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SPORTS: Whiting, Marcus set for state grid all-star game PAGE 11
Part-time firefighters will see pay increase
How is a turkey made? The Quad Community Press visited Golden Lake and Centerville elementary schools to ask students, “How do you cook a turkey?” in honor of the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday. Here are responses from two preschool classes.
Jameson “First, I catch the turkey. Then I drink hot cocoa. We mush it and cut it and cook it on the stove. We add pepper and salt. Then we eat it!” Livie “Put salt and cow meat from a cow inside. Put it in a pan and cook it on top of the stove for 14 minutes. It cooks very good!” Miles “Put some powder and some salt and some sugar to make it very sweet. Put it in the microwave until it burns and is just bones.” Ben “You put it in the oven and then you have to get it out. You have to open it and put your mittens on and pull it out.” Elisabeth “Bake it in the oven. Then you wait for it to get done. You take it out and put it on the table and eat it with your fork.”
BY SHANNON GRANHOLM MANAGING EDITOR
Brooklyn “Usually you just buy a turkey and put seasoning on it to make it really yummy. Then bring it to Auntie’s house to cook it. You pop it in the oven and set the timer for 1 or 2 or 3 minutes. Then we sit at the table and pray together because the food is so yummy!” Vincent “You get the turkey from the store and put salt on it and add broccoli next to and on the turkey. You cook it in a frying pan on the stove and then you put it in the oven for 20 minutes to cook it more better.” Hayes “Dad would make it. He would put it in the oven first and bake it. Then you would put stuff in it, like bones and feathers on top to make it look pretty. Then when it is all done, you eat it.”
LINO LAKES — The City Council failed to reach a consensus on the idea of increasing wages for part-time firefighters. In a split decision, the City Council voted 3-2 (council members Tony Cavegn and Christopher Lyden voted no) to amend the compensation plan for part-time firefighters for 2023 and 2024. “What are we solving by doing this?” Cavegn wondered. “I think we are creating a problem here that doesn’t exist … I think we are going in the wrong direction.” Earlier this year, the council amended the compensation plan for paid-on-call firefighters to set a starting wage of $21, an increase of $6. SEE PART-TIME FIREFIGHTERS, PAGE 12
New Christmas tree farm makes plans for 2024 season BY SHANNON GRANHOLM MANAGING EDITOR
Not this year, but next, families will have another opportunity to create a holiday tradition a bit closer to home. Steve Kavan, of North Oaks, plans to open Kavan Christmas Tree Farm in time for the 2024 holiday season. He purchased the 40-acre property in 2018. “I like the outdoors,” he said. “I’m big on the outdoors and Christmas … (My family) always gets a tree, so somehow I stumbled upon planting Christmas trees.” The property caught his attention, and he said it was affordable, since it was not zoned
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The Kavan family plans to open Kavan Christmas Tree Farm in 2024. The farm is located on Ash Street in Lino Lakes.
properly for a house. The property is located right on the S-curve on Ash Street/County Road J in Lino Lakes. “It was just happenstance,”
SEE TREE FARM, PAGE 5
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