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HOW IS

a turkey made?

The White Bear Press and Vadnais Heights Press visited Tami Jahnke’s preschool class at Lakeaires Elementary to ask students, “How do you cook a turkey?” in honor of the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday. Here are the responses.

Alaia, 4

Isla, 4

“It looks like this. Make a mouth. Make a ears and make a eyes. Make her body.

And make her nose and make her arms and make her clothes.”

“In the oven.”

Adeline, 4

Leroy, 4

“Jacket, pants, shirt and a hat.”

“Like just build it with 2 eyeballs and put it behind the body. The finger and the feet and the shoes and the sweater and the shirt. And the pants, too.”

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Olive, 4

“Well, with a head, a mouth, a nose, feet, a body. Oh, and a hair and a head and a happy face.”

“You have to get a real turkey. Put it on the stove and cook it.”

Cimmilee, 4

Shayla, 5

“I just made a turkey.”

“You make his body first, then his wings and his head and his eyes and his mouth.

And his feet.”

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Skylar, 4

“I don’t know.”

“I don’t know.”

School District sets 2024-25 calendar, course changes

BY NOELLE OLSON EDITOR

Next fall, the White Bear Lake Area School District will offer new secondary courses and will have a different beginning to the 2024-25 school year.

According to Dr. Alison Gillespie, assistant superintendent for teaching and learning, the first day of school will be Tuesday, Sept. 3, for sixth and 12th graders. The first day for grades one through five will be Wednesday, Sept. 4. Thursday, Sept. 5, will be the first day for kindergartners, sophomores and juniors.

“We are excited to have the 9-12 high school open and on the first day of school, Principal Reetz would like to have the seniors in the building solely just for next year to set the culture in the building,” said Gillespie. “He’s working with our current juniors to decide what that will look like, and more information is to come.”

SEE SCHOOL BOARD, PAGE 13

New Christmas tree farm makes plans for 2024 season

BY SHANNON GRANHOLM MANAGING EDITOR

Elijah, 4 “With cheese bites. You put the cheese in there and make it into real cheese.”

Tre, 4 “Put it in the oven and eat it.”

Haven, 4 “With an oven. First take it out and then eat the turkey.”

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 SEE TREE FARM, PAGE 8

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Thanksgiving leftover recipes Wondering what to do with your Thanksgiving leftovers? Here are three recipes to use your leftover turkey, stuffing and cranberry sauce.

• 1/4 teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg • Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper

Directions:

Par-bake the crust according to package directions. Let cool slightly before adding the filling. Sprinkle the stuffing and turkey in the par-baked shell. Top with cheddar and parsley.

Season with a little salt and pepper.

Whisk together the half and half, eggs, nutmeg, 1/2 teaspoon, salt and 1/4 teaspoon pepper in a medium bowl. Pour the custard over the filling. Adjust oven temperature to 350 degrees and bake until set, 35 to 45 minutes. Let cool at least 30 minutes before serving warm or at room temperature.

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Turkey and Stuffing Quiche Ingredients:

Crust: • One 9-inch frozen pie shell Filling: • 1 cup crumbled leftover stuffing • 1 cup chopped leftover turkey • 1 cup shredded sharp cheddar cheese • 1/4 cup parsley leaves, roughly chopped • Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper Custard: • 1 1/4 cups half-and-half • 3 large eggs

• 2 teaspoons milk • 1 cup seasoned bread crumbs • 1 cup cranberry sauce • 1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper • 1/2 cup walnuts

Cranberry and Turkey Salad Ingredients:

• 3 cups chopped cooked turkey • 1/2 cup dried cranberries • 1/2 cup sliced almonds • 2 stalks celery, chopped • 2 tablespoons mayonnaise

Directions:

Preheat oil to 350 degrees F. Cut leftover stuffing into bite-sized cubes and set aside. In a small bowl, Mix turkey, cranberries, almonds, whisk eggs and milk. Coat each stuffing celery and mayonnaise in a bowl until well blended. Serve with crackers, over a bite with this egg wash, then dredge in the bread crumbs until fully coated bed of lettuce or bread.

Allrecipes and set aside. In a food processor, blend cranberry sauce, pepper and walnuts. aside. Once oil is at a temperature, Second-day Fried Stuffing Bites Set fry each piece of stuffing until golden with Cranberry Sauce Pesto brown for about four minutes. Drain on Ingredients: a paper towel and serve with cranberry • Oil, for frying pesto.

• Leftover stuffing Food Network, recipe courtesy of Sunny • 2 eggs Anderson

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(September 10, 1957 November 13, 2023) 66, of White Bear Lake, formerly of Minneapolis, passed away after a lengthy battle with cancer. Many remember him as the charismatic co-owner of The Olive Branch Oil & Spice Company in downtown White Bear Lake, where he worked with his wife Janet Richards. A Celebration of Life was held in Bruce’s honor on November 21. For a full obituary and condolences please visit https://www. muellermemorial.com/obituaries

age 76, passed away surrounded by family on November 3 at Elkridge Memory Care in Maplewood, Minnesota.

He is survived by his wife, Margery; his son Chris (wife Pam and grandsons Anthony and Eli); his sister Julie Olufson (husband Dave, nephews Tony and Ben and niece Jennifer); his brother Jim (wife Toni and niece Tarese).

John had a varied career starting in advertising and journalism and ending in long and distinguished service as a metropolitan transit driver. He played competitive chess, racquetball and tennis. He was a drummer. He was a tireless companion to his wife in art museums around the US and Europe. He will be remembered as a generous and loyal friend, brother and father. A memorial event will be held at a date and location to be decided.

Belknap, Robert Harlan age 98, rejoined his beloved wife Joyce on Nov. 2, 2023. Bob is survived by 6 children and their spouses, 12 grandchildren, and 16 great-grandchildren.

Celebration of Life Saturday, Dec. 2, 11:00 a.m. (visitation at 10) at Parkview United Church of Christ, 3737 Bellaire Ave, White Bear Lake.

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BUSINESS BRIEF Indoor shooting range to come to White Bear Lake

An existing commercial building is set to be remodeled to house a new gun club in White Bear Lake.

On Tuesday, Nov. 14, the White Bear Lake City Council voted to approve a permit that will allow firearms to be sold in the sporting goods store planned for the Heartland Gun Club, which will also operate as an indoor shooting range.

The indoor shooting range and sporting goods store will be located at 4350 Centerville Road.

COMMUNITY BRIEF State flag, seal designs available for public viewing

What do Minnesotans think the next state flag and seal should look like? Members of the public are now invited to see for themselves. More than 2,600 designs were submitted to the State Emblems Redesign Commission during a onemonth period; qualifying submissions are now available online.

Minnesota state flag designs make up about 85% of the submissions. Those are available to view at serc.mnhs.org/flags. Minnesota state seal designs make up approximately 15% of submissions. Those are available to view at serc. mnhs.org/seals.

Later this month, the commission will select five submissions for the new state seal and five for the state flag. The commission will select one design (or a modified version) to be utilized as the basis for each emblem.

The State Emblems Redesign Commission was established in the 2023 legislative session to develop and adopt a new design for the official state seal and a new design for the official state flag no later than Jan. 1.

Patricia “Pat” Ann Granger Our dear sweet, sassy mother Patricia Ann Granger sadly passed away unexpectedly on November 10th at the age of 82. She was a wonderful mother to her kids, fur babies and birds. She also had many friends and was well loved in all the many places she lived. She was predeceased by her parents Margaret and Neal Clark, and is survived by husband Charles A. Granger, sibling Lenore Clark, children Laura (Matthew) Markoe, Chad (Lori) Granger, Christie Crothers, eight grandchildren, Brandon, Joshua, Maria, Trevor, Reese, Colette, Gabi and Olivia and three great grandchildren, Sunny, Elyza and Lucy.

To honor Pat’s memory, we are holding a celebration of her life from 4–6 pm on Thursday, December 14, 2023 at HONSA FAMILY FUNERAL HOME, 2460 East County Road E, White Bear Lake, Minnesota 55110. In lieu of flowers, memorials are preferred to the Underdog Rescue, underdogrescuemn.com.

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Kurt Hartwig June 10, 1951 to October 26, 2023, age 72. Kurt’s family was his greatest joy. Forever in our hearts, loved and remembered by wife, Sandy Hartwig, 3 children, his sister, 6 grandchildren and 1 greatgranddaughter.

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Thanksgiving spans cultures

t’s so easy to overlook giving thanks for all that God has provided us.

This national holiday is not exclusive to the United States. It can be traced back to Native Americans and other parts of the world where at harvest time people of different cultures celebrated their bounty with festivals.

Thanksgiving was true in the ancient Jewish time of harvest when they celebrated Sukkot.

Our history goes back to 1621 when the colonists from England were looking for religious freedom and opportunities of wealth. 102 passengers boarded the small ship called Mayflower for the difficult crossing that took 66 days and landed at Cape Cod. Their first winter was brutal. They continued to live aboard the ship and only half of the original passengers and crew survived. remaining went ashore to be greeted by About the The several different Indian tribes. They were taught how to grow corn, tap maple trees, Town catch fish, and avoid poisonous plants.

Gene Johnson In November of 1621 their first corn harvest proved successful and their Governor Bradford organized a feast which began the history of our Thanksgiving. It wasn’t until 1789 when George Washington issued the proclamation that Thanksgiving became a national holiday to celebrate the country’s independence and ratification of the U.S. Constitution.

Today in America the holiday is changing as our heritage has changed with many different cultures. Menus are quite different. But there are still people like our family who celebrate around the dinner table with turkey, sweet potatoes, cranberries, which generally concludes with pumpkin pie.

Over the years we have had opportunities to share our dinner table with foreign guests visiting our universities and through student exchange programs. We would often go around the table asking individuals what they were most thankful for. At one dinner we had people from five different countries represented at our table.

We still continue to be thankful for the United States of America, its constitutional freedoms, for safety we have enjoyed, the representative government, though it is now split and has lost sight of how they represent the American people.

We have also been able to help thousands of people across the world suffering from various types of hardships. May God continue to favor us and restore our confidence in our democracy.

Santa Humor

Writing a column prompts readers and friends to share bits and pieces of information. Some of it is humor and I love that.

Here’s one from a reader. “Dear Santa, This year please bring me a big fat bank account and a slim body. Don’t mix the two up like you did last year. Thanks.”

Panama City Beach

Kathy and I had the privilege this fall of spending six weeks at Panama City Beach, Florida, through friends who own condo investments. The offseason rates made it even more attractive. But one thing is missing-neighbors who are friends. We miss that after Hurricane Ian destroyed our motor yacht that was moored at Legacy Harbour in Fort Myers. There we had neighbors who were less than six feet away and we had opportunities to visit throughout the day and at happy hours and group dinners.

In Panama City, it became clear to us how important relationships are. We miss our friends and it gets boring.

Thankfully our daughters took turns driving us down and back home. And our son visited for a few days.

The Gulf of Mexico is the ninth largest body of water in the world totaling 600,000 square miles. It is bordered by the United States, Mexico and Cuba.

The beach area has military bases and reports are 950 people move to Florida on an average day.

The tourist numbers at the Panama City Beach area averages 4.5 million annually and the town has less than 20,000 residents. That means a lot of high-rise condos.

A time to give thanks

Happy Thanksgiving. Take time to reflect on what God has provided us. the We enjoy freedom in this country. Our military and veterans have fought very hard through several wars to maintain it. Don’t let it slip away.

Gene Johnson is publisher emeritus of Press Publications.

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Talking adult family dynamics with U of M

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s we head into the winter holiday season and the many gatherings with immediate and extended family that this season can bring, University of Minnesota College of Education and Human Development family therapist and professor Tai Mendenhall shares his expertise about how to navigate adult family dynamics.

Q: What are the most common themes you observe in adult family dynamics?

A: Family scholars have identified myriad relational dynamics that play out differently across healthy versus unhealthy families, and these vary in the ways that they manifest across different cultures and social groups. Some of the most common themes include: • Communication: how we express ourselves to each other, and how we listen to and/or receive others when they talk with us.

• Closeness and cohesion: how close and engaged we are, or how distant and disengaged we are.

• Adaptability: how we solve problems and navigate stress together.

Most of these dynamics are best when they are somewhere between “too much” and “too little”, and they evolve over time and context. They also tend to shift between parents and children as the children grow up.

Q: What should parents keep in mind when their adult children visit?

A: Remember that they are adults now. The manners in which they do any variety of things may be different than the ways that you would do things — from cooking to driving to responding to an acting-out child. Your job as their parent is no longer to guide, teach and discipline as you did when they were young. Pick your battles with your adult children and don’t sweat the small stuff. The visit is temporary, so enjoy time together — visit, share, play games, see shows or exchange gifts.

Q: How can adult children approach family visits?

A: Your parents are still your parents. If you are visiting them in their home, respect that it is their space, not yours. For example, don’t change the thermostat without asking them first and remember to clean up after yourself. Be sure to engage with them in authentic conversations; avoid scrolling through social media and watching TV independently.

Q: What advice would you give to family members about navigating difficult conversations such as politics?

A: It depends. If the family members who are visiting each other are not especially close or if the visit is only going to

be for a couple of hours over a holiday meal or gift-exchange, it might be best to just keep politics off the table. If family members are more invested in navigating potentially-heated conversations, find some common ground about things that you both agree about.

Listen to understand, not to respond, attack, criticize or defend. Remember that it is doubtful that you will substantively change each other’s mind or position, i.e., “win” the argument. The best outcome is to sustain — and sometimes even enrich! — the relationship.

Q: Where can people find more information about this topic and how does the U of M support healthy family dynamics?

A: I would encourage anyone who is really struggling with couple and family dynamics to seek support – the earlier, the better – through a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT). These professionals specialize in working with family systems through a variety of interpersonal processes in problem-solving, healing and growth. The U of M trains many of the therapists and counselors in our state that provide this critical support to families.

“Talking...with U of M” is a resource whereby University of Minnesota faculty answer questions on current and other topics of general interest.

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Supremely half-hearted code of ethics

There are two relevant provisions in the new Supreme Court Ethics Rules addressing the Justices’ obligation of disclosure; but none of them seems to actually mandate full financial disclosure.

Instead, they simply require compliance with restrictions on acceptance of gifts, and make a self-serving claim they have complied with disclosure requirements for some time.

The code then expressed that each Justice reaffirms his or her “commitment” to continue those disclosures.

But if that means continuing the half-hearted disclosures the Justices have demonstrated so far, then this is not a substantial improvement.

The Court still has miles to go before it can put to rest the public’s legitimate doubts about Supreme Court ethical propriety.

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War crimes being committed Here we go again. The old adage “Two wrongs don’t make a right” sure makes the front page in the ongoing Israeli and Hamas war.

On Oct. 7, Hamas terrorists butchered 1,200 men, women and children. This day a war crime is tattooed on Hamas’ members, young and old.

Netanyahu didn’t take long for the Israeli War Council to institute a complete and total destruction of Hamas and its followers in the war-torn Gaza. In a matter of days, the

Israeli war machine, financed by the USA, proceeded to bomb to smithereens the 2 million-plus state of Gaza. This annihilation included schools, apartments, hospitals and those 300-milelong underground tunnels that Hamas has constructed over the last 40 years.

Israel has controlled the electricity, fuel, food, water and medical supplies, and day-to-day life of every Palestinian for the last half century.

In the last three weeks, Israel has slaughtered more than 11,000 Palestinians, including some 4,000 children. That’s war crime number No. 2.

With the watching world demanding a cease-fire so the injured and homeless can be saved, Israel won’t consider a cease-fire as they insist Hamas will try to replace weaponry.

Israel continues its slaughter of Hamas and Palestinians.

There’s a way to stop these war crimes shortly.

We have to stop the U.S.’s $13 billion weaponry aid package to Israel that has allowed this carnage to continue into perpetuity.

The U.S. is complicit in Israel’s war crimes, and should be held accountable.

My statements are not antisemitic. They are backed by facts, of decades of bullying the Palestinians by the State of Israel.

How can there be peace in a world of hate, injustice, poverty, ignorance and indifference?

It lies in the power of prayer!

What else is there?

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Golf club head pro to step down

BY NOELLE OLSON EDITOR

The North Oaks Golf Club is getting ready to say goodbye to Ray Vennewitz.

“The North Oaks Golf Club has always been a special place to me and our entire family,” Vennewitz said. “The club has been so unbelievably loyal and supportive of our family through our 52 years of service to the club.”

Vennewitz, of White Bear Township, has been the head pro for 16 years at the North Oaks Golf Club. Before that, he spent five years as an assistant. His dad, Ray Sr., worked at the club for 31 years and passed away 11 years ago.

“On Sept. 7, Pat (Markley, general manager of the North Oaks Golf Club) shared with me a very positive email about extending my contract, which ends on Dec. 31,” Vennewitz said. “I responded to him that I was not mentally or physically ready to do that, but I wanted the weekend to pray about it and talk to my family. I did that and came to the conclusion that it would be best for me and my family to not extend my contract.”

Vennewitz continued, “This decision was extremely difficult for me to make and was not taken lightly. I have spent nearly my entire life at the club and have had so many great memories. However, at the end of the day, if I didn’t have the energy to do the job at a high level then I didn’t feel it was fair to the membership to continue.”

The North Oaks Golf Club plans to have a new golf pro hired by the end of November.

Vennewitz said he will miss the team and members of the club.

“The team that we have in place at the club is special and is like family,” Vennewitz said. “Most importantly, we all got along so well. It has been an absolute pleasure to be part of such a great team. I will also miss the great members that we have at the club. Their support of not only me, but our entire team, is so very much

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appreciated. You treat us like family, and you don’t see that at most clubs.”

Even though he is stepping down to spend more time with his family, Vennewitz is not planning to retire completely.

“I may be slowing down, but I’m definitely not retiring,” Vennewitz said.

“I’m gonna do something. I just don’t know exactly what, but I’ll probably stay in golf.”

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WHITE BEAR LAKE POLICE REPORTS

WASHINGTON COUNTY SHERIFF’S REPORTS

The White Bear Police Department reports the following selected incidents:

N. and McKusick Road N. and The Washington County Sheriff’s also issued a citation.

Office reports the following selected incidents in Birchwood, Mahtomedi Dellwood, Grant, Mahtomedi, Pine Springs and Willernie: • Signs were reported lying in the roadway near East Avenue and Birchwood Dahlia Street at 5:41 a.m. Oct. 9.

Deputies did everyone a favor • Washington County Sheriff’s and removed the signs.

Office deputies on Oct. 18 responded to an address on East • Deputies conducted a traffic stop Oct. 9 in the 700 block County Line Road and Cedar of Mahtomedi Avenue for Street where a mailbox was speeding 50 mph in a 30 mph knocked over by a vehicle that zone. On Oct. 11, deputies drove off. On scene, deputies conducted a different traffic found a pole still standing stop on Century Avenue without its mailbox and parts of and I-694 for an undisclosed a broken side mirror clustered violation. But they did issue a on the ground around it. As citation. the damaged mailbox pole and • The Circle-K Station on most of the debris were on the Stillwater Road on Oct. 9 Ramsey County side, deputies reported a frequent customer stepped aside and let arriving back in the store after he was Ramsey County Sheriff’s Office verbally trespassed from the deputies take over. Any debris premises. The complainant found on the Washington was hoping the customer County side of the road may would be served with a formal have also been turned over to trespassing document, but the RCSO deputies on the other suspect left before deputies side. arrived. Deputies scoured the Dellwood streets of downtown Mahtomedi and Willernie with the trespass • An attempted scam on Apple notice at the ready but could not Orchard Road was reported locate the suspect. twice on Oct. 18.

• A suspicious vehicle with no • A suspicious occupied vehicle license plates reported Oct. 9 on reported at 5:14 a.m. Oct. 18 on Mahtomedi Avenue turned out Dellwood Road turned out to be to be a male who was visiting a driver who had pulled over to and who had a temporary plate write a text. available for review.

• Deputies conducted a traffic stop Oct. 21 on Dellwood Avenue • A motorist was cited Oct. 10 on Wildwood Road and Century and Peninsula Road and issued Avenue N. for driving after a citation. revocation and for failure to Grant provide proof of insurance after deputies on patrol conducted • A Joliet Avenue resident a random license plate check reported fraud Oct. 17. of the vehicle in front of them.

• Deputies conducted a traffic After the research came stop Oct. 20 on Dellwood Road back indicating revoked and N. and Manning Avenue N. impounded plates, deputies and issued a citation. On Oct. raced to catch up to the vehicle 21, deputies conducted another for a traffic stop. The driver told traffic stop on Manning Avenue

• Complaint of an ongoing issue of dogs roaming loose Nov. 9 in the block of 6th Street. Resident warned.

• Officers responded to a report of criminal damage to property Nov. 10 in the 3700 block of Saint Regis Drive. No suspect information.

• A 42-year-old male was arrested Nov. 11 for domestic assault in the 2400 block of Jansen Avenue.

• An officer took a report Nov. 10 of damaged property in the 1800 block of Buerkle Road. and advised complainant of possible remedies.

• Officers responded to a report of a female moving and dancing in the median Nov. 11 on Highway 6.

She was advised to walk on the sidewalk and she complied.

• Officers were dispatched to a disorderly conduct call Nov. 11 in the 2700 block of County Road E. • A man was arrested for domestic assault Nov. 11 in the 3500 block of Century Avenue. He was brought to Ramsey County Law Enforcement Center.

• An assault was reported Nov. 11 in the 4400 block of Highway 61 in a parking lot. No charges are pending at this time.

• An officer responded to the area of 7th Street and Cook Avenue Nov. 11 on a report of an hit and run accident. During the investigation a White Bear Lake man was arrested and booked at the Ramsey County Enforcement Center for 3rd Degree DWI. • Officer took a report Nov. 11 of a domestic assault that occurred during the night in the block of Cedar Avenue. Officers issued a pick up and hold on the suspect and later located a 22-year-old male of White Bear Lake and arrested him for domestic assault.

• Officers were dispatched Nov. 11 for a dispute report in the 3500 block of Auger Avenue.

• Officers responded to a report of a domestic assault Nov. 12 in the 1800 block of 5th Street. The investigation is on-going.

• Officers responded to domestic assault Nov. 12 in the 3600 block of Hoffman Road. A 24-year-old White Bear Lake woman was arrested and booked at the Ramsey County Law Enforcement Center.

• A large disturbance was reported Nov. 13 in the 3500 block of Century Avenue. No arrests were made.

• A domestic assault was reported Nov. 13 in the 3521 block of Century Avenue. A female was arrested.

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deputies he had just purchased the vehicle from a private party, had no insurance and was working on getting his driver’s license back. A National Crime Information Center (NCIC) check showed that the driver’s license was also revoked. The driver was made to legally park the vehicle and find other transportation to the DMV for new plates.

• Juveniles were reported Oct. 10 for entering the garage of a Shamrock Drive residence without permission.

• A Warner Avenue resident on Oct. 12 reported a truck being parked at the neighbor’s place with its door open and its hood up for the past week. Deputies did the “nothing to see here” and responded to their next call.

• A downed tree resting on internet lines was reported Oct. 13 on Lincolntown Avenue and Long Lake Road. Deputies directed the public works department to cut the tree off the lines, and the community quickly resumed conducting its online business.

Pine Springs

• A truck reported parked for “some time” on Viking Drive and Roscoe Road Oct.14 and presumed stolen due to unknown clues turned out to have been legally parked and not stolen at all.

• Deputies conducted a traffic stop Oct.14 in the 6000 block of Hilton Trail and issued a citation.

Willernie

• Property damage to a vehicle was reported Oct. 12 on Leeds Place.

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RAMSEY COUNTY SHERIFF’S REPORTS

Vadnais Heights

• A Vadnais Heights woman reported a tire stolen from a rental car she’d been driving while it was parked overnight Oct. 11-12 in an apartment complex lot in the 900 block of County Road D. • A Champlain man, 49, was reported Oct. 13 in the 600 block of Belland Avenue for violating an order for protection, after deputies were called to the scene of a custody exchange and discovered he had the OFP out on him.

• A St. Paul man, 53, was arrested Oct. 13 at the Target store in the 900 block of County Road E after he walked out the door with a shopping cart filled with nearly $300 worth of cat food and anticlumping cat litter. At $15 per 40 pound bag, that is approximately 20 bags.

• A Vadnais Heights woman reported her 2007 Chevrolet Impala stolen Oct. 14 from the Walmart parking lot in the 800 block of County Road E while she was inside shopping.

• A resident in the 3700 block of Brunet Court reported his mail stolen Oct. 14. The case is under investigation.

• A Haitian man called from the 800 block of County Road E to report himself for losing his passport Oct. 15. He needed a police report to work through the travel bureaucracy within the Haitian Consulate.

• Deputies arrested an Anoka County man, 22, at 9:51 p.m. Oct. 16 at the intersection of Chatsworth and University Avenue in St. Paul after joining a pursuit on I-694 and Rice Street of a suspect reported for throwing handguns out the window.

After fleeing Columbia Heights toward St. Paul, the suspect crashed into another vehicle heading eastbound on University Avenue. The two occupants of the innocent vehicle were not physically injured. The suspect was arrested

for violating a domestic abuse no contact order, fleeing police officers, criminal vehicular operation, on an Anoka County warrant, and for assaulting a peace officer.

• A resident in the 4100 block of Rice Street on Oct. 17 reported receiving threatening text messages from someone with whom he’d been communicating online.

• A hit-and-run crash was reported Oct. 17 at the intersection of Berwood Avenue W. and Edgerton Street.

• A resident in the 200 block of Woodridge Drive reported being scammed out of a significant amount of money Oct. 18 after she contacted a person she believed would offer cell phone repair services.

• An abandoned vehicle with its dashboard ripped out was reported found Oct. 19 in the 3200 block of Fanum Road. Plenty of trash was strewn around the vehicle as well, and its owner was contacted.

• A St. Paul man, 33, was arrested on multiple warrants at 1:12 a.m. Oct. 20 near I-694 and Highway 61, following a traffic stop for speeding.

Deputies on patrol pulled the Ford Windstar over after it passed the squad at a high rate of speed.

• A Vadnais Heights woman reported her purse stolen Oct. 21 while she was shopping at the Walmart store in the 800 block of County Road E.

White Bear Township

• A White Bear Township man, 28, was cited for hitand-run and failing to stop after a collision Oct. 15, after a resident in the 2500 block of Fourth Street reported him for crashing his Toyota Highlander into his mailbox.

• A juvenile male, 14, was reported for kicking the front door of a home in the 5200 block of Division Street overnight Oct. 17-18, after the video surveillance camera caught him in the act.

• A resident in the 1200 block of Pond View Lane on Oct. 18 reported her mail stolen. The case is under investigation.

• A resident in the 2600 block of Suzanne Circle on Oct. 19 reported viewing a person caught on camera tampering with his vehicle. Nothing appeared damaged or stolen. Deputies gathered up the images of the suspect.

• A resident in the 1200 block of Birch Pond Trail reported fraudulent charges on his credit card Oct. 19.

• A stray hen that appeared to be tangled in a rope was reported in the 1200 block of Otter Ridge Road on Oct. 19. Deputies took the bird to an animal care facility.

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Spirit of Tourism’s award winner Along with these organizations, Galloway was the meals chairperson for the 2009 Governor’s Fishing Opener.

The fishing opener is hosted every year by a town in Minnesota. The Governor visits during the fishing opener weekend to fish and enjoy the weekend.

Galloway has received the White Bear Lake Chamber Legacy of Excellence Award in 2011, the 2012 Manitou Days Volunteer of the Year recognition and the 2013 Outstanding Rotarian Award.

“Ken, thanks so much for all the years you have spent helping White Bear Lake thrive. You are a true asset to our community,” said Foussard.

Galloway said he loves living in White Bear Lake and has lived in the area for 40 years. He has four grown children and three grandchildren, with one more on the way.

Previous Spirit of Tourism award winners are: Jacobson Family from the Pine Tree Apple Orchard, Carol & Pat McFarland, Gene Johnson, Trish Appleby & Steve Donatelli former owners of Donatelli’s restaurant, Lisa Beecroft, Angela Homic, Nancy Roth and Dale Grambush.

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“Joy ful Sip & Shop” Hosted by:

The Joy Erickson Real Estate Team

November 30th 3:00-7:00PM Vadnais Heights Commons Kick off your holiday shopping while supporting local businesses!

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Bill Foussard presents the Spirit of Tourism Award to Ken Galloway for his volunteer work in the community. Former White Bear Lake Mayor Jo Emerson was there to offer congratulations.

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“This year we are thrilled to announce the 2023 Spirit of Tourism Award to Ken Galloway,” said Bill Foussard, owner of the White Bear Country Inn and Rudy’s Redeye Grill.

Ken Galloway has worked as an executive in the private club industry, including Dellwood Country Club, the White Bear Yacht Club and others, over the past 30 years. Prior to that Ken enjoyed success as a Certified Chef and small business owner. He won several national and local awards as a chef and club manager. He holds certifications as a Certified Club Manager, Executive Chef and Wine and Spirits Education Trust Professional. Ken retired from club management in 2019 to start Galloway Culinary. He focuses on wine and food training, consulting, cooking classes and private chef services.

Galloway’s community activities are as follows.

• Boards of Directors of the Rotary Club of WBL, president 2016 • White Bear Lake area Emergency Food Shelf Board for 13 years • President of Upper Midwest Club Managers Association two times, 2002 and 2009 • White Bear Lake Chamber Board • White Bear Lake Education Foundation Board • Explore White Bear Galloway is a founding board member of Eagles Turf, which is an organization that works with veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder and other disabilities out of Lake Elmo. He is the founder and chair of the BEARly Open Golf on ice tournament. The tournament helps support the White Bear Lake Area and Mahtomedi Food Shelves. This upcoming year, 2024, will be the 17th anniversary of the event.

Since its creation, the event has raised enough money to purchase over $2 million worth of food for neighbors in need.

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Church Directory Find the church that fits your needs.

1660 Birch Lake Ave., White Bear Lake (Just off Hwy 96 & Otter Lake Road)

All Are Welcome!

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Church: 4741 Bald Eagle Avenue, White Bear Lake Parish Life Center/School: 4690 Bald Eagle Avenue, White Bear Lake

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Masses: Saturday - 5:00 PM Livestream Sunday - 9:00 & 11:00 AM CHURCH OF ST. PIUS X

Daily Mass Tuesday, 6:00 pm, Wednesday & Friday, 9:00 am Thursday, 9:00 am (Jun - Aug), 9:15 am (Sep - May) Weekend Masses Saturday, 4:30 pm.

Sunday, 9:00 am.

CATHOLIC CHURCH & SCHOOL Sunday, 11:00 am.

Sacrament of Reconciliation: www.stjudeofthelake.org Friday 7:45 - 8:45 am Saturdays 3:30 - 4:30 pm 651-426-3245 | 700 Mahtomedi Avenue, Mahtomedi By appointment

St.Jude

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stjohnwilderness.org

9am Traditions Worship 10:45am New Crossing Worship 10am Online ALL ARE WELCOME! Check our website for holiday hours wblumc.org 1851 Birch Street WBL 55110 White Bear Unitarian Universalist Church

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Sundays

8:00am In-person Holy Eucharist 10am In-person & Livestream Holy Eucharist

A Welcoming & Inclusive Faith Community

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Sunday Services | In-Person & Online | 9 & 11am: https://wbuuc.org/sunday-worship office@wbuuc.org | www.wbuuc.org |   

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5th and Bloom Ave, White Bear Lake • 651-429-3381 • www.fpcwbl.org 5th and Bloom Ave, White Bear Lake • 651-429-3381• www.fpcwbl.org

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Children 5 years to 5th grade may participate in Children’s Church during worship.

2175 1st Street, WBL 55110 | 651.429.5351

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Sunday Worship Join us on Sunday:

10:15 am in-person Worship Livestreaming on and Live-streaming on YouTube: YouTube:FPCWBL FPCWBL

office@ctkwbl.org | 651-429-4828 St. John in the Wilderness Episcopal Church

3878 Highland Avenue White Bear Lake • 651-429-5337 www.churchofstpiusx.org Masses: Sunday 9:30 AM & 6:30 PM, Monday, Thursday, & Friday, 8:00 AM, Wednesday 6:00 PM, Saturday 4:00 PM Reconciliation: Wednesday 5:00-5:45 PM, Thursday 8:45-9:15 AM, Saturday 3:15-3:35 PM, Sunday 6:00-6:20 PM

9 am worship in person & online at www.ctkwbl.org.

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3676 Centerville Road, Vadnais Heights, MN 55127 www.cslcvh.org / 651-429-6595 Sunday 9:30 AM worship in person/on-line Adult Bible Study 8:30 AM

Christ the King Lutheran Church

651-429-7771 Opt 1 www.stmarys-wbl.org

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Christ the Servant Lutheran Church

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Service times are subject to change during the coronavirus crisis. Contact your local church or check church web sites for service time and online service information.

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rlcstpaul

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2425 White Bear Avenue • Maplewood • 651-777-5200

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Worship: Sunday, 9am & 10:30am Wednesday, 6:30pm Daily prayer meetings and Spiritual Growth classes throughout the week. Call the church office for more information.

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Behind-the-scenes effort keeps city systems humming quickly and minimize damage to the home.”

BY NOELLE OLSON EDITOR

If you took all of the sewer pipes in White Bear Lake and lay them end to end on Highway 61, water could be pumped to Two Harbors, Minnesota — but you wouldn’t want to drink it.

White Bear Lake Public Works is made up of 27 employees who work on the water, sewer, parks, facilities, streets and fleet management of the city.

Paul Kauppi, public works director/ city engineer, said the city produced 368 million gallons of potable water from May through October.

“That’s what we’ve pumped, and I’m going to say it’s 15 percent lower than it was that similar period last year,” Kauppi said. “Even with drought conditions and whatnot, people are doing their best effort to conserve water.”

Kauppi noted that every spring the city does a maintenance shutdown of the water treatment plant. This year, it was shut down in September to align with the planned replacement of a lime slaker.

“That’s about a $400,000 investment,” Kauppi said. “The reliability of the plant is going to increase greatly.”

He continued, “A byproduct of our lime softening plant is we have spent lime that we need to haul down to St. Paul to have processed, and that’s one of the major expenses of the water treatment besides electricity. St. Paul water utilities has a processing plant where they can press out the water from it and dispose of it.”

The city will continue to make investments in the water treatment plant. Kauppi also said they still have unplanned repairs.

“Our chlorine scale, which regulates the amount of chlorine that goes in

Parks division

Kauppi said the parks division spends many hours on keeping the community looking great. In the last six months, parks personnel spent 413 hours mowing and performed 390 park reservation setups, 70 tree inspections and 206 hours of tree trimming.

“We’re getting ready for the holiday season,” Kauppi said. “We’ll put up about four miles of holiday lights.

We’ll put up 110 trees that we just ordered, and we have 36 strands of garland.”

He noted the city is working on building security upgrades all over town. “These include public buildings, cameras, key fob access and things like that.”

Streets division

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White Bear Lake Horticulturalist Sadie Loose prepares downtown for the holiday season.

the system, failed; we had to get that replaced,” he said. “There’s a lot of little things that we’re still trying to catch up on and get everything more on a routine replacement schedule versus let’s just fix it when it breaks.”

Sewer division

According to Kauppi, from May to October, the city cleaned and jetted 11 miles of sewer, had one sewer main back up and eight customer service calls reporting residential sewer backups.

“We use a push camera, and in a lot of those cases we can come in to help them evaluate,” Kauppi said. “We find out quickly where the issue is so that we can help that resident resolve it

The streets division has swept 662 miles of city streets three times, placed 522 tons of asphalt patching and spent 94 hours tree trimming.

“We’ve picked up a lot of debris, leaves and whatnot that would have gone into our lakes and wetlands and ponds,” Kauppi said.

If the public wants a graphic image of how big this operation is, Council Member Kevin Edberg said, “Now this is only based on three times sweeping, but that’s like driving from White Bear Lake almost to Chicago and back at 3 to 4 miles per hour. That’s another way of putting some flesh on that bone.”

Fleet maintenance division

The city has two mechanics who performed 125 preventive maintenance operations on city vehicles during the last six months alone. These include oil changes, tire changes and rotations, and more.

Also, they performed 350 major repairs and had eight Department of Transportation inspections.

“We have to certify all of our big trucks to be out on the roads,” Kauppi said. “They got eight of them done and are getting ready for the plowing season.”

Crawford said the city has done a good job over the last several years of catching up with replacing equipment that was significantly outdated and dilapidated. Also, the city is planning an open house in the spring at the public works building.

“You can see the numbers for those in the audience and watching at home, that’s where all of the money goes,” Mayor Dan Louismet said. “All of those little things that you don’t see that make the world work, at least the city, are oftentimes thankless jobs, but tonight we’re saying thank you.”

DID YOU KNOW?

White Bear Lake infrastructure statistics: • 89 miles of street • 106 cul-de-sacs • 42 miles of sidewalk • 122 miles of water main • 2,132 water valves • 1,164 fire hydrants • Five deep water wells • Three water towers/reservoirs • 97 miles of sanitary main • 2,616 sanitary sewer manholes • 12 sanitary lift stations • 68 miles of storm sewer pipe • 4,077 storm sewer structures • 12 storm ponds • 24 parks • 446 street lights • 150+ vehicles and equipment • 10 facilities

TREE FARM: Will offer holiday memories for families and friends FROM PAGE 1

CONTRIBUTED

Steve Kavan, owner of Kavan Christmas Tree Farm, purchased the Lino Lakes property in 2018 and planted his first trees in 2019.

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 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,” Kavan said.

Kavan’s background is in accounting and finance, and he dabbles in real estate. He openly admitted he doesn’t have any experience planting or growing trees.

“It’s all new. It’s been a big learning curve,” he said. “This is a whole new adventure.”

Kavan estimates he currently has approximately 16,000 trees on 20 acres of property, but he likely planted around 30,000 of them. He explained the past three years have been tricky due to the severe drought.

He is thankful that other businesses in the industry have been very helpful

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and supportive of his new adventure. He has visited several other tree farms to compare notes and learn.

In addition to several trips to Krueger’s Tree Farm in Lake Elmo, last winter he volunteered there.

“The industry has been great relative to other industries I’ve been in,” he said. “People are super nice, friendly and supportive. It’s refreshing … they don’t look at me as a competitor, they look at it as they need more farmers.”

He explained it is hard to get people in the industry because it takes so long before the trees are ready to be sold. On average, he said it takes about eight years. So come next year, he said he will have some trees that will be ready; however, he does plan to supplement demand by bringing in some pre-cut trees for customers.

He has planted a variety of trees, including: balsam fir, Fraser fir, Canaan fir, Norway pine, white pine and Colorado spruce. He said he has had the best luck so far

with balsam fir, as it is native to Minnesota. It has been a lot of “trial and error.”

Kavan hopes the farm might just be his children’s first work experience. He and his wife have two children, 11-year-old Lydia and 8-yearold Wade, who both attend Turtle Lake Elementary School in Shoreview.

Kavan has committed to donating at least 5% of his proceeds to Centennial School as well as the Centennial Community Food Shelf.

“It will be a fun holiday memory for people,” Kavan said. “They can have a great time outdoors, and it is relaxing.”

The cut-your-own tree farm will likely open the week before Thanksgiving 2024 and be open for a few weekends after that. For more information, visit www. kavanfamilyfarm.com.

Managing Editor Shannon Granholm can be reached at 651-407-1227 or quadnews@ presspubs.com.

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Black Friday: Tips to kick off holiday shopping season Retail holidays now dot the consumer landscape throughout much of the year. That shift has made a day like Black Friday somewhat less unique than it was in years past.

However, Black Friday remains the unofficial kickoff to the holiday shopping season, and it’s still a major day for retailers big and small.

According to Adobe Analytics, in 2022 consumers spent $9.12 billion while online shopping on Black Friday. A separate report from the National Retail Federation and Prosper Insights & Analytics indicated just under 200 million consumers shopped online and in store between Thanksgiving Day and Cyber Monday, which is the Monday following Black Friday. Such figures indicate that holiday shopping on the

weekend of Thanksgiving might have changed, but it’s still wildly popular.

This Black Friday, shoppers can consider these tips to ensure they find the right gifts at the right price.

• Do some research before the big day. The spirit of competition is

alive and well on Black Friday.

Consumers once flocked en masse to store parking lots in the wee hours of the morning in order to get sale items before shelves emptied.

Some still do, so shoppers may need to be willing to compete to find the best deals. But some pre-Black Friday research might prove the best way to land the best deals, and it may not require waking up in the middle of the night. Much like shoppers compete with one another to grab sale items, retailers also

compete to get shoppers in store or on their websites. As a result, it’s not uncommon for retailers big and small to advertise Black Friday sales weeks in advance. Shoppers can research these sales and plan when to visit certain stores in order to land the best deal.

• Wake up early. Shoppers may not need to get out of bed at 3 a.m. to land the best Black Friday deals, but the early bird still gets the worm on the day after Thanksgiving. Plan to shop early in the morning, which increases the chances of finding the right gift at the right price. If an item you’ve earmarked is part of a doorbuster deal, plan to get to the store or onto the website as early as possible.

• Establish a budget. It’s easy to go

overboard when shopping deals on Black Friday. However, busting the budget on the first day of the holiday shopping season sets a bad precedent for the weeks to come. A holiday debt survey from LendingTree found that 35 percent of shoppers took on debt to pay for their holiday purchases in 2022, with the average consumer accumulating more than $1,500 in debt. Savvy shoppers devise a budget prior to shopping and stick to that budget.

Black Friday remains a wildly popular retail holiday. A little research, a willingness to get up early and some determination to stay on budget is a formula for a successful Black Friday.

PUBLIC NOTICES • PUBLIC NOTICES • PUBLIC NOTICES CITY OF BIRCHWOOD VILLAGE

ORDINANCE 2023-06-01 Please be advised that on October 10th 2023, the City of Birchwood Village adopted an Ordinance (2023-06-01) repealing Section 306.060 of the City Zoning Code titled, “Solar Energy Systems.”

Published one time in the White Bear Press on November 22, 2023.

CITY OF BIRCHWOOD VILLAGE

PUBLIC NOTICE Please be advised that the City of Birchwood has duly-passed the following ORDINANCE: AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 301 REGARDING CONDITIONAL USE PERMITS AND SOLAR ENERGY PROJECTS NOT IN 302.100.

The following is a SUMMARY of the Ordinance: On October 10, 2023 the City adopted an Ordinance (2023-06-01) to amend 301.070 header and Sub. 1e to define when a conditional use permit (CUP) is required in a solar energy installation.

PLEASE BE ADVISED, this is not the full text of the Ordinance passed and the published material is only a summary. The full text is available for public inspection at the City of Birchwood, 207 Birchwood Avenue, Birchwood, Minnesota 55110 or delivered upon request electronically or by U.S. Mail.

Summary complies with Minn. Stat. §§ 331A.05 subd. 8. & 412.191 subd 4.

Published one time in the White Bear Press on November 22, 2023.

CITY OF BIRCHWOOD VILLAGE

PUBLIC NOTICE Please be advised that the City of Birchwood has duly-passed the following ORDINANCE: AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 302 REGARDING SOLAR ENERGY PROJECTS The following is a SUMMARY of the Ordinance: On October 10, 2023 the City adopted an Ordinance (2023-06-01) to amend Section 302 of the Zoning Code to include new section 302.100 which integrates solar power projects generally and provides performance standards thereon.

PLEASE BE ADVISED, this is not the full text of the Ordinance passed and the published material is only a summary. The full text is available for public inspection at the City of Birchwood, 207 Birchwood Avenue, Birchwood, Minnesota 55110 or delivered upon request electronically or by U.S. Mail.

Summary complies with Minn. Stat. §§ 331A.05 subd. 8. & 412.191 subd 4.

Published one time in the White Bear Press on November 22, 2023.

CITY OF BIRCHWOOD VILLAGE

SUMMARY ORDINANCE 2023-09-01 Please be advised that the City of Birchwood has duly-passed the following ORDINANCE: AN ORDINANCE REPEALING AND REPLACING CHAPTER 607 REGARDING PARKS. The following is a SUMMARY of the Ordinance: On November 14, 2023 the City adopted an Ordinance (2023-09-01) repealing and replacing Chapter 607 regarding Parks.

PLEASE BE ADVISED, this is not the full text of the Ordinance passed and the published material is only a summary. The full text is available for public inspection at the City of Birchwood, 207 Birchwood Avenue, Birchwood, Minnesota 55110 or delivered upon request electronically or by U.S. Mail.

Summary complies with Minn. Stat. §§ 331A.05 subd. 8. & 412.191 subd 4.

Published one time in the White Bear Press on November 22, 2023.

CITY OF DELLWOOD

PUBLIC HEARING Notice is hereby given that a Public Hearing will be conducted before the Dellwood Planning Commission on Tuesday, December 19, 2023 at 6:30 p.m. and the Dellwood City Council on Tuesday, January 9, 2024 at 5:30 p.m. Contact City Hall at (651) 429-1356 for information on attending the meeting or visit the City’s website at dellwood.us. Purpose of said hearing would be to consider a variance related to the replacement of a septic system at 33 Apple Orchard Road in Dellwood within the setback to a wetland. Contact City Hall at the number above if you have questions or wish to review the associated application materials.

Published one time in the White Bear Press on November 22, 2023.

DELLWOOD WILDLIFE FOUNDATION

NOTICE OF AERATION SYSTEM ON PINE TREE LAKE Two (2) aeration systems creating open water and thin ice will be in operation on Pine Tree Lake in Washington County, Grant and Dellwood, Minnesota. Weather conditions may cause areas of thin ice to fluctuate greatly. Stay clear of marked areas.

Published two times in the White Bear Press on November 22 and 29, 2022.

INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 624 WHITE BEAR LAKE, MN

NOTICE OF BID SUNRISE PARK DISTRICT CENTER CONVERSION & RENOVATION Independent School District No. 624, White Bear Lake, Minnesota, is presently soliciting competitive “Prime Contract Bids” for Sunrise Park District Center Conversion & Renovation. Sealed bids will be received electronically through Building Connected using the following link: https://tinyurl.com/ ISD624SubmitBidsSunrise, free of charge to Contractors. No other agent is authorized to receive bids. Bids will be received until 2:00 PM local time, on Thursday, December 7th, 2023 at which time they will be publicly tabulated for review, please join us for a Zoom at the following link: https://tinyurl.

com/ISD624SunriseBidTabulation Meeting ID: 813 0276 7727 and passcode: 658881. Bidders are also invited to review the results online at https://www. krausanderson.com/subcontractors/bid-tabulations/.

All bids shall be on a lump sum basis. No bid may be withdrawn for a period of 60 days after bid receipt without consent of the Owner. Each bidder shall accompany the Bid Form with a bid security as described in the Instructions to Bidders. The Owner reserves the right to reject any or all bids and to waive any irregularities in bids.

This portion of the project involves interior demolition and improvements, mechanical and electrical upgrades, new addition, & site improvements.

Direct communications regarding this Project to the office of the Construction Manager: Brian Johnson (brian.johnson@krausanderson.com) Kraus-Anderson Construction, 501 South 8th Street, Minneapolis, MN 55404 Tel: 612-505-8453.

Obtain Bidding Documents, including the online bidding instructions, as well as Drawings and Specifications, via free electronic download by visiting https://tinyurl.com/ISD624SunriseBidInstructions. Contact Krystal Burton with any planroom downloading or ordering questions at 612-255-2353 or krystal. burton@krausanderson.com to receive an invite. Kraus-Anderson will not be responsible for notifying individual parties who obtained documents without utilizing the Building Connected process through KA, when Addenda are issued.

Bidding Documents will be available for inspection at several Builder’s Exchanges: MHC Dodge Plans, MEDA, Mid-Minnesota, Brainerd Lakes, Rochester, Duluth, and MBEX. A Pre-Bid conference will be held at the following location and times: • Sunrise Park Middle School, 2399 Cedar Ave, White Bear Lake, MN 55110: Monday, November 27, 2023 @ 7:00AM and 4:30PM. Meet in main lobby.

Independent School District No. 624 White Bear Lake, Minnesota Published two times in the White Bear Press on November 22 and 29, 2023.

a recording is posted on the website. PROCEDURAL ITEMS 1) Call to Order - Chair Ellison called the meeting to order at 5:30 p.m. 2) Roll Call - Present: Thompson, Arcand, Beloyed, Daniels, Ellison, Newmaster. Absent: Streiff Oji. DISCUSSION ITEMS 1) 2024-25 and 2025-26 Calendar Update - Dr. Alison Gillespie, Assistant Superintendent for Teaching and Learning presented an update on the 2024-25 and 2025-26 school year calendars. 2) Building Our Future - Referendum Projects Update - Paul Aplikowski and representatives from Wold Architects and Engineers provided an update on construction progress as well as next steps in the Building Our Future Referendum Project. 3) 2024-25 Course Proposals - Jen Babiash, Director of Teaching and Learning, presented the secondary course proposals for the 2024-25 school year. ADJOURNMENT - Arcand moved and Beloyed seconded to adjourn the meeting at 7:11 p.m. Voice vote: Ayes, all. Nays, none. Motion carried. Submitted by: Angela Thompson, clerk.

Published one time in the White Bear Press on November 22, 2023.

CITY OF MAHTOMEDI WASHINGTON COUNTY, MINNESOTA

NOTICE OF PROJECT PUBLIC IMPROVEMENT HEARING 2024 STREET IMPROVEMENT PROJECT TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: NOTICE is hereby given that the City Council of the City of Mahtomedi will hold a public hearing and meet in the City Council Chambers at 600 Stillwater Road, Mahtomedi, Minnesota, at 7:00 p.m. on Tuesday, December 5, 2023, to consider the making of the following improvements for the 2024 Street Improvement Project as detailed below: 2024 Street Improvement Project

INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 624 WHITE BEAR LAKE, MN 55110

MINUTES OCTOBER 9, 2023 Abbreviated Minutes-complete information available from the Superintendent’s office or online at www.isd624.org.

A meeting of the White Bear Lake Area School Board was held on Monday, October 9, 2023 at 5:30 p.m. in Room 112 at District Center, 4855 Bloom Avenue, White Bear Lake, MN. This meeting was open to the public and a recording is posted on the website. PROCEDURAL ITEMS 1) Chair Ellison called the meeting to order at 5:30 p.m. 2) Roll Call - Present: Newmaster, Streiff Oji, Arcand, Beloyed, Daniels, Ellison. Absent: Thompson. 3) Pledge of Allegiance. 4) Beloyed moved and Arcand seconded to approve the agenda as presented. Voice vote: Ayes: all. Nays, none. Motion carried. 5) Daniels moved and Streiff Oji seconded to approve the consent agenda consisting of: a) Minutes for Board meetings on September 11, 2023, and September 25, 2023; b) Invoices based upon a random sample, all of which met the standards and guidelines as set by the School Board; c) Resolution regarding acceptance of gifts with thank you letters directed to the donors; d) Field trips; e) Resolution regarding personnel items; and e) Quarterly investment report. Roll call vote: Ayes, all. Nays, none. Motion carried. PUBLIC FORUM - Charlie Rogers. INFORMATION ITEMS 1) Student Recognition - AP Scholars, National Merit Finalists, and College Board Recognition Award Winners were recognized and congratulated by Dr. Kazmierczak for earning state and national recognition. 2) Superintendent’s Report - Arianna Vann-Cook spoke about last week’s homecoming festivities. She also mentioned national school lunch week and upcoming sporting events. Dr. Kazmierczak spoke about hands-on lessons for our students in observance of Indigenous Peoples Day, and White Bear Lake Area High School - South Campus being named a Silver member of the 2023 Advanced Placement School Honor Roll. He also gave information about the virtual Substance Abuse Awareness & Naloxone workshop offered to the community on October 24, and employment opportunities with WBLAS. He ended with information about the newly renovated Price Field. DISCUSSION ITEMS 1) First Reading of School Board Policies a) 412, Expense Reimbursement; b) 496, Faculty and Staff Dress and Appearance; c) 497, Nepotism; d) 521, Student Disability Nondiscrimination; and e) 807, Health and Safety. The policies listed above will be on the November 13, 2023 agenda or subsequent agenda for a second reading. OPERATIONAL ITEMS 1) Beloyed moved and Streiff Oji seconded to approve the action on Bid for South Campus Mechanical and Accessibility (LTFM) Package in the total amount of $12,561,067. Roll call vote: Ayes, all. Nays. Motion carried. 2) Daniels moved and Beloyed seconded to approve the action on Bid for Central Middle School Technology Update Package in the amount of $272,325.40.

Roll call vote: Ayes, all. Nays. Motion carried. 3) Daniels moved and Streiff Oji seconded to approve the action on 2024 Medical and Dental Insurance Rates. Roll call vote: Ayes, all. Nays. Motion carried. 4) Arcand moved and Beloyed seconded to approve the action on Property Purchase Agreement.

Roll call vote: Ayes, all. Nays. Motion carried. BOARD FORUM. ADJOURNMENT - Arcand moved and Daniels seconded to adjourn the meeting at 6:01 p.m. Voice vote: Ayes, all. Nays, none. Motion carried. Submitted by: Margaret Newmaster, acting clerk.

Published one time in the White Bear Press on November 22, 2023.

INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 624 WHITE BEAR LAKE, MN 55110

WORK SESSION MINUTES OCTOBER 23, 2023 Abbreviated Minutes-complete information available from the Superintendent’s office or online at www.isd624.org.

A work session of the White Bear Lake Area School Board was held on Monday, October 23, 2023 at 5:30 p.m. in Room 112 at District Center, 4855 Bloom Avenue, White Bear Lake, MN. This meeting was open to the public and

The area proposed to be specially assessed is generally described as properties abutting or with direct access to streets listed above. The roadway improvements include full street reconstruction or pavement rehabilitation including and storm sewer, curb and gutter, associated utility improvements and appurtenant work.

ESTIMATED COST OF PROJECT $2,279,000 - The estimated cost includes construction and overhead costs for the project. The overhead costs include funds for administration, legal, fiscal, engineering design, preparation of plans and specifications, field surveying, and inspection. The overhead costs are estimated as a percentage of the construction cost. The estimated unit prices for construction costs are based on actual bid tabulations from recent local projects of similar scope. The project cost estimates reflect the estimated construction cost, which includes contractor costs for labor, equipment and materials and a 10% contingency. Estimated costs include all utility improvement costs associated with the street improvements.

The area proposed to be specially assessed is generally described as properties along the streets listed in the above table. These properties (proposed to be specially assessed) are more particularly described in the project feasibility study by Washington County Tax Parcel Identification Numbers, and the parcel owners according to the Washington County Property Tax Records are listed in the project feasibility study.

The project is proposed to be specially assessed against tax parcels abutting said improvements. The area, described above, will be subject to special assessment of the project costs pursuant to Minnesota Statutes, Chapter 429.

The City’s Consulting Engineer will be present to describe the physical and financial impact of the proposed project as described in the project feasibility study and proposed plans and specifications. Persons desiring to be heard with reference to the proposed improvements will be heard at said time and place of the public hearing. Written or oral objections will be considered at the public hearing.

The City’s assessment policy and a project feasibility study are on file with the City Clerk and the City’s Consulting Engineer. The City’s assessment policy and the feasibility study are immediately available for public inspection by contacting the City’s City Clerk Jerene Rogers at City Hall, 600 Stillwater Road, Mahtomedi, Minnesota 55115, or by telephone at 651-426-3344.

The feasibility study includes a reasonable estimate of the total amount to be assessed, and a description of the methodology used to calculate individual assessments for affected parcels. Any updates on estimated assessment amounts will be available at the hearing together with the assessment methodology. A reasonable estimate of the total amount to be assessed, and a description of the methodology used to calculate individual assessments for all affected parcels will be available at the hearing.

Jerene Rogers, City Clerk Published two times in the White Bear Press on November 15 and 22, 2023.

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WBCA Members’ Exhibition Now on View White Bear Center for the Arts’ Members’ Exhibition opened on November 13 with a record breaking 245 pieces of artwork on display. Each piece was created by a different artist, and all artists are members of White Bear Center for the Arts, making it an incredible display of local creativity. The show spills out of the Ford Family Gallery into the Exhibition Hall and atrium, filling the art center with motion and color.

Find textiles, ceramic art, paintings, drawings, photographs, and more lining the walls, telling the stories of an entire arts community. “This show is a celebration of our members, with each piece offering a window into their diverse talents, creativity, and dedication,” said Sara Nephew, WBCA’s Creative Services Director. “Cheers to the artists, the heart and soul of our treasured

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On a farm in Hudson Wisconsin, at the home of local potter Zac Spates, sits a kiln.

It’s a large, handbuilt, hut-like structure around five feet tall.

And a few times a year, it fires hundreds and hundreds of pieces of pottery by the heat of burning wood. Zac Spates built this anagama woodfire kiln seven years ago with the help of friends, from a mixture of hard firebrick and high temperature cast cement. About once a year, Zac Spates offers his Woodfire Exploration class through White Bear Center for the Arts, in order to teach the firing process. This fall, WBCA students had the chance to visit Zac’s studio, and try their hand at firing the kiln.

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to go from unfired pots to opening the kiln to brand new finished pots that are always different.” Over the course of 48 hours, students stoked the kiln with pine, oak, and a smattering of other hardwoods, and the kiln reached 2,200 degrees fahrenheit. Each firing produces different colors and patterns from the wood ash, flame, heat and oxygen, so each piece is unique.

Student Kerrie Walters learned about White Bear Center for the Arts for the first time through this class, after searching for woodfire experiences in the area. “It was special to see the pots every time you opened up the kiln to stoke the fire,” Kerrie said.

“It makes you closer to all steps in the process of creating ceramics.”

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Zac values sharing this firing experience with the broader clay community. “I’ve always wanted to share the process because I believe it’s important for someone doing pottery to understand other processes,” he said. “There’s no better way than to experience it yourself.”

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The walking track at the field house is a popular destination for local residents.

Spring break will be March 10-14, and winter break will be Dec. 23-Jan. 1, 2025. Gillespie noted students will be back in school on Thursday, Jan. 2.

“That’s unique in terms of how the holidays fall,” Gillespie said. “That allows us to end the school year in June on the first Friday (June 6), which is preferred for families, students and staff.”

Jen Babiash, director of teaching and learning, said the district has secondary new course proposals, course replacements, course names or grade level changes for the 2024-25 school year.

“Our work is grounded in our world’s best workforce goal that all students are college and careerready by graduation,” Babiash said.

“We use this as our guide when we consider new secondary courses and any changes. We also take into consideration perspectives from our industry partners, post-secondary institutions and, of course, our students. Finally, we consider school capacity to implement new courses including implications for staffing, enrollment, scheduling and facilities.”

Here are some of the new courses for the 2024-25 school year.

• Merchandising/DECA, 11-12 grade • School Grounds Coffee Shop, 11-12 grade • Beginning instrumental ensemble, 9-12 grade • Percussion ensemble, 9-12 grade • Rock band 101 and 201, 10-12 grade • Integrated science, grade 9 • Advanced Placement (AP) PreCalculus, 9-12 grade “I like the fact that we’re giving our students more opportunities, especially in different career fields so that they can experience some of the things they would see in that

field,” said Scott Arcand, school board member. “By adding some of this, they get to add the co-curricular, which also will help them build their leadership, and it’s just a great way of giving them more opportunities.”

To view the full list of secondary courses, visit bit.ly/47eMY8m.

To view the 2024-25 White Bear Lake Area Schools academic calendar, go to wblahs.isd624.org.

Other school board notes

• With the cooler weather, Superintendent Dr. Wayne Kazmierczak invites people to the White Bear Lake Area High School North Campus Field House to use the walking track. It will be open for community use from 6-9 p.m. each Monday through Thursday. “The opportunity is free, and we ask that those who join us wear clean dry shoes,” Kazmierczak said.

• For the 23rd consecutive year, the district has received the Government Finance Officers Association’s certificate of achievement for excellence in financial reporting. The district also received the Excellence in Financial Reporting award from the Association of School Business Officials. “These awards are the highest form of recognition a governmental agency can receive and represent a significant accomplishment for the finance department and staff,” Kazmierczak said. “Our finance team has a longstanding dedication to stewardship, transparency and financial responsibility.”

The next White Bear Lake Area School Board meeting will be at 5:30 p.m. Monday, Dec. 11, at the District Center, 4855 Bloom Avenue in White Bear Lake.

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White Bear Lake Hall of Famer ran for the U of M, represented US at international meets junior in the event in 1978 and ran a 1:52 half-mile split in the mile medley to help the team to a silver medal behind Burnsville, with mile champion Rob Carney anchoring the championship relay team.

The elusive individual state championship for Mike was achieved in the 1600-meter run in 4:15.45 in 1979 and nearly duplicated the triumph in the 1600-meter sprint medley, but cross-town rival Gary Delaney of White Bear Lake High School anchored his team to victory by a one-second margin over Mariner. You can imagine what a national power the relay teams of the combined schools would have been!

Playing basketball until ninth grade, Mike switched to Nordic skiing and again placed in the state meet as a senior, finishing 14th. Mike also placed seventh as a senior in the 1978 state cross-country meet won by Minneapolis Southwest sophomore Dan Roach. At the National High School Athletic Association Cross Country Championships that fall, Mike was selected to participate as one of three Minnesota representatives and finished 12th. The Minnesota team performed well, finishing second as a team with Tim Connelly of Burnsville placing seventh and John Keohen, the state Class A champion from MontgomeryLonsdale, crossing the finish line in 10th place.

Taking official visits to the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, New York, Colorado, Missouri, and the U of M, Mike was torn choosing between Missouri and the Gophers. “After practice that day [signing day], my dad came down to the high school and told me to get home immediately because Minnesota’s Coach Griak was sitting

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The oldest of five athletic children, Mike Gebeke (pronounced Gĕb∙key) was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana, in 1961, and moved to White Bear Lake as a preschool-aged child. Parents Chuck and Renee also had four daughters: Jill, a basketball player at St. Cloud State University (SCSU); Sue, a track athlete at SCSU; Kathy, a 1984 and 1985 state champion in hurdles who would compete at the University of Minnesota (U of M); and Kathy’s identical twin, Karen, a heptathlete at North Dakota State University. The children attended the White Bear Lake Lions Club All-Comers track meet in 1972, won multiple ribbons and, in Mike’s words, “We were hooked!”

Encouraged by White Bear Lake’s summer track program leader Ron Sass, Mike competed in events around the Twin Cities as a youth. The growth of the suburb 12 miles northeast of St. Paul caused the school district to split the high school in 1971, creating Mariner—the new high school—and White Bear Lake.

“Mariner’s coach was Don Glover, who had led his new school to the AA State Track title in 1975. He approached my buddy, Jeff Taylor, and I about coming to train with the high school team as freshmen in August prior to school. At that time, freshmen did not participate at the high school level. Don Glover was a coach who was way ahead of his time. He was a great innovator and a great developer of talent who made the work fun and competitive.”

Finishing ninth in the mile run at the state meet as a sophomore, Mike climbed to a sixth place finish as a

finishing as the second American in the 1985 U.S. Indoor Track and Field Championship in New York City in the 1,000-yard run in a personal best time of 2:08.8. It earned Mike a trip to England for the U.S./England Dual Meet. “I remember calling my dad from a pay phone in Madison Square Garden to ask if he had taped the race on his new VCR—and he did!” The pair of English runners did capture the top two spots in the dual, however.

Hoping to qualify for the 1988 Olympic Trials, Mike continued to run, taking a one year leave of absence from his job and training with a group of runners in Michigan, including Olympic steeplechase bronze medalist Brian Diemer. Missing the qualifying time by less than one second in the 1,500-meter run, he continued his career with 3M, eventually rising to national sales director in the Consumer Products Group before retiring in 2022.

Married to Kathy, a substitute teacher and fitness/yoga instructor Mike met while working in Cleveland, they have enjoyed watching their own children accomplish success in extracurricular activities. They are parents of Eric, a two-time 800-meter state champion who was a scholarship athlete at Notre Dame and now works as a senior strategy analyst for the Minnesota Twins, and Leah, an Iowa State graduate who participated in theater production and television and currently works as social media manager for The Social Lights in Minneapolis.

in our living room with the National Letter of Intent and a pen! I wasn’t going to tell Coach Griak ‘No,’ and it turned out to be the best decision he and I could have made.”

Success continued for Mike at the U of M: fourth place in the 1,000-yards Big Ten Championship Indoors race and seventh in the 1,500-meter outdoors run as a freshman in 1980 and placing again his sophomore and junior years, before claiming the conference championship in both events as a senior in 1983—becoming the first Gopher to win an indoor crown in 10 years. “My most vivid memory of all the Big Ten Championships was the significant effort it took in the prelims to make the finals. You wanted to hold a little back, but there were too many horses at the end!”

As part of the Gopher track and field history book, Mike is listed as No. 7 all-time in the indoors mile (4:02.9, breaking Garry Bjorklund’s record at the time), according to the Gopher track and field website’s listing of all-time best performances and just edged out in the top 10 in the 1,500-meter outdoors run with a best time of 3:42.91.

Mike qualified to represent the U.S. in two international races. In 1980, he was runner-up to Vince Draddy in the U.S. National Junior Championships in the 1,500-meter race with a time of 3:50.2, qualifying for the Junior Pan Am Games in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. Draddy proceeded to win the bronze medal with Mike a half-second behind in fourth place; the winner was Joaquim Cruz, the future 1984 Olympic gold medalist in the 800-meter run.

While working in Cleveland for 3M and training on his own, Mike qualified for a second international race by

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Art Lab RX provides art therapy on the go “Put it on a bus.”

That’s how it all started.

Lisa Lounsbury is a licensed marriage and family therapist, board certified art therapist and board-approved clinical supervisor. She is also the founder of Art Lab RX, a mobile mental health counseling agency that specializes in art therapy services and wellness programs.

Lounsbury was working in corporate America in sales, but didn’t find it to be fulfilling.

When she lost her job in 2008, she

didn’t know that she would quickly discover what she was meant to do. She created this workshop centered around exploring your identity. She brought her workshop to a treatment center.

“The impact from those women in this two-hour workshop, their response, impacted me so deeply.

That I was just like okay, this is it,” she recalled. Lounsbury went to Minneapolis Community and Technical College for a couple of years before she transferred to Metro State University. It was there that she pursued a degree SEE ART LAB, PAGE 15

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Art Lab RX now has a location in Blaine. Founder Lisa Lounsbury preps art projects for an upcoming therapy session with Maya Singer.

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Spooky season is right around the corner. Skeletons, creepy crawlies and mountains of candy will be decorating people’s front porches in preparation for the trick-or-treaters. Halloween is a time to dress up, gather as much candy as possible and watch your favorite spooky movie. Many local businesses and churches host Halloween events to celebrate the holiday. From costume fun runs to pumpkin carving contests, there is something for everyone to do to celebrate Halloween.

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Students at Centennial Middle School (CMS) are adding the finishing touches to their fall play, “Princess & the Pea,” before the premiere later this week.

CMS will perform “Princess and the Pea” Nov. 2 through Nov. 4 at the CMS auditorium.

“Princess and the Pea” is a literary fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen about a princess who is tested to CONTRIBUTED become a wife to a lonely Katherine Knutson plays the prince. CMS’s adaptation queen in the middle school’s of the show was written upcoming prodution “The

by Ryan and Tina North, Princess and the Pea.” Twin Cities theater producers, actors and playwrights. written by (them), “We have done a couple of shows they understand and we love their work and how theschool of goals and and write to meet the needs “Plus, this ater,” said Eric Webster, play co-director. on an old take script is just so fun and such a great classic story.” notice about One thing audience members might costumes are also the show is the set and props. The newly purchased. keep expanding our “As a production team, we just this year we have collaboration with each other, and to the amazing some really cool set elements thanks Kris Schmidt,” talents of our set and props designer, amazing work some Webster said. “She has just done for people to see what for this show. We are so excited she has created.” cast and crew.

Eighty-five students make up the Tangren said the Co-directors Webster and Laurie of eighth graders show has a “very talented class” to grow as who they are excited to watch continue SEE CENTENNIAL MIDDLE SCHOOL,

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exactly how to STAFF WRITER honor Santiago’s memory; they set After sitting in campaign to pay up a GoFundMe for the trail Bear Township’s storage at White amenities. a memorial benchpublic works, The Lake Links dedicated to a popular downtown called attention Association to the project on was finally installed bartender its website by offering along South a “huge Shore Boulevard. thanks” to the donors and the The township has township. been waiting for completion “We encourage of everyone to way road project the trail and one- stop by, enjoy the lake breezes the bench near before mounting and appreciate the the shelter. A bicycle Saputo Station enduring positive gift of Ef’s repair station is impact in our part of the memorial. community,” a member The new additions Other recent amenitieswrote. along the memory of Efrain are in Lake Links Trail Santiago, include a a lighted Washington Square section in north Bar & Grill Mahtomedi. employee who A half-mile trail loved around White Bear to bike the district centersegment from on Highway his death in 2019, Lake. After his friends knew SEE BENCH, PAGE

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strongly disagree, so to prevent her from sharing their family’s wealth, they have her committed to a sanitarium. It is there that Mrs. Savage, played by Anja Horsman, finds kindness in the residents of “The Cloisters.”

“This play is an engaging experience that presents the true importance of charity and kindness in a world that is often motivated by greed and dishonesty,” says Horsman, a senior at Mounds View High School. “It’s an honor to play the role of such a logical and humorous woman.”

The Mounds View High School Theater Company is under the direction of Matthew van Bruggen, who has worked with several theater arts organizations, including the Minnesota Fringe Festival and Hennepin Theatre Trust. Before accepting the role as district performance facilities manager for Mounds View, he was the assistant theater director at Irondale High School.

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The White Bear Lake City Council unanimously approved edible cannabinoid product licenses for the following • Cellars Wine businesses: & Spirits, 2675 County East Road E • Cub Wine & Spirits, 1910 Buerkle Road • Elevated Beer Wine & Spirits, 2141 Fourth St. • Lunds & Byerlys Wine & Spirits, Centerville Road 4620 • MNJ Tobacco, 4074 • Nothing But Hemp, White Bear Ave. 4762 Banning Ave. • Summit Liquor, 2000 County Road “The police department E East background investigatio did conduct a n for each of those applications and found nothing to issuance of the preclude the licenses,” City Manager Crawford said.

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churches having a trunk-or-treat event, and they thought it would be a great and safe community building activity,” said Sarah Hansen, communications support specialist for St. Odilia.

Everyone in the community and surrounding communities is welcome. Attendees do not need to decorate a trunk to participate.

The church has hosted the event for years, but it really ramped up after the COVID-19 pandemic.

“Last year we had almost 500 trick-or-treaters.” Hansen said.

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A popular event is the trunkor-treat. Adults and teens will decorate the trunks of their cars, and members of the public are free to move around the parking lot to each vehicle to gather up candy. It provides a safe, familyfriendly way for children to go trick-or-treating, dress up in their costumes and enjoy Halloween.

St. Odilia Church, located on Victoria Street, will be hosting its own trunk-or-treat event. The church has held the event since 2013, when it was created by the Worship and Community Life Council.

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The Centerville City Council will be made whole next week when the council appoints Terry Sweeney to fill the shoes of late Council Member Steve King.

This most recent appointment process went a lot faster than the arduous search to replace retiring Council Member Michelle Lakso. Dr. Raye Taylor now serves in Lakso’s former seat.

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Chad Attorney According to Township of the settlement Lemmons, the timing component adopted was set by the DNR. “The legislation also been has during the last legislative session incorporated,” he noted. summary of Lemmons provided the following

themselves.” a Wisconsin for eight years. After Brennan said they came up with fruitful ministry, he and Melonie the name Future City Church felt the call to return to their home because “the story isn’t over and state and explore options to start a God has a great future for his Future City Church will hold a new church somewhere in the people.” grand opening celebration at 10 Twin Cities.

“One Bible passage that inspired a.m. Sunday, Oct. 29, at 2150 Third They began to lay the 11,” he fall us for the name is Hebrews St. at the Getty Co-Work building of groundwork for a church in the said. “It gives all these stories in White Bear Lake. of 2021. A launch team of people people going through hard times “We are a converged church from different walks of life was they were looking for a city and plant,” said Pastor Gabe Brennan. it is created: some are mechanics, with a foundation. The gist of “The bottom line is, we’re a Christ- nurses, full-time moms, truck trying to give people hope.” centered Christian church.” drivers and teachers.

“We’re on a journey and we’re Brennan, of White Bear Lake, “I think the thing that makes not there yet,” Brennan said. said he loves to see people experius different from other churches “The point of Future City in part ence Jesus in fresh ways. He and It’s a is that you can be yourself with over. not married story’s been the have is (that) his wife Melonie us,” Brennan said. “I think really bright and beautiful future for 15 years and have four sons. everyone should have the option for God’s people, but it’s not right According to Brennan, after to be a part of a opportunity the to or need we and of now. It’s coming, graduating from Moody Bible community where they can kind be keep going.”

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Veterans Day Assembly

Central Middle School seventh graders enjoyed a Veterans Day assembly with special guest Major Barry Hendriksen, who spoke to the students about his experience serving in the military.

Hendricksen announced the winners of the Central Level of the VFW Patriot’s Pen Essay Contest — students Jessica Say, Audriana Walsh-Smith and Piper Wilding. These three winners will move on in the VFW’s contest.

Central Middle School teacher Carrie Reisdorfer was nominated and chosen by the White Bear Lake VFW as the VFW Teacher of the Year. Reisdorfer will now continue on to the district level of the program. Kari Janzen from Central is a past

years’ recipient of the White Bear VFW level of the award, which honors teachers who teach civic education.

District leaders present at national design conference District leaders accompanied a team from Wold Architects and Engineers, the firm that designed the majority of the district’s construction projects made possible by the community’s support of the 2019 bond referendum, to present at the Edspaces “Designing the Future of Education” national conference. The annual event is described as the place where leaders and innovators unite to drive the future of learning environments, where technology, space and pedagogy converge.

The district’s presentation focused on the design and construction of North Star Elementary, which opened in Hugo in the fall of 2022. North Star Elementary was carefully planned from the perspective of both the physical space and the pedagogical perspective to support student agency and flexibility. The process included significant stakeholder input throughout the process and professional development to support the mission.

“Innovative and future-ready learning environments are being created throughout the district, and while the concept of student agency may not be new, we are frontrunners with the work happening at North Star Elementary School,” said

multifunctional in the Learning Studio and adds to the flexibility.

“It was rewarding to be able to share with school and district leaders from throughout the nation, and the world, what we have been able to achieve at North Star,” said Principal Dan Schmidt.

“We started with a shared dream of how to ‘do school differently,’ and we were able to realize that dream with the help of a community that supported our

vision.”

Peace poster contest honor

Central Middle School student Annabel Popp was recently named the winner of the White Bear Lake Lion’s Club Peace Poster contest, an international program.

Popp will now move on to the district level of the contest.

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Wayne Kazmierczak. superintendent. “We are implementing teaching and learning practices to empower students to lead their learning, and the building is specially designed to support this effort.”

The philosophy of supporting student agency and student-centric design was accomplished through a building design that incorporates educational spaces called Learning Studios, where students and educators work together throughout a larger area that can be separated into multiple space configurations. Through a strategic design of the space, the environment has become an essential tool in shaping the student experience. Multiage learning has been implemented in some of the studios, and sensory spaces where students can reduce anxiety and self-regulate when needed have been incorporated in all of the studios.

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White Bear Lake is 1-0-1 after defeating Eagan 6-0, led by Madelyn Lee with two goals and an assist. Also scoring were Talia Domschot, Aubree Hegel, Zoe Simmons and Hailey Dawe. Gabriella Casa de Calvo made 18 saves for the shutout.

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Kylie Gustafson, senior outside hitter who led the White Bear Lake in kills for the second straight year, was named to the all-Suburban East team. Getting honorable mentions were junior middle blocker Ella Stadtherr, senior

setter Ally Munyer and sophomore librero Kailey Gieske. Named team MVP was Gieske, who led with 327 digs. Gustafson led with 267 kills after leading with 224 last year. Stadtherr had 153 kills and Brady Keeling 100.

Munyer made 611 assists.

Stadtherr led with 69 blocks.

Lauren Westerhaus had 67 and Gustafson 40. Munyer led with 38 aces. Gieske made 36 and Munyer 28. Gustafson made 121 digs and Mallory Moore 108. The Bears were 2-7 in the conference and 12-17 overall with one playoff win.

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Eli Simanek, junior midfielder in his third year as a starter, was named MVP for the Bears. “He has been the glue of our midfield for years,” coach Mike Knutson said. “The guy who backs up and provided the balance for all of his teammates in front, allowing them to play more free.” The Bears had no all-conference picks in a 1-7-5 season, in which they allowed only 27 goals but scored only nine. Caleb Anderson had three goals and Ben Watson six assists.

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by White Bear Lake and Mahtomedi are playing for perennial power South Dakota State University.

Another, Jenna Maloy, has also committed to the Jackrabbits.

Katelyn Beulke, freshman from Mahtomedi, and two White Bear Lake graduates, senior Kayla Anderson and sophomore Lauren Eckerle, saw action for the Jackrabbits, who finished 13-4-3 and qualified for the NCAA Division I tournament.

Anderson, senior forward, played in 20 games, with 14 starts, in her fourth college season, logging three goals and two assists. She is the Bears all-time leader in goals with 61. SDSU has gone 55-914 in her four seasons.

Beulke played 20 games, starting in 11, and was the

second-leading scorer with five goals and two assists. At Mahtomedi, she was Class 2A Miss Soccer last year, scoring 30 goals. She played on two state champion teams and one state runner-up.

Eckerle, sophomore midfielder, started the first 10 games before suffering a knee injury. She was a first-team all-stater with the Bears.

Maloy, a junior forward this year for White Bear Lake, notched 18 goals and seven assists, helping the Bears reach the state tournament, and has 46 career goals. She verbally committed to SDSU in October.

SDSU, coached by Brock Thompson, lost to Nebraska 5-2 in the NCAA first round, after qualifying by winning the Summit League tournament. The Jackrabbits beat Oral Roberts 5-2, with Anderson and Beulke both scoring goals, and NebraskaOmaha 1-0.

ATHLETE OF THE WEEK

Kylie Gustafson White Bear Lake Volleyball

Kylie Gustafson has led the White Bear Lake volleyball team in kills the past two seasons.

The senior outside hitter delivered 267 kills this season for the Bears (12-17). She also made 40 blocks (third on the team) and 121 digs (second on the team) and got the all-conference honor.

As a junior, Gustafson led the Bears with 224 kills.

Roseville/Mahtomedi has started the season 1-2. The Marauders lost their opener to Minnetonka 8-0, outshot 43-11. They defeated Duluth 6-0 with goals by Victoria Nelson (two), Ruby Eskin (two), Kylie Jones and Julia Fussy and 17 saves by Lily Peterfeso.

The Marauders lost to Forest Lake 5-4 in overtime after getting four goals in the third period by Jones (power play), Nelson (power play), Eskin, and Nelson again with 57 seconds left to knot the score. Rylen Kissen got the game-winner for the Rangers in OT.

GIRLS SOCCER

Mahtomedi had five players with all-Metro East honors and three on coaches association all-state after a 14-3-1 season, including 7-0 in conference. Senior defender Savanna Stockness was all-metro first team and a Class 2A Miss Soccer finalist. Stockness and junior midfielder Aynslea Ulschmid were first-team all-state picks, and senior forward Lauren Coy made second-team. Those three were all-MEC, along with junior mid Ceci

Emery and senior defender Claire Faulkner.

Honorable mentions went to senior Kaila Och and juniors Emily Muetzel and Sophia Peer. Team awards went to Stockness (top defender), Ulschmid (attitude, effort), and Breanna Elbers (most improved). Next year’s captains will be Emery, Muetzel, and Ulschmid. The Zephyrs were section runnersup.

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Seven Mahtomedi players were named to the All-Metro Conference team: seniors Kate Hoffman, Olivia Bengtson and Hanna Meslow, junior Greta Munson, and sophomores Katherine Smith, Mallory Langer, and Lily Carlson. Honorable mentions went to juniors Molly Moffitt and Alayna Bartylla. Hoffman was chosen team MVP, and Smith most improved. The Zephyrs were 14-7 overall and 6-1 in conference for second place.

Hoffman and Smith were 20-6 at 1-doubles.

Langer was 9-15 at 1-singles. Carlson was 15-6 and Meslow 14-6 in singles. At 2-doubles were Munson (16-6) and Bengtson (16-7).

This Week In SPORTS WHITE BEAR LAKE Boys’ Basketball: • 9:00 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 25—at Richfield High School

Girls’ Basketball: • 11:15 a.m. Friday, Nov. 24— at Hamline University • 2:45 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 25—at Hamline University • 7:00 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 28—at Elk River

Girls’ Hockey:

Girls’ Basketball:

• 7:00 p.m. Friday, Nov. 24—at Grand Rapids • 11:00 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 25—at Grand Rapids • 7:00 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 28—vs East Ridge

• 10:45 a.m. Friday, Nov. 24—at St. Thomas Academy • 4:15 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 25—at St. Thomas Academy

MAHTOMEDI Boys’ Basketball: • 9:00 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 25— at Forest Lake

Boys’ Hockey: • 7:00 p.m. Friday, Nov. 24—vs Duluth East

Boys’ Hockey: • 1:00 p.m. Friday, Nov. 24—at Centennial • 4:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 25—at Centennial

Girls’ Hockey: • 7:00 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 28—at Cretin-Derham Hall

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