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New playground coming

Girls welcomed in local Cub Scout packs

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Lilly Anderson, Betsy Flor and Alex Knutson of Pack 212 in Vadnais Heights recite the Scouts Oath and Law to receive their Bobcat rank. They are led by Cubmaster Craig Flor. BY JANICE COLLOVA PRESS INTERN

Some Cub Scout leaders were not surprised when the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) announced last summer that packs could choose to

welcome girls. In fact, the announcement was anticipated. “I wasn’t surprised, because the district let us know that it seemed like we were going in that direction,” said Dan Celotta, Committee Chair of Cub Pack 692 in Lino Lakes. Brian

Peterson, Committee Chair of Cub Pack 432 in Centerville, was also hearing “higher-up” Scout leaders talk about the possibility of girls joining. Both chairs had noticed girls in

SHOREVIEW — A new playground will be coming to Ponds Park. The park is located near Sherwood Road and Pond Drive. The current playground is more than 25 years old. The replacement will cost about $61,000. The contractor chosen was St. Croix Recreation. The playground will have a wood mulch base instead of pea gravel. It will include slides, swings, climbing walls and other features. A neighborhood meeting suggested adding a shade structure, which increased the cost from $55,000 to $61,000. The city had $55,000 set aside in its capital improvement program this year for the playground. It will use funds from the general fi xed asset revolving fund to pay for the shade structure. The City Council approved the proposal for Ponds Park playground equipment replacement

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Going solar in the northeast metro BY CONRAD ENGSTROM PRESS INTERN

The thunderstorm and fire engines outside White Bear Lake City Hall did not stop Solar United Neighbors of Minnesota from holding a meeting about the new Mahtomedi area solar co-op. Around 15 community members battled the rain July 12 to educate themselves on solar and what a solar co-op looks like. Solar United Neighbors held a similar meeting in Mahtomedi on May 31 in which 32 community members showed up. Virginia Rutter, program director of Solar United Neighbors of Minnesota, listed the benefits of going solar and going solar through a co-op that Solar United Neighbors provides. “Our goal is to increase education about solar and fight for energy rights in the areas that we have coops,” Rutter said. Solar United Neighbors got started in Washington,

D.C., when a family wanted to convert to solar energy use and could not afford it. So they went door to door to get other people to join them in hopes of getting a reduced price. After getting the residents of around 50 neighborhood homes to join them, they qualified for bulk purchasing, making it affordable for everyone. Afterward, the group kept getting calls from others looking to explore the bulk purchase concept, and Solar United Neighbors was born. Today, Solar United Neighbors is located in eight states, including Minnesota. Mahtomedi is not the first city to get a solar co-op. There are co-ops happening in Minneapolis, Bemidji, Apple Valley, Rochester and Kandiyohi County. Solar United Neighbors works to leverage the power of bulk purchasing to help community members save money on solar energy. The process is free up until a person signs on the dotted line to have a solar array SEE SOLAR, PAGE 11

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