Dakota County
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Farmington | Rosemount and the surrounding areas
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March 15, 2018 • Volume 133 • Number 2
Hungry no more
NEWS
Local food shelves’ March goal is to raise $100,000 and 50,000 pounds of food by Jody Peters SUN THISWEEK DAKOTA COUNTY TRIBUNE
Berenz to retire Rosemount-Apple Valley-Eagan School District Superintendent Jane Berenz will retire at the end of the school year. Page 3A
OPINION Planning for the future Joe Nathan says local school districts are making good efforts to help students plan for after high school, but they could do better. Page 4A
THISWEEKEND
It started out like any visit to a food shelf. A hungry boy and his mother stopped by and were helped by volunteers at 360 Communities’ Rosemount Family Resource Center. Volunteers asked the family what kinds of meat they ate and said they could select six packages of meat. But when a volunteer opened the freezer door, the boy burst into tears. His family hadn’t had meat in two weeks. It’s moments like these that make the work so rewarding, according to Photo by Jody Peters Family Resource Center During the month of March, 360 Communities is aiming to collect $100,000 and Director Natalie Schmid50,000 pounds of food. Donations can be dropped off year-round at food shelves like gall. the Farmington Food Shelf (above). “He just couldn’t be-
drug crimes
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Apple Valley author Jeffrey Burton is the next featured speaker during Meet the Author in Rosemount. Page 15A
SPORTS Farmington starts strong The Farmington girls basketball team started fast against Lakeville North, but it was unable to defeat the Panthers in the section final. Page 10A
PUBLIC NOTICE The Dakota County Tribune is an official newspaper of the Rosemount-Apple Valley-Eagan School District. Page 16A
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“Man’s inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn.� That quote was written by the poet Robert Burns, but it’s a sentiment that former FBI agent Daniel Craft can identify with. Craft spent the entirety of this 31 years with the FBI working violent crimes, including serial murders, kidnappings and crimes against children. He was a profiler and a crisis negotiator who negotiated with terrorists overseas, and he was also a case agent on the infamous Jeffrey Dahmer case. Some of the things he’s had to witness disturb Craft to this day. “It still bothers me. I worked 28 murders of children and
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Daniel Craft will use his 31 years of experience as an FBI agent to explore the criminal mind. some of them were horrific and I’ll still have nightmares. The big problem is I see the victims, and you see things you don’t want to see, but you always see them. ‌ The nightmares, things like that, you know, it’s going to be part of me for the rest of my life. I saw man’s inhumanity to man, and it changes See CRIMINAL MIND, 7A
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‘So much more than a running group’ Moms on the Run inspires local women to reach fitness goals by Jody Peters SUN THISWEEK DAKOTA COUNTY TRIBUNE
Deep in the woods of Wisconsin, at 3 in the morning, Erin Edlund was running. It was something she never would have pictured herself doing 10 years ago, but last fall, Edlund and seven other women ran a 24-hour race called Ragnar Trail Northwoods. The day was “unbelievably hot,� with a heat index of over 100 degrees, and the trail was difficult, but the experience was all worth it for Edlund. “It was a tough run for all of us. But we were also all in it together, and we had so much fun, and that is an experience that I will never forget. And because of that, I am now eternally bonded to those seven women that I ran with,� Edlund said. Edlund’s running journey started thanks to a group called Moms on the Run. The group is
statewide, and Edlund first joined the Apple Valley-Rosemount chapter in 2011. After her family moved to Farmington about three years ago, she joined the Farmington chapter and hasn’t looked back since. It’s a year-round group, but the bulk of its runners participate in the 18-week program that runs from April to August, according to Farmington franchise owner Amanda Fernalius. The group accepts runners of all fitness levels, and depending on someone’s experience and goals, they’re typically matched with one of three groups: a fitness locker group, a learn to run group or an accelerated runner group. Typically the Farmington group meets three days a week, and while some have their sights set on running a marathon, some just want some “me time� from being a busy parent. Edlund said she joined after having her first child.
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Erin Edlund and seven other women from Moms on the Run ran a 24-hour race last fall. Edlund said the group has helped her reach goals that she doesn’t think she ever would have achieved otherwise. She was also a busy professional and most of her friends had not yet had children, so she figured she could pick up a healthy hobby while also meeting other moms. “(I) just wanted something that was exclusively
for me. Something that was healthy for me and that could get me out of the house, and that could give me a bit of stress relief,� Edlund said. Soon after joining, Edlund found that there was “no judgment and it was
just fun.� She described it as a positive experience that she might not have gotten if she joined a running group at an athletic club. “I started going and fell See MOMS RUN, 8A
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Rosemount woman Inside the charged with felony criminal mind Former FBI agent Daniel Craft to present by Jody Peters
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lieve that he didn’t have to pay for it. He was like, ‘Mom, we get to take what we want?’ � Schmidgall said. Those types of experiences stick with the families who access the food shelves, Schmidgall said. A lot of families come back to 360 Communities and volunteer once they’re self-sufficient, bringing the service full-circle, she said. One family that gave back had to use 360 Communities’ services for several years. When the family’s 8-year-old child had a birthday party, he said that he didn’t want presents. Instead, he wanted to collect food for the food shelf.