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THISWEEK NEWSPAPERS

Last year, the economy resembled a long

Minnesota winter – cold and gloomy.

Things aren’t too different this year.

But the economy is a funny thing, just

like March in Minnesota.

Maybe it’s spring fever, or maybe it’s

cabin fever, but the combination leads busi-

nesses hit hard by the economy and people

hit hard by the winter to the

same place each year: the

Lakeville Area Chamber of

Commerce’s Landscape and

Home/Consumer Showcase

Expo, presented by Terra

Garden Center.

This year’s expo, the sev-

enth annual, will be held

from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Sat-

urday, March 20, at Lakeville

North High School and will

feature more than 120 ven-

dors and businesses.

Admission and parking

are free to the public.

The expo is about more

than just home remodeling,

spring and gardens, accord-

ing to Todd Bornhauser, executive director

of the Lakeville Area Chamber of Com-

merce.

“The expo is geared toward consumers so

it’s a great way for chamber members to

mar-

ket themselves to the public. It’s just another

avenue to reach out,” Bornhauser said.

That’s why you can find dentists,

chiro-

practors and other businesses’ booths at the

event.

In addition to booths, there will b

e five

free seminars on topics ranging from home

remodeling to chiropractic medicine.

“We try to offer a little bit of everything,”

Bornhauser said. For Terra Garden Center

owner Dan Silver, the expo

is a great way to reach out to

the public.

“We feel proud about it –

we feel connected to the com-

munity,” Silver said. “But

reaching so many people in

a single venue, that’s exciting,

too.”

Silver said Terra, in addi-

tion to sponsoring the event,

will be operating two booths

and sponsoring one of the

seminars.

“Our internal theme this

year is color. People respond

to color – bright colors and

exciting colors – and that ap-

plies to our plants and hard goods, too,” Sil-

ver said.

While peddling color, Silver said Terra

will also have drawings for gift cards, of-

fering pre-planted pots with spring flowers,

showcasing the center’s new birding zone,

and presenting all the new things ready for

this growing season.

“We’re going to put our best foot forward

and most importantly setting in people’s

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by Derrick Williams

THISWEEK NEWSPAPERS

Two weeks ago, Repub-

licans in Senate District 36

held their endorsing con-

vention.

On March 6, it was the

Democrats’ turn.

Colin Lee, who will run

against Rep. Mary Liz Hol-

berg (R-Lakeville) for the

36A House seat, and Sig-

rid Iversen, who will run

against Rep. Patrick Ga-

rofalo (R-Farmington) for

the 36B House seat, both

received unanimous votes

from delegates at the DFL’s

endorsing convention at

Farmington High School.

According to Clinton

Kennedy, DFL District

36 secretary and nomina-

tions committee chair, the

group sought candidates

who project the DFL’s fo-

cus on addressing today’s

problems with the economy,

education, and health care

in ways that maximize the

strength of families and

rights of individuals.

“(Lee) and (Iversen) are

tuned into the dinner-table

issues facing families in the

36th District,” said Ken-

nedy.

Republicans in Senate

District 36 made news ear-

lier this month when they

turned to attorney and for-

mer conservative radio talk

show host Dave Thomp-

son to run with the party’s

endorsement for Sen. Pat

Pariseau’s seat. Pariseau,

R-Farmington, had an-

nounced she was retiring

from the Legislature.

Democrats won’t

en-

dorse a candidate to run

against Thompson until

they hold their next central

committee meeting, which

hasn’t been scheduled.

Toby Nichols, chairman

of District 36 for the DFL,

called the convention en-

thusiastic and focused.

“We had quite a few

brand new and very energet-

ic delegates,” Nichols said.

“This year’s crop of senate

district delegates can best be

described as ‘engaged.’ ”

Lee ran as a Green Party

candidate in 2008 for Hol-

berg’s 36A seat.

His focus then was on

health care, and this year’s

campaign will be no differ-

ent, he said.

“Health care costs (are)

almost half of our total

state budget,” Lee said.

“Skyrocketing health care

costs are the primary cause

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by Derrick Williams

THISWEEK NEWSPAPERS

Most people associate a police

officer’s role in fighting crime as

the most dangerous part of the

job. “Felonious assaults,” as Lakev-

ille’s Police Chief Thomas Vonhof

called them. One imagines inci-

dents with guns or knife-wielding

henchmen.

But in reality, there’s something

just as dangerous that officers do

far more routinely: working in the

roadway.

From traffic stops to crash re-

sponses, every day Lakeville’s po-

lice officers don a bright reflective

vest and turn on their car’s warn-

ing lights as they step out into the

roadway, and sometimes into traf-

fic, hoping drivers notice them.

Unfortunately for officer Mi-

LAKEVILLE

by Kara Hildreth

THISWEEK NEWSPAPERS

Three Farmington firefight-

ers sustained minor burns while

extinguishing a fire started after

a motorcycle was left running in-

side a residential garage on Friday,

March 5.

One firefighter was treated at

the scene for minor burns on his

forehead. Another firefighter was

transported to Fairview Ridges

Hospital in Burnsville where he

was treated and released for minor

burns on his right hand and arm.

Another firefighter discovered mi-

nor burns after the fire.

“He was wearing all the pro-

tective equipment and everything

was in place, but he still suffered

thermal burns,” said John Powers,

Farmington fire marshal.

Firefighting gear is designed to

withstand temperatures up to 500

degrees.

The origin of the garage fire is

believed to be a mechanical mal-

function with the motorcycle, Pow-

ers said. The house is o

n the 5900

block of 200th Street off Pilot

Knob Road.

“It kind of caught everyone off

guard and we are so thankful no

one was seriously hurt,” said Tim

Pietsch, Farmington fire chief.

“Those guys did a heck of a job to

get the fire knocked out.”

The resident left his motorcycle

running inside the three-car garage

and was busy working in the yard

when a neighbor across the street

made the fire call at about 3:45 p.m.

Within two minutes, 31 Farm-

ington volunteer firefighters were

on the scene and 10 Lakeville fire-

fighters arrived as mutual aid with

two fire engines.

The fire was under control by

4:30 p.m. after flames were shoot-

ing 30 feet high because air was be-

ing circulated from the open front

garage door, Powers said.

Damage was estimated at

$200,000 and that includes the ga-

rage, the motorcycle and two vehi-

cles with one in the garage and one

pickup truck parked in the drive-

way. The two-story house sustained

smoke and water damage.

Officers from the Farmington

Police Department and Dakota

County Sheriff ’s Office rescued the

family’s dog.

Kara Hildreth is at farmington.

thisweek@ecm-inc.com.

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Three Farmington firefighters sustained minor burns at the scene of a fire Friday, March 5, after a motorcycle left

running inside the garage caught fire at a home in the 5900 block of 200th Street in Farmington.

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March 20 home expo at Lakeville North High School

Photo by Derrick Williams

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dentists, the Lakeville chamber’s Landscape

and Home/Consumer Showcase Expo

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by Larry WernerTRIBUNE EDITOR

“Hi, Larry,” he’d say, reaching across the

counter for a hearty handshake. “How’s Ann?”

That kind of greeting at the pharmacy

counter of Erickson Drugs helped make my

move from north of the river to Lakeville a

little easier back in the spring of 1999.

It came from Jerry Erickson who, like me,

had moved to the community from Edina and,

like me, wondered whether he would be ac-

cepted by the locals. Erickson had come almost 40 years earlier

to a Lakeville that was very different: a square-

mile village with 1,000 residents, compared

with a city of more than 50,000 in 38 square

miles today. The city grew, but in the his-

toric downtown, where Erickson Drugswas opened by Jerry and

his wife, Martha, in Au-gust of 1963, the small-town atmosphere lives on. It lives on in large part

because Erickson and other

downtown business owners

worked hard to keep things

small and friendly. Jerry and Martha, college

sweethearts at the University

of Minnesota, chased Jerry’s

dream to own a pharmacy from

his job as a pharmacist in south

Minneapolis to a village neither

knew before they were offered a

spot on main street for their own store. Over

the years, Jerry and Martha have not only been

accepted in Lakeville but have made significant

contributions to their adopted city’s commer-

cial and civic life. In addition to operating a successful drug

store, Jerry started the Ben Franklin, which his

son, Scott, still operates two doors south of the

drug store. And Jerry was a founder of such

civic institutions as the chamber of commerce,

youth baseball and the annual summer festival

he named the Panorama of Progress, or Pan-

O-Prog, for short. These are days for reflecting on the accom-

plishments of Jerry and Martha, who were

named businesspersons of the year in 2000,

the year they sold the drug store, which still

carries the Erickson name. Jerry, 81, is home

bound with emphysema and COPD. Tethered

to an oxygen hose, he spends his days at the

kitchen table of the house he and Martha built

on Lake Marion in 1991. They watch TV and the squirrels and birds

welcoming another spring. They reminisce

about their time in a community that has given

them much – to which they

have given much back.

“It’s been a won-derful place to raise a fami-ly,” Martha said as we pored

over newspaper clippings

and photos that document

the Jerry Erickson era in

Lakeville. They came to

Lakeville because, Jerry

said, “I was bound and de-termined I would have my

own drug store.” He was

working as a pharmacist at

50th and Xerxes in south

Minneapolis when Wal-green’s offered him a fran-

Jerry Erickson built business, community in Lakeville

A good life as a villagedruggist

Tribune ColumnistLarry Werner

Photo by Larry Werner

Jerry and his wife, Martha, opened Erickson Drugs in downtown Lakeville in

August of 1963. They spend time now reminiscing about their years in business.

Photo by Derrick Williams

The two Lakeville mainstays that Jerry Erickson

founded, Erickson Drugs and Ben Franklin, stand two doors apart on

the main street of Holyoke Avenue.

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