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Apple Valley | Rosemount January 4, 2013 | Volume 33 | Number 45

2012: Year in Review

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Bills loses U.S. Senate bid, Branning retires, Gerlach goes from senator to commissioner by Tad Johnson SUN THISWEEK

OPINION Make early voting better The Legislature should approve a change to early voting to make the process better for all. Page 4A

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Politicians from Apple Valley and Rosemount emerged in the spotlight in 2012, garnering statewide attention for their campaigns and their wins or losses. First among them was Rosemount High School teacher and one-term state Rep. Kurt Bills who earned the Republicans’ endorsement to run against U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar in a race where Bills framed himself as the underdog to Klobuchar’s well-funded, poll-dominating campaign.

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Even though Bills lost by a 65.23-30.53 percent margin, he described it as a “winning experience.” “I feel I was a person who was a citizen stepping up to serve and keeping the greater good in mind,” Bills said. “I really hope I helped people learn the difference

between economic virtue and political virtue.” He said if he had it to do over, he would invest more time seeking funding for TV and advertising. “I don’t know if it would have yielded any different results but it would get your name out there,” Bills said. Bills says he is excited to again be a full-time social studies teacher, having taught classes in microeconomics, macroeconomics and American government Photo by T.W. Budig and politics. He taught firsthour economics while serv- Rep. Kurt Bills’ wife, Cindy Bills, cradling a child she cares for in her at-home child care business, listens to her husband See POLITICS, 7A answer a question from the media.

Frozen Apple returns Apple Valley’s free winter concert series is back in 2013 with three performances at the new clubhouse at Valleywood Golf Course. Page 15A

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Mia Noonan, left, and Olivia Owusu kept cool in the shade of their canopy as they watched Apple Valley’s Freedom Days parade. Despite a heat advisory, the parade and other festival events on the Fourth of July were held as scheduled. Above, youths at Family Fun Day during Rosemount Leprechaun Days played one of the many games offered.

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Dolphins, police shooting made headlines by Andrew Miller

UMore mining project advanced

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Eastview girls hockey on track The Eastview girls hockey team doubled its victory total while winning a tournament in Farmington. Page 10A

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A fatal shooting involving a police officer, the departure of the Minnesota Zoo’s dolphin family, and a drunk driving incident with an unlikely vehicle were among Apple Valley’s top headlines in 2012.

Dakota Aggregates to start 40-year operation in 2013

Farewell, dolphins The Minnesota Zoo’s popular dolphin exhibit, which started in 1978, officially came to an end in October with the relocation of the zoo’s two Atlantic bottlenose dolphins to other facilities in different parts of the country. Photo by Andrew Miller Semo, age 48 and the This Pontiac Grand Prix, pinned beneath a downed utility pole June 19 on Pilot Knob Road, oldest male bottlenose was evidence of the raging storm that ripped through Dakota County the previous night, dolphin in human care, resulting in power outages, property damage and downed power lines. Pilot Knob Road was moved to Six Flags between County Roads 42 and 46 was closed much of the day as crews removed more than a Discovery Kingdom in dozen downed utility poles and power lines. California, while Allie, availability of dolphins made acquirage 25, was moved to the Brookfield ing a new pod not an option, zoo diZoo in Illinois. rector Lee Ehmke said. The zoo had to relocate its dolAs for the Discovery Bay building, phins to allow for repairs to its saltThough the zoo had planned all repairs are expected to take at least a water-damaged, 15-year-old Discov- along to permanently move Semo year, during which time the dolphin ery Bay building, zoo officials said. and Allie to other accredited faciliThe zoo held open house events in ties, officials had originally intended tank will remain empty. After repairs are completed, there September for visitors to say goodbye to bring in a new pod of dolphins to See APPLE VALLEY, 6A to the dolphins. Discovery Bay. However, the cost and

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Schools see success, scandal, fewer financial woes by Jessica Harper SUN THISWEEK

The Rosemount-Apple Valley-Eagan School District faced a mixed bag in 2012 — one filled with success, scandal and fewer financial woes. Students in District 196 had numerous accomplishments last year, including exceeding the state average on standardized tests and coming home champions in numerous academic and athletic events. See DISTRICT 196, 16A

Rosemount

by Tad Johnson SUN THISWEEK

Scores of meetings in 2012 led to the Rosemount City Council to approve on Dec. 18 a mining permit for Dakota Aggregates to start in 2013 its projected 40-year operation to mine hundreds of acres on the University of Minnesota-owned UMore Park property. The council unanimously approved the measure, which includes provisions to help ensure that groundwater flowing from the 900-acre area is suitable for drinking water and that concerns about dust, noise and traffic are addressed. Since there is possible contamination in some of the soils, five new groundwater monitors are expected See MINING, 5A

Assisted suicide, crime lab issues raised Courts soon to rule on key cases; County Board reshaped in 2012 by Laura Adelmann SUN THISWEEK

Several headline-grabbing Dakota County court cases in 2012 will be decided in 2013 and may have far-reaching effects. Dakota County Attorney James Backstrom filed a 17-count indictment in May against Final Exit Network and four of its members related to the May 30, 2007, death of Doreen Dunn, 57, of Apple Valley. Dunn suffered years of debilitating pain before she joined Final Exit Network, an assisted suicide group, in January 2007 and allegedly used information from the organization to end her life. Backstrom has charged Jerry Dincin, Lawrence Egbert, Thomas “Ted” Goodwin and Roberta Massey with “advising, encouraging or assisting” in a suicide and interference with a death scene. According to Final Exit Network, their volunteers provide information and are with a person when they end their life, sometimes holding their

Dakota County hands during the “exit” that involves a helium tank and hood. Final Exit Network attorney Robert Rivas said Final Exit Network volunteers never physically assist in the process. Rivas filed a Dec. 18 motion to dismiss Backstrom’s criminal case, citing Minnesota’s law violates constitutional free speech rights by prohibiting “advising” anyone to commit suicide. Disability rights groups have spoken out against the right-to-die movement, citing concerns about the potential for abuse. Judge Karen Asphaug’s ruling will determine whether the criminal case goes forward in 2013.

Crime lab Another legal case in Dakota County quesSee DAKOTA COUNTY, 5A

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Public Safety

Dakota County judge charged with two counts of driving while impaired Michael V. Sovis, a Dakota County District Court judge and an Apple Valley resident, was arrested and charged Dec. 27 with two misdemeanor counts of thirddegree driving while impaired after the Lexus SUV he was driving at about 8 p.m. Dec. 24 allegedly hit five parked cars in the 1200 block of St. Clair Avenue in St.

Paul, according to multiple news reports. According to the criminal complaint, Sovis was cooperative with officers when they arrived and found his vehicle in a snowbank partially off the road with Sovis inside with his wife – both were uninjured and no one else was injured, the Pioneer Press reported.

The complaint said Sovis “had great difficulty” completing field sobriety tests and police stopped the tests out of concern for Sovis’ safety. Sovis, who reportedly needed help standing, told police he had six vodka drinks. He had a bloodalcohol level of 0.29 percent, according to court documents cited

by the Pioneer Press. The legal limit is 0.08 percent. Sovis allegedly hit a parked car before making a U-turn, striking another parked car and accelerating into a snow bank, according to witnesses cited by the Pioneer Press. He was released Christmas morning after posting $12,000

bond, according to jail records cited by the Pioneer Press. Sovis was appointed to the Dakota County District Court in 1998 by Gov. Rudy Perpich and won elections in 1990, 1996, 2002 and 2008. His current term expires in January 2015, according to Minnesota Courts. – Tad Johnson

Eagan woman dies of injuries from holiday crash Officer injured in DWI arrest by Tad Johnson SUN THISWEEK

A 62-year-old Eagan woman died at North Memorial Medical Center two days after a Christmas Day two-vehicle, head-on crash in Chippewa County, according to the Minnesota State Patrol. Janet L. Scoblic died

when the 2006 Saturn Vue she was driving crossed the centerline and struck a 2000 Jeep Cherokee on Highway 59/7 one mile south of Watson, Minn., at about 10:55 a.m. Both people in the Jeep – the driver, Levi E. Windingstad, 26, and David Windingstad, 55, of Morris

– suffered non-life-threatening injuries. The State Patrol reported that Scoblic and Levi E. Windingstad were wearing seat belts and the airbags of the vehicles deployed. It was not reported if David Windingstad was wearing a seat belt. Road conditions on the

blacktop roadway were reported as “dry.” The Chippewa County Sheriff’s Department and Montevideo Ambulance responded to the scene. Tad Johnson can be reached at tad.johnson@ecm-inc.com or facebook.com/sunthisweek.

Lakeville police: Counterfeit currency led to drug bust A man accused taxi passenger using of using counterfake cash at about feit currency to pay 11:55 p.m. Dec. 15 his cab fare ended and spoke with the up receiving a free suspect, 37-year-old ride to the Dakota Billy L. Croon of County Jail courtesy Faribault. of Lakeville police. Billy Croon Police say they Lakeville officers found a small responded to the report of a amount of marijuana, three

Xanax pills and five hypodermic needles in Croon’s glasses case after he was arrested on an outstanding warrant. Croon was charged with one felony count of controlled-substance possession in connection with the Xanax pills.

Croon remained in the Dakota County Jail as of Monday afternoon. His next court appearance is Jan. 8. If convicted of the drug charge, he faces a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a $10,000 fine. —Andrew Miller

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A Rosemount woman to roll the window down, who allegedly told officers and the officer noted a “I’ll kick your ass” as they strong odor of alcohol. The placed her under arrest for officer asked her if she was drunken driving – and then aware why she’d been pulled proceeded to kick one offi- over. cer in the leg, injuring him “I’m intoxicated,” she al– is now facing a fellegedly said. ony assault charge Asked to exit the in district court. vehicle, Heinen Brenda Lynn “could not maintain Heinen, 41, also was her balance and fell charged with two into the officer,” accounts of driving cording to the comwhile impaired folplaint. lowing her Dec. 16 Brenda Lynn Placed under arrest Heinen arrest. and searched, HeinThe criminal en became combatcomplaint gives the follow- ive and stated “I’ll kick your ing account: ass.” As two officers tried to At about 10 p.m. Dec. 16 get her in the squad car, she Rosemount police received kicked one officer in the leg a report of a vehicle “all and attempted to kick the over the road” near the in- other. Visible injury was tersection of County Road noted to one officer’s leg. 42 and Highway 3. A reHeinen has two prior sponding officer observed convictions for DWI, in a minivan – driven by Hein- 2006 and 2009, police said. en – drive up on the curb, If convicted of the asweave in and out of lanes sault charge, she faces a and at one point block traf- maximum of three years fic in the middle of an inter- in prison and a $6,000 section. fine. Each of the two DWI When the officer pulled counts is a gross misdeHeinen over, she began fid- meanor punishable by up to dling with the switches in a year in jail and a $3,000 her vehicle in an attempt to fine. roll down the window, but Heinen’s next court apsucceeded only in continu- pearance is Jan. 8. She really locking and unlocking mained in jail as of Wednesthe driver’s side door. day morning. She eventually was able —Andrew Miller

Family displaced in New Year’s fire in Apple Valley A fire that began in a garage and spread to the adjoining home displaced an Apple Valley family on New Year’s Day. Apple Valley fire crews responded to the report of the fire on the 8100 block of 134th Street just after 2 p.m. Tuesday and spent

about four hours battling the blaze. The family of six that had been living in the home was displaced, as the fire rendered the structure uninhabitable. The cause of the fire has not been determined. —Andrew Miller

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Flying into retirement Burnsville flight attendant logs nearly 46 years by John Gessner SUN THISWEEK

When Kassie Rients became a flight attendant in 1967, her supervisors did pre-flight “girdle checks,” attendants signed contracts to keep their weight down, and job applicants had to show more than initiative. “We had to lift our skirts and walk across the room so the interviewer could see our legs,” said Rients, of Burnsville. “All the airlines did that.” Her nearly 46-year career encompassed a lifetime of social change, from the end of discriminatory work practices to the introduction of emergency biohazard suits on airliners. Rients also learned a nifty trick for cleaning up after sick passengers. But as she completed her last flight for Delta Air Lines – a Dec. 17 round-

tripper between Minneapolis and Los Angeles – Rients focused on good friends and family members, about 30 of whom marked her final arrival with a festive sendoff at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport. “I’m going to miss it terribly, because I love interacting with people,” said Rients, 66, who was greeted with balloons, signs, a pink sash and an honorary wheelchair for disembarking. “I have no regrets,” she said. “It’s just been a wonderful career. I’ve always loved it.” Rients took advantage of a buyout offer from Delta (formerly Northwest), something she’d spurned in the past. Now she wants to relax and travel with her husband, Jerry, 76, who worked as a barber for 56 years. The couple, who have

a blended family of six children, also teach confirmation classes at St. John the Baptist Catholic Church in Savage. “I wanted to make it to 50 years,” she said, “but the buyout was really a nice offer, and a couple funerals changed my mind – two fight attendant friends that died that never really got to (enjoy) their pensions.”

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Raised in Philadelphia, Pa., Rients tried engineering school for a while and was working in a bank when a female colleague told her about her experience as a flight attendant for Northwest Airlines, also known as Northwest Orient. “She had to retire because she got married,” Rients said. “You couldn’t be married, you couldn’t be engaged and you couldn’t have children.” Rients was flown to Minneapolis on a 707 – her first plane ride – to interview with Northwest. She began work two weeks after a new contract with attendants ended the airline’s practice of forced retirement at age 32, Rients said. “That was the norm” in the industry, she said. At 5 foot 9, Rients signed a contract that limited her weight to 138 pounds. “Girls ate baby food to make their weight checks,” she recalled. “You had two weeks to lose it, whatever the amount was. ... We got weight checks twice a year when we had uniform changeovers, or whenever they felt like it. But never for the men.” The onboard “pursers” – the equivalent of today’s flight leaders – were men with little more training than the flight attendants but much bigger paychecks, Rients said. She credits much of the Submitted photo change in airline workplace After completing flight attendant training in 1967, Kassie practices to the employRients, far right, and some fellow trainees visited with Santa ment discrimination case of Claus at Southdale Center in Edina. Mary Pat Laffey vs. North-

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Flight attendant Kassie Rients of Burnsville flew her last flight for Delta Airlines on Dec. 17. She joined the former Northwest Airlines in 1967. west Airlines. The case, ini- sengers’ unfamiliarity with wore hats and gloves, and tiated in 1968, involved a Western toilets were prob- everybody had manners. Northwest flight attendant lems aboard a half dozen Now we wear rubber gloves who was turned down for a refugee flights she worked and take self-defense classpurser’s job, Rients said. after the fall of Saigon in es. It’s a different world.” The case wound through 1975, she said. South VietAfter nearly 46 years of the courts until 1984, and namese refugees were being flying, Rients said she’s No. change began arriving in flown from Guam to a Cali- 10 in seniority among Delthe 1970s, Rients said. fornia Air Force base. ta’s flight attendants at the “They kind of eased up Her training over the Minneapolis-St. Paul hub on the weight checks,” she years covered topics from and No. 90 companywide. said. CPR and basic first aid to “What I loved about it extinguishing fires caused was every day was differTricks of the trade by overheated laptop bat- ent,” Rients said. “Every day was exciting. When you Rients said she’s been teries. Once aboard a DC-10 see two- to four-hundred “thrown up on more times than I can count” and is she helped prepare the pas- people a day, there might unfazed by vomit. Pre- sengers for a landing emer- be something that happens measured coffee bags have gency, but the suspect land- in back of the airplane that ing gear held up and a belly the people in the front didn’t proved invaluable. even know happened.” “If you took the coffee landing was avoided. “But that’s the other One of her most vivid bag and broke it and threw it onto the vomit, then it beauty of flight attendants,” memories is of a panickilled the odor immediate- said Rients, who flew inter- stricken teenage boy telling ly,” she said. “And you kind nationally for more than 20 her the baby boa constrictor of felt you were just scrap- years, mostly to Tokyo. “It’s he’d carried onto the plane a sister- and brotherhood had disappeared from his ing up chunks of coffee.” She recalled one instance that is like no other. ... We pocket. “We did make an anof “chain reaction” air sick- all have the same training, ness when lightning struck and every person who’s ever nouncement to the people,” a 707 she was flying to Chi- been in an emergency has Rients said, noting that a cago. It sounded like an ex- said that it just automati- pocketed snake could never cally kicks in.” board a plane with today’s plosion. Passengers became more heightened gate security. One man’s shirt was so badly soiled she washed it aggressive and demand- “Everyone was looking ing over the years, despite around. And we never did herself, Rients said. “That was before rubber a brief post-9/11 calming, find it.” gloves,” she noted, adding Rients said. Some are so abthat most flight attendants sorbed in their headphones John Gessner can be reached wear them when busing they’re hard to communi- at john.gessner@ecm-inc.com or facebook.com/sunthisweek. cate with. trash. Back in the day, “We Air sickness and pas-

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‘Early voting’ is inferior to what we already have Minnesota Secretary of State Mark Ritchie recently suggested that the state should institute a system of “early voting.” This is an ill-conceived idea. Minnesota has a system of absentee voting, which, with one small legislative change, would be far superior to early voting. Currently, Minnesota law allows absentee voting supposedly only for people who claim one of the following reasons for needing an absentee ballot: • Absence from their precinct on Election Day • Illness or disability • Service as an election judge in another precinct on Election Day • Religious discipline or religious holiday or observance • Eligible emergency declared by the governor or quarantine declared by the federal or state government. Ritchie’s predecessor, Mary Kiffmeyer, heavily promoted absentee voting — especially “in-person” absentee voting at a local election office, which is easier for most people than by-mail absentee voting. In doing so, she emphasized the fact that no one actually checks to see whether voters meet absentee ballot eligibility criteria and the fact that the law requiring an excuse to vote absentee is basically unenforceable.

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Nevertheless, citizens have not necessarily recognized these facts, and, consequently, the current law may be a deterrent to some people, which Ritchie has noted correctly. Yet “early voting” schemes like Ritchie has suggested have major flaws compared to our current absentee voting system. • For one, an early voting system does not allow voters to change their minds after casting their ballots like the current absentee voting system does. Many more voters change their minds than most people recognize — and not just for dramatic reasons such as a U.S. Senate candidate dying in a plane crash a few days before an election, as happened in Minnesota in 2002. Much new information becomes available about candidates in the days just prior to Election Day, and voters should have the right to change their votes based on new information. An early voting system would not allow this: Voters in

such systems are stripped of the right to change their votes, once their votes are cast, because their ballots have already been placed in the ballot box and counted, with no way track them back to the voters. Legislators should be especially dissuaded against coupling an early voting system with the state’s current absentee voting system. There would probably be great distress caused for people who participated in early voting and were later told they could not change their votes while others who voted by absentee ballot were told they could change their votes. • Another downside to early voting systems is that the running vote totals approaching Election Day are knowable and tracked closely by politicos and the media. With all the reports from early-voting states this year, media outlets were basically calling the race for president before Election Day. This is a certain vote suppressor. Some people seeing early vote-total reports and believing their votes won’t matter probably stay home rather than vote on Election Day. • A clear weakness of early voting, if implemented in Minnesota, would be the after-the-fact discovery of some voters’ ineligibility. We already have this problem with our loose Election Day registration

procedures (same-day voter registration with no ID requirement). Expanding the looseness to the weeks of voting prior to Election Day would not be an improvement. In our current absentee voting system, it is possible to verify voters’ eligibility before their ballots are counted until Election Day with all the other ballots. Consequently, a superior legislative reform would be simply to change the law to allow absentee voting without an excuse. This small tweak to the current absentee ballot system would increase the voters’ right to ballot access and preserve their right to election integrity. Kent Kaiser is a professor of communication at Northwestern College in Roseville, Minn., and a senior fellow at the Minneapolis-based think tank Center of the American Experiment. He previously served as communications and voter outreach director for the Office of the Minnesota Secretary of State under Mary Kiffmeyer, a Republican, and Mark Ritchie, a Democrat. This recommendation appears in Center of the American Experiment’s 2009 report “No Longer a National Model: 15 Recommendations for Fixing Minnesota Election Law and Practice.” Columns reflect the opinion of the author.

Schools that work need to share their stories What are the strengths and shortcomings in public education that most need attention in 2013? Students, families, educators and others who read this column in more than 50 communities from Eagan to Elk River and from Little Falls to Farmington will have their own answers. Here are five key areas that I think should be priorities. • How will Minnesotans make greater use of the most effective district and charter public schools, to help other schools and students? Minnesota has public schools that have closed achievement gaps between students of different races and income levels, schools where students save themselves and their families thousands of dollars by earning two-year college degrees before graduating from high school, schools where students are developing a positive sense of hope, as they learn to set goals and persist in working toward them. Will colleges of education use these

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schools to help train the next generation of teachers and administrators? Will the state make use of “succeeding schools” to help others? • Will the Minnesota Legislature revise the state’s funding formula to equalize funding among schools that have and have not been able to obtain taxpayer support for property tax increases? A statewide task force has proposed ways to do this. Their proposals would increase state funding by several hundred million. How will legislators deal with this issue? • How will the Legislature deal with research on the value of high quality, early

childhood education? Studies show that all early childhood education programs are not equally effective. We also know that starting earlier than age 5, and continuing to provide extra help for students from low income and limited English speaking families through third grade, has a major positive impact through at least the late teenage years. But there are many competing lobbies in the early childhood area. Some want all-day kindergarten to be a top priority. Others want to focus on programs that meet just once a week, for two-three hours. Others want to provide more dollars for child care. The 2013 Legislature will face tough questions about priorities here. • Will we find and use strategies to work more effectively with students having special needs? In a survey of more than 40 Minnesota district, charter and union leaders last year, the single most frequently cited priority was the issue of funding for these students.

The federal government has extensive requirements in this area, while providing far less funding than was promised when these rules were adopted. This sets up many frustrating conflicts between families and schools. • Finally, how will foundations, the Legislature and community groups encourage the development of new, innovative and potentially more effective schools? One of the keys to growth in America has been our willingness to encourage innovation. Consider medical advances, cell phones, computers, and cars, as just a few examples. Thanks to readers, and responses welcome. I wish each of you a healthy, fulfilling 2013. Joe Nathan directs the Center for School Change. Reactions welcome, joe@centerforschoolchange.org. Columns reflect the opinion of the author.

Letters For our prosperity, repay schools To the editor: The recent opinion piece by Lisa Snyder, superintendent of Lakeville schools, was very encouraging. Her willingness to investigate new technologies to support excellence in students’ education, and her desire to partner with higher education and business is a bit of what has worked for the benefit of students over the last several years. Snyder’s call for pursuit of new pathways to excellence, potentially involving all members of the public, is inherently appealing, and potentially very powerful. Her remarks about the lack of financial sustainability of public education, the increased class sizes, the decreased educational choices, points to a scrimping and Scrooge-like policy in government that has hurt our state and most telling, our young people themselves. Certainly, it would seem prudent to look for “other ways” for students to pursue excellence. And the brazen “borrowing” of billions of dollars from the state’s education budget last year, with

little or no intent to find ways to repay the theft, is prominent in what Snyder discusses, by its absence. As legislators come to the Capitol in St. Paul to be sworn in, it might be clear there is a mandate to feed the goose that lays golden eggs for Minnesota. We must heed the researchers who say we need to invest in education, that that kind of investment comes back to us many-fold, and that to create economic uncertainty for schools is not best in the long-run for the places that train our young people, our legacy. The technological innovation called for by Snyder is valuable, and the money to implement it and continue innovating is what is crucial for the future of the metro area and the state.

PAUL HOFFINGER Eagan

Kline is owed an apology To the editor: Joe Niedermayr’s letter to the editor, “A look in the mirror” on Dec. 28 (Sun Thisweek), is one of the most outrageous letters I have ever read. He tries to link the Con-

necticut shooting to U.S. Rep. John Kline at the end of letter as if the congressman was responsible for what happened. Niedermayr cites the far left-wing newspaper founded in 1945 German Suddeutsche Zeitung to attack the possession of firearms in America. This German newspaper should not be lecturing Americans about firearms after Hitler slaughtered millions of the Jewish men, women and children in Germany. Jews in Germany had no way to protect their families when their firearms were confiscated by Hitler. This made it very easy to round them up and send them to the death camps and gas chambers. An off-duty deputy in San Antonio, Texas, shot a deranged man who was going to shoot up a theater. Cases like this don’t get reported by the mainstream press as well as armed persons who stop an attack without firing a weapon. Marlboro, N.J., is putting armed guards in schools and perhaps this is part of the answer. Kline has a stellar military record and carried the nuclear football for Presidents Carter and Reagan.

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citizens, thanks to the misplaced generosity of these cuts, supported by Kline. My point is, Kline might advocate for federally funding the special education which Congress has mandated for our schools. Schools now, and have been hard pressed to pay for this program, and our increased property taxes show it. The representative actually chairs a committee on education. Likewise, he might consider supporting programs like food stamps, child care and other programs that help thousands of lower-income families in his district stay alive. These programs are slated to be cut in the name of reduced federal spending, while wealthy citizens are given a free pass to avoid paying the kind of rate you and I pay. Kline should consider closing tax loopholes and ending tax breaks for these wealthiest in our society as a part of any deficit reduction package. He should avoid reducing our deficit on the backs of those constituents who make less money than most of us.

To the editor: I believe the response concerning a letter I sent several weeks ago distorts what I said enough to require a clarification. I don’t think it was a bad thing for U.S. Rep. John Kline to advocate donations to the Marine Corps’ program for Toys for Tots. I also have Marine connections. I do suggest his supposed generosity is misplaced when he supports cuts to programs that permit lowincome people to survive, when he also supports continued generous cuts in taxes for the wealthiest Americans. Contrary to what the recent letter said, the top 2 percent do not pay 90 percent of taxes; in fact, they pay a lower rate of tax than BETTY FEDDE middle and low-income Eagan

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erich’s ruling, expected in early 2013, will only apply to the cases remaining in the hearing, but could prompt post-conviction appeals and raise questions regarding the lab’s evidence handling in other drug cases.

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Dakota County Board of Commissioners will add two new but experienced members to its ranks in 2013. Chris Gerlach, Apple Valley, and Mike Slavik, Hastings, will join the Dakota County Board of Commissioners after each handily won contested races to fill open seats left by longtime incumbents Joe Harris and Will Branning. Slavik will step down from his seat as a Hastings City Council member to make the move. The remaining two years of Slavik’s second term on the Hastings City Council will be filled by an appointment Laura Adelmann is at laura. process. adelmann@ecm-inc.com or Gerlach, of Apple Val- facebook.com/sunthisweek. ley, is a former Minnesota taminated soils won’t be unearthed during the operation, which will include a dry- and wet-mining phase that will dig as close to an edge of the Prairie du Chien aquifer – the underground body of water that supplies drinking water to a host of communities. The monitoring is focused on high levels of concentrations of bacteria, pH, chloride, iron and manganese, according to Zweber. The city says a water treatment plant would not be needed as a result of the mining operation as has been rumored. Council Member Jeff Weisensel brought up that issue since he had heard some residents were told a $100 million plant would be needed. That the city of Rosemount would need a treatment plant as a result of the mining is a complete absurdity, Weisensel said. Dakota County reiterated in its comments that it will enforce its ordinances with regard to the treatment of contaminated soils. Dakota Aggregates said it will follow all applicable rules in managing soils. During the December approval, the company applied for not only a permit for a 40-year mining operation, but will have annual operation permits considered. The first permit is for Sub-phase 1A, which will occur in the southern edge of the property where aggregate processing machines will be located. No more than 80 acres can be mined at one time in two of the four zones on

the property, which Zweber said is far fewer acres than have been mined in other Dakota County mining operations. The city also has the ability to have the operation shut down the mining when high wind advisories are posted.

Bigger picture The big picture of the approval is that the mining operation is the first step toward the University of Minnesota’s plan to build a sustainable community of housing, public spaces and commercial properties. The ultimate vision is for the property to be a place where 20,000 to 30,000 residents could live. Because the property has what has been called very high quality material for aggregate processing, the university is working with Dakota Aggregates to raise some revenue for its planning process. “This is really a means to an end,” said Community Development Director Kim Lindquist. She said this is setting the framework for future development, and the city will realize the economic benefits of the project. Council Member Mark DeBettignies called the project a win-win for all those involved. Council Member Kim Shoe-Corrigan said the council realizes the weight of the decision as it would affect future councils and shape the future of the city.

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Eric Werner, the new ple care about being here because they care chief of police in about the commuRosemount, says the nity.” strength of the deHe said the departpartment is that the ment has the atmopeople who work sphere of a family there care about each as people care about other and the comeach other, too. munity. That caring attiThough there are Eric Werner tude is the foundamany stories to illustrate this dedication, Werner tion upon which Werner will tells of one officer who on build the department as he his own initiative checked looks ahead to 2013. “Everything has gone on a family on two separate days after the officer had very well,” Werner said from responded to the family’s his office on the morning of house to assist them when a New Year’s Eve. That new year will infamily member had died. The family was so im- clude talking to his departpressed by the officer’s ment about a list of pricounseling on the day of his orities that emerged from first contact and his caring individual conversations he attitude afterward that they had with every employee wanted to express their grat- since he took the post Sept. 14. itude. Those conversations also “We have fantastic people who work here,” Werner said helped Werner, a Rosemount of the blend of young and resident prior to his hiring, experienced officers. “Peo- determine what the depart-

could c be improved and why people liked working for the department. That input, coupled with a review of crime statistics from the past year and changing demographics, will help shape areas of emphasis for the department. Among the areas might be preventing domestic abuse, cutting down on illegal drug use and communicating with diverse communities. All of these issues Werner dealt with in greater degree during his time with the Burnsville department where he was a captain for the past eight years. His experience will help inform decisions made as Rosemount’s population grows and changes. He said in addressing diversity, officers need to learn about cultural differences and how that relates See WERNER, 8A

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dren – a 5-year-old girl and a 4-year-old boy – were placed in protective custody as Woldemariam’s relatives worked with social services to obtain custody of the children.

will likely be a temporary exhibit of rays and fish in Discovery Bay until a larger exhibit can be funded and built.

Officer cleared in fatal shooting A Dakota County grand jury concluded in June that an Apple Valley police officer was legally justified when he used deadly force in shooting a 48-year-old Apple Valley man when responding to a domestic disturbance April 29. The officer, Tommie Booth, shot 48-year-old Carl Anthony Tatum, after Tatum fired two shots at Booth inside an Apple Valley townhome, according to the investigation report by the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension. According to the investigation report: Booth and Officer Tara Becker were responding to a 911 call made by an Apple Valley woman who reported she was the victim of domestic strangulation. Upon arrival at the townhome complex on the 13900 block of Herald Court, Becker spoke with the female victim in her car outside the townhome and Booth spoke with Tatum, at first inside the townhome and then on the front steps outside. After consulting with each other, the officers concluded there was probable cause to arrest Tatum; Booth informed Tatum he was under arrest for domestic assault, and at that point, Tatum ran back into the home, up a flight of stairs and into the living room. Both officers gave chase, and when Booth arrived at the top of the stairs he encountered Tatum armed with a handgun. Tatum fired at Booth, and Booth fired back, striking him six times. Officers began CPR and attempted to control

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Former Minnesota Zoo dolphin Allie, back right, swims with the other dolphins at her new home at the Brookfield Zoo in Illinois. The Minnesota Zoo’s popular dolphin exhibit, started in 1978, came to an end in October with the zoo relocating its two Atlantic bottlenose dolphins – Allie and Semo – to other facilities in different parts of the country. the bleeding as paramedics were en route. Tatum was taken by ambulance to Regions Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. “Both Officers Tommie Booth and Tara Becker acted decisively and professionally in all aspects of the actions they took during this incident,” Dakota County Attorney James Backstrom said in June. “Both of these officers should be commended for their heroic actions in this traumatic incident which tragically, but justifiably, resulted in the death of Carl Tatum.” An officer shooting that results in a death is reviewed by a grand jury, according to a long-standing policy of the Dakota County Attorney’s Office.

Zamboni DWI It’s not often a DWI arrest makes national news, but “news of the weird” Internet sites were abuzz after a January drunk driving arrest at Apple Valley’s Hayes Arena. Joel Bruss, 34, was charged with four counts of driving while impaired after he reportedly operated the Zamboni while drunk at a youth hockey event on Jan.

30. Parents at the city-run arena contacted police during the peewee hockey game to report that the Zamboni operator was driving erratically and appeared to be intoxicated. When officers arrived on the scene, they observed Bruss struggling to maneuver the Zamboni, as he’d gotten the ice-resurfacing machine stuck half on and half off the ice. Police, noting a strong odor of alcohol, performed field sobriety tests and arrested Bruss for DWI. His blood-alcohol concentration was 0.32, four times the legal limit for driving, according to the criminal complaint. Bruss resigned from his part-time job as arena building supervisor with the city of Apple Valley shortly after the incident.

New police chief Jon Rechtzigel, a 25-year veteran of Apple Valley’s Police Department, was named city police chief in July. Rechtzigel, who began his law enforcement career as a patrol officer in Apple Valley in 1987, had been serving as interim police chief following the retire-

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Five-year-old Paige Fortman displayed one of the myriad fish she caught from the dock at Lac Lavon Park during the Kids Fishing Derby held July 2 as part of Apple Valley’s sixday Freedom Days festival. ment of longtime Chief Scott Johnson, who retired in December 2011. He had some competition for the job. The city received 39 applications; along with Rechtzigel, the list of four finalists included Shaun LaDue, former Owatonna police chief; Jeffrey McCormick, Cannon Falls police chief; and Eric Werner, then a Burnsville police captain who in August was appointed Rosemount police chief.

Tragedy strikes Tragedy struck an Apple Valley apartment complex in July with the shooting deaths of an estranged husband and wife. According to police, 41-year-old Woynshet Woldemariam was shot by her estranged husband, Anteneh Tsegaye of Eagan, in the parking lot outside the South Cedar Knolls apartment complex the morning of Saturday, July 14. Tse-

gaye then turned the gun on himself. Both had died by the time police arrived. A shotgun was located near the bodies. The deaths marked the dark final chapter in the couple’s troubled, often abusive relationship. Prior to the fatal shootings, police had responded to domesticdispute calls involving the couple, who were married in 2007 but had not been living together. Woldemariam, an Ethiopian immigrant and naturalized citizen who worked as a nurse, had been arrested for hitting Tsegaye and was convicted on domestic abuse charges. However, in June 2010 a district judge awarded custody of the couple’s two children to Woldemariam, noting that she was the victim of ongoing emotional, physical and sexual abuse. Following the shooting, the couple’s two chil-

A fire ravaged an Apple Valley condominium complex in December, injuring two people – including a firefighter – and displacing seven residents. Eight units were rendered uninhabitable in the Dec. 7 four-alarm fire at the Valley Way Village condos just northeast of the County Road 42-Pilot Knob Road intersection. An adult male resident of the condos was hospitalized for burns and smoke inhalation, and an Apple Valley firefighter suffered non-life threatening injuries after getting caught under a ceiling that caved in. The injured firefighter was back on duty the following week. The Red Cross assisted with recovery efforts for the seven residents whose units were destroyed.

New clubhouse Valleywood Golf Course saw the opening of its new clubhouse this fall after about a year of construction. The $3.2 million facility boasts a pro shop, bar and grill, and a main dining room with seating for about 150 people. The city-run golf course’s old clubhouse, which was built in 1980 and had been showing structural defects, was demolished. A ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new facility was held Sept. 27. This winter the clubhouse will play host to the Frozen Apple, a community concert series sponsored by the Apple Valley Arts Foundation. Andrew Miller can be reached at andrew.miller@ecm-inc.com or facebook.com/sunthisweek.

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Willsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; rise to the House is not unlike that of her cohort in District 57. Tara Mack, also an Apple Valley resident and former legislative aide, won reelection to her second term by defeating DFLer Roberta Gibbons, an Apple Valley resident, past political and school volunteer who works in the insurance industry. Mack, whose new district subtracted a portion of Burnsville and added a portion of Lakeville â&#x20AC;&#x201C; emerged with nearly the same margin of victory, too, 6.9 percent â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 11,420 to 9,941. While it is no surprise that the House districts were captured by Republicans â&#x20AC;&#x201C; the seats have been mostly held by the GOP in past decades with some DFL wins only in recent years â&#x20AC;&#x201C; former Rosemount High School principal and Apple Valley resident Greg Clausen became only the third member of the DFL Party to serve a Senate district that covers Apple Valley and/or Rosemount since 1967 and the first in 23 years. Clausen, who is employed part-time by District

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196 writing grants â&#x20AC;&#x201C; attributed his win over Pat Hall, an Apple Valley pastor and former businessman, to a lot of door knocking and expressing to voters that he would work in a bipartisan manner in the Senate. â&#x20AC;&#x153;That was a concern of a lot of people out there,â&#x20AC;? he said not long after leaving an election night gathering in Rosemount. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They see the gridlock happening and a lack of compromise.â&#x20AC;? Clausenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s margin of victory 54.0 to 45.7 percent (23,890-20,199) is possible evidence of that show of bipartisanship considering that both House districts in 57 went for Republicans by a 6 percent margin. The last DFLer to serve the Senate for Apple Valley or Rosemount was Darril Wegscheid of Apple Valley (1983-89) when the district was comprised of Apple Valley, Rosemount, Farmington, Hastings and townships in Dakota County to the south and east. The other DFLer was the first known Hispanic to serve in the Legislature, according to Senate archives. Conrad M. Vega, a so-

cial studies teacher at Lakeville High School, served Rosemount from 1977-82 when the Senate district didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t include Apple Valley but instead encompassed Hastings, Inver Grove Heights and South St. Paul where Vega resided. Clausenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s win helped swing the power of the Senate to the DFL on a night when Democrats also captured the House. There were four other DFL wins in legislative races in the Sun Thisweek coverage area. Previously all 12 of those seats were held by Republicans.

Gerlach and the County Board Clausen won former Sen. Chris Gerlachâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Senate seat, which he had held since 2004. Gerlach announced in March he would not seek re-election so he could spend more time with this family and two young sons and concentrate on his business â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Eagan-based Capitol Direct, a direct mail company. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to be an

absent father,â&#x20AC;? said Gerlach who also served in the House for six years. Gerlach said two months later that he would run for the vacancy on the Dakota County Board after Willis Branning, 74, announced his retirement on May 8. Branning had served as commissioner since he was elected in 1997, in addition to being an Apple Valley City Council member (1969-75 and 1980-84) and mayor (1976-77, 1985-90 and 1992-96). â&#x20AC;&#x153;I need some time to get up and go to breakfast with my wife,â&#x20AC;? said Branning, a former mechanical engineer with Univac. He endorsed Apple Valley Mayor Mary HamannRoland for the District 7 seat, but that was about a week before Gerlach jumped into the ring. â&#x20AC;&#x153;While I am ready to retire from the high level of intensity and partisan politics of St. Paul, I am not ready to end my service and relationship with the people of Apple Valley and Rosemount,â&#x20AC;? Gerlach said at the time. Hamann-Roland later

dropped out of the race, and Gerlach ended up facing Vicki Swanson of Apple Valley in the general election. Gerlach won the election by 20 percentage points â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 15,625 to 10,300 votes.

Notes Remember this? Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum won the Republican presidential candidate preference ballot in February. He far outpaced his closest rival â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Ron Paul â&#x20AC;&#x201C; earning 45 percent of votes to Paulâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 27 percent. Eventual Republican nominee Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney was a distant third with 17 percent. It wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be the last time Romney would lose in Minnesota. He lost the state in the general election to President Barack Obama â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 52.6 to 44.9 percent â&#x20AC;&#x201C; on a night when Obama was reelected to a second term. Tad Johnson can be reached at tad.johnson@ecm-inc.com or facebook.com/sunthisweek.

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Commit to fitness in the new year BY ROXI REJALI CONTRIBUTING WRITER Do you remember last New Yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Eve? Toasting the New Year with a bubbly beverage, you vowed to shed a few pounds and exercise more. It didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t happen. Despite your best intentions, the gym membership card stayed tucked in your wallet and the pounds crept on. Why is it so hard to keep those resolutions? Eating less and exercising more can help dieters lose weight, but they often gain it back. New research suggests that psychology may hold the key to longterm success. A recent study found that the most effective way to help overweight and obese people lose weight was by combining diet and exercise with behavioral or cognitive-behavioral thera-

pies. Subjects who used diet, exercise and behavioral therapy lost significantly more weight than those who used diet and exercise alone. The 2009 study by the Cochrane Review analyzed the results of 36 research studies on the topic. Fitness canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be achieved with a simplistic formula, said Justin Anderson, a licensed psychologist specializing in sport psychology. As co-owner of Premier Sport Psychology in St. Paul, his clients include the University of Minnesota Athletic Department as well as amateur athletes. He believes that many of the techniques he uses with his athlete clients can work with non-athletes who want to reach fitness or weight-loss goals. To clarify their motivators, he helps clients create a list of pros and cons of reaching their

goals. Anderson urges clients to make a mental commitment to their goals. For the first month, focus on working out at a gym or at home two or three times a week, he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re getting a routine started, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re putting in some effort,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to lead to greater success down the road.â&#x20AC;? As you continue a fitness plan, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll build confidence, and truly believe that you can reach your goals. If you miss a few workouts, be kind to yourself. Realize that there may be setbacks, and when you can, restart your routine. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Life gets in the way,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think so many people are all-ornothing, black-or-white and I think that type of thing can hurt exercise adherence.â&#x20AC;? One of the biggest hurdles for exercisers is taking on too much at

one time, said Anne Hanson, head fitness trainer at Anytime Fitness in Lakeville. Many try to undo a lifetime of habits with their first few trips to the gym. When they donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t see immediate results, they may get discouraged and quit. A trainer can tailor a fitness program to the clientâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s goals, she said. After testing to pinpoint injuries and muscle imbalances that could be aggravated by exercise, trainers can help clients develop a safe and realistic exercise plan. Clients choose their own goals, but theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re more likely to succeed if they choose smaller, attainable goals, Hanson said. For example, a client who wants to lose 50 pounds might want to hit the gym twice a week or drink more water to stay hydrated. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We want to continue to be able to see those small achievements, be-

cause from all those small achievements is whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to bring you to that big end result,â&#x20AC;? she said. Creating good habits is the key to maintaining a healthy diet, said licensed nutritionist Darlene Kvist. Weight loss may be the reason for dieters to start a healthy eating plan, but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not why theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll stay on it, said Kvist, owner of Nutritional Weight and Wellness in Lakeville, St. Paul, Wayzata, North Oaks and Maple Grove. Classes and individual counseling sessions help clients understand the connection between their diet and how they feel. Establishing healthy eating habits may take two to three years, but clients are motivated when they begin to feel better with less depression, more energy or fewer aches and pains. Kvist recommends a balanced diet concen-

trating on vegetables, fruits and lean protein like eggs and chicken breast, and avoiding processed carbohydrates like pasta, bagels and breakfast cereals. Processed foods create inflammation in the body and cause cravings for more carbohydrates by creating fluctuating blood sugar levels, she said. Following through on commitments to yourself to be healthy with exercise and good nutrition is one way to keep New Yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s resolutions, said Anne Hanson of Anytime Fitness. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Maintaining that commitment to yourself is not something you should feel guilty about,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not selfish at all. In fact, taking better care of yourself helps make you a better person for whatever role you may be in.â&#x20AC;?

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Lightning finally rewarded for effort Holiday tourneys

keep local teams busy

Girls skaters sweep three games at Farmington tourney by Mike Shaughnessy SUN THISWEEK

Former NFL coach Bill Parcells once was quoted as saying, “You are what your record says you are.” Herb Harvey wasn’t convinced that applied to his Eastview girls hockey team, which took a 3-9-1 record into the holiday break. Harvey said he believed the Lightning was much better than its record. The question was when – or if – the team would prove it. Last week Eastview (6-91) doubled its victory total in three days by winning the Louis Schmitz Holiday Classic in Farmington. It wasn’t so much that the Lightning raised its level of play, Harvey said, it was that the team finally got rewarded for playing the way it has all season. “It wasn’t anything different, really,” Harvey said following the Lightning’s 7-0 victory over Park of Cottage Grove in Saturday’s tournament championship game. “The girls knew and the coaches knew we were a solid team. It was just a matter of time.” Eastview, which allowed 43 goals in its first 13 games, was stingy on defense during the Farmington tournament. The Lightning defeated Shakopee 4-2 in the first round and edged Hastings 2-1 in overtime in the semifinals before shutting out Park. Six of Eastview’s nine losses were by one goal. Three of them were overtime games. But the first period against Park signaled that the Lightning’s fortunes might be turning. With Eastview leading 1-0, the defense and goalie Courtney Companion had to withstand major pressure during a Park power play. With the penalty time about to expire, a Park player fanned on a pass. That allowed the Lightning to forward the puck to Lindsay Koplitz, who had just come out of the penalty box. Koplitz got a breakaway and although her shot was stopped, Brie Zemian knocked in the rebound. Instead of a 1-1 game, it was 2-0. Barely two minutes later, Erika Geary scored to make it 3-0. “That made it a completely different game,” Harvey said. “When we scored again to make it 3-0, it put them on their heels and gave us a chance to play with a lead.” Junior forward Ellie Cardinal had two goals and an assist in the championship

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The girls basketball team won three games at the St. Olaf Invitational to remain undefeated at 11-0. South Suburban Conference rivals Eagan and Lakeville North also played at St. Olaf, but the Lightning did not face either of those teams. Eastview’s closest game was a 76-40 victory over Holy Family Catholic in the final round Saturday. Madison Guebert (26 points), Mikaela Wilson (15) and Tyra Johnson (14) were the Lightning’s leading scorers. Eastview, ranked second in Class 4A, played third-ranked Bloomington Kennedy in an SSC game Wednesday night. The Lightning will play at Apple Valley at 6 p.m. Friday in the first game of a girlsboys varsity doubleheader. The wrestling team was sixth in its division and 11th overall of 53 teams at the Bi-State Invitational in La Crosse, Wis. Three Lightning wrestlers were placewinners and seven made it to the second-day of the tournament, meaning they were among the top 16 in their weight classes. Jacob Rukavina (15-2), George Farmah (17-3) and Anthony Munos (16-3) have the team’s best individual records. Nick Pegelow and Casey Dravis also have more than 10 victories each.

Eastview at 7:45 p.m. Friday in the second game of a girls-boys varsity doubleheader at Apple Valley High School. On Saturday, the Eagles will play Robbinsdale Cooper in the Timberwolves Shootout at Target Center. The girls basketball team finished second in the Rochester Rotary Classic, losing to Providence Academy 45-33 in the championship game. Providence Academy is the No. 1-ranked team in Class 2A. Apple Valley had a 45-44 victory over Chaska, ranked fourth in Class 4A, in the semifinals. Jaryn Pipkins had 10 points and Taylor Dagon nine rebounds in that game. The Eagles (6-4) will play undefeated and secondranked Eastview at home at 6 p.m. Friday. A match between Apple Valley and St. MichaelAlbertville, the top two teams in the state Class 3A wrestling rankings, didn’t happen at last week’s Clash Duals in Rochester because they wound up in different brackets for the tournament’s second day. Apple Valley went 3-3 in the tournament. The Eagles were the fourth-place team in the second bracket, which equates to eighth place overall. St. Michael-Albertville reached the championship bracket and won in a tiebreaker over Montini Catholic of Illinois and Brandon, Fla. Ninth-grader Mark Hall remained undefeated by winning all six of his matches at 152 pounds. He had five pins and one major decision.

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The boys basketball team continued to play without Tyus Jones but won both of its games at the Granite City Classic in St. Cloud. Dustin Fronk scored a game-high 33 points as the Eagles (6-1) beat defending Class 4A champion Osseo 74-71 on Saturday. Fronk had 18 points, leading four players in double figures, in an 84-56 victory over St. Cloud Tech on Friday. Jones sat out both games because of a lingering back injury. Robert Tobroxen and Chris Laymon had 13 points each against St. Cloud Tech, and Dennis Austin scored 12. Apple Valley plays

The wrestling team tied for 23rd place at the Rumble on the Red tournament in Fargo, N.D. Rosemount had one topeight finisher in the tournament – Sam Moeller, who finished seventh at 182 pounds. Moeller was 4-2 in the event, with one of the losses coming against the eventual weight-class champion. The girls basketball team went 2-0 in the Grand Rapids Invitational, defeating the host school 79-54 in the first round and beating Duluth Denfeld 64-59 the second day. Hannah Grim and

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Many local high school teams kept busy during the break by playing in tournaments. Following are some highlights of last week’s action:

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Liz Palmi (13), top, of Eastview tries to spin away from a Park of Cottage Grove defender during the championship game of the Louis Schmitz Holiday Classic in Farmington. Eastview players, right, celebrate after scoring in the second period of their 7-0 victory over Park of Cottage Grove in the championship game of the Louis Schmitz Holiday Classic girls hockey tournament in Farmington.

game, and Natalie Snodgrass scored twice. Koplitz scored with eight seconds remaining in the overtime period to win the game against Hastings. If the overtime ended with the game still tied, the teams would have gone to a shootout to determine who advanced to the championship game. Snodgrass, who was named the Farmington tournament MVP, had two goals and an assist in the first-round victory over Shakopee. Companion, Snodgrass and defender Taylor Tvedt were named all-tournament. Snodgrass, a sophomore forward, leads Eastview with 19 points (10 goals, nine assists). Four players have at least five goals and 12 players have at least one. “It’s a hard-working team, and we don’t rely on just one or two players,” Harvey said. “In most situ-

ations, we can play three lines.” Eastview’s rough start knocked it out of contention for the South Suburban Conference title; the Lightning was 1-7 in the league when it resumed SSC play at Bloomington Jefferson on Thursday. Now the team will try to be a force in the section playoffs that take place in February. “It was frustrating because we had three wins going into the (Farmington)

tournament and we could easily have had seven or more,” Harvey said. “We have to keep playing the way we have been and hope the bounces start going our way. I know these girls will give it 100 percent.” Two other South Suburban teams played in the Farmington tournament. Apple Valley (9-6) won the consolation championship game 7-2 over Shakopee. The Eagles lost to Park 5-3 See EASTVIEW, 11A

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There’s no stopping Wildcats gymnast Despite being born without part of her left foot, Katelyn McGowan has a daredevil streak by Mike Shaughnessy SUN THISWEEK

One day at a local gymnastics club, the coaches brought everyone together to talk about the girl with no toes on her left foot. “They said, ‘This is Katelyn. Everyone look at her foot,’ ” said Mike McGowan, whose daughter was the subject of the meeting. “If you want to ask any questions, do it now. She’s been here doing everything all the other girls can do.” With that, everyone – including Katelyn – went back to practice. Born without a portion of her left foot, she long ago accepted it as a fact of life. But it’s a curiosity to others, especially when they find out that it didn’t prevent her from becoming an athlete. The Eagan High School junior tried multiple sports before settling on gymnastics and pole vault. Choosing those two reveals a bit of a daredevil streak. When she was about 6 years old, Katelyn and her father went hiking in Interstate Park, on the Wisconsin side of the St. Croix River. Katelyn saw some people diving into the river from a cliff and asked her

father if she could do it. Cliff diving is against park rules, so the answer was no. But it didn’t surprise her father that she wanted to try it because Mike McGowan describes Katelyn as “totally, totally fearless.” Katelyn is in her fifth season on the Eagan gymnastics team. She competes mostly on the junior varsity but has taken some varsity turns on the balance beam. “My parents always put me in sports. They didn’t say I wouldn’t be able to do it,” she said at a recent gymnastics practice. “When I was younger I knew my foot was different, but it never really occurred to me to stop because I’d been able to do everything else in my life normally. Might as well keep going.” She did youth soccer, basketball and softball and started taking gymnastics classes at age 4, first at Gleason’s in Eagan, later at Thompson Academy of Gymnastics South in Apple Valley. She did not compete at the club level but by seventh grade was ready to give high school gymnastics a try and joined Eagan’s program. Eagan coach Shelly

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Katelyn McGowan (left) warms up before a recent Eagan gymnastics practice. Eklund had Katelyn make her debut on junior varsity balance beam, which might seem a strange choice for someone with a physical limitation that could affect her balance. Eklund recalls Joy McGowan, Katelyn’s mother, as not being particularly happy that her daughter’s first high school event was the beam. “My mom brings it up all the time,” Katelyn said. “I was actually surprised it was my first event because the beam is a little harder.”

“I don’t think I was upset as much as I was surprised,” Joy McGowan said. “And I was probably nervous for her, a little apprehensive. But she did it, and she didn’t fall. I was very proud of her, as I have been all the way through.” The McGowans say Katelyn’s doctors don’t know why she wasn’t born with a fully formed left foot. She still visits an orthopedist regularly, with the goal to make sure she can live her life with as few restric-

tions as possible. She’s had an operation intended to ensure that both legs remain the same length. Mike McGowan said Katelyn has grown faster than her doctors anticipated and now is the tallest gymnast on Eagan’s team. “My mom said I was basically normal with everything. She said I was walking at the same time as anybody else,” Katelyn said. “The memory I have that I knew I was different is, I was playing with a couple of my friends – I was 3 at the time – and they asked my dad what was wrong with my foot. He said, ‘Oh, she was just born different.’ All my friends were fine with it.” Asked if she considers the foot a hindrance in any way, Katelyn said, smiling, “besides not being able to wear the latest fashion in shoes, nothing big, nothing major.” Athletically, however, it certainly doesn’t help. “I do pole vault, so it’s like sprinting,” she said. “It’s a little harder to sprint when I don’t have anything to push off of. It’s a little harder on beam because there’s less to hold on to.

Other than that, it’s not a huge deal. “I have had some coaches say I don’t run very fast. I don’t know if that’s because of my foot or because I’m just not a runner.” Katelyn cleared 8 feet, 6 inches in the pole vault at the Section 3AA track and field meet in May. She’s hoping to vault 9 feet by early next season and possibly 9-6 by the next section meet. In gymnastics, she said she wants to be a regular varsity participant on beam and improve her skills in the other events. Not as many people pay attention to her foot these days, Katelyn said. She has had some coaches tell her they’re happy to see her continuing to compete. That’s a testament to Katelyn’s spirit, according to her mother. “She has never let her foot keep her from trying anything she wanted to try,” Joy McGowan said. “She has a very good attitude about that. She’s never allowed it to be a negative.” Mike Shaughnessy is at mike. shaughnessy@ecm-inc.com or facebook.com/sunthisweek.

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Rosemount’s Dan Monaghan dives during a recent meet. The Irish boys swimming and diving team returns to action this week with a meet at Bloomington Kennedy at 6 p.m. Friday. Rosemount will compete in the Maroon and Gold Invitational at the University of Minnesota on Saturday. EASTVIEW, from 10A and defeated Farmington 1-0 in the first two rounds. Rosemount (4-9-1) defeated Farmington 2-1 in the seventh-place game. Apple Valley senior forward Emily Everson was named to the all-tournament team.

Eastview boys win Both Eastview High School hockey teams won holiday tournaments. Senior forward Nick Abbott scored three goals, all shorthanded, as the Eastview boys beat Rochester Mayo 7-2 in the championship game of the Kiwanis/Think Mutual Bank Festival on Saturday in Rochester. HOLIDAY, from 10A Meghan Schuster scored 13 points each to lead Rosemount against Duluth Denfeld. Rosemount outscored Denfeld 41-22 in the second half. Grim had 17 points and Kalley McMenomy 16 against Grand Rapids. Rosemount, 5-6 overall, will play at Bloomington

Abbott’s flurry of shorthanded goals ended Mayo’s hopes of getting back in the game. Eastview jumped to a 3-0 lead, but Mayo scored on a power play at 13:44 of the second period. The Spartans were about to get another power play because Eastview picked up a crosschecking penalty on the goal. Instead, Abbott scored 15 seconds into the penalty kill. Abbott scored another shorthanded goal with 43 seconds left in the second period and struck again at 4:13 of the third, giving him a natural hat trick of manshort goals. Ryan McNamara assisted on all three of Abbott’s goals and finished with four assists for the game.

Sophomore goalie Zachary Driscoll made 23 saves as Eastview defeated Park of Cottage Grove 4-0 in the semifinals. McNamara had a hat trick and one assist, Jake McGlocklin had two goals and two assists and Abbott had three assists in the Lightning’s 7-3 victory over New Richmond, Wis., in the quarterfinals. The three victories in the Rochester tournament brought Eastview’s record to 7-5. The Lightning returns to South Suburban Conference play at home against Lakeville South at 2:15 p.m. Saturday.

Kennedy at 7 p.m. Friday. The boys hockey team won two of three games at the Heritage Holiday Classic last week in Duluth. Lukas Gillett had a hat trick and one assist as the Irish (4-7 overall) defeated St. Louis Park 6-3 in the opening round. After losing to Duluth Denfeld 4-1 in the second round, the Irish

closed their tournament with a 6-0 victory over Owatonna. Six players scored one goal each against Owatonna, and goalie Austin Leslie made 26 saves to earn a shutout.

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All Home Repairs! Excell Remodeling, LLC Interior & Exterior Work One Call Does it All! Call Bob 612-702-8237 or Dave 612-481-7258 Dakota Home Improvement Kitchens, Baths, Bsmts Drywall, Tile & Flooring CC's accept'd 952-270-1895

Jack of All Trades Handyman Specializing in residential & commercial repairs & maintenance. Fully insured. Lic#20639540

651-815-4147

Locally owned & operated

R&J Construction * Decks * Basements *Kitchen/Bath Remod *Roofing & Siding *All Types of Tile Free Quotes & Ideas

Call Ray 952-484-3337

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Housecleaning

*10% off 1 st Cleaning* BEST CLEANING WE CLEAN YOU GLEAM Prof House & Office Cleaner High Quality, Comm/Res Ref/Ins/Bond. Call Lola 612-644-8432 or 763-416-4611 www.bestcleaningservices.com

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Painting

“Superior Painting” Int/Ext. $ Lowest Prices $ 612-516-7633

*A and K PAINTING* Int./Ext Painting/Staining & texturing. Free Est. 952-474-6258 Ins/Bond Major Credit Cards Accepted 3 Interior Rooms/$250 Wallpaper Removal. Drywall Repair. Cabinet Enameling and Staining. 30 yrs exp. Steve 763-545-0506

SUN THISWEEK - Apple Valley - Rosemount January 4, 2013 Painting

2420

Roofs, Siding, & Gutters

2510

* ROOF SNOW & ICE REMOVAL

Roofing Siding Insulation TOPSIDE, INC. 612-869-1177 Licensed * Bonded * Insured 33 Yrs Exp A+ Rating BBB

Quality Residential Painting & Drywall Ceiling & Wall Textures H20 Damage – Plaster Repair

Wall Paper Removal INTERIOR EXTERIOR

•Ben's Painting•

A Family Operated Business

Will meet or beat prices! Int/Ext, Drywall Repair

Roofing/Tear-offs

Paint/Stain/Ceilings. We

BBB Free Est. MC/Visa

accept Visa/MC/Discvr.

New Construction

952-432-2605

No Subcontractors Used.

DAVE'S PAINTING and WALLPAPERING Int/Ext • Free Est • 23 Yrs Will meet or beat any price! Lic/Ins Visa/MC 952-469-6800

Lic/Ins. 952-891-8586

Free Ests.

4 Seasons Painting Int/Ext Comm/Res 952-997-6888 10% Off

Why Wait Roofing LLC

•FREE ESTIMATES •INSURED

Full Interior & Exterior www.ktpainting.com

651-452-4802

952-500-1088

LLC

l Interior / Exterior Painting l Texturing l Drywall l Deck Staining l Epoxy Resin Garage Floors l Fine Finishing & Enameling Fully Insured Free Estimates

PRE-HOLIDAY DISCOUNT 15% OFF! Plumbing

2470

Re-Roofing & Roof Repairs – Snow & Ice Removal - 30 Yrs Exp Insured - Lic#20126880 John Haley #1 Roofer, LLC. Call 952-925-6156

Tear-offs & New Construction Siding & Gutters Over 18 yrs exp. Free est. Rodney Oldenburg

612-210-5267 952-443-9957 Lic #BC156835 • Insured We Take Care of Insurance Claims Offering the Best Extended Manufacturers Warranty Snow Removal

2570

Ice Dams? We Steam! Roof Raking

Quick Response – Insured

952-352-9986 www.icegutter.com Roof Snow Removal & Ice Dam Steaming. Insured 612-226-5819 Roof Snow/Ice Removal 30 Yrs Exp – Insured Lic#20126880

A RENEW PLUMBING •Drain Cleaning •Repairs •Remodeling •Lic# 060881-PM Bond/Ins 952-884-9495

John Haley #1 Roofer, LLC. Call 952-925-6156

MASTER PLUMBER 20+ yrs. Exp. Bonded, Insured Lic 62398-PM Mark 612-910-2453

612-810-2059

Cement, Masonry, Waterproofing

The Original

Comm./Res. Insured, Senior Discount

SNOW PLOWING

SAVE MONEY - Competent master plumber needs work. Lic#M3869 Jason 952-891-2490

2100

Snow Plowing

Commercial & Residential Dependable – Insured - Exp'd LSC Construction Svcs, Inc Mbr: Better Business Bureau

Free Ests. 952-890-2403

2100

Cement, Masonry, Waterproofing

QUALITY SERVICE Since 1949

Concrete & Waterproofing, Inc. We Specialize In:

The Origina

• Buckling Walls • Foundation Repair • Wet Basement Repair The Origina • Wall Resurfacing • Garage/Basement Floors

The Origina

Licensed

(MN# BC215366) •

READERS’ CHOICE

Awards www.MinnLocal.com

952-883-0671 Mbr: BBB Tree Removal Silver Fox Services Al's Seasonal Services

Tree Trimming & Removal Call 763-498-9249

Insured

Window Cleaning

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Window Cleaning 651-646-4000 3000

Merchandise Cemetery Lots

3090

For Sale: 4 Lots Glenhaven Good Samaritan Garden

$6,500/BO. 320-243-3165 Estate Sales

3130

To Place Your Sale Ad

Contact Jeanne at

952-392-6875

Deadline: Mondays at 3pm

Fireplace & Firewood

3150 FIREWOOD

Affordable Firewood

4000

Family Care

4100

Child Care

LV: 2 FT opngs. Loving mom/ teacher. Fun & nurturing. 763-807-8538

5000

Rentals

5500

Rental Information

All real estate advertising in this newspaper is subject to the Fair Housing Act which makes it illegal to advertise “any preference limitation or discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex handicap, familial status, or national origin, or an intention, to make any such preference, limitation or discrimination.” Familial status includes children under the age of 18 living with parents or legal custodians; pregnant women; and people securing custody of children under 18. This newspaper will not knowingly accept any advertising for real estate which is in violation of the law. Our readers are hereby informed that all dwellings advertised in this newspaper are available on an equal opportunity basis. To complain of discrimination call HUD toll-free telephone number for the hearing impaired is 1-800-927-9275.

4' x 8' x 16” cord - $125 Free delivery & stack.

Call Tom 612-867-6813 FIREWOOD

2 Years Dried

Oak & Birch - $120 4' x 8' - Delivered. Quantity discounts.

763-238-5254

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LV: LL of newer TH, ¾ BA, walk out, $550 include utils, high spd int & cable. No Pets. 612-790-5043

6400

Ideal Firewood

Dry Oak & Oak Mixed 4' x 8 'x 16” - $110; or 2 for $200 Free Delivery

952-881-2122 763-381-1269

Furnishings

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Couch, loveseat, chair Tan/gold microfiber. Exc condition! $499 952-843-8138 Solid Oak Rnd DR Tbl, 2 lvs., 6 chrs. Exc cond! Asking $350/BO. 612-868-2597

Misc. Wanted

3270

Buying Old Trains & Toys

STEVE'S TRAIN CITY

952-933-0200 Polaris Snowmobile & ATV's. Non-working only. Will pick-up, will pay cash! Call 612-987-1044

Snowblowers & Equipment

3320

YardMan Snowblower 5.5 hp, elec. start, like new! $350/BO. 952-884-4280

3500

Garage Sales

Eagan Estate Sale 1621 Murphy Pkwy, Sat. Jan 12th 9-3pm Furn, artwork, & much more! Free items!

3700

Leisure

3720

Boats, New & Used

Roommates Wanted

Apartments & Condos For Rent

Eagan: 2 BR 2BA Condo $975/mo heat included underground prkg. Fireplace W/D in unit 612-860-6151 Farmington Studio Apt. Heat pd. Gar. avl. No pets. 612-670-4777

7000

Real Estate

7400

Apartments & Condos For Sale

Fgtn: 1 Rm Effic'y Apt. $500/mo. Utls. Included. 952-469-2604

8100

Manufactured Homes

Apple Valley/Lakeville border: 3 BR, many updates pets OK. $29,900 financing avl. 612-581-3833

Burnsville: Rambush Estates

612-824-2769 952-929-3224 gardnerconcrete@integra.net Free Estimates

Chrysler 17ft, fiberglass open bow-tri hull, Good Cond. *New price $875 612-825-6283

Tree Service

2620

952-890-8440 Burnsville: Rambush Estates 2200 sq ft Manuf. Home One level living. Living rm + Family rm w/fplc., whirlpool tub in master bath. $1655/mo.

Pets

3970

(952) 431- 9970 MN Lic. BC096834

Painting

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A Fresh Look, Inc. Interior/Exterior Painting by the Pros Bonded & Insured Free Est. • Senior Discounts

Lic. #BC626700 Credit Cards Accepted

612-825-7316/952-934-4128 www.afreshlookinc.com

2510

Roofs, Siding, & Gutters

2510

9020

Advertising Disclaimer Because we are unable to check all ads that are placed in our media, we encourage you to be safe and be careful before giving out any important information such as credit card numbers or social security numbers, when responding to any ad.

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Tree Service

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Pets

RN/LPN's

9100

General Contractors Storm Damage Restoration Roofing ■ siding ■ windows Established 1984

Our Continued Growth requires more company drivers/owner operators to haul flatbeds, step decks, RGN's, both regional & OTR. Contact John for more info. 763-856-4000 jpndaran@sherbtel.net Wanted: OTR Drivers/ Owners/Operators. 2+ yrs. Exp., 48 states. Call Jared. 612-221-4859

Adults-Earn Your HS Diploma or GED Test Prep! Learn in class or online, 24-7. Like District 196 ABE on Facebook. Email ABE@district196.org or call 952-431-8316.

Carr's Tree Service is seeking FT employees experienced in climbing & bucket work for our tree crews. Applicants must be 18 yrs of age & have a clean, valid driver's license. CDL Beneficial. Qualified applicants call 1-888-470-3355

Contract Drivers

Dynamex, an industry leader in the same day delivery business, has route and on call opportunities available. Your own vehicle is needed. Build your own company and be your own boss. To find out more call 651-746-5945

Help Wanted/ Full Time

9100

Optometrists (Burnsville, MN): Conduct eye exams, diagnose problems and impairments; prescribe corrective lenses and provide treatment in busy retail environment. Must have D.O. & MN License. Send resume to T. Travers; National Vision, Inc.: 296 Grayson Highway, Lawrenceville, GA 30045. OTR Flatbed Driver. $1200 sign on bonus. Out 10-14 days. Late model equipment. Full benefits. Drivers can take their truck home. Allow one small pet. Commercial Transload of MN, Fridley, MN. Contact Pete: psandmann@ctm-truck.com

or 763-571-9508

Production Manager

Shepherd of the Valley Lutheran Church A full job description and application can be found at http://www.sotv.org Start your new year with new opportunities in metal stamping/fabrication. Tempco Manufacturing is looking for individuals with solid skills in Welding, Quality Inspection (CMM), Tool Making, Press set-Up, Estimator, Material/Job Planner and Account Executive. Visit our website at www.tempcomfg.com for more information or forward your resume to alebold@tempcomfg.com

Sales HOME IMPROVEMENTS $1,000 Hiring Bonus!! Custom Remodelers is a Twin City based multi-million dollar home improvement company. Due to an over abundance of leads, we are in need of 2 more sales people for our siding and window divisions.

Qualiﬁcations: • Willingness to learn • Highly motivated • Career oriented • Sales experience preferred but not required.

We offer: • Qualified appointments • Paid training • Trip incentives • $100K potential

If you are seeking a change to a strong, reputable company, Call Ryan or Mike at 651-784-2646

Automotive

Come join our family

EXPRESS LUBE GREETER

Finish Carpenters Schwieters Companies is hiring entry level to experienced finish carpenters. Please call 612-328-3140 to schedule an interview. Top Benefits & Pay: tools/medical/dental/401k www.finishcarpenters.com

Answer busy phones, reception experience preferred. Email resumes to: mwinecke@ cornermedical.com Midwest Veterinary Supply seeks a FT Delivery Driver for daily delivery in the metro area. Prior experience preferred and a clean driving record required. Medical, dental, life, disability insurance, 401(k). Apply online at www.candidatelink .com/Midwest VeterinarySupply

Now Hiring! Warehouse/Packaging/ Assembly All shifts. Entry level to skilled positions available. Email resume to: jobs@awardstaffing.com or call (952)924-9000 for more info.

9200

Angel is only a year old and was found running around for days at a gas station with a broken leg. She bit when she was picked up because she was in so much pain. She is now 3-legged and she doesn’t know it! Angel is only 5 pounds and still very fragile. She is hoping for a home with owners that won’t look at her funny!! Call Stacey at 612414-9939 or see her at the Apple Valley Petco on Saturday from 11am-3pm with all our other dogs and cats looking for homes. Check more out at www.last-hope.org

Last Hope, Inc. (651) 463-8747 Senior Rentals

N ATTENTIO ! S R SENIO

(763) 550-0043 (952) 476-7601 (651) 221-2600

Dodge of Burnsville is looking for a highly motivated, Express Lube Greeter with a positive attitude and excellent customer service skills for current opening on our service team. No experience necessary.

Powerwashing

5100

2490

Senior Rentals

Spruce Place Senior Apartments

651-463-2511

Powerwashing

Building or Remodeling?

BOB’s

763-225-6200

www.sparklewashcmn.com

Help Wanted/ Part Time

Home-Based B2B

Snow Plow Operators

www.infotechmarketing.com

B2B interviewing & selling services exp pref. No home calling. 15+hrs/ wk avail from your home. College a plus. Strong verbal & written skills. M-F days. $14-$20/hr. Call 952-252-6000 Market Research Firm: Seeks detail oriented people to edit mystery shop reports online. Excellent spelling, grammar and phone skills a must! Paid online training; flex PT hours; pay averages $12-14 per hour. Requires min of 4hrs/day M-F & 1 wknd / mo. Those fluent in French encouraged to apply. Email resume & cover letter to: QEApps@BestMark.com

Receptionist/CA PT PM receptionist in well-established Bsvl chiro clinic. M-W 1-6:30; Th 9-1; F 11:30-4:30. Exp pref. Email: dsgeary@ frontiernet.net 952-200-1538 Social Services

Thomas Allen Inc. Program Counselor Burnsville Lots of fun activities!

One weekend per month, Sat 8am-7:30pm and Sun 8am-10pm. Work with 4 fun and active clients! 18 yrs or older, background clearance, Driver's lic., clean record, drive up to 50 miles, lift up to 30 lbs, Stand on feet for majority of shift and use stairs, 1 yr exp. with DD, Seizure exp. pre'f, Send cover letter/ resume to: Angelar@ thomasalleninc.com More OPENINGS at www.thomasalleninc.com AA/EOE

Substitute Teachers

Burnsville-Eagan-Savage School District Visit www.isd191.org for more details Temporary PT Help Wanted: Donna's Cleaning is hiring, 1-2 days per week. Transportation necessary. 952-892-6102

9250

Help Wanted/ Full & Part Time

Primrose Oil Company A 96 yr. old organization, seeks sales reps for commercial, industrial, agricultural and construction accounts. Excellent commissions, opportunity for advancement w/benefits. Training provided. Email resume to Shawn Choate at schoate@primrose.com

for info packet.

Check us out online at

sunthisweek.com 9200

Help Wanted/ Part Time

Seasonal Hiring

9400

Prescription Landscape is seeking operators for plow trucks and loaders. Duties include competent operation of snowplow equipment, snowblowers, and other equipment associated with snow and ice management. Requirements include: physical labor up to and including bending, kneeling, squatting, lifting up to 50 lbs, snow shoveling, and manage flexible work schedule. We have two locations to work from - St Paul or Crystal as well as seasonal and year-round work available. Must have a valid driver's license and clean driving record, pass driver's license and background check, pass drug/ alcohol pre-employment drug test and medical certification physical. Compensation may vary $20-$25 per hour pending experience. To submit an application please visit our web site www.rxlandscape.com

9500

Automotive Vehicles

9600

Pontiac GA 2004, records, 79,000 mi, good shape, $4,000. 952-831-5272

9810

Junkers & Repairable Wanted

$$$ $200 - $10,000 $$$ Junkers & Repairables More if Saleable. MN Licensed www.crosstownauto.net

612-861-3020 651-645-7715 $225+ for most Vehicles Free Towing 651-769-0857

Motorcycle, Moped, Motor Bike

9820

Motorcycles Wanted! Cash for used & Damaged 651-285-1532

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Help Wanted/ Part Time

9200

Teller/Customer Service Position Apply in Person I35W & Cliff Road

Full Time Sales

FT position with unlimited earning potential consists of selling used automotive parts. We are looking for a self motivated, courteous sales professional to join our team. Must have excellent computer skills, be detail oriented and have the ability to work with customers on the phone and in person. Hours: 7:30am to 5 pm Monday thru Friday. Starting Pay $15/hr and up depending upon experience, with transitioning to commission based pay. Email resume to: rick.metro@ integraonline.com or Apply in Person at: Metro Auto Salvage 11710 E. 263rd St. Lakeville, MN 952-461-8285

9200

Help Wanted/ Part Time

Housekeeping/Laundry Hardworking, dependable Best Western 651-452-0100

PT LIQUOR FACILITY ATTENDENT City of Apple Valley Part-time position at the Apple Valley Community Center. 10-15 hours per/wk. Minimum age 16. Successful applicant will be responsible for security and safety of the facility and its users. Attendant is required to perform all tasks necessary to assist clients that are using the AVCC.

New Market Bank, a locally owned community bank, is currently seeking a part-time teller who is flexible and can float between all four branches in New Market, Lakeville & Prior Lake. Schedule and hours will vary between 20 – 35 hours a week, include Friday nights until 6pm and Saturdays from 9:00-12:00. Responsibilities include performing all teller functions including crossselling bank products and services and new account knowledge. To complete an application, stop at any of our branches. Locations can be found on our website at www.newmarketbank.com or call (952) 469-1600. EOE.

PT CAREGIVERS Needed every Sunday in Burnsville. 24 Hour Sleepover 8am-8am $170 per Shift Every other Saturday in Eagan 8am-8pm. $10 per hour. CALL FOR DETAILS:

Rob 612-670-1380 Trinity Campus is seeking: RN/LPN – PM Shift – PT We are looking for a creative, energetic professional with excellent communication and interpersonal skills who has a passion for serving seniors. Candidate must have a current MN license & CPR.

NAR – AM & PM Shifts – PT We are seeking nursing assistants to serve in our 65-bed LTC facility. Duties include assisting residents with their daily grooming, dining needs, ambulating and transferring residents. Candidates must be on the Minnesota Registry.

Please apply online at: sfhs.jobdigtracker.com/careers/ Or at: Trinity Campus

Please see website at www.cityofapplevalley.org for job posting qualifications and application information.

3410 213th Street West Farmington, MN 55024

Help Wanted/ Full Time

9100

Help Wanted/ Full Time

Community Editor Sun Newspapers (ECM Sun Group), publishers of community newspapers in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area, has an opening for a community editor. The editor will be based in the Osseo office & cover the city of Eden Prairie. The beat includes general reporting, government news, features, religion, seniors, & business news. Quark or InDesign experience preferred. The successful candidate will have a degree in journalism or related area, & experience reporting for a newspaper in an internship or professionally. Entry level, full time with benefits, including 401(k).

Commercial and residential pressure washing Decks strip & seal, roof washing, house washing, concrete cleaning and staining. Full exterior washing.

Our job is to make you look good!

Help Wanted/ Part Time

9200

EEO/AA

2 BRs available

3500 Vicksburg Lane Suite 400-351 P l y m o u t h , M N 5 5 4 4 7 Lic # 6793

2490

Help Wanted/ Full Time

Skyhawk Companies Burnsville Master Plumber Carpenter/Remodeler Cleaners employment@ skyhawkco.com (612) 807-0149

WILL YOU HELP ANGEL FIND HER WINGS?

5100

Powerwashing

Health Care

Regency Home HealthCare is seeking part time and full time; day, eve and night RN/LPN's to provide services to ventilator dependent clients in group settings throughout the metro. Seeking help in the Hastings, Burnsville, and Cottage Grove area. Must have great attention to detail, strong problem solving skills, excellent communication and clinical skills. Current MN nursing license and CPR required. If interested please submit online application at www.regencyhhc.com or fax resume attn: Julie @ 651-488-4656. EOE

9100

2490

Business Opps & Info

FT Receptionist

Great Service Affordable Prices

Painting

Employment

2200 sq ft Manuf. Home One level living. Living rm + Family rm w/fplc., whirlpool tub in master bath. $1655/mo.

Senior Discounts

2420

9000

952-890-8440

Bonded • Insured

Family Owned & Operated

Tree Service

2620

Find a quality builder in Class 2050 www.sunthisweek.com

Mail or e-mail cover letter & writing clips to: Dan Callahan, Sun Newspapers 33 2nd St. N.E., Box 280 Osseo MN 55369 E-mail applications may be sent to dan.callahan@ecm-inc.com.

9250

Help Wanted/ Full & Part Time

9250

Help Wanted/ Full & Part Time

Swimming Instructors The Family Swim School of Eagan & Lakeville is accepting applications for individuals interested in delivering swim instruction in an ideal teaching & learning environment. Applicants require high energy & a background working with children. Paid training.

Lakeville 952.435.1898 Eagan 651.686.6225 9810

Junkers & Repairable Wanted

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January 4, 2013 SUN THISWEEK - Apple Valley - Rosemount

theater and arts briefs Rosemount Art Gallery opening A grand opening celebration and artist reception will be held from 1 to 3 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 13, for the Rosemount Art Gallery located at the Robert Trail Library, 14395 S. Robert Trail. Guests at the grand opening can meet Cheryl Kluender, Rita Beyer Corrigan and DeAnne Parks, the three local artists whose works will be displayed January through March. Refreshments will be served. The art gallery is a partnership between the library and the Rosemount Area Arts Council. More information is at www.rosemountarts.com.

Czechoslovakia defection story Local author Peter Vodenka will share his book, “Journey for Freedom: Defecting from Communist Czechoslovakia,” from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 15, at Robert Trail Library, 14395 S. Robert Trail, Rosemount. Sponsored by the Rosemount Area Arts Council.

Bluegrass series starts at Celts

mount. The series, a partnership between Celts and the Rosemount Area Arts Council, offers a free bluegrass concert the second Thursday of each month, January through April. The Sawtooth concert runs from 7 to 9 p.m. More about the concert series is at www.rosemountarts. com.

Burnsville history exhibit The Stories of Burnsville exhibit, sponsored by the Burnsville Historical Society, will be on display throughout January in the gallery at Burnsville Performing Arts Center, 12600 Nicollet Ave. Unlike other exhibits, Stories of Burnsville consists of video interviews. Photos, maps and documents will enhance the displays. There will also be a small video studio to conduct interviews to add to the exhibit. “The interviews will continue right in the gallery,” said Len Nachman of the BHS. “The exhibition itself is a great opportunity to capture stories.” Nachman invites “anybody who has a Burnsville story or memory to relate, whether from last week or a century ago” to record at the studio.

Rosemount’s own Sawtooth Bluegrass Band will Cozy up perform Thursday, Jan. to authors 10, as the first concert Meet local and awardin this year’s Bluegrass winning authors during Americana Family Night February at the following series at Celts Pub, 14506 Dakota County Library S. Robert Trail, Rose-

locations. Authors will sign books at all events. Loretta Ellsworth and Janet Graber, awardwinning authors of teen fiction, will discuss innovative ways to create full-fledged characters with authentic voices that readers will root for at the “Writing Fiction for Teens” program. Registration required. Saturday, Feb. 2, 12:30 to 4:30 p.m., Heritage Library, 20085 Heritage Drive, Lakeville. Minnesota author Barbara Deese will discuss her book, “Murder at Spirit Falls,” the first in a series featuring members of the “No Ordinary Women Book Club,” Tuesday, Feb. 5, 12:30 to 1:30 p.m., Farmington Library, 508 Third St., Farmington. Local author Steven Derfler will discuss his book, “Israel’s Pharaoh,” a nonfiction adventure story that begins with an alleged discovery in 1939 of a hieroglyphic fragment suggesting that one Egyptian pharaoh may have been an Israelite, Tuesday, Feb. 19, 6:30 to 8 p.m., Robert Trail Library, 14395 S. Robert Trail, Rosemount. Author Peter Geye will meet with the Burnhaven Book Discussion Group (and any interested others) to discuss his books “Safe from the Sea” and “The Lighthouse Road” Tuesday, Feb. 19, 7 to 8 p.m., Burnhaven Library, 1101 W. County Road 42, Burnsville. For more information, visit www.dakotacounty. us/library or call (651) 450-2943.

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theater and arts calendar To submit items for the Arts Calendar, email: darcy.odden@ecm-inc. com.

MOVIES | DINING | THEATER | ENTERTAINMENT | SHOPPING | FESTIVALS & EVENTS Get out and try out one of eagan’s newest restaurants Here’s a few of the latest restaurants to join Eagan’s fine restaurant community: Lone Oak Grill can’t wait to serve you delicious custom burgers, bourbon, beer, and much more! Lone Oak Grill is located at 3010 Eagandale Place. Whether you’re craving a Juicy Lucy, a scrumptious salad, or just a good time, Lone Oak Grill has what it takes to exceed your every need. If you’re thirsty, the restaurant features 15 kinds of bourbon, 30 tap beers, and specialty cocktails. Tropical Smoothie Café is now open in Eagan Promenade (3344 Promenade Avenue Suite 106), featuring toasted wraps, sandwiches and flatbreads with fresh salads and nearly 30 different flavors of smoothies!

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Dance Heartbeat Performing Arts Center’s 15th anniversary show, 7 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 5, at Eastview High School. Tickets are available at Heartbeat Performing Arts Center for $20 for adults and $18 for children under 12. Tickets will be $25 at the door. Information: (952) 432-7833. Exhibits An acrylic painting exhibit by Sue Kemnitz is on display through Jan. 30 at Lakeville Area Arts Center, 20965 Holyoke Ave. Information: (952) 985-4640. “Our Burnsville” exhibit by the Burnsville Historical Society chapter of the Dakota County Historical Society will be on display Jan. 3-31 in the gallery at Burnsville Performing Arts Center, 12600 Nicollet Ave. Workshops/classes/other Teen Poetry Jam/Rap Battle from 4 to 6 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 8, at Apple Valley Teen Center, 14255 Johnny Cake Ridge Road, Apple Valley, (952) 9532385. Ages 12-18. Cost: $3 in advance (register at www.cityofapplevalley.org), $2 each per group of 10, $4 at the door. Hosted by Narate Judie Keys. Teen artist gatherings at the Eagan Art House from 3:30 to 5:30 Thursdays, Feb. 7 and March 7, and from 1 to 3 p.m. Saturdays, Jan. 5, Feb. 2 and March 2. Cost: $3. Information: (651) 675-5521. Adult painting open studio from 9 a.m. to noon the first and third Fridays of the month at the Eagan Art House, 3981 Lexington Ave. S. Fee is $5 per session. Information: (651) 675-5521. Music Together in the Valley offers classes for parents and their infant, toddler and preschool children in Rosemount, Farmington, Lakeville and Apple Valley. Information: www.musictogetherclasses.com or (651) 439-4219. The Eagan Art House offers classes for ages 4 through adult. For a com-

plete listing go to www. eaganarthouse.org or call (651) 675-5521. Dan Petrov Art Studio in Burnsville offers oil painting classes for beginners, intermediate and advanced skill level painters, www. danpetrovart.com, (763) 843-2734. Teens Express Yourself with Paint, 5 to 7 p.m. Mondays at Brushworks School of Art in Burnsville, www. BrushworksSchoolofArt. com, (651) 214-4732. Drama/theater classes for ages 4 and up at River Ridge Arts Building, Burnsville, (952) 736-3644. Show Biz Kids Theater Class for children with special needs (ASD/DCD programs), In the Company of Kids 13710 Nicollet Ave., Burnsville, (952) 736-3644. Broadway Kids Dance and Theater Program for all ages and abilities, In the Company of Kids, 13710 Nicollet Ave., Burnsville (Colonial Shopping Center), (952) 736-3644. Join other 55-plus adults at the Eagan Art House to create beaded jewelry. The Jewelry Club meets on the third Friday of each month from 1 to 3 p.m. Information: (651) 675-5500. Soy candle making classes held weekly in Eagan near 55 and Yankee Doodle. Call Jamie at (651) 315-4849 for dates and times. $10 per person. Presented by Making Scents in Minnesota. Country line dance classes held for intermediates Mondays 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. at Rambling River Center, 325 Oak St., Farmington, $5/class. Call Marilyn (651) 463-7833. Country line dance classes on Wednesdays at the Lakeville Senior Center, 20732 Holt Ave. Beginners, 9-10 a.m.; Intermediate, 10 a.m.-noon. $5/class. Call Marilyn (651) 463-7833. The Lakeville Area Arts Center offers arts classes for all ages, www.lakevillemn.gov, (952) 985-4640. Rosemount History Book Club meets the second Tuesday of each month from 6:30 to 8 p.m. at the Robert Trail Library. Information: John Loch, (952) 255-8545 or jjloch@charter. net.

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Monday, Jan. 7 Open house for prospective Boy Scouts, 7 to 8:30 p.m. at Community of Christ Church, 5990 Saturday, Jan. 5 134th St. W., Apple Valley. Hosted “Toy Story 3” movie, 10 a.m. to by Troop 293 of Apple Valley. Infornoon, recital hall, Farmington High mation: Scoutmaster Paul Chellsen, School, 20655 Flagstaff Ave. Free. (612) 597-4468, chellsen@charter. Concessions sold during 20-minute net, or www.troop293.org. intermission. Children must be accompanied by an adult. Sponsored Tuesday, Jan. 8 by Farmington Area Community Eagan Funfest Ambassador Education. fundraiser, 5 to 8 p.m. at Davanni’s, 1960 Cliff Lake Road, Eagan. Sunday, Jan. 6 Meet the 2012-13 Eagan Funfest Pancake breakfast by the Ambassadors. Davanni’s will doFarmington Knights of Columbus, 9 nate 20 percent of your total order a.m. to noon, at Church of St. Mi- to the Eagan July 4th Funfest Amchael, 22120 Denmark Ave., Farm- bassadors. Information: Kris Beyer, ington. Pancakes, French toast, (651) 688-9559. sausage links and scrambled eggs will be served along with coffee, Saturday, Jan. 12 juice and water. Goodwill offerings Spaghetti dinner by the Rosewill be accepted. All proceeds will mount Knights of Columbus, 5:45 to go towards local charities. 7:30 p.m., in the social hall at St. Joseph Catholic Church, 13900 Bis-

cayne Ave. W., Rosemount. Freewill offering will be taken. Proceeds will go to The Roch Benefit Fund. The Roch Hannasch story can be viewed at http://www.caringbridge. org/visit/Roch. Blood drives The American Red Cross will hold the following blood drives. Call 1-800-RED CROSS (1-800-7332767) or visit redcrossblood.org to make an appointment or for more information. • Jan. 8, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Messiah Lutheran Church, 16725 Highview Ave., Lakeville. • Jan. 10, 1 to 6 p.m., Hope Church, 7477 145th St., Apple Valley. • Jan. 11, 12:30 to 5:30 p.m., Easter Lutheran Church - By the Lake, 4545 Pilot Knob Road, Eagan. • Jan. 11, 2 to 7 p.m., Culver’s, 3445 O’Leary Lane, Eagan.

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The Apple Valley Arts Foundation is offering a remedy to the winter blues with its Frozen Apple concert series. Now in its second year, the series is moving to a new venue in 2013, the recently opened clubhouse at Valleywood Golf Course. “We’re excited it’s at Valleywood. It’s almost like a little mini vacation when you take that winding road to the clubhouse in the winter – it’s magic,” said Mary Hamann-Roland, arts foundation vice president (and Apple Valley’s mayor). The three concerts in this year’s series offer a sunny mix of reggae, jazz, folk and Latin pop. The shows kick off this Saturday (Jan. 5) with a performance by jazz singer Patty Peterson, winner of the Minnesota Music Award for best vocalist. Those who have attended the nonprofit arts foundation’s annual Music in Kelley Park summer concerts will recognize a familiar face when the Frozen Apple plays host Feb. 2 to acoustic artist Michael Monroe, whose music is a blend of folk, jazz and reggae. Apple Valley has become a second home of sorts for Monroe, a resident of Minnesota’s North Shore who’s made the trek south to the perform at the Kelley Park music series each year since its inception in 2008. Monroe was also on the roster of performers at last year’s inaugural Frozen Apple series. The series concludes

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measure DISTRICT 196, from 1A accountability that replaced the Adequate The percentage of district Yearly Progress system earstudents who scored as lier this year as part of the proficient or better on the state’s waiver of the federal Minnesota Comprehensive No Child Left Behind law. Assessments was higher The new system is based in 2012 than the statewide on the results of the Minaverage, according to the nesota Comprehensive AsMinnesota Department of sessments in math and readEducation. ing, the academic growth of The standardized test as- individual students, gradusesses whether students are ation rates and the scope proficient in reading, math of a school’s achievement and science. The reading gap between upper-income and math portion of the white students and lowertest is given to students in income minorities. grades three through eight. The first round of data, Students in 10th grade released in May, was based also take the reading por- on students’ performance tion of the test, while stu- in 2010-2011. Data for 2012 dents in 11th grade take the were released in August. math portion. There were 17 schools More than 13,000 stu- in District 196 that saw a dents in District 196 took decrease in their MMR the MCAs last spring. scores. Though students outperUnder the new rules, formed the state average, struggling schools must the district faced a few hur- submit an improvement dles with new state account- plan but no penalties are ability measurements. imposed. More than half the disDistrict 196 was not trict’s schools saw a de- alone in its struggle to make crease in their Multiple improvements. Statewide, Measurement Ratings, the 213 schools missed the mark

under the new accountability system. That’s an improvement over the 1,000 schools that didn’t meet the standards of NCLB. Although most District 196 schools saw a decrease in their scores, another 14 experienced an increase, and two district elementary schools earned the “Reward School” designation. Reward Schools are the highest-performing 15 percent of schools in the state that have high concentrations of poverty and receive federal Title I funding. Though standardized tests proved to be a mix bag, district students dominated some competitions. In February, Eagan High School earned a starred performance title at the state One Act competition for the 18th consecutive year. In March, members of Eagan High School’s robotics team earned top scores at the regional FIRST competition, qualifying them for the national championship in St. Louis, Mo., for the second time in three years.

Scandal In addition to the successes of a number of athletic and academic teams in 2012, one was forced to disband due to poor behavior. Instances of underage drinking during schoolsponsored DECA events caused Apple Valley High School to suspend the program in November for at least four years. Underage drinking has long plagued the high school’s business-focused extracurricular activity, formerly known as Distributive Education Clubs of America, but it all came to a head during an October event, officials said. While staying in a Bloomington hotel for a DECA competition on Oct. 28, two or three Apple Valley students smuggled alcohol into their rooms, officials said. By approximately 10:30 p.m., hotel security had found about 60 students from several high schools drinking in one of the Apple Valley student’s rooms. Poor behavior spanning 20 years of DECA trips has not been limited to underage drinking, officials said. Hazing has also been an issue. The school’s DECA advisors had concerns about student behavior and stepped down after the October incident. Students weren’t the only ones in District 196 to face the music for their misdeeds this year. Six months after leaving the district amid suspicion

he had taken thousands of dollars from a youth sports camp, Kurt Virgin was charged in May with six counts of felony theft by swindle. Authorities say that between 2009 and 2011, Virgin took nearly $30,000 from accounts belonging to several youth sports camps and teams. Virgin was a longtime coach at Eagan High School who had some discretion in compensation for his services and how participants registered for the camps. He was given the choice to either run the camps separately or within the school district operations. He allegedly chose to do both, which enabled him to accept checks made payable to him and avoid paying rental fees. Instead of allocating the money to basketball and soccer camps, Virgin allegedly pocketed $16,595 while also receiving a salary from the district. Virgin also oversaw fundraising efforts for Eagan’s boys basketball teams. While directing those efforts, Virgin allegedly pocketed $12,589. A district administrator notified police in November 2011 after discovering money was missing and that Virgin had used both methods of running camps. Virgin was placed on administrative leave and retired shortly thereafter.

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cuts, District 196’s financial picture started to look slightly rosier in 2012. In January, the School Board passed a balanced budget for the 2012 fiscal year. The $347.5 million budget was $5.7 million more than initial estimates. District officials assumed in June that the state would cut funding by 3.5 percent, but legislators increased funding over the next two years. The district’s savings also were due to borrowing and cuts made in 2011. Though the district’s financial picture was better than in previous years, District 196 wasn’t out of the woods yet. It still operated under a $4.4 million deficit in fiscal 2012, $2.4 million less than previous estimates. In June, the board passed another balanced budget — this time without making cuts. District officials credited the balanced 2012-2013 budget to the state’s efforts to reinstate K-12 funding and the district’s efforts to conserve money. The state promised the district an extra $50 per pupil in 2011-12 and another $50 per pupil in 2012-13. This amounts to $1.5 million each year in additional revenue. District 196 also will receive $2.96 million in compensatory funding starting in 2012-13.

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