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For the love of swans BY SARA MARIE MOORE VADNAIS HEIGHTS EDITOR
White Bear Lake resident and wildlife photographer Debbie Hartmann has been photographing the trumpeter swans that gather on the open water in Vadnais-Sucker Lake Regional Park during the winter for eight years. She was surprised when she ran across a dead one lying in the snowy woods this February. Three weeks later, in early March, she found three dead swans on the ice on Sucker Lake. “This now for sure is not normal,” she remembered thinking. Hartmann reported the perished swans to the Vadnais Lake Area Water
Management Organization (VLAWMO). Dawn Tanner, program development coordinator, began to monitor the swans. She retrieved four dead swans over several days and brought them to the University of Minnesota Veterinary Diagnostic Center to see if a cause of death could be determined. Up to 11 swans died in the Sucker Lake channel area this winter, Tanner said. Hartmann said she saw nine herself; they weren't sure if some of the ones they spotted were the same or not. VLAWMO figured they had likely perished due to the severe winter weather until it received back lab results from DEBBIE HARTMANN | SUBMITTED
Two swans stay close for warmth in Vadnais-Sucker Lake Regional Park this winter.
SEE SWANS, PAGE 8A
Stakeholders want piece of penalty paid by Water Gremlin BY DEBRA NEUTKENS EDITOR
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Misty morning runners Participants in the spring Rotary Strive Scholarship Race emerge from an early morning fog bank streaming off White Bear Lake Saturday, April 6. Some of the runners shared that the light mist and relatively cool temperature actually created good conditions for a run. Find more photos of the event on page 9B.
ST. PAUL — Area legislators continue to tweak a bill that will divvy up a multi-million dollar pie. They're asking for a $2.25 million appropriation that is exactly half the civil penalty paid by Water Gremlin in the settlement agreement with the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA). Chief authors Sen. Roger Chamberlain and Rep. Ami Wazlawik, who represent constituents living within a 1.5-mile radius of the White Bear Township plant, are proposing the money go into a trichloroethylene (TCE) Emission Response Account that benefits those impacted by the chemical release. The legislation, SF2307 and HF2368, directs the MPCA commissioner to work with stakeholders to identify and recommend projects funded through the account. Stakeholders include elected officials from Gem Lake, White Bear Lake, White Bear Township and four individuals appointed by the Neighborhood Concerned Citizens Group (NCCG). SEE STAKEHOLDERS, PAGE 9A
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