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CITY OF VICTORIANOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

TO REVIEW AND POSSIBLY ADOPT AN ORDINANCE

RELATING TO CHAPTER 16, ARTICLE II: CURFEW OF THE

VICTORIA CITY CODEMonday, January 9, 2012

6:30 p.m.NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN,

that the City of Victoria City Coun-cil will hold a public hearing on Monday, January 9, 2012 at 6:30 p.m. or as soon thereafter as possible, in the Council Chambers at 7951 Rose Street.

The purpose of the public hear-ing is to review and possibly adopt an ordinance relating Chapter 16.

All those interested are en-couraged to attend or contact City Hall at (952) 443-4210 for further information.DATED: December 13, 2011

BY ORDER OF THE VICTORIACITY CLERK

Jennifer Kretsch, City Clerk(Published in the ChanhassenVillager on Thursday, December 29,2011 and January 5, 2012; No. 4582)

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nia and became active doing plays in San Diego, but it wasn’t long before she made her way into the movies. She was un-der contract at Paramount by age 22.

And while Ross kept busy with small roles in movies like “Sabrina,” “Teacher’s Pet” and “Operation Petticoat,” she didn’t hit it big until she hit was in her 40s.

It was in 1972 when Ross, then a divorced, mother of two, did an episode of the television anthology “Love, American Style.” Created by Gary Mar-shall and featuring a group of teenagers growing up in the 1950s, it was called “Happy Days. The show aired around the same time as “American Graffi ti.”

“Suddenly, the [1950s] were hot,” Ross explained. Talk of making “Happy Days” into a series got louder.

“They gave us each $1,000,” Ross recalled. “They said it was to ‘put a hold on you.’”

Ross squirreled the money away. “I was thrifty,” she said. “You have to be when you have income and then don’t have income.”

“Happy Days,” with Ross as Marion Cunningham, de-buted Jan. 15, 1974. It ran for 11 seasons and most notably launched the careers of Ron Howard (who played Richie Cunningham) and Henry Win-kler (who played “The Fonz”).

Ross remembers that there wasn’t much to the Mrs. Cun-ningham character when the show began.

“It was very minimal,” she said. “Everything was ‘Oh Howard!’ and ‘Oh Richie!’ but I didn’t care. Everyone wants to be in a series.”

Ross was “tremendously determined” to make the most

of Mrs. C. (as her character was affectionately referred to). Over time, she evolved to become one of the most beloved moms in television history. Ross was twice nominated for an Emmy playing the role.

“I loved being Marion Cun-ningham,” she said.

“I like the fact that [“Happy Days”] is such an icon and that we’re all icons,” Ross continued. “People are nice to me because of it. I like that a lot.”

MOVING ON

When “Happy Days” ended its run in 1984, Ross made appearances on a variety of shows, often as a character not so far removed from Mrs. C.

“You get locked into that,” she said. “People think that’s all you can do, but I’m not just a sweet woman from the Midwest.”

Ross proved as much in 1991 when she landed the role of the Jewish grandmother on the short-lived, but critically-ac-claimed, “Brooklyn Bridge.”

“Henry [Winkler] always takes credit for getting me that role,” she laughed.

Perhaps leaning on the vo-cal training of her youth, Ross gladly accepted the challenge of perfecting a Polish accent to play the part of Sophie Berger.

“I really love a lot of acting,” she said.

“If you put a script in my hand, I will fi gure out how to do it.”

The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences recognized her efforts, nominating her twice more for an Emmy for her work on “Brooklyn Bridge.”

LEGACY

Now in her 80s, Ross has amassed an enviably long resume of movie and TV roles (including parts on “Grey’s Anatomy,” “Brothers and Sis-

ters,” “The Drew Carey Show,” “Touched By an Angel,” and “Gilmore Girls”).

She continues to take small parts as they come along and has found a whole new genera-tion of fans, voicing Grandma Square Pants on Nickelodeon’s popular cartoon “SpongeBob SquarePants.”

For her 60 -plus years of work, Ross has been recog-nized time and time again. In 2001, she received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Meanwhile, back in her home state of Minnesota, Ross not only has a day named after her (June 7), but also a performing arts center (in Albert Lea).

Ross has made her mark on television history and has passed on her love of acting to her two children (from her 18-year marriage to Freeman Meskimen, Jr.) . Both Jim Meskimen and Ellen Plummer have made careers for them-selves in Hollywood – careers Ross gladly plugs, as much the proud momma in real life as she was on “Happy Days.”

Ross is currently taking a break from acting herself as she mourns the loss of her longtime companion and fel-low actor Paul Michael who passed away in July.

“My Paul…” she said, her voice catching slightly. “The wind is knocked out of me.”

The break won’t last forever, though. Next May, Ross will re-turn to a live audience setting as she heads to Toronto to star in the stage version of “Lost in Yonkers.” She’s excited to fl ex her acting chops again, this time trying on a New York accent.

Ross, who resides just out-side of Los Angeles at what she calls the “Happy Days Farm,” has no plans to hang up her acting hat any time soon.

“I’m not happy if I’m not being very creative, making something happen,” she said.

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Julianne Ortman

POLITICS

Ortman named to Senate leadership postBY RICHARD CRAWFORD

editor@chanvillager.com

Chanhassen state Sen. Juli-anne Ortman has a new role as legislators prepare to head into session later this month.

On Jan. 3 Ortman was named deputy majority leader by new Republican Caucus Majority Leader David Senjem.

As deputy majority leader, Ortman will assist Senjem in leading the Senate Republican caucus with issues ranging from staff personnel to setting the agenda for the Senate.

“I am honored to have been appointed to serve our caucus in this capacity as deputy ma-jority leader,” Ortman said in a prepared release. “I am one of 36 members who will work

closely with Senate Major-ity Leader to focus our en-ergy on the im-portant issues facing Minne-sota. Control-ling runaway s p e n d i n g , p r o m o t i n g gover n ment reforms and improving our economic cli-mate will remain our priori-ties.”

T he Senate Republica n Caucus leadership team also consists members, who were elected by the caucus last week: Sen. Roger Chamberlain (R-Lino Lakes), Sen. Paul Gazelka (R-Brainerd), Sen. Ted Lillie

(R-Lake Elmo), and Sen. Claire Robling (R-Jordan).

On Tuesday, Ortman said the new leadership team will help provide a “fresh start” for Republicans. Former Senate Majority Leader Amy Koch resigned the position after it became public that she had an inappropriate relationship with a Senate staff member.

“Yes the Senate is starting a new chapter,” said Ortman. “Obviously we hope to build a better economic climate but we also plan to restore public confi dence.”

Ortman, who was elected along with Senjem, of Roches-ter, in 2002, said she plans to continue her role as the chair of the Senate Tax Committee.

She said in addition to her

new role helping to lead the caucus, Ortman said high pri-orities for her in the coming session include eliminating a statewide business property tax and implementing tort re-forms to simplify the court sys-tem and eliminate incentives to litigate. She said she also favors limiting state spend-ing to 98 percent of projected revenues.

NEWS BRIEFS

Ische to leadCounty Board

The Carver County Board selected Jim Ische, of Nor-wood Young America, to serve as board chairman for 2012. The board conducted its fi rst meeting of the year Jan. 3 and took care of a variety of organizational duties.

Commissioner Gayle De-gler, of Chanhassen, will serve as vice chair.

The commissioners rou-

tinely rotate leadership du-ties.

During the meeting the County Board also selected the Chaska Herald to serve as the county’s offi cial news-paper for 2012.

— Richard Crawford

Kline hitsall 948 votes

Minnesota Congressman John Kline was one of just 12 members of the 435-person

U.S. House of Representatives who did not miss a vote in 2011, casting all 948 recorded votes in Congress.

This marks the fourth year Kline posted a perfect voting record, according to a Kline office press release. (Kline demonstrated perfect voting records in 2004, 2005, and 2006).

In his fi fth term, Kline is the chairman of the House Educa-tion and the Workforce Com-mittee. He also serves on the House Armed Services Com-

“Obviously we hope to build a better economic climate but we also plan to restore public confi dence.”

mittee. He represents Minne-sota’s Second District, which includes Carver County.

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