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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 2011
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AN ‘AWESOME HOUSE’ ON HALLOWEEN
Mayor, two councilors to be chosen BY SHANNON FIECKE sfiecke@swpub.com
On Tuesday, Shakopee will elect a mayor for the next two years and two city councilors who will serve four-year terms. Four-term Shakopee Mayor John Schmitt, a retired fi nancial executive, is being challenged by former Shakopee Chamber of Commerce Chairman Brad Tabke, the vice president of sales for a landscaping fi rm and chairman of the city’s parks board. While Schmitt is running on the progress made during his eight years in office, Tabke’s platform is that a new long-term vision is needed for the growing city. Residents have nine candidates to choose from for City Council. Eight participated in last week’s debate sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce at City Hall. The forum can be watched at ci.shakopee.
PHOTO BY SHANNON FIECKE
A comfortable fall evening and spooky display drew a parade of trick-or-treaters — including Rachael Blom and her 1-year-old daughter Avery, dressed as Raggedy Ann — to the home of Lee Ann and Chris Oldsberg on Westwind Avenue on Halloween Monday. “Dang this is an awesome house,” remarked 12-year-old Jacob Manzo, not pictured.
BY KRISTIN HOLTZ kholtz@swpub.com
Shakopee School Board is set to have four new board members come January, and district residents will choose three of them Tuesday. R e g g i e B owe r m a n , Je r e my Casper, Matt McKeand and Angela Tucker are running for three fouryear seats on the School Board. I Bowerman, 46, is associate director in the Office for Technology Commercialization at the University of Minnesota. He’s lived in the community 11 years. I Casper, 31, has lived in Shakopee since 2007. He works in Web development at the University of Minnesota.
BY SHANNON FIECKE Sfiecke@swpubl.com
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Brad Tabke
mn.us and a summary is posted at shakopeenews.com. M at t L eh ma n, a n auto shop owner who has served since 2002, and one-term incumbent Pat Heitzman, an exterminator, are both seeking re-election. Challenging them are city transit advisory board members Premm Badhwa, a measurement technician in the oil industry, and Mark Reimler, a
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Four seek three School Board seats
Commissioners opt to preserve log cabin It appears a 150-year-old log cabin at the Doyle-Kennefick Regional Park will be preserved — it’s just a matter of when and how. Scott County commissioners were weighing last week whether to cover the two-story house with a pole barn or fabric structure, when County Administrator Gary Shelton suggested the county just go ahead with the $142,00 restoration and try to raise funds and manpower over the winter. “I don’t see that as being insurmountable in our current
John Schmitt
ARCHITECTURAL RENDERING
The long-term proposal for the Doyle house is to strip off the stucco and return the log home to its pioneer day glory.
I McKeand, 37, works in human resources for Accenture and has lived in Shakopee 10 years. I Tucker, 36, is an accounting manager with C.H. Robinson in Eden Prairie. She’s lived in the district six years. A fi fth candidate, Angela Bauer Gustafson, will also appear on the ballet. Bauer Gustafson withdrew from the race in September for personal reasons. Residents can cast their ballots from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. at any Shakopee precinct. Savage voters will vote at precinct 5 and 7. District residents in Jackson, Louisville and Sand Creek townships will all vote at
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Laughs aplenty in RVTC play
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iver Valley Theatre Company has done musical. It’s done scary. It’s even done historical. Now the burgeoning community theater group is bringing a new genre to the Shakopee stage: farce. RVTC will perform the madcap screwball comedy “Lend Me a Tenor” Nov. 11-20 at the Shakopee Junior High auditorium. “This is the quintessential farce. It’s always going, and you don’t get a minute to rest,” said actor Patrick Kozicky. “The roller-coaster’s off and you have to be on it.” Set in the 1934, the story takes place in a hotel suite in Cleveland,
when world-famous Italian opera singer Tito Merelli arrives for a onenight-only performance of “Otello.” However, everything goes awry before Tito can take the stage. Bill Marshall of Minneapolis plays the fiery-tempered Tito, a passionate tenor with a wandering eye. “He eats too much. He drinks too much. He likes the fullness of his life,” Marshall said. Marshall, who has an opera background, plays Tito to a perfect pitch, complete with Italian accent and tenuous relationship with his hot-blooded wife, Maria. Katherine Engel plays Maria, who she describes as a stereotypical, jealous Italian. Marshall’s favorite sequence is
when Tito discovers Maria, tired of his dalliances, has left him. Tito crumbles like a little boy. Tito’s sorrow puts him out of commission for his Cleveland debut, which forces the show’s general manager, Saunders, played by Duane Johnson of Savage, and his assistant to conspire a cover for Tito’s absence from his lusty fans. That responsibility lies heavily on the shoulders of Max. Patrick Kozicky of Minneapolis plays the put-upon show assistant, who dreams of his own operatic career. “He’s sort of the juggler and everyone else are the balls. He’s trying to keep them from falling down,” Kozicky said.
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Patrick Kozicky, left, plays Max, an opera company assistant forced to take on the role of the great opera tenor Tito Merelli and manage his star-struck fiancé Maggie, played by Christina Swan, in River Valley Theatre Company’s “Lend Me a Tenor.”
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