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No time for celebratingMinnesota shouldn’t rest on its laurel of being named as a top state in the nation for business.

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Dakota County Fair on the wayThe Dakota County Fair is ready for its run of fun and activities Aug. 10-16 in Farmington.

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Carnage in the parkHip-hop artist Carnage will be demonstrating the basics of beatboxing at Caponi Art Park as part of the Family Fun Tuesdays series.

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Traditions abound at county fair Late-summer

party’s favorites return in 2015

by Andy RogersSUN THISWEEK

DAKOTA COUNTY TRIBUNE

Some things change, but most things stay the same, and that’s what most people seem to like about the Dakota County Fair. Many of the favorites, such as the lumberjack show, demolition derby, Chautauqua, food ven-dors and midway rides, are back for another party Aug. 10-16 at the Dakota County Fairgrounds in Farmington. One of the new high-lights is a natural resource building on the main

grounds, which is a col-laborative effort featuring booths from the Depart-ment of Natural Resourc-es, area sportsmen’s groups and other groups related to natural conservation. One of the features the fair would like to highlight related to natural conser-vation is the approximate-ly 190 acres of natural prairie land on the fair-grounds with daily tours. “We’ve never done a great deal to highlight that,” fair director Mark Henry said. “It’s open to the public. It’s a huge nat-ural area diversified with 50-some prairie species. It’s one of the nicest pre-served areas in the county. Chautauqua, an original musical-variety show, is back under the big tent behind the

drugstore with performances. This year the performance is titled “Minnesota, the Good, the Bad, and the Uff Dah.” (File photo)

Children to explore new world Spanish immersion preschool Un Mundo Nuevo to open

by Tad JohnsonSUN THISWEEK


Preschool-age children can explore a whole new world at the appropriately titled Un Mundo Nuevo, a Spanish immersion academy opening this fall inside Faith Lutheran Church. Co-owners and teachers Sandra Huerta and Nelly Marett Benitez have turned their worlds upside down in

the past three months to con-ceive of and launch the school in time for this Friday’s open house and first day of school Aug. 31. Huerta said she was driv-ing by the church on Cedar Avenue in Lakeville when she saw it had a playground outside. When she stopped in to the office and spoke with church officials, she discov-ered that the site’s previous child care center had recently

closed and there were two classrooms available. “I loved it right away,” Huerta said of the school, which is located in the Rose-mount-Apple Valley-Eagan School District and has a Rosemount mailing address. “I was excited about the pos-sibilities.” After getting approval from the church board, Huer-

Co-owners and teachers Nelly Marett Benitez (left) and Sandra Huerta are launching Un Mundo Nuevo Spanish Immersion Children’s Academy. (Photo by Tad Johnson)

Apple Valley officials held a ribbon-cutting ceremony July 25 at the city’s newly remodeled

water treatment facility at 6442 140th St. Construction of the $15 million project began

in 2013 and included addition of four filter cells, increasing the city’s water production

capabilities from 18 million to 24 million gallons per day. At the ribbon-cutting were, from left,

Apple Valley Acting Public Works Director Colin Manson; Travis Huntley of Magney

Construction, the project’s general contractor; Apple Valley Public Works Superintendent Carol Blommel Johnson; Miles Jensen and

Chris Larson of engineering firm SEH; Apple Valley City Administrator Tom Lawell, and

Apple Valley Mayor Mary Hamann-Roland.

At right: A water-drop mascot greeted guests at the event, which included tours of the facility and a performance by the Apple Valley Mobile

Puppet Theater. (Photos by Andrew Miller)

Ribbon-cutting for water treatment plant County wants your two cents on Cedar Ave.

Open house is Aug. 4 in Eagan

by Andrew MillerSUN THISWEEK


Dakota County officials want to hear your thoughts on the Cedar Avenue Transitway plan. The plan, which is available at www.cedartransitway.com, is a re-view of transit service along Cedar Avenue that aims to prioritize fu-ture improvements and expansion through 2040. The Dakota County Regional Rail Authority and its partner agencies started the planning pro-cess in June 2014, examining the existing Metro Red Line bus rapid transit service and other transit ser-vices along Cedar Avenue. The Metro Red Line was launched on the Cedar Avenue cor-ridor in 2013 as the Twin Cities ar-ea’s first bus rapid-transit line. The service offers shoulder-running buses between the Mall of America Station in Bloomington and the Apple Valley Transit Station. The Cedar Avenue plan seeks to address changing conditions in the transit corridor and in the re-gion, including recent updates to forecasted employment growth, population growth and land uses, officials said. Possible improvements to Cedar Avenue for which officials might seek funding in coming years in-clude a pedestrian bridge at 147th Street, transit stations at 161st Street, Glacier Way and 195th Street, and additions to the fleet of rapid-transit buses. Future funding

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Area Briefs

New Sound Underground, a Twin Cities band specializing in jazz, funk, soul and gospel, is set to perform in Apple Valley on Friday, July 31, as part of the Music in Kelley Park concert series hosted by the Apple Valley Arts Foundation. Admission is free to the 6-9 p.m. concert in the park located at Founders Lane and 153rd Street, and vendors will be on hand offering festival food along with wine and beer. More information is at www.Facebook.com/AVArtsFoundation. (Photo by Steve Peterson)

Concert in Kelley ParkBusiness Watch Picnic Apple Valley Business Watch is sponsoring the 7th annual Night to Unite Business Watch Picnic, which will be held from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 4, at Kelley Park, 6855 Fortino St. Apple Valley residents and community mem-bers are invited to enjoy a picnic lunch at Kelley Park prior to their Night to Unite block parties on Aug. 4. There will be food trucks offering a variety of items, along with free Cul-ver’s frozen custard. The first 100 in attendance will receive a free goodie bag. More about Apple Val-ley Business Watch is at avbizwatch.org.

Field Day at Rosemount Research Center Farmers and other ag-ricultural professionals are invited to the Rose-mount Research and Out-reach Center for a tour of the latest in agricultural research from 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 25. The Research Center is at 16975 Arkansas Ave., Rosemount. University of Minne-sota Extension specialists will lead a guided tour of the Research Center’s test plots, presenting their re-search on crop diseases, insect pests, and forage and cover crop manage-ment.

The tour will stop for a picnic lunch at White-tail Woods Regional Park, sponsored by River Coun-try Cooperative, Sentera, and Albert Lea Seeds. This is a free, pub-lic event. Certified Crop Advisor-Continuing Edu-cation Units will be avail-able. Lunch will be pro-vided. Pre-registration is requested for food-plan-ning purposes. To RSVP, or for more information, contact Neith Little at 651-481-7723 or [email protected]. This Field Day is spon-sored by River Country Cooperative, Sentera, Al-bert Lea Seeds, University of Minnesota Extension, Dakota County, and fund-ed in part by U.S. E.P.A. Clean Water Act Section 319, through the Min-nesota Pollution Control Agency.

‘The House that Hope Built’ Hallmark Building Supplies Inc., Tradition Companies and Robert Thomas Homes Inc. are asking for the help of community kids to write a message of hope on the walls at “The House that Hope Built” located at 16485 Equestrian Trail, Lakeville, in the Spirit of Brandtjen Farm com-munity on Thursday, July 30, from 5:30-8 p.m. Their thoughts and kind wishes will be sealed in the walls of the house. Guests will receive a complimentary dinner from Dickey’s Barbecue

Pit with sundaes from Cul-ver’s. Kids will receive free T-shirts. Food and T-shirts will be first-come, first-serve while supplies last. Proceeds from the sale of “The House that Hope Built” will allow Tradition Companies to make a do-nation to HopeKids Min-nesota, a local nonprofit organization that provides support for children with life-threatening illnesses and their families.

MVTA reports strong ridership The Minnesota Val-ley Transit Authority (MVTA) ridership for the first six months of the year neared 1.5 million rides, up 6.1 percent compared to the same period in 2014. “The groundwork laid by the MVTA is paying off,” said MVTA Board Chair and Apple Val-ley Councilmember Clint Hooppaw. “We have add-ed trips to our downtown express service in Rose-mount (Route 478) and ridership is up,” he said. “Further, new downtown express service from the Marschall Road Tran-sit Station in Shakopee (Route 493) is proving suc-cessful.” He added, “The addi-tion of free Wi-Fi on our buses is also producing a positive impact.” Highest ridership routes during the first six months of 2015 are MV-TA’s Route 460 (Burnsville to/from downtown Min-neapolis) – average daily ridership of 1,693; Route

477 (Apple Valley to/from downtown Minneapolis) -- average daily ridership of 1,423; and Route 444 (lo-cal service between Burns-ville/Savage/Cedar Grove and Mall of America) -- average daily ridership of 1,005. Three routes experi-enced the greatest growth during the first half of the year: 421 (4,361 rides, up 9.6 percent), 440 (21,648 rides, up 4.6 percent) and 478 (15,470 rides, up 56.1 percent). The addition of the former BlueXpress ser-

vice from Prior Lake and Shakopee has also had a positive impact. METRO Red Line saw an increase of 6.1 percent (123,717 rides), with a nearly 75 percent increase in Sunday boardings and a 14 percent increase in Saturday boardings. The MVTA operates and con-tributes funding to the METRO Red Line under contract to the Metropoli-tan Council. The Red Line is also funded, in part, by the Counties Transit Im-provement Board (CTIB).

MVTA is the public transportation provider for residents and busi-nesses of Apple Valley, Burnsville, Eagan, Prior Lake, Rosemount, Savage and Shakopee. Call 952-882-7500 for transit infor-mation or visit www.mvta.com.

Citizens’ Climate Lobby The next Citizens’ Cli-mate Lobby meeting is 9 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 1, at JoJo’s Rise and Wine Cafe, 12501 Nicollet Ave., Burnsville. Learn about placing a fee on carbon. All are welcome. CCL meets once a month to empower each other and work to have personal and political breakthroughs with a solution to climate change. For information, call Debbie at 952-250-3320.

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Blogger, cancer patient, turns to crowdfunding for help

Sarah DeBord and her caregiver, Kyle Wood, are looking to nonprofit crowdfunding site, Red Basket, to raise money for medical bills as DeBord battles Stage 4 colon cancer. (Photo by Jessica Harper)

by Jessica HarperSUN THISWEEK


At age 34, Sarah DeBord maintained a healthy diet, was train-ing for a half-marathon and was in the best shape of her life — or so she thought. After going to the doctor for what she had thought was a case of hemorrhoids, the Eagan resident was diagnosed in November 2011 with Stage 4 colon cancer. “I was so shocked. I thought I was the healthi-est and strongest I’d ever been,” DeBord said. “It’s not what I expected. I didn’t think colon cancer was something young peo-ple got.” Over next four years, DeBord endured two surgeries, countless che-motherapy sessions and regular follow-up appoint-ments with an oncologist. Her health insurance cov-ers the bulk of the cost, but, like many Americans, DeBord faces a high de-ductible each year. And covering her $3,200 de-ductible has become in-creasingly difficult for the 38-year-old mother of two. Now DeBord and her caregiver, Kyle Woody, are looking to online

crowdfunding as a way to raise money for her medi-cal bills. Red Basket is an Omaha-based nonprofit crowdfunding site that raises funds for people and organizations in need. Un-like other popular crowd-funding sites, Red Basket doesn’t collect any fees on donations and verifies that the money goes to the cause. DeBord and Woody hope to raise $6,500 to cover outstanding medical bills as well as the cost of upcoming treatment. DeBord’s battle with cancer has been a long and arduous one. She had given birth to her second son, Lachian, just a month before her diagnosis, and she said her greatest fear was the possibility of leav-ing her children without a mother. It’s relatively rare for adults under age 50 to develop colon cancer, es-pecially those who live a healthy lifestyle. Most people diagnosed with co-lon cancer – 9 out of 10 – are over age 50, according to the American Cancer Society. The disease also commonly affects adults who are obese, smokers or heavy alcohol users. DeBord didn’t fit any of these categories. She had a genetic predisposition.

About 5 to 10 percent of people who develop colon cancer have inherited gene defects that are linked to the development of the cancer, according the American Cancer Society. DeBord’s maternal aunt developed colon cancer at age 51 and her mother developed colorec-tal polyps at age 40, which if left untreated could have developed into cancer. Frustrated by a lack of information on colon can-cer among people under 50 and the amount of misin-formation online, DeBord started a blog called Colon Cancer Chick where she dispels myths about colon cancer and shares her per-sonal journey. “I wanted to help en-sure the correct informa-tion is out there,” she said. Her blog soon caught the attention of the Co-alition for Colon Cancer who offered her a part-time communications job last January. In winter 2011, DeBord underwent surgery to re-move 10 inches of her co-lon. Soon after, she began regular chemotherapy ses-sions over the next four years. The most difficult part of her recovery she said wasn’t the pain but being unable to care for

her children. “I had little children who still needed me,” she said. “I missed many per-formances and events be-cause I was so sick.” It’s her children, DeBord said, that keeps her going during the most difficult times. Woody, who is DeBord’s husband, be-came the primary care-giver for the children and DeBord. “It becomes a lot some-times but you do what you have to,” Woody said. Over the following years, DeBord’s cancer cast a light on more than her health. It revealed that their 10-year marriage was breaking down. “We had become dis-tant, even before the can-cer,” DeBord said. “The cancer made us be real with ourselves and each

other.” The couple said they plan to divorce but con-tinue to live together for financial reasons. Woody also continues to care for DeBord during her che-motherapy treatments. “I want to be her care-giver as long as she needs me to,” he said. “We’re still good friends.” During the first year of treatment, friends and family came out in droves to lend a hand by prepar-ing food for the family or child care while DeBord was in the hospital. “When in crisis, you see who your true friends are and who is really there for you,” Woody said. Since then, a number of close friends and family members have offered to continue to help. This in-spired DeBord and Woody to turn to Red Basket.

“We felt this would make it easier for people to contribute,” DeBord said. Over the past four years, the tumors that re-mained in DeBord’s colon have significantly shrunk and her cancer cells are less aggressive, but doctors recently discovered the cancer has spread to her lungs. On average, only 11 percent of people diag-nosed with Stage 4 colon cancer survive beyond five years after the diagnosis, according to the National Cancer Institute. However, DeBord is hopeful the cancer will eventually go into remis-sion due to her age and prior health.

Jessica Harper is at [email protected] or facebook.com/sunthisweek.

The Owatonna Chapter of Bikers Against Child Abuse recently had an awareness event at the Lakeville Walmart. Members were present to discuss the chapter’s mission and to hand out stickers and tattoos to the public. BACA works with children who have been victims of abuse. For more info about BACA call 507-400-2131 or visit bacaworld.org. (Photo submitted)

Riders aim to curb child abuse


Reflections on Scout CampTo the editor: I recently spent two days away at summer camp at Tomahawk in Wisconsin with my son and his Boy Scout Troop 292 (based in Apple Valley and sponsored by Spirit of Life Presbyterian Church). Several adult leaders took time away from work to attend camp for the whole week. These leaders helped turn the boys into young men and leaders. They coached them, helped them, led them and at times consoled them. While they had a chal-lenging time, the adults were also blessed to see the boys grow and change in the course of the week. The boys did things they didn’t think they could do. The boy who didn’t want to stay at camp became as active as the other Scouts. The boy who didn’t think

he could make it up the 30-foot climbing wall not only made it up, but re-pelled down. The boys woke up every morning, probably much earlier than they usually do at home. If they weren’t already up and getting or-ganized, every morning the troop bugler sounded “Reveille.” Every morn-ing they raised the flag, showing respect for God and country by reciting the Pledge of Allegiance. Imagine how impressive it was to see more than 100 boys in the whole camp standing at attention and saluting the flag. Throughout the day the boys learned about Scouting and worked on merit badges. They walked everywhere. They got ex-ercise, ate well and stayed very active. Some of the activities were swimming, playing on the aqua tram-poline, boating, canoeing, kayaking, archery and horseback riding. They

had some free time to do “homework” for their merit badges, or to head to the beach with a buddy or to play Frisbee or another game. Every night around 10 p.m., the bugler played “Taps,” a fitting end to the day. For me it was a magi-cal time, to hear “Taps” being played by various troops around the camp. I wish to thank all the adult leaders. And if you ever have a chance to go to Boy Scout summer camp with your son and his troop, do it.

DAN M. GOLLIETEagan

Bikers, walkers can coexist To the editor: I would like to clear up a couple of misstatements made by a previous letter writer regarding trail use. First of all, bicycles are allowed on all sidewalks

and trails in Apple Valley as well as in Eagan and Burnsville. This can be verified by a phone call to a local police depart-ment. Second, bicycles and pedestrians do mix and very well as evidenced by the thousands of un-eventful encounters that occur between the two on a daily basis. What doesn’t mix are rude and impa-tient people whether they are on foot, on a bicycle or in a car. We have lim-ited space and funding for recreational space which means we have to learn to share. The best use of any recreational space is a de-sign that makes it usable by the most people.

BOB KLECKEREagan

No need for Baby Crawl rules To the editor: I “read with interest” the July 17 article entitled: “Mom: Baby unfairly dis-qualified from race.” I felt this was a sad commen-tary on the competitive so-ciety that we live in. While the “baby crawling race” may be intended as a “just for fun” activity, it seems the activity has digressed when the rules about how a baby must crawl, in or-

der to avoid disqualifica-tion, must be clearly out-lined. Our children are sub-jected to comparisons at tender ages and they quickly become aware how they “stack up” in terms of their looks, academic ability, athletic prowess, social standing, etc. We say that each child is unique and special in their own right, but then proceed to put them on display to see who is “real-ly better.” Often, it seems to be more about the par-ents needing some vicari-ous affirmation through their kids. As a mother, grand-mother and elementary school teacher, I see the sad effects of young chil-dren already feeling they do not measure up. Hold-ing a “baby crawling race” complete with rules about the proper way to crawl seems to take it to a new level.

KAY HEMMENEagan

Teaching an old dog new tricks To the editor: You have heard that old adage “you can’t teach old dogs new tricks.” Well, I’m not such a young dog anymore, and when I was

cast as one of the Hot Box dancers in Black Dirt The-ater’s “Guys and Dolls,” I had a few concerns about being able to learn the dance steps in such a short period of time for the mu-sical. I have spent many hours rehearsing so far, and I’ll be the first to tell you, it hasn’t been easy. You see, even though Black Dirt Theater is all about doing great com-munity theater, they also are heavily committed to making theater accessible to persons of all ages and ability levels. The directors and choreographers are so adaptable. They work with everyone to bring out the best in them, and in doing so they build self-esteem, while still creating ex-traordinary theater. With Black Dirt Theater, even “old dogs” like me can learn new tricks to achieve greatness. I’ve been a resident of Eagan for 24 years, and I’ll be performing in “Guys and Dolls” presented by Black Dirt Theater Com-pany at the Hastings High School July 31 through Aug. 9. I encourage you all to come out and support me and this amazing local theater production. FAYE HEFFELEEagan

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Building the world’s best workforce

Surprising facts about food for a longer life

by Steven RosenstoneSPECIAL TO SUN THISWEEKDAKOTA COUNTY TRIBUNE

All Minnesotans have reason to cele-brate when CNBC names Minnesota the top state in the nation for business. That No. 1 ranking is a clear sign that Min-nesota’s investments in keeping the state competitive are paying off. But a closer examination of how CNBC arrived at its conclusions suggests that if we want to stay on top, we need to get even better at what we already do well. Two of CNBC’s criteria tied directly to competitiveness are education and workforce, both of which help push Minnesota to the top spot in the nation. That’s because, as CNBC says, “Rather than just seeking the lowest taxes or the highest incentives, companies are in-creasingly chasing the largest supply of skilled, qualified workers.” Minnesota ranks No. 2 in education (just behind Massachusetts), which is great news. But Minnesota ranks No. 13 in workforce (just behind Arkansas and Nebraska). So that’s where we have an opportunity to do a better job – ensuring we can grow the workforce that’s needed to meet the needs of businesses across

the state. Because education is what leads to more workers with more skills, there are strategies we must employ if we’re going to keep our competitive edge. We must prioritize access to higher education in all of its forms. That’s why Minnesota State Colleges and Universi-ties has 54 campuses in 47 communities across the state. It’s where our students and their families live, where they work, and where our business partners reside. We must protect affordability. Access to higher education is of little use if stu-dents can’t afford to go to college or if a college education saddles them with mountains of debt. That’s why our col-leges and universities are the lowest cost / highest value higher education option in the state. One way we keep them afford-able is by holding down our administra-

tive costs, which are among the lowest in the nation. We must not compromise the quality of our education. That’s why our faculty are in the classroom, focusing on teach-ing and learning so they can provide an extraordinary education that prepares students for life, careers, and success. We must grow the pipeline of students who graduate from high school college-ready. That’s why we have worked with the Minnesota Department of Educa-tion and state policy makers to make sure more high school students are on track for college and the high-demand jobs of the future. That’s also why we have made it a priority to serve this state’s fastest growing populations: immigrants, first-generation college students, and commu-nities of color. We must partner with employers to understand and meet their needs. That’s why we have the right programs, in the right places, turning out the right num-ber of graduates prepared with the right knowledge and skills for the work that needs to be done. And finally, we must recognize that there are things we need to do better and differently in higher education. That’s

why we’re forging deeper collaborations among our colleges and universities to improve all we do to serve our students. Everything our colleges and univer-sities do, everything we believe in, is fo-cused on providing an opportunity for all Minnesotans to create a better future for themselves, for their families, and for their communities. Our core belief is also a core principle of our American democ-racy, and it’s what binds us together as a people and as Minnesotans. Education is the best way to ensure that Minnesota has the world’s best workforce. That’s why, each year our col-leges and universities produce more than 40,000 graduates in critical fields such as manufacturing, health sciences, business, teaching, and law enforcement, just to name a few. It’s up to all of us to do everything we can to make sure Minnesota has the world’s best workforce so communities across Minnesota will continue to thrive.

Steven Rosenstone is Chancellor of the Minnesota State Colleges and Universi-ties. He can be reached at [email protected]. Columns reflect the opinion of the author.

by Joe NathanSUN THISWEEK


On July 4, I had a heart attack. Thanks to the skill of HealthPartners, 911, am-bulance and Allina’s United Hospital professionals, I survived. I’ve been given a “bonus round,” according to retired Beloit College biochemistry professor and nutrition expert, and a former col-lege classmate, Roc Ordman. More than 400 people have written wonderful messages to me since the col-umn appeared. I deeply appreciate your response, and want to give back, in a way. Many people asked for more infor-mation. Today’s column shares what I learned from Ordman and Jessica Frach, a registered clinical dietitian with Allina and United Hospital. They’ve helped me learn several new things about food. Here are my five tips: 1. Low or nonfat products are not al-ways a healthier option. We often hear, “Avoid fat.” However, Frach explained: “When a product is low or nonfat, manu-facturers add sugar or salt to replace the fat that has been removed. Research is showing that processed sugars can influ-ence heart disease.” Among the common examples: Margarine that contains trans fats should be eliminated, and if butter

is used, moderate use is recommended. Include some full-fat yogurt in your diet, rather than low or nonfat yogurt. Avoca-dos are a great example of a healthy fat. 2. Don’t necessarily avoid foods that are high in cholesterol. Frach explained, “Research evidence shows that there is no relationship between consuming di-etary cholesterol and raising cholesterol levels.” For example, she urged: “Don’t avoid one particular food, such as eggs, (or) shrimp. Egg substitutes may pro-vide fewer nutrients. Sometimes there may be many added ingredients. You can be missing out on naturally present nu-trients, such as vitamins and additional protein.” 3. Most Americans eat much more sodium than we need. National research shows the average American eats 3,300 milligrams of sodium a day. Dietitians recommend no more than 2,300 mil-ligrams. Frach notes that 75 percent of our sodium intake comes from processed

foods, such as canned soups, frozen pizza and some breakfast cereals. She encourages that we pay more attention to our sodium intake. 4. Increase the number of foods you eat that are “closest to nature.” Frach echoed what I have heard about the importance of eating fruits, vegetables and whole grains. 5. Pay attention to mar-garine, muffins and many fried and packaged foods. These foods may contain trans fats (hydrogenated oils), which can be corre-lated with heart disease. These suggestions apply to men and women as well as children. Frach recommends a federal website, choosemyplate.gov. She believes that people shouldn’t try to totally elimi-nate “the bad stuff.” Instead she suggests that we eat more of a variety of foods and balanced meals. You can ask your doctor for a referral to see a registered dietitian who can discuss your specific nutritional needs. Ordman distributes a free email news-letter on nutrition you can receive by

emailing [email protected] with “Send newslet-ter” in the subject line. He quotes his wife as saying, “The best nutrition is to be conscious of what we put in our bodies.” His advice is: “Put in happi-ness, exercise, a rainbow of fruits and vegetables. Do not put in stress, dead four-legged animals, scary national news stories, worries that you cannot do anything about. Put in love and joy that you have potable water, eyesight and the ability to take a deep breath.” Heart disease is real. It’s the No. 1 killer of Americans. I was very

lucky. Please consider how you can help yourself, and your family, with wiser, healthier eating.

Joe Nathan, formerly a Minnesota public school teacher, administrator and PTA president, directs the Center for School Change. Reactions are welcome at [email protected]. Columns re-flect the opinion of the author.

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Jessica Frach is a registered clinical dietitian with Allina Health and United Hospital. (Photo by Jackie Hillman)

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Archdiocese sets course for new shores

by Don HeinzmanSUN THISWEEK


I am among the 825,000 Catholics in the St. Paul-Minneapolis Archdiocese with thoughts about the unprecedented news that has rocked the archdiocese these past few weeks. Imagine, two bishops have resigned in the wake of six gross misdemeanor charges against the archdiocese for fail-ure to protect children from an abusive priest, filed by the Ramsey County At-torney’s Office. On top of this, the archdiocese is un-dergoing bankruptcy to the extent it may have to sell its property on a hill over-looking the city of St. Paul. Like most lay people, I believe former Archbishop John Nienstedt and his aux-iliary bishop, Lee Piche, had no choice but to resign. No one is surprised Pope Francis was quick to accept the resigna-tions. The diocesan priests assembled for a few days of rest and relaxation in Roch-ester, received the surprising news that week. It naturally changed the tone of the assembly and caused the clergy to re-turn to heal the archdiocese. So what about all of us lay people who are troubled by the events and misman-agement of the archdiocese? Many Catholics’ first thoughts, in-cluding mine, are with the victims, espe-cially the children who were abused by priests they trusted because they were priests. Our thoughts go out to the many ded-icated priests, deacons, nuns and other religious leaders who serve our spiritual and temporal needs and must go through this storm. Our thoughts also are with the many staff and volunteers who feed the hun-gry, visit and minister to the sick, visit the

imprisoned and staff the schools. Finally, our thoughts are with a new highly credentialed interim Archbishop Bernard Hebda who must pick up the pieces. I am confident this archdiocese will more closely monitor the conduct of its priests and manage their assignments carefully. Meanwhile, what is the laity to think? The answer may be in a recent Sun-day’s message from the Gospel of Mark about a storm that threatened to over-turn the boat containing a sleeping Jesus and his disciples. The frightened disciples awakened Jesus and asked, “Teacher, do you not care that we are perishing?” He calmed the storm and asked the key question for our time: “Why are you ter-rified? Do you not yet have faith?” That text was a natural opening for priests like my own pastor to preach about this storm raging over the archdio-cese – for all to have faith that there is a higher power that can calm the waves. In that Gospel, Jesus suggested they row to the “other side.” I wish the archdiocese an enlightened voyage as it goes to the “other side” to a new shore on which to build an archdioc-esan organization with a higher power at the helm. Don Heinzman is a columnist for ECM Publishers. He can be reached through [email protected]. Columns reflect the opinion of the author.

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Public Safety

Roommates charged in drug bust Two roommates were charged in district court this month with felony drug possession and sale after a police bust at their Apple Valley apartment. With a search warrant in hand, Dakota County Drug Task Force officers searched the apartment of Andrew J. Coleman and Jordan C. Hadley, both 21, on Jan. 16, according to a criminal complaint. During the search police seized more than three pounds of marijuana and nearly a pound of a brown, waxy substance that tested positive for marijuana. In one bedroom, police

found about 1.75 pounds of marijuana in glass con-tainers, along with $8,500 cash, the complaint said. In another bedroom, of-ficers located several con-tainers and plastic bags of marijuana totaling about 1.5 pounds. Also seized from that bedroom were Tupperware containers with a brown substance, containing marijuana, to-taling about 0.875 pounds. Coleman, who was present in the apartment at the time of the search, told police he lived in one of the bedrooms in which marijuana was found, and Hadley lived in the other, according to the

complaint. Coleman fur-ther stated the marijuana found in the apartment was “possessed to sell.” A third resident of the apartment has not been charged. Coleman and Hadley were each charged with two felonies — possession of a controlled substance and sale of a controlled substance. If convicted on both counts, each faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and fines totaling $20,000. The next court appear-ance for each defendant is scheduled for Aug. 17 in Hastings.

—Andrew Miller

Police: Thief was after shaving razors A man accused of steal-ing $1,000 worth of shav-ing razors from grocery stores in Lakeville and Rosemount was charged in district court this week with felony theft. According to the crimi-nal complaint, Lakeville police were called to Cub Foods at 7435 179th St. on June 23 on a report of a shoplifter. En route, police learned the man had left the store and was north-bound on Cedar Avenue, and officers soon located and stopped the vehicle. The driver — Benjamin L. Yaeger, 32, of Rochester — began having breathing difficulties during the traf-

fic stop and was transport-ed to a hospital by medical personnel, the complaint said. His vehicle was towed and impounded. Police searched the car and found items stolen from Cub Foods stores in Lakeville and Rosemount, the complaint said. Po-lice also found a ledger with the addresses of Cub Foods stores in the Twin Cities area. Cub Foods loss preven-tion staff reported $1,059 worth of items stolen from the two stores, including $500 worth of razors from the Lakeville Cub Foods and $500 worth of razors from the Rosemount Cub

Foods located at 3784 150th St. Surveillance video at both Cub Foods stores shows Yaeger taking items and leaving without pay-ing, according to the com-plaint. Yaeger briefly spoke with officers while picking up his impounded car, not-ing how it was strange he stole shaving razors when, in fact, he uses an electric razor to shave, the com-plaint said. If convicted of the theft charge, Yaeger faces a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a fine of $10,000.

—Andrew Miller


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What it takes to run for Queen of the Lakes

Karalyn Giles waves to the crowd as one of the 2014-2015 Eagan Funfest Ambassadors, riding in Funfest coordinator Mike Ferber’s car. Giles ran for the 2016 Minneapolis Aquatennial July 22-25, competing among 48 other young women. (Photo submitted)

Eagan’s Karalyn Giles takes a behind-the-scenes look at 2016

Minneapolis Aquatennialby Hannah Gullickson

SUN THISWEEKDAKOTA COUNTY TRIBUNE

Eagan’s Karalyn Giles was among the 49 young women in Minnesota who competed for the title of Queen of the Lakes or one of two Aquatennial Prin-cesses in the 2015 Min-neapolis Aquatennial July 22-25. Although Giles did not receive the title of either queen or princess, she looks back on her journey with warm feelings. “It is more about the experience than it is the competition,” she said. “So I’m going to have fun and enjoy the ride.” Giles said going into the Aquatennial, she was excited “to (meet) new people and ... experience a lot of events that for most people are only a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.” Having been an Ea-gan Funfest Ambassador in 2014-2015, Giles used her experience to fulfill a major requirement as an Aquatennial candidate as judges looked for women ages 18-22 who served their community as an ambassa-dor. Candidates also needed to possess poise, profes-sionalism, public speaking ability, a demonstration of goal-setting in educational pursuits, and participation in school or community ac-tivities. Giles attends the Uni-versity of Minnesota and

plans to pursue a career of art therapy in hospital set-tings. She is a member of the National Honor Soci-ety and volunteers at many Eagan Funfest events and Scoops for Troops. “Competing with 48 girls from all over the state of Minnesota is an exciting experience for me because it’s a chance to get to know people from communities you may never even heard of,” Giles said. Giles said going into the competition, she was “ner-vous competing against so many well-qualified girls,” but she was “more excited for the opportunities that (she got) to experience with the candidates.” “With any competition you will always feel that sense of competition, but I am going into it with a more easy-going attitude,” she said. Candidates were given many opportunities to meet each other and in-troduce themselves. They had multiple dinners, a Commodore’s party, and a “Meet the Candidates” icebreaker where each one gave a 30- to 45-second speech explaining the out-fit she chose to represent her community. Every candidate met the Aquatennial Alumni, which included the former Queen of the Lakes and Aquatennial Princesses, Captains and Commodore. They also met the senior ambassadors, which in-

clude the Senior Queen, Senior Princess, Senior Commodore and Senior Vice Commodore. Other events allowed the candidates to meet the public and celebrate the Aquatennial. Downtown Minneapo-lis was busy with a variety of events such as the Cen-terPoint Energy Torchlight Parade, bike tours, mara-thons and the Target Fire-works. On July 24, candidates got to meet the public dur-ing the “Rockin’ the Waves Aqua Dance Party” at the Renaissance Minneapolis

Hotel. The final event before the Aquatennial Corona-tion was the pre-corona-tion reception. “(It) is when families, friends, and supporters come before the corona-tion to wish their candidate luck,” Giles said. “It’s a time where candidates take a small breather and catch up with people before the big moment arrives.” Giles gives credit to her Eagan Funfest Ambas-sador coordinators Mike Ferber, Tom Ferber, Karen Dare and Cory Hilden, who mentored and sup-

ported her throughout this process. On Saturday, July 25, the 2016 Queen of the Lakes and Aquaten-nial Princesses, Captains and Commodore were crowned. Farmington’s Mari-cia Pacheco won the 2016 Queen of the Lakes. Ma-daline Simon, the former Miss Isanti, and Rachel Huset, the former Miss Lino Lakes, were crowned the 2016 Aquatennial Prin-cesses. The Aquatennial Cap-tains were Don Apitz of Isanti and Sam Worms of

St. Paul, and the Aquaten-nial Commodore was Steve Robertson of St. Paul. Those who receive these positions will tour the country and the world, making 250 appearances in festivals and commu-nity service projects. By the end of the Aquatennial year next July, the current Aquatennial queen and princesses will receive edu-cational scholarships and pass their crowns onto the next candidates.

Email Hannah Gullickson at [email protected].

Candlewood Suites hotel on the horizon in LakevilleThree-story

extended-stayhotel planned

by Laura AdelmannSUN THISWEEK


An 83-room Candlewood Suites extended-stay hotel is planned to be built in Lakeville near the County Road 70 and Interstate 35 exit, according to

Lakeville Community and Eco-nomic Development Director Dave Olson. The three-story hotel, geared for business travelers, is being proposed by developer Jamie Dahlen, owner of the Holiday Inn and Suites across the free-way from the new site location, at County Road 70 and Keswick Loop. If approved, the hotel would

be the first commercial develop-ment on the south side in the Muller Family Theater area, which is by the new SuperA-merica gas station and the Al-lina Clinic, currently under con-struction, Olson said. Dahlen also owns and oper-ates the Best Western Select Inn in Burnsville at Nicollet and County Road 42. He said the proposed proj-

ect exceeds maximum building height zoning requirements in the district and will require ap-proval from the Planning Com-mission and City Council to proceed as planned. A public hearing is set for the project at the Aug. 6 Planning Commission meeting, accord-ing to Olson, who said the City Council is expected to consider the proposal at its Aug. 17 meet-

ing. “I think this is extremely positive,” Olson said. “It con-tinues the commercial develop-ment that has been happening (and that) we knew or hoped would happen when the new interchange was built — that it would be an impetus for more commercial development.”

Laura Adelmann is at [email protected].


SeniorsApple Valley seniors The Apple Valley Se-nior Center, 14601 Hayes Road, is home to the fol-lowing activities, which are organized and run by the Apple Valley Seniors and Apple Valley Parks and Recreation. The facility is open Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. For information, call 952-953-2345 or go to www.cityofapplevalley.org. Monday, Aug. 3 – Blood Pressure Checks, 9:30 a.m.; General Meet-ing, 10 a.m.; SR Meet-ing, 11 a.m.; Pool, noon; Bridge, 12:45 p.m.; Happy Stitchers, 1 p.m.; Finance Committee, 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 4 – Quilt-ing Bees, 9 a.m.; Bicycle Group, 9 a.m.; Tuesday Painters, 9:30 a.m.; Pool, noon; Pinochle, 12:30 p.m.; Hand & Foot Cards, 1 p.m.; Table Tennis, 1 p.m.; Spanish – Intermedi-ate, 1 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 5 – Donated Bread, 9 a.m.; F.F. on Spokes, 9 a.m.; Yoga, 9:45 a.m.; Morn-ing Stretch, 10 a.m.; Pool, noon; First Edition Book Club, 1 p.m.; Gather Around Music, 1 p.m.; Dominoes, 1 p.m.; Mah-jong, 1 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 6 – Beg. Line Dancing, 9:15 a.m.; Int. Line Dancing, 10 a.m.; Pool, noon; Du-plicate Bridge, 12:30 p.m.; Tap Dancing, 12:30 p.m.; Speaker: Alzheimer’s and Dementia Care, 1 p.m.; 500, 1 p.m.; Hardanger, 1 p.m.; Recreated Cards, 1 p.m. Friday, Aug. 7 – Men’s Breakfast, 8:30 a.m.; F.F. on Spokes, 9 a.m.; Morn-ing Stretch, 10 a.m.; Wom-en’s Pool, 11 a.m.; Mem-bers Bingo, 12:30 p.m.

Burnsville seniors The Burnsville Senior Center is located in the Diamondhead Education

Center at 200 W. Burns-ville Parkway. Call 952-707-4120 for information about the following senior events. Monday, Aug. 3 – Sun-rise Stretch, 8:30 a.m.; Cribbage, 11 a.m.; Pinoch-le, 12:45 p.m.; SS Flex. Tuesday, Aug. 4 – Scrabble, 10:30 a.m.; Du-plicate Bridge, 12:30 p.m.; Line Dancing. Wednesday, Aug. 5 – Woodcarvers, 8 a.m.; Sunrise Stretch, 8:30 a.m.; Cribbage, 11 a.m.; Tai Chi MS, 11 a.m.; 500, 12:45 p.m.; Defensive Driving Refresher, 1 p.m.; Luau at Vivien’s, 1 p.m.; SS Flex; Wednesday in the Park, 7 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 6 – Foot Clinic, 9 a.m.; Health Insurance Council, 9 a.m.; Crafters, 10 a.m.; Wood Carving, 6 p.m. Friday, Aug. 7 – Sunrise Stretch, 8:30 a.m.; Men’s Breakfast, 8:30 a.m.; Painting, 9 a.m.; Hand & Foot, 12:15 p.m.; SS Flex.

Eagan seniors The following senior activities are offered by the Eagan Parks and Rec-reation Department in the Lone Oak Room at the Eagan Community Cen-ter, 1501 Central Park-way. Call 651-675-5500 for more information. Monday, Aug. 3 – Zumba (Oasis), 9 a.m.; Recycled Cards, 9:30 a.m.; F&Fab (Oasis), 10 a.m.; FFL (Oasis), 11 a.m. Tuesday, Aug. 4 – Quilt-ing, 9:30 a.m.; Euchre/500, 12:45 p.m.; Book Club No. 1, 1 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 5 – Coffee & Conversations, 9 a.m.; Brain Fitness, 9:30 a.m.; Hand & Foot, 12:45 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 6 – Du-luth Tour, 7:30 a.m.; Dom-inoes, 9 a.m.; Bridge, 12:45 p.m. Friday, Aug. 7 – ESB Meeting, 9 a.m.; Zumba (Oasis), 10:15 a.m.; S/B/Yoga (Oasis), 11:10 a.m.; Bingo, 1 p.m.

Lakeville seniors All events are held at Lakeville Heritage Center, 20110 Holyoke Ave. Call 952-985-4622 for informa-tion. Monday, Aug. 3 – Fit-ness Nutrition, 9 a.m.; Computer Tutoring, 9 a.m.; Wii Bowling, 10 a.m.; Day Old Bread, 10:15 a.m.; Healthways Flex Fitness 1, 11 a.m.; Healthways Flex Fit-ness 2, noon; Cribbage, 12:30 p.m.; Cards, 1 p.m.; Mahjong, 1 p.m. Dead-line: NNO Puppet Show/Lunch. Tuesday, Aug. 4 – Dom-inoes & Poker, 9 a.m.; Happy Feet, 9 a.m.; Tap-percize, 9:30 a.m.; Book Club, 10 a.m.; Day Old Bread, 10:15 a.m.; Zumba Gold, 10:30 a.m.; Nation-al Night Out, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.; Puppet Show and Lunch, 11 a.m.; Active Adults Advisory Commit-tee Meeting, noon; Party Bridge, noon; Billiards, 1 p.m.; Pilates Mat Class, 5 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 5 – Men’s Golf at Gopher Hills, 8 a.m.; Health An-gels Biking, 8:30 a.m.; Line Dance Practice – Be-ginners, 8:30 a.m.; Poker & Hearts, 9 a.m.; Line Dancing, 9 and 10 a.m.; Healthways Flex Fitness 2, 10 a.m.; Day Old Bread, 10:15 a.m.; Healthways Flex Fitness 1, 11 a.m.; Pinochle, noon; Dime Bin-go, 1 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 6 – Day Old Bread, 10:15 a.m.; Red Hat Chorus, 10:30 a.m.; Healthways Flex Fitness 1, 11 a.m.; Health-ways Flex Fitness 2, noon; Euchre, Hand & Foot, noon; Quilting Group, 1 p.m.; Zumba Gold, 3:30 p.m. Friday, Aug. 7 – Yoga, 8:15 a.m.; Pickleball at Bunker Hill Park, 9 a.m.; Poker & 500, 9 a.m.; Digi-tal Photography Club, 10 a.m.; Day Old Bread, 10:15 a.m.; Duplicate Bridge, 12:30 p.m.


Obituaries Obituaries

Education

Filing period for District 196 School Board candidates runs to Aug. 11 The two-week period for candidates to file for election to the District 196 School Board opened Tuesday, July 28, at 7:30 a.m. and closes Tuesday, Aug. 11, at 5 p.m. All can-didates must file during this time in order to be placed on the ballot for the Nov. 3, 2015, General School Board Election. Four of the seven at-large positions on the School Board are up for election this year. The terms of Joel Albright, Rob Duchscher, Jack-ie Magnuson and Bob Schutte expire Jan. 4, 2016. The term of each open po-sition is four years, Janu-ary 2016 to January 2020. Affidavits of candi-dacy are available during office hours (7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through Friday) in the Superinten-dent’s Office of District 196, 3455 153rd Street W., Rosemount. Completed affidavits of candidacy must be filed with the Su-perintendent’s Office by 5 p.m. Aug. 11, along with a $2 filing fee or a petition with at least 500 signatures of eligible voters in place of the filing fee.

Five or more voters may also draft a candidate by filing an application on behalf of the candidate. The candidate must indi-cate his or her willingness to serve by signing the ap-plication. The same filing fee requirements and time-line apply. The School Board is responsible for developing policy to ensure the prop-er care, management and control of district affairs, and supporting the dis-trict’s mission of educat-ing our students to reach their full potential. Any person may be a candidate who: – is eligible to vote; – would be at least 21 years old upon assuming office (Jan. 4, 2016); – is a resident of the school district for at least 30 days before the elec-tion; – has not filed as a can-didate for any other office at the upcoming general election; and – is not a sex offender who has been convicted of an offense for which registration is required under Minnesota Statute 243.166. People considering run-ning for a School Board position may call the Su-perintendent’s Office at 651-423-7736 for more information or to schedule an informational meeting.

College News Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, spring graduate, Markus Gaasedelen, of Apple Val-ley, B.S., computer science, cum laude. University of Iowa, Iowa City, spring dean’s list, from Apple Valley – Megan Kapalka, Ethan Meiburg, Claire Syverson. University of Wiscon-sin-Stout, spring chancel-lor’s award, from Apple Valley – Tessa Brandel, Ryan Goodman, Elaine Linh, Reagan Tracy. University of Wiscon-sin-River Falls, spring graduates, Anna Uden-berg, B.S., communication sciences and disorders, magna cum laude; Alex Trenary, of Apple Valley, B.S., communication stud-ies. University of Wis-consin-La Crosse, spring graduates, from Apple Valley – Claire Elliott, B.S., early childhood through middle childhood education, highest hon-ors; Brianna MacDonald, B.S., management; Taylor Phillips, B.S., English edu-cation; Alexander Reed, B.S., information systems; Cassandra Vaughan, B.A., English, honors. University of Wiscon-sin-Eau Claire, spring graduates, from Apple Valley – Tyra Guldseth, B.A., mass communica-tion; Rachel Haugen, B.S., communication sci-ences and disorders; Justin Larson, B.B.A., account-

ing and business finance; Benjamin Reller, B.B.A., business finance; Cody Thompson, B.S., chemis-try; Taylor Vossen, B.S., psychology. University of Min-nesota Duluth, spring graduates, from Apple Valley – Amanda Althoff, B.F.A., graphic design and marketing; Erin Gorski, B.F.A., graphic design; Adam Jacobson, B.B.A., marketing; Michael John-ston, B.S., electrical en-gineering; Keeley Koch, B.A.S., integrated elemen-tary and special education; Kyle Navratil, B.B.A., marketing, and B.Acc., accounting; Benjamin Pel-ant, B.Acc., accounting; Adam Sampson, B.B.A., marketing; Kayla Sauve, B.F.A., graphic design; Emily Shea, B.A.S., psy-chology, departmental honors, magna cum laude; Autumn Stivers-Biscuso, B.S., geological sciences, and B.S., biology; Nathan Wise, B.S., mechanical en-gineering. Northwest Technical College, Bemidji, spring graduate, Amber Grav-dahl, of Apple Valley, A.S., nursing. Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York, spring dean’s list, Kaia Bolland, of Ap-ple Valley.

To submit college news items, email: [email protected].

Service News Lt. Junior Grade Mar-tin Schroeder, a 2007 Apple Valley High School graduate and Burnsville native, is serving aboard one of the U.S. Navy’s nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarines, living and working at a Navy base in Silverdale, Wash-ington. Schroeder is the dam-

age control assistant on USS Louisiana, which is based in Silverdale, about 15 miles west of Seattle across Puget Sound. He is responsible for the damage control equipment. “I enjoy working with every system on the ship,” said Schroeder. “From wa-ter to hydraulics, I get to have a hand in everything.”

Religion

Women’s luncheon The Minnesota Valley Christian Women’s Con-nection’s Hawaiian Luau Luncheon will be 12:30-2 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 13, at GrandStay Hotel, 7083 153rd St., Apple Valley. Speaker Susan Keegan will share how she was rescued when she was lost in the woods of worldly desires. Al and Lisa Sven-dahl will provide Hawai-ian music. Cost is $16. All ladies

are invited. For reserva-tions, call Jan at 651-434-5795.

MN Gospel Opry moves to Lakeville Minnesota Gospel Opry’s new home is at Cel-ebration Church, 16655 Kenyon Ave., Lakeville. It will host a concert by Jeff and Sheri Easter at 4 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 16. More is at https://www.minnesota-gospelopry.com/.


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Proposed school bus hub has residents worriedDistrict 196 plans to build facility at

Johnny Cake Ridge Road, Upper 147th

by Jessica HarperSUN THISWEEK


Plans to build a new trans-portation hub for the Rose-mount-Apple Valley-Eagan School District has one Apple Valley neighborhood quite con-cerned. In September, the school district purchased an 8-acre site – located at the intersec-tion of Johnny Cake Ridge Road and Upper 147th Street near Uponor – for $1.4 million to construct a new facility for its buses. The proposed facility would house about half of the

district’s 200-bus fleet, while the other half would remain at the district’s existing transporta-tion building in Rosemount. The new facility would be closer to the district’s popula-tion center and would provide a second site for staging routes. The cost of the land and building will be paid for with local building lease levy funds that were authorized by the state as part of the supple-mental budget bill approved in 2014. The property is zoned indus-trial, but there is a housing de-velopment located a few miles to the north and to the west of the site. The district’s plans include a sound barrier wall to mitigate noise issues, but resi-dents say the wall isn’t enough. “We are worried more traf-

fic and noise will hurt prop-erty values,” Mike Erdmann said. Erdmann estimates that home sale values would drop by $20,000 to $25,000 the first year of operations if noise and traf-fic are not properly mitigated. Erdmann is among 108 resi-dents who signed a petition that was given to the School Board on July 27 in opposition of the district’s proposed transporta-tion hub. Erdmann urged the board to consider moving the district’s proposed transportation hub to a site near the Minnesota Val-ley Transportation Authority’s 157th Street Station on Pilot Knob Road. “We want to make sure all options are fully explored,” he said. School Board Member Rob

Duchscher said the district plans to meet with city officials in the coming weeks to explore other options to mitigate noise. But the district is hesitant to ex-plore other sites. “We had listening sessions already, and I’m a little sur-prised this came out at this time,” Duchscher said. “We have $120,000 of taxpayer money invested in this and were told there wouldn’t be any is-sues.” The school district’s plans have not yet received approval from the city. The issue will likely go before the Apple Val-ley Planning Commission on Aug. 5. If approved, the issue will go to the City Council later this summer. If the plans move forward, construction would begin next fall and be complet-

ed in summer 2016. The district is looking to the new facility as a way to cut its transportation costs. Due to a lack of storage space, the dis-trict has to contract with pri-vate companies to cover some of its bus routes. With the ad-ditional storage provided by the hub facility, the district will be able to own enough buses to cover all routes, officials say. District officials say the new facility will save about $200,000 to $300,000 each year initially, which will increase to up to $500,000 each year by the fifth year of operation.

Jessica Harper is at [email protected] or facebook.com/sunthisweek.

Leprechaun Days spreads its magic Large crowds turn out for

Midsummer Faire concerts

by Tad JohnsonSUN THISWEEK


The memory-making machine known as Rose-mount Leprechaun Days spread plenty of its magic July 17-26. Whether it was giving a chance for a child to walk in the Grand Day Parade or hook a prize-winning fish with Dad or Mom, Leprechaun Days provid-ed a little something for everyone. The 10-day festival was capped with a huge crowd that descended on Central Park on Saturday night to see Rosemount High School graduate, singer and musician Jason Perri rock the Amphitheater with Andrew Varner. Ear-lier in the night, people saw Perri’s brother, Todd Perri, aka Tony DiNucci, take part in the American Wrestling Federation’s bouts in the park. “I want to thank all of the chairs of the commit-tees who served with tire-

less enthusiasm,” said Lep-rechaun Days president Steve Ball. “We worked together and had fun.” He credited the work of committee chairpeople Vanessa DeMuth, secre-tary and volunteers; Mi-chelle Selig, fundraising and sponsorships; Mary-Jane Schneider, events; Maureen Bouchard, pa-rade, Mike Bouchard, Midsummer Faire; Scott Selig, vice president; Nick Rapp, treasurer; and mem-bers John and Ann Loch and Tom Schuster. Ball said the biggest highlight for him was the Thursday Family Fun Night when Martin Zellar, former Gear Daddies gui-tarist and singer, played in Central Park to the larg-est Thursday night Lep-rechaun Days crowd in recent memory. There were some people filtering in the park with Gear Daddies shirts ex-pecting to hear songs from the early 1990s alternative rock band. Zellar did not disap-point, playing the band’s most popular song, “I Wanna Drive the Zambo-ni,” early on in his set. Ball said he was equally

impressed with the volun-teer committee members’ efforts that night as they sold food and drinks out-side the shelter. Committee members and other event organizers were impressed with par-ticipation in many of the festival’s 70-some events. A few dozen children participated in the Lions Kiddie Parade, 115 dipped a line in for the Fishing Derby, 302 jogged in the Run for the Gold, 409 cooled off during Wet ’n’ Wild Day and 600 sprint-ed for prizes in the Blarney Stone Hunt. “We are thrilled with the participation numbers and look forward to offer-ing these free events again next summer,” said Lisa Maurer, Parks and Recre-ation Department coordi-nator. More than 10,000 visi-tors were logged at the committee’s website over the final seven days of the festival who found events to their liking, such as the popular Bathtub Races, Big Wheel Races and a new Punt-Pass-Kick Com-petition. Ball said he was im-pressed with the num-

ber of organizations that chipped in to stage events. “We are always look-ing for a bigger and better Leprechaun Days,” Ball said. “We always seek im-provements and changes. Those who would like to get involved should con-tact the Leprechaun Days Committee by email or call a member.” People commenting on Facebook said they had a blast all week as children looked forward to the next fun event each day. While the festival pro-vided special moments for families, Ball said he was overwhelmed when the Rosemount Leprechaun Days grand marshal Chuck Brooks, a longtime Rosemount High School English teacher who re-tired this spring, teared up as he rode as the honored guest in the parade that he has served as announcer of for the past several years. “It just shows you how much these events mean to people,” Ball said.

Email Tad Johnson at [email protected].

The Tailgate Party and Car Blessing at St. Joseph Catholic Church during Rosemount Leprechuan Days included a bounce house and other activities for children (Photo by Tad Johnson)


Sip & Shop in Lakeville

Laura Miler , Lisa Gervais and Kim Pehel took advantage of the Bracketts Crossing Sip & Shop event held in downtown Lakeville July 24. The event was part of the annual Hickory Stick tournament that includes activities for the spouses of the tournament competitors. The spouses shopped at Lakeville speciality stores including Kaleidoscope, Sacks in the City, Perfectly Random and Pink Door Boutique in Lakeville while sipping wine. They ended their morning with lunch at Mainstreet Cafe. (Photo submitted)

Business BuzzFarmers agent recognized Robert “Bob” Curtis, of Lakeville, has been named a Championship agent by Farmers Insurance for his outstand-ing achievement and customer-focused efforts by the Los Angeles-based, multi-line insurer. Curtis was selected on the basis of a number of criteria, including his distinc-tion in providing exceptional service to customers and a commitment to further-ing the goals and standards of Farmers Insurance. “This honor is a business career high-light and I feel fortunate to represent such a fine organization, which is com-mitted to helping make customers smart-er about their insurance choices,” said Curtis. “I share this recognition with my entire office team who focus on helping every customer each and every day.”

Tires Plus plans Aug. 8 events Tires Plus in Eagan is pairing up with The Open Door Pantry to host a food drive from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 8. Customers will receive one raffle tick-et for each food item they donate. Raffle prizes include gift cards, coupons and more. Food items most needed include oat-meal, peanut butter, rice, pasta, veg-etables, cereal, flour, 100 percent juice, canned fruit, soup, macaroni and cheese, condiments, sugar, potatoes and tortillas. Free lunches and snacks will be pro-vided from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Tires Plus is holding the event in con-junction with its largest sale of the sum-mer. The store is at 3595 Krestwood Lane, Eagan. For more information, call 651-705-0773.

Business CalendarTo submit items for the

Business Calendar, email: [email protected].

Apple Valley Chamber of Commerce events: • Tuesday, Aug. 4, 7:30-9 a.m., Coffee Connection, Culver’s, 15225 Galaxie Ave., Apple Valley. Information: 952-

432-8422. • Thursday, Aug. 13, 4:30-7:30 p.m., Augustana Care Food and Wine Tasting Fund-raiser, Augustana Care Apple Valley, 14610 Garrett Ave. A benefit to help complete the re-model of Augustana Care’s deli. Dakota County Region-al Chamber of Commerce

events: • Tuesday, Aug. 4, 8-9 a.m., Rosemount Coffee Break, Chuck & Don’s, 3852 150th St. W., Rosemount. Open to all DCRC members. Register at www.dcrchamber.com. In-formation: Chelsea Johnson at [email protected] or 651-288-9202.


Scouting for Uniforms drive ends this week

Laura Smith hangs the Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts uniforms at Pilgrim Dry Cleaning in Brooklyn Park. The Scouting for Uniforms campaign ends this week at all Pilgrim locations. (Photo by Brian Mozey)

by Gretchen SchlosserSUN THISWEEK


For the past eight years, July has been the time to donate Scout uniforms at Pilgrim Cleaners. Again this year, Pilgrim and the North Star Coun-cil of the Boy Scouts of American are organizing the Scouting for Uniforms drive to collect gently-used uniforms and other Scout-ing items for distribution to Scouts who may not be able to afford the uni-forms. All month long, dona-tions were accepted at all 25 Pilgrim locations across the metro area, includ-ing those in Apple Valley, Burnsville, Lakeville, and Eagan. The shirts, especially the familiar blue shirts for Cub Scouts, are in greatest demand. Pilgrim will clean the uniforms and deliver them to the council for dis-tribution to Scout families and troops.

Pilgrim President Bon-nie Engler said she learned about a similar program on the East Coast and thought it a was wonderful idea. She then rallied sup-porters of Pilgrim’s long-running “Coats for Kids” programs that first year, and the effort netted more than 300 uniforms. “They were over-whelmed and so thank-ful,” she said of the North Star Council officials. Since then, more than 2,800 uniforms have been collected by the drive. Any Scouting items are accepted, including shirts, pants, kerchiefs, pins and hats. The drive also ac-cepts financial support and checks can be mailed or delivered to the Pilgrim Cleaners offices at 3217 85th Ave. N, Brooklyn Park, 55443. “Everyone has a coat, not everyone has a uni-form,” Engler said. “Fi-nancial donations really help the drive.”

Uniforms, or monetary donations of any amount, can also be dropped off at the North Star’s offices, in St. Paul at 393 Marshall Ave., and Golden Valley at 5300 Glenwood Ave., said Kent York, commu-nications director for the North Star Council. The donations are used to pur-chase sizes of uniforms not donated to the drive. The need for uniforms continues to be great, York noted. More than 40,000 young people are involved in Scouting through the North Star Council. Fam-ilies who need uniforms only need to indicate their need, he said. Having that uniform is vital for young people to feel included in their Scout troops, York says. “The uniform makes everyone stand at the same level,” he said. Pilgrim began the “Coats for Kids” program nearly 30 years ago and collects coats for children

Pilgrim Cleaners, North Star Council providing for youths

each fall. Sun Newspapers and KARE 11 are also uniform collection drive sponsors. To get more infor-mation, go to pilgrim-drycleaners.com or

northstarbsa.org or call 763-231-7201. Pilgrim Cleaners business hours are 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. Mon-day through Friday, and 9 to 5 p.m. Saturdays. The Scout offices are open

from 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Monday through Satur-day. Contact Gretchen Schloss-er at [email protected].

Lakeville man dies in motorcycle crashPolice suspect alcohol

was involved by Laura Adelmann


A Lakeville man died in a July 25 motorcycle crash with a car on County Road 46 just east of Gal-axie Avenue, according to the Hen-nepin County medical examiner. Jacob Glen Lindholm, 29, was riding the motorcycle that collided with a red 2001 Chevrolet Cavalier around 5:10 a.m. about 4 miles from

his home. Lindholm was reportedly not wearing a helmet, according to Lakeville police, and died of his in-juries at the scene about 20 minutes after the crash. Lakeville Police Chief Jeff Long said the only details he could con-firm is that both vehicles were in the right lane when the motorcycle hit the back of the Cavalier. He said the driver of the car ap-peared shaken and distraught over the accident; there were no passen-gers.

Long said there are no known witnesses and the Minnesota State Patrol is conducting a reconstruc-tion of the accident to determine more information. Long said police suspect at least one of the drivers was under the influence of alcohol but cannot confirm that until test results are returned, which may take several months to complete.

Laura Adelmann is at [email protected].

Area BriefsKids ’n Kinship mentor info session set Kids ’n Kinship will hold a mentor information session from 6-6:45 p.m. Monday, Aug. 17, at Rob-ert Trail Library, 14395 S. Robert Trail, Rosemount. Kids ’n Kinship serves children in the commu-nities of Apple Valley, Burnsville, Eagan, Farm-ington, Lakeville and Rosemount and provides school-based mentoring at four elementary schools. There are currently 62 youth, 42 of which are boys, waiting for a mentor. Individuals, couples and families who have a desire to be a role model and special friend to a child are invited to attend the information session. Attendees will learn about the youth who are waiting for mentors, the volunteer screening pro-cess and the activities and benefits provided by Kids ’n Kinship. Application materials will be available. Training and ongoing support is provided for all types of mentoring. Those planning to attend the ses-sion should RSVP to [email protected] or call 651-333-9468. Visit www.kidsnkinship.org for more information.

Warrant sweep honors slain officer The Dakota County Sheriff ’s Office led a war-rant sweep Thursday, July 30, in honor of Officer Scott Patrick, in conjunc-tion with federal, state and local law enforcement agencies. On July 30, 2014, Pat-rick, a 47-year-old father of two and 19-year veteran of the Mendota Heights Police Department, was shot to death in West St. Paul while conducting a traffic stop. The car he pulled over was driven by a known drug dealer, Bri-an Fitch Sr., a man with several outstanding felony warrants. During the traf-fic stop, Fitch shot and killed Patrick and then fled. After an exhaustive search involving many lo-cal law enforcement agen-cies, Fitch was arrested, charged and convicted on all nine charges, including first-degree murder. He will spend the rest of his life in prison. Patrick’s death in the line of duty is a reminder to the community and his fellow officers that there is no such thing as a routine traffic stop. Local law en-forcement officers face un-known dangers every day.

“In honor of Officer Patrick, law enforcement agencies from throughout Dakota County and be-yond are coming together to put offenders in our community behind bars,” said Dakota County Sher-iff Tim Leslie. A warrant sweep is a specific day chosen by law enforcement agencies to coordinate efforts toward locating those with pend-ing arrest warrants. War-rant sweeps result in vary-ing amounts of arrests, but all sweeps remind

those with outstanding warrants that they will be held accountable. Agencies participat-ing in the sweep include the police departments of Apple Valley, Burns-ville, Eagan, Farmington, Hastings, Inver Grove Heights, Lakeville, Men-dota Heights, Rosemount, South St. Paul and West St. Paul, along with the Ramsey County Sheriff ’s Office Apprehension Unit, the Minnesota Depart-ment of Corrections Fugi-tive Unit and the United

States Marshal’s Fugitive Unit.

Firearm safety class A Minnesota Depart-ment of Natural Resourc-es firearm safety class will be offered from 7-9 p.m. Sept. 15, 22, 29, Oct. 1, 6, 13, 20 and 27 at Rose-mount Middle School, 3135 143rd St. W., Rose-mount. Range day will be Oct. 24. To preregister, send stu-dent’s full name, age and

name of parent or legal guardian to [email protected]. A con-firmation will be sent. Students age 12 and older are invited to par-ticipate. Registration paperwork and materi-als handout will be 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 9, at Rosemount American Legion. A parent or legal guardian must accompany the student. Class fee is $7.50. Upon class completion, a $7.50 DNR fee is paid online to self-certify.


SportsNotebook: Gable Steveson takes national wrestling title

by Mike ShaughnessySUN THISWEEK


Apple Valley High School sophomore-to-be Gable Ste-veson went undefeated to win his first Minnesota high school individual wrestling champi-onship last winter and hasn’t slowed down since. Last week he won the 220-pound championship at the USA Wrestling Cadet National freestyle tournament in Fargo, N.D., cementing his status as one of the nation’s top high school wrestlers. Steveson de-feated Cohlton Schultz of Colo-rado 14-4 in the championship match last Friday. Steveson is ranked by Inter-matWrestle.com as the top high school wrestler in the class of 2018. Schultz was No. 2 in the Class of 2019. Additionally, FloWrestling.org now ranks Steveson first nationally at 220 pounds. Ste-veson’s Apple Valley teammate, senior-to-be Mark Hall, is No. 1 in the FloWrestling.org “pound-

for-pound” rankings. Steveson has earned an invi-tation to FloWrestling’s “Who’s No. 1?” showcase this fall. Hall and Bobby Steveson, Gable’s older brother, wrestled in that event last year, with both win-ning their matches. Bobby Ste-veson graduated from AVHS in June and will be a freshman at the University of Minnesota in the fall. Gable Steveson is 85-3 in two seasons of high school wrestling in Minnesota, with all three of the losses coming in his eighth-grade season. He was second at 195 in the 2014 state Class 3A tournament before winning at 220 in 2015.

Sweet 16 showcase The 25th annual Pacesetter Sweet Sixteen basketball tour-nament will be Saturday and Sunday at the College of St. Benedict. Apple Valley will de-fend its boys varsity champion-ship. Apple Valley will play Rocori in a first-round game at 10 a.m.

Saturday. The Eagles are the only South Suburban Confer-ence team in the tournament, but the event includes three from the Lake Conference – Hop-kins, Eden Prairie and Wayzata. Rushford-Peterson, the 2015 state Class 1A champion, also is in the field. Apple Valley also will sent its girls team to the event, with the Eagles playing New London-Spicer in a first-round game at 12:40 p.m. Saturday. Championship games will be Sunday, starting at 2:30 p.m. for the boys and 5:10 for the girls. Last year’s Sweet Sixteen cham-pions, the Apple Valley boys and Hopkins girls, went on to win Class 4A state high school championships.

Martin to the U Burnsville High School in-coming senior Kamal Martin this week verbally committed to play football at the University of Minnesota. Martin was the Blaze’s quar-terback last season, passing for

923 yards in 10 games. His best game was in a 46-43 upset of Eastview in the first round of the Class 6A playoffs, when he passed for 238 yards and four touchdowns and rushed for 99 yards and one score. Martin had verbally commit-ted to Eastern Michigan to play quarterback before switching to Minnesota. He might not neces-sarily play quarterback for the Gophers, as the Star Tribune reported Martin worked out at multiple positions at a recent U of M football camp.

Golf highlights Two of the state’s biggest local golf tournaments, the Minnesota Golf Association Amateur Championship and Minnesota State Open,were held last week. University of Minnesota player Jon DuToit of Chaska Town Course won the MGA Amateur at Northland Country Club in Duluth with a three-round total of 214, 1 over par. Top-10 finishers included Sam-

my Schmitz of Valleywood Golf Course, who shot 69 in the fi-nal round to tie for third, three strokes behind DuToit. Trent Peterson of Valleywood also was in the tie for third place. Bobby Thomas of Brackett’s Crossing Country Club tied for ninth place. Andrew McCain, an ama-teur playing out of Dellwood Country Club, won the Minne-sota State Open on Sunday at Mendakota Country Club. His three-round total of 206 was 10 under par and was good for a one-stroke victory. Top finisher from the Sun Thisweek and Da-kota Country Tribune coverage area was former Lakeville South High School player Justin Do-eden, who finished at even par and tied for 12th. Peterson, the defending champion, tied for 30th.

Email Mike Shaughnessy at [email protected].

MYSA summer state

(Top) Players from Dakota Rev (dark shirts) and Plymouth battled for the boys Under-15 Classic 2 championship at the Minnesota Youth Soc-cer Association sum-mer state tournament Saturday in Shakopee. (Left) The Dakota Rev goalkeeper kicks the ball out of danger. Dakota Rev won the game 2-1. Dakota Rev also won the U13 Classic 1 boys divi-sion, defeating Tonka United 3-1 in the championship game. In boys U14 Classic 2, Valley United fell to the Rebels 1-0 in the championship game. (Photos by Mike Shaughnessy)

Local teams knocked out of Legion baseball playoffs

Apple Valley 2nd in Sub-State

tourney by Mike Shaughnessy


The state American Legion baseball tour-nament will take place this weekend without any teams from Dakota County, all of which were eliminated in Sub-State competition. Lakeville North Red, the 2014 state American Legion champion, is one of the teams on the out-side after it was elimi-nated in the Sub-State 6 tourney in Prior Lake and Burnsville. North Red, which finished 24-7, never fully recovered after a 14-5 loss to East Ridge in the opening round of the double-elimination tournament. North Red defeated Hastings 11-4 in an elimination game but then was knocked out by an 11-7 loss to Eagan last Friday. Eastview took third in the Sub-State 6 tour-ney, winning three of its five games. The Thunder opened with victories over Hastings (9-2) and East Ridge (14-4) before losing to No. 1-seeded Northfield 8-1 last Friday. On Saturday, Eastview re-mained alive with a 7-3 victory over Eagan before losing 2-1 to Prior Lake. Prior Lake claimed a spot in the state tourna-ment with a 9-7 victory over Northfield in 10 in-nings Sunday. Prior Lake won five consecutive games after a 2-0 loss to Eagan in the first round. Eagan’s Thomas Pe-terson pitched a five-hit shutout against Prior Lake in his team’s Sub-State 6 opener. The Patri-ots lost to Northfield 7-5 in the next round before the team’s 11-7 victory over Lakeville North Red that eliminated the de-fending state champion. Eagan had 15 hits against Lakeville North, 14 of which were singles. Andrew Walker and Jor-dan Wollin each drove in

two runs for the Patriots, who built an 8-0 lead after 3 1/2 innings. Jake Ossell had four hits and Peter-son three. Eastview scored five runs in the bottom of the third inning on its way to a 7-3 victory Saturday that put Eagan out of the Sub-State tourney. The Patriots finished 27-11. Woodbury Blue won the Sub-State 5 tourna-ment last week in Apple Valley and Burnsville. Woodbury Blue clinched the tournament – and a place in the state tourney – with a 5-4 victory over Apple Valley on Saturday. Apple Valley finished 22-16 after going 3-2 in the Sub-State tournament. Apple Valley lost its opening game to Lakev-ille South 4-1 before coming back with con-secutive victories over Lakeville North White (6-0), Burnsville (4-3 in 10 innings) and Rosemount (14-9) to reach the finals and get another chance to play Woodbury Blue. The 76ers needed to beat the Woodbury team twice to advance to state. Burnsville (17-13) had an eight-run fifth inning in its 14-6 victory over Inver Grove Heights 14-6 in the first round. Colin Strey had three hits and four RBI for the Cobras. The Cobras led Wood-bury Blue by as many as five runs in their second-round game but couldn’t hold the lead, eventu-ally losing 15-8. Brendan Larsen had three hits and Damon Olson three RBI for Burnsville. Apple Valley scored a run in the bottom of the ninth to tie its elimination game with Burnsville on Friday, then scored again in the bottom of the 10th to send the Cobras home. Mitch Nelson (six innings), Cole Johnson (three innings) and Noah Sibell (one inning) split the pitching duties for the 76ers. Outfielder Jake Smith had two hits for Apple Valley. Olson and Larson had two hits each for Burnsville. Rosemount had a fast

start in the Sub-State 5 tourney, defeating Lakev-ille North White 11-1 in its opener and Lakeville South 12-6 in the second round. But consecutive losses to Woodbury Blue (7-2) and Apple Valley (14-9) ended Rosemount’s playoff run. Lakeville South lost to Rosemount and Inver Grove Heights following its opening-round victory over Apple Valley. Farm-ington defeated St. Paul Park 11-9 in a Sub-State 5 play-in game but then lost to Woodbury Blue 12-1 and Inver Grove Heights 9-7. The state American Legion tournament be-gins Friday with games at Chanhassen High School, Chaska Athletic Park, Round Lake Park in Eden Prairie and Braemar Field in Edina.

Junior Legion Excelsior defeated Burnsville 1-0 and 2-0 on Sunday to win the state Junior American Legion baseball championship at Quarry Point Park in Ap-ple Valley. Excelsior ad-vances to the Mid-States Regional tournament in Fargo, N.D. The final matched the tournament’s top two seeds. No. 2-seeded Burnsville won its first four games in the tourna-ment before the back-to-back losses to Excelsior. Burnsville’s victories were 1-0 over Jordan, 8-2 over Eden Prairie, 15-5 over Edina and 5-4 over Prior Lake. Excelsior ended up playing eight games in the double-elimination tournament after losing to Prior Lake 6-3 in the third round. Excelsior had shutouts in five of its seven victories, including the last four. Eastview, the third seed in the Junior Legion tourney, went 2-2 and was eliminated after an 11-7 loss to Eden Prairie last Friday. Eighth-seeded Apple Valley went 4-2, with both of its losses coming against state champion Excelsior.

Mark Obarski trying to raise DCTC women’s soccer profile by Mike Shaughnessy


Rather than having players come to him, Mark Obarski now has to go out and get players. That’s one of the key differences since he be-came head women’s soccer coach at Dakota County Technical College about one year ago. “I go around to as many youth tourna-ments as I can, like Ea-gan’s, Apple Valley’s and the USA Cup,” said Obar-ski, the former Eagan High School girls coach.

Minnesota players fill numerous college women’s soccer programs in the Upper Midwest. Obarski is trying to tap into that pipeline; in particular, he’s looking for players who for whatever reason might not be looking to go to a four-year college immedi-ately after high school. “Since we don’t have on-campus housing, we’ve been concentrating on students within a 30-mile radius of the college,” Obarski said. “We do have a couple of players from other states (including one

from Ha-waii), but we’re look-ing primar-ily at stu-dents who can com-mute here.” D C T C has had a women’s soccer team since 2003 and a men’s team since 2004. Both were founded by Cam Stolz, who also is the school’s athletic director. Until last year, Stolz also coached both teams, but last year the college hired Obarski

as women’s head coach. Stolz remains as head coach of the men’s team. DCTC’s women’s team has won one regional championship and been a regional runner-up twice. Still, there were some growing pains after Obar-ski took over. “We were competitive. We finished just under .500,” Obarski said. “But we did struggle against teams that were ranked in the top 20 in the country (in the National Junior College Athletic Asso-ciation). We learned it’s a

numbers game. Last year we had a few games where we literally had only 11 players available because of injuries or kids not be-ing able to be there for other reasons.” The DCTC women start their fall camp Mon-day and Obarski expects at least 18 players to be there, including nine returnees from last year’s squad. This year’s Blue Knight women’s team is expected to have several players from the Sun Thisweek and Dakota County Tri-bune coverage area, in-

cluding former Lakeville South player Candace Ul-men; Kenya Macias, who lives in Lakeville and at-tended Farmington High School; and Madeline Strid, who lives in Farm-ington and attended Ea-gan High. The DCTC women’s first home game is Sept. 2 against Rochester Com-munity and Technical Col-lege.

Email Mike Shaughnessy at [email protected].

Mark Obarski


LEGAL NOTICES

NOTICE OF MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE SALE

THE RIGHT TO VERIFICATION OF THE DEBT AND IDENTITY OF THE ORIGINAL CREDITOR WITHIN THE TIME PROVIDED BY LAW IS NOT AFFECTED BY THIS ACTION.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that default has occurred in conditions of the following described mort-gage:

DATE OF MORTGAGE: August 14, 2012MORTGAGOR: Bradley J. Kno-

blauch and Nancy Knoblauch, hus-band and wife.

MORTGAGEE: Mortgage Elec-tronic Registration Systems, Inc.

DATE AND PLACE OF RE-CORDING: Recorded February 21, 2013 Dakota County Recorder, Document No. 2931988.

ASSIGNMENTS OF MORT-GAGE: Assigned to: Flagstar Bank, FSB. Dated October 1, 2013 Recorded October 9, 2013, as Doc-ument No. 2980278.

TRANSACTION AGENT: Mortgage Electronic Registra-

tion Systems, Inc.TRANSACTION AGENT’S

MORTGAGE IDENTIFICATION NUMBER ON MORTGAGE:

100814900000342316LENDER OR BROKER AND

MORTGAGE ORIGINATOR STATED ON MORTGAGE: Gold Star Mort-gage Financial Group, Corporation

RESIDENTIAL MORTGAGE SERVICER: Flagstar Bank, FSB

MORTGAGED PROPERTY AD-DRESS: 7038 135th Street West, Apple Valley, MN 55124

TAX PARCEL I.D. #: 01.22412.04.070LEGAL DESCRIPTION OF

PROPERTY:Lot 7, Block 4, Eagle Hills, Third,,

Dakota County, Minnesota.COUNTY IN WHICH PROPERTY

IS LOCATED: DakotaORIGINAL PRINCIPAL AMOUNT

OF MORTGAGE: $177,255.00AMOUNT DUE AND CLAIMED

TO BE DUE AS OF DATE OF NO-TICE, INCLUDING TAXES, IF ANY, PAID BY MORTGAGEE:

$197,204.04That prior to the commence-

ment of this mortgage foreclosure proceeding Mortgagee/Assignee of Mortgagee complied with all notice requirements as required by stat-ute; That no action or proceeding has been instituted at law or other-wise to recover the debt secured by said mortgage, or any part thereof;

PURSUANT to the power of sale contained in said mortgage, the above described property will be sold by the Sheriff of said county as follows:

DATE AND TIME OF SALE: September 4, 2015 at 10:00 AMPLACE OF SALE: S h e r i f f ’ s

Office, Law Enforcement Center, 1580 Hwy 55, Lobby #S-100, Hast-ings, MN to pay the debt then se-cured by said Mortgage, and taxes, if any, on said premises, and the costs and disbursements, includ-ing attorneys’ fees allowed by law subject to redemption within six (6) months from the date of said sale by the mortgagor(s), their personal representatives or assigns unless reduced to Five (5) weeks under MN Stat. §580.07.

TIME AND DATE TO VACATE PROPERTY: If the real estate is an owner-occupied, single-family dwelling, unless otherwise pro-vided by law, the date on or before which the mortgagor(s) must va-cate the property if the mortgage is not reinstated under section 580.30 or the property is not redeemed under section 580.23 is 11:59 p.m. on March 4, 2016, unless that date falls on a weekend or legal holiday, in which case it is the next week-day, and unless the redemption period is reduced to 5 weeks under MN Stat. Secs. 580.07 or 582.032.

MORTGAGOR(S) RELEASED FROM FINANCIAL OBLIGATION ON MORTGAGE: None

“THE TIME ALLOWED BY LAW FOR REDEMPTION BY THE MORTGAGOR, THE MORTGAG-OR’S PERSONAL REPRESEN-TATIVES OR ASSIGNS, MAY BE REDUCED TO FIVE WEEKS IF A JUDICIAL ORDER IS ENTERED UNDER MINNESOTA STATUTES, SECTION 582.032, DETERMIN-ING, AMONG OTHER THINGS, THAT THE MORTGAGED PREM-ISES ARE IMPROVED WITH A RESIDENTIAL DWELLING OF LESS THAN FIVE UNITS, ARE NOT PROPERTY USED IN AGRICUL-TURAL PRODUCTION, AND ARE ABANDONED.”Dated: June 30, 2015Flagstar Bank, FSBMortgagee/Assignee of MortgageeUSSET, WEINGARDEN AND LI-EBO, P.L.L.P.Attorneys for Mortgagee/Assignee of Mortgagee4500 Park Glen Road #300Minneapolis, MN 55416(952) 925-688892-15-002233 FCTHIS IS A COMMUNICATION FROM A DEBT COLLECTOR.

Published inApple Valley

July 10, 17, 24, 31, August 7, 14, 2015

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NOTICE OF MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE SALE

MINN. STAT. 580.025, 580.04Date: June 18, 2015YOU ARE NOTIFIED that default

has occurred in the conditions of the following described Mortgage:

1. Date of Mortgage: April 5, 2004

2. Mortgagors: Daniel E. Kuk-lock and Ronda K. Kuklock, as joint tenants

3. Mortgagee: Wells Fargo Fi-nancial Minnesota, Inc.

4. Recording Information: Re-corded on April 28, 2004, as Docu-ment Number 2198959, in the Office of the County Recorder (or Registrar of Titles) of Dakota Coun-ty, Minnesota.

5. Assignments of Mortgage: Assigned to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., its suc-cessors and assigns by written as-signment recorded on 04/15/2005, as Document Number 2313317 in the recording office stated in paragraph 4. Further assigned to Ocwen Loan Servicing LLC by written assignment recorded on 09/26/2014, as Document Num-ber 3031359 in the recording office stated in paragraph 4. Further as-signed to Bucks Financial V, LLC by written assignment recorded on 09/26/2014 as Document Number 3031360 in the recording office stated in paragraph 4. Further as-signed to Home Expo Financial Inc. by written assignment recorded on 04/20/2015 as Document Number 3062714 in the recording office stated in paragraph 4. Further as-signed to 2nd Chance Mortgages, Inc. by written assignment record-ed on 04/20/2015 as Document Number 3062715 in the recording office stated in paragraph 4.

6. Tax parcel identification num-ber of the mortgaged premises: 01-31003-01-050

7. Legal description of the mort-gaged premises: Lot 5, Block 1, Greenleaf Fourth Addition, Dakota County, Minnesota.

8. The physical street address, city, and zip code of the mortgaged premises: 13549 Findlay Avenue, Apple Valley, MN 55124

9. The person holding the Mort-gage: is not a transaction agent, as defined by Minn. Stat. 58.02, subd. 30. The name of the residential mortgage servicer and the lender or broker, as defined in Minn. Stat. 58.02 is: 2nd Chance Mortgages Inc.

10. The name of the mortgage originator, as defined in Minn. Stat. 58.02, is: Wells Fargo Financial Minnesota, Inc.

11. The requisites of Minn. Stat. 580.02 have been satisfied.

12. The original principal amount secured by the Mortgage was $49,486.06

13. At the date of this notice the amount due on the Mortgage, including taxes, if any, paid by the holder of the mortgage, is: $ 45,150.71.

14. Pursuant to the power of sale in the Mortgage, the Mortgage will be foreclosed, and the mort-gaged premises will be sold by the Sheriff of Dakota County, Minne-sota, at public auction on Septem-ber 3, 2015 at 10:00 a.m. at Dakota County Sheriff’s Office, 1580 High-way 55, Hastings, MN 55033.

15. The time allowed by law for redemption by Mortgagor or Mort-gagor’s personal representative or assigns is 6 months after the date of the sale.

16. Minn. Stat. 580.04(b) pro-vides, “If the real estate is an own-er-occupied, single-family dwelling, the notice must also specify the date on or before which the mort-gagor must vacate the property if the mortgage is not reinstated un-der section 580.30 or the property redeemed under section 580.23.” If this statute applies, the time to va-cate the property is 11:59 p.m. on March 3, 2016.

THE TIME ALLOWED BY LAW FOR REDEMPTION BY THE MORTGAGOR, THE MORTGAG-OR’S PERSONAL REPRESEN-TATIVES OR ASSIGNS, MAY BE REDUCED TO FIVE WEEKS IF A JUDICIAL ORDER IS ENTERED UNDER MINNESOTA STATUTES, SECTION 582.032, DETERMIN-ING, AMONG OTHER THINGS, THAT THE MORTGAGED PREM-ISES ARE IMPROVED WITH A RESIDENTIAL DWELLING OF LESS THAN FIVE UNITS, ARE NOT PROPERTY USED IN AGRICUL-TURAL PRODUCTION, AND ARE ABANDONED.Name of Mortgagee or Mortgage Assignee: 2nd Chance Mortgages Inc.Name and address of Attorney for Mortgagee or Mortgage Assignee: Lesley A. Hoenig, Barham Legal LLC, 2644 Kull Road, Lancaster, Ohio 43130

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CITY OF APPLE VALLEY, MINNESOTAANNUAL DISCLOSURE OF TAX INCREMENT DISTRICTS FOR THE

YEAR ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2014(Minnesota Statutes, Section 469.175(5)

DD 2 Southport DD 2 Downtown DD 2 Gravel AV Business Campus Parkside

DISTRICT 1 DISTRICT 7 DISTRICT 13 DISTRICT 14 DISTRICT 15

Current Net Tax Capacity $0 $758,036 $0 $79,554 $0

Original Net Tax Capacity $0 $190,760 $0 $15,530 $0

Captured Net Tax Capacity $0 $567,276 $0 $64,024 $0

Principal and Interest Payments $0 $0 $0 $0 $0

Due in 2015

Tax Increment Received in 2014 $61,207 $675,124 $35,445 $70,475 $0

Tax increment Expended in 2014 $678,932 $60,813 $1,458,209 $44,830 $488,500

Month / Year First Tax Incr. Receipt 5/1987 5/1990 5/1996 6/2014 7/2015

Date of Required Decertification 12/31/12 12/31/15 12/31/21 12/31/22 12/31/40

The Total Increased Property Taxes to be Paid from Outside the District if Fis-cal Disparities Option A Applies

$0 $0 $0 $17,457 $0

Additional information regarding each district may be obtained from:

Ron Hedberg, Finance DirectorCity of Apple Valley

7100 147th St. W., Apple Valley, MN 55124952-953-2540

[email protected]

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There are pheasants, tur-keys and deer back there. We think it’s really spe-cial.” For those with a bigger itch for nature, there will still be a petting zoo, and this year A-to-Z Exotics will return to the fair in-stead of Fur-Ever Wild, according to Henry.

Grandstand Country artists Dia-mond Rio will grace the Dakota County Fair Grandstand with opening act Kari & Billy beginning at 7 p.m. Aug. 12. The headliners have been performing for more than 30 years. Perhaps the group’s big-gest hit came in 1991 with “Meet in the Middle.” The band’s catalog includes hits such as “How Your Love Makes Me Feel,” “One More Day,” Beauti-ful Mess” and “I Believe” from seven albums since the 1980s. The group’s last album “The Reason” had a more Christian contemporary theme. Tickets are on sale at www.dakotacountyfair.org for the concert as well as other events at the grandstand. Three years ago, the Dakota County Fair in-vited a major musical act to the grandstand for the first time. Last year, Sawyer Brown performed, and Love and Theft performed in 2013. It wasn’t without a few wrinkles that came with bringing in a musi-cal act, and attendance wasn’t as high as officials would have liked, but they feel like they have learned from the experience. “We’re going to give it another shot,” Henry said. Music will also be heard on the beer garden stage. The Johnny Holm Band is scheduled for Aug. 13, Good For Gary Aug. 14 and Lost Highway Aug. 15. The grandstand will likely be filled every eve-

ning during the fair. The ever popular de-molition derby is sched-uled for 7:30 p.m. both Aug. 14 and 15. Monster trucks will return to the grandstand again this year. It took the place of the rodeo last year. “People seemed to re-ally like it,” Henry said. The monster truck per-formance is scheduled for 7 p.m. Aug. 13. The tractor pull is at 7 p.m. Aug. 11, and Donkey Races are at 7 p.m. Aug. 10.

Heritage village For those interested in what the fair may have been like 100 years ago, head to the Dakota City Heritage Village, for which admission is free with paid entry to the fair. “When you walk into the fair, on the left you can spend a lot of money on the midway, but to the right, the majority of the (Dakota City activities) are free,” Henry said. “The village is proud of that.” The 1900-era rural vil-lage features 22 buildings, including a schoolhouse, bank, store, blacksmith

and many other buildings representing the time pe-riod. The village will have a new feature this year by opening up the carpentry shop for woodworking demonstrations. “The interesting thing is it will all be done with-out electricity,” volunteer coordinator Lynn Steg-maier said. “They’re us-ing hand tool, planes and chisels.” The idea to open the shop blossomed following an exhibit at the museum. Realizing they had a build-ing they could use, they decided to open it during the fair. “We have an excellent team of carpenters who want to produce their own furnishing for the build-ing and items that will be sold in the gift shop even-tually, like cutting boards and tool boxes,” Stegmaier said. “They’re a very en-thusiastic group of volun-teers.” Fairgoers can also en-joy a daily tractor parade, threshing demonstration, root beer floats and sweet corn. Music will often fill the air at the bandstand. This

year will feature acts such as the River Slow Jam, Lakeville South jazz band, Dakota Brass Quintet, the Czech Area Concertina Band, Marlo Dahl Choir Boys, Summer Pops Band and Marv Gorman. A bank raid re-enact-ment depicting a 1930s-era John Dillinger shoot-out will be at 11 a.m. and 4 p.m. Aug. 15 and at 4 p.m. Aug. 16. Chautauqua, an origi-nal musical-variety show, is back under the big tent behind the drugstore with 12 performances. This year the performance is titled “Minnesota, the Good, the Bad, and the Uff Dah.”

4-H With Dakota County featuring perhaps the larg-est number of 4-H mem-bers in the state, it’s no surprise there will be hun-dreds of animals, exhibits, projects and performances on display. Missing this year will be poultry due to the avian flu, but the birds will be in their 4-H’ers’ hearts. Members will bring pho-tos of their live birds to hang during their show-

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of the Cedar Avenue tran-sitway is expected to come from a mix of federal, state and local sources. Comments about the plan can be emailed to Dakota County officials at [email protected] through Aug. 28. Earlier this week, coun-ty officials held an open house at the Apple Valley

Transit Station aimed at providing the public with more information about the plan. A second open house is scheduled for 3-5 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 4, at Cedar Grove Transit Sta-tion, 4035 Nicols Road, Eagan. County staff will be on hand to answer questions.

Email Andrew Miller at [email protected].

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ta and Benitez have been working day and night to paint and decorate the rooms, gain approval from state and local agencies and set up the Spanish im-mersion curriculum. That’s a process that usually takes about six to nine months, according to Huerta. “The inspector was so impressed at how orga-nized we were,” Huerta said. That organization is likely attributed to the fact that Huerta and Benitez, who are both native Span-ish speakers, have nearly 20 years of experience in working at child care cen-ters. They said they have taken the best of what they have learned over the years and incorporated that into the school, which they said will be the first school of its kind in the area as teachers will de-liver reading, writing and math instruction only in Spanish. While the idea of teach-ing a child Spanish at such an early age may seem counterintuitive to adults who only speak English, the teachers said this is the time to introduce a second language. “They are like spong-es,” Huerta said. “Any-thing you teach them they learn very quickly. They don’t have any problems.” “It is fun for them,” Benitez said. Un Mundo Nuevo is licensed for eight toddler students and nine pre-school age students in the two classrooms that fea-ture bright colors on the walls and lots of decora-tions that convey Span-ish vocabulary words on calendars, to-do lists and much more. The instruction will be

delivered in a very visual and active way. They said signs, songs, dance and other activities help chil-dren learn the language faster. Huerta also said the curriculum will include yoga and Zumba – aero-bics using Latin dance mu-sic. “This is the natural way to learn a second lan-guage,” Huerta said. “Ev-ery day will be a party.” “We are not like other teachers,” Benitez said. “We are more like one of the kids.” The school will have three variety shows dur-ing the year when students will put their musical, dance and other talents on display. “Spanish for kids is so important,” Huerta said. “When they have two lan-guages this early, it is so fast for them to get a third language. It opens their minds that there is not just one way to do it.” The school will follow a curriculum that follows the regular public school calendar in surrounding districts. The preschool welcomes children from all of the surrounding dis-tricts. In the summer, the academy will have a 12-week program that will be more like a summer camp. It will be open 6:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday. The open house is Fri-day, July 31, at 6 p.m. when children and their families are invited to see the classrooms and par-ticipate in activities. The church is located at 16880 Cedar Ave. S. For more information, call Huerta at 507-369-4699 or Benitez at 612-999-5276.

Email Tad Johnson at [email protected].

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The All-American Lumberjack Show returns to the Dakota County Fair this year in Farmington. (File photo)

Dakota County 4-H participants will compete in a wide range of judged events at the Dakota County Fair. (File photo)

manship judging.

Special days The special admission days include Aug. 11, when day care centers can buy tickets for $1 in ad-vance, $2 at the gate; Aug. 13, when military person-nel and their family get in free and enjoy free parking with identification; and Aug. 13, when adults ages

60 and older receive free parking and admission. More about the fair is at www.DakotaCounty-Fair.org, inside this edi-tion with a special section devoted to the fair and online at SunThisweek.com/tag/Dakota-County-Fair-2015.

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theater and arts calendar

family calendarTo submit items for the Family Calendar, email:

[email protected].

Tuesday, Aug. 4 Family Fun Tuesday – Ter-rell Woods a.k.a. Carnage: Beat Boxing, 10-11 a.m. in the Sculpture Garden at Caponi Art Park, Eagan. $4 per person do-nation suggested. Information: 651-454-9412 or www.capon-iartpark.org.

Wednesday, Aug. 5 Eagan Market Fest, 4-8 p.m., Eagan Festival Grounds at Central Park, 1501 Central Parkway. Farmers market, en-tertainment by Benson Family Singers, 4-5:30 p.m., and Riv-erside Swing Band, 6-8 p.m. Information: www.cityofeagan.com/marketfest or 651-675-5500.

Thursday, Aug. 6 Free Yoga on the Beach to celebrate National Wig-gle Your Toes Day, 8-9 a.m., Schulze Lake Beach, 860 Cliff Road, Eagan. Hatha yoga class by Susan at YogaSoul. Thursday Rockin’ Read-ers, 11:15 a.m. at Nicollet Commons Park, 12600 Nicollet Ave., Burnsville. Barbara Borer, Rahn Elementary principal, and Kristine Black, Gideon Pond Elementary principal, will read books to children. Books are geared toward elementary and

preschool children. Spin Zone Jugglers will perform at noon for the Thurs-day Rockin’ Lunch Hour con-cert at Nicollet Commons Park, 12600 Nicollet Ave., Burnsville. Free. Divorce clinic, 1-4 p.m., Galaxie Library, 14955 Galaxie Ave., Apple Valley. Get help with divorce paperwork using Minnesota I-Can. Presented by the Dakota County Law Library, Legal Assistance of Dakota County, the Minnesota Justice Foundation, and volunteer at-torneys and law students. Free. Registration required. Call 952-431-3200.

Friday, Aug. 7 Relay For Life of Burns-ville begins at 6 p.m., Burns-ville High School, 600 Highway 13 E., Burnsville. Information: www.relayforlife.org/burnsvil-lemn. Relay For Life of Rose-mount begins at 6 p.m., Da-kota County Technical College, 1300 145th St. E., Rosemount. Information: www.relayforlife.org/rosemountmn. Outdoor movie, “Finding Nemo,” rated G, 7:30 p.m. seating, dusk showtime, part of Burnsville’s “Flicks on the Bricks” series at Nicollet Com-mons Park in the Heart of the City.

Saturday, Aug. 8

Free Family Fun Day, 11 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Rose-mount American Legion Post 65, 14590 Burma Ave., Rose-mount. Car-bike show and concert with the 34th ID Band. Information: 651-423-3380.

Sunday, Aug. 9 Environmental Awareness Event Picnic, 2-6 p.m., city of Savage Environmental Learn-ing Center, 13500 Dakota Ave. S., Savage (handicap acces-sible). Staff from environmen-tal groups will be available to talk with attendees about how to engage in various environ-mental efforts. Food, games and prizes. Open to the public, sponsored by the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party.

Ongoing Emotions Anonymous meetings, 7:30-9 p.m. Tues-days at SouthCross Commu-nity Church, 1800 E. County Road 42 (at Summit Oak Drive), Apple Valley. EA is a 12-step program for those seeking emotional health. All are wel-come. Information: http://www.emotionsanonymous.org/.

Reunions Burnsville High School Class of 1985 30th reunion, Saturday, Aug. 15, at Buck Hill’s Whittier Room. Additional events on Friday, Aug. 14, and Saturday morning golf. Infor-

mation: www.Braves85.com, [email protected] or 952-891-8377.

Blood drives The American Red Cross will hold the following blood drives. Call 1-800-RED CROSS (1-800-733-2767) or visit red-crossblood.org to make an ap-pointment or for more informa-tion. • Aug. 1, 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., Caribou Coffee, 3868 150th St., Rosemount. • Aug. 5, 1-7 p.m., Trinity Evangelical Free Church, 10658 210th St. W., Lakeville. • Aug. 5, 3-8 p.m., Eagan Community Center, 1501 Cen-tral Parkway, Eagan. • Aug. 6, 1-7 p.m., Mt. Oliv-et Assembly of God Church, 14201 Cedar Ave. S., Apple Valley. • Aug. 7, 12-6 p.m., Car-mike 15 Theatres, 15630 Cedar Ave., Apple Valley. • Aug. 7, 11:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., Easter Lutheran Church – By The Lake, 4545 Pilot Knob Road, Eagan. • Aug. 7, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Culver’s, 17800 Kenwood Trail, Lakeville. • Aug. 8, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Culver’s, 3445 O’Leary Lane, Eagan. • Aug. 8, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Wescott Library, 1340 Wescott Road, Eagan.

To submit items for the Arts Calendar, email: darcy.

[email protected].

Books SouthSide Writers, Sat-urday workgroup for aspiring writers, offering critique, sub-mission and manuscript prep-aration information, support and direction, 10 a.m. to noon, Wescott Library, 1340 Wescott Road, Eagan. Information: 651-688-0365.

Comedy Ben Gleib and Bret Ernst, 7 and 9:30 p.m. Thursday and Friday, Aug. 7-8, Mystic Lake, Prior Lake. Mature audiences only. Tickets: $19. Information: 952-445-9000 or mysticlake.com.

Dance Ragamala Dance Com-pany: “Sacred Earth,” with opening act Spanish flamenco music and dance with Michael Hauser, 6:30 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 9, as part of the Summer Per-formance Series at Caponi Art Park’s Theater in the Woods outdoor amphitheater in Eagan. Free, but a $5 per person dona-

tion is suggested. Information: www.caponiartpark.org.

Events/Festivals Dakota County Fair, Aug. 10-16, Dakota County Fair-grounds, 4008 W. 220th St., Farmington. Information: 651-463-8818 or www.dakotacoun-tyfair.org. Burnsville Fire Muster, Sept. 8-12. Information: www.burnsvillefiremuster.com. Ramble Jam, Sept. 11-12, Dakota County Fairgrounds, 4008 W. 220th St., Farmington. Information: www.ramblejam-country.com.

Exhibits “Cultural Perspectives: Worldly Treasures” runs July 9 to Aug. 9 at the art gallery at Ames Center, 12600 Nicollet Ave., Burnsville. Information: 952-895-4685. Gary Holthusan painting exhibit is on display through late September at Robert Trail Library, 14395 S. Robert Trail, Rosemount.

Music Jerry Jeff Walker with Albert and Gage, 7:30 p.m.

Friday, July 31, in the amphi-theater at the Minnesota Zoo as part of Subway Music in the Zoo. Tickets: $46, $58.50 VIP box seat. Information: http://suemclean.com/. Music in Kelley Park featuring New Sound Under-ground, 6-9 p.m. Friday, July 31, at Kelley Park, 6855 Fortino St., Apple Valley. Free. Food and beverages available for purchase. Information: http://avartsfoundation.org/. The Mancouche Jazz Hot Club (jazz), 7 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 2, as part of Sunday Night Music in the Park at Nicollet Commons Park, 12600 Nicollet Ave., Burnsville. Free. Remembering the King (an Elvis tribute featuring Steve Marcio), 7 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 5, as part of the Wednes-day in the Park Concert Series at Civic Center Park, 75 Civic Center Parkway, Burnsville. Free. Rain location: Diamond-head Education Center, 200 W. Burnsville Parkway. Keb’ Mo’, 7:30 p.m. Thurs-day, Aug. 6, in the amphitheater at the Minnesota Zoo as part of Subway Music in the Zoo. Tick-ets: $50, $62.50 VIP box seat.

Information: http://suemclean.com/. Music in Kelley Park fea-turing Steve Sullivan and The Factory, 6-9 p.m. Friday, Aug. 7, at Kelley Park, 6855 Fortino St., Apple Valley. Free. Food and beverages available for purchase. Information: http://avartsfoundation.org/. Pat Benatar & Neil Giraldo, 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 11, in the amphitheater at the Min-nesota Zoo as part of Subway Music in the Zoo. Tickets: $62, $74.50 VIP box seat. Informa-tion: http://suemclean.com/.

Theater “Beauty and the Beast,” presented by Eagan Com-munity Theater, 7 p.m. July 29-31, Aug. 1; 2 p.m. Aug. 1, Eagan High School. Tickets: $15 adults, $10 seniors and children under 12. Information: http://www.eaganhs.portal.rschooltoday.com/. “Barefoot in the Park,” presented by Expressions Community Theater, 7:30 p.m. July 31, Aug. 1, 6-8, and 2 p.m. Aug. 2 and 9, Lakeville Area Arts Center, 20965 Holyoke Ave., Lakeville. Tickets: $13 at

the box office or www.Lakevil-leAreaArtsCenter.com. Infor-mation: 952-985-4640. Uponor Shakespeare Un-der The Stars “Twelfth Night,” presented by Apple Valley Live! Theatre Company, 7 p.m. Aug. 1-2, 8-9, 14-16, 21-23 and 28-30 at Kelley Park, 6855 Fortino St., Apple Valley. Free.

Workshops/classes/other Pretty Princess Party for girls ages 3 to 6, 2-3:30 p.m. Wednesdays, July 22 through Aug. 19, at Footsteps Dance Studio in Burnsville. Singing, dancing, acting, tumbling and games taught by dance teacher and educator Karin Wilde-Ber-ry. The Pretty Princess Party allows little girls to celebrate being a princess in God’s king-dom. Cost is $25 per class ses-sion. Information: [email protected]. Teen Poetry Jam/Rap Bat-tle, 4-5 p.m. the first Tuesday of each month at Apple Valley Teen Center, 14255 Johnny Cake Ridge Road, Apple Valley, 952-953-2385. Ages 12-18. Drawing & Painting (adults and teens) with Christine Tier-ney, 9 a.m. to noon Wednes-

days, River Ridge Arts Building, Burnsville. Information: www.christinetierney.com, 612-210-3377. Brushworks School of Art Burnsville offers fine art education through drawing and painting. Classes for adults and teens. Information: Patricia Schwartz, www.BrushworksS-choolofArt.com, 651-214-4732. Soy candle making class-es held weekly in Eagan near 55 and Yankee Doodle. Call Ja-mie at 651-315-4849 for dates and times. $10 per person. Presented by Making Scents in Minnesota. Line dance classes Mon-days at Lakeville Heritage Cen-ter, 20110 Holyoke Ave., begin-ners 1-2 p.m., intermediate 2-4 p.m. Information: Marilyn, 651-463-7833. The Lakeville Area Arts Center offers arts classes for all ages, www.lakevillemn.gov, 952-985-4640. Rosemount History Book Club meets 6:30-8 p.m. the second Tuesday of each month at the Robert Trail Library. Infor-mation: John Loch, 952-255-8545 or [email protected].

Get ready to swing

The Riverside Swing Band (pictured) and the Benson Family Singers are the featured entertainment at Eagan Market Fest on Wednesday, Aug. 5. The Benson Family Singers take the stage at 4 p.m., followed by the Riverside Swing Band at 6 p.m. Eagan Market Fest is held each Wednesday during the summer and early fall from 4-8 p.m. at the city’s Central Park Festival Grounds next to the Eagan Community Center. This season’s schedule is at www.cityofeagan.com. (Photo submitted)

From the Archives

Readers were seeing triple when they opened the Jan. 12, 1981, edition of Thisweek News. This triple-exposure image of a woman identified in the paper only as “Shelly” was made by Robert Streed of Apple Valley and submitted to the newspaper as an entry in Thisweek’s reader photo contest.


Outdoor Shakespeare Apple Valley Live The-ater Company will present the Shakespeare comedy “Twelfth Night” Aug. 1-30 in Kelley Park, 6855 For-tino St., Apple Valley. The run of “Twelfth Night” in Kelley Park opens Saturday, Aug. 1, with a 7 p.m. show. Ad-mission is free to all the performances, which the Apple Valley Arts Foun-dation is presenting in partnership with Uponor North America. The full schedule is at www.avartsfoundation.org.

Master class at Ballet Royale Ballet Royale in Lake-ville is hosting an Ad-v a n c e d / P ro f e s s i o n a l Master Ballet Class with Bonnie Mathis from 12-1:30 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 9. Mathis is a former prin-cipal dancer with Ameri-can Ballet Theatre and Nederlands Dans Theatre. Following her performing career, she founded Ballet Arts Minnesota, where she was artistic director for 15 years. She was also on the faculty at the University of Minnesota and taught at American Ballet The-atre’s summer intensives. This summer she is guest teaching the Master class and Ballet Royale Minne-sota’s two-week intensive in August. The Master class costs

$35. Registration forms can be picked up at Bal-let Royale, 16368 Ken-rick Ave., Lakeville. Call 952-898-3163 to have the forms sent by mail. The two-week intensive Ballet & Jazz Repertory Workshop is by audition only. The workshop runs 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Aug. 10-14. Call Ballet Royale at 952-898-3163 to set up an audition or for more in-formation.

Riverwalk Market Fair Music by the Vintage Band Festival, fresh local produce and flowers, and arts and crafts will be fea-tured at Riverwalk Market Fair from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 1, in down-town Northfield’s Bridge Square. For more informa-tion, visit www.Riverwalk-MarketFair.org.

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theater and arts briefs

Carnage is for kids Beatboxing tutorial is Aug. 4 at Caponi

by Andrew MillerSUN THISWEEK


Using your mouth, and only your mouth, to simulate all the sounds of a drum kit is not ex-actly the easiest feat in music, but guests at Eagan’s Caponi Art Park next week will have a stage-tested mentor in Carnage. Hip-hop artist Carnage, aka Terrell Woods, will be demonstrat-ing the art of beatboxing Aug. 4 as part of the Eagan venue’s sum-merlong Family Fun Tuesdays se-ries. The event is interactive, with Carnage — whose beatboxing skills are billed as “the best drum-mer in town” — offering kids a tu-torial in beatboxing basics as well as the fundamentals of rhyme and rap-writing structure. Carnage first gravitated to hip-hop music as a kid after hearing Run DMC in 1982 and started beatboxing at age 9 with inspira-tion from rap trio The Fat Boys, according to his bio at carnag-etheexecutioner.com. He wrote his first rhyme in 1987 under the name T-Swift and has since built a career as both an announcer and a beatboxer. Among his performance cred-its, Carnage has shared a stage with hip-hop greats KRS-One, Method Man and Too Short. The beatboxing tutorial at Ca-poni starts at 10 a.m. and admis-sion is free with a $4 per person suggested donation. Other upcoming events in the Family Fun Tuesdays series in-clude “Around the World with Stories” featuring storyteller Kevin Srauss (Aug. 11), Raga-mala Dance Company (Aug. 18), and “Fool’s Medicine Show” — a whimsical, 19th century-style medicine show — presented by Theater of Fools (Aug. 25). Caponi Art Park is also offer-ing entertainment geared to adults and families through its Summer Performance series, held on Sun-day evenings in Caponi’s Theater in the Woods outdoor amphithe-ater. Remaining events in the Sum-mer Performance Series include

Ragamala Dance Company (Aug. 9) and BareBones puppet theater (Aug. 23). Guests at the Summer Perfor-mance Series are encouraged to bring lawn chairs or blankets to spread on the outdoor amphithe-ater’s grassy slopes. Admission is free with a $5 per person suggest-

ed donation. The full schedules for both summer series are at www.capon-iartpark.org.

Email Andrew Miller at [email protected].

Hip-hop artist Carnage will be demonstrating the basics of beatboxing Aug. 4 at Caponi Art Park as part of the Eagan venue’s summerlong Family Fun Tuesdays series. (Submitted photo by Joshua Schave)

Going ‘Barefoot’

Expressions Community Theater actor Richard Daly rehearses a scene from “Barefoot in the Park,” a Neil Simon stage comedy being presented at the Lakeville Area Arts Center at 7:30 p.m. July 31, Aug. 1, 6-8, and 2 p.m. Aug. 2 and 9. Tickets are $13 and are available online at www.LakevilleAreaArtsCenter.com, or at the arts center located at 20965 Holyoke Ave. (Photo submitted)

The Minnesota Zoo is partnering with Fair State Brewing Cooperative to create a limited edition brew featuring prairie grasses to help save en-dangered butterflies like the Dakota skipper. When people order a Dakota Skipper Endangered Re-serve from a restaurant listed at www.mnzoo.org/ButterflyBrew, a portion goes to supporting the zoo’s efforts to save pol-linators through the Prai-rie Butterfly Conserva-tion Program. This brew is available for only two weeks – from July 25 to Aug. 7 – the adult lifespan of the skipper. The final pours will be featured at the zoo’s “Brew at the Zoo” beer

tasting event at 7 p.m. Sat-urday, Aug. 7. The Dakota skipper species has vanished from more than 75 percent of its former range. The Minnesota Zoo’s Prairie Butterfly Conservation Program scientists work with many partners to save Minnesota’s endan-gered prairie butterflies, studying reasons for their decline in the wild and breeding them at the Min-nesota Zoo to create an “insurance population” to prevent their extinction. To learn more about the Dakota Skipper En-dangered Reserve or to register for Brew at the Zoo, visit www.mnzoo.org/ButterflyBrew.

Butterfly brew at the zoo to raise money for project

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