201-9989 Kenmore Dryer, Electric, White, 2 years old, $185. 952-873-3373 Kenmore Washer & Dryer XL Capacity. Works great. $500. 952-2157486

Kitchen table & 4 chairs with extension board. $100. 952-368-3851 Kitchen table. Wood top w/6 chairs. Nice. $75.00 952-412-7149.

Klipsch Heresy II speakers 1985 Maple $450 MINT. 952-401-3786 LE Explorer Teddy Bear. $25, cash. 952564-1161 Light-color changing twinkling tree light $50 612-644-8377 Little Tikes blue and white table, two chairs, $20 952-447-4946 Little Tikes flip top desk, chair $20, 952447-4946 Maple cutting board table, $50. 952-368-3851 Mitsubishi HD 55 inch widescreen TV works great. $200, 612-6193694 Oak Kitchen Table with 5 refinished chairs $50 952-368-9020 Oak table, 6 chairs, good condition, $250.

952-233-2053 Original Oil Paula Nizamas, 48"x24", Paid $1350, Sacr. $400, 952236-7545 Pellet Stove, Su,,ers Heat 49-SHCPM. Like new, $950. 952-5008680 Piano, Wurlitzer, new keys, pro reconditioned. $500. Can deliver 952445-4177 Pick-Up Topper & B/L, Glasstite, Shortbox. $150/BO. 952-3346993.

Pickup bed mat, Ford SD, SB. Brand new. $50. 952-412-7149.

Pickup bed mat, Ford SD, SB. Brand new. $50, 952-412-7149.

Police woman costume, navy, adult sm, like new. $30, 952-261-8844 Pollypocket dolls & accessories cost over $400 SELL $50 952368-3851

Polytank, 425 gal., spigot for pickup truck, $100, 952-492-2176 eves Range, Kenmore electric. Glass Top. White.

Excellent. $275 952474-8081 Reebok Inversion System, $250 or b/o. 952445-6094 You pick up.

Refrigerator Whirlpool Almond 20.6 cu ft good condition, $150, 952884-3145 Refrigerator. White GE Profile side/side.

36"x70"x30" deep. $250. 952-270-3967 Rockwell Delta 8" cast iron table saw $135.

952-440-1759 Rolltop desk, large, like new, $350. 952-2506111 Ryobi 10" Miter BoxSaw, Used Once, 10 Blades. $75 952-4478658 Ryobi 6.0amp Biscuit Joiner, Used Once, w/case $50, 952-4478658 Saddle, English close contact 16" w/ stirrups $300, 952-457-0280 Scooby Doo deluxe Halloween costume. Adult M-LG. NWT 952-4475771 $45 Scooby Doo Halloween Costume, size Med., $5.

Cutie! 952-201-9989 Shop/Warehouse lights, 400w, 20" round/with lenses, 6 for $60. 952445-7617 Shopping/ laundry cart/ wheels/ collapsible, $10.

952-445-6094 Silver King Canister Vacuum Cleaner, 4amp, Older, $10.00 952-4474961 Size 8 black "Thirtytwo" snow board boots $20.

952-440-2713 Snowblower, Simplicity 450, 20", single stage, good condition, $200 952-445-3481 Womens lg. harley vest. $40. 612-280-4737

Snowthrower, 21” single stage, electric start, like new, $275, 952-9061618

Vintage Singer sewing machine, original wooden table/ bench. $100.

952-474-6621

Strikemaster Auger MOD12000DP New $275. Call Mike @ 952239-2362

Vinyl Rattan Glass Top Rectangular Table, New, 39"x23"x18", $25, 952-934-3509

Swanstone gray granite kitchen sink $50. 952440-1759

Washer/ Dryer combo Hirundo portable Apt. size 115V $350 952447-4577

Table & 6 chairs. Good condition. $275 or B/O. 612-708-0411.

Table saw/ Craftsman 10"/ Cast Iron top, wheels. $150, 612-4182277

Womens black reserve leather chaps. m. exc cond. $60. 612-2804737

Tablesaw, Craftsman 10" cast iron top, stand. $200. 952-447-5876 Tricycle, Radio Flyer, excellent condition! $40 952-461-3508 Tropical fish tank, very clean, supplies, 10 gal, $19, 651-755-2924

Classified Ads 952-345-3003

ThriftMart Discovery Blaze orange hunting coat & pants, X-large, excellent, $100, 952-445-5771

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Boats/Motors TRANSPORTATION

October 29, 2011 | Page 23

Campers Travel Trailers

HUNTING FOR

Motorcycles

THE PERFECT

All-Terrain Vehicles

Polaris Xplorer 300 4X4 1999 with plow, gun rack, tote box. Starts and runs great. Gently used. $2400 952-3888456

94 Starcraft, 17ft. Aluminum. Walleye, Bass ½ Console 75hp.

Mariner & 8hp. Kicker. $6500. 612-554-6725 or

2004 41' SportsCoach Elite. Fully equipped.

23,000K. Well-maintained.

3 slides. $100,000. 952-797-6264

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2005 Kawasaki 1600 Vulcan Classic with Vance & Hines pipes.

New tires. 10,895 miles.

Mint condition. $5900 Call (952) 934-7358

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Boats/Motors

1973 14' Alumacraft boat/ trailer, 15 HP Johnson motor. Needs carb work. Trolling motor/ battery, steering console. $1,125/BO. 952-448-3128

1992 Vibo 21' Hexagon pontoon. Low hrs. 2 motors. '96 Merc 90HP + 9.9. Marine radio. Trailer. Clean. $8,500. 612720-2262

1998, Bayliner Capri Fish & Ski boat, 19 ft.

135HP. Inboard, stored inside. Excellent condition $6900. 952-4126417

Hydro Stream Vegas.

20'. 200 HP+++. Complete restoration. 5 passenger. A real head turner! $8,900 or all trades welcome. 952215-5421

2007 27' Colorardo RL 5th Wheel, 2 Slide $29,500 or best offer.

507-934-4834 M-F after 5:30

Motorcycles

Honda style 2007 JMST 250cc Scooter.

1329 miles, original owner, 80 mpg, 4 stroke 2 passenger, $2900.00, call Ray 952-402-9110

Sporting Goods

Campers Travel Trailers

CASH$$ We buy guns SPORTS STOP Shakopee 952-445-5282

1994 Harley Heritage Softtail, 26300k, all service records avail, extra set of pipes. $7500. Call Mike @ 612-309-6737

2000 Harley Davidson 883 Sportster, wife's bike, never rode, must go. 1300 miles, Lots, lots of extras, mint! $7000. 952-890-0905

2001, 17ft. Starcraft, 90HP, Mercury. Excellent condition. $9,000 952-890-2630

952-345-3003 email: Classifieds@iMarketplace.mn

EZ-GO Gas Golf Cart with Rear Seat. White with White Top and Seats. $2195. 952-2390446

1991 Fleetwood Southwind Motorhome, Class A, 33ft. Only 38k miles!

Smooth runner, fully loaded, sleeps 6, hydraulic leveler, $10,500, 612-669-4172

1996 Itasca Suncruiser Motorhome. Class A, 39'. Excellent condition, shedded at all times/ winterized.

Loaded!

29,300 actual miles. $35,000/BO. 507-6656019

Classified Advertising Department

Due to

Hunters/ Trappers: We buy fur and trade for deer hides.

Sports Stop, Shakopee, 952445-5282

Veterans’ Day

Storage/Vehicles

on Friday, Nov. 11 the Classified Dept. has an early deadline for all Saturday, Nov. 12 publications.

The deadline is 3pm Wednesday, Nov. 9.

Boats, campers, cars, etc. Inside $8/ft. Outside $5/ft. per season. 25 minutes west of Chaska. 320-238-2315

2003 Harley Softtail Deuce Anniversary model.

5500 miles. $13,000. 952-447-4280

Indoor Storage: Boats, RV's, etc. $11/ ft. per season. 612-859-1248 Inside storage at Scott County Fairgrounds.

612-919-1076

Winter Sports 2002 Larson 19' FishNSki, SEI 190, 135 HP Outboard, stored indoors. $11,900.00 or BO, NADA guide suggested $13,945.00, Jon 612-730-8116

2006 Crestliner Lsi Angler 2285. Lots of extras. 60 HP Mercury 4 stroke and dual axle trailer. 763-360-6251

1998 Holiday Rambler Vacationer 36' motorhome, great condition, sleeps 6, 60,000 miles, $31,900 or best offer. Call Gary at 952492-1129.

2001 Camper, 32', 5th wheel 2 slideouts, golfcart, shed $14,500. Excellent condition.

Parked on beautiful wooded lot in Zumbrota, 612-720-8683/ 612-5990184

2004 Harley FXST Softail 24,000 miles. Extras too much to list. Call for details.

REDUCED! $8,300. 952-836-6773

2005 black Yamaha R6, 6,000 miles. Yoshimurd customized exhaust.

With OEM cover & tank bra. $5,500. 952-3610142

Toro 826LE, 2 stage snowblower, $550.

Headlight/ electric start.

Serviced every year.

Call Jack, 952-942-6876

Please call us with any questions about this early deadline:

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Serving Carver/ Scott counties.

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Cars

Cars

1968 T-Bird, 429 automatic, new gas tank, tires, fuel pump, sending unit, brakes. Runs. Needs Restoration.

Asking $1500. 952-448-2015

1976 Classic Cadillac Convertible.

Low mileage. 8 cyl. 440 engine. Complete facts available by calling.

559-435-3751

1972 rare triple black 'Cuda, with high compression 340 HP. 727 slapstick tranny. Posirearend, PS, bucket seats, Recession reduced!! $42,500. 612804-4074

1976 Chevy Nova hatchback, 305 AT, new tires & exhaust. Runs/ drives great, fun car to drive! $3,000/BO. 952447-8169

1987 Oldsmobile Cutlass Cierra, silver edition.

Loaded!

Only 109,000K miles. V-6, 4 door, $1,100/BO. 952426-5657

1989 Volvo 240DL. 118K, AT, CD, New tires, battery, tabs, and more. 4 cyl, price reduced to sell, $1,600.

952-440-2469

Cars

1998 Dodge Stratus, 6 cyl, AT. 156K. $1,500.

952-445-6173

2000 Jaguar XJR. Well maintained. $9700 Silver and black interior, 83,000 miles. Call 612655-6680

2004 Chrysler Sebring LX, champagne gold.

Classy car. 48xxx miles!

Runs great. Grandma's car. $5,100 (below blue book) 952-233-3723

Cars

Cars

2005 Saturn Ion. Blue.

5-spd manual.

Well Maintained. 6-disk CD. Leather interior. Alloy wheels. 112,000k miles $5,200 952-261-9337

2009 Chev Cobalt LT. Purchased/ driven locally, like brand new, 21,000K. Black, Spoiler, PW, PL, Cruise, CD, non-smoker, more! $12,900. 952-215-5421

Trucks

1964 Chevy C20, 350 engine, 350 auto tranny, every bolt, nut, part replaced, or sandblasted and painted. 8K. REDUCED- $12,500. 952913-7808

Trucks

2004 Chevy Silverado Z71 Ext. Cab. 77,XXX perfect cond. Loaded, leather, Bose, 6Disc, Topper and many xtras. $15,700 B/O 612-2030804

Vans

2000 Ford Windstar LX 7 Passenger Van, 133,349 Miles. $1,800.

6 Cyl Engine, Automatic Runs and drives great.

Craig 952-368-9689

Sport Util Vehicles

Trucks 2006 Chrysler Sebring, well-maintained and no longer needed. $9,000 cash. Call for all the details. 952-233-3322

Pontiac Grand Prix 1980 301 Engine, 4.9 Liter, 4 Barrel Overhead, New Fuel Pump, Alternator, Battery Heater, 129500K, $2100. 612418-5159

Quit Idling.

Put your car search in drive!

1993 Ford F150, 4x4, new motor, 35k, lift kit, dual tanks. ARIZONA TRUCK, NO RUST, $6200 OBO, Chanhassen, 505-803-8232

'95 Ford, F-250XLT, 3/4T, 2wd, 5Spd manual, 140k, wood rack, good tires, some rust, new battery, AC, $975, 952-492-2088, 612-2980851

2002 Ford Expedition, original owner, 4.6 liter, A/C, 6CD, third row seat, no accidents, runs, looks very good. $5,700. 952-270-8292

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BUSINESS NEWS

PET OF THE WEEK

Paws & Pals Pet Resort will have its annual Howl-O-Ween open house and pet costume party from 1 to 3:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 29 at 5821 Industrial Lane, Prior Lake.

The free family event is for well-socialized dogs and their people. Cookies, treats and bev-

erages will be provided. Free nail trims will be given with donations. All proceeds will go to the Carver-Scott Humane Society.

A dog costume contest with awards, complimentary pet and people portraits, training tips and door-prize drawings are planned.

For more information, call (952) 447-3644 or visit www.pawsresort.com.

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The volunteer ef fort helps low-income, disabled and elderly homeowners by cleaning and servicing their furnaces. The event also serves as a reminder to homeowners that annual furnace inspections should be

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60MO!

2011 BUICK REGAL 4DR HW Y

HW Y

0%

24,394

*

FOR UP TO

60MO!

29,997*

#16138 4x4, W/All Star Pkg.

0%

$

28,299 60 !

FOR UP TO MO PLUS $1000 DPA

09 CHEVY

11 CHEVY

COLORADO

MALIBU LT

Lt Blue, 17,360 Miles, #5871

20,495

$

HW Y

HW Y

0%

FOR UP TO

60MO!

23,995

$

GM CERTIFIED

60 !

FOR UP TO MO PLUS $1000 DPA

0% financing for 60 mo. in lieu of rebates, financed thru Ally. Rebates incl. in all prices

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10 CHEVY

08 CHEVY

TAHOE LT

Silver, 17,401 Miles, #5845

18,995

$

Slate, 29,777 Miles, #5812

Summit White, 49,234 Miles, #16231A

21,995

$

$

30,995

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09 CHEVY

08 CHEVY

10 CHEVY

SILVERADO

IMPALA LTZ

EQUINOX LT

$

32,495

Black, 48,751 Miles, #5781

Gray, 31,665 Miles, #5858

16,595

$

24,995

$

02 BUICK

01 FORD

05 CHEVY

PARK AVE

RANGER XLT

TAHOE LT

9,695

$

Offroad 4x4, Black, 58,794 Miles, #15786D

Black, 105,868 Miles, #16118A

12,995

15,995

$

$

08 CHRYSLER

04 CHEVY

09 CHEVY

TOWN & COUNTRY

SUBURBAN

SILVERADO HD

Z71 4WD, Black, 111,028 Miles, #15545B

Crew, LTZ 4x4, Diesel, Red, 46,632 Miles, #16168A

26,995

44,999*

19,695

MALIBU LTZ

$

$

Black, 24,361 Miles, #5803

$

G6 2.4

LTD, Silver, 28,399 Miles, #15790A

#16107 Fully Equipped with Leather

0%

Crew LT, Deep Ruby, 31,016 Miles, #15985A

10 PONTIAC

Silver, 62,872 Miles, #16249A

5 2MPG

GM CERTIFIED

11 CHEVY

GM CERTIFIED

*

UP TO

28,498*

GM CERTIFIED

GM CERTIFIED

UP TO

$

LOADED! #16271A

CRUZE LT

60 !

FOR UP TO MO PLUS $1000 DPA

2011 CHEVY SUBURBAN LT 4X4

#15954 4 Dr., GM Deal

MUST SEE!

25,995

$

2011 BUICK LACROSSE V6 CXL 2 3MPG

OVER 100 USED CARS & TRUCKS

$

Crew LT Z71, 4x4, DVD, White, 20581 Miles, #5726C

$

Heart to Heart visitor: Make a special friend with a senior resident by visiting with them weekly. Flexible times. Training provided.

Contact: Cathy at (952) 233-4484.

4x4 One Owner, 48,672 Miles, 4" Lift Kit, Custom Wheels & Much more.

5 2MPG

#16245 Leather

St. Gertrude’s Health and Rehab Center

’06 GMC SIERRA CREW SLE Z71

2011 CHEVY SILVERADO Z71 1/2 TON EXT. CAB LT

6 3MPG

The Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Greater Twin Cities announces its newest program, Big Families, which engages a mentor in a relationship with a young person with a defined supplemental role for the mentor’s family. Contact: (651) 789-2490.

GM 5YR or 100,000 MILE WARRANTY

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Big Brothers Big Sisters

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#16058

UP TO

ities at Kids Kraft programs, the last Saturday of each month. Training provided. Volunteer one, two or more dates. Contact: Kathy at (952) 445-0378 or info@scottcountyhistory.org.

NO WORRIES

7 2MPG

$

Information provided here is offered as a service through this paper in cooperation with the Scott-Carver Association for Volu nt e e r I nvolve m e nt . S AV I work s t o increase the effective use of volunteers to meet community needs throughout the area.

Participation is open to individuals and organizations working in the volunteer sector in both counties.

Administrative assistant: Complete administrative tasks such as mailings, answering phones, greeting visitors and more. Assist visitors in the research library and with public tours, as well as assist with maintenance of museum collections and collections records.

Training provided, flexible schedule.

Event helper: Assist staff with hands-on activ-

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inducted into the Alpha Chi Honors Program, a national col lege honor societ y t hat admits students from all academic disciplines. Membership is limited to the top 10 percent of a college’s juniors and seniors.

VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES

Scott County Historical Society

GREAT DEALS ON REMAINING 2011'S!

#15843

Phi Eta Sigma is the oldest and largest freshman honor society, recognizing students with a cumulative 3.5 gradepoint average who are in the top 20 percent of their class.

He is the son of Jon and Denise Norton. He also was

’06 Jeep Liberty Renegade 4x4

’07 Hyundai Entourage LX $

done to avoid the risk of carbon monoxide poisoning.

This year, 196 volunteers statewide checked and serviced 203 furnaces to make sure they are operating efficiently and safely, and installed smoke detectors or replaced batteries. Area contractors Metropolitan Mechanical and Centraire Inc. donated parts and trucks along with the Minnesota Mechanical Contractors Association, which organized the event.

’07 Saturn Vue V-6 4x4

’03 Chevy Cavalier 4 dr.

4 door, V-6, loaded, quad seats

Cricket

ON CAMPUS

to view a our complete inventory $

have been spayed or neutered.

All kittens under 6 months receive a certificate for a free spay/neuter included in the adoption fee. All cats and kittens come with a welcome pack including free food, blanket, coupons, treats and discounts at Pet Supplies Plus.

This pet is being fostered at Rainbow Animal Rescue in Prior Lake. If you can give a pet a home, call (952) 440-3824, e-mail rainbow.animal.rescue@gmail. com, or visit Pet Supplies Plus in Burnsville from noon to 3 p.m. every Saturday. Pets also can be viewed online at www.petfinder. com (enter zip code 55372).

Local pipefitters help Twin Cities homeowners

www.velishekautosales.com auto, 19,000 1-owner miles, loaded

Cricket was born Jan. 27, 2008. She is a little shy and coy, but she warms up to people very quickly with patience and a quiet home.

In addition to Cricket, Rainbow Animal Rescue has 20-plus kittens and cats ready for adoption, including Siamese, calico, white, Maine coon, tabby, tortoiseshell, orange, black and gray. Kittens have been socialized in homes.

All cats and kittens live in foster homes and are socialized.

They have been vet-checked, feline leukemia/FIV tested negative, and have required shots.

All cats over 6 months of age

14,995

$

$

39,995

10 HONDA

08 JEEP

05 VOLKSWAGEN

ACCORD EX-L

GRAND CHEROKEE

TOUAREG AWD

Navi, Black, 25,577 Miles, #16226A

23,995

$

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Laredo, Steel Blue, 38,033 Miles, #16038A

19,995

$

Gray, 89,692 Miles, #5877

14,995

$

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