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www.SunThisweek.com NEWS Zoo seeks bonding funds The Minnesota Zoo hopes the Legislature grants it funds to carry out improvement projects at the Dakota County attraction.

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Cooperation is key to success High schools and colleges working together on dual-credit course offerings benefits them along with students and businesses.

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Dreams of my youth, revisited Rosemount native Jim Trevis pays tribute to his family-farm roots in the debut novel, “A Mile of Dreams.”

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Three Lakeville principals to retire District 194 expects to announce new principal hires April 26

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Three longtime Lakeville elementary school principals have Karen announced this Roos is their final year working in the district.

Karen Roos, Orchard Lake; Richard Oscarson, Eastview; and Amy Schmidt, Christina Huddleston, will retire from their positions this summer.

The district has received 40 to 50 applicants for the three open positions and will hold interviews with the top eight or nine candidates on April 18, Lakeville Area Schools Superintendent Lisa Snyder said.

That day, candidates will be interviewed by a parent group, an administrative group and a

hiring my team,” Snyder said. “I’m invested in this process to get really strong principals for our parents and families.”

Richard Amy She described Oscarson Schmidt the candidate staff group consisting of pool as “quite individuals from all three nice” and said it includes schools. two Lakeville teachGroup members will ers and two Lakeville fill out evaluation forms, Schools administrative and the district’s execu- team members. tive cabinet will use that “As superintendent, information as well as I’m looking for somereferences and back- one who is relationshipground checks to narrow centered,” Snyder said. the candidate pool to the “Focused on student and top three to five finalists family needs as well as who will be called back staff.” for second interviews the She said principal following week, Snyder candidates who stand said. out will have strong inShe expects the dis- structional backgrounds, trict to announce the including educational new principals by Friday, best practices and conApril 26. tinuous improvement.

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Hosanna Church members and educators Jim Carlson, Adri Carlson, Barb Wilson, Valerie Beck, Jenny Needham, Sue Folger, Jenni Means and Christie Schultz traveled to India over spring break. (Photo submitted)

Lakeville church group reaches trafficking victims in India Local anti-trafficking efforts grow that included Lakeville’s Hosanna Church members and teachers who spent spring break in Aurangabad, India, sharing the truth about human traffickers’ tactics to sell children into slavery.

They educated parents, teachers and residents

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Amidst India’s poverty, squalor and suffering they prowl, those who spin lies, to entice families to sell their children with promises of work, money and prosperity.

Their false promises were exposed by a group

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Upgrades underway at Lakeville VFW

by Laura Adelmann SUN THISWEEK DAKOTA COUNTY TRIBUNE

The Lakeville VFW is undergoing physical and philosophical changes.

After years of use, the VFW club building improvements are underway and, under new leadership, the branch is returning to its organizational roots.

Lakeville VFW Cmdr.

Randy Pronschinske said the organization will use

a $5,000 Home Depot fixup grant to help upgrade its bathrooms to improve accessibility for the disabled and update the banquet hall.

“It’s gotten a little rundown over the years,” Pronschinske said.

The organization has also applied for another grant to help fund improvements that include new ceilings, carpet and See VFW, 8A Metro Transit’s Red Line will start and end its runs at the Apple Valley Transit Station. Service is expected to start June 22. (Photo by Rick Orndorf)

Buses to paint the towns ‘Red’

Lakeville teams ready for spring The Lakeville South and North girls track and field teams have high expectations heading into the 2013 season.

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Rapid transit to improve options for Dakota County residents Lakeville Mayor Matt Little met with constituent Myron Drellack on April 4 at City Hall. Little announced at his March 21 State of the City Address that he will hold “Mayor’s Office Hours” with residents every Thursday from 9 a.m. to noon. Appointments are taken at City Hall, but drop-ins are also welcome. (Photo by Laura Adelmann)

Lakeville meetings with the mayor take off Residents raise variety of issues

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Four Lakeville residents took advantage of Mayor Matt Little’s recently announced invitation to chat over coffee.

Little individually met on April 4 with four constituents who raised a variety of issues.

During his face-toface with Little, Myron Drellack discussed the

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Every weekday this winter, Lakeville resident Jean Abbott walked a half mile or so from her home to the Apple Valley Transit Station.

There she would board a bus that would take her to the Mall of America where she would catch another bus that would drop her off near her office in Mendota Heights.

Her commute takes her a little over an hour, but Abbott wouldn’t trade it for a possible shorter commute time by driving herself to work.

“I love walking out the door and leaving my car behind,” said Abbott, who has been using transit to commute for the past six years.

This summer, there may be a lot more Dakota County residents who feel the same way.

Transit riders are expected to paint cities along Cedar Avenue “Red” when the region’s first bus-rapid transit service will start June 22.

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With Bob Egan, Little said he engaged in a “robust” discussion about county road funding.

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Appeal filed in suicide case

by Andrew Miller SUN THISWEEK DAKOTA COUNTY TRIBUNE

The Dakota County Attorney’s Office filed an appeal last week after a judge ruled that a state law against “advising� a person to commit suicide is unconstitutional.

The ruling by District Court Judge Karen Asphaug on March 22 resulted in dismissal of a felony charge against Thomas “Ted�

Goodwin, 66, a Florida resident and former leader of the Georgia-based right-to-die group Final Exit Network.

Four members of Final Exit Network were indicted in May 2012 for their alleged involvement in the death of 57-year-old Doreen Dunn of Apple Valley.

Dunn, who suffered pain for 10 years following a 1996 medical procedure, used helium asphyxiation to kill herself on May 30, 2007, after joining Final Exit Network.

Asphaug ruled that the

state law prohibiting “advising� a suicide is unconstitutional because the language is overly broad. Additionally, in her ruling the term “encouraging� a suicide was narrowed to only include physical acts or language “promoting or urging� a person to commit suicide.

While all charges against Goodwin were dismissed, two other Final Exit Network members – Roberta Massey, 67, of Bear, Del., a Final Exit Network “case coordinator,� and Dr. Lawrence Egbert, 85, of Baltimore, the group’s former medical director – still face charges.

The fourth Final Exit Network member indicted in the case – Jerry Dincin, a Chicago-area psychologist and former president of the group – died in March and charges against him were dismissed as a result.

In the indictment – which included 17 charges against Final Exit Network, among them assisting another to

commit suicide and interference with a death scene – Dakota County Attorney James Backstrom alleged that Egbert and Dincin were present inside Dunn’s home at the time of her death.

Robert Rivas, attorney for Final Exit Network, said “Exit Guides� from the organization are often present when the person takes their life but never participate or assist in the act.

Rivas has argued that “encouraging� or “advising� a suicide is covered under free speech and thus a law prohibiting it is unconstitutional.

Backstrom said his office will not appeal the dismissal of charges against Goodwin, but will contest the district court’s ruling as it relates to Egbert and Massey, and to Final Exit Network as a corporation.

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March drive nets $72,000, 66,000 pounds of food 360 Communities sees more community energy to help its five food shelves

by Theresa Malloy SUN THISWEEK DAKOTA COUNTY TRIBUNE

More than 100 businesses signed on to help with their own food drives and fundraising. Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota donated $22,000, and a Farmington Boy Scout Troop was able to collect more than 6,400 pounds of food.

Because of discounts available to the food shelf, 360 Communities is able to use cash donations to purchase more than $210,000 in groceries. Compton said this is especially helpful in the summer months when demand for food runs higher because families do not have freeand-reduced-lunch programs in the school. “We’re pretty pumped that people understand that and have that level of empathy,� Compton said.

As local food shelves are seeing an increase in visits, 360 Communities also reports an increase in donations for its Minnesota Food Share month campaign.

The nonprofit organization that supports five food shelves in the community saw record-breaking totals, surpassing its initial goal by raising $72,499 and 66,379 pounds of food – enough to feed 2,000 people for the entire year. “One of the neatest things about doing this work was seeing (the community energy) and seeing people in the community wanting to do it,� said Tony Compton, 360 Communities marketing and communications manager. “We’re surrounded by bad Email Theresa Malloy news about this, and it really restores theresa.malloy@ecm-inc.com. your faith to see this kind of thing.�

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Zoo seeks $15 million slice of bonding bill Funds would support needs in Discovery Bay, snow monkey exhibit, infrastructure

by Howard Lestrud SUN THISWEEK DAKOTA COUNTY TRIBUNE

A request for $15 million in bonding funds is being made for the Minnesota Zoo. If approved by the Legislature, the appropriation would fund capital asset preservation improvements to the infrastructure and exhibits at the zoo.

A hearing was held Thursday, April 4, before the Senate Environment, Economic Development and Agriculture Division Committee to hear Senate File 513 carried by Sen. Greg Clausen, DFL-Apple Valley. The committee heard 24 bonding requests.

Clausen brought some Zoomobile animals with him to underscore the need. Making their home on two portable trees set up in a Capitol committee room were two slow loris Southeast Asia primates.

Kevin Weir, supervisor of the Zoomobile Out-

Sen. Carrie Ruud, R-Breezy Point, is intrigued by a Minnesota Zoo visitor at a Environment, Economic Development and Agriculture Division Committee hearing last week. The visitor brought by Kevin Weir of the zoo is a slow loris. (Photo by Howard Lestrud) reach Program, said the program touches 55,000 people annually and involves 550 hours of programming. The Zoomobile is a direct connection

between the animals and people, an overall mission of the zoo.

Lee Ehmke, director of the Minnesota Zoo, outlined the need for more

capital investment in the zoo and said it is because of state support that it has become a world-leading zoo. Ehmke said the zoo has become much more self-reliant. In the past, operations were funded 60 percent by biennial appropriations. That total has been reduced to 29 percent.

Over the past 40 years, the state has invested millions of dollars in capital improvements at the zoo, one of only two stateowned zoos in the nation.

These funds, matched by privately raised dollars, over the years have allowed the zoo to provide Minnesotans with memorable visits, while conducting critical conservation research and delivering environmental education through state-of-the-art technology.

The zoo is in its 35th year, and its facilities are aging and in need of upgrading, Ehmke said. He emphasized that the focus is on taking care of the existing assets of the zoo.

Currently, total asset preservation (infrastructure and exhibit renewal) needs $43.6 million, Ehmke said. He said the 2013 legislative request has

been pared to $15 million.

The zoo request includes three components: • Discovery Bay – Discovery Bay was first built in 1997 and after 15-plus years of saltwater exposure and ongoing use, it has been in need of significant repairs. The zoo last year received $4 million of the requested $7 million to undertake critical maintenance. It’s now asking for $3 million to complete this task. Part of the repair work will help the zoo accept a group of five or six Hawaiian seals, the most endangered seal in U.S. waters. Only 1,100 are left in the wild. The exhibit will be above water and below water.

• Snow monkey exhibit – This exhibit is in need of $6.7 million to provide the zoo’s resident population of snow monkeys with a habitat and support areas appropriate for today’s exhibition and animal welfare standards. The exhibit was opened in 1978 “and looks pretty much the same and in need of repair,” Ehmke said. A goal is to create a natural habitat for the monkeys from Japan. Funds, if approved, will be used to complete a renovation design.

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The Democratic-controlled House released an $800 million bonding bill Tuesday, April 9, that is sprinkled with area projects.

“I will say, you know how to write a bonding bill,” Rep. Greg Davids, R-Preston, told House Capital Investment Chairwoman Alice Hausman, DFL-St. Paul.

The House bill includes a number of larger bonding projects found in Democratic Gov. Mark Dayton’s bonding bill, such as $109 million for State

Capitol renovation.

“Next year, $94 million (more) and we’re done,” Hausman said of completing the long-delayed renovation.

Hausman’s bill also contains sweeteners that could help it muster the super majority — a threshold that must include eight Republican votes — that’s needed to pass the House.

The bill includes $7 million for Old Cedar Avenue Bridge renovation in Bloomington.

The House bonding bill is less generous with the Minnesota Zoo than the governor’s, recommending about $5 million for asset

preservation and infrastructure.

Hausman hopes to be more generous with the zoo next year.

Other features of the House bill include $50 million to Metropolitan Council for transit improvements, grant money for local government doing work on the Bottineau, Red Rock, Rush Line, and Southwest transit corridors.

Transit development is critical in the metro, Hausman argued, a bustling region accounting for twothirds of the state’s gross domestic product.

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• Infrastructure needs – Repairs to existing stateowned zoo buildings and grounds will consume $5.2 million of the total dollar request. The monies will help keep the buildings and grounds functional and safe. The zoo has identified and prioritized a series of infrastructure repairs needed for its buildings and facilities. These range from replacing sidewalks to behind-thescenes needs for mechanical system improvements.

Ehmke said the Minnesota Zoo is a gateway for STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) education. The zoo gets children focused on real things, an educational goal, Ehmke said.

The zoo has had an economic impact, as much as $146 million a year, Ehmke said. He said the zoo is always “shovel ready” for asset preservation.

“We are taking our place with other major cultural institutions in the state and these funds will allow us to continue and grow,” Ehmke said.

brace the “new economy,” one in which younger workers look to transit, she said.

The most controversial part of the House bonding bill, Hausman said, may be Veterans Affairs funding.

While Dayton includes $54 million for a skilled nursing facility at the Minneapolis Veterans Home, the House includes just $5 million in asset preservation.

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Opinion New high school/college collaborations are win-win-win

by Joe Nathan SUN THISWEEK DAKOTA COUNTY TRIBUNE

Mindi Askelson of Riverland Community College calls it a “win-win-win” collaboration. Scott Gengler of Irondale High School in Mounds View reports it’s “very rewarding.” John McDonald of Kingsland School District believes it’s “a better way of meeting student and family needs.”

“It” is the encouraging, growing collaboration between high schools and colleges providing greater challenge for students, while saving them and their families thousands, sometimes tens of thousands, of dollars. Before graduating from high school, students earn free college credits, even a one-year career/technical certificate or two-year associate of arts degree.

Bob Wedl, former Minnesota commissioner of education, recently recommended in a newspaper commentary that we should: “Abandon the 20th-century goal that high school graduates must be ready for post-secondary. The 21st-century goal must be that students will be well on their way to what they intend to do next with their lives when they exit high school. A redesigned system will have

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Joe Nathan many students already completing a year of post-secondary learning or even an associate degree. Others will have completed their one-year career certifications.”

Last year I described collaboration between Central Lakes College in Brainerd and Long Prairie/Grey Eagle School District. Students can earn enough credits in the high school to receive an A.A. degree before graduation. Principal Paul Weinzierl explained: “This not only helps us retain the funds, but also the leadership that some students take with them if they participate in post-secondary enrollment options.”

That 1985 law allows Minnesota 11thand 12th-graders to take courses on college campuses, or “online” courses, full or part time, with state funds paying their tuition, books and lab fees. Last year, PSEO was expanded. Tenth-graders now may take a career/technical course on a

college campus. Sophomores earning a “C” or higher may take additional career/technical courses during their second semester.

Last year U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan visited and praised Irondale High School, which built on the Long Prairie/Grey Eagle/Central Lakes collaboration. Scott Gengler, Irondale principal, told me “the biggest takeaway so far is that we have far more kids capable of college level rigor than have participated (in dual high school/college credit courses) in the past.” Some Irondale ninth-graders take advanced placement courses. Doing well means earning college credits. The school also has students taking “foundational classes” that help prepare them to take college level academic and or career technical classes.

Their primary partner is Anoka-Ramsey Community College.

Richard Rosivac, in his 15th year of teaching, helps coordinate Irondale’s program. For him, “this is not just about access, it’s about results.” He reported that approximately 53 percent of the school’s 1,631 students are enrolled in one or more dual credit courses. “We expect that percentage to grow.”

Meanwhile, at Kingsland High

School, Superintendent John McDonald says about half of the high school’s 102 juniors and seniors are in one or more dual credit courses. Starting fall, 2013, juniors can take enough courses to earn an A.A. degree before high school graduation.

Mindi Askelson, Riverland’s director of placement and K-12 school relations, explained the partnership with Kingsland, and a growing number of other high schools. Riverland faculty members are training and mentoring high school teachers to offer the college level courses.

Riverland faculty also offers college level courses “online” and via television. She explained, “Providing a seamless transition between high school and college is one of the strategic values of the MnSCU system … for those academically and socially ready, we host post-secondary options students on campus.”

Askelson is right. These are win-winwin collaborations.

Joe Nathan, formerly a Minnesota public school teacher and administrator, directs the Center for School Change. Reactions welcome at joe@centerforschoolchange. org. Columns reflect the opinion of the author.

No drones over St. Bonifacius, says this small-town City Council

by Don Heinzman SUN THISWEEK DAKOTA COUNTY TRIBUNE

St. Bonifacius, population, 2,286 in Hennepin County, may well be one of the first in Minnesota to pass a local ordinance restricting unmanned aerial drones, known as “spies in the skies.”

A drone is an unmanned aerial vehicle controlled by pilots on the ground. It is used for reconnaissance and surveillance.

The City Council’s new ordinance bans the use of drones within the city’s airspace, without a warrant, except where immediate death or serious injury exists.

Violation of the ordinance is a misdemeanor.

Further, the council is calling for a twoyear moratorium on use of the drones in Minnesota. It calls on the Congress and the state Legislature to adopt legislation prohibiting information obtained unlawfully from the domestic use of drones from being introduced in the federal and

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The resolution precludes the domestic use of drones equipped with anti-personnel devices designed to harm, incapacitate, or otherwise negatively affect a human being and pledges not to use city-owned leased or borrowed drones.

Residents can fly a drone only over their own property. So far, the community has not received a complaint about drones invading its airspace.

St. Boni is not alone with its concern.

A bill has been introduced in the Minnesota Legislature that also would prohibit the use of drones for gathering evidence or information on individuals except for

high-risk instances or after obtaining a warrant.

State Sen. Sean Nienow of Cambridge reports that the U.S. Congress has passed a law that requires the Federal Aviation Administration to allow drones wide access to U.S. airspace by 2015. The FAA predicts over 10,000 drones could be in use within the next five years.

In its resolution, the St. Boni council says the rapid implementation of drone technology poses a serious threat to the privacy and constitutional rights of the American people.

It can be armed with missiles and bombs and can be aloft up to 85 hours.

Use of drones by the U.S. government has come under fire, because while it has targeted enemies, it also has killed innocent civilians.

Even as the St. Boni City Council was developing its ordinance, U.S. Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky conducted a 13-hour filibuster forcing the government to state its policy on use of drones.

The technology involving the use of drones boggles the mind. Some say that these unmanned “snoops” equipped with sensors can tell how many people are in a structure. It’s even possible that by involving other technologies, the drone could eavesdrop on a conversation.

Like the St. Boni City Council, the American Civil Liberties Union is also concerned over the lack of safeguards while using this “big brother in the sky.”

The council says so far the federal government and the state of Minnesota have failed to provide reasonable legal restrictions on the use of drones.

That’s why the council believes taking the time and spending the money is worth it, even if it’s coming from one of the smallest communities in the metropolitan area.

Don Heinzman is the former editor of the Elk River Star News. Columns reflect the opinion of the author.

Letters Mack, Wills should back the zoo To the editor: One of my biggest political frustrations is when legislators are not pulling their weight so other legislators are doing the work for them.

So, imagine my shock that neither of Apple Valley’s two state representatives Tara Mack and Anna Wills were sponsoring a bill to help fund the Apple Valley-based Minnesota Zoo. Instead, Will Morgan of nearby Burnsville is sponsoring the bill although Apple Valley’s Greg Clausen is sponsoring the Senate version.

There are even three Republican co-sponsors (two in the House and one in the Senate) from western Minnesota and Washington County who are supporting this bill.

The zoo is probably the largest tourist attraction in Dakota County and brings money and revenue to the county and especially to Apple Valley. There are

also thousands of families and kids in Dakota County that use the zoo daily.

The fact that Morgan is carrying the legislation and not Wills and Mack is frankly embarrassing to their constituents. Mack and Wills should sign on to the zoo bill as co-sponsors ASAP.

tion. Currently, I estimate that one out of every five drivers disregards the noright-turn sign and I can completely understand their frustration after waiting, in some instances, as long as a minute and a half, while no westbound cars are even visible at this intersection.

Common sense in probWILLIAM CORY lem solving is always a LABOVITCH good first step and, even in South St. Paul engineering problems such as these, it can be the best at times. Let’s inTime to rethink solution vest some resources of the sign county and city to see if a common-sense approach To the editor: Isn’t it time to rethink is overdue here. the no-right-turn sign at the foot of the south- CARL MOONEY bound exit of I-35E as it Burnsville controls traffic entering Benefits County Road 42?

Smart traffic lights, of all-day those lights coordinated kindergarten with other lights in close To the editor: proximity thus allowing I am writing in response left or right turns while to a letter criticizing Sen. urging caution by flashing Greg Clausen’s (DFLa yellow light to the driver, Apple Valley-Rosemount) are abundant these days. support of all-day kinderI believe there is a garten. need for a similar light to Contrary to what critbe installed at this loca- ics may say or think, there

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is a tremendous amount of research that supports all-day kindergarten for students. In fact, according to the U.S. Census Bureau’s most recent data, 74 percent of children are enrolled in all-day kindergarten programs in the United States, compared to only 57 percent of Minnesota children.

Minnesota studies of the Burnsville, Stillwater, Winona, North St. Paul, Minneapolis, and Mankato school districts show students enrolled in all-day kindergarten have significant increases in academic skills, decreases in the number of students identified as “learning disabled,” increased grade level performance, and decreases in the achievement gap between white students and students of color.

We need to view the funding of all-day kinder-

garten as an investment in Minnesota. Minnesota’s economic advantage has been and will continue to be its educated workforce if we invest in programs such as all-day kindergarten. Investing in students early on in their education will pay off with a higher educated workforce and less investment in social programs.

The Legislature would be remiss not to fully fund all-day kindergarten; the rewards are too important to overlook.

rently moving through the Legislature will: (1) Provide drivers licenses (ability to vote?) to illegals in Minnesota – S.F. 271/H.F. 348 and (2) Provide instate tuition to illegals – S.F. 723/H.F. 875. Along with other incentives, such as unemployment payments, food stamps, cash assistance, medical Insurance, etc., why wouldn’t a person from an impoverished Latin American country pack his bags and head North. And many of these are people that probably have never travJIM SMOLA eled to the U.S. for migraPresident, Dakota County tory work. The little seUnited Educators cret behind the legislative proposals has more to do with inviting these illegals The end goal to become members of the To the editor: political party promoting It looks like Minnesota this than addressing some is actively encouraging kind of social injustice. more immigrants to cross the border illegally.

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Fairview Health merger proposals draw scrutiny

by Lisa Kaczke SPECIAL TO SUN THISWEEK DAKOTA COUNTY TRIBUNE

Two health care systems are proposing mergers with Fairview Health Services, causing Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson to question the motives behind the proposals.

In the first of several expected public hearings, Swanson questioned the connections between philanthropist and University of Minnesota alum T. Denny Sanford and Sanford Health of Sioux Falls, S.D., and the University of Minnesota, both of which want to merge with Fairview.

A potential merger would include the University of Minnesota Medical Center, which Fairview acquired in 1997. At the same time, the University of Minnesota is also attempting to strengthen its ties with Fairview. Both university and Fairview officials told Swanson the merger with Sanford Health won’t move forward if the university doesn’t support it.

Mark Rottenberg, university general counsel, said U of M President Eric Kaler is suspending the acceptance of donations to eliminate a conflict of interest, including sports gifts, after Sanford’s financial connection to university athletics came to light.

Any potential merger would affect Fairview Ridges Hospital, Burnsville’s second-largest employer and a fixture in the community since 1984. Fairview Health Services recently received City Council approval for a $60 million expansion on the Ridges Campus, which is to include a five-story medical office building, a 40,000-square-foot hospital expansion and a three-level parking ramp.

Officials with Sanford Health, Fairview and the university all rejected the labeling of “takeover” of Fairview. Rottenberg said Kaler didn’t propose a merger, but rather is seeking a way to “align” the U and Fairview together as a fully integrated system. The university’s

discussions with Fairview “substantially pre-date” any merger talks Fairview is having with Sanford Health, Rottenberg said.

“We propose a new combination of our organizations in which the university acquires control of, and commits to enhance the historic mission of, Fairview in our state,” Kaler wrote in a Jan. 28 letter to Fairview board Chairman Chuck Mooty of Edina.

“At this time, no specific proposal has been brought forward from the university for our board to consider or for us to share with employees or the public,” according to a Fairview statement.

On the issue of Sanford Health, Fairview released a statement saying, “Our talks with Sanford Health are in the very early stages, which is why there has not been broad public discussion. No agreements or formal commitments have been made. And nothing will move forward unless we and our partners at the University of Minnesota believe there is merit to a merger.”

Swanson asked during the public hearing on April 7 at the State Capitol whether Sanford Health’s goal was to become one of the few regional health systems in the Midwest. Link replied that consolidation will continue in the health care industry.

After Swanson investigated debt collector Accretive’s “horrific” practices in Fairview hospitals last year, Fairview officials said they would begin the search for a new CEO, Swanson said. However, the CEO search hasn’t begun and instead, discussions of a merger with Sanford have been taking place, she said. Mooty has been acting as interim CEO since last summer.

During the public hearing, Swanson said her office has been receiving “mixed messages” from Sanford Health, ranging from merger talks being in the early stages to meetings being held once a week. She said she heard Sanford Health was planning to make the University of Minnesota Medical Center the “jewel in

the crown of Sanford Health.”

She also called out Sanford Health officials for not responding to her office’s request for information in the form of a subpoena. It was a “highly unusual” response, she said.

If the merger occurs, it could create an estimated savings of $40 million to $60 million annually for the two health systems, Sanford Health Senior Vice President Becky Nelson said. She said Minnesota residents would likely be in the majority on the board of the merged health system, and a merger would provide more opportunities for care at the Fairview and university hospitals.

When Swanson said that Minnesota expects nonprofit medical centers to focus their money on patients, Link pointed out that Sanford Health’s financial support of sports complexes is to encourage children to participate in sports.

Two Minnesota House members have introduced legislation to stop the Sanford-Fairview merger.

It would prohibit out-of-state entities from controlling the University of Minnesota hospitals for one year. The legislation was introduced April 8.

One of the sponsors, Rep. Joe Atkins, DFL-Inver Grove Heights, also called on Mooty to testify before the House Commerce Committee on April 17.

“The public wants to know that the billion dollars of revenue generated by the University Medical Center each year will keep the U of M’s medical education at the forefront, and not be diluted through diversion to another state’s teaching hospitals,” Atkins wrote in a letter to Mooty.

Lisa Kaczke is community editor of the Edina Sun Current.

She can be reached at lisa.kaczke@ecm-inc.com. John Gessner, Burnsville community editor of Sun Thisweek newspapers, contributed to this story.

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New location a homecoming for dry cleaning clan Clover Cleaners now open on Burnsville Parkway

by John Gessner SUN THISWEEK DAKOTA COUNTY TRIBUNE

By day, 83-year-old Jane Heitzman runs her son’s dry cleaning store in Burnsville.

If customers need alterations or tailoring, she does them by night at her Lakeville home.

Jane’s long career in the dry cleaning business found yet another gear when her son, Jack, and his wife, Jody, bought the former Parkway Cleaners at 407 W. Burnsville Parkway and renamed it Clover Cleaners — a name that’s been in her family for more than 40 years.

The store, which opened in January, is also a homecoming for the Heitzman clan.

Tucked between Great Clips and Burn Premium Cigar Specialists, the new Clover Cleaners occupies the exact spot in the same strip mall where Jane and her late husband, Al, opened a Clover Cleaners 25 years ago.

In fact, they were the first tenants in Parkway Plaza Mall when it opened in 1988, said Jane, who views the new store as “just another challenge.”

“People say, ‘When are you going to retire?’ I say, ‘retire?’

That’s not in my vocabulary. I’d go crazy,” she said.

But the new Clover Cleaners — the fifth in a succession of Heitzman family-owned stores — isn’t a one-woman operation.

Jane is ably assisted by two 25-year-old granddaughters, Becky Heitzman and Stephanie Hero, who each have a decade

Members of the Clover Cleaners family clan are, from left, Becky Heitzman, Jody Heitzman, Jane Heitzman, Stephanie Hero and Jack Heitzman. (Photo by John Gessner) of experience in the business.

Meanwhile, Jack and Jody look after their larger west Bloomington store on Ensign Avenue South, which they bought from Al and Jane in 1988.

“You’ve got to work hard,” Jane said, “but it’s not a bad business to be in.”

The Heitzman dry cleaning empire dates back to 1947, when Al’s parents started Oxboro Cleaners, Jane said.

Al worked in the business but left to manage a dry cleaning store for the G & K Services chain, now a uniform-rental company. In 1972, when G & K offered its employees a crack at buying company stores, Al jumped. But he didn’t want the Edina store he’d been managing,

Jane said.

He opted for a store at 98th Street and Lyndale Avenue in Bloomington, near where he’d grown up. It was across the street from the original Oxboro Cleaners, which the family had since sold, Jane said.

“That was a time when there were cleaners on every corner,” Jack said. “Now they’re few and far between.”

The store was in the Clover Shopping Center, so Al and Jane took the name Clover Cleaners and put the family to work.

“All the kids took their turns at the counter and helping out in the shop,” Jack said. “There were six kids, and we all worked the counter.”

Al and Jane opened four stores in all, including the west

The place had cycled through other owners, going by the names of Blue Moon Cleaners and Parkway Cleaners.

Last November, Jack called Parkway Cleaners and asked the owners if they were interested in selling.

“I was just nosing around,” he said. “I didn’t really want to do anything. I’d gotten close to looking at other properties and I’d kind of squirrel out of it.”

His mother remembers her son’s decision to dive in and buy.

“He said, ‘I am my father’s son. The ones who own Parkway, they do want to sell.’ ” First he made sure Jane was interested in running the place.

“Jane, she’s 83, but she’s not an 83-year-old,” he said, noting that she works out after work and is active in her church, Church of the Risen Savior in Burnsville.

All the cleaning and pressing is done on site at Clover Cleaners, which Jane said wasn’t the case with the previous owners.

“People don’t like that,” she said. “They like it on site. That’s why we’re anxious to get this started.”

She’s struck by how much the Burnsville Parkway commercial strip has changed since her first go-around there.

“All this stuff, the highrise (office building across the street), the Heart of the City — it wasn’t here,” she said. “We could see all the way downtown (Minneapolis).”

Bloomington location and a store on West County Road 42 in Burnsville. Another of their children, Ellen, ran that store, which was sold last year.

The couple bought the Burnsville Parkway store after moving from Bloomington to a home in Lakeville near Crystal Lake.

They sold the store in the early ’90s after Al, who died 10 years ago, decided to retire.

Jane never did.

“Jane would float” between her children’s two dry cleaners, Jack said. “She would go and help Ellen and come and help us.”

Jack’s recollection of the John Gessner can be reached Burnsville Parkway location at (952) 846-2031 or email was triggered whenever he vis- john.gessner@ecm-inc.com. ited his accountant, who’s in the same strip mall.

Shannon Park teacher named CEO of nonprofit Farmington resident Carolyn Olijnek to start in May

by Tad Johnson SUN THISWEEK DAKOTA COUNTY TRIBUNE

Carolyn K. Olijnek, a second-grade teacher at Shannon Park Elementary School in Rosemount, was named last week as the first chief executive officer of the Nashville, Tenn.based nonprofit Math Recovery.

The Farmington resident was the mathematics intervention council’s choice due to her 20 years

of teaching experione of those moence and her role ments when we are as a mathematics influencing the futrainer and preture.” senter at various “I believe we Math Recovery touch and are Conferences. She touched by the has also created Carolyn future every day,” Math Recovery In- Olinjek Olijnek said in a structional Guides press release. “I and created a data analy- welcome the opportunity sis tool and framework for to reach out to districts the District Assessment and membership, both Center. current and potential, to In accepting the posi- further the work of Math tion, Olijnek described Recovery.”

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Deb Farley, who chaired the search team, said Olijnek surfaced as the unequivocal choice. “(We are) proud to announce and support Carolyn Olijnek’s appointment as USMRC’s first CEO,” said Yvette Panasowich, the nonprofit board’s chairwoman. “The future is filled with endless possibilities for exponential growth under the direction of our new leader.”

Olijnek has worked for 20 years in Minnesota public schools as an elementary school teacher

with much of her experience in math.

Prior to starting work at Shannon Park in 2011, Olijnek had been in District 196 since 1993 as a math trainer at Southview Elementary in Apple Valley and a teacher at Thomas Lake Elementary in Eagan.

She has provided mathematics support and training for administrators, K-5 teachers, students, and parents, including development days for district staff.

She has received formal training as a Math Recovery Intervention Specialist and completed the Advanced Specialist, AVMR

Champion, and SNAP Facilitator trainings.

Olijnek has a master’s in education from the University of Minnesota and a bachelor of arts in elementary education with a minor in mathematics from the University of Minnesota-Morris.

She will meet math professionals from across the country in her new CEO role from May 1-3 at the Math Recovery Annual Conference in Denver.

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Business Buzz Executives named at Prime Therapeutics Glen Laschober has been appointed chief operating office and Ellyn Hosch has been promoted to chief information officer at Prime Therapeutics, an Eagan-based pharmacy benefit manager.

Mostly recently, Laschober was president and CEO at Concorde Career College. He previously served as vice president and chief operations officer at US Oncology and Omnicare. He also held various senior leadership roles at CVS Caremark, Wellinx and ProVantage.

Laschober earned a B.S. degree in industrial and manufacturing engineering from the University of Illinois and an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago.

Hosch joined Prime in 2008 as vice president of application development and support. Prior to joining Prime, she held leadership roles at Diversified Pharmaceutical Services, HealthPartners and UnitedHealth Group.

Hosch earned an M.B.A. from the University of St. Thomas and an undergraduate degree from the University of Minnesota.

Two promoted at Burnsville company Kraus-Anderson Insurance has named Tom Reuder vice president of sales and Kelly Brenna assistant vice president of human resources and benefits services.

Reuder has over 25 years of commercial insurance experience. He began with KAI in 1993 as marketing director.

He received a B.A. in finance and economics from the University of St. Thomas and has earned his Chartered Property Casualty Underwriter des-

ignation.

Kelly Brenna has over 20 years of experience in human resources and has served as KAI’s director of HR and benefits services since 2001.

Brenna received Twin Cities Business magazine’s ”Five Star Health Insurance Professional Award” from 2010-12, and last year was selected to join the Medica Broker Advisory Council.

Brenna earned her certification from the Society of Human Resources, and is a member of the National Association of Health Underwriters and Minnesota Association of Health Underwriters.

Instructor receives kudos Dr. Craig Couillard has been named the faculty member of the quarter at the Minnesota School of Business – Lakeville campus. Couillard has taught at the Lakeville campus since it opened in 2009.

He teaches in the massage therapy and medical assisting departments.

Eagandale Business Center sold California-based Waba Financial has acquired the Eagandale Business Center, a two-building office development just off of I-494 and Pilot Knob Road in Eagan. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

The property will be managed by Anderson Property Management.

Breakfast With Champions topic is sales The Dakota County Regional Chamber of Commerce’s next Breakfast With Champions will feature sales and marketing expert Sam Richter’s presentation, “Know

More! Selling.” The event will be 7:30-9 a.m. Thursday, April 25, at Holiday Inn Express and Suites, 1950 Rahn Cliff Road, Eagan Cost is $20 for members, $30 for nonmembers.

To register, contact Jessy Annoni at 651-288-9202 or jannoni@dcrchamber. com.

Leadership appointment at Think Mutual Chris Barnick has been named vice president of Community Banking for Think Mutual Bank. He will oversee Think’s Twin Cities business organization.

B a r nick has 14 years of experience in the Chris b a n k i n g Barnick i n d u s t r y, most recently as director of Branch Services at Affinity Plus Federal Credit Union.

Think Mutual Bank has branch locations in Apple Valley and Eagan.

Life Time, Globe partner for degree Life Time Academy has a new partnership with Globe University that enables Globe University students to earn their degree while simultaneously completing their professional certification from Life Time Academy. Both entities have locations in Lakeville.

Students enrolled at Globe University have the opportunity to earn their Health Fitness Specialist bachelor’s degree, Professional Fitness Trainer Program certificate through Life Time Academy and NASM certification credentials.

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Skype Nominations are open “Bully” author Patricia to the public. Companies Polacco will lead a profes- can be nominated online sional development work- by visiting thefirstbbb.org shop via Skype from 9:30 or by sending the coma.m.-noon Saturday, April pany name, contact name, 20, at Mackin Educational address, phone number, Resources, 3505 County and email along with the Road 42 W., Burnsville. nominator’s name and Preregister for $25 at phone number to: BBB, www.mymackin.com/sur- Attn: Mackenzie Kelley, veys.php?id=15. Cost will 220. S. River Ridge Circle, be $30 at the door. For Burnsville, MN 55337; or more information, con- by faxing the information tact Amy Baum at 800- to 651-695-2487. Com245-9540 or amy.baum@ pany owners or employees mackin.com. may also nominate their own firms.

Nominated companies James Barton will receive an official enwins awards try form from the BBB. Apple Valley-based An independent panel James Barton Design- of judges will decide the Build won CotY (Contrac- award finalists and recipitor of the Year) Awards in ents. Winners will be anthe Residential Interior nounced live at the BBB’s Specialty and Residential 2013 Torch Awards for Interior under $150,000 Ethics ceremony in Octocategories and was chosen ber. as the regional winner in the Residential Interior Element category by the National Association of the Remodeling Industry.

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Dakota County Briefs Dakota County sending free nitrate test kits to select well owners Free nitrate testing kits will be sent to select well owners in Dakota County.

The Minnesota Department of Agriculture provided Dakota County with a grant of $65,348 from Clean Water Land and Legacy Amendment funds for the project, and Dakota County is partnering with an independent laboratory to conduct nitrate tests.

Within the next several weeks, MN Valley Testing Lab will mail free nitrate test kits to well owners in Castle Rock, Douglas, Hampton, Marshan, Nininger, Randolph, Sciota, Vermillion and Waterford townships, as well as the cities of Coates, Hampton, Hastings and Vermillion.

Well owners in those communities can get their water tested for free by following the instructions in the kit mailed to them. Test results are kept private and will be mailed back to well owners.

For more information, call MDA’s Kimberly Kaiser at 651-201-6280 or Dakota County Groundwater Protection’s Jeff Luehrs at 952-891-7553.

Items that will be accepted at no charge include televisions, cellphones, computers, paint, fluorescent bulbs, fertilizers, pesticides, rechargeable batteries, cleaners, solvents, gasoline, oil, oil filters and other types of household chemicals. Small household electrical items such as coffee makers, fans, radios, toaster ovens and vacuum cleaners are also free to drop off. Many types of appliances can be dropped off for $25.

No business waste or farm waste will be accepted.

For more information, visit www.dakotacounty. us and search “disposing hazardous waste.”

More plastics accepted at The Recycling Zone

Dakota County has expanded the list of items accepted at The Recycling Zone. Besides basic plastic bottles and jugs, The Recycling Zone is also accepting yogurt, pudding and fruit cups; margarine, cottage cheese and other plastic tubs; and produce, deli and take-out containers. Cartons such as juice boxes and soup, wine and milk cartons are also being accepted for free from residents and businesses.

For a complete list of items accepted for recyFree hazardous cling, visit www.dakowaste drop-off tacounty.us and search Dakota County resi- “The Recycling Zone.” dents can rid their homes, garages and sheds of un- Residents wanted poisonous, haz- recognized for ardous and dangerous chemicals for free from contributions 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday, to healthy May 4, at Central Maintenance Facility, 7570 communities The Dakota County 179th St. W., Lakeville. The facility can be Board of Commissioners reached at 952-985-4400. presented Public Health

Achievement Awards to three local residents at its meeting Tuesday, April 9.

Greg Michael, an advocate for NAMI Minnesota; Jo Zimmel, a physical education teacher in the West St. Paul School District; and the Hastings Boomer Advisory Council were all recognized for their efforts of building and sustaining healthy families and communities in Dakota County.

Michael, who was given the award in the “youth” category, is the vice chair of the Local Advisory Council for Children’s Mental Health. He is an advocate for reducing the stigma associated with mental illness and increasing mental health support for youth and young adults.

Michael leads the Young Adult Connections support group sponsored by NAMI Minnesota and is on NAMI’s Youth Transition Advisory Board.

Zimmel, who was awarded in the “individual” category, has helped launch many innovative projects while working as a physical education teacher at Garlough Elementary School in West St. Paul. The projects have been designed to increase students’ physical activity through various clubs for running, biking and snowshoeing. Zimmel represents the school on the district wellness committee and provides training to other teachers in Dakota County on practical ways to increase physical activity during the school day.

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The Dakota County Board of Commissioners established the Public Health Achievement Awards in March 2000 to recognize and honor the contributions of Dakota County residents who devote their time, energy and talents to creating a healthy future for their fellow county residents.

Campaign urges use of safe sleeping practices Sleep On It, a combined effort of the Dakota County Attorney’s Office and Dakota County Community Services Division, is reminding home day care providers to comply with Minnesota law when they lay infants down for naps by asking them one simple question: “Would you want to live with this?”

The county’s goal is to end unsafe sleep practices through education and outreach to home day care providers, parents and the community. As a result, instructional online videos, posters and training sessions have all been developed as a reminder to lay infants face up.

To access available resources, visit www.dakotacounty.us and search “providing child care.”

Easter Job Transitions Group to meet Warren Gustafson will present “Involv-abilities: An Effective Way to Sell Changes in the Workplace” at the April 16 meeting of the Easter Job Transitions Group.

The group meets at 7:30 a.m. Tuesdays at Easter

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“We don’t have the money to do what we’d love to do, which is add on,” Pronschinske said.

“So, we have to spruce up what we have.”

Organizational focus and club priorities are returning to center on service, both for members and the community, said Pronschinske, who was elected as commander of the 256-member organization last June.

“We need to go back to the core principles of the VFW,” Pronschinske said. “And what it’s about is helping veterans, and it’s

Lutheran Church, 4200 port or claiming veterans Pilot Knob Road, Eagan. benefits.

Call 651-452-3680 for inThe mobile office will formation. be at the Heritage Library, 20085 Heritage Drive, Lakeville, from NAMI family 10:30-11:30 a.m. and at support group the Rambling River Center, 325 Oak Street in to meet Farmington from 1:30The National Alli- 2:30 p.m. ance on Mental Illness “I would like to en(NAMI) of Minnesota courage residents in Dasponsors free support kota County to learn groups for families who what constituent services have a relative with a are available to them by mental illness. A family stopping by my mobile support group meets at 7 office,” Kline said. “Disp.m. on the fourth Mon- trict staff will be on hand day of the month at Ad- to answer questions and vent United Methodist help constituents with Church, 3945 Lexington any problems they may Ave. S., Eagan. For in- have experienced with formation, call Connie at federal agencies. The mo952-432-9278. bile office will also allow constituents to register Area students their thoughts on the important issues of the selected for day.”

Youth Tour Kline is chairman of Five local high school the House Education and students were recently the Workforce Commitselected to receive an tee. He also serves on the all-expense-paid trip to House Armed Services Washington, D.C., spon- Committee. He and his sored by Dakota Electric wife, Vicky, live in Burnsville.

Association.

The winners are Zachary Eichten, Rosemount Local groups High School; Brett Johnson, Farmington High receive arts School; Cory Kroon- grants blawd, Concordia AcadeThe Metropolitan Remy; Anna Larson, Chrisgional Arts Council has tian Life School; and awarded community arts Miranda Lawell, Apple grants to the following Valley High School.

Dakota County organiThe students will parzations: ticipate in the National • Dakota Valley SymRural Electric Association’s annual Washing- phony, $4,860 for the ton, D.C., Youth Tour Young Artists Concert.

• Eagan Parks and scheduled for June 14-20.

Recreation Department, Shivaali Maddali, $5,000 for Art...Be A Eastview High School Part activities. and Alexa Ochocki, Can• Minnesota Brass, non Falls High School Inc., $5,000 for Sounds were selected as alterof Minnesota, a drum nates. and bugle competition.

• Youth in Jazz, Inc., Kline’s mobile $5,000 for jazz programming for middle and high office to stop school-aged youth.

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U.S. Rep. John Kline’s “Mobile Office” will stop in Lakeville and Farmington on Thursday, April 18.

Constituents will have greater access to services such as locating a lost Social Security check, processing a visa or pass-

about working in the community. We have multiple community programs that have fallen by the wayside over the years.”

Pronschinske said the organization is reinstating its Voice of Democracy and Patriots Pen scholarship programs for middle and high school students.

They will continue to lead Memorial Day services May 27, and have been seeking community service projects recently that have included holding a ceremonial flag raising for the Walmart and teaching students flag etiquette at Christina Huddleston Elementary.

Eventually, Pronschin-

Caponi wins Sally Award Anthony Caponi is the recipient of a 2012 Sally Ordway Irvine Award.

The Sally Awards honor extraordinary achievement in the visual, performing and literary arts.

Caponi won the Sally Commitment Award.

ske said the organization would like to invest in more building upgrades like a backyard patio and more accessibility improvements.

“It’s supposed to be a place for veterans to come with their families to relax, enjoy, and have reasonable prices on things,” Pronschinske said.

He noted that the public is also welcome to enjoy the food, drink, pull tabs, room rental/catering and Saturday night bingo events.

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Lakeville Briefs Lions host breakfast buffet

Children’s Challenging Behaviors class

The Lakeville Lions annual Breakfast Buffet will be 8-10 a.m. Sunday, April 14, at Heritage Center, 20110 Holyoke Ave. All-you-can-eat pancakes, scrambled eggs, sausage and doughnuts will be served along with coffee, orange juice and milk.

Cost is $8 for adults, $4 for ages 4-10 and free for children under 4.

The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) of Minnesota will offer a free Children’s Challenging Behaviors class 9 a.m.-3 p.m. May 3 at Brackett’s Crossing Country Club, 17976 Judicial Road, Lakeville.

The workshop is for parents and caregivers of school-age children and is approved for two hours training for foster care families. To register, call 651-645-2948.

LNHS marching band Snowmobile fundraiser club to thank The Lakeville North Band Boosters will host landowners a waffle breakfast 8 a.m.noon Saturday, April 20, in the commons at Lakeville North High School, 19600 Ipava Ave. All-you-can-eat Dad’s Belgian waffles will be served along with flavored syrups, sausages and beverages.

Cost is $7; children 5 and younger are free.

Carry-outs available.

Buy a ticket from a band member or purchase at the door. A raffle will be held for two televisions on the day of event.

Proceeds will go to next year’s marching band trip.

The Lakeville Sno Trackers Snowmobile Club will treat local landowners to breakfast on April 14 at Babe’s in downtown Lakeville.

Thank you notes and breakfast invitations were mailed out, but if for some reason the Club missed a landowner, they can call Linda at 952469-3718.

The club’s wrap-up meeting will be 7 p.m.

April 15 at the Lakeville VFW.

City building permits update National Day of shows increase Lakeville has issued Prayer event building permits with Lakeville National Day of Prayer will be celebrated noon to 1 p.m. Thursday, May 2, at Lakeville City Hall, 20195 Holyoke Ave. Lakeville VFW members will present the colors. A local pastor and worship leader will lead participants in song and prayer for the nation and community.

More information is at www.nationaldayofprayer.org.

a total valuation of $22,362,000 through February 2013. This compares to a total valuation of $12,659,186 through February 2012.

The city issued commercial and industrial permits with a total valuation of $4,734,750 through February 2013 compared to a total valuation of $1,827,000 during the same period in 2012.

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In an email interview, Little called the meetings “vitally important” for him to effectively serve as mayor and provide people with another way to contact him.

“I established the office hours because in today’s world it is not often enough that we sit down and talk about the

a Boy Scout who asked him about how local government operates and reviewed the pros and cons of roundabouts.

The discussions are a result of Little’s recent invitation for residents to drop in or schedule a meeting with him at City Hall on Thursdays from

issued permits for 41 single-family homes through February 2013 with a total valuation of $13,064,000. This compares to 26 single-family home permits through February of 2012 with a total valuation of $7,787,000.

Kids’ stuff sale set Saturday, April 20 The 10th annual Lakeville Area ECFE Kids’ Stuff Sale will be 8 a.m.2 p.m. Saturday, April 20, at Kenwood Trail Middle School, 19455 Kenwood Trail.

A $1 admission fee will be charged from 8-10 a.m. Half-price sale: 11:15 a.m.-1 p.m. Bag sale ($5): 1:30-2 p.m.

Cash or checks will be accepted.

Consignors earn 70 percent from the sale of their items, minus a $10 administration fee, and can pre-shop the sale on Friday night. Consignors must register by April 17.

Donations also will be accepted and are tax deductible. Donations will be accepted at Kenwood Trail Middle School from 4-7 p.m. Friday, April 19.

All sale proceeds will be used to purchase educational materials for the Lakeville Area Early Childhood and Family Education program and classrooms.

For more information and to register as a consignor or volunteer, visit www.lakevilleECFEsale. com.

Planning for retirement workshop A retirement planning workshop will be held 9:30-11:30 a.m. Monday, April 22, at Lakeville Senior Center. To register, call Linda Walter at 952985-4622.

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Residents in Eagan’s Cedar Grove neighborhood have a new place to bring their laundry — and connect to Wi-Fi. The Cedar Grove Laundromat, which opened on March 13 in the Shoppes at Cedar Grove, features much more than washers and dryers.

The 2,300-square-foot space includes Wi-Fi, satellite television and a play area for young children.

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Steve Machacek said he views the additional amenities as a way to differentiate the business from others while changing the image of laundromats.

Located at 1969 Silver Bell Road, Cedar Grove Laundromat is within walking distance from nearby apartments.

Since opening a month ago, the laundromat has become popular with residents in apartments and single-family homes.

“A lot of people who have their own machines like to come here for spring cleaning,” he said.

Steve noted that their supersized machines can fit several comforters, rugs and other large items.

The laundromat, which is open Monday through Sunday from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m., is equipped with 26 machines of varying sizes.

The Cedar Grove site is the latest expansion of the couple’s laundromat business. The also own Burnsville Laundromat and Metro Coin Laundry in Burnsville as well as laundromats in Chanhassen and Inver Grove Heights.

Before opening their first laundromat in 2003, the couple spent more than a decade as landlords.

“I like to remodel things so they look nice,”

Steve said. “But with apartments you lose control.”

Frustrated by the drama that comes with being a landlord, Deb and Steve decided to change focus.

“Washer and dryers don’t give us trouble. They don’t pay rent late or trash a place,” Deb said.

The couple once owned about 50 rental units, but have since sold all but three. They said they hope to eventually leave the rental business entirely to focus exclusively on their laundromats.

The move wasn’t the couple’s first career change. Deb worked as a flight attendant for 18 years and Steve spent 20 years in the IT field before quitting their jobs to work full time on their businesses.

Steve and Deb said they enjoy being their own boss.

“If we are successful or not, we are responsible,” Steve said. “We are rewarded by our own hard work.”

For more information on Cedar Grove Laundromat and the Machaceks’ other laundromats, visit www.twincitieslaundry. com.

Jessica Harper is at jessica. harper@ecm-inc.com or facebook.com/sunthisweek.

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Education District 196 students qualify for state speech Students representing Rosemount-Apple Valley-Eagan schools won 35 of the 39 qualifying spots at the Section 3AA tournament and will be competing for medals at the State Speech Tournament for Class AA schools on Friday, April 19, at Blaine High School.

Apple Valley High School earned the team title at the Section 3AA tournament, which was held April 4 at East Ridge High School. The top three finishers in each of the 13 speech events qualified for the state tournament. State qualifiers from District 196 are listed below by school.

Apple Valley High School had 15 students qualify for 15 spots at the state tournament: Nader Helmy in Original Oratory – first place; Max Courtright in Creative Expression – first place; Stephanie Lenertz in Great Speeches – first place; Georgia Schmitt in Informative Speaking – first place; Patricia Reeves in Poetry Reading – first place; Moti Begna in Original Oratory – second place; Ian McKeag in Creative Expression – second place; Morgan Potter in Discussion – second place; Rebecca Crepeau in Extemporaneous Reading – second place; Sarah Reagan in Great Speeches – second place; Miriam Kelberg in Informative Speaking – second place; Jordan Larson in Great Speeches – third place; Kelly Fix in Prose Reading – third place; Olivia Schiffman in Storytelling – third place; Jacob Voss in In-

formative Speaking – third place.

Eagan High School had 16 students qualify for 13 spots at state: Sophie Callahan in Discussion – first place; Justin Wirsbinski in Dramatic Interpretation – first place; Cole Scheller and Quincy Nkwonta in Duo Interpretation – first place; Reid Emmons in Prose Reading – first place; Tarryn Michaelson in Storytelling – first place; Andrew Friedman and Nat Cobbett in Duo Interpretation – second place; Emerald Egwim in Prose Reading – second place; Jacob Guzior in Creative Expression – third place; Yodahe Heramo in Dramatic Interpretation – third place; Alyssa Oakman and Nick Martin in Duo Interpretation – third place; Carly Mau in Extemporaneous Reading – third place; Ben Heying in Humorous Interpretation – third place; Laura Hanzal in Original Oratory – third place.

Eastview High School had six students qualify for six spots at state: Alex Leehan in Humorous Interpretation – first place; Erica Floding in Extemporaneous Reading – first place; Ashesh Rambachan in Extemporaneous Speaking – first place; Cuong Duong in Dramatic Interpretation – second place; Perry Abdulkadir in Extemporaneous Speaking – second place; Jack Kurila in Extemporaneous Speaking – third place.

Rosemount High School’s Nicole Hutchinson qualified for state by taking second place in Storytelling.

The Lakeville South High School band spent spring break on tour in Spain under the baton of director Peggy Maloney, performing in Toledo, Zargoza and at the Catedrál de Barcelona, a large cathedral built in the 13th century. (Photo submitted)

Lakeville South student wins scholarship Paul Naumann, a sophomore at Lakeville South High School, is one of six fall 2012 winners of the Club Z InHome Tutoring Achievement Award.

Club Z provides the achievement awards to celebrate student success in the classroom and community activity.

Students from across the nation have an opportunity to win one of six scholarship awards in the fall and spring of each school year. The spring 2013 achievement award will be made in April. Students from fifth grade to 12th grade are eligible. For more information, visit www. clubztutoring.com.

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Rosemount MMA fighter has best season yet Mike ‘The Marine’ Richman loses decision in Bellator Season 8 Featherweight Final

by Andy Rogers SUN THISWEEK DAKOTA COUNTY TRIBUNE

Mixed martial arts fighters often say that every match is the biggest of their career.

For Mike “The Marine” Richman, there was $100,000 at stake during his April 4 bout.

The 28-year-old 2003 Rosemount High School graduate and Marine Corps veteran known for quick matches lost one of biggest decision of his career last week.

He fell by unanimous decision to Frodo Khasbulaev in the Bellator Season 8 Featherweight Tournament Final at Ovation Hall in Atlantic City, N.J. The road to get there was filled with upsets, grueling knockouts and unrepentant submissions.

This match, which was televised on Spike TV, could have gone either way.

All three judges’ scores gave it to Khasbulaev, but it wasn’t an obvious choice.

One or two solid punches could have changed the outcome.

“It was one of those toss-up fights,” said Richman, who was used to winning matches early. “It felt like a win. It was pretty frustrating.”

After 15 bloody minutes, the match was left in the hands of the officials, not the gloves. It wasn’t where Richman wanted it to be.

With a 15-3 record, most of Richman’s victories hap-

Rosemount’s Mike “The Marine” Richman takes a swing during an MMA event earlier this year. (Photo by Nelson Trinidad) pened in the first round.

Khasbulaev was a little more aggressive in the first round landing a few good rights, while Richman remained disciplined on defense. He had to be.

Early in the round, Richman’s jab landed on the top of Khasbulaev head.

“I could feel my hand crumble,” Richman said.

“It was a hard stinging pain. I backed up and tried to compose myself. I tried not to show I jacked up my hand.”

Amid chants of USA (Khasbulaev is Russian), the fight started to get bloody in the second round in favor Richman. Khasbulaev found himself on his back twice in the second

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Richman and the announcers thought he evened the score in the second round, but the judges gave Khasbulaev the 10-9 edge meaning Richman had to go all-out in Round 3.

He was the early aggressor, but Richman was taken down in the final 80 seconds.

He got up quickly, but was unable to regain the edge losing the round by a point and the match overall 30-27.

“The third round was the decisive round,” Richman said. “He was charging me a lot. I got a little blurry. I was waiting for my hand to go numb, but it was to the point where I didn’t want to throw it. It was started to throb.”

Khasbulaev won $100,000 and earned a world-title shot.

“I took the defeat with grace,” Richman said. “I’m ready to start healing and training again.”

Richman went to the doctor on Tuesday for an X-ray. The doctors ringside suggested it was a boxer’s fracture.

His next match hasn’t been scheduled, but he estimated he’ll be back in the ring sometime in mid-tolate summer. The Bellator

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In training In the eight weeks leading up to a match, he was training twice a day, six days a week.

His training included sparing, juijitsu, wrestling, strength and cardio training with Olympic-style lifting and sprints.

During the offseason, Richman said he “only” trains once a day.

“You need to schedule that recovery,” he said.

Richman’s career started with a 9-0 record during which he forced seven submissions and two technical knockouts mostly in the first round competing in area Brutaal: Fight Night bouts.

His rise earned him an invitation to compete with Bellator MMA in 2012, which is the second largest mixed martial arts promoter in the U.S. He’s to the point where this is his full-time job. It didn’t start that way. He was paid $200 for his first professional fight in 2008.

“It’s definitely a process,” Richman said. “You have to pay your dues. I was working full time, training and fighting. Now I can pay my bills and do what I love.”

Making MMA fighting a career seemed like a natural progression for Richman, who joined Marine Corps when he was 18. It helped with the self-discipline required for the physical and mental demands of training and competing in MMA. “Inside of you, you know what you feel you’re good at,” Richman said.

“Before I started doing it, I felt like I had the talent, and with my training the Marine Corps, I felt like I had the ability.”

He inherited the nickname “The Marine” during a kickboxing fight. Richman’s manager noticed a

Mike “The Marine” Richman (Photo submitted)

Rosemount’s Mike “The Marine” Richman battles during a Bellator event earlier this year. (Photo by Nelson Trinidad) table of Marines in dress blues, so he told the announcer to add “The Marine” and the nickname stuck.

His rise in Bellator this season has inspired him to keep going.

Last season he advanced to the featherweight semifinal, where he was knocked out by Shahbulat Shamhalaev. This season he reached the final to face Khasbulaev beating Alexandre Bezerra in the semifinal.

“The (Bezerra) fight was a real gut check for me,” Richman said. “I was behind after Round 1 and came back in the third.”

It was one of his biggest career victories along with his knockout over Chris Horodecki last year in his Bellator debut.

“I wasn’t a big name yet,” Richman said. “Horodecki was in better promotions and I knocked him out. That was huge.”

Losing to Khasbulaev was tough, but Richman had his best season in 201213.

“Hopefully I can continue to represent Rosemount and put it on the map,” Richman said. “I get asked a lot: ‘Where is Rosemount?

Why don’t you just say you live in Minneapolis?’ I get the opportunity to tell people where it is. I’m going to keep going. Hopefully next year I’ll get another shot at the finals.”

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PRINCIPALS, from 1A to be someone who will be here for a good five years.

Snyder said she is “very I don’t think I can commit driven” to see the district to five more years.” become known as worldShe said she plans to class, “so I’m looking for declutter the Lakeville world-class principals,” house she shares with who are instructional husband Gary Schmidt, leaders who can “facilitate take pottery classes at staff going from good to the Lakeville Area Arts great.”

Center, return to her golf The principals who are game and volunteer in the retiring have 113 years of community. combined experience in While she has a long the education field, with history of embracing and most of their years spent leading through changes, in the Lakeville School she said she has mixed District. feelings about leaving the job she has held for more Amy Schmidt than half her life.

Schmidt, in her 39th “I’ve always tried to year working in Lakeville lead staff through change schools, has the most se- here,” she said. “I hope I niority of anyone in the can accept change in my district. life, too.”

She started in 1974 as a fifth-grade teacher at Richard Oscarson JFK, eventually moving Oscarson, Eastview’s to Christina Huddleston, principal since the school where she taught and was opened in 1996, said he tapped for leadership as a has many fond memories staff development coordi- that make leaving after 17 nator, training, mentoring years at the school diffiand coaching other teach- cult, including the practiers. cal jokes staff members She served brief stints have played on him and as interim principal there each other. and at Orchard Lake, and “Just the thought of her supervisors, including ‘The Halloween Pirate,’ former Superintendent ‘Cowboy Randy,’ ‘The Carl Wahlstrom, encour- Dancing Santa,’ and ‘The aged her to earn an admin- Principal’s Stolen Car’ istrative licensure, which make me smile,” he stated she completed in 1996. in an email, adding that That same year, she his favorite memory is was appointed principal at opening a new school.

Christina Huddleston and Eastview, the last in is the school’s sixth and a series of elementary longest-serving principal schools opening every since opening in 1982. two years in the district Schmidt said it is time from 1988 to 1996, was for a leadership change at designed to facilitate Christina Huddleston. teamwork among staff.

“The school really Oscarson noted that it needs someone who can was a team effort involvcome in fresh to this build- ing himself, the architect ing and help people here and some teachers who move with the changes at developed the two-story the district level,” Schmidt school’s floor plan and said. “In order for that selected furniture and rechange to move forward sources. and be sustained, it needs “I think the best part

BUSES, from 1A The Metro Red Line, which will have buses running like trains without the tracks, will begin serving its five station stops along the 11-mile route on Cedar Avenue in an effort to give current bus riders another option and encourage more commuters to start riding buses instead of crossing the Minnesota River with the other 90,000 motorists daily who make the north or south trip in a car.

Planners are hoping the Red Line’s no-scheduleneeded convenience and its 30-minute trip time are attractive enough to help reduce traffic congestion on the heavily traveled Cedar Avenue.

That trip time is expected to improve if the Minnesota Department of Transportation is successful in completing a more direct bus access to the Cedar Grove station in the next year (see sidebar).

Express bus service in the corridor, which won’t change after the Red Line launches, carries nearly 650,000 riders annually.

The Met Council projects the Red Line will carry 480,000 passengers by year three of its implementation. Projected weekday ridership is set at 3,650 by 2030 – nearly a million for the year.

Abbott says she’s looking forward to the stationto-station service because it is expected to increase the frequency of buses at her stop.

Currently, Abbott says her route departs every half hour from Apple Valley, but Red Line buses are expected every 15 minutes during peak travel periods.

Running every 30 minutes during off-peak hours, Red Line buses will

run from approximately 5 a.m. to midnight, Monday through Friday, and 7:30 a.m. to midnight, Saturday and Sunday at an annual operating cost of $3.2 million.

Arlene McCarthy, metropolitan transportation services director for the Met Council, called the Red Line a complement to express service.

She noted that some express service riders might need more flexible departure times.

“This is a bonus,” McCarthy said. “A legitimate thing we hear from express riders is that they sometimes need to get home in the middle of the day … or a way home when they are working late at night.”

That way home for workers in downtown Minneapolis will likely be to hop on the Hiawatha Light Rail line to the Mall of America (the Blue Line) where they can catch the Red Line.

“It is focused on a new market of riders who travel during the entire course of the day,” McCarthy said.

She said the Red Line, which also has off-board fare collection, will be used for reverse commuting, non-peak time travel to work, school or cultural opportunities.

Other benefits The Red Line’s increased frequency means Abbott will have a better chance of finding an open bike rack for her 21-yearold Schwinn that she uses in the warmer months to ride home from work.

Bike racks will be located inside the seven, 60-person capacity (30 in seats) buses that will run on the Red Line.

Abbott, who says she is “no speed demon” on her

of opening Eastview was the opportunity to bring the new staff members and new families together as a new school community,” Oscarson said.

When he started teaching in Princeton in 1976, Oscarson said only the principal and secretary had a phone and nobody had a computer.

Over his 38-year career, Oscarson said technology has enhanced communications, but he questioned the greater emphasis on standardized testing and accountability.

“I believe this has led to elementary teachers and principals feeling the pressure to teaching more reading, math and science to their students at the expense of art, music and social studies,” Oscarson said. “I hope someday our teachers can return to a ‘whole child’ curriculum.”

Aside from that concern, Oscarson said he is “very optimistic” about the future of Lakeville schools, calling its teaching and paraprofessional staff dedicated to providing the best instruction to students, with a strong parent community willing to help educators.

“Our students will be in great hands if our staff members and parents continue to work together as a team for the benefit of all of our students,” he said.

In the future, Oscarson said he plans to spend more time with his three grandchildren, travel to new places and get away from Minnesota winters.

The message he wants to leave to children, parents and coworkers: “Always look for the best in people, do your very best in whatever your do, and

Jennifer Welter, OLE be willing to help others,” to try new things.

“She is always behind office manager, said she he said. the scenes supporting us has worked with Roos for Karen Roos any way she can,” Steffer the past decade and Roos will be “missed hugely” At Lakeville’s old- said.

Roos also helped cre- by staff, students and parest elementary, Orchard Lake, many changes are ate a positive, friendly ents. atmosphere at the school “She is leaving big coming.

The site of the new and has a calm approach shoes to fill,” Welter said.

Impact Academy option, in her work.

“She’s just a delight to Laura Adelmann is at laura. much of the district’s focus has been on this be around,” Steffer said. adelmann@ecm-inc.com. school, where after 15 years as leader, Roos has announced she will retire with 37 years working in education field.

Dr. George A. Hankerson Roos was not available for an interview, but in a Dr. Brent R. Kvittem brief announcement to Dr. Amy Kebriaei OLE parents and staff said, she submitted her retirement letter early so the district could have as much time as possible to find “the best replacement available.”

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Steffer said Roos from better thinking diligently “dug in” and helped teachers learn and put into action new teaching practices and standards over the years and has done everything with students in mind first.

“She is always student-centered,” Steffer said. “She is interested in what’s best for kids.

That’s what she looks at when we’re trying new things.”

With staff, Steffer said Roos is a “service-centered leader,” frequently - Independent, Authorized Dealer issuing praise and guidance but allowing teachers to make decisions and

cycle, says she loves riding the 14 miles home as it’s a way to integrate exercise into her daily routine.

She concedes that time isn’t a big factor in her commute since her children are grown.

“I don’t dwell on how much time it is going to take me,” she said of her route that takes more than an hour coming home by bus or bike. “I don’t even think about it anymore.”

Other than not putting miles on her car and saving about $150 she might have spent on gas every month, she sees the benefits of riding mass transit are being able to read a book (she knocks off about one a week), closing her eyes for a bit, getting to know other riders and exercise.

A fare during the rush hours of 6-9 a.m. and 3-6:30 p.m. is $2.25, while other fares are 75 cents.

Abbott has used her bus connection to the Mall of America to go to the Minneapolis-St. Paul Airport, Burnsville Center, downtown St. Paul and other locations throughout the Twin Cities.

She said another benefit of the Red Line will be Sunday service, so she can go to such places for “fun.”

Abbott used to drive her car to work for about four years, but a co-worker turned her on to the idea of possibly biking during a portion of her commutes.

“Now I promote it with the people I work with,” she said. “I love the time I spend on the bus or riding my bike.”

Abbott has been such an advocate for transit that she served on the Metro Transit Fare Policy Committee. She said she was the only person on the

committee who was strictly a rider.

Red Line stops will be at the Apple Valley Transit Station, 147th Street and 140th Street in Apple Valley and Cedar Grove in Eagan and the Mall of America in Bloomington.

Buses will run on dedicated road shoulder lanes added during the recent $112 million construction program funded by federal, state, and regional contributions; Counties Transit Improvement Board; Dakota County; and the cities of Apple Valley and Lakeville.

It also aims to relieve congestion at one of the state’s busiest intersections – the junction of Cedar and County Road 42 – which accommodates 70,000 vehicles per day.

The Red Line’s buildout goal is to have a total of 13 station stops, extend service to Lakeville and make the Red Line 16 miles long by 2030.

Plans are in the works to establish a bus-rapid transit Orange Line along the I-35 corridor.

The Minnesota Valley Transit Authority will be restructured in conjunction with the launch of Red Line service to enhance connections with the line. More about those changes will be announced in the coming weeks. Look for a future story to review those changes or go to mvta.com.

Communities will plan events to help celebrate the launch of the new service, including a period of time to ride the Red Line for free.

More about the Red Line is at www.metrotransit.org/metro-red-line.

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while offering families opportunities to improve their lives and resources to relieve their poverty.

Thousands of men, women and children are tricked or abducted from impoverished areas for use as sex or slave labor around the world, according to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime.

In 2009, the head of India’s Central Bureau of Investigation estimated that there are more than 1 million children in the commercial sexual exploitation industry in India.

Hosanna’s Jim and Adri Carlson are helping to lead a local abolitionist movement, working with other organizations locally and abroad in the fight to free labor and sex slavery victims from the brutalization they endure.

In India, the Carlsons and six others worked with the nonprofit organization Hands of Freedom to train teachers who will educate students at a new school planned to open soon.

Hands of Freedom offers micro loans, training and mentoring to people there wishing to start their own business such as sewing.

A requirement of the program is that their children be enrolled in school; if there is not one available, the organization works with them to open one or find an alternative.

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Local efforts Young human trafficking victims are also found locally.

In Minnesota, homeless youths are approached for sex within 48 hours of becoming homeless, according to Minneapolis rescue organization Source Annex, and there are increasing reports of high school students being coerced into prostitution, many by “boyfriends� whose initial charm morphs into control

through lies, threats, beatings, rape and addiction.

In Lakeville, awareness of the local human trafficking issue has grown because of the work of the Carlsons and newspaper articles in Sun Thisweek that highlighted the issue.

Lakeville police Chief Tom Vonhof has invited Adri and anti-trafficking organization Breaking Free to help train officers as part of a multi-pronged effort for Lakeville police officers and other first responders to recognize and help human trafficking victims.

All LPD officers will be part of a three-day training in Jordan in April and May, Adri said.

The department is preparing public service announcements as part of an awareness campaign, and two Lakeville officers will attend a specialized Bureau of Criminal Apprehension training about how to recognize human trafficking victims, according to Vonhof.

Training is important because of the unique trauma and abuse victims often suffer.

Some trafficking victims are too terrified or loyal to their abusers to admit they need help; others self-blame due to the psychological trauma they have endured or are brainwashed to distrust law enforcement and government officials.

Traffickers also purposefully isolate victims and keep them in a state of complete dependency, according to the Polaris Project.

“High levels of dependency and learned helplessness lead victims to prefer the hell they know than face the uncertainty of adapting to a new world of independence,� the Polaris Project’s report “In Their Shoes� states to explain why trafficked persons cannot or will not leave a trafficking situation.

Another barrier to helping victims is that they are frequently moved between brothels, states and even countries, making it highly unlikely that law enforcement members or service providers would have multiple opportunities to provide intervention for a victim.

According to the report, victims may also be trained to tell lies or canned cover stories, adding to the challenges for potential rescuers.

Vonhof said he is eager to collaborate and work with Adri and local organizations to address trafficking.

Adri said she will form a Lakeville human trafficking awareness advisory group to offer new viewpoints, ideas and help and is seeking members to serve on it.

She invites interested residents to email her at trafficking.justice@gmail. com.

For more information, go to www.traffickingjustice.com or breakingfree. net.

Laura Adelmann is at laura. adelmann@ecm-inc.com.

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will work at a “Hope Center� planned to be located in the red light district, a safe place for children of the workers and away from traffickers.

Jennifer Needham, Lakeville, is a Farmington teacher who was part of the trip.

She said women are so devalued in that society that most female babies are aborted or killed in infanticide; many of those who end up at orphanages are often sold to traffickers.

Living in hopelessness and poverty, the allure of cash compounded with promise of a better life for their children often proves tempting for Indian families, but the Carlsons led a trafficking awareness session warning them of what really happens to children who are sold to traffickers who profit over their repeated rape, torture, manipulation and abuse. “When men come promising great jobs in the city and want to buy your girls, it’s a lie,� Needham said.

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SUN THISWEEK - Lakeville April 12, 2013 15A

Sports Cougar track expecting high marks in 2013 Girls return several athletes from state championship team

by Andy Rogers SUN THISWEEK DAKOTA COUNTY TRIBUNE

It’s going to be a challenge for any team in Minnesota to match the success Lakeville South’s girls track and field team had last year.

The Cougars essentially went undefeated under several scoring formats, winning the state True Team, South Suburban Conference and Section 1AA meets. They capped their season by winning the Minnesota State High School League’s Class AA championship.

Several of the key performers from that team are back this season. Still, head coach Andrew Hilliard was reserved when asked about the team’s prospects for 2013.

“It’s going to be a different team,” he said.

“We only graduated six or seven seniors, but they scored a lot of points.

We’re going to need some first-year athletes to step up to duplicate that success.”

The field events took a hit from graduation, losing pole vaulter McKell Anderson and thrower

Monica Turner, but the Cougars have several AllState athletes back with expectations of finishing the season on the podium at the state meet in June.

“The key is keeping everybody healthy and not putting too much pressure on ourselves,” Hilliard said. “We just need to remind ourselves it’s a new team. If things don’t work out as well as they did last year, the goal is to keep improving and do the best we can do.”

Shaina Burns, who finished seventh at state in the 100-meter hurdles and fourth in the 300 hurdles, is one of the Cougars’ top returning athletes.

Burns was a member of the 4x400 relay that finished fourth at state along with returning athletes Rose Cozad, Emma Mickelson and Caraline Slattery.

One of the better high jumpers in the state the past couple years, Morgan Pieri, also returns.

She finished fourth last year at state and was the top sophomore in the high jump.

Slattery also emerged as one of the state’s bet-

ter high jumpers last season, finishing sixth in the Class AA meet.

Jordyn Thornton returns after placing second in the discus and fifth in the shot put at state last year.

“She’s looking for big things this year,” Hilliard said. “She set two school records last year.”

Three members of the 4x800-meter relay team that finished fourth at state are back – Emma Mickelson, Kaytlyn Larson and Andrea Brekken.

The distance events should be strong with Megan Lubow, Brekken and Larson headlining.

Erin Kilbride will also give the Cougars a boost.

She sat out last year because of an injury, but worked hard to get back to full strength.

“They had a good cross country season,” Hilliard said. “They’ll be the rock of our team.”

Ashley Pratt (throws), Angela Shepherd (throws), Cozad (middistance), Rachel Mickelson (mid-distance), Emma Michelson (middistance), Emily Wick Lakeville South’s Shaina Burns leaps over hurdles at the Class AA state meet last June. (Photo by Rick Orndorf) See TRACK, 16A

Panther golfers expect to remain in contention Thomas brothers are back with Lakeville North

by Andy Rogers SUN THISWEEK DAKOTA COUNTY TRIBUNE

Lakeville North’s Laura Larson lines up a shot at the Class AAA state golf tournament last June. She was recently named the 2013 Athena Award recipient given out each spring to the top female athlete in each metro area high school. She is also a member of National Honor Society and ranked fifth out of more than 400 students in her senior class. She will be attending the University of Arizona next fall to pursue a career in business and entrepreneurship and play volleyball. (Photo by Rick Orndorf)

Panther golfers bring in talent from all over Girls golf team has higher expectations in 2013

by Andy Rogers SUN THISWEEK DAKOTA COUNTY TRIBUNE

Several of the top athletes Lakeville North has to offer have returned to the golf course for the girls team this spring.

Christi Vetter leads the list of returning golfers as a junior along with her younger sister Brianna Vetter, who finished 45th at state as an eighth-grader in 2012.

Christi Vetter has made a name for herself on the hockey rink, leading the team to state earlier this

year and scoring 45 points.

She plans to play hockey at the college level.

While Brianna Vetter dabbles with hockey, her focus is on golf and she spent the winter on the Nordic ski team.

“She’ll probably ultimately pass up Christi,” head coach Dennis Dawson said. “She really found her game last year.”

They are joined by Sam Folkman, Laura Larson, MacKenzie Stauffer and newcomer Megan Welch.

Larson also finished last season strong, placing

53rd at state, and is one of the top student-athletes at Lakeville North. She was recently named the Athena Award winner for Lakeville North, an honor going to the top female senior student-athlete.

She knows what it takes to win a state championship as a member of the Panthers’ 2012 state championship volleyball team.

Larson plans to attend the University of Arizona in the fall and play volleyball.

Welch has been itching to play on varsity for years.

See GIRLS GOLF, 16A

The Lakeville North boys golf team lost two of its top six golfers from last season, which was one of the Panthers’ best springs in recent memory.

Still, the players’ expectations will be just as high this year, if not higher.

“Honestly, from what I’ve seen this year, top to bottom, this year we have the most talent we’ve ever had,” head coach Steve Sabetti said. “We even had a couple of seventh-graders who look pretty good right now. Based on what our scoring averages are at from last year and who’s back, I would think we’re in the top five in the state again.”

That’s high praise coming off a season where the Panthers won the South Suburban Conference title and spent time ranked No. 1 in the state.

Things didn’t go as planned in the Section 1AAA tournament as the Panthers failed to advance to state as a team.

Freddy Thomas qualified individually for state and did quite well. He finished third overall and was one stroke out of first place.

He leads the list of returning golfers along with his twin brother Bobby Thomas.

“Bobby has worked really hard at his game,” Sabetti said. “He has some serious talent. Last year

Lakeville North’s Freddy Thomas takes a shot at the Class AAA state golf tournament in June. He was one stroke behind the winners. (Photo by Rick Orndorf) it was just getting through that one bad hole. He had a really good summer and won some big tournaments. Freddy won a bunch as well. Those are two of the top players in the state.”

The pair of juniors are already looking at playing in college. Several Division I programs in the Big Ten are interested, including

the University of Minnesota, according to Sabetti.

Returning seniors Mike Oberg and Joey Smits hope to keep the Panthers in contention.

“Oberg had a really good summer too,” Sabetti said. “He’s top 25 in the state. Smits really surprised me last year. He’s See BOYS GOLF, 16A

Cougar boys golf wants to build of last year’s success Girls team still quite young

by Andy Rogers SUN THISWEEK DAKOTA COUNTY TRIBUNE

The Lakeville South boys golf team had perhaps its best season in school history in 2012 finishing runner-up in the South Suburban Conference just a few points behind Lakeville North.

While the Cougars have several returning players, the head coach is new but not to golf.

Bill Schommer has been giving advice to golfers since he was a youth who grew up caddying.

He attended college on an Evans Scholarship, which is given to caddies.

He also competed at state

level events for the past 30 years.

He was a head coach for one year at Lakeville High School, before it became Lakeville North, 10 years ago and coached the developmental team for Lakeville North two years ago.

He’s also been a youth hockey coach for 15 years.

Schommer is expecting an even better season in 2013. The good news is that several of the team’s top golfers have dusted off the clubs for another round.

“I have high expectations for this team and hope to be competing in the state tournament in June,” Schommer said.

“I think the players have higher expectations as

well. We have a nice number of players trying out this year, which is great.”

Justin Doeden and Mack Farley are back after earning all conference honors last season.

They are joined by Max Redetzke who earned all conference honorable mention as a freshman in 2012 along with Jordan Nelson and Phil Thompson.

The Cougars have several young golfers who will help make up the top six.

The boys are scheduled to play at the Wilds Golf Club in Prior Lake on Wednesday in a meet that features several South Suburban, Lake and Missota Conference teams.

Girls golf The Lakeville South girls team is young again.

“Over half my team is not in high school yet,” head coach Ron Redetzke said. “It is actually fun to have such a young team though. They are working hard and have set some strong goals.”

Senior captain Kersten Schmitt is the oldest player by two grades.

“Kersten should do a good job as captain,” Redetzke said. “The girls look up to her.”

Sophomores Abigail Juckel and Mikaela DePauw are next in line, but the rest of their teammates are in middle school.

Juckel has been on the team for three years and should be one of the top

two scorers for South.

“She has high hopes in her golf game, that are achievable,” Redetzke said. “Mikaela is new to the team but has a strong work ethic.”

The eighth-grade class is well-represented for South with Alexa Weber, Amanda Barbaro, Cassandra DePauw, Kate Redetzke and Kennedy Flemming.

Being young doesn’t mean they don’t have talent. It just means they have several varsity years left to bloom.

“The eighth-grade girls are a fun group,” Ron Redetzke said. “They are really working hard and are committed to improving their game. I hope in the next few years their goals

will be reached.”

While the team is young, the coach says he expects improved scores from a year ago when the team was in complete rebuild mode after losing most of its team to graduation.

“We had half our team that was seventh-graders, and we struggled to break 400,” he said. “This year we hope for lower than that number, but we realize we really have a few years before we are very competitive.”

The girls have a South Suburban Conference meet scheduled Tuesday at Dwan Golf Course in Bloomington.

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Notebook: Former Eastview coach goes to Frozen Four Gibbons is assistant at St. Cloud State

by Mike Shaughnessy SUN THISWEEK DAKOTA COUNTY TRIBUNE

None of the players involved in this weekend’s NCAA Frozen Four men’s hockey championship have Dakota County ties, but one coach does.

That’s Mike Gibbons, who was head coach at Eastview High School from 1997 to 2007 and now is an assistant coach at St. Cloud State University. The Huskies faced No. 1-seeded Quinnipiac on Thursday night in Pittsburgh, with the winner to play Yale or Massachusetts-Lowell for the national championship at 6 p.m. Saturday. None of this year’s Frozen Four teams has ever won the national title.

Gibbons is an assistant to SCSU head coach Bob Motzko. The Huskies, whose roster has 14 Min-

TRACK, from 15A (sprints), Alisha Skluzacek (sprints), Grace Walker (sprints) and Haley Lubow (mid-distance) will give the Cougars a chance to compete for top marks again in 2013.

It’s been tough to judge how fast they look and how far they can jump with snow covering the track for the first few weeks of practice, but the excitement level is high.

“They realize what they’re capable of doing and hope it builds from there,” Hilliard said.

“Someone can look fast in the hallway, but can they put it together outside? We’ll see.”

Boys track A two-time state pole vaulting champion is back for more with the Cougar boys track and field team. Lee Bares won the state title last season by more than a foot with

nesota natives, tied for the Western Collegiate Hockey Association regular-season championship. They defeated Notre Dame 5-1 and Miami 4-1 in the NCAA regionals in Toledo, Ohio.

Gibbons led Eastview to third place in the 2001 state Class AA tournament, which was the school’s first appearance at state. He was a threetime section coach of the year.

Before coming to Eastview, he was head coach for one year at Bemidji State, where Gibbons played college hockey.

He also was an assistant coach at a couple of WCHA schools and an assistant coach for an American Hockey League team. He was an assistant coach for the U.S. Junior National Team in 2006.

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a vault of 15 feet, 6 inches. That was six inches higher than his winning mark in 2011.

Obviously, he’d like to vault higher. The all-time state record is 15-7, set in 1997 by Tim Koupal of Anoka.

Bares “had a very successful diving season and now has his sights set on several records for this year,” Lakeville South head coach Jonathan Gilmer said. “He would like to be state champion again and set the state record. Lee is very driven but yet a very down-toearth person.”

The team took a hit from graduation last spring, losing jumpers Austin Gould and Nick Bachinski along with thrower Tom Ryan. This year the Cougars have a young but large team with 80 athletes.

Runners returning include Wali Ibrahim (distance), Tyler Haar

(distance), Paul Mulcare (mid-distance), Evan Jenkins (sprints) and Dylan Lach (sprints).

In the field events, Tom Lokkesmoe and Josh Newman will be long and triple jumpers. Bares will have classmates Zach Gelineau and Evan Keil pole vaulting with him. Newcomers Connor Rousemiller (throws) and Grant Mosser (jumps) hope to give the Cougars a boost.

The extended winter has kept the team from settling on a lineup.

“With the weather and then a late spring break it has not felt like track and field season yet,” Gilmer said. “We still have snow on the track and cannot run a complete lap yet, and it is snowing as I write this. I do not remember a spring like this.”

Apple Valley wide receiver Steven Wilson, Burnsville defensive back Andrew Herkenhoff and Eastview offensive lineman Michael Backus were selected to play in the Minnesota High School All-Star Football Game this summer.

The three will play for the South All-Star team, which will take on the North All-Stars at 1 p.m.

June 29 at St. Cloud State University.

The South team also will have linebacker Mitch Johnson and defensive lineman Karl Finkel from state Class 6A runner-up Lakeville North.

Email Mike Shaughnessy at mike.shaughnessy@ecminc.com.

BOYS GOLF, from 15A Henke.

“It will be interesting,” going to be good.”

Sabetti said. “On any givFinding golfers to fill en day any one of those in the No. 5 and 6 spots guys can beat the other. will be tough for Sabetti It’s a good problem to because “we have five or have.” six guys fighting for those Even with the extended final spots,” he said. winter, the team managed Seniors Zachary to get in a few rounds earWhalen and Matthew lier this week at SouthOstdiek will get a look ern Hills Golf Course in along with Carter Gidlow, Farmington.

Stuart Hamann and John “It’s tough to be a yearGIRLS, from 15A Now as a seventh-grader, she’ll get that chance.

“She has done well at summer tournaments the past few years,” Dawson said. “She started emailing me in fifth grade and now she’s finally at the age where she can come up and play.”

Last season the girls finished fifth in the South Suburban Conference and with an army of experienced golfers back, Dawson expects to contend for one of the top three spots this year.

“I think the girls have matured a little bit,” Daw-

son said. “We should at least scare a few people.

Hopefully we can give Red Wing and Northfield a little run in the section as well. You never know what’s going to happen, but the girls are pretty excited.”

Last year’s conference champion and state participant Eastview lost three of its top golfers, but Prior Lake, Eagan, Rosemount and Apple Valley remain competitive.

The Panthers will see where they stack up on Tuesday with a South Suburban Conference tournament at Dwan Golf Course in Bloomington, if

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2420

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2420

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2510

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2660

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H20 Damage – Plaster Repair

Wall Paper Removal INTERIOR EXTERIOR

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Paint/Stain/Ceilings. We accept Visa/MC/Discvr.

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Merchandise Antiques

3010

Spring Sale

Sun•Classifieds 952-846-2000 Painting

2420

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3160

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Plymouth: Wayzata HS Annual Band Sale 4955 Peony Ln. N., Sat., 4/20 (8-2) in HS cafeteria. All

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Sunsetter Awning green motorized 15' wide $800 612-250-1699

3500

St. Alphonsus Parish 7031 Halifax Ave N.

St. Anthony:

Patriots Marching Band Fundraiser Sale - 4/20 (9-6); 4/21 (9-4)) Bag Day St. Anthony Highschool

3303 33rd Ave NE

For info: 612-706-1095

3700

Leisure

3720

Boats, New & Used

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

Garage Sales

Richfield

ANNUAL HUGE SALE

Sat, April 20 (8am - 2pm) $1 / Bag Sale from 2-3pm

Emerson Church

7601 Girard Ave So., Richfield

Apple Valley: ZOO Neighborhood Sale •Furn.

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McAndrews Rd & Foliage Ave. 5/2, 5/3, 5/4 8am-4pm

Bloomington: 4709 Heritage Hills Dr. 4/19-20 (9-4).

Everything Must Go! Burnsville Moving Sale 12524 33rd Ave. So. 4/11-12 (8-5) Furn, HH, X-mas, more

Eagan 75+ Families!

All Saints Lutheran Church - 3810 Lexington

Ave. S. (Lexington & Wescott) 4/19 (8-5:30) & 4/20 (8-4) Eagan Moving Sale: 4/12 (9-5), 4/13 (9-1) Furn: Antiq. rocker, 2 Qn BR sets, comp. desk, wrt. iron kitch tbl & chairs, LR sofa & chair, end tbl, Kirby vacumn. Crafts/art: painting storage shlvs. 8' x 4'; artist's work tbl, (9) storage unit drwrs, light tbl.

Tools & equip: Keller step ladder, 10' ext. ladder, elec. leaf blower, lawn edger, shop vac., and misc tools!

3899 Worchester Drive Edina - Friends of Southdale Library Book Sale Huge selection incl. Kids books! Friends Members preview 4/18 (5-8pm) Sale:

EXCELSIOR – Moving 5500 Maple Heights Rd.

Thurs-Sat, 4/18-20 (8-5)

Furn., clock, tools / yard, small applcs, plants, gaming

Farmington: 19461 Elmwood Circ. April 19, 20 & 27th 9-5pm. Lots of stuff!

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2620

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5300

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7000

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2BR, 2BA $775/1200 SF, 1 BR $625 800 SF, DW, AC, large balcony, Garage $40mo Brookside Apartments 16829 Toronto Ave. SE, Prior Lake MN 612-824-7554

Manufactured Homes

8100

Apple Valley/Lakeville border: 3 BR, 2 BA dbl wide.

Avail. immed. $17,900 Financing avail.

612-581-3833

Burnsville: Rambush Estates

1340 sq ft Manuf. Home One level living. Garden tub in master bath.

W/D in home. Deck. $1270/mo.

952-890-8440 Homes for Sale

8400

RADON

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Pets

3970

Fem. Cockatiel $100. Less than 2 yrs old. 952-8944734

4000

Real Estate

7400

Agriculture/ Animals/Pets

3900

Advertise your sale with us Plymouth Estate Sale, 100

2620

Lakeville: ECFE Kids' Stuff Sale Sat., 4/20 (8am2pm). $1 adm until 10am; 50% off at 11:15am-1pm; $5 Bag Sale 1:30-2pm.

Kenwood Trail MS 19455 Kenwood Trail, Lakeville www. lakevilleECFEsale.com

Had to downsize, furniture in storage, must sell! Elegant dining room table + 8 chairs (originally $4,600; selling for $1,800). Couch-extremely comfortable, good shape ($100). Couchbought from Hom Furniture in 2006, great shape ($400). Oversized living room chair, great shape ($200) High quality, sectional couch w/ottoman, suede and leather ($900).

612-802-6256

Elko: Moving Sale!

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NINA AND NINO ARE BEST FRIENDS Nina and Nino are Chihuahuas that are best friends and want to stay together. They are 4 and 5 years old and wonderful at only 3-4 lbs each. Adoption fee is $500 for the pair. Call volunteer Stacey with Last Hope at 651-414-9939 to meet them or come to the adoption day this Saturday at the Apple Valley Petco from 11-3. You can also see many other dogs and cats looking for permanent, loving homes!

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Spring 2013 Show April 11-21 Buck Hill Ski Chalet 15400 Buck Hill Road Burnsville, MN 55306 For more information: Jodi Francisco (612) 247-0600 Janine Kusnierek (612) 532-3255 Email: rivervalleyboutique@gmail.com www.rivervalleyboutique.weekly.com Like us on Facebook!

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Administrative Assistant

Help Wanted/ Full Time

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Mackin Educational Resources is looking for a FT, Admin. Asst. M-F, Days. Must have Adv. Microsoft Excel/ Word. Excellent written and communication skills, Great phone skills a must.

For further details go to www.mackin.com employment link Warehouse/Production

Material Handler Seasonal 2nd Shift 12:00pm to 9pm Duties include receiving, storing, shipping and building loads. Must be able to operate a forklift. Other daily distribution yard duties as required. Must have high school equivalent. Please send resume to: Boise Building Material, 8714 215th Street W. Lakeville, MN 55044 or fax to 952-469-2692 or E-mail to JudyNorman@bc.com Boise is an Equal Opportunity Employer

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South Central College Assist in the development and implementation of off-campus recruiting activities Facilitate the college admissions process for prospective and re-entering students Provide academic advising for Liberal Arts students pursuing an AA degree Assist in the development and implementation of student engagement and retention strategies Coordinate Accuplacer college readiness assessment

For complete details and qualifications see www.southcentral.edu Click on Quick Links, Employment/HR SCC is an equal opportunity, affirmative action educator and employer and a member of MnSCU.

Automotive Sales Burnsville Volkswagen Great opportunity to join the Luther family of dealerships at our new state of the art facility. Significant income potential selling new and used vehicles at the metro's #1 VW dealer in customer satisfaction for the last two years. VW is one of the fastest growing auto companies around.

Our sales consultants averaged over 200 units each in 2012! Be proud of what you sell with Consumer Reports best picks, 40+ MPG diesels, and IIHS top safety picks. Aggressive pay plan and great benefits including 401k, medical, and dental.

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Production Manufacturers/ General Warehouse Work in our door shop assembling prehung door units using industry machinery and power tools. Exp in a door shop pref but not required. Qual include ability to lift heavy objects unassisted on a repetitive basis, operation of wood working equip and inventory scanners.

Also hiring for a warehouse product pullers. Qual are same as above. Good oral and written skills and ability to work as part of a team a must.

Pre-employment physical and drug screening required. Interested applicants should mail resume to:

J. B. O’Meara Co. Attn: Bob Benson 12301 Dupont Ave S Burnsville, MN 55337 Or email to: bbenson@jbomeara.com No agencies please

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LIGHT MANUFACTURING WinCraft, a leader in the professional sports market, has expanded its business and has created opportunities to join our team. WinCraft has a continued philosophy of commitment to manufacturing the ďŹ nest quality products, offering value for our customers and providing exceptional customer service for 52 years.

Jimmy John's Hiring delivery drivers, cashiers, sandwich makers & entry level managers.

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Mostly indoor heated Mini Storage. Large Apt.+Salary+Ins.+ Bonuses.

OFFICE DUTIES: Computer knowledge, Billing, filing & Collections SITE MANAGEMENT General maintenance cleaning & security.

Send resume to: Sharbo, Inc 670 Pelham Blvd Ste.201 ST Paul, MN 55114 or e-mail:office@popp.net

All shifts. Entry level to skilled positions available. Stop into one of our branches (Bloomington, New Hope or Chaska) Wednesdays From 9-3 for our job fairs.

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OTR Flatbed Driver Home most weekends.

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Requirements: friendly, motivated, good communicator, organized, working vehicle. DOORTO-DOOR sales to homeowners. Knowledge of construction industry helpful.

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Veterinary Asst.

Seeking a caring, dependable, multi tasker with great people skills.

FT plus every other Sat. AM. Drop off, or email resume to Southfork Animal Hospital Lakeville, MN 55044 techs@southforkvet.com

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.

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We need safety conscious people, who like working with children. Bloomington Public Schools is offering paid training, health and dental insurance, pension plan, sick time, paid holidays, flexible hours.

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McLane Minnesota, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Berkshire-Hathaway, is currently seeking qualified candidates to join our team! McLane, a wholesale grocery distributor, has been in business for over 119 years and continues to grow each year! Our Minnesota location has recently added additional customers and must fill team driver positions immediately. If you want home time, a secure paycheck, and make over $60,000, in your first year, apply now.

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Music in the Zoo returns

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Books “One Yard Wonders” authors Rebecca Yaker and Trish Hoskins, 7-8 p.m.

Thursday, April 18, at Wescott Library, 1340 Wescott Road, Eagan.

M. R. Tain, author of “Peace, Man,” book signing, 10:30 a.m.-noon Saturday, April 20, Jo Jo’s Rise & Wine, 12501 Nicollet Ave., Burnsville.

Comedy Julian McCullough with Nick Rutherford, 7 and 9:30 p.m. April 26-27, Mystic Lake Casino. For mature audiences.

Tickets are $19 at www.mysticlake.com.

Comedy for Caring, 8 p.m.

Saturday, April 27, at Burnsville Performing Arts Center, 12600 Nicollet Ave. Features The Second City comedy troupe from Chicago. Sponsored by the Burnsville Rotary. Tickets are $39 and are available at the box office and at ticketmaster. com.

Now in its 21st year, Music in the Zoo returns this summer with three months of concerts in the Minnesota Zoo’s outdoor amphitheater. American folk singer Joan Baez (above) opens the concert series on June 6; also among the 20-plus shows booked this summer are Melissa Etheridge, Pat Benatar, Cheap Trick and Brian Wilson. The full schedule can be found online at www. suemclean.com/zoo. Tickets, ranging in price from $28 to $75, go on sale April 27 at all Ticketmaster locations.

(Submitted photo by Dana Tynan)

Events ZUMBAthon to Stop The Clot, noon-3 p.m. Sunday, April 21, Bogart’s Place at Apple Valley Bowl, 14917 Garrett Ave., Apple Valley, 952432-1515. Fundraiser for the National Blood Clot Alliance hosted by Lisa Thomas, Mrs. Rosemount 2013. Donation: $10. Register at www.firstgiving.com/nbca/zumbathon-tostop-the-clot or at the event.

Sister Kenny Rehabilitation Institute’s artAlive! benefit, 8 p.m. Friday, April 26, at Burnsville Performing Arts Center, 12600 Nicollet

Ave. Ticket information: allina- ter. Tickets are $14.50 and health.org/artalive. are available online at www. ci.lakeville.mn.us or by calling Exhibits (952) 985-4640.

The Shrine of the Stations of the Cross, a exhibition of Workshops/classes/other photographs by Dave Kitchel, Nailed it! - How to audiis on display through April 14 tion for The Voice and other at Rosemount United Meth- vocal competitions, 2-4 p.m. odist Church Gallery, 14770 Sunday, May 5, MacPhail CenCanada Ave. Hours are 9 a.m.- ter for Music, Minneapolis.

3 p.m. Monday-Thursday, 8 Age: 15-plus. Cost: $50. Infora.m.-noon Sunday, and during mation: 612-321-0100, www. all scheduled evening activi- macphail.org. ties.

Princess Prep School for Art Is … Exhibit and Art- girls ages 3-9 on Mondays at ist Perspective is on display Cross of Christ Community through April 27 at Ring Moun- Church, 8748 210th St. W., tain Creamery and Byerly’s Lakeville. Ages 3-5: 4:30-5:30 Eagan. Information: 651-675- p.m. Ages 6-9: 5:30-6:30 p.m.

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Session 1: April 15-29. SesA watercolor exhibit by sion 2: May 6-20. Cost: $30 Eagan Art House students is per session or both sessions on display through April 27 at for $50. Information: Karin at the Eagan Community Center berrygood2@charter.net. during business hours. InforBeginning Photography mation: 651-675-5521.

Clinic, 7-9 p.m. Tuesday, April A mixed media exhibit by 23, Rosemount Steeple CenLisa Westphal is on display ter, 14375 S. Robert Trail. Free. through April 30 in the Lake- Sponsored by Rosemount ville Area Arts Center gallery, Area Arts Council. Information: 20965 Holyoke Ave. Informa- www.rosemountarts.com or tion: 952-985-4640.

952-255-8545.

Teen Poetry Jam/Rap Music Battle, 4-5 p.m. the first Tues“A Modern Swinging Sa- day of each month at Apple lute to Frank Sinatra,” 3 p.m. Valley Teen Center, 14255 Sunday, April 14, at the Burns- Johnny Cake Ridge Road, ville Performing Arts Center. Apple Valley, (952) 953-2385.

Information: www.burnsvil- Ages 12-18. lepac.com.

Adult painting open stuOrgan recital, 8 p.m. Fri- dio, 9 a.m.-noon Fridays at day, May 10, at Shepherd of the Eagan Art House, 3981 the Valley Lutheran Church, Lexington Ave. S. Fee is $5 per 12650 Johnny Cake Ridge session. Information: 651-675Road, Apple Valley. Free. Infor- 5521. mation: www.TCAGO.org.

Teens Express Yourself with Paint, 5-7 p.m. Mondays Theater at Brushworks School of Art in “Wage Warfare” will be Burnsville, www.BrushworksSperformed by Expressions choolofArt.com, 651-214Community Theater April 12- 4732.

21 at Lakeville Area Arts CenDrama/theater classes for

ages 4 and up at River Ridge Arts Building, Burnsville, 952736-3644.

Show Biz Kids Theater Class for children with special needs (ASD/DCD programs), In the Company of Kids 13710 Nicollet Ave., Burnsville, 952736-3644.

Broadway Kids Dance and Theater Program for all ages and abilities, In the Company of Kids, 13710 Nicollet Ave., Burnsville (Colonial Shopping Center), 952-7363644.

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 1-3 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 1:30-4 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, 20110 Holyoke 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 6:30-8 p.m. the second Tuesday of each month at the Robert Trail Library. Information: John Loch, 952-255-8545 or jjloch@charter.net.

210th St. W. Preregistration required. Information: www. fmr.org/participate/events/ earth_day_south_creek_cleanup-2013-04-20.

Earth Day – Patrick Eagan Park clean-up project, 10 a.m.-noon, meet in new main parking lot behind the Eagan Art House, off Lexington, just down the hill from Diffley. Suitable for families with children.

Bring gloves. Garbage bags provided. Refreshments served afterwards. Information: 651470-2687, www.eagancoregreenway.org.

• April 13, 10 a.m.-3 p.m., Sassy Sista’s Boutique – Old Chicago, 14998 Glazier Ave., Apple Valley.

• April 13, 10:15 a.m.-3:15 p.m., Burnhaven Library, 1101 W. County Road 42, Burnsville.

• April 13, Wescott Library, 10 a.m.-3 p.m., 1340 Wescott Road, Eagan.

• April 16, 1-7 p.m., Lutheran Church of Our Savior, 14980 Diamond Path, Rosemount.

• April 16, 11 a.m.-5 p.m., Family of Christ Lutheran Church, 10970 185th St. W., Lakeville.

• April 17, 2-7 p.m., Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, 151 E. County Road 42, Burnsville.

• April 19, 12:30-5:30 p.m., Easter Lutheran Church – By The Lake, 4545 Pilot Knob Road, Eagan.

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Friday, April 12 Little Black Dress event for women, 7-10 p.m., Celebration Church, 16655 Kenyon Ave., Lakeville. Guest speaker: Wendie Pett, fitness and nutrition expert. Entertainment: Holly Berry, flutist. Appetizers and specialty dessert bar, boutique. Tickets: $25 at www.celebrationchurch.net or 952-8987200.

Catholic Church, 22120 Denmark Ave., Farmington. Tickets: $6.50 in advance, $7 at the door. Children 5 and under are free. Call Mary at 651-4606141 for tickets. Hosted by the Knights of Columbus Ladies Auxiliary.

Monday, April 15 Guardianship workshop for families of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, 6-8 p.m. at MRCI, 15191 Boulder Court, Rosemount. Free. RSVP by April 12 to Dena Felper of The Arc Saturday, April 13 Greater Twin Cities at 952-915Home Remodeling Fair & 3665 or denafelper@thearcgtc.

Consumer Expo, 10 a.m.-4 org. p.m., Burnsville High School, 600 E. Highway 13, Burnsville. Wednesday, April 17 Free. Information: www.burnsApple Valley South MOMS villechamber.com/.

Club (Moms Offering Moms Support) meeting, 9:30 a.m. at Sunday, April 14 Christus Victor Church, 7510 Lakeville Lions breakfast Palomino Drive, Apple Valley. buffet, 8 a.m.-1 p.m., Heritage For more information, email Center, 20110 Holyoke Ave. All- momsclubofapplevalleysouth@ you-can-eat pancakes, scram- live.com. bled eggs, sausage, doughnuts, beverage. Adults: $8. Thursday, April 18 Ages 4-10: $4. Under 4: Free.

Empty Bowls for Full BelAll-you-can-eat Belgian lies, fundraiser for BrainPower waffle breakfast, 8:30 a.m.- in a BackPack, 11 a.m.-7 p.m., 12:30 p.m., St. Michael’s Campus Cup Cafe, Burnsville

High School Senior Campus, Diamondhead Education Center, Upper Level D Wing, 200 W. Burnsville Parkway. Free-will donation for a soup and bread meal and a handmade pottery bowl. Information: https://sites. google.com/a/isd191.org/emptybowls.

Free Alzheimer’s workshop, “Techniques to Handle Challenging Behaviors/Activities to Encourage Engagement” combination class, 10 a.m.-noon, Home Instead Senior Care, 1600 E. Cliff Road, Burnsville. RSVP: http://alzheimerscare34april.eventbrite. com/# or 952-882-9300.

Gotta go ... again? Treatments for female incontinence, 6:30-7:30 p.m. at Fairview Ridges Hospital, Conference Rooms A and B, 201 E. Nicollet Blvd., Burnsville. Free, but registration required at fairview.org/bladdertalk or 612672-7272.

Saturday, April 20 Lakeville Area E.C.F.E. Kids’ Stuff Sale, 8 a.m.-2 p.m., Kenwood Trail Middle School, 19455 Kenwood Ave., Lakeville.

Admission: $1 until 10 a.m.

Half-price sale: 11:15 a.m.-1 p.m. Bag sale ($5): 1:30-2 p.m.

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Pancake breakfast by Boy Scout Troop 455, 8 a.m.-noon, Rosemount American Legion, 14590 Burma Ave. W. All-youcan-eat pancakes, sausage, juice and coffee. Tickets: $5 at the door, free for children 5 and under. Bake sale and prize raffle, too.

Waffle breakfast by the Lakeville North Marching Band Boosters, 8 a.m.-noon, in the LNHS commons, 19600 Ipava Ave. All-you-can-eat Belgian waffles, sausages, beverages.

Tickets are $7, with ages 5 and under free. Carry-outs available. Buy a ticket from a band member or purchase at the Friday, April 19 Open house by MOMS door. Raffle will be held for two Club of Farmington, 11:45 TVs on the day of event.

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Tickets: $6; children under 5 are free.

Reunions Apple Valley High School Blood drives Class of 2003 will hold its 10The American Red Cross year class reunion from 6:30will hold the following blood 11:30 p.m., Saturday, June 15, drives. Call 1-800-RED CROSS at Buck Hill, Whittier Room.

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Admission for the 6:30 p.m. showing of “Bugs!

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Complimentary sandwich and drink (while supplies last) will be served in the lobby beginning at 5:30 p.m.

South Metro Chorale concerts South Metro Chorale will present “Schubert Meets Copland” at 7:30 p.m. on May 3 at Shepherd of the Lake Lutheran Church in Prior Lake and

at 3 p.m. on May 5 at St. Richard’s Catholic Church in Richfield. Tickets are $10 ($8 students/seniors) and can be purchased by calling 612-386-4636. Visit www.SouthMetroChorale. org for more information.

Atina Diffley to present at Lawshe Atina Diffley, author, farmer, and organic farming advocate, will be the presenter at Lawshe Memorial Museum, 130 Third Ave. N., South St. Paul, at 7 p.m. Thursday, April 25. The event by the Dakota County Historical Society is free and open to the public. For more information, visit www.dakotahistory.org or call 651-552-7548.

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Caponi Art Park and Learning Center and the Dakota County Library will also host a screening of “Louder Than a Bomb” from 6-9 p.m. Saturday, April 20, at the Teen Center. The documentary chronicles the story of four teams of poets preparing for and competing in the world’s largest youth poetry slam.

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Thisweekend Local author enshrines family’s story in ‘A Mile of Dreams’ Rosemount native Jim Trevis featured at April 16 author event journalism degree from the University of Minnesota, and now works as the marketing and communications director at a Minnesota-based health care nonprofit.

by Andrew Miller SUN THISWEEK DAKOTA COUNTY TRIBUNE

Jim Trevis’ first novel, “A Mile of Dreams,” turned out to be a special “goodbye gift” for his dad.

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Free classical concert set for April 14 Violinist Tarn Travers and pianist Matt McCright have a special free concert at 3 p.m. Sunday, April 14, as part of the Open Door Music series in Eagan. The concerts are held at Saints Martha and Mary Episcopal Church, 4180 Lexington Ave. S., to benefit area food shelves.

There will be a free will offering of either cash or canned goods.

The concert features Sonatas by Beethoven and Brahms along with Bartok’s First Rhapsody.

Travers is currently the artist-in-residence at Luther College in Decorah, Iowa, and Matt McCright is a highly regarded pianist and is on the piano faculty at Carleton College. The Sunday concert caps off the 2012-13 season and is an opportunity for those who appreciate fine music to take in a concert and hear directly from the musicians about the works they are performing.

Council and admission is free. More information is at www.rosemountarts. com.

Email Andrew Miller at andrew.miller@ecm-inc.com.

Jim Trevis, who grew up on a small dairy farm just south of Rosemount in the 1960s, calls “A Mile of Dreams,” his loosely autobiographical first novel, “a testament to my parents and a disappearing way of life.” (Photo submitted) Steeple Center in Rosemount, self-published “A Mile of Dreams” in 2010, and a year later saw publication of his second novel,

BRIEFS, from previous by slam master Cynthia French with music by local musicians. Teens ages 12-19 are invited to perform their original poems and can register from 1:302 p.m. at the event. More information is at http:// www.caponiartpark.org/ poetsinthepark. In the event of inclement weather, the poetry slam will be relocated to Wescott Library in Eagan.

The “Meet the Author” event featuring Trevis on April 16 runs from 6:30 to 8 p.m. at the Steeple Center, 13885 S. Robert Trail. It’s sponsored by the Rosemount Area Arts

“A Very Good Man.” While he describes the family-farm drama “A Mile of Dreams” as “a testament to my parents and a disappearing way of life,” Trevis took a different tack with the second novel.

“A Very Good Man” follows a marketing vice president for a pharmaceutical company who survives a suicide attempt and takes his son’s advice to “become a very good man,” devoting himself to performing kind deeds for others.

At the heart of this moral fable, Trevis says, is the question, “What would you do to make the world better today if you had a second chance?”

Trevis, a Rosemount High School graduate who now lives in Lake Elmo with his wife, Chris, says he wanted to be a novelist since the age of 13.

He graduated with a

Highview Hills Coffee Concert Series “Up Close and Personal” at the Lakeville Area Arts Center

CRASH Visual Percussion Ensemble Sunday, April 28, 2013 – 2 pm

BELL’ ALMA DUO Kathie Kienzle, Harp Michele Frisch, Flute Sunday, May 19, 2013 – 2 pm

Tickets: $14.50 Adults, $12 Senior & Students All concerts are held at the Lakeville Area Arts Center 20965 Holyoke Ave. 952.985.4640

This activity is made possible, in part, by funds provided by Metropolitan Regional Arts Council (MRAC) from an appropriation by the Minnesota Legislature.

Burnsville Rotary fundraiser promises hilarious comedy for a good cause A premiere comedy troupe is heading to Burnsville for a good cause.

The Second City, the legendary Chicago comedy troupe, will be in the city for a special “Comedy for Caring” fundraiser on Saturday, April 27 at the Burnsville Performing Arts Center, 12600 Nicollet Ave. S. The Rotary’s third annual Comedy for Caring community fundraising event is being presented through the generous support of The Walser Foundation and The Dr. LaChapelle Charitable Fund.

“Both of our two very generous underwriters believe strongly in our mission to give back to the community in which we serve,” said Jim Schmitt, fundraising chairperson for the Burnsville Rotary. “We are really proud of that.”

The special “Laughing Matters” night of satire and cutting-edge improv will include some of the sharpest sketches and songs from The Second City’s 50-plus year history.

Before The Second City takes the stage at 8 p.m., guests are invited to arrive when the doors open at 6 p.m. to bid on live and silent auctions items, and enjoy complimentary appetizers and delicious desserts to be served by volunteers from some of the 31 charities that Burnsville Rotary supports. Attendees also will enjoy music by The Real Big Band, an 18-piece jazz ensemble.

If you can’t be at the show, you can still support Burnsville Rotary by shopping online. Beginning Thursday, April 18, visit

www.BiddingforGood.com/BurnsvilleRotary to bid on more than 230 value-packed items. It works just like eBay and all proceeds will go to Burnsville Rotary. Every item you buy helps someone in need.

Burnsville Rotary partners with 31 deserving local charities, such as the Lewis House, DARTS, Meals on Wheels, YMCA and 360 Communities.

One of the smaller recipients of the Burnsville Rotary’s support is Brain Power in a Backpack, which prepares and provides food for low income families with school age children to take home on weekends.

Rotary also works with a 360 Communities’ program called Partners for Success, to tutor and counsel disadvantaged families with school-age children.

Another of the Rotary’s initiatives is the Burnsville High School Junior and Senior Ethics Seminar, in which 40-50 juniors and seniors from the school participate in a fullday interactive workshop to explore what business ethics is all about.

Tickets for Comedy for Caring are $39 and are available at the Burnsville Performing Arts Center box office and Ticketmaster. com, or 1-800-982-2787. VIP seating with a cast meet-and-greet is $75.

For more information about Burnsville Rotary, go to www.burnsvillerotary.org, or find them on Facebook at Facebook.com/ BurnsvilleRotary.

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