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Marschall, who recently served on the agency’s board of directors, will over- see programming such as Head Start, heating assistance and weatherization from the agency’s Hastings office. The agency, which relies on government and private funding, of- fers 26 programs and services for the three counties. The program manager position was MORE ONLINE TO REACH US Marschall to page 12 ® School staff to page 12 ® Students raise money for wounded soldiers SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2011 INSIDETRANSCRIPT
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Kindergarten students gathered on the ground Tuesday afternoon at Grainwood Elementary School for a mini-Thanksgiving feast. Earlier in the day the students designed placemats, made butter and decorated hats to wear during the meal – which included corn, turkey, cranberries and pumpkin pie – in the spirit of the fi rst Thanksgiving between Native Americans and Pilgrims. Prior Lake-Savage Area School District students did not have classes Wednesday through Friday of this week in recognition of the holiday.
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Council debates repealing fi re sprinkler code
Staff added to lower class sizes
County commissioner hired by CAP Agency
“I understand there are considerable costs involved when installing these systems, but sprinklers have proven their value. They reduce the potential for loss of life or injury.”
Doug HartmanFire chief
BY LORI CARLSON
Prior Lake’s fi re chief is hoping City Council members will tip the bal-ance between fi re codes and economic development in favor of safety.
On Monday, council members considered repealing Subdivision 2
of state Chapter 1306, an option for cities to require sprinkler systems in new commercial buildings or existing businesses that expand. Adoption of Chapter 1306, which the council approved in the 1990s, makes the sprinkler systems part of the state building code in a city.
The review of the code came
about as a result of River Valley Veterinary Services’ proposal to expand its business. In October, council members approved tax-increment fi nancing to help the vet clinic double its current 7,500-square-foot bui ldi ng of f Highway 13 .
Positions added to elementary, middle and high schoolsBY MERYN FLUKER
Breathing room is on the way for some students in the Prior Lake-Savage Area School District.
The District 719 School Board has approved staff additions at the elementary, middle and high schools to alle-vi ate crowde d classes.
A c c o r d i n g to the numbers reported to the state in October, District 719 add-ed 138 students this year – with enrollment leaps comi ng at t he m i d d l e a n d h i g h s c h o o l s . Those gains, combined with the first year of the district’s six-period secondary schedule, led to some classrooms resembling sardine cans.
“In the transition to the six-period day and those higher class sizes, we really did need to look this year, starting [with] quarter two, and then subsequently to three and four, about what we could do to address some of those very high class sizes,” said Jeff Holmberg, director of curriculum, instruction and assessment. “On the surface, the averages looked rather OK in some cases. But when you really dug deeper into the numbers, we have some classes that are very high.”
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Marschall recently served as the agency board’s chairwomanBY SHANNON FIECKE
Scott County Commissioner Bar-bara Marschall of Prior Lake has accepted the position of vice president of programs for the CAP Agency, a nonprofi t partnership of Scott, Da-kota and Carver counties.
Marschall, who recently served on the agency’s board of directors, will over-see programming such as Head Start, heating assistance and weatherization from the agency’s Hastings offi ce. The agency, which relies on government and private funding, of-fers 26 programs and services for the three counties.
The program manager position was
established as part of restructuring that CAP Agency President Caro-lina Bradpiece undertook after being hired in 2010.
“We are so excited to have her,” Bradpiece said of Marschall. “The CAP Agency is evolving into a strong nonprofi t with all of its core compe-tencies developed. We’re involved in a very outcomes-based society. She will put into use her good manage-ment skills and create processes and systems that effectively implement the programs.”
Marschall competed with three other finalists for the job and was
selected by a panel of nonprofi t pro-fessionals who came from outside the local agency. The panel didn’t include any CAP Agency board members or staff.
A county commissioner since 1997, Marschall said she served as the county’s representative to the CAP Agency board at the beginning of her tenure and rejoined earlier this year when a county employee resigned from his spot. County Commissioner Dave Menden of Shakopee is the other representative.
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Fire sprinklers to page 12 �
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At left – Joanne Hall (right) of Blue Star Moms of Minnesota’s south metro chapter talks with Jeanne Wolf of Savage about options for military families during the fi rst-ever military symposium Saturday at Twin Oaks Middle School in Prior Lake. Wolf ’s son, Matt, is in Army basic training at Fort Benning, Ga. The Scott County chapter of Beyond the Yellow Ribbon presented the public event to give soldiers and their families the resources they need while deployed and when they come back home. Speakers included area war veterans as well as U.S. Rep. John Kline (R-Lakeville), state Sen. Claire Robling (R-Jordan) and state Rep. Mike Beard (R-Shakopee). Beyond the Yellow Ribbon organizers plan to make the symposium an annual event.
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Jaimie Bahl (left) and Liz Speiker talk during the symposium. Speiker is a Beyond the Yellow Ribbon volunteer from Prior Lake. Bahl is the junior vice commander of the VFW’s seventh district and women veterans chairperson with the state VFW.U.S. Rep. John Kline (R-Lakeville) delivers a speech during the symposium. Kline serves
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Last week started cold with the fi rst reading of the season in the teens. Tem-p e r a t u r e s w a r m e d up b r ie f ly, turned cold brief ly and ended up very mild.
These os-cillations bal-anced out, leaving the week cooler than average by less than 1 degree. Of course, the major weather event was the fi rst measurable precipita-tion of the month and the fi rst accumulating snowfall of the season on Nov. 19. this was not a major storm, but the first snowstorm of the season always leads to hundreds of accidents in the metro, and this snowfall was no exception, with more
than 400 crashes.Several seasonal land-
marks were reached last week, including the fi rst reading in the teens on Nov. 17, which was about a week later than aver-age. Of course, we had the fi rst measurable snowfall and fi rst fall of at least 1 inch of snow. The former of these was about two weeks later than average, while the latter was one week behind the mean. Finally, we had our fi rst day with no read-ings above freezing on Nov. 20, which was also a week later than average.
The outlook is for a very warm Thanksgiving Day with highs in the 50s. It should then cool off somewhat by the weekend, when there’s a chance of rain, which could turn to snow before ending. Travel problems should be minimal at worst. Then it looks like it will be dry and mild next week, with no cold weather in sight as we move into December.
By Jonathan Cohen, Prior Lake observer for the Scott County Soil and Water Conser-vation District
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Melted Snow- Snow on Dew pt. 4” soilDate precip. fall ground High Low midnight tempNov. 17 0 0 0 33 13 13 41Nov. 18 0 0 0 48 33 27 45Nov. 19 .25 3.2 3 35 21 17 43Nov. 20 0 0 2 26 15 15 42Nov. 21 0 0 2 37 18 29 44Nov. 22 0 0 1 36 32 32 45
Grateful for a warm Turkey Day
Sweat lodge leadergets two years in prison
“We just hope that family and friends of those still loyal to Mr. Ray will intervene before they, too, fall victim to his arrogance and greed.”
Andrea PuckettDaughter of Liz Neuman
‘Mixed emotions’ for family of Liz NeumanBY LORI CARLSON
The man held responsible by a Nevada jury for the deaths of three people – including a Prior Lake woman – will serve two years in prison for negligent homicide.
James Arthur Ray received three two-year prison terms that Yavapai County Superior Court Judge Warren Darrow ordered to be served concur-rently, meaning he will serve a total of two years in prison. He was immediately taken into custody after the sentencing on Nov. 18 in Camp Verde, Ariz.
Ray also was ordered to pay $57,000 in restitution.
The self-help author led a sweat lodge ceremony on Oct. 8, 2009 during his “Spiritual War-rior” retreat in Sedona, Ariz. Three people died as a result of the ceremony, and 18 others were hospitalized with vary-ing medical conditions when medics arrived at the scene. He was convicted in June on three counts of negligent homicide.
The dead included Liz Neu-man, 49, of Prior Lake, and two other people – James Shore, 40, of Milwaukee, Wis. and Kirby Brown, 38, of New York. Neu-man died Oct. 17, nine days
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after the sweat lodge ceremony, of multiple organ failure.
Throughout Ray’s lengthy trial, family and friends of the deceased expressed disap-pointment that Ray didn’t take responsibility for the deaths. Participants in Ray’s seminars paid as much as $10,000 to at-tend his events, in which he encouraged people to push be-yond their physical and mental limitations.
Ray told participants they would feel like they would die, but he urged them to stay in the lodge, witnesses testifi ed. Prosecutors said he should have stopped the sweat lodge ceremony when several people became ill and at least one participant had to be dragged out of the tent.
Ray’s attorneys maintained that the three deaths were an accident.
Andrea Puckett, Liz Neu-man’s daughter, said she still believes Ray is “a dangerous man whose desire for money and power cloud his judgment
and result in harm to others.”Puckett said her family is
pleased Ray will serve time in prison, but disappointed that the judge allowed Ray’s prison terms to be served concur-rently.
“Overall, my family has very mixed emotions about James Ray’s sentence,” Puckett said. “It is very frustrating as a victim to see how many rights a convicted criminal has and how few we had throughout the process.”
But Puckett, of Bloomington, said the family has found some relief knowing that Ray won’t be able to continue his busi-ness ventures until he’s out of prison.
“We just hope that family and friends of those still loyal to Mr. Ray will intervene before they, too, fall victim to his arro-gance and greed,” she said.
CITY COUNCIL NEWS
Crest Avenue trail becomes permanent
During winter, snowmobilers now will have permanent access to a trail on the west side of Crest Avenue (south of County Road 42, near Sand Point Beach).
Prior Lake City Council members on Monday approved the permanent trail location after a one-year trial period.
City Engineer Larry Poppler said sheriff’s deputies, police, parks department crews and Department of Natural Resources staff all felt having the trail along Crest Avenue last
season went well.“There was no damage to sidewalks last year
with that route,” Poppler said.Poppler also presented a report from the city’s
Snowmobile Task Force on last season’s activ-ity. No snowmobiles fell through the ice and no fatalities were reported in Prior Lake last winter. Countywide, there was one fatality on the county’s southern border, as well as fi ve non-fatal crashes, 14 illegal-operation citations, two alcohol-related arrests and 84 safety-related warnings.
The sheriff’s department and the DNR en-force snowmobiling laws on the 200 miles of trails in Scott County.
Lori Carlson
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT MEETINGS
Members of the Prior Lake Economic Development Au-thority have the following meetings planned:
Regular meeting4 p.m. Monday, Nov. 28 at
City Hall, 4646 Dakota St.Tentative agenda:Call to order/introductionApproval of agendaApproval of meeting minutes
from Oct. 10 and Oct. 31Public hearings:None scheduled
Old business:None scheduledNew business:Venture Fair updateB. EDAC report and subcom-
mittee reports1. Broadband fiber
network2. Technology Village
incubatorC. Tax-increment District 1-1
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E. EDA business planF. Business inquiry list (to
be updated for each meeting)Other businessA. Draft Dec. 12 agendaAdjournmentIncubator subcommittee8 a.m. Wednesday, Nov. 30 at
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PLANNING COMMISSION AGENDA
The Prior Lake Planning Commission will meet at 6 p.m. Monday, Nov. 28 at City Hall, 4646 Dakota St.
The tentative agenda includes:Call meeting to orderApproval of agendaConsider approval of Nov. 14, 2011 meeting
minutesPublic hearings:None scheduledOld business:None scheduled
New business:A. Consider a report on the acquisition of
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Give thanks to troopsWhen our troops are deployed
around the world, they are often sent to areas that may not have the amenities of home. Things that we take for granted such as hot showers, toiletries, the ability to call home and just normal day-to-day comforts are few and far between for them.
The VFW supports many pro-grams to help these young people try to have some sense of normalcy wherever they are.
Operation Uplink is a means of en-suring our deployed troops have the ability to call home from time to time. Many troops utilize this program to hear a friendly voice. This program is supported by many organizations and provides thousands of prepaid phone cards around the world.
Shoebox collections also help deployed troops. Many of the boxes contain shampoo, cream rinse, tooth-paste, shaving cream and other neces-sities of everyday life. Many schools have also had class projects to write cards and letters of thanks for their service. When you’re deployed in a combat area, something as simple as a smile can be hard to fi nd. Receiv-ing these cards and letters from the students is priceless. It is not uncom-mon for returning troops to visit the schools and personally thank the students for their thoughts, prayers and thanks. It is important to remind our troops that we support them and appreciate their sacrifi ces.
Recently, there was a welcome-home event at the VFW for a return-ing soldier. These troops are greeted with open arms and understand-
ing. Although they are usually overwhelmed with trying to get back to day-to-day living, the knowledge that there’s someone here to support them and sometimes just listen can be a huge help. The transition from carrying a rifl e to carrying a brief-case is a monumental task. We ask that you remember this and perhaps simply say “thank you” to these young people. We still have veterans from previous confl icts who have yet to hear those words. It doesn’t mat-ter if you agree with the reason our troops are deployed somewhere. They weren’t involved in that decision, but they went anyway.
I pray that each and every one of them can give thanks with their fami-lies in their own homes soon.
Lyaman McPherson is a longtime member and past commander of the Prior Lake VFW. To contact the Prior Lake VFW, call (952) 226-6208, e-mail [email protected], or visit www.vfwpost6208.com.
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
EDUCATION
Time to tacklethe real problems
I find it hard to believe that anyone would spend large sums of money, year after year, expecting an orange to perform like a baseball. That, in essence, is exactly what politicians and conservative pun-dits have been doing for 30 years as they use student test performance and international ranking to evalu-ate and reform America’s education system.
The countries with the highest rankings have six very signifi cant factors which have a profound im-pact on student performance. They are: a national curriculum; a homo-geneous ethnic population; heavy emphasis on early childhood educa-tion; some form of ability grouping; a majority of students tutored after school at parent expense; and rigid testing at the middle school level with only the top-performing stu-dents getting into high school.
The other students enter tech-nical, commercial, secretarial or vocational schools. There is tremendous pressure placed on the students to do well. Only the top-performing high school stu-dents have a chance at the college/university system.
The U.S. education system incor-porates none of the above factors on a national scale. The rest of the industrialized world has designed their education system to hold stu-dents accountable for the learning. American politicians (both state and federal level) have wasted billions of dollars experimenting with “re-form” that holds the school system accountable for learning.
There are enormous problems facing our education system, from the number of children being ill-prepared to start school, to pricing the middle class out of a college edu-cation. America would not have been No. 1 on international test scores when we put men on the moon, and we never will be with our current system.
It is time to stop the whining about student ranking, teacher unions, etc. and devote resources and energy, while working with the classroom teachers, to address the real prob-lems of education in America.
Glen L. WeberPrior Lake
CITY BUDGET
Some have moreto be thankful for
National reports indicate that average individual and household incomes are declining as tough eco-nomic times continue in our country. This is also true for many Prior Lake residents. But this is not the case for city management in Prior Lake.
Despite government belt tight-ening elsewhere, including Scott County and our public school sys-tem, wages and salaries continue to steadily increase in City Hall.
Citizens for Accountable Govern-ment has reviewed the base salaries for all the full-time nonbargaining unit employees as of the end of September, comparing them to the salaries of those same employees on Jan. 1, 2010. The average change for the group exceeded 7.5 percent during that time frame. City man-agement attributes this to changes in organization, but there are still nearly the same number of employ-ees overall, and there have been no major changes in responsibilities during this time.
The city has 21 full-time nonbar-gaining unit employees. The average base salary for this group is over $83,000 per year, plus a generous benefi t package. The base salaries of the 10 highest-paid employees aver-aged $100,800, ranging from $88,000 up to $133,000 for the city manager. In addition, the city manager also receives a $5,400 car allowance.
If this sounds outrageous, it’s be-cause it is. But this is what happens when city management is allowed to take care of itself with little or no oversight. It may not seem Minnesota nice to lay these facts on the table dur-ing this holiday season, but taxpayers need to be aware of what is happening right here in our community, not just in far-away Washington.
The City Council is currently evaluating and preparing to vote on the 2012 budget in two weeks. This is certainly one area that deserves some close scrutiny. We also encour-age citizens to carefully watch the budget process. Citizens for Account-able Government encourages you to contact City Council members and let them know how you feel about this and similar issues.
Richard E. FelchChairman, Citizens for
Accountable GovernmentPrior Lake
OCCUPY WALL STREET
Economic securityfor the 99 percent
In response to the Nov. 19 letter [Protestors are against freedom], I am reminded by a quote I read by one of the greatest leaders this country ever had.
P resident F ra n k li n Dela no Roosevelt said, “True individual freedom cannot exist without eco-nomic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dicta-torships are made.” Occupy Wall Street believes we as the lower and middle class need to actively push our elected offi cials to create a new slate of economic securities for all Americans. We are facing the similar results, but similar causes that ensued during the Great De-pression.
In the 1980s and 1990s, our govern-ment removed fi nancial regulations like Glass-Stegal, which was a key banking reform measure created during FDR’s administration in the 1930s to prevent similar economic downturns to the Great Depression and the economic crisis we face now. The solution is not more de-regulation and austerity measures. I, like FDR, believe to preserve the individual freedoms we all cherish, we must also put a system in place that protects lower- and middle-class families from calamity mitigated by the heedless self interest of a super-wealthy few.
Unlike the arg uments made against Occupy Wall Street and the government intervention in the economy, I believe in order for the United States to survive as a nation, our government has a moral obligation to protect the economic interest of the lower and middle class. The American people real-ized that back in the early 1930s when over 25 percent of the whole population was unemployed and living in makeshift huts called “Hoovervilles,” and I believe the protestors of Occupy Wall Street see it now today.
These protestors are not against freedom. Occupy Wall Street is us-ing a freedom in democracy called the right to assemble to stand up for economic security, which is a neces-sity in ensuring freedom.
Josh D. OndichPrior Lake
Putting Prior Lake on the mapKevin Busse is a long-time resident
of Prior Lake. I had coffee with him last week. Kevin read my last column and wanted to share some history about his great, great grandfather, Fred Ellis, a Civil War veteran, who settled near Jeffers Pond and was variously a farmer, businessman and one of Prior Lake’s fi rst constables.
Kevin had some excellent family pictures of the family farmstead and the original house.
Fred Ellis, unfortunately, was hit by the local passenger train on its run from Shakopee to Prior Lake on Sept. 2, 1909 and died from his injuries the next day. The exact circumstances of the accident are unknown, but Ellis had bad legs and was walking home from town along the tracks at the time of the accident. It’s possible he fell between the rails and was unable to get up and out of the way before the train struck. His wife, Sophia, lived until March 4, 1950, when she passed away and joined him at Spring Lake Cemetery.
Kevin invited me to visit the site of the Ellis homestead sometime soon. It’s near Jeffers Pond Elementary at the end of a nature trail. Kevin wants to put up a marker at the site so there is some memory of his great, great grand-father and the farm that was there.
Landmarks, like the Ellis farm, are a part of our history and identity. Growing up, I remember another landmark, the Metropolitan Build-ing in downtown Minneapolis. The Metropolitan, with its glass block fl oors, 12-story atrium and birdcage elevators, was a great stone pile, an 1890 landmark of the Gilded Age, and a monument to its builder, Louis Me-nage, the fi nancier-speculator who lost it, along with his entire fortune, in the Panic of 1893.
Whether it’s the Ellis Farm or the Metropolitan Building, we lose a piece of our history and identity when land-marks are wiped away by change. The loss is more profound in communities like Prior Lake, which were small, largely rural and, therefore, much easier to erase and replace with new development. Compounding the loss is the fact that virtually everyone living here now has no roots in the commu-nity and no vocabulary for its history.
From talking with Kevin, Della Klingberg and other long-time resi-dents, I’ve learned a lot more about what was once here and what’s been lost. Remembering it in some tan-gible way would help preserve Prior Lake’s forgotten identity as a rural, resort community. Placing historical markers at important sites, as Kevin suggests, is one possibility. Histori-cal markers are used extensively in other communities. Usually they’re
brass plaques affi xed to a building, or a freestanding sign.
Sometimes, they incorporate a photograph. The downside is that markers can be expensive, ranging from $500 for a simple brass plaque to upwards of $2,000 for a freestand-ing marker. Funding, however, may be available through a Minnesota Historical Society Legacy Grant. The city of Prior Lake, or the Scott County Historical Society, could apply. Other communities have sought support from individual donations, business-es and local service organizations.
Another possibility is a gazetteer, or historical map, of Prior Lake. It would be the easiest and quickest to do, would be less costly, and could easily be the fi rst step in a community project that would eventually include historical markers. All of the place and historical information that would be needed can be found at either the Scott County Historical Society or the Prior Lake Library. Very little research would be required. What’s there could be transferred with map-ping software to existing city maps and even posted on the city’s website for downloading. The map could also be part of a guidebook. Better yet, the schools could use it in a curriculum on local history. It might even make a good project for Prior Lake students who want to learn more about our community. You may recall how second-graders at Five Hawks El-ementary did a marvelous job with the Five Hawks Effi gy Mounds.
I serve on the board of the Scott County Historical Society and spoke with Kathy Klehr, our executive director. It’s something the society would like to pursue. I would be happy to hear from others who have ideas and would like to get involved. I can be reached by sending an e-mail to [email protected].
John Diers is a Prior Lake resident who spent 40 years working in the transit industry and author of “Twin Cities by Trolley: The Streetcar Era in Minneapolis and St. Paul.”
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Fourth-grade students from Jeffers Pond Elementary School fi lm an original skit before school in the building’s media center. The students are in Kate Tinguely’s video production class, which met twice a week for three weeks and ended with a screening of the students’ work – which they wrote, fi lmed and edited under Tinguely’s supervision – on Wednesday.
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It’s Black Friday, not Thursday, mind youI’m not much of a
shopper … more of a buyer. I don’t spend a lot of time trying to fi nd the best deal; usually when I decide I want something, I just go get it.
However, I do have a great time wandering around shopping malls (“just looking, thank you”). This is true especially this time of year, and this time of year comes earlier and earlier, both on the calendar and on the clock.
I have found from experience, however, that Black Friday is not the day to do casual browsing. Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving and traditionally the biggest shopping day of the year, is the day that puts stores “in the black” on their ledger sheets.
But now more and more of the major stores are opening for business on Thanksgiving Day. By doing this, they hope to get a jump on the season by luring the shoppers in with the promise of before-Christmas bargains (some quantities limited and the stores reserve the right to run out of the item before you get there).
Unhappy with this arrangement are the employees of the stores that are open for business on Thanksgiving. They would like to have this time to spend with their families. Imagine.
Thomas Lee, a writer for the Star Tribune, recently wrote about this trend in retailing. He quoted executives from three major stores:
Macy’s — “People want to shop through the night.”
Walmart — “Our customers told us they would rather stay up late to shop than get up early, so we’re going
to hold special events on Thanksgiving …”
Toys ‘R’ Us — “We know our customers like to get an early start on their Black Friday shopping, so we’re … opening our stores at 9 p.m. on Thanksgiving night.”
Lee goes on to say that he fi nds it diffi cult to believe that customers are actually demanding that Thanksgiving Day should be a day to commence commerce. But for a moment, let’s say that consumers really are insisting on more hours to shop, and since the customer is always right, we must do what they say.
But why stop there? To satisfy the growing demands of the customers, I propose that every store, every offi ce (public and private), and every school be open every hour of every day (no exceptions). We could solve our economic woes with such a new world order.
Everyone who wanted a job would have one as the buildings that never close would need to hire more workers. People would have more money to buy stuff, and factories would be running at
full production just to keep up with the demand.
Of course, there would be no time for anything else.
We think nothing of going to a store on Sunday to buy just about anything, but not too many years ago, that was quite unusual. In the movie “That Thing You Do,” set in 1964, Mr. Patterson, the owner of a small store, became quite annoyed while reading a competitor’s advertisement in the newspaper:
“Open Saturday 10 to 10. Open Sunday 12 to 6 … open on Sunday from 12 to 6! You know, I don’t believe I want to live in a country where you have to stay open on Sunday to do business. You shouldn’t have to work on Sunday to support your family.”
That’s right, Mr. Patterson, and you shouldn’t have to work on Thanksgiving, either. I am going to stay away from the stores on Thanksgiving. I’m not sure about Friday, though.
Jerry Kucera is a Sand Creek Township resident. Read his past columns on his blog: www.jerrykucera.blogspot.com.
Jerry
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FROM READERS
Locally grown entertainmentRave: “Prior Lake High School’s production of ‘Footloose’
was an all-around successful production. The students embraced their respective roles in every area of musical production. Who needs the Hollywood remake of this classic? There was good reason for the standing ovation. Thank you to all the students involved in this production for giving us a reason to smile (and cut loose), the directors, the school district, the Patrons of the Arts and Activities, the volunteers, for providing us entertaining theater locally. We have had many state recognitions of our sports teams this fall. Is it possible one of our own could be a future Tony Award winner?”
Wrong turn, right timeRave: Sandy writes: “The police were in the right place at
the right time. The Oakland Beach/Zinran Avenue/Highway 13 intersection changed a year or so ago, enforcing ‘no left turn’ onto Zinran when southbound on 13. They made this change because it was one of the most dangerous intersections in the area and it slowed up traffi c on 13. Last Saturday at 8 a.m., I was making a right turn onto 13 off Oakland. There was another car next to me wanting to either go left onto 13 or cross over onto Zinran. There were two cars stopped on 13 wanting to make an illegal left turn onto Zinran. They had traffi c backed up. I honked my horn, catching their attention, and pointed for them to go straight and not turn. They saw me but ignored my suggestion. Probably a good thing they did, because the third vehicle behind them was the Savage police, and the lights came on just as they made their turn. The person in the car next to me and I cheered. Thank you, Savage police, for being there when we needed you.”
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‘Thanks’ in many waysRave: In anticipation of Turkey Day, I spoke to two
friends about our favorite foods on our families’ menus
for the event. Not only did we all have different dishes of choice, but we found little overlap between what would sit on our tables for Thanksgiving dinner. To me, it was a great reminder of all that is great about the holiday: The unique traditions each family – or set of friends – shares on that special day, be it listening to music during the meal, going around the table to list what each member is thankful for or eating a dish from a different culture. I love that Thanksgiving is a holiday for all but is expressed differently at each table. To me, it’s a great metaphor for America and the world. – Meryn Fluker
Music that’s ‘Spot’ onRave: I fi nally jumped on the Spotify bandwagon this week,
and I don’t think I’ll ever get off. The online service allows anyone to stream any song in the Spotify catalogue for free – provided you don’t mind listening to a few ads between tunes. Imagine a free version of iTunes. While the music selection is impressive and growing every day – with plenty of new releases to boot – the thing I’ve enjoyed most about Spotify is being able to listen to comedy and spoken-word albums, which can be diffi cult to fi nd in full. I still love paying for music and having physical albums, but Spotify is certainly an attractive alternative. – Meryn Fluker
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Arboretum is gearing up for its annual “Making Spirits Bright,” a holiday season brim-ming with merriment, music and make-believe.
The celebration begins Fri-day, Nov. 25 with 12 storybook-themed decorated trees in the Oswald Visitor Center and Snyder Building. Sit down with the kids by your favorite tree and listen as the elves and help-ers tell your favorite holiday stories. Story times are 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. Nov. 25-27; Dec. 3-4, 10-11, 17-18 and 26-31.
Drop in every Saturday and Sunday at the Learn-ing Center for free, hands-on family activities designed for your family to do together at
your own pace. On December weekends, the theme is “Gifts from the Bees.” Free with gate admission.
The Arboretum is a shop-per’s destination on Dec. 3-4 for one-of-a-kind natural trea-sures, f loral arrangements, wreaths, ornaments, textile arts and more. Or shop for handcrafted herbal gifts at the Minnesota Herb Society Sale in the Visitor Center.
Enjoy an old-fashioned horse-drawn sleigh ride from the Oswald Visitor Center to the Learning Center and back. Every 15 minutes from 1 to 4 p.m. Dec. 4, 10 and 11. Cost is $3.
Gather the little ones for a visit with Santa Claus and have
their photo taken from 12:30 to 2 p.m. Dec 3-4, 10-11 and 17-18. $5 per photo.
Check out live music in the Oswald Visitor Center:
Holiday Heralds of the Minnesota Chorale, Saturday, Nov. 26, 1:30-2 p.m. and 2:30-3 p.m.
Twin Cities Bronze Hand-bells Concert, Sunday, Nov. 27, 1-2:30 p.m., MacMillan Audito-rium. Minnetonka Chamber Choir, Saturday, Dec. 3, 11-11:30 a.m. and noon-12:30 p.m.
Celebration Brass, Sat-urday, Dec. 3, 1:30-2 p.m. and 2:30-3 p.m.
F Sharp Keyboard Duo - Gigi and Freya, Sunday, Dec. 4, 11:30 a.m. -noon and 12:30-1 p.m.
OVation, Sunday, Dec. 4, 1:30-2 p.m. and 2:30-3 p.m.
Minnetonka Choral Soci-ety, Saturday, Dec. 10, 11-11:30 a.m. and noon-12:30 p.m.
Minnetonka Symphony Or-chestra’s sing-along ‘Messiah’, Saturday, Dec. 10, 2-4 p.m.
Arbor Bells. Saturday, Dec. 17, 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Holiday Heralds of the Minnesota Chorale, Saturday, Dec. 17, 1:30-2 p.m. and 2:30-3 p.m.
Waconia High School Se-lect Chamber Choir,Sunday, Dec. 18, 1:30-2 p.m. and 2:30-3 p.m.
For more information on any of the above events, check the website at www.arboretum.umn.edu or call (952) 443-1400.
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Share your best photo with Prior Lake American readers. Send your picture – in .jpg format, at least 3 MB fi le size – to Editor Lori Carlson, [email protected], before noon on Wednesday, Nov. 30. Include your name, daytime phone number and city of residence, as well as the address of the display. We’ll run some reader photos online at plamerican.com and some in the Dec. 10 American print edition.
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Thanksgiving weekend callsfor extra DWI enforcement
Added servings of DWI en-forcement will be dished out in the Twin Cities during Thanks-giving, historically one of the year’s deadliest holiday travel periods.
En forcement focus was planned on Thanksgiving eve, Nov. 23, and the holiday week-end.
The effort is coordinated by the Minnesota Department of Public Safety’s Offi ce of Traf-fi c Safety.
In Minnesota during the Thanksgiving travel period (Wednesday through Sunday), from 2008 to 2010, 16 people
were killed and 1,834 drivers were arrested for DWI. Of the 16 deaths, six were alcohol-related and seven were unbelted oc-cupants.
In the Twin Cities metro area, the State Patrol and part-nering local law enforcement agencies will increase their presence on the roads with the intent to identify and appre-hend impaired drivers before they can seriously injure or kill other motorists.
A DWI offense can result in loss of license for up to a year, thousands in costs and possible jail time. Stronger DWI sanc-
tions are in effect for all repeat DWI offenders, as well as for driv-ers arrested for a fi rst-time DWI with an alcohol-concentration level of 0.16 and above. Under these sanctions, offenders must use ignition interlock for at least a year or face at least one year without driving privileges.
Interlock requires a driver to provide a breath sample un-der 0.02 for the vehicle to start. Safety officials say interlock ensures DWI offenders are driving legally and safely. Po-tential participants can learn more at www.minnesotaigni-tioninterlock.org.
POLICE CALLSThe Prior Lake Police Department responded to the fol-
lowing incidents Nov. 16-22. This is not a comprehensive list of all incidents to which the department responded.
AssaultNov. 16: A 43-year-old man in the 4100 block of Willow-
wood Street was arrested at his place of employment after police received a report that he assaulted the mother of his child earlier at his home.
CrashNov. 17: A commercial truck allegedly ran a red light at the
intersection of Highway 13 and South Park Drive and struck a car, causing the car’s driver to be thrown from the vehicle. The woman was transported to the hospital and was said to have suffered a broken leg and some bumps and bruises.
Nov. 22: While transporting a suspect to jail, a Prior Lake police offi cer’s patrol vehicle struck a deer on Marschall Road near Wood Duck Trail. Minor damage was done to the patrol vehicle’s side-view mirror and rear driver-side door.
DWINov. 19: A 33-year-old Prior Lake man was arrested for
fourth-degree driving while impaired (DWI) and driving with-out a valid Minnesota driver’s license after being stopped on Five Hawks Avenue near Willowwood Street for swerving. Also, as the man was supposed to be contacting a lawyer while at the police station, he instead called his girlfriend, who has a domestic abuse no-contact order against him. The man was subsequently charged with violating a domestic abuse no-contact order. The man’s blood alcohol content is pend-ing as authorities await the results of a urine test.
NarcoticsNov. 16: As offi cers arrested a 37-year-old man at his
home in the 2100 block of Sioux Trail for two Scott County warrants and one Hennepin County warrant, they found him to be in possession of 0.3 grams of methamphetamine and 5.5 grams of marijuana.
Nov. 17: Police received a report of subjects smoking marijuana at Mystic Lake Casino, 2400 Mystic Lake Blvd. A marijuana pipe was seized and destroyed, and the subjects were escorted off the property. No charges were fi led.
Nov. 18: A 17-year-old boy from Prior Lake was cited for possession of drug paraphernalia after a drug-sniffi ng dog alerted offi cers to a vehicle in the parking lot of Bridges Area Learning Center, 15875 Franklin Trail. After searching the car, police found a pipe that appeared to have the residue of an
illegal substance inside it.Property damageNov. 19: A man in the 15100 block of Wood Duck Trail
reported that someone had toilet papered his house.Nov. 19: A man in the 3300 block of Fox Tail Trail re-
ported that his house had been shot by paintballs, denting his garage door.
Stolen vehicleNov. 20: A 24-year-old Minneapolis man and a 25-year-
old Minneapolis woman were arrested for being in possession of stolen property after an offi cer ran the license plate for the car they were in, discovered it was stolen and followed it to Mystic Lake Casino.
TheftNov. 17: A Prior Lake woman reported that she had placed
approximately 27 boxes of books on her doorstep as she was preparing to donate them to charity, and while she was inside, two men had loaded the boxes into a red sedan and left. The case is under investigation.
Nov. 18: A man reported that his $800 cell phone was stolen while he was playing games at Mystic Lake Casino. The man said he set the phone down for a short period, and when he went to retrieve it, the phone was gone.
Nov. 19: A man reported that a DVD, power cord, phone charger and headset were stolen from his vehicle while it was parked in the 14200 block of Shady Beach Trail.
Nov. 20: A woman reported that a black bag and hair-cutting equipment, valued at $260, were stolen from her vehicle while it was parked in the 16500 block of Tranquil-ity Court. The suspect gained entry by smashing a window out of the vehicle, causing $300 in damage.
Nov. 20: A woman reported that a purse and $10 in cash were stolen from her unlocked vehicle while it was parked in the 16500 block of Tranquility Court.
Nov. 20: A woman reported that a cell phone, cell phone charger and garage door opener were stolen from her vehicle while it was parked in the 16500 block of Tranquility Court.
Nov. 20: A woman reported that an iPod and Nook e-reader were stolen from her vehicle while it was parked in the 3900 block of Green Heights Trail. The suspect gained entry by smashing a side window.
WarrantsNov. 16: A 28-year-old Edina man was arrested and jailed
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The FBI provided this surveillance photo from the Nov. 22 bank robbery in Minneapolis.
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Adam Thomas Simon, 24, Montgomery, driving while impaired (DWI), a gross misdemeanor. Three years probation, 90 days in jail, abstain from alcohol, random tests, $610 in fi nes. False name to police, a misdemeanor. Serve 90 days in jail (concurrent).
Vladik Trofi m, 27, Savage, DWI, a gross misdemeanor. Two years probation, abstain from alcohol, random tests, $610 in fi nes.
Darrius TreJahn Baker, 18, Shakopee, third-degree criminal sexual conduct, a felony. Five years probation, 60 days in jail, provide DNA sample, no possession of porno-graphic material, psychological examination, attend sex-of-fender program, subject to random searches and polygraph examinations, register as predatory offender, no contact with victim(s).
Korbin Loren Klausen, 21, Shakopee, third-degree sale of controlled substance, a felony. Ten years probation, 200 days in jail, abstain from alcohol, random tests, provide DNA sample, $85 in fi nes.
BY ALEX HALL
A masked gunman with a similar description to those who robbed banks in Prior Lake and Shakopee, as well as four others in recent weeks, robbed a Minneapolis bank Tuesday afternoon.
The man entered Bremer Bank, 3001 Hennepin Ave. S., at approximately 1:30 p.m. He showed the teller a gun and demanded cash. After receiv-ing an undisclosed amount of cash, he exited the bank and entered a parking ramp, where he escaped in a white 2005-2008 crossover-style vehicle.
The man was described as white, approximately 5 foot 10
inches, with a thin build. He appeared to be in his late 20s to early 30s. He was wearing a black hooded sweatshirt, blue jeans, black shoes and a black ski mask.
While his description match-es six other Minnesota bank robberies that occurred in the last month, the getaway vehicle in the Arden Hills robbery on Nov. 13 was a cream-colored Mitsubishi Galant.
Similar descriptions were provided in the robberies of Prior Lake State Bank on Oct. 22, Paragon Bank in Shakopee on Nov. 1, First National Bank of the Lakes in Richfield on Nov. 4 and both the Richfi eld Bloomington Credit Union in Bloomington and Premier
Bank of Albertville on Nov. 9. However, the FBI isn’t ready to say if they are dealing with one suspect or multiple suspects in the string of robberies.
In the morning robbery at the Richfield Bloomington Credit Union, the robber didn’t get away with any cash. That afternoon, the suspect fl ed on foot into a swampy area after robbing the Albertville bank. Schools in the Albertville/St. Michael school district were briefl y locked down while authorities searched for the man.
Anyone with information on the robberies is urged to con-tact the FBI at (612) 376-3200.
Shannon Fiecke contributed to this report.
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November 26, 2011 | Page 9Prior Lake American | www.plamerican.com
BY TOM SCHARDIN
The Prior Lake girls swim-ming team relied on its relays in the fi nals of the Class AA state swim meet Nov. 19.
Three swims, three new school records; and the Lakers were in uncharted waters, fi n-ishing in the top 10 in the team standings for the fi rst time ever as a Class 2A program.
Prior Lake had two relays in the top seven and junior Alex Yaeger had yet another top-fi ve fi nish in the 100-yard butterfl y at the University of Minnesota Aquatic Center.
The Lakers ended up ninth in the team standings with 105 points. Edina won the title in dominating fashion winning with 316 points, well ahead of runner-up Minnetonka (188). Stillwater was third (171).
“In the past, the girls had a goal of simply making it to state,” said Lakers coach Ka-tie Haycraft. “But this year, with the amount of talent on the team, we wanted to go there and make a name for
ourselves.”Yaeger fi nished fourth in the
butterfl y with a time of 56.87 seconds. She was third last year in that event, fi fth in 2008 and seventh in 2009.
Yaeger still hasn’t been able to break her own school record of 56.20 in which she set at state as an eighth-grader. But she did set a new school mark in the 500 freestyle, fi nishing ninth with a time of 5:06.61.
The old mark was 5:09.63 set by Kim Kazika in 2005.
“I’m happy for Alex,” said Haycraft. “She swam a perfect race (in the 500). I think that was one of the best swims she’s had all season.”
All three of the Lakers’ re-lays set new school records at the Section 2AA meet Nov. 11. And then they broke them again in the state fi nals.
Yeager, junior Elizabeth Hartell and sophomores Mon-ica Banasikowski and Taylor Dessler teamed up in the 200 medley relay and fi nished third with a time of 1:47.54.
Banasikowski, sophomores Kendra Lair and Elizabeth Cunningham and eighth-grad-er Lauren Harris fi nished sev-enth in the 200 freestyle relay (1:38.06), while the 400 freestyle team of Yaeger, Banasikowski,
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SPORTSEXTRA
What’s on Tap for the Lakers
GIRLS BASKETBALLNov. 29: at Minnetonka, 7 p.m.Dec. 2: at White Bear Lake, 7 p.m.
GIRLS HOCKEYNov. 29: at Eastview, 6 p.m.Dec. 2: at Bloomington Jefferson 7:15 p.m.
BOYS HOCKEYNov. 29: at Woodbury, 7 p.m.
WRESTLINGDec. 2: vs. Apple Valley, 7 p.m.Dec. 3: at Hastings Duals, 9:30 p.m.
DANCELINENov. 29: SSC Meet at Prior Lake, 7:15 p.m.
Note: Prior Lake competes in the South Suburban Conference with nine other schools: Burnsville, Apple Valley, Lakeville South, Lakev-ille North, Eastview, Rosemount, Bloomington Jefferson, Bloomington Kennedy and Eagan.
For more on the second-year league, go to www.southsuburbanconference.org.
Winter Sports State Polls
GIRLS HOCKEYCLASS AA
1. Minnetonka
2. Benilde-St. Margaret’s
3. Edina
4. Roseville
5. Hill-Murray
6. White Bear Lake
7. Stillwater Area
8. Eden Prairie
9. Elk River/Zimmerman
10. Lakeville South
WRESTLINGCLASS AAA
1. Apple Valley
2. St. Michael-Albertville
3. Hastings
4. Forest Lake
5. Coon Rapids
6. Owatonna
7. Cambridge-Isanti
8. White Bear Lake Area
9. Albert Lea Area
10. Anoka
11. Prior Lake
12. Centennial
Did you Know?The Prior Lake girls swimming team earned its best-ever fi nish (ninth) at the Class AA state swim meet Nov. 19, breaking fi ve school records in the process.
Here’s a look at the program’s all-time records.
200 medley relay: Elizabeth Hartell, Alex Yae-ger, Taylor Dessler and Monica Banasikowski, 1:47.54, 2011
200 freestyle: Yaeger, 1:55.09, 2009
200 individual medley: Yaeger, 2:09.46, 2010
50 freestyle: Banasikowski, 24.50, 2011
Diving (6): Thea Hoeg, 279.40 points, 1996
Diving (11): Jana Schaumann, 422.00, 1977
100 butterfl y: Yaeger, 56.20, 2008
100 freestyle: Kelly Flanagan, 53.39, 1982
500 freestyle: Yaeger, 5:06.61, 2011
200 freestyle relay: Banasikowski, Lauren Harris, Elizabeth Cunningham and Kendra Lair, 1:38.06, 2011
100 backstroke: Keeli McNeary, 57.81, 2009
100 breaststroke: Kim Kazika, 1:05.12, 2005
400 freestyle relay: Yaeger, Banasikowski, Cun-ningham and Lair, 3:36.66, 2011
GIRLS SWIMMING
PHOTOS BY TOM SCHARDIN
Prior Lake junior Alex Yaeger fi nished fourth in the 100-yard butterfl y at the Class AA state meet Nov. 19. She was also ninth in the 500 freestyle.
Prior Lake sophomore Monica Banasikowski anchored the Lakers’ 200 medley relay to a third-place fi nish at state.
Uncharted state watersRelays, Yaeger lead PL to best-ever finish
Cunningham and Lair ended up 11th (3:36.66).
Meanwhile, Banasikowski set a new school record in the 50 freestyle, breaking Kelly Flanagan’s old mark of 24.63 set back in 1982. Banasikowski
ended up 12th with a time of 24.50.
Cunningham and Hartell also had consolation heat swims. Cunningham fi nished
“We wanted to go there and make a name for ourselves.”
Katie HaycraftLakers coach
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GYMNASTICS
PHOTO BY TOM SCHARDIN
Prior Lake senior Sydney Notermann will be one to watch for the Lakers this winter.
Hopes are highSenior will lead LakersBY TOM SCHARDIN
The Prior Lake gymnas-tics team is hoping for a healthier, more productive season.
The Lakers were beset by injuries last year and they took their toll late in the season.
“We have a very strong core returning,” said Lakers coach Barb Kass. “We need to work on improving our dif-fi culty and cleaning up (our routines). We should have a great varsity lineup on all four events. However, much of our junior varsity is new to gymnastics, so we will be working on a lot of basics.”
Last season, Prior Lake had 24 underclassmen on its 26-person roster. Kass said the team lost a few gymnasts to cheerleading, so there will be some new faces.
Senior Sydney Notermann is not one of them. She’s the Lakers top returner, just missing qualifying for state on the balance beam last year at the Section 2AA meet.
The top four qualify and Notermann finished fifth with a score of 9.15, which was .15 from fourth place. No-termann qualifi ed for state on the balance beam as a
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BOYS HOCKEY
“Our goals are much bigger now.”
Joe PankratzLakers coach
PHOTO BY TOM SCHARDIN
Prior Lake senior Thomas Vidmar had fi ve goals and 14 assists last season in helping the Lakers win their fi rst-ever section quarterfi nal game since becoming a Class 2A program.
Elevated expectationsLakers ready to compete with the eliteBY TOM SCHARDIN
The Prior Lake boys hockey program earned some well-deserved respect last year.
The season the Lakers are expecting to make an even big-ger leap toward elite status.
“We are expecting to have a very good season,” said third-year Lakers coach Joe Pank-ratz. “We have a really good group back. We improved so much in the second half of last season. The expectations have been raised signifi cantly.”
What kind of leap can the Lakers expect from last season where they went 9-14-4 overall and won their fi rst-ever section quarterfi nal game since becom-ing a Class 2A program?
Can the Lakers compete for a South Suburban Conference (SSC) title? Can they compete for a Section 2AA crown?
Pankratz thinks so.The Lakers beat Holy An-
gels 4-3 last year in the section quarterfi nals before falling to Edina 5-0 in the semifinals. Prior Lake was 0-20 versus Holy Angels dating back to 2001 when the two teams played twice a year in the Missota Conference.
In fact, the Stars had won the previous 10 games by a combined margin of 74-5.
“We’ll remember last year for that Holy Angels win, but not for the Edina game,” said Pankratz. “The Edina game was a great learning experi-ence for our kids.
“But we were not mentally prepared to play Edina,” added Pankratz. “In the locker room before the game, our coaches could sense we were not men-tally ready to play in that kind environment. It was a step up. We’d never been there before.”
The Lakers return six of their top seven scorers, three defensemen and their No. 1 goalie.
Senior forward Matt Crist led the Lakers last year with 33 points (12 goals, 21 assists). Senior Kyle Krueger led the defense with 10 goals and 15 assists.
Senior Thomas Vidmar (5 goals, 14 assists) and senior Tim Mueller (7 goals, 9 as-sists) will also provide scor-ing punch, along with junior Austin Hill (7 goals, 6 assists), seniors Derek Johnson and Matthew Gabbard and junior Dylan Zins.
Junior Joey Kleven and sophomore Connor Bump re-turn to join Krueger on defense.
Pankratz said not only does his team have good speed, but it has size. All fi ve of the Lakers’ defensemen are over six feet.
“These kids really dedicated themselves in the offseason,” said Pankratz. “We’re stron-ger and bigger. We’re more confi dent.”
The Lakers might also have one of the top goalies in the con-ference in senior Kyle Miller. He had 14 games of 30-plus saves last year, fi nishing with a 3.87 goals-against average with one shutout.
“Kyle looks solid,” said Pank-
ratz. “He also really dedicated himself in the offseason. He’s strong mentally, which goalies need to be.”
Prior Lake started last sea-son 2-8-1. It lost at Burnsville 12-0. It lost at Eagan 9-1. It lost to Bloomington Jefferson 6-2. It lost at Apple Valley 7-0.
But the second time through the conference schedule, the L a kers made big st rides. They beat Jefferson (4-2), took Burnsville to overtime los-ing 3-2 and played Eagan (3-1) and Apple Valley (3-0) much tougher.
Prior Lake finished with 5-11-2 record in its fi rst season in the SSC.
Pankratz said Eagan is the conference favorite, while Burnsville will be strong again. After that, he feels it’s pretty open with Lakeville South and
Bloomington Jefferson also having strong teams.
“We definitely feel we can be in the upper half of the con-ference,” said Pankratz. “It’s really competitive. We took our lumps last year early, but we improved and we competed. Our goals are much bigger now.”
The Lakers will open the season Thursday, Dec. 1 at Woodbury in a non-league game at 7 p.m.
Prior Lake opens the confer-ence season Dec. 10 at Lakeville North.
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Three Laker invites are set for Dec. 10Prior Lake High School has scheduled three invites for
Saturday, Dec. 10. The wrestling team will host the annual Ron Edwards Classic in the high school gym starting at 9:30 a.m.
It’s a dual tournament with Montgomery-Lonsdale, Farmington and Simley in the fi eld. Simley is ranked No. 1 in the state in Class 2A, while the Lakers are ranked No. 11 in Class 3A.
At Twin Oaks Middle School, the Prior Lake gymnastics team will be hosting its annual invitational starting at 11:30 p.m. Teams in the fi eld are: East Ridge, Edina, Hopkins, Faribault and Watertown-Mayer.
Starting at noon, the Prior Lake boys swimming team will be the host of its eight-team invitational. Teams in the fi eld are: Apple Valley, Cretin-Derham Hall, Shakopee, Watertown-Mayer, White Bear Lake Area, St. Thomas Acad-emy and Farmington.
Don Shelby to tip off PL’s hoop seasonDon Shelby, the legendary news anchor of WCCO, will
appear at the Prior Lake boys and girls basketball teams’ fi rst-ever “Midnight Madness” event to tip off the start of the high school season.
The event is set for Thursday, Dec. 1 at 6:30 p.m. at the high school gym. “Midnight Madness” will be a joint effort between the boys and girls programs, along with teams from Prior Lake Athletics for Youth (P.L.A.Y.).
Shelby will be there to share his stories and life lessons of basketball as a player, coach, fan and advocate of the game that he’s grown up with. Many of the stories are in Shelby’s book, “The Season Never Ends.”
South Metro Storm Swim registrationThe South Metro Storm Swim Club will start its 14-week
winter swimming and diving season Monday, Nov. 28. Par-ticipants can register online at www.mnstorm.org until Dec. 5 or at the fi rst week of practice.
Practices are regularly scheduled for all age groups in-cluding Adult Masters at Hidden Oaks and Twin Oaks Middle Schools in Prior Lake and Kenwood Trail and McGuire Middle Schools in Lakeville.
Diving will beheld up to three times a week for 1-2 hours. Learn to Dive Programs will also be offered.
For more info and practice schedules go to the Website. If in-terested, please leave your contact information on the STORM hotline at (952) 953-7789 or email [email protected].
DNR seeks public input on ruff ed grouse Citizens interested in Minnesota ruffed grouse and the
habitat that supports them can now provide input on the Min-nesota Department of Natural Resources’ (DNR) proposed ruffed grouse long-range management plan.
The public comment period, which is available online –www.dnr.state.mn.us/hunting/grouse/input.htmlonly – ends Dec. 19.
With an average annual harvest rate of 519,000 grouse during the past 10 years, Minnesota is one of the nation’s top three ruffed grouse states. The average hunter harvests fi ve birds each year in Minnesota. Annual total harvests have reached 1.2 million birds during peak years.
Minnesota leads the nation in aspen-birch forest type, the preferred habitat of ruffed grouse, and offers more than 11 mil-lion acres of federal, state and county land open to public hunt-ing, much of it located within the primary grouse range.
The draft plan’s long-range vision for ruffed grouse in Minnesota includes suffi cient quantity, quality and dis-tribution of habitat to support robust grouse populations throughout the species’ range in the state. The plan also addresses maintaining grouse hunter numbers, and provides for quality habitat to support healthy ruffed grouse popula-tions throughout their range.
“Our goal is to ensure the viability of ruffed grouse and their forest habitat, manage grouse as an integral part of Minnesota’s forested landscapes, and encourage and promote hunting and observation of ruffed grouse in their natural habitat,” said Cynthia Osmundson, forest wildlife program leader.
Public input will be reviewed and considered in Janu-ary. The fi nal Minnesota ruffed grouse management plan, to be completed in February, will help guide ruffed grouse management during the next 10 years.
Prior Lake Area Running ClubThe Prior Lake Area Running Club meets weekly for
group runs and also has guest speakers and can provide discounts at local running stores.
All levels of runners and joggers are welcome. You don’t have to be from Prior Lake to join the club.
For more information contact Doug Krohn at [email protected].
Laker Athletic Booster Club meetingsThe Laker Athletic Booster Club will have its monthly
meeting on the third Monday of every month (except July and December) in the lecture hall next to the auditorium at Prior Lake High School, 7575 W. 150th St., Savage, starting at 7 p.m.
YOUTH PHOTO
SUBMITTED PHOTO
Tourney winnersThe Prior Lake Athletics for Youth (P.L.A.Y) Navy, an eighth-grade traveling boys basketball team, recently took fi rst place in the Lakeville South and Minnetonka tournaments. The team members are, front row, from left: Jared Johnson, Drew Hirsch and Keegan Bloedel. Second row: Ross Roiger, Jake Simonson, Connor Greives, Evan Miller and Zach Keller. Third row: Coaches Pam Bloedel, Jeff Keller and Eric Miller.
GIRLS BASKETBALL
Hardwood gritLakers eager to show what they can doBY TOM SCHARDIN
The Prior Lake girls bas-ketball team may not be the deepest or most talented team in the state.
But nobody is going to out-work the Lakers. No team will compete harder.
“We bring our lunch pail to every game,” said third-year Lakers coach Mike Gidley. “If you play us, you better bring yours. Our kids are resilient and hard-working and they always compete hard.”
The Lakers have won 36 games in Gidley’s first two seasons, including a 15-12 mark last year (12-6 in the South Sub-urban Conference).
Prior Lake struggled out of the gate a year ago, losing seven of its fi rst nine games. There were two main reasons for the slow start – the Lakers’ tough schedule and injuries.
Senior Molly Simpkins tore a knee ligament in the Lakers’ third game and missed the rest of the season.
“It took us some to get used to playing without Molly,” said Gildey. “Her toughness and intangibles were invaluable to the team. It’s not easy to replace that.”
Prior Lake was able to re-cover, winning 12 of 14 to start the New Year. The Lakers were stopped in the Section 2AAAA quarterfi nals, losing at Bloom-ington Kennedy 57-50.
Prior Lake lost three start-ers from last year, including Megan Pold, who left as the program’s all-team leading rebounder (1,067) and fi fth lead-ing scorer (1,087).
Junior forward Tiffaney Flaata will become the go-to player inside for the Lakers. She averaged 8.2 points and 5.2 rebounds last year.
Senior Alyssa Eschrich will also need to step up on the in-side. She can knock down the three (27 of them last year), but Gidley said she’ll need to rebound more this winter.
“Tiffaney played on an elite AAU team this past summer and that helped with her speed
PHOTO BY TOM SCHARDIN
Prior Lake junior Tiffaney Flaata averaged 8.2 points and 5.2 rebounds last season.
and skill,” said Gidley. “She’s more confi dent. She can be a big-time player. She’s already getting attention from col-leges.
“It’s her time now,” added Gidley.
Eschrich averaged 5.6 points in her third varsity season. Gidley said Eschrich looks more confident and eager to have a bigger role.
“Alyssa has come in with a different attitude,” said Gidley. “She works very hard. She can shoot. There’s no doubt about that. I think her confidence has grown. She’s become more of a leader.”
Junior Deanna Busse and senior Lauren Busse will also have expanded roles in the backcourt alongside Simp-kins.
“The key for us will be stay-
ing healthy,” said Gidley. “If we stay healthy, we’ll keep getting better. We’ll have some younger kids up from the junior varsity who will get signifi cant min-utes. We hope to play eight to 10 kids.”
Prior Lake also plays a tough non- con ference schedu le, which includes Minnetonka, White Bear Lake, Class 3A power New Prague, Eden Prai-rie (state runner-up last year) and defending Class 4A state champion Hopkins.
The Lakers will face Hop-kins in the fi rst round of the Dick Sporting Good’s Holiday Classic Dec. 28.
“We take on all-comers,” said Gidley. “We want to play the best teams in the state. That’s how we like to do it. That’s how you get better.
“And our conference is very tough; there are no easy games in our league,” added Gidley.
The Lakers open the season on the road Tuesday, Nov. 29 at Minnetonka at 7 p.m.
Prior Lake plays at White Bear Lake Friday Dec. 2, before facing Eden Prairie in its home opener Dec. 8.
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13th the 200 freestyle (1:55.19) and Hartell ended up 13th in the 100 backstroke (59.87).
Harris also competed in the backstroke, fi nishing 24th (1:00.80) in the prelims Nov. 18.
“We went into the meet with a goal of fi nishing in the top 10,” said Haycraft. “The girls knew what they had to do to make that happen. It’s fun to think that they will all be returning next year.”
PHOTOS BY TOM SCHARDIN
Prior Lake sophomores Elizabeth Cunningham (photo, left) and Kendra Lair helped the Lakers’ 200 freestyle relay team fi nish seventh at the Class AA state meet Nov. 19.
Prior Lake junior Elizabeth Hartell (photo, left) and sophomore Taylor Dessler helped the Lakers’ 200 medley relay team take third at state.
Prior Lake eighth-grader Lauren Harris prepares to hit the water in the 200 freestyle relay.
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sophomore, fi nishing 30th.Notermann ended up 14th
in the all-around at sections last year. She will be looking to move up this year.
“ I f S yd n ey c a n s t ay healthy, she has a great chance as an all-arounder,” said Kass.
Junior Bridgett Smith and sophomore Angela Noer will also be ones to watch, along with seventh-grader Kailey Dobransky, a newcomer to the team who has competed at the club level.
“Kailey is a very talented gymnasts and I’m excited to see how she does,” said Kass.
Meanwhile, Section 2AA also got a facelift. Out is peren-nial power Eden Prairie, but in comes another traditional power in Lakeville North.
Bloomington Jefferson also remains in the section. Other teams include: Apple Valley, Eastview, Lakev-ille South, Chanhassen and Bloomington Kennedy.
“The new section will be tough for us,” said Kass. “We will be competing against Jefferson and the Lakeville teams, all gymnastics pow-erhouses. Fortunately, Eden Prairie has moved out. They have always been tough com-petition.
“I’m hoping for another fun season, scoring in the upper 130s to lower 140s,” said Kass.
Prior Lake scored 135.025 at the section meet last year to fi nish fi fth.
Other gymnastics back who are expected to contrib-ute to the Lakers are seniors Morgan Sturm and Jamie Stang and sophomore Tif-faney Harsted.
Prior Lake opens its sea-son Dec. 8 in a dual meet at home versus Mankato West at 6 p.m.
PRIOR LAKE SPORT SHORTS
PHOTO BY TOM SCHARDIN
Prior Lake’s Kristy Browman and her teammates opened the competition season Nov. 22 in a conference meet at Lakeville South.
Danceline: Lakers start the season
The Prior Lake dance team opened its competition season Nov. 22 in a high kick-precision South Suburban Conference meet at Lakeville South.
The Lakers competed against nine other schools with Burns-ville winning and defending Class AAA state champion Eastview taking second.
Prior Lake will be the host of the next conference perfor-mance, which is set for Tues-day, Nov. 29 at 7:15 p.m. It’s another high kick event.
There are two conference jazz funk meets set for Dec. 6 at Rosemount and Dec. 12 at Apple Valley. The conference championships will be held Dec. 17 at Eagan.
Seniors on the Prior Lake team this year are: Ali Ruba, Danai Hennen, Jordyn Sammis and Kristi Browman.
The Section 1AAA compe-tition will be held Feb. 11 at Bloomington Kennedy.
This year’s Class AAA state meet is set for Feb. 17-18 at the Target Center in Minneapolis.
Girls hockey: PL starts season 0-2-1
The Prior Lake girls hock-ey team broke its scoreless drought in its fi rst South Sub-urban Conference game Nov. 22.
The Lakers earned a 2-2 overtime tie at home versus Rosemount, scoring both goals in the second period.
Once again, sophomore Lexi Brant was stellar between the pipes. She recorded her third straight game of 30-plus saves, fi nishing with 35.
Prior Lake went into the game on the heels of back-to-back shutout losses, including 6-0 at Centennial Nov. 19.
Meanwhile, Rosemount led 1-0 after the first period and took a 2-0 lead with a goal 5:20 into the second period.
The Lakers rallied with two goals, ending their streak of 10 straight periods without a goal that dated back to the Section 2AA playoffs last year.
Ninth-grader Lindsey Har-ris and senior Britney Schulz tallied for the Lakers. Senior Mackenzie Brant and sopho-more Amber Galles each had assists.
Brant fi nished with 35 saves. Prior Lake was outshot 37-24.
Against Centennial, Brant fi nished with 42 saves, getting outshot 47-9.
Prior Lake returns to confer-ence action Tuesday, Nov. 29 at Eastview at 6 p.m.
Two Lakers sign college tenders
Seniors Alyssa Eschrich and Mitch Holm signed their national letters of intent Nov. 9 to play Division II in their respective sports.
Eschrish will play college basketball next winter at the St. Cloud State University.
Holm will play golf at Win-ona State University.
Eschrich is entering her fourth varsity season. She averaged 5.6 points and 3.6 re-bounds last year in the team’s 15-12 season. She also made 27 three-pointers.
Holm has been one of the Lakers’ top players the last couple of seasons. He helped the 2010 team earn its first-ever trip to state as a team, winning the Section 2AAA title. The team ended up fi fth at state with Holm fi nishing eighth.
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Cynthia (Naglus) HicksCynthia Hicks, formally of Carver, peacefully passed
away Tuesaday, Nov. 15, 2011 at the age of 46 as the resultof a stroke. She had her loving family by her side.
Cynthia is survived by her four children, Tonya, Andrea,Cory and Karissa; five grandchildren; grandmother, Jennie;parents, Nick and Sally; siblings, Patricia, Marsi, Jeff andLori. She was preceded in death by her sister Lorie (Cody)Naglus.
Cynthia was a treasured blessing and gift to all those whoknew her and now a perfect gift to the Lords Kingdom.Service was held at St Nicholas Catholic Church in Carver,Tuesday, Nov. 22 at 4 p.m., preceded by visitation at 3 p.m.
Dorothy Alice HansonDorothy Hanson, 85, formerly of Shakopee. Dorothy was
born to Floyd S. and Floy A. Davis March 24, 1926 on afarm near Lake Crystal, MN. She was one of seven childrenwho grew up on farms near Mankato. On June 12, 1948she married Ervin Hanson (AKA Lefty) in Fulda, MN andmoved to Shakopee in 1957, where they raised their chil-dren, Steve and Barb.
Lefty retired from the phone company in 1975 and theymoved to Lake Miltona, which was where they had spentweekends and vacations for over 15 years. They pur-chased a small house on the lake and lived their dream life,fishing and entertaining friends and family. They wintered inLas Vegas for a few years before Lefty passed away in1997, and Dorothy soon moved back to Shakopee, whereshe remained until 2005, and she resided for the next sixyears at Trinity Care Center in Farmington. Dorothy is survived by her son, Steve and Carol Hanson ofFarmington; daughter, Barb and Rick Stein of Kilkenny;grandchildren, Dawn Smith, Jeff Hanson (Dana), EricHanson, and Angie Stein; great-grandchildren, Mikayla andGavin Hanson, Dan Smith (Heather), Amanda Smith; great-granddaughter, Lilian Strong; sisters, Marge Pasbrig,Donna Morris, and Evelyn (Herb) TeGantvoort; manynieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by herinfant son, David Jerome; parents; husband, Ervin; broth-er, Gernard; sisters, Emma Holm, and Ruby Thweatt.
Services were held Tuesday, Nov. 22, 11 a.m. at BallardSunder Funeral Home in Shakopee. Visitation prior to serv-ice, and reception afterward.
Funeral arrangements by Ballard-Sunder Funeral Home,Shakopee 952 445-1202.
Kathryn M. MarschallKathryn Marschall, 84, of Shakopee,
died Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2011 at EmeraldCrest, Shakopee.
She was born in Chaska, Feb. 24, 1927 to Charles and Lorena (Rief) Krayna. Shemarried Elmer Marschall, Aug. 25, 1948 inChaska. Kathryn was a graduate ofGuardian Angels School in Chaska and attended ParisianSchool of Beauty Culture in Minneapolis. Kathryn was amember of St. Mark’s Council of Catholic Women. Sheenjoyed cooking, baking, reading and most of all gatheringwith family and friends. A devoted wife and mother, shegenerously opened her heart and home to others.
She is survived by children: Steve, Mary (Steve) Olson,Jeanne (Robert) Hoyme, Roy (Danita), Lori (Mike) Knuth,Fred (Jean), and Chrysa Kostecka; 26 grandchildren:Lance, Adam (Amber) and Emily Olson; Laura (Jeremy)Hahn, Erin Hoyme; Jason (Mary Pat) Marschall, Jenny(Harlan) Poppler, Kelly (Matt) Ripley, Matt Marschall;Nathan (Aidee), Kristi, Maria, Sister Theresa Anne, O.P.and Jacinta Knuth; Leah, David, Charlie, Danny, Elizabeth,and Tony Marschall; Andrew, Justin, Peter, Hannah, Benand Philip Kostecka; 10 great-grandchildren: Ethan(Hoyme) Duran; Jake and Max Marschall; Brett, Halli, Daniand Shayne Poppler; Blake and Connor Ripley; MariaAndrea Knuth; brother-in-law: Harold (Marie) Marschall;sister-in-law: Dolores Wilbert.
Katherine was preceded in death by husband; parents;infant brother; sister, Virginia.
Visitation was Friday, Nov. 18, from 9-11 a.m. at St.Mark’s Catholic Church, Shakopee. Mass of ChristianBurial was held Friday, Nov. 18, 11 a.m. at St. Mark’sCatholic Church, Shakopee. The Rev. Peter Wittman andDeacon Michael Knuth officiated. Pallbearers wereKathryn’s 26 grandchildren. Interment Catholic Cemetery,Shakopee.
Funeral arrangements through McNearney Funeral Home inShakopee, 952-445-2755. www.mcnearneyfuneralhome.com
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With sections peaking at 26 students for the elementary schools and classes as large as 40 at Prior Lake High School, class size has grown and be-come a real concern.
At the elementary level, .3 full-time equivalent (FTE) posi-tions will be added and shared between Glendale and Jeffers Pond elementary schools. This addition is actually an exten-sion of duties two instructors are already performing. They provide supplemental math and reading help and will now also help students with writing. In addition, Five Hawks Elemen-tary School will also gain a paraprofessional to provide additional academic support for kindergartners.
District middle schools will gain sections of English, physi-cal education, health, Spanish, geography, art, business and band – for a total of .35 FTE for the second quarter and .75 FTE
for the second semester. The plan includes a similar fix for Prior Lake High School, which will see additional sec-tions of Eng-l i sh , e s s en-tials English and biology, for a total of .35 FTE beginning next se-mester.
HIRING
All of the staff additions will be in place throughout the remainder of the 2011-12 school year. With the new quarter starting, timing for the decision was everything, Holmberg said.
The staffi ng changes at the elementary and middle schools are set to begin in the second quarter, so students in the district are currently in their new class configurations. At the middle schools, sections that were added for the second
quarter have already been added and fi lled with students. However, those courses are currently being staffed by li-censed staff paid as substitutes until hiring for those positions – which have already been posted – can be completed.
“In some cases, these very well might be the people who will teach these courses into the future,” said Matt Mons, director of human resources. “They’re paid as substitutes and treated as subs until they’re board-approved.”
The second-quarter posi-tions closed on Nov. 11.
“We are hiring for the posi-tions, but they certainly may be fi lled by employees that we already have on staff,” said Mons. “I would expect that we would fill most of those internally.”
Those positions not taken by the teachers currently leading those courses may be staffed by members of another group in the district: the eight instruc-tors currently on unrequested leave – a type of employment
limbo where teachers aren’t let go but also are not currently teaching in the district because there is no place for them.
In May, the School Board laid off 16 teachers and placed another nine on unrequested leave, a decision driven in large part by student regis-tration. Many of the teachers on unrequested leave taught classes like Spanish, art and business – elective courses that saw reduced enrollment due to the six-period schedule change and the rigidity it imposed on student course options. Now that sections of those “spectrum” courses are being added back, instructors on unrequested leave are offered those positions fi rst. However, Mons said he’s not counting a high percentage of returning faces or outside applicants, due to the fact that the positions are not full-time.
FINANCES
District 719 is using two different sources to fund the supplementary positions.
All staffing additions that begin in the second quarter are funded from Superintendent Sue Ann Gruver’s $100,000 contingency fund. Those dol-lars have been used throughout the year to address staffing hotspots, and about $35,000 of the fund’s remaining $43,000 has been put toward these positions.
T hat leaves just shy of $ 8,000 in the contingency. Those dollars will be used, alongside additional state aid the district received due to increased enrollment, to fund the second semester staff ad-ditions: .75 FTE at the middle schools and .35 FTE at the high school. The total price tag for those positions is just over $24,000.
Julie Cink, director of busi-ness affairs, said the district will end up receiving about $200,000 for increased student enrollment. Aside from the money being used for the staff additions, the rest of those dollars have not yet been al-located.
BreakdownHere’s where the changes, which will be in eff ect for the rest of the current school year, will be felt:
.3 full-time equivalent (FTE) teachers at Glendale and Jeff ers Pond elementary schools, to provide additional writing instruction
A kindergarten paraprofessional at Five Hawks Elementary School
.35 FTE instructors for the second quarter and .75 FTE instructors at the middle-school level. Sections of English, physical education, health, Spanish, geography, art, business and band will be added.
.35 FTE teachers at Prior Lake High School for the second semester. Supplemental sections of English, essentials English and biology will be off ered.
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City Manager Frank Boyles said the expansion project is on hold while the council de-termines whether requiring
the sprinkler systems is too restrictive for businesses.
Fire Chief Doug Hartman said he does not support repeal-ing Chapter 1306, “as it is the best option in the code to protect the public and our fi refi ghters.
“I understand there are con-
FIRE SPRINKLERS� continued from page 1
Marschall was chairing the board until she resigned on Oct. 12, prior to accepting her new job.
Marschall said she spoke with the county attorney prior to pursuing the position to ensure there wouldn’t be a con-fl ict of interest with her role as county commissioner. She said she was told there wouldn’t be an overlap problem since the CAP Agency deals with “pass-through” funding.
Marschall believes her ex-perience as a County Board member will benefi t the CAP Agency and the knowledge she will gain about the community in her new role will make her a better county commissioner.
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siderable costs involved when installing these systems, but sprinklers have proven their val-ue,” he added. “They reduce the potential for loss of life or injury. There have been very few cases of loss of life when sprinklers are installed in buildings.”
The city of Northfi eld wres-tled with the issue in 2006, seven years after approving the code, debating safety vs. as-sisting economic development.
That city ultimately repealed its code in 2006 after receiving pressure from area business owners.
City Building Offi cial Robert Hutchins said the chapter origi-nally was called the “small cit-ies” option because sprinkler systems would suppress a fi re until a small city’s volunteer fire department could arrive on the scene.
That applies to Prior Lake’s
paid on-call department, Hart-man said.
“A sprinkler system to us is like having a fi refi ghter right there in a building,” he said. “In larger cities, they can get to the scene in three or four minutes. For us, we hope to get to the station in the fi rst three to four minutes to get into our trucks, and then to go respond.”
Hartman estimated that a sprinkler system for a build-
ing the size of the vet clinic’s planned expansion could cost up to $70,000, though he said that calculation might be high.
Council members did not act on the code on Monday, opting instead to have city staff return at a later meeting with answers to their questions about in-stallation costs vs. insurance paybacks, as well as evidence of sprinklers making fi re scenes safer for fi refi ghters.
She has served on a number of boards, including the Metro-politan Area Agency on Aging, the Minnesota Department of Health, the Metropolitan Council Transportation Ad-visory Board and the Metro-politan Emergency Services Board.
Her new position offers fl ex-ible hours, which will allow her to continue serving as county commissioner and on most of her present commit-tees. Due to the timing of the meetings, she will have to give up a couple of committees and become an alternate to one group, she said, noting that she also recently added three other assignments.
Marschall said she applied for the job because she has always been interested in public services for people in need and has learned a lot about such programs in recent years.
In her new role, Marschall will be responsible for assem-bling performance reports and making sure programs are meeting criteria.
Marschall has an under-graduate degree in business administration from Metro-politan State University, as well as certifi cates in public service management and human re-source management.
In addition to being county commissioner, Marschall had been employed part-time as a substitute teacher in the recent past. She previously worked in real estate title work and as a branch manager for over 10 years with the Old Repub-lic National Title Insurance Company.
Bradpiece declined to dis-close what Marschall’s salary will be at the CAP Agency, cit-ing its nonprofi t status.
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Location: 286th Street, Belle Plaine, MN 1.5 Miles Southwest of Union Hill
Part of Southeast Quarter of Section 3, Township 112, Range 24, Le Sueur County, MN.92.52 total acres bare farm land. PIN 03.003.5300 which includes 90.4 acres of tillable prime crop land in Section 3, Derrynane Township, Le Sueur County, MN• Drain tile• Major soils: Glencoe clay loam, Lerdahl clay loam, Kilkenny loam,
Mazaska silty clay loam• 78 average CERTerms:• We reserve the right to reject any and all bids• Earnest money required from the winning bidder shall be
$10,000.00. Cash at closing or certifi ed funds.• Th e property is sold in “as is” condition. Th e seller is making no
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• Th e winning bidder will be required to execute a standard form purchase agreement at the conclusion of the bidding process.
• Sealed bids are due to Marek Law Offi ce, 205 First Street South, PO Box 2, Montgomery, MN 56069 on or before Monday, December 12, 2011 at 12:00 noon.
• Th e top four (4) bidders for this property will be notifi ed by phone and/or mail to be at the Marek Law Offi ce on Friday, December 16, 2011 at 10:00 A.M. for the fi nal bidding process. Th e fi nal four bidders will have the opportunity to increase their bids in person on December 16, 2011.
• Th e earnest money paid by the winning bidder will be held by the Marek Law Offi ce Trust Account until the fi nal closing of the sale.
• Th e farm rent due and payable for the 2011 crop year shall be retained by the seller.
• Seller is to pay all real estate taxes owing in 2011.• Seller shall deliver a clear and marketable Personal Representative’s
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to the seller, shall be January 16, 2012.• Please include with your bid, the phone number and/or e-mail
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• Please contact Shirley Budin at 612-508-8771 or Jerry Weiers at 952-873-4403 to arrange for a personal inspection of the property.
• Sales may be subject to approval of the Scott County District Court.• No contingencies will be accepted from any buyer.• No agents please.• Possession of the farm property on date of closing and no sooner.
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Free driving classplanned for vets
AARP will offer a free driving refresher class at 6 p.m. Monday, Nov. 28 to honor veterans and their spouses at the Prior Lake VFW, 16306 Main Ave.
Those 55 or older will receive a 10-percent discount on car insur-ance for taking the class.
Enroll by calling Ed Speiker at (952) 226-6208.
Dancers to hostconference meet
The Laker Dance Team will host a South Suburban Conference kick competition meet on Tuesday, Nov. 29 at Prior Lake High School, 7575 150th St. Savage.
The competition will begin at 7 p.m. and is open to the public. The cost is $7 for adults and $5 for stu-dents. Tickets can be purchased at the door.
Shop for afamily in need
Join the Savage Area Women of Today at SuperTarget in Savage (meet at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 30 the Starbucks inside Target) to shop for a sponsored family through the CAP Agency.
The chapter is purchasing gifts for the family, but additional dona-tions will be at the group’s Dec. 8 meeting.
For more information, e-mail [email protected].
Start off Decemberby giving blood
An American Red Cross blood drive will take place from 1:30 to 7:15 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 1 at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, 5634 Luther Road, Prior Lake.
For a reservation, call Carolyn at (612) 382-6942.
Pet adoptionsset for Dec. 3, 10
Volunteers for the Carver Scott Humane Society will have pet adoptions on the following days:
Saturday, Dec. 3 from noon to 3 p.m. at Petco, off Highway 41 and Pioneer Trail in Chaska.
Saturday, Dec. 10 from noon to 3 p.m. at Petco, off old Highway 212 and Singletree Lane in Eden Prairie.
All cats and dogs have been micro ID-implanted, vet-checked, dewormed, had shots updated, checked for friendly temperaments and age-appropriately spayed/neutered. All pets are housed in foster care.
Adoption fees are $165-plus for cats and $195-plus for dogs.
For more information, call (952) 368-3553 or visit www.carver-scotths.org.
Band to hostjazz breakfast
The Prior Lake High School Band will host its annual pancake breakfast at the Prior Lake VFW, 16306 Main Ave., from 8:30 a.m. to noon Sunday, Dec. 4.
Tickets are $6 and available at the door. The junior varsity and varsity jazz bands will play Christmas jazz songs during the breakfast.
Take a drivingrefresher course
The Minnesota Highway Safe-ty Center will offer a 55 -plus driver improvement refresher course from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Monday, Dec. 5 at the District Services Center, 4540 Tower St., Prior Lake.
The fee is $20. For more infor-mation or to register, visit www.mnsafetycenter.org or call toll-free 1-(888)-234-1294.
Lions lose beloved member, Bob UnderferthThe Prior Lake Lions Club lost a
good member this past month, Lion Bob Underferth. He has been a Lion for many years, has helped with many projects and will be greatly missed by all.
We had our World Service Day on Oct. 8 at Village Market, and it was a success. We collected 2,800 pounds of food and received monetary donations. We donated a low-vision viewer to McKenna Crossing to help people with bad vision to be able to read better. We are also looking into donating another one in town, and we have collected 100 eyeglasses and fi ve hearing aids recently.
Our football raffl e raised $279 for the high school athletic department,
and the Lions donated money along with that amount. The fundraiser at Fong’s raised $2,500 for a local burn victim. We hosted the zone meeting at McKenna Crossing on Nov. 14. There were several neighboring towns that participated in the zone meeting.
Our upcoming projects include: Feed my Starving Children; our holiday gift cards for the needy; our club’s annual Christmas party; participating in the Polar Bear Plunge; and the VFW and the Lions Club Senior Luncheon at the VFW at noon Dec. 12. To make reservations, call Pat at (952) 447-2655. Reservations will only be taken
Nov. 28 through Dec. 7 for senior residents of Prior Lake. There will be good food, drawings and live entertainment.
Donations this past month went to Scott Carver Dakota CAP Agency (senior dinner), St. Michael’s School gala dinner, PLAY to Cooperstown, Prior Lake Wrestling Club, District 719 athletic department, peace poster contest and the Hearing Foundation (memorial for Bob Underferth).
Bonnie Grapper is the public relations chairwoman for the Prior Lake Lions Club. She can be reached at (612) 590-2071.
Bonnie
GRAPPERLIONS COLUMN
BY LORI CARLSON
Jack Ludescher’s garage is a time capsule.
The walls display an array of awards, plaques and letters from city and county offi cials, lauding him
for his radio work and community involvement. Now retired, Ludescher spent 27 years as general manager at KCHK radio in New Prague, taking the station from fl ailing to smooth sailing.
Though the station now prides itself on playing “more polka music than any other station in the upper Midwest,” under Ludescher’s leadership the format primarily featured oldies from the ‘50s and ‘60s (with polka every Sunday).
“We took that from nothing and built it up,” he says.
The “we” includes Helen Golay, a Prior Lake resident Ludescher calls the station’s No. 1 sales person on his watch, and his wife, Deanna, who took care of administrative duties.
Ludescher, 76, retired 10 years ago and now prefers to focus on his part-time job maintaining golf starter times at Cleary Lake Golf Course.
“They are the nicest people you could ever work for,” he says of Three Rivers Park District operations supervisor Jenna Tuma and her staff.
Originally from Dubuque, Iowa, Ludescher moved to Rochester, Minn. as a young boy. After his father’s stroke and subsequent ailing health changed the family forever, and due to some admitted “bad choices,” Ludescher’s mother sent him to Boys Town, a Nebraska children’s home founded in the early 1900s by Edward J. Flanagan, a Roman Catholic priest better known as Father Flanagan.
After graduation in 1954, Ludescher briefl y entered the retail sales industry, selling clothing, before being recruited by an old friend to sell radio ads for KWEB in Rochester, Minn. He later worked his way up the radio sales chain at stations in Wisconsin, Iowa, Michigan and Kentucky, fi nally landing in Buffalo and Rochester, New York, where he accepted his fi rst general manager job.
After taking the New Prague job, he moved his family to Prior Lake, where they’ve spent nearly 30 years. They have two daughters and fi ve grandchildren.
Ludescher served as president of the Prior Lake Chamber of Commerce in the early 1980s and was a member of the Optimist Club. He also served on the board of the Minnesota Broadcasters Association. He also coached basketball and football during his time in southern Minnesota.
In his spare time, he enjoys detailing cars and spending winters in Fort Myers, Fla. with his wife.
PHOTO BY LORI CARLSON
The walls of Jack Ludescher’s garage display a mix of awards, family photos and shots of the radio salesman with famous people, including Loretta Lynn and Merle Haggard.
Success secretsLudescher reveals his formula for sales success:
“You need to have determination.”
“Don’t be afraid to call on your clients and tell them what you can off er them.”
“Like what you’re selling, or you’re not going to be successful at it.”
Q AND A WITHJACK LUDESCHER
What did you like best about working in radio?
You get to meet a lot of different people. You have to know how to talk to people and have enthusiasm for the job.
What kind of music do you like?
I like country and the oldies. But a lot of the time, in my car, I listen to talk radio.
If you could go anywhere you haven’t been to, where
would you go?I would like to take a train way
out West. We’re thinking about doing that sometime.
If you could be governor or president, what would you do?
Get this economy back on track. Too many things are going wrong in this country right now.
If you could meet someone famous or from history, who would it be?
Father Flanagan. His school did a lot for me. It turned my life around.
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COMMUNITY HELP AND SUPPORT
(Editor’s note: Listings of organizational meetings and events are free but are not guar-anteed in the Prior Lake Ameri-can. Send information that includes the organization’s name and meeting times/loca-tions and a contact’s name and telephone number. Deadline is Wednesday at noon.
E-mail information to [email protected], mail to Prior Lake American, P.O. Box 578, Prior Lake, MN 55372, or fax to (952) 447-6671.)
ONGOING
Donate used phonesSouthern Valley Alliance for
Battered Women accepts dona-tions of used cell phones.
Phones must be digital, in working order and have a bat-tery and charger. Phones can be dropped off at the Prior Lake Police Department, 4649 Dakota St.
Other drop-off sites include the Shakopee Police Depart-ment, Suds Seller Hair Salon in Jordan and Cooper’s County Market in Chaska.
For more information, call (952) 873-4214.
Join Blue Star MothersBlue Star Mothers of Ameri-
ca, a nonprofi t group supporting active military members and their families, is organizing a chapter south of the river.
A Blue Star Mother is one who has a son or daughter serving, or has served and has been honorably discharged, from the Armed Forces of the United States. Membership includes mothers; however, one can be an associate member if you have a spouse, relative or friend in the Armed Service and would like to be involved in a group for active support.
For more information, call Mary at (952) 894-1657.
Crisis interventionThe Carver-Scott Mental
Health Crisis Program offers mobile mental health crisis intervention 24 hours per day, seven days per week.
Individuals, families or oth-ers involved in a crisis situa-tion can get help from licensed mental health professionals by calling (952) 442-7601 and asking to speak to the Mental Health Crisis Team.
Members of the crisis team respond to the home, school or another meeting place to pro-vide immediate assistance.
Services include telephone crisis intervention, on-site re-sponse to assess and stabilize an immediate crisis, mental health consultations for com-munity providers and law en-
forcement, assessment of risk of harm to self or others, mental health diagnostic assessments, short-term stabilization, coor-dination of out-of-home place-ments such as psychiatric hos-pitals if needed, information and referrals.
MONTHLY/SEMIMONTHLY
Prior Lake Parent Resource Group
The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) of Min-nesota provides support groups to help parents discover re-sources to meet the challenges of raising a child with mental illness, learn coping skills and develop problem-solving skills. Parent resource groups are fa-cilitated by a parent who has a child with a mental illness and who has been trained to lead support groups.
A parent resource group meets on the fi rst Thursday of each month from 5:30 to 7 p.m. at The LINK Event Center, 2200 Trail of Dreams, Prior Lake.
For more information, call NAMI at (651) 645-2948.
Beyond the Yellow RibbonBeyond the Yellow Ribbon
South of the River, an organiza-tion that supports military per-sonnel and their families, meets the fi rst Tuesday of every month in the lower level of the Prior Lake VFW, 16306 Main Ave.
The group can be reached by calling (952) 440-5011, or e-mailing [email protected].
American LegionThe Prior Lake American
Legion meets the third Monday of each month at 8 p.m. at the Prior Lake VFW, 16306 Main Ave., Prior Lake.
For more information, call Bob Roe at (952) 447-5811.
MOMS ClubMOMS Club of Prior Lake
(Moms Offering Moms Support) will have its monthly member-ship meeting the third Wednes-day of the month at 10 a.m. at Harbor Community Church, 5995 Timber Trail, Prior Lake.
To join the group or find out more information, contact Mandy Reinert Nash at (952) 226-2410 or Sharlene Czajkows-ki at (952) 447-1780, e-mail [email protected] or visit www.momsclub.org.
WyldLifeScott County WyldLife is
part of a worldwide, nondenom-inational Christian organiza-
tion for middle school students. The club meets every other Fri-day and offers a high-energy, interactive evening fi lled with games, fun and music.
For more information on the schedule and location, call Jennifer Schroeder at (952) 402-9123 or visit the website at www.scottcountymn.wyldlife.org.
Savage Unity AAA handicapped-accessible
Alcoholics Anonymous meet-ing open to men and women takes place Mondays at 6:30 p.m. at Bridgewood Church, 6201 W. 135th St., Savage.
For more information, call (952) 297-4777.
Winner’s CircleThe Winner’s Circle Chapter
of Business Network Interna-tional meets from 7:30 to 9 a.m. Thursdays at 1101 Adams St., Shakopee.
For more i n for mation, call Darren Kurilko at (952) 947-0323.
Gamblers AnonymousGamblers Anonymous, a sup-
port group for those struggling with addiction to gambling, meets at 7 p.m. Tuesdays at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, 5634 Luther Road, Prior Lake.
AlanonAlanon meetings with the “Is-
land of Serenity” group will take place at 7 p.m. Mondays at 16150 Arcadia Ave., Prior Lake.
AAOther meetings take place at
Lakers Alano, 4646 Colorado St. on the following days:
Mondays: AA meets at 9:30 a.m. and 6:30 p.m.
Tuesdays: AA meets at 6:30 p.m.
Wednesdays: AA meets at 6:30 p.m.
Thursdays: AA meets at 6:30 p.m.
Fridays: AA meets at 6:30 and 8 p.m.
Saturdays: AA meets at 9:30 a.m. On the third Saturday of each month, there will be a 6:30 p.m. potluck followed by the 8 p.m. speaker meeting. NA (Narcotics Anonymous meets at 6:30 p.m.
Sundays: AA meets at 10:30 a.m., the AA Big Book Study meets at 6:30 p.m.
All people in recovery are welcome to attend.
Domestic violenceSouthern Valley Alliance for
Battered Women offers ongo-ing weeknight and weekday
support groups for women who are currently experiencing or have experienced domestic violence.
On-site childcare is provid-ed. For location and more infor-mation, call (952) 873-4214.
National Alliance for Mental Illness
The Scott County chapter of the National Alliance for Men-tal Illness (NAMI) will meet from 6:30 to 8 p.m. the fi rst and third Wednesdays of the month at the Valley Green Workforce Center, 752 Canterbury Road, Shakopee.
The meetings are open to all who are interested (including those living with the illness).
For more information, call Janet Williams at (952) 890-1669 or Kevin Wineman at (952) 496-8513, or visit www.nami.org/namimn.
Marine Corps LeagueThe Marine Corps League
meets the third Thursday of each month at 7 p.m. at the Dan Patch American Legion, 12375 Princeton Ave., Savage.
For more i n for mation, call Pete Williams at (612) 730-0999.
Suicide grief supportA suicide grief support group
meets from 7 to 8:30 p.m. the fourth Tuesday of the month at Queen of Peace Hospital, 301 Second St., New Prague.
The meeting location is the Jameen Mape Room. Enter through the emergency room doors; use the southeast eleva-tors to the lower level.
For more information, call Sally at (952) 758-4735.
Mothers of MultiplesMinnesota Valley Mothers of
Multiples will meet at 7 p.m. the second Tuesday of each month at the Apple Valley Commu-nity Center, 14601 Hayes Road, Apple Valley.
For more information, e-mail [email protected].
Support for RSD/CRPSA support group for anyone
affected by Refl ex Sympathetic Dystrophy Syndrome/Complex Regional Pain Syndrome meets from 10 a.m. to noon the fourth Saturday of each month at the Savage Public Library, 13090 Alabama Ave., Savage.
The group encourages a positive, caring group and has a variety of topics. The group is facilitated by Bonnie Scherer, but all members decide on all aspects of the meetings.
For more information, call (952) 457-7586.
River Valley ToastmastersThe Minnesota River Val-
ley Toastmasters will meet on the second, third and fourth Mondays of each month from 7 to 8 p.m.
The group now meets at the Prior Lake fi re station, 16776 Fish Point Road.
All visitors are welcome. For more information, call Shirley at (952) 447-4621 or visit www.mnrv.freetoasthost.org.
Widows and widowersWidows’ and Widowers’
Circle of Friends is a social group for those who have lost a spouse. The group meets at 5 p.m. the second Saturday of the month.
For more information, call Ethel at (952) 888-1035.
St. Francis supportThe following support groups
meet regularly at St. Francis Regional Medical Center, 1455 St. Francis Ave., Shakopee:
Infant Loss Support: Group meets the fi rst Tuesday of every month from 7 to 8 p.m. Call (952) 428-2002
Diabetes Support: Group meets the fi rst Monday of each month from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Call (952) 428-3324.
Diabetes Prevention: Of-fered monthly. Designed for anyone who has been diag-nosed with pre-diabetes or those with a family history of diabetes. For more informa-tion, call (952) 428-3324.
Heart Support: Group meets the fi rst Tuesday of every month from 7 to 8 p.m. Call (952) 428-2080.
Low Vision Support: Group meets the second Thursday of every month from 10 to 11:30 a.m. Call (952) 428-2002.
Women’s Connection, sup-port for women with cancer: Meets the fourth Monday of each month from 7 to 8 p.m. Call (952) 428-2700.
American Cancer Society’s Look Good … Feel Better meets the fourth Monday of each month from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Call 1-800-ACS-2345.
Joint Care group meets every other Wednesday from 2 to 3:30 p.m. Designed for people scheduled for total knee or hip re-placement. Call (952) 428-2565.
Smoking Cessation: If you are ready to stop smoking, call 888-354-PLAN (7526).
La Leche LeagueLa Leche League offers sup-
port and encouragement to mothers who wish to breastfeed their babies.
Join the group for a meeting on the second Tuesday of each month at 7 p.m., and bring your
nursing baby. Pregnant women are encouraged to attend before the birth of their babies.
For more information on the meeting or breastfeeding ques-tions, call April at (952) 440-6320, Michele at (952) 447-6182 or Traci at (952) 226-2052.
Sexual assault/abuseSurvivors of Sexual Assault/
Abuse is a confi dential, 10-week support group for survivors of sexual assault or abuse that meets from 6 to 8 p.m. on vary-ing days in the Sexual Violence Center, 510 Chestnut St., Suite 204, Chaska.
For more information, call Kristi at (952) 448-5425.
Support for parentsTABLE, a small group at
Shepherd of the Lake Lutheran Church created to offer support and information for parents, meets the second and fourth Tuesdays of each month from 7:15 to 8:45 p.m.
Parents whose children have special behavioral, learning or emotional challenges are welcome. There is no cost to attend.
The church is at 3611 North Berens Road, Prior Lake. For more information, call Mary Wangerin at (952) 447-1884 or visit www.sollc.org.
MOPS classesMothers of Preschoolers
(MOPS), a national Christian nondemoninational program, will start meeting twice a month from September through May at Prince of Peace Luther-an Church in Burnsville.
MOPS moms need not be members of the church to join. The group offers participants a way to connect with other moms, form friendships, seek parenting advice and learn more about Christian life.
Registration is being ac-cepted and on-site day care is provided for a small fee on a fi rst-come, fi rst-served basis.
Information/registration: (952) 898-9356 or e-mail [email protected].
WEEKLY
Young LifeScott County Young Life is
part of a worldwide, nondenomi-national Christian organization for high school students that of-fers fun, adventure, friendship and a sense of signifi cance.
The club meets from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. Mondays at the Young Life Offi ce, 13845 Highway 13, Savage.
For more information, call (952) 402-9123 or visit www.scottcountymn.younglife.org.
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PARK AND RECREATION ACTIVITIES
decided upon by MSM. Stu-dents must sign in and out each week and will not be granted re-entry after leaving the build-ing. One-way transportation is provided by bus from under the marquee at Twin Oaks Middle School. Students must be on the bus by 2:20 p.m. MSM will not meet on Nov. 11 and Nov. 25. A healthy snack is included in the program price. Single-session attendance is $5 and students can attend up to 11 sessions for $25. Register through Com-munity Education at www.priorlakesavagece.com.
Disney on Ice’s “Treasure Trove” at the Xcel Energy Cen-ter in St. Paul. The show fea-tures the stories of Rapunzel from “Tangled,” “The Incredi-bles,” “The Lion King,” “Alice in Wonderland,” “Peter Pan” and more Disney favorites. The bus leaves from the Prior Lake Library at 8:45 a.m. Friday, Dec. 9 and will return at 2 p.m. The cost is $17 per resident and $22 per nonresident. Guests must be registered by Monday, Nov. 28.
Holiday School Break Out-door Camps for Youth: Cross-Country Ski and Snow Shoe Adventures with instructor Pat
Caldwell, 9 a.m. to noon Tues-day, Dec. 27 at the Lakefront Park Pavilion, 5000 Kop Park-way. Children ages 7 to 12 don’t need any outdoor experience to attend this camp, where they will make cross-country ski and snowshoe tracks throughout the Lakefront Park area. All equip-ment will be supplied by Active Solutions. Guests should dress for the weather, bring a change of dry clothes, a big snack and a water bottle. The cost is $35 per resident and $40 per nonresi-dent and guests must register by Monday, Dec. 19.
Holiday School Break Out-door Camps for Youth: Ice Fish-ing and Snow Shoe Adventures with instructor Pat Caldwell, 1 to 4 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 28 at the Lakefront Park Pavilion. Children ages 7 through 12 will make snowshoe tracks and learn about safety, equipment and fish identification when they go ice fi shing. No experi-ence is necessary. All equip-ment will be supplied by Active Solutions. Guests should dress for the weather, bring a change of dry clothes, a big snack and a water bottle. The cost is $35 per resident and $40 per nonresi-
dent and guests must register by Monday, Dec. 19.
Outdoor Adventures with Active Solutions – Cold Weath-er Style!, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Friday, Jan. 27 and Monday, Feb. 20 at the Lakefront Park Pavilion. Weather permitting, the event may include cross-country ski-ing, snowshoeing, ice skating, sledding, and ice fi shing. No ex-perience is necessary in any of the activities. Indoor gym game options will be available in the event of inclement weather. Guests should bring very large lunches, very large snacks, shorts, T-shirts, gym shoes, sweatpants, sweatshirts, hats, warm gloves, winter coats, snow pants, boots, scarves and water bottles. Dress for the weather. The cost is $39 per student and registration is available online at www.prior-lakesavagece.com.
TOTS
Tot-parent activities, 10 to 11 a.m., the fi rst Wednesday of each month at City Hall. Parents can sign up for fun tot-parent activities, for children ages 2 and up, on the fi rst Wednesday of each month in 2012. Classes
cost $7 monthly for residents or $12 monthly for nonresidents. All 12 classes cost $60 per resi-dent and $65 per nonresident. Registration is required. Guests can visit www.priorlakerecre-ation.com or call (952) 447-9820 to register.
FAMILY
Mall of America trip, 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 7. People of all ages can take a bus to the Mall of Amer-ica to shop, see holiday deco-rations, have lunch or walk around. The bus leaves from the Municipal Parking Lot behind the VFW at 9:30 a.m. The cost – $7 per resident, $12 per nonresident and $15 per resident family – only covers transportation, so at-tendees will have to bring ad-ditional money to cover mall purchases. Guests must also bring their own guides or chaperones to the mall, if nec-essary. Guests must register by Friday, Dec. 2.
CLUB PRIOR
Club Prior is the adult ac-tivity center in the Prior Lake Resource Center, 16210 Eagle
Creek Ave., Suite 101 for adults 55 and up Tuesdays through Thursdays from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Enjoy a free cup of coffee, play cards or games, take a class, or just enjoy the company of oth-ers. For more information, call (952) 447-9783.
Medicare enrollment coun-seling, Wednesday, Nov. 30. Counselors are available by appointment to discuss Medi-care enrollment options. Call or visit Club Prior to sign up. Space is limited.
New: Free Latin fi tness class, 10 to 10:30 a.m. Wednesdays. People of all skill levels can exercise to Latin rhythms.
New: Line dance lessons, 11 a.m. to noon Thursdays. The cost is $3 payable to the instructor.
Afternoon socials, spon-sored by McKenna Crossing, are held at 1 p.m. the second Tuesday of each month.
Greeting cards and gift bags are for sale for 75 cents each. Proceeds go to Club Prior’s snack fund.
Play or learn to play crib-bage every Wednesday at 9:30 a.m. Players of all skill levels are welcome.
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Junior Girl Scout Troop 21557 helped to pack 60 Thanksgiving meals for the Southern Valley Alliance for Battered Women recently. Food was collected through the St. Michael’s Families in Action Committee, which included outreach to Premiere Dance Academy, Girl Scout service units in Prior Lake and Shakopee, Cub Scout Pack 330 and St. Michael’s Faith Formation families. Packers included (front row, from left) Grace Birdsley, Ellen Rausch, Allison Franck, Isabel Danicich, Lauren Rausch and Reagan Dahl, and (back row, from left) Emily Lein and Alexis Wallen.
MEAL PACKERSChamber looks forward to warming hearts this winter
As we enter the holiday season, the businesses would like to remind you to shop locally. To promote shopping locally, the downtown Prior Lake Chamber members are participating in the fi rst Holiday Winter Walk punch card program.
Pick up your punch card at participating businesses. For every $10 you spend at these businesses, you will get a punch on your card. After either spending $100 or fi lling the punch card, you will be placed in a drawing. Each participating business is donating a gift or a gift certifi cate. The Holiday Winter Walk will take place Dec. 1-10. Turn in your punch cards at the Chamber offi ce before Dec. 12.
Tree of Warmth is back again this year. All donated items will go to children in the Prior Lake-Savage Area
School District. Drop off new boots, snow pants, waterproof mittens/gloves, hats or warm socks at these locations before Dec. 9: City Hall, The Hair Mate, Home Accents, Integra Telecom, Prior Lake-Savage Schools District Offi ce and Village Market. Also, canned goods are being accepted at Integra Telecom and KinderCare.
Another fun family event is the Lakefront Dazzle from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday, Dec. 9. Come early and stay late, but dress for the weather. The Lakefront Park buildings will light up at 6 p.m., with fi reworks going off immediately after the lights go on, followed by the Dazzle parade. Other activities include face painting, games, food, a bonfi re and a visit from Santa. Weather-permitting, the ice skating rinks and snow hill will be available. Donate to Toys for Tots or canned goods and receive a free bag of kettle corn, compliments of Integra Telecom.
Enjoy the events this upcoming winter and please remember to Shop Local and Shop Often at our Prior Lake Chamber members’ businesses. For a full list of Prior Lake Chamber
members, check www.priorlakechamber.com.
NEW MEMBERS
We welcome the following new members to the Prior Lake Chamber of Commerce:
Associated Bank; Builders and Remodelers; Carnegie Commercial Lending Inc.; Dee and Steve’s Cleaning; Nick of Time-Virtual Offi ce Assistance-Angie Barstad; Pure PAAR Sports LLC; Paulson Brothers; Right at Home; River Valley Gold and Silver; Romance by Deborah-Deborah Kirchmeier; Schoenberger Drywall Inc.; and Summer Meadows Homeowners Association.
Sandi Fleck is executive director of the Prior Lake Chamber of Commerce. She can be reached at (952) 440-1000 or [email protected].
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St. MichaelCatholic Church16311 Duluth Avenue SE
Prior Lake, MN 55372952-447-2491
www.stmichael-pl.org
Weekend Mass Times:Saturday 5:00 p.m.
Sunday 8:30 & 10:30 a.m.
Nursery availableduring 8:30 & 10:30 a.m. MassSt. Michael Catholic School
Grades PreK-8 952-447-2124
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Loving God, Exalting Christ, Revering God’s Word, Building Christ’s Church - together
Pastor Ron Groschel952-447-2824
SUNDAY SERVICES Morning Worship 9:00 a.m. Sunday School/ Adult Bible Fellowship 10:40 a.m. Evening Service 6:00 p.m.
WEDNESDAY SERVICES Bible Study 7:00 p.m. Awana Club (Oct. - Apr.) 6:45 p.m.
Home of Prior Lake Christian School (Preschool - 12th grade)
visit us at: www.priorlakebaptist.org
Prior Lake Baptist Church
www.htumc.org16150 Arcadia Ave SE 952-447-2990
(2 blocks W. of Hwy. 13 on Dakota)
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The People of theUnited Methodist
Church Welcome YouSunday Worship
8:30 and 10:30 a.mSunday School
9:30 a.m. Sept.-May
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952.230.2988 www.sollc.org One block West of Cty. Rd. 21 on Cty. Rd. 42
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5995 Timber Trail SE Prior Lake
952-447-6191harborcc.net
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Casual Family Worship Sundays at 10:30Childcare available during service
All-day Preschool & ChildcareYear Round Openings Available
33 months & up
1026 E 205th St, Jordan (952) 492-2249
www.lydiazionchurch.com
Join us for Family WorshipSunday Worship ..................................9:00 AMSunday School ....................................10:15 AMYouth Group Meets Sunday 5:00PM - 7:00pm
L.O.R.D.Love Others Rejoice Daily
Pastor Larry G. Kasten952.217.1113
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Pastor Rance SettleCounty Rd. 42 & Pike Lake Trail
(952) 445-1779
Sunday Worship 9:00 AMSunday School & Adult Bible Class 10:20 AM
Seek, Share and Serve our Saviorwww.holycross-pl.org
Faith EvangelicalLutheran Church
Worship Service | 9:00 a.m.Bible Study & Sunday School | 10:15 a.m.
Wednesday., Nov. 30 AdventDinner 6:00 p.m. & Service 7:00 p.m.
16840 Highway 13 S, Prior Lake, MN952-447-6955
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Return to OzCTC’s ‘Wizard of Oz’ takes the audience back homeBY BARBARA TIEBEN
Those who see Children’s Theatre Company’s holiday show, “The Wizard of Oz,” should
prepare to be transported – and not just to the Land of Oz. Prepare for a trip back in time.
Within minutes of the opening curtain I was once again that 6-year-old with a blanket pulled up to my eyeballs as the tornado roared through my living room. The house, the cow, evil Mrs. Gultch – and the Wicked Witch! – swirled by. And by the time Dorothy’s house thumped down into Munchkinland, I was fi rmly settled into the year 1963 when I remember taking my fi rst trip to Oz.
Artistic Director Peter Rothstein doesn’t miss a delightful nuance from the iconic fi lm as he presents a show that is both familiar and fresh.
As the timeless fi lm is so much a part of entertainment history (it was broadcast on television annually from 1959 to 1991), I came to the theater expecting to get reacquainted with my friends Dorothy, Scarecrow, Tin Man and Cowardly Lion. Accompanied by my grandchildren, I expected to see in their faces the delight, fear and amazement I’d experienced during my fi rst journey to Oz.
What I didn’t expect was that I would take a trip into my past. Suddenly I was 6-year-old me cowering behind the couch when the Wicked Witch of the West explodes into Munchkinland. And it came rushing back how horrifi ed I was, year after year, by those striped stockings curling up underneath Dorothy’s house.
Truly a show for all ages, my grandchildren, ages 5, 6 and 7, had seen and loved the classic fi lm. During our car ride to the theater they asked if I thought trees would throw apples at Dorothy and how a real-life Wicked Witch could melt away on stage. We talked about theater magic and expected we might be amazed. We were not disappointed.
Maeve Coleen Moynihan
PHOTOS BY DAN NORMAN
Above – Maeve Coleen Moynihan is Dorothy, Max Wojtanowicz is Tin Man and Dean Holt is Scarecrow in Children’s Theatre Company’s “The Wizard of Oz.” The show runs through Jan. 8.
At left – The Wicked Witch of the West (Jennifer Blagen) strikes fear in the hearts of Dorothy and her friends during their journey to Oz.
Back to the Book“The Wizard of Oz” is based on L. Frank Baum’s 1900 book “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.” Baum wrote 13 novel sequels, nine other fantasy novels and a host of other works including “The Magical Monarch of Mo.”
‘The Wizard of Oz’Children’s Theatre Company enters the Land of Oz for the third time in its 46-year history. The Cowardly Lion, Tin Man, Scarecrow, Dorothy and Toto, too, travel through the timeless classic. Based on the original 1939 fi lm, this production showcases CTC’s trademark scenic and costume design by Scott Bradley and Helen Huang, marking the Emerald City’s return to the stage.
Time: Evening and matinee showtimes through Jan. 8
Cost: Adults $19-$49; children 17 and younger, students and seniors $19-39
Location: Children’s Theatre Company, 2400 Third Ave. S., Minneapolis
Info: childrenstheatre.org or (612) 874-0400
What I didn’t expect was that I would take a trip into my past. Suddenly I was 6-year-old me cowering behind the couch when the Wicked Witch of the West explodes into Munchkinland. And it came rushing back how horrifi ed I was, year after year, by those striped stockings curling up underneath Dorothy’s house.
delights as Dorothy. A former lullaby league munchkin from CTC’s 2002-2003 production of the show, Moynihan perfectly portrays the Dorothy we know and love.
And Toto, too! The audience offers warm chuckles each time Toto makes an entrance.
Dean Holt, Max Wojtanowicz and Reed Sigmund shine as Scarecrow, Tin Man and Cowardly Lion. Rothstein’s staging offers visual cues that complement the script’s early references to brain, heart and courage as the trio portrays farmhands Hunk, Hickory and Zeke.
Jennifer Blagen is every bit as dark and evil as she should be as the Wicked Witch of the West. Though many in the audience know the show well enough to recite lines along with the actors, we still are surprised and frightened each time she appears.
In an astounding trick of theater magic, Janet Hanson plays both Aunt Em and Glinda the Good Witch of the North, and she nails the contrasting roles.
Scenic Designer Scott Bradley and Costume Designer Helen Q. Huang present a Munchkinland and
an Emerald City that are rich and colorful. The poppy fi eld is an enchanting combination of color, texture and motion. The muted tones of the
costumes and set of the Gale farm suggest the classic fi lm’s black and white opening and closing sequences.
L. Frank Baum’s 1900
book “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” has enjoyed myriad cultural references and reinventions such as “The Wiz,” “Wicked” and even an episode of “Scrubs” titled “My Way Home.”
CTC’s production brings us back to the heart of the tale and, like Dorothy’s happy ending, feels like a homecoming.
Light brightArea communities wil l
be celebrating the season with these Christmas lights events.
SHAKOPEE HOLIDAY FESTIVAL
Get in the holiday spirit at the annual festival, which includes caroling and holiday music, the Velodazzle Parade, an appearance by Santa, horse-drawn carriage rides, the Shakopee Chamber Toy Drive kick-off and tree lighting ceremony. Hot chocolate, coffee, apple cider and cookies will also be served.Time: 6-8 p.m. Friday, Dec. 2Cost: FreeLocation: Downtown ShakopeeInfo: (952) 445-1660
CHANHASSEN TREE LIGHTING CEREMONY
Come and see the lighting of the holiday tree in City Center Park and enjoy a bonfi re, carolers, refreshments, gingerbread displays, live reindeer, and of course and visit from Santa Claus. Time: 5 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 3Cost: FreeLocation: City Center Park Plaza, ChanhassenInfo: ci.chanhassen.mn.us
HOMETOWN HOLIDAY TREE LIGHTING
The event featuring a pinata, program, carolers, visit by Santa and the tree lighting. Hometown Holiday
runs from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. in downtown Chaska.Time: 4 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 3Cost: FreeLocation: City Square Park, Chaska
WINTERFEST
Event includes pictures with Santa, St. John’s Choir performance, tree lighting ceremony, caroling, dance and gymnastic performances.Time: 5-8 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 3Cost: FreeLocation: Downtown Savage (123rd Street from Natchez to Princeton Avenue)Info: cityofsavage.com
HOLIDAY TOUR OF HOMES
Tour eight local homes decorated for the holidays. The tour is a fundraiser for the Jordan High School all-night graduation party. Special attractions include the Jordan High School Chamber Singers’ performance at closing social hour at the Jordan Fire Department. Pick up a map at the Jordan Fire Department before starting the tour.Time: 4-9 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 3Cost: $10 per ticket pre-sale; $12 day of eventLocation: First stop at the Jordan Fire Department, 431 Varner St. JordanInfo: (952) 492-4400
LAKEFRONT DAZZLE
The second annual Pavilion Holiday Lighting Spectacular and Holiday Dazzle Parade includes fi reworks,
PHOTO BY RON MORNSON
Kids enjoy hot cider at the tree lighting festival in Jordan.
pony rides, music, concessions and kettle corn for sale, carolers, face painting, crafts, sledding, skating and photo with Santa. Drop off Toys for Tots or bring a canned good or $1 for the food shelf.Time: 6-8 p.m. Friday, Dec. 9Cost: FreeLocation: Lakefront Park, Prior LakeInfo: cityofpriorlake.com/lakefront_dazzle.shtml
HOLIDAZZLE PARADES
Bundle up the kids, pick up the grandparents and head to the Target Holidazzle Parade. Every year since 1992, when the fi rst parade marched down Nicollet Mall, more than 300,000 spectators converge on downtown Minneapolis to join the sparkling fun of this lighted holiday parade. Brave the wind chill and watch streetside, or keep warm in the downtown skyways
or in the “Hot Seats” where parade-goers can view the parade from the comfort of a heated tent.Time: 6:30 p.m. Thursdays-Sundays, Nov. 25 through Dec. 18Cost: Streetside and skyways free; hot seats $9Location: Nicollet Mall from 12th St. to 4th St., MinneapolisInfo: holidazzle.com or (612) 338-3807
HOLIDAY TREE LIGHTING
Santa and Mrs. Claus will greet children in Belle Plaine with candy canes. Bring your camera for pictures. Event also includes cookies and cider, horse-drawn carriage rides, music and tree lighting.Time: 6-7 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 1Cost: FreeLocation: Townsend Park, Belle PlaineInfo: (952) -873-4295
CHRISTMAS IN VICTORIA
Events include crafts, visits by “Buddy the Elf” and Santa, carolers, cookie decorating, treats and more. Tree lighting at 6 p.m.Time: 3-6 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 3Cost: FreeLocation: Downtown VictoriaInfo: victoriaboa.org
EUROPEAN CHRISTMAS BOUTIQUE
The second annual European Christmas Boutique and 2012 Czech Heritage Junior Royalty Coronation will feature arts and craft, European imports, ethnic dolls,silent auction, stage entertainment, demonstrations, bake sale, kids activities, St. Nick’s Across Europe featuring the Czech St. Nicholas, door prizes and coronation. Please bring a non-perishable food item for the Peace Center Food Shelf.Time: 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 4Cost: FreeLocation: American Legion Park Ballroom, 300 Lexington Ave. S., New PragueInfo: (952) 758-2217 or CzechHeritageClub.com
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WINDJAMMERS CHRISTMAS CONCERT
The 65-member WindJammers community band of Prior
Lake and Savage will celebrate the season with its
Christmas concert, “Marching, Walking and Dancing
our Way into Christmas,” at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 4
at Shepherd of the Lake Lutheran Church, 3611 North
Berens Road, Prior Lake. Santa will make an appearance. The con-
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SaturdayNOV. 26
STORYTIME BY THE TREES
Sit down with the children by a favorite tree and listen as the elves and helpers tell favorite holiday stories.Time: 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. Nov. 26-27; Dec. 3-4, 10-11, 17-18, 26-31Cost: Free with regular admission of $9 for adults; free for ages 15 and younger; free to Arboretum membersLocation: Minnesota Landscape Arboretum, 3675 Arboretum Dr., ChaskaInfo: www.arboretum.umn.edu or (952) 443-1422
COMEDIAN JOLEEN LUNZER
Comedian Joleen Lunzer will perform comedy on three nights during Thanksgiving week. Also appearing will be comedian Greg Freiler.Time: 8 p.m. and 10:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 26Cost: $13 for 8 p.m. show; $10 for 10:30 p.m. showLocation: MinneHAHA Comedy Club, 1583 First Ave., ShakopeeInfo: minnehahacomedyclub.com/shakopee
‘SIMPLE GIFTS’
“A Small Town Christmas,” performed by Simple Gifts, will take the audience back to a quieter, simpler time. The six-member ensemble is led by Billy McLaughlin and features acoustic and vocal music. The program will include holiday carols and hymns presented with vocal harmonies and instrumentation.Time: 3 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 26Cost: $25 in advance; $30 at the doorLocation: Lakeville Area Arts Center, 20965 Holyoke Ave., LakevilleInfo: (952) 985-4640 or ci.lakeville.mn.us
TRADITIONAL HOLIDAY TEAS
Share holiday joy at these formal teas complete with freshly baked sweets and savories, plus an English trifl e.Time: 2:30 p.m. Nov. 26, 30; Dec. 2, 4, 7-11, 15-18, 21-23 and 27-30Cost: $23 for Arboretum members; $26 for non-membersLocation: Snyder Building Tea Room, Minnesota Landscape Arboretum, 3675 Arboretum Dr., ChaskaInfo: (612) 626-3951 or umnarboretum.catertrax.com
SundayNOV. 27YMCA OPEN HOUSE
The River Valley YMCA will host an open house for the public to try free group exercise classes, a state-of-the-art fi tness center, indoor and outdoor open swim, free drop-off childcare, a two-story play maze and more. A photo ID is required for anyone 16 and up. Several Black Friday and weekend specials for members and non-members are available.Time: Nov. 25-27Cost: FreeLocation: River Valley YMCA, 3575 North Berens Road, Prior LakeInfo: Kurt Schardin at (952) 230-6672 or [email protected]
TWIN CITIES BRONZE HANDBELLS CONCERT
The group will perform a concert in the MacMillan AuditoriumTime: 1-2:30 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 27Cost: Free with Arboretum admission of $9 for adults; free for ages 15 and younger; free to Arboretum membersLocation: Minnesota Landscape Arboretum, 3675 Arboretum Dr., ChaskaInfo: www.arboretum.umn.edu or (952) 443-1422
SPACE EXPLORATION
Learn more about the earth, moon and stars by participating in astronaut testing, taking a tour of the planets, making comets and talking about asteroids. The event will end with stargazing and hearing stories of some of the most famous constellations. For all ages.Time: 1-2:30 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 27Cost: $5Location: Lowry Nature Center (Carver Park Reserve), 7025 Victoria Dr., Victoria Info: (763) 559-9000 or threeriversparkdistrict.org
TURKEY TALK
Join a Naturalist in the Wildlife Viewing Room where wild turkeys are often seen feeding. Bring questions about turkeys and other wildlife feeding in the backyard. For all ages. Time: 3-4 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 27Cost: FreeLocation: Richardson Nature Center, 8737 E. Bush Lake Road, Bloomington Info: (763) 559-9000 or threeriversparkdistrict.org
MondayNOV. 28‘MAD ABOUT MUSIC’
STORY TIME
Children of all ages are invited to wear pajamas, bring a teddy bear and enjoy stories and a bedtime snack.Time: 7 p.m. Monday, Nov. 28Cost: FreeLocation: Prior Lake Library, 16210 Eagle Creek Ave.Info: (952) 447-3375
TuesdayNOV. 29WRITING: MOVING
THROUGH RESISTANCE
Writers often wonder, “Why is it so hard to write even when I want to?” Rosanne Bane addresses moving through resistance during this writing workshop. Class size is limited and registration is required. Call or visit the hosting library to register.Time: 6:30-8:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 29Cost: FreeLocation: Prior Lake Library, 16210 Eagle Creek Ave. S.E., Prior LakeInfo: (952) 447-3375 or www.scott.lib.mn.us
ThursdayDEC. 1
FIRST THURSDAYS DANCETERIA
The next dance in this free monthly series will feature the Czech Area Concertina Club. Instructors Michael D. Bang and Laia Olivier, national and international dance competitors, will help beginners with the essentials of old-time dancing and demonstrate more complicated moves.Time: 2-4 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 1Cost: FreeLocation: Club Prior, 16210 Eagle Creek Ave., Prior LakeInfo: (952) 447-3375
ST. PAUL CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
The St. Paul Chamber Orchestra and director Christian Zacharias will perform Martin’s “Etudes for String Orchestra” and Beethoven’s “Piano Concerto No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 37” and “Suite from The Creatures of Promethius.”Time: 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 1Cost: Adults $10-$25; children $5 Location: Shepherd of the Valley Lutheran Church, 12650 Johnny Cake Ridge Road, Apple ValleyInfo: (651) 291-1144 or thespco.org
SAVVY SOIREE: GLENROSE FLORAL
Learn how to make a festive holiday bow. See a centerpiece demo. Taste new candies and gourmet items. See new candles, hostess gifts and party ware. There will be drawings for a seasonal wreath and other items and goody bags with treats from local businesses. Those attending can enjoy a complimentary glass of wine at Axel’s next door to fi nish off the evening.Time: 6-8 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 1Cost: FreeLocation: Glenrose Floral, 582 W. 78th St., ChanhassenInfo: savvy.mn, click on soirees
SCOTT COUNTY CRAZY QUILTERS
Bring needles, yarn, fabric and trim for an evening a needlework. Beginners through masters welcome. There will be a Christmas potluck.Time: 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 1Cost: FreeLocation: Scott County Historical Society, 235 Fuller St., ShakopeeInfo: (952) 445-0378, (507) 868-4058 or scottcountyhistory.org
FridayDEC. 2
ST. MICHAEL’SSINGLES DINNER
St. Michael’s Singles over 50 of Prior Lake will have its annual Christmas party with happy hour and dinner. The event is open to the public.Time: 5 p.m. happy hour; 6 p.m. dinnerLocation: Dangerfi eld’s, 1583 E. First Ave. (Highway 101), ShakopeeInfo: Walter (952) 447-6024; Sue (952) 447-2962; or Donna (952) 447-3995
CHRISTMAS OPEN HOUSE
Take some time to soak up the holiday mood and relax in the warm glow of an old-fashioned Christmas. Tour the holiday-decorated Stans House and sip hot cocoa and nibble on cookies while listening to nostalgic holiday music.Time: 6-8 p.m. Friday, Dec. 2Cost: FreeLocation: Stans Museum, 235 Fuller St. ShakopeeInfo: (952) 445-0378, or scottcountyhistory.org
‘THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE’
This musical comedy is about six young people in the throes of puberty,
overseen by grown-ups who barely managed to escape childhood themselves, all of whom learn that winning isn’t everything and that losing doesn’t necessarily make you a loser. Time: Evening and matinee showtimes Dec. 2-18Cost: Adults $20; students and seniors $17Location: Burnsville Performing Arts Center, 12600 Nicollet Ave., Burnsville Info: (952) 895-4680 or ticketmaster.com
COMEDIAN SAL DEMILIO
Sal Demilio is a comic that celebrates his Italian heritage. Also appearing will be comedian Andy Beningo.Time: 8:30 p.m. Friday, Dec. 2; 8 p.m. and 10:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 3Cost: $13 for 8:30 Friday and 8 p.m. Saturday shows; $10 for 10:30 p.m. Saturday showLocation: MinneHAHA Comedy Club, 1583 First Ave., ShakopeeInfo: minnehahacomedyclub.com/shakopee
SaturdayDEC. 3
BOOK SALE
A donation of new (slightly “hurt”) books from Penguin Group Inc. will be available including children’s books, novels, biographies and gift books. Books will be priced well below retail.Time: 8 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 3Cost: Items for purchaseLocation: Prior Lake Library, 16210 Eagle Creek Ave.Info: (952) 447-3375
BREAKFAST WITH SANTA
This annual event includes a chance to take photos with Santa and raise money for Dollars for Scholars. Buy advance tickets at Prior Lake State Bank (both locations). Bring a food donation and be entered into a drawing for prizes.Time: 9-11 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 3Cost: $6 in advance; $7 at the doorLocation: Fong’s, 4770 Pleasant St., Prior Lake
WINTER WONDERS
Join the Prior Lake-Savage Early Childhood staff for its annual winter celebration, including holiday projects, inexpensive gifts, photos with Santa and a book fair. Activities are geared toward infants to 5-year-olds.Time: 10 a.m.-noon Saturday, Dec. 3Cost: Free
Location: Edgewood School, 5304 Westwood Drive, Prior LakeInfo: (952) 226-0950 or www.priorlake-savage.k12.mn.us/ew
LORIE LINE: ‘CHRISTMAS BELLS ARE RINGING!’
After a two-year hiatus on bell ringing, Lorie Line will bring Christmas music and bell ringing to the BPAC stage. Known for her spectacular costumes, fans will not be disappointed as Line plans to wear the latest and greatest from world famous fashion designers. Time: 7:30 p.m. Friday, Dec. 2; 3 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 3Cost: $47; groups of 10 or more $42Location: Burnsville Performing Arts Center, 12600 Nicollet Ave., Burnsville Info: (952) 895-4680 or ticketmaster.com
MONROE CROSSING
Monroe Crossing will present its traveling Bluegrass and Gospel Holiday Show. Time: 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 3Cost: $18 in advance; $20 at the doorLocation: Lakeville Area Arts Center, 20965 Holyoke Ave., LakevilleInfo: (952) 985-4640 or ci.lakeville.mn.us
MINNETONKA CHAMBER CHOIR
The Minnetonka Chamber Choir will perform musical selections for Arboretum visitors.Time: 11-11:30 a.m. and noon-12:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 3Cost: Free with Arboretum admission of $9 for adults; free for ages 15 and younger; free to Arboretum membersLocation: Minnesota Landscape Arboretum, 3675 Arboretum Dr., ChaskaInfo: www.arboretum.umn.edu or (952) 443-1422
Upcoming‘NUTCRACKER’ CLINIC
La Danse Fatale, a nonprofi t youth ballet company, invites children ages 3-12 to participate in the seventh annual Nutcracker Ballet Clinic.Time: 12:45 p.m. check-in; 1-3 p.m. clinic, Sunday, Dec. 4Cost: $30 per personLocation: Dance Arts Centre, 18690 Lake Dr. E., ChanhassenInfo: (952) 937-2618 or ladansefatale.org
BOOK CLUB FOR SENIORS
Join a book club for seniors the fi rst Tuesday of each month. December’s book is “Th1rteen R3easons Why” by
Jay Asher.Time: 10 a.m. Tuesday, Dec. 6Cost: FreeLocation: Club Prior, 16210 Eagle Creek Ave., Prior LakeInfo: (952) 447-9783
LAKEFRONT DAZZLE
The city of Prior Lake sponsors this annual event, which includes a tree lighting, a parade, pony rides, concessions, carolers, crafts, fi reworks and more. Drop off toys or money for Toys for Tots or the food shelf and receive a free bag of kettle corn.Time: 6-8 p.m. Friday, Dec. 9Cost: FreeLocation: Lakefront Park, 5000 Kop Parkway, Prior LakeInfo: cityofpriorlake.com
‘THE GOSPELACCORDING TO SCROOGE’
Friendship Church will present “The Gospel According to Scrooge,” a journey with Ebenezer Scrooge as he discovers the true meaning of Christmas. With traditional music and unexpected humor, it’s perfect for all ages.Time: 7 p.m. Friday, Dec. 9; 3 and 7 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 10; 3 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 11; 7 p.m. Friday, Dec. 16; 3 and 7 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 17Cost: $5Location: Friendship Church’s Shakopee campus, 12800 Marystown Road.Info: friendship-church.org
COOKIE AND CRAFT SALE
St. Paul’s Lutheran Church’s Lutheran Women’s Missionary League presents this sale in celebration of the holiday season.Time: 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 10Cost: Items for purchaseLocation: St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, 5634 Luther Road, Prior LakeInfo: (952) 447-2117
REINDEER CRAFTS
What is a reindeer doing in a museum? Find out at the Scott County Historical Society. Bring the whole family for holiday fun and creating a reindeer ornament to take home, as well as a special museum scavenger hunt for prizes.Time: 10-11 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 10Cost: Free for SCHS members and children under 5; $4 for adults; $2 for studentsLocation: Scott County Historical Society/Stans Museum, 235 Fuller St., ShakopeeInfo: (952) 445-0378, or scottcountyhistory.org
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Twin Oaks book fair starts Dec. 5
Student volunteers will host a special Scholastic Book Fair between 7:15 a.m. and 2 :30 p.m. Monday, Dec. 5 through Wednesday, Dec. 7 at Twin Oaks Middle School, 15860 Fish Point Road, Prior Lake.
From 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. Mon-day, Dec. 5 and Tuesday, Dec. 6 will be family nights, when community members and par-ents can shop at the book fair.
Funds will go toward the purchase of new graphic nov-els and picture books for the school’s media center. The sale is open to parents, children, teachers and other commu-nity members. Shoppers also can help to build classroom libraries by purchasing books for teachers through the Class-room Wish List program.
NHS hosts Parents’ Night Out Dec. 9
Prior Lake High School’s
chapter of the National Honor Society will host Parents’ Night Out from 6 to 10 p.m. Friday, Dec. 9 at the high school, 7575 150th St., Savage.
Parents can register their children, kindergarten age and older, in advance at their schools through Thursday, Dec. 1. The cost is $15 for the fi rst child and $10 for each ad-ditional child.
Parents also can sign up their children at the door on Friday, Dec. 9. The fee on that day will be $20 for the fi rst child and $15 for each subsequent child.
Permission slips are at www.priorlake-savage.k12.mn.us and also will be sent home with elementary students.
Lock-in committee meeting is Dec. 13
Parents interested in help-ing out with Prior Lake High School’s 2012 senior lock-in can attend the lock-in committee’s next meeting at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 13 in Room 125 at the high
school, 7575 150th St., Savage.
Indoor walkingtrack now open
Prior Lake High School’s indoor walking track, at 7575 150th St., Savage, is now avail-able for public use.
There is no charge to walk on the track, which will be open through March 29.
Family walking time, which allows strollers on the track, will be from 6 to 8 p.m. on Mondays and Wednesdays. Children and strollers are not permitted during adult walks, from 6 to 8 p.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
No registration is required. Guests should sign in at the lower level of the high school and go across the walking track to the gym doors.
Date and times are subject to change based on high school ac-tivities. No food or beverages, other than water, are allowed.
The track will be closed Nov. 23-24, Nov. 29, Dec. 26-29, Jan. 2 and Jan. 16.
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Bridges Area Learning Center students Wyatt Wiseman (left) and Derik Fullmer accept collections in the cafeteria at Twin Oaks Middle School on Nov. 19 during Beyond the Yellow Ribbon’s fi rst-ever Military Symposium. The students are currently in a penny war, with the proceeds going to the purchase of personal DVD players for injured soldiers in Afghanistan. Fullmer is a senior from Prior Lake while Wiseman is a sophomore from Shakopee.
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Additional information: Drop off toothbrushes, toothpaste, sweatpants, drawstring shorts, new or gently used books and DVDs, body soap and fl ip fl ops at Bridges Area Learning Center. Though the penny war is over, the school is still accepting cash donations to cover shipping costs for the care packages, which go to a combat hospital in Afghanistan.
BY MERYN FLUKER
Students at Bridges Area Learning Center began giving thanks a little early this holiday season.
Last week, the staff and students at the Prior Lake school kicked off their fi rst ever “penny war,” a fundraising competition between second-hour classes.
Students collect currency – pennies are worth positive points but all other coins, as well as bills, subtract from a group’s point total, with the goal to have the greatest number of points – with the funds going toward the purchase of portable DVD players for members of the U.S. military who have been wounded in Afghanistan.
“They’re all negative by at least 1,000 points,” said Sarah Osojnicki, the social studies teacher behind the fundraiser. “Whoever wins is probably going to be the highest negative number … I’m getting more dollars and silver coins than pennies.”
With $110 already collected, this marks the second year that students at Bridges have collected on behalf of Adopt a Hero, an organization that matches military personnel abroad with people at home who send care packages to the troops. Osojnicki found Adopt a Hero while fl ipping through a magazine last year and asked a friend and veteran about the group.
“He said it was so nice what this program does for the soldiers,” she recalled.
Osojnicki knew she couldn’t afford to do the program alone, so she took the idea to her boss, Dave Brown, who is not only the dean of students at Bridges but also an active member of the National Guard, and he told her to go for it.
Osojnicki and the rest
of the staff and students collected enough items to send 15 care packages to Afghanistan last year for Eric Chelberg, a Marine working in communication.
Among the things the students sent were toiletries, stationery, books and snacks – “anything that wasn’t chocolate,” due to the harshly hot weather.
Because Chelberg worked in communication, he was able to connect with the students. Osojnicki was teaching a class on current events and was able to have her students e-mail and chat with Chelberg about what life at war is really like. Chelberg also sent the students photos of his base and what common American things, like Mountain Dew bottles, looked like in Afghanistan.
“It helped them want to give him stuff,” Osojnicki said. “At fi rst, it was hard to get the kids going … We were able to talk to him about all the stuff that was going on with him
because it was all current events.”
Taking a cue from a former teaching colleague – who provided the penny war idea – Osojnicki hasn’t run into that same roadblock with this year’s fundraising. In fact, she stepped it up a notch. Adopt a Hero was searching for people to adopt entire combat hospitals instead of individual soldiers, and Osojnicki opted
in, calling it an opportunity for students “to do something positive and to be part of something positive, because they don’t get the chance.”
In addition to collecting money via the penny war, which ended on Tuesday, students and staff are also collecting supplies through January to send to the injured soldiers at the combat hospital. The money from
the penny war will go toward the purchase of personal DVD players for recovering soldiers at the combat hospital, many of whom cannot get out of bed due to injuries.
“I wanted to do it again because I think it’s good for the school to all come together,” she said. “I’m shocked by how involved they’re getting in this.”
Brown added: “What I’ve been really pleased about is seeing the sense of coming together at the school. Kids feel that they have a place where they are important, kind of like a family atmosphere … Kids are here typically because they haven’t felt connected to a school.”
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The four groups of students are so motivated that they’re even sabotaging each other, giving opposing teams loads of dollars and silver coins in the hopes of lowering their scores. But that’s not all; six Bridges students signed up to attend Beyond the Yellow Ribbon’s fi rst-ever Military Symposium on Nov. 19 at Twin Oaks Middle School to speak about the penny war and Adopt a Hero.
“I was really impressed,” Osojnicki said. “They did such a good job on Saturday.”
Senior Derik Fullmer, of Prior Lake, was one of the six students at the symposium.
“It was actually a lot of fun,” he said of the event. “It was defi nitely interesting, the conversations that were going on.”
People at the event not only opened their ears to hear the students’ message, many guests also opened their wallets and purses.
“She literally gave us $44,” Fullmer said of one attendee. “I was really surprised. I was expecting people to give us ones or maybe a $5 bill. It was really surprising.”
Fullmer has a personal tie to the fundraising: His father is a veteran of the fi rst Gulf War.
“The soldiers are heroes,” he said. “They’re over there fi ghting for us and helping [the
country] become more stable.”Osojnicki has also been
overwhelmed by the altruism, particularly that of her own students.
“I honestly didn’t think we’d raise this much money,” the teacher said. “I thought we’d raise maybe $30.”
Osojnicki is hoping to do the fundraisers again next year, and Brown is an emphatic proponent.
“It’s always nice to see such a wealth of initiative, support and focus from today’s youth toward those men and women who have sacrifi ced so much for this country,” Brown said. “To see that understanding from teenagers is a testimony to the hope we have for future generations.”
PHOTO BY LORI CARLSON
Bridges Area Learning Center students (from left) Eric Peterson, Joey Terpstra, Wyatt Wiseman and Derik Fullmer sit next to their social studies teacher, Sarah Osojnicki. They collected money for the school’s penny war, a fundraiser to buy portable DVD players for injured U.S. service members in an Afghanistan combat hospital.
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publicnoticesTOWN OF CREDIT RIVER
SCOTT COUNTYSTATE OF MINNESOTA
NOTICE OF HEARING ON THE PROPOSED
IMPROVEMENTS TO LYNN DRIVE,
MONTEREY AVENUE AND 207TH STREET
TO WHOM IT MAY CON-CERN:
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT the Town Board of Credit River Township, Scott County, Min-nesota, will meet at the Credit River Town Hall at 7:00 p.m. on December 7, 2011 to consider to consider a proj-ect to repair and improve portions of Lynn Drive, Monterey Avenue and 207th Street, all said improve-ments located within Credit River Township pursuant to Minnesota Statutes, Sections 420.011 to 429.111. The area proposed to be assessed are all those properties abutting or having access to said road, all located in Credit River Township. The estimated cost of the improve-ments proposed by Credit River Township is $1,194,200. A reason-able estimate of the impact of the assessment will be available at the hearing. Such persons as desire to be heard with reference to the pro-posed improvements will be heard at this meeting.Dated: November 9, 2011 Cathy Haugh Clerk,
Credit River Township(Published in the Prior Lake American on Saturday, November 19 and 26 2011; No. 7599)
WarningAn aeration system creating
open water and thin ice will be operating on the Lakefront Park Pond (Little Prior). This is an ap-proximate 13 acre pond located adjacent to Kop Parkway in Scott County, Minnesota, Township 114 & 115N, Range 22W Sections 2 & 35 in Prior Lake, Minnesota.
Weather conditions may cause the areas of thin ice and open water to fl uctuate greatly.
Stay clear of the marked areas. If there are any questions concern-ing this aeration system, please call Al Friedges with the City of Prior Lake at 952-447-9852
Please Use Extreme Caution(Published in the Prior Lake American on Saturday, November 26 and December 3, 2011; No. 7600)
CITY OF PRIOR LAKENOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING
ON INTENTION TO ISSUEGENERAL OBLIGATION
CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PLAN BONDS
AND THE PROPOSAL TO ADOPT A CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PLAN
THEREFORNOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN,
that the City Council of the City of Prior Lake, Minnesota, will meet on December 19, 2011, at 7:00 p.m. at the City Hall, 4646 Dakota Street SE, in Prior Lake, Minnesota, for the purpose of conducting a public hearing on (a) the intention to issue general obligation capital improve-ment plan bonds in an amount not to exceed $10,000,000 and (b) the proposal to adopt a capital improve-ment plan therefor. The proceeds of the bonds will be used to fi nance the acquisition of the existing City Hall and Police Station from the Economic Development Authority of the City of Prior Lake, Minnesota (the “EDA”), the lessor of the City Hall/municipal center and police station facilities under the outstand-ing lease to purchase agreement and refund the EDA’s outstanding prin-cipal amount of its Public Project Revenue Bonds, Series 2005B (City of Prior Lake, Minnesota Lease With Option to Purchase Project), dated May 15, 2005 in anticipation of reducing debt service costs to the City.
All persons interested may ap-pear and be heard at the time and place set forth above.
If a petition requesting a vote on the issuance of the bonds is signed by voters equal to fi ve per-cent of the votes cast in the City in the last general election and is fi led with the City within thirty days after the public hearing, the bonds may only be issued upon obtaining the approval of the majority of the voters voting on the question of is-suing the bonds.
Individuals unable to attend the public hearing can make writ-ten comment by writing to the City Manager, Prior Lake City Hall, 4646 Dakota Street SE, Prior Lake, Minnesota 55372-1776. Written comments must be received prior to the date and time of the public hearing.
BY ORDER OF THE CITY COUNCIL
City Manager(Published in the Prior Lake American on Saturday, November 26 and December 3, 10, 2011; No. 7601; No. 7601)
WarningAn aeration system creating
open water and thin ice will be operating on Crystal Lake. Crystal Lake is located adjacent to Panama Avenue in Scott County, Minnesota, Township 114, Range22, Sections 10 and 11 in Prior Lake, Minnesota.
Weather conditions may cause the areas of thin ice and open water to fl uctuate greatly.
Stay clear of marked areas.If there are any questions con-
cerning the aeration system, please call Al Friedges with the City of Prior Lake at 952-447-9852(Published in the Prior Lake American on Saturday, November 26 and December 3, 2011; No. 7602)
INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT 719
4540 Tower Street SEPrior Lake, Minnesota 55372
Regular School Board Meeting Minutes
of the Board of EducationThe regular meeting of the
Board of Education of Independent School District 719 was called to order by Board Chair Pratt, in the board room at the District Services Center on October 10, 2011 at 7:03 p.m.
Board Members Present: Ander-son, Murray (7:37 pm), Pratt, Ruelle, Shimek, Sorensen, Wolf, Student Council Rep. Chris Sticha
Administration Present: Super-intendent Gruver, Director of Cur-riculum, Instruction & Assessment
Holmberg, Director of Business Affairs Cink, Director of Human Resources Mons
A motion was made by Tom An-derson, seconded by Stacey Ruelle, to approve the agenda.
Motion carried: 6 – 0In the absence of the board
clerk/treasurer Murray, Chair Pratt appointed Tom Anderson to serve as acting clerk/treasurer pro tem.
A motion was made by Tom Anderson, seconded by Lee Shimek, to approve the consent agenda as follows:
On fi le at the DSCMotion carried: 6 – 0A motion was made by Rich
Wolf, seconded by Stacey Ruelle, to approve the following candidates for employment, as presented:
On fi le at the DSCMotion carried: 6 - 0A motion was made by Lee
Shimek, seconded by Tom Ander-son, to approve the following leaves of absences, as presented:
On fi le at the DSCMotion carried: 6 – 0A motion was made by Todd So-
rensen, seconded by Stacey Ruelle, to approve the following substitute teachers for 2011-12, as presented.
(on fi le at the DSC)Motion carried: 6 – 0Clerk/Treasurer Murray en-
tered at this time.A motion was made by Lee
Shimek, seconded by Tom Ander-son, to approve the 2012-13 school calendar, as presented.
Voting in favor: Anderson, Mur-ray, Ruelle, Shimek, Wolf
Voting against: Pratt, Sorens-en
Motion carried: 5 – 2(Calendar is located on our
website)Member Murray introduced the
following resolution and moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION RATIFYING THE AWARD OF THE SALE, DE-TERMINING THE FORM AND DETAILS, AUTHORIZING THE EXECUTION, DELIVERY, AND REGISTRATION, AND PROVIDING FOR THE PAYMENT OF GENERAL OBLIGATION SCHOOL BUILDING REFUNDING BONDS, SERIES 2011A
The motion for the adoption of the foregoing resolution was duly seconded by Member Ruelle, and upon vote being taken thereon, the following voted in favor thereof:
Anderson, Murray, Pratt, Ru-elle, Shimek, Sorensen, Wolf
and the following voted against the same: none
whereupon said resolution was declared duly passed and adopted.
(full resolution on file at the district offi ce)
A motion was made by Todd So-rensen, seconded by Tom Anderson, to approve a middle school Wash-ington DC trip for 8th graders for October 17-22, 2012, as presented.
Motion carried: 7 – 0Member Lee Shimek introduced
the following Resolution and moved its adoption:
RESOLUTIONNOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RE-
SOLVED, that the governing Board of Prior Lake-Savage Area Schools, ISD 719, hereby supports engaging more students initiative and the district’s request for funding from the Minnesota State High School League Foundation.
Member Stacey Ruelle seconded the foregoing Resolution and upon a vote being taken thereon, the follow-ing voted in favor thereof: Ander-son, Murray, Pratt, Ruelle, Shimek, Sorensen, Wolf and the following voted against the same: none
Whereupon said Resolution was declared duly passed and adopted.
A motion was made by Lee Shimek, seconded by Todd So-rensen, to close the meeting for the purpose of discussing negotiation strategy.
Motion carried: 7 – 0The meeting closed at 8:45 p.m.
in accordance with the open meet-ing law (Minn. Stat. 13D.03).
A motion was made by Lee Shimek, seconded by Todd Sorens-en, to reopen the meeting.
Motion carried: 7 – 0Meeting reconvened at 9:57
p.m.A motion was made by Stacey
Ruelle, seconded by Todd Sorensen, to adjourn.
Motion carried: 7 - 0Meeting adjourned at 9:58 p.m.Mike Murray, Clerk/Treasurer
Independent School District 7194540 Tower Street SE
Prior Lake, MN 55372(Published in the Prior Lake American on Saturday, November 26, 2011; No. 7603)
INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT 719
4540 Tower Street SEPrior Lake, Minnesota 55372
Regular School Board Meeting Minutes
of the Board of EducationThe regular meeting of the
Board of Education of Independent School District 719 was called to order by Board Chair Pratt, in the board room at the District Services Center on October 24, 2011 at 7:00 p.m.
Board Members Present: An-derson, Murray, Pratt, Ruelle, So-rensen, Wolf, Student Council Rep. Chris Sticha
Board Members Absent: Vice Chair Shimek
Administration Present: Super-intendent Gruver, Director of Cur-riculum, Instruction & Assessment Holmberg, Director of Business Affairs Cink, Director of Human Resources Mons
A motion was made by Mike Murray, seconded by Stacey Ru-elle, to approve the agenda, as amended.
Motion carried: 6 – 0A motion was made by Mike
Murray to add a Finance Commit-tee report as an agenda item (D). Chair Pratt requested the Youth Appreciation Week and American Education Week Proclamations be moved under new business.
Motion carried: 6 - 0A motion was made by Todd
Sorensen, seconded by Stacey Ru-elle, to approve the consent agenda as follows:
On fi le at the DSCMotion carried: 6 – 0A motion was made by Tom An-
derson, seconded by Todd Sorensen, to approve the following candidates for employment, as presented:
On fi le at the DSC
Motion carried: 6 - 0A motion was made by Rich
Wolf, seconded by Stacey Ruelle, to approve the following leave of absence, as presented:
On fi le at the DSCMotion carried: 6 – 0A motion was made by Mike
Murray, seconded by Todd So-rensen, to approve the 2011-12 board goals, as presented.
Motion carried: 6 – 0(On fi le at the district offi ce)A motion was made by Todd So-
rensen, seconded by Tom Anderson, to approve the 2011-12 superinten-dent goals, as presented.
Motion carried: 6 – 0(On fi le at the district offi ce)A motion was made by Todd So-
rensen, seconded by Stacey Ruelle, to approve the adoption of the 2011-12 operational plan, as presented.
Motion carried: 6 – 0(On fi le at the district offi ce)A motion was made by Stacey
Ruelle, seconded by Tom Anderson, to approve the Youth Appreciation Week Proclamation, as presented.
Motion carried: 6 – 0A motion was made by Todd So-
rensen, seconded by Stacey Ruelle, to approve the American Education Week Proclamation, as presented.
Motion carried: 6 - 0 POLICYThe Policy Committee pre-
sented the following policies for a fi rst reading:
1) 807: Naming of School Buildings or Facilities
2) 610: Field TripsSecond and fi nal reading will
take place on November 14, 2011.A motion was made by Tom An-
derson, seconded by Todd Sorensen, to close the meeting for the purpose of discussing negotiation strategy.
Motion carried: 6 – 0The meeting closed at 7:55 p.m.
in accordance with the open meet-ing law (Minn. Stat. 13D.03).
A motion was made by Mike Murray, seconded by Tom Ander-son, to reopen the meeting.
Motion carried: 6 – 0Meeting reconvened at 9:07
p.m.A motion was made by Stacey
Ruelle, seconded by Tom Anderson, to adjourn.
Motion carried: 6 - 0Meeting adjourned at 9:08 p.m.Mike Murray, Clerk/Treasurer
Independent School District 7194540 Tower Street SE
Prior Lake, MN 55372(Published in the Prior Lake American on Saturday, November 26, 2011; No. 7604)
Public NoticeNovember 15, 2011
(Offi cial Publication)Linda Bond
GeneralPaul R. Seiler
Territorial CommanderLt. Colonel Daniel Sjogren
Divisional CommanderThe Salvation Army will ad-
minister for the Federal Emergency Management Agency Local Board #485910, Phase 29 Allocations.
Agencies who may apply:Any non-profit organization
or government agency providing emergency food and shelter for people in the Dakota/Washington/Scott/Carver County area may apply immediately through The Salvation Army.
Thirty nine thousand one hun-dred eighteen dollars ($39,118) is the total allocation appropriated by Congress for direct services through the Emergency Food and Shelter Program for Dakota, Washington, Scott and Carver Counties. Funds are utilized to supplement and extend emergency food and shelter programs. They are not intended to be used for on-going operating expenses.
Please indicate your interest as soon as possible, by requesting an application for funding. Call The Salvation Army at 651-746-3541.Deadlines for Proposals: November 30, 2011(Published in the Prior Lake American on Saturday, November 26, 2011; No. 7605)
NOTICE OF SALE AND DISPOSAL
OF PROPERTYNotice is hereby given that the
personal property listed below will be sold at public auction held on Date: December 05, 2011, at Time: 10:05 AM. Location of Auction: 240 Shumway Street, Suite 600, Shako-pee, MN, 55379. Description of the goods and name of the person(s) whose personal property is to be sold is as follows: Unit F16 5W x 10L x 13H Christina O’Connor of Sha-kopee Minnesota: All the contents of unit: may include: “Antiques, Collectibles, Electronics, and Tools, Boxes, Totes, Furniture, Clothing, Household belongings or Garage articles and much more!”
Kevin HauerwasGeneral Manager
Scott Co. Mini StorageOffi ce 952-445-6858
(Published in the Prior Lake American on Saturday, November 26 and December 3, 2011; No. 7606)
Public Notice
deadline for the
Prior Lake American is at Noon on Tuesday for
the following Saturday edition.
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Whirlpool, Refrigerator ,23 cf 68", 36" wide,$200. 612-578-5560
Wheelchair, new. $85.Cash 952-440-3357
Weather tech floormats. Fits Jeep Patriot.$50. 952-448-4474
Vintage wood Creche &Ladder 13-1/2x61/2x9-1/2. 10 figures. $40.952-938-5050
TV 40in. HD RCA Pro-jection, good condition.$185. 952-440-3357
Toolbox, Craftsman,gray, 2-piece, 8 draw-ers. Like new, $100.612-817-2430
Sofa, custom madeEthan Allan, cream col-ored. 94", $300. 612-619-5804
Snowshoes, new, adult,Sherpa, alum, 26"x8",$40. 651-755-2924
Snowboard boots, mens9.5, by Morrow, greatcondition, $40. 952-975-0473
Snowblower, Jacobsen-Homelite. 4hp, 20" sin-gle stage, electric start,$240. 952-496-0672
Snow blower, HondaHS55, 22"cut, 2stage,Trac drive, $175. 952-496-1672
Single hollywood bedframe, $15. 952-445-7735
Wheelchair, Breezy Ul-tra. $325. 952-445-8775
Sandicast Beagle,10"x6"x5", wicker bas-ket. Brown, black eyes.$45. 952-938-5050
Prelit 6ft Christmas treelike new. $35. cash.952-445-4375
Portable fish house,.Good condition, usedvery little. $50. 952-873-3429
Portable basketballhoop, $45. 612-454-7102
Porcelain doll, victorian22", Chantell, browndress, pretty, $12. 952-447-4961
Philips, Norelco, shaver.Corded, cordless use.$35. 952-938-5050
Panimage 10.1" digitalframe. Stores 2500 im-ages. New. $50. 651-402-9109
Ornaments, 19 Hall-mark, 7 Carlton cardsheirloom collection. $25.952-440-6719
Organ, electric, older,good condition, $25.952-873-3429
Oak coffee table, rect-angular shape, excellentcondition. $50. 952-237-8576
Mink coat, full length.Size 14, perfect condi-tion, $500. 952-938-1298
Large, antique, cast ironscalding pot, $75. b/o612-454-7102
King size mattress withbox springs. Great con-dition, $200. 612-205-1306
Kids dresser, shelfsdrawers, 3. TV standtan, $75. 952-465-9862
Kenmore, electric dryer.Rarely used, great con-dition. $85. 612-701-3018
Hoveround MobilityMPV5 chair. Used 6months, $1350. Call952-448-7776
Hide a bed couch, tanstriped. $40. 612-385-5198
Gulbransen Paragon or-gan with bench. Free952-445-9797
Go Cart 8.0, new motorruns great. $500. b/o612-799-9806
GLASS KILN Oval 25"Evenheat, 9" deep, withstand and 2 halfshelves. $800. 612-718-0442
Girl's ice skates, size 5,white, red piping. $20.612-695-6243
Freezer, Whirlpool up-right. Cash, $50. 952-829-5335
Foosball table,Sportcraft, great condi-tion, $25. 952-949-2276
Fine china, Wentworth"Camelot". 97 pieces,never used. $250. 952-496-0672
Entertainment center,oak, corner unit, goodcondition, $150/ BO,952-448-5229
Ellen Tracy blackleather handbag, withdust bag. $35. 651-336-9300.
Dresser, 3 drawers,white. 30HX36W, greatcondition, $35. 952-465-9862
Dog house, 28W x 42Lx 34H, perfect. Free.952-474-8095
Dining room set, $50. 952-445-7735
Crystal stemware, Nori-take, Provincial blue,sherbets, wines, gob-lets, $60. 952-975-0473
Corner Oak entertain-ment center, Speakers,shelves adjust, $200.952-448-4823
Color Toshiba television27”. Good condition,$15. 612-594-0091
Christmas train, indooroutdoor, 3D holigraphic,like new. $40. 952-445-4378
China, 45pc, white w/el-egant gold trim, Crown-Ming, new, $250. 952-949-2276
Burton snowboard andboots. $200 or b/o. 612-801-7586
Brown, leather lift chair.With heat, massage$450. 952-445-8775
Blackberry curve 8330plus accessories, charg-er, bluetooth, holster.$95. 952-210-5270
Bed skirt, comforter withshams, with pillows.Queen $95. 952-448-4620
Beachbody Turbofire.11 DVDs. Brand new.$69.99http://tinyurl.com/7dw3qey
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Bar stools, Antique sil-ver tubular steel. Plushcushions. $105. 952-496-2493
Bakugan collection. 60Bakugan, 125 magneticcards, more. $40.952-440-6719
Artifical fiberoptic christ-mas tree, 30", silver,Good condition, $10.952-447-4961
Apple Laptop iBook G4Latest OS Excellentcondition. $169. 612-839-2933
Apple 14" iBook G4,10.5 OS, excellent con-dition. $200. 612-839-2933
Antique pump organ,oak. Free. 952-445-4858
Aeropostale girls M,winter jacket. Faux furhood. $35. 651-755-2924
70lb. Everlast Heavy-bag, free to first taker.952-975-3828
52” round oak table, 3leaves, $500/BO, 952-492-6512
50"x90" pool table +cues, etc. Good condi-tion, $250. 952-440-7615
46" Mitsubishi 1080p hdprojection tv for sale.$150. 952-240-5624
39x24, 2 drawer teakdesk, $30. 952-403-9352
3, Fordson F1918-1929tractor parts operators,repair manuals. $160.952-496-0672
28X22X24 Maple chil-dren's table. With 2chairs, cute, $50. 952-403-9352
2 rocker recliners.Brown, excellent condi-tion, $150. 952-237-8576
10-1/2” Toolshop woodplanner, $90. 952-873-3429
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30+ Vendors ShakopeeTown Square Mall, Arts,Crafts & Small BusinessFair. Doggie Duds,Quilts, Cutting boards,Crochet items, NOR-WEX, Avon, Lia Sophia,Synergy, Tastefully Sim-ple, Wooden BottleStoppers, Pens, Pam-pered Chef, Wine BottleCovers, Unique GardenSigns & More. Hwy 169& 69N., Shakopee. Sat.12/3, 10am-5pm.
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HUGE Holiday Bazaar
November 27, 2011 11am-4pm
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1244 Canterbury Road,Shakopee MN
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Looking for a mature,responsible, detail ori-ented individual with awillingness to clean.Must be willing to worka flexible schedule, av-eraging 10-15 hours perweek. Evenings, rotat-ing weekends and holi-days are required. Per-manent position. CallAnne 952-447-2855 ore-mail [email protected].
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PT School Custodianneeded for AspenAcademy in PriorLake. Send cover let-ter and resume to:
Line Cook, Wait Staff,Part time Host(ess)wanted. Breakfast expe-rienced required. Canlead to full-time. 952-447-6668
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Cook's positionEO weekend and EOholiday. Exp. a must.
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Head CustodianFull time, at ShakopeeJunior High. Grade 7 po-sition $16.72-$18.68based on experience.Coordinate work ofbuilding custodians; im-plements and followsmaintenance program.Must have 1st Classboilers license.
Please visitwww.shakopee.k12.mn.usfor full job description
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Full-TimeFull-Time
Job Fair Wednesdayfrom 9am-12pm forFood Production Work.Call 952-924-9000 formore information
Full-Time
Framing, Siding and Window CarpentersWanted with all levels of experience. Positions arefull time and benefits eligible. Must have valid D/L,reliable transportation and be able to pass back-ground check, drug screen and physical. Call our jobline at 952-380-3720 or send resume to:
Resource Conservation TechnicianScott Soil and Water Conservation District in Jor-dan is seeking a full-time Conservation ResourceTechnician ($35,450 to $45,700 plus benefits). Du-ties include resource planning, problem evaluation,landowner interaction and conservation practiceapplications. Bachelor's degree in natural resourcemanagement, civil or agricultural engineering, wa-tershed management or related field required. Pre-fer surveying, designing and installing rural and ur-ban BMP experience, with emphasis on nativeprairie plantings, wetland restorations and otherecological practices. Applications due by Dec. 2.Visit www.scottswcd.org for complete job descrip-tion and application or call (952) 492-5425. EOE
Fireplace Installer Position
Exc. benefits, medical,dental, 401k, etc. Gas fit-ting exp. preferred.HVAC or constructionexp. required. Fax re-sume: 952-492-6006.
BIFFS, INC: Men &Women Drivers neededto Clean, Deliver, Pick-up portable restrooms.Not just a job; a career.FT/OT. Local Routes.Full benefits package.Locally Owned & Oper-ated. EOE/AA Employer& DOT Compliant.
Application REQUIRED:
8610 Hansen Ave,Shakopee, MN 55379 or
online: www.biffsinc.com
email:[email protected]
B2B TelemarketerNeeded for Savage office.
$7.55-13/hr based onperformance + bonus &
incentives. No weekendsor evenings. Call
Cheyenne 952-440-0600.
ASSOCIATE TRAINEEReal Estate CareerExcellent Potential
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Farmland for Sale &Wanted. Randy Kubes,Realtor... 612-599-7440
Lots/Acreage
CHEAP Houses! Fore-closures, Bank Owned& Short Sales in ScottCounty under $30k! Getthe list at:www.SouthMetroForeclosures.com Re/Max
3BR, 2BA, 3 car garage.Contract for deed termswith 5% down. $177,900.Randy Kubes, Realtor612-599-7440
Houses
REAL ESTATE
1 & 2 BR apartments,$400-$550. Private en-trance. Norwood/ YA.612-750-7436
SW Metro RentalsOther Areas
Sandalwood Studios-full kitchenettes, nightly/weekly/ monthly ratesavailable. 952-277-0100
Shakopee Rentals
Oak Ridge Hotel and Conference Center in Chaskais looking for a full time Conference Services Set-Up/Banquet Houseperson. Primary responsibilitiesinclude setting up, refreshing and tearing down allmeeting rooms and banquet functions. The qualifiedcandidate must be detail oriented and have strongcommunication and organizational skills. Flexibilityto work varied hours and lift 75 lbs is also required.IT skills are a plus.
Email resume to: [email protected]
Resource Conservationist II:Scott Soil and Water Conservation District is seeking afull-time Resource Conservationist II ($47,000-$56,000plus benefits). Diverse resource planning, problemevaluation, landowner interaction and conservationpractice background. BS in natural resourcemanagement, civil or agricultural engineering,watershed management or related field AND three yearsof related professional work experience. Applicationdue by Dec. 2. Visit www.scottswcd.org for completejob description and application or call (952) 492-5425.EOE
Reporter, full-timeThe Litchfield Independent Review has an openingfor a motivated, enthusiastic staff writer to join ouraward-winning news team. Strong reporting, writ-ing and communication skills a must. Journalismdegree preferred, although we will train the rightcandidate. Duties will include covering everything from gov-ernment meetings, courts and crime, feature storiesand more. Competitive pay and benefits package.Send resume to Brent Schacherer, general manager,
Litchfield Independent Review, P.O. Box 307,Litchfield, MN 55355 or e-mail:[email protected]
TOP JOBB2B Telemarketer
Needed for Savage office.
$7.55-13/hr based on
performance
plus bonus & incentives.
No weekends or evenings.
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See this & other employment adsin this week’s Classifieds
Hillview MotelMicro/ Refrig. Weekly$175 & Up. Daily, $35& Up. 952-445-7111
Arlington Ridge Apts2 BR Apts. For Rent
Updated unit-Ready formove in!
Starting at $805CALL 952-496-3281
1219 S. Taylor St. #103
3BR/1BA $800. Apt. Re-model!Safe,cln,brght,quiet,Privdeck,plygrnd 1yr lse Nr-Cub/Marshall 722Gar-den Ln 612-325-7954
2BR, 1.5BA + Den.1450 SF Townhome. 2car garage. Today'sdecorators colors. Firsttime out for rent. Accessto Hwy 169. Tonapah &Lyons Park. Quietneighborhood. CallKaye 952-607-0798
1 BR apt., $630/mth,utilities paid. Non-smok-ing. No pets. 12/1. 952-457-5003
1 BR APARTMENTSection 8 projectLow income rent to
qualifying persons. Age 62or older. 30% of income
Smoke-free units availableShakopee Housing
952-403-1086
Shakopee Rentals
1BR, No dogs allowed.Available immediately.Starting at $600/mth.952-448-2333
Savage Rentals
Single person to sharehouse on Prior Lake,open lower level.$700/mth. Novemberfree. Have to have job.406-647-2776
Prior Lake- Lg 1 BR,$595/ mo. 2 BR. $765/mo. Available now. Pa-tio/ balcony, cats OK,please call 952-653-2105, 952-594-1791, or651-470-4017
Large 2BR + Den, 2 carW/D. Utilities included,$900. 952-210-9732
3BR 1BA apartment.Detached garage. $895.Randy 952-270-9221
2BR in quiet 4-plex. Nopets, $700. 952-496-3485
2 BR, large apartment.Quiet, non-smoking, 4-plex. $750, 612-202-4676
2 BR condo, garage.Pet OK. Includes water,sewer, $925. Availablenow. 952-440-4112
1 BR. Large apartmentin secured N/S 4-plex.$685. 763-478-8715
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1 & 2 BR apartments.Heat included. $575-$675/ mth. 612-749-7667
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1997 Ford Conversion,244,000 well maintainedmiles, HD tow package,$1,200.00 OBO, lotsnew, email for [email protected] 612-210-7303
Vans
2002 Ford Expedition,original owner, 4.6 liter,A/C, 6CD, third rowseat, no accidents, runs,looks very good.$5,700. 952-270-8292
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2004 Chevy SilveradoZ71 Ext. Cab. 77,XXXperfect cond. Loaded,leather, Bose, 6Disc,Topper and many xtras.$15,700 B/O 612-203-0804
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1993 Ford F150, 4x4,new motor, 35k, lift kit,dual tanks. ARIZONATRUCK, NO RUST,$6000 OBO, Chanhas-sen, 505-803-8232
1993 Chevrolet Subur-ban 4X4, 260K, startsand runs great, bodyrusty, great winter vehi-cle, asking $1200, 952-447-4946
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1964 Chevy C20, 350engine, 350 auto tranny,every bolt, nut, part re-placed, or sandblastedand painted. 8K. RE-DUCED- $12,500. 952-913-7808
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Pontiac Grand Prix 1980301 Engine, 4.9 Liter, 4Barrel Overhead, NewFuel Pump, Alternator,Battery Heater,129500K, $1800. 612-418-5159
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2009 Chev Cobalt LT.Purchased/ driven local-ly, like brand new,21,000K. Black, Spoiler,PW, PL, Cruise, CD,non-smoker, more!$12,400. 952-215-5421
2000 Jaguar XJR. Wellmaintained. $9700 Sil-ver and black interior,83,000 miles. Call 612-655-6680
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1998 Dodge Stratus, 6cyl, AT. 156K. $1,500.952-445-6173
1987 Oldsmobile Cut-lass Cierra, silver edi-tion. Loaded! Only109,000K miles. V-6, 4door, $1,100/BO. 952-426-5657
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1976 Classic CadillacConvertible. Lowmileage. 8 cyl. 440 en-gine. Complete factsavailable by calling.559-435-3751
1976 Chevy Novahatchback, 305 AT, newtires & exhaust. Runs/drives great, fun car todrive! $3,000/BO. 952-447-8169
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1972 rare triple black'Cuda, with high com-pression 340 HP. 727slapstick tranny. Posi-rearend, PS, bucketseats, Recession re-duced!! $42,500. 612-804-4074
1968 T-Bird, 429 auto-matic, new gas tank,tires, fuel pump, send-ing unit, brakes. Runs.Needs Restoration.Asking $1500. 952-448-2015
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2000 Harley Davidson883 Sportster, wife'sbike, never rode, mustgo. 1300 miles, Lots,lots of extras, mint!$7000. 952-890-0905
1994 Harley HeritageSofttail, 26300k, all ser-vice records avail, extraset of pipes. $7500. CallMike @ 612-309-6737
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2004 41' SportsCoachElite. Fully equipped.23,000K. Well-main-tained. 3 slides.$100,000. 952-797-6264
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1998 Holiday RamblerVacationer 36' mo-torhome, great condi-tion, sleeps 6, 60,000miles, $31,900 or bestoffer. Call Gary at 952-492-1129.
1996 Itasca SuncruiserMotorhome. Class A,39'. Excellent condition,shedded at all times/winterized. Loaded!29,300 actual miles.$35,000/BO. 507-665-6019
1991 Fleetwood South-wind Motorhome, ClassA, 33ft. Only 38k miles!Smooth runner, fullyloaded, sleeps 6, hy-draulic leveler, $10,500,612-669-4172
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Giving without expectationWhen I arrived at the
shelter Tuesday evening, several other volunteers were already scurrying around, placing sleeping mats on the fl oor, cooking dinner and folding blankets for the people who would arrive in less than an hour.
For the second season, the lower level of a Minneapolis church is offering shelter to 50 homeless men and women – the “guests” – throughout winter and into spring.
Groups volunteer each night to prepare meals for the guests, and a homeless advocate is on staff to oversee the overnight operation.
Last year, when the shelter fi rst opened, my best friend and I wound up coordinating all of the volunteers and meal groups – lack of funding didn’t allow for a paid volunteer coordinator. We thoroughly exhausted ourselves as we juggled full-time jobs, night classes and family. This year, a full-time coordinator was hired, and we’ve shifted our focus to a more intentional approach of spending time with the guests to help them fi nd resources.
My personal focus is on listening to the guests rather than trying to fi x them. Too quickly, the wheels churn in my head and I imagine a list of tasks that could be completed to help each guest expeditiously overcome homelessness.
But it’s more complicated than that. Some of the guests suffer from severe mental illness and don’t have access to the care and medications they need. Some guests have alcohol and substance-abuse addictions, and life on the streets has only exacerbated their problems. Many of the guests have jobs and some work full-time, but their wages aren’t enough to afford permanent housing. And increasingly, many guests are homeless for the fi rst time after losing jobs and subsequently losing their homes. They struggle to fi nd work in an economy where hundreds of people apply for each job and the competition is fi erce. Out of exhaustion and frustration, and without the resources many of us have to fall back on, some give up all together.
I had been away from volunteering for most of the
summer while I worked on a writing project, and being back in the presence of so much need and so much help was both devastating and exhilarating.
I make the decision to drive from Savage to downtown Minneapolis several times each month not because there aren’t opportunities closer to home, but because the shelter presented itself to my best friend and me somewhat serendipitously, and we’ve committed to making a difference there together.
I thought about the journey of how the shelter came to be on my drive home Tuesday night, and when I picked up my son from his aunt’s house, he ran into my arms and excitedly asked, “Mommy! Did you help the people who don’t have houses?” My heart nearly leaped from my chest.
I recognize that my gift of time is valuable to the shelter coordinators and, I hope, is of some benefi t to the guests. And the personal reward of heightened awareness is immeasurable for me. But more important than any of those things, I’m serving as a role model for my son, who, at the age of 3, is already glimpsing what it means to give without the expectation of getting anything in return.
Amy Lyon is the editor of the Savage Pacer. She can be reached at 952-345-6376 or [email protected].
Amy
LYONCOMMENTARY
BIRTH
PannkukJeremy and Teresa Pannkuk of Prior Lake announce the
birth of their daughter, Ava Marie Pannkuk, at 2:37 a.m. Nov. 4, 2011 at St. Francis Regional Medical Center in Shakopee.
She weighed 7.1 pounds and was 20.5 inches long. She has blue eyes and black hair.
Grandparents are Jerome and Charleen Johnson of Sun City West, Ariz. and Jim and Joan Pannkuk of Faribault.
Ava will be baptized at St. Catherine’s Church on Dec. 4.
WEDDING
PET OF THE WEEK
Vincent and Launa Russo
Possum
Launa LouAnn Phillips and Vincent Joseph Russo were married Oct. 15, 2011 at Tampa Bay Watch, Tierra Verde, Fla.
Parents of the bride are Ronald and the late Lois Ann Phillips, formerly of Prior Lake.
Parents of the g room are Vincent Russo and Pat Jones.
The bride graduated from Prior Lake High School in 1990 and is employed by Clear Channel Radio as a co-host on the Catfi sh Morning Show on WFUS, Tampa, Fla.
The groom graduated from River Ridge High School in New Port Richey, Fla. and is East Coast-area manager for Automobili Lamborghini.
Possum got her name be-cause she’s a cute little thing and her foster likes Dame Edna, who calls everyone she likes “possums.” Possum the cat was born outside in a barn to a very nice mom who is going back to the farm. She’s been lucky because she’s had two moms – Kit Kat, her real mom, and Lanikai, her mom’s friend who let Possum and her siblings nurse on her, too. Possum has two brothers and four sisters, but they already have found homes. Possum would like to go to a home with another cat or with Lanikai. Call Possum’s foster home at (952) 882-6302 for
more information.All cats and kittens live in
foster homes and are socialized. They have been vet-checked, fe-line leukemia/FIV tested nega-tive, and have required shots. All cats over 6 months of age have been spayed or neutered. All kittens under 6 months receive a certifi cate for a free spay/neuter included in the adoption fee. All cats and kit-tens come with a welcome pack including free food, blanket, coupons, treats and discounts at Pet Supplies Plus.
This pet is being fostered at Rainbow Animal Rescue in Pri-or Lake. If you can give a pet a
home, call (952) 440-3824, e-mail [email protected], or visit Pet Supplies Plus in Burnsville from noon to 3 p.m. every Saturday. Pets also can be viewed online at www.petfi nder.com (enter zip code 55372).
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