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Truth in Taxation hear-ings don’t draw a lot of crowds. The annual December meetings that are held by various units of govern-ment offer presentations and information regarding the current budget cycle and the impact on taxpay-

ers. Among the frequent criticisms of the hearings is that they are held too late in the budget cycle when there’s no chance to influence changes and the reporting requirements fall short of providing clarity. A bill introduced in

Legislation may change budget reporting

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Principal opens a whole new world

by Jennifer ChickSUN THISWEEK


North Trail Elementary Prin-cipal Steven Geis is making the world a smaller place for his stu-dents as he shares the experience of building a vocational school in the Dominican Republic this week. Geis, along with approxi-mately 50 other volunteers, is part of a Lifetouch Memory Mis-sion to build a vocational school for children in the small moun-tainous farming community of Constanza, Dominican Repub-lic. While there, Geis and other volunteers will work on a variety of projects alongside Dominican nationals. “I truly believe you get more than you receive,” Geis said last Friday before leaving on the trip. As an educator, Geis can’t wait to share his experience with his students at North Trail. While in Constanza, he will use Skype to communicate with his students at North Trail, sharing his expe-rience and answering questions. He is excited about the educa-tional and communication op-portunities this trip might afford

Republicans, DFLers to meet Tuesday, Feb. 4

by Tad JohnsonSUN THISWEEK


Precinct caucuses gen-erate the most interest during presidential elec-tion years, but the chance for neighbors to talk about politics bring out many people even on a cold win-ter night. The Republican and DFL parties will host cau-cuses at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 4, with straw polls, discussions about party platform resolutions and delegate elections all on the docket. Registration starts at 6:30 p.m. The partisan events serve as the unofficial start to the 2014 campaign sea-son, though many candi-dates have been hard at work on their campaigns for months. Among the high profile races, several Republican candidates are vying for the party’s endorsement in the gubernatorial race for a chance to face Gov. Mark Dayton. Among

those candidates are state Sen. Dave Thompson, R-Lakeville. At least six Republi-cans have announced that they will vie for endorse-ment for the chance to

face U.S. Sen. Al Franken in the general election. Three Democrats have said they will seek the party’s endorsement in the 2nd Congressional Dis-trict race.

Those candidates in-clude Mike Obermuel-ler, who lost to U.S. Rep. John Kline, R-Burnsville, in the 2012 election. The two other candidates are Thomas Craft and Paula

Overby. All Minnesota House seats will be elected this year. DFL Chairman Ken Martin, of Eagan, said precinct caucuses are a great way for people to meet their neighbors, dis-cuss issues important to their community and serve as the unofficial start to the 2014 election season. “DFLers have a lot to talk about as we get ready to re-elect Gov. Dayton, Sen. Franken, our con-gressional delegation and a House DFL majority,” Martin said. “Caucuses are the ev-ery-other-year open door that citizens have to be-come actively involved in the political process,” Senate District 57 Repub-lican Chairman Pat Staley said. “Attending gives one the opportunity to have a voice on the candidates their political party choos-es and the issues they em-phasize. There are other avenues to get involved, and our party and can-didates are welcoming of new folks at any time, but

Caucuses aim to have voices be heard

Apple Valley Precinct 7 chairman Rob Wills passed out straw vote ballots during Re-publican precinct caucuses night in 2012 at Rosemount High School. (Photo by Rick Orndorf)

This is one of the slides from NAIOP’s Transpar-ency Project budget pre-sentation that used Dakota County as an example. The graphic on the left shows the typical reporting done by units of govern-ment, and the graphic on the right shows government spending by type, one of the suggested features that would be added to govern-ment financial reporting if NAIOP’s proposed legisla-tion were passed in 2014.

JC Twisted Photography captures life’s

important moments

by Jennifer ChickSUN THISWEEK


Wedding photographers Jen-ny and Casey Hamborg have a unique opportunity to capture that special day for the couples they work with, but they might just be able to dispense a little bit of wedding wisdom along the way. After all, the couple and business owners have been married for almost seven years and they have been together for 17 years, since they were junior high sweethearts at a Minnesota summer camp. The husband and wife team own and operate JC Twisted Photography, based in Farming-ton. The business started when Jenny was studying graphic de-sign and took several photog-raphy classes. The photography bug bit and then traveled on to Casey, an audio engineer. After dabbling with photog-raphy for several years, the cou-ple decided to shoot their first wedding in 2011. From that first year of five or six weddings, JC Twisted Photography’s wedding business has steadily grown to as many as 25 weddings last sum-mer. “At the rate we’re going, we’re kind of planning to fill up

the summer,” Casey said. And after a good showing with a lot of contacts at last week’s Twin Cit-ies Wedding Fair, the Hamborgs are looking forward to meeting even more couples. “Each of our weddings that we have been to has been unique in its own way,” Jenny said. There have been glamorous weddings and weddings in cof-fee shops, winter weddings and summer weddings. Next week they will be shooting engage-

ment pictures at an ice rink. “There’s been really great mo-ments in all of them,” Casey said. “They are all like our kids. We love them all the same.” Couples are

looking for ideas to make their day unique and one-of-a-kind, the Hamborgs noted. “I think you have to con-stantly keep your mind fresh by keeping in touch with what kind of art is out there, what kind of

Wedding wisdom between clicks

Jenny and Casey Hamborg own and operate Farmington-based JC Twisted Photography, which they started after shooting their first wedding in 2011. (Photo submitted)

Steven Geis

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Festival designed for cold weather Apple Valley’s annual Mid-Winter Fest runs Feb. 1

by Andrew MillerSUN THISWEEK


Winter fun is in store next weekend at Apple Valley’s Mid-Winter Fest. Now in its 37th year, the annual celebration hosted by the city’s Parks and Recreation Department features family-oriented activities Saturday, Feb. 1, centered at the Apple Val-ley Community Center in Hayes Park. The community center will take on a carnival-type atmosphere dur-ing the festival with face painting, inflatable jump-ers, balloon animals and mini golf. There are also a “touch and feel” reptile exhibit, clowns and jug-glers, s’more roasting and horse-drawn sleigh rides in the park. Guests can also try their hands at snowshoe-ing and cross-country ski-ing in Hayes Park, with equipment on loan from Valley Bike & Ski through-out the day. The medallion hunt, a perennial festival favorite, returns this year for teams of sleuths to search out a medallion in one of the city’s 50 parks. Clues will be posted at the Apple Valley Community Center every hour beginning at 9 a.m. Feb. 1. Those who register for the medallion hunt at the community center’s front desk the day of the festival will receive clues by email 15 minutes prior to each hourly posting. The other

incentive to register is that the finder of the medallion wins $250 if registered, $100 if not. New to the festival this year is a co-rec pickleball tournament (which will be held a day prior to the fes-tival on Jan. 31), a Youth Hockey Jamboree featur-ing Apple Valley and East-view hockey association mite players on the Hayes Park rinks, and an Apple Valley-themed photo con-test. Those interested in en-tering the photo contest can obtain a registration form by emailing Steve Skinner at sskinner@cityofappleval ley.org. Photographers are asked to submit images of rec-

reation-type activities or scenes shot in Apple Val-ley; judging will be held the day before the festival. Mid-Winter Fest is join-ing forces with the Apple Valley Arts Foundation to host a concert the day of the festival at Valleywood Golf Course as part of the ongoing Frozen Apple concert series. Jazz singer Patty Peter-son and her circle of mu-sicians, who perform col-lectively as Patty Peterson & Friends, will present a concert from 6-9 p.m. Feb. 1 in the Valleywood club-house at 4851 McAndrews Road. Admission is free to all the events; Mid-Winter Fest this year won’t be sell-

ing buttons, which in past years were required for all events. There will be a charge for concessions and some activities such as the temporary tattoo booth. Guests who bring a non-perishable food item to the community center will be entered in hourly prize drawings, with the food donations going to the Shepherd of the Valley food shelf. More festival informa-tion, along with registra-tion forms for Mid-Winter Fest athletic tournaments, is on the city’s website at www.cityofapplevalley.org.

Email Andrew Miller at [email protected].

Horse-drawn sleigh rides are among the many activities on offer in Apple Valley’s Hayes Park during Mid-Winter Fest. Organizers opted not to sell Mid-Winter Fest buttons this year, and admission to the festival is free. (File photo)

Openings available on six Rosemount commissions The city of Rosemount is seeking residents to serve as members on city advisory commissions. Current openings for 2014 include: • Two three-year terms on the Planning Com-mission. • Two three-year terms on the Parks and Recre-ation Commission. • One three-year term on the Utility Commis-sion, • One six-year resident term on the Port Author-ity. Residents interested in serving on a commis-sion may pick up an ap-plication at City Hall. Application forms are also available at www.ci.rosemount.mn.us via a link on the homepage. Applications are due by Feb. 10. All commission terms begin April 1, 2014. Commissioners receive a $35 stipend for each reg-ular meeting they attend. Regular meeting dates of the month are as follows: • Planning Commis-sion – Second and fourth Tuesdays, 6:30 p.m. • Parks and Recreation Commission – Fourth Monday, 7 p.m. • Port Authority – Third Monday, 6 p.m. • Utility Commission – Second Monday fol-lowing the first regular City Council meeting, 5:30 p.m. For more information, contact the city clerk at 651-322-2003 or by email at [email protected]. The Planning Com-mission is composed of five members. It is re-quired by state law to (a) prepare or amend a

Comprehensive Plan for the city; (b) prepare or amend the zoning and subdivision regulation ordinances; (c) review and act on all develop-ment proposals in the city according to the au-thority and procedures set forth in the zoning and subdivision regula-tions. The commission must also review the five-year capital improvement program for compliance with the adopted plans and submit its recom-mendations to the City Council. The Parks and Recre-ation Commission rec-ommends policies and actions to create and op-erate Rosemount’s park system and recreational programs. Duties of its five members include ad-vising the City Council in the acquisition, opera-tion and maintenance of parks, playgrounds and other public lands and making recommenda-tions regarding the city recreation system; and investigating needs of the park system. The Rosemount Port Authority was created by the city to carry out economic and redevelop-ment projects intended to create new job oppor-tunities and increase the tax base in Rosemount. The Utility Com-mission supervises staff activity to operate Rose-mount’s publicly owned water, sanitary sewer and storm water utilities. Du-ties of its three members include reviewing util-ity budgets and expendi-tures, and reviewing user fees and charges annually or more often if neces-sary.

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Open house slated for Highway 52 project An open house will be held from 5-7 p.m. Tues-day, Jan. 28, on the pro-posed Highway 52 and CSAH 86 (280th Street) interchange/overpass in Randolph and Hampton townships and CSAH 86

(Rochester Boulevard) re-construction project. The new interchange will replace the existing at-grade intersection. The project will also include reconstructing 1.3 miles of CSAH 86 from Highway

52 to the east county line. The Jan. 28 open house will be in the council chambers at Cannon Falls City Hall, 918 River Road, Cannon Falls. Attendees will have an opportunity to review de-

sign options, ask questions and provide comments. More information is at http://www.co.dakota.mn.us/Transportation/RoadStudies/Current/Pag-es/highway-52-and-csah-86-randolph.aspx.

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Gov. Dayton, DFLers promise

repeal if there’s a ‘sufficient’ surplus

by Jessica HarperSUN THISWEEK


A sales tax that will apply to Minnesota ware-housing services won’t go into effect until April 1, yet many in the industry say they are already feeling squeezed by it. For three decades, Stra-tegic Warehousing has provided storage services in Eagan for Coca-Cola can supplier Rexam and other major manufactur-ers, but in August, the company began shifting its operations to Ames, Iowa, due to the tax. “It’s not a market we would have otherwise moved to,” Strategic Ware-housing general manager Kathy Forester said. The Iowa facility has six employees – a number that is set to grow if the 6.5 percent sales tax isn’t repealed, Forester said. “We would have to move all of our opera-tions,” she said. “I don’t think the legislators who passed this understand the industry.” The warehousing in-dustry is a mobile one, she said. Companies can eas-ily move their products to warehouses in Wisconsin, Iowa or Illinois — which don’t have a sales tax on warehousing services — and many already have, Forester said. “Customers will contin-ue to bypass Minnesota so the state won’t be collect-ing the tax anyway,” she said. Those who continue to use Strategic’s Eagan warehouse have said they are unwilling to pay the tax, leaving Strategic foot-ing a bill it can’t afford, said Forester, who has testified about the issue to the small business caucus. Even in good years, the company maintains mod-

est profit margins of 3 to 5 percent, Forester said. With its customers seeking services elsewhere, Strategic lost 18 percent of its revenue between August 2013 and January 2014, which prompted the company to lay off 22 per-cent of its workforce, For-ester said. “This industry, employ-ees are people with mini-mal education,” she said. “Some come right out of college. It’s a good paying job where they can move up.” Forester knows this firsthand. A 33-year vet-eran of the industry, she started as a warehouse worker and worked her way up to general man-ager. The recent layoffs are the warehouse company’s first in many years. When other businesses were looking to cutting costs in 2009, Strategic Warehousing’s revenue in-creased 10 percent and the company added new jobs. At the time, the Eagan warehouse had 35 employ-ees, which declined last year to 25. Strategic’s struggle is also evident by a walk through its Eagan ware-house. Prior to the passage of the sales tax, For-ester said the company’s 100,000-square-foot ware-house would be packed with, among other goods, empty soda cans, which would be brought to the

bottling facility. Today, about a third of the space is vacant. Strategic Warehous-ing is not alone, said Jim Pumarlo, communications director of the Minnesota Chamber of Commerce. Many businesses are feeling strained by not only by the warehousing tax but also the equipment repair services and a tele-communications equip-ment taxes included in the legislation, Pumarlo said. “Minnesota has a good quality of life and we ex-pect to pay for it, but it’s piling on,” he said. The $3.6 billion tax bill passed in the last legisla-tive session as the state sought new revenues to balance its budget. The sales tax on tele-communication equip-ment and equipment re-pairs went into effect July 1, 2013. Both the ware-housing and repair sales taxes apply only to ser-vices provided by a third party. Companies that store goods in their own ware-house or repair equipment on site, are exempt from the tax. Exemptions from the sales tax on warehousing services also include the storage of agricultural products, refrigeration goods, electronic data, self-storage services and petroleum products. In addition to being faced with a potential sales tax on warehousing

services, Strategic could also face a sales tax on equipment repairs should its forklifts break, Forester said. Gov. Mark Dayton has said he will agree to re-peal all three taxes, which generate $231 million in revenue, if the state be-gins the February session with a “sufficient” surplus. Current budget forecasts estimate a $846 million surplus. Passage of a repeal seems likely if the forecast is accurate. Both House and Senate Democrats say they agree with the gover-nor’s promise, and Repub-licans have been anxious for a repeal since the last legislative session, when the taxes emerged in a late session budget deal. State Sen. Jim Carlson, DFL-Eagan, is among those to side with the gov-

ernor but cautions that legislators should wait for the final budget forecast before making promises. “Each of the three taxes have its detractor,” Carlson said. “But I want to wait until the February forecast.” Carlson said he believes the sales tax on telecom-munications equipment is also unfair when com-pared to other industries. In addition to poten-tially repealing the three sales taxes, Carlson said he would like to ensure a sales tax exemption given to Minnesota cities is also applied to joint power agreements, such as the Minnesota Valley Transit Authority. State Rep. Laurie Hal-verson, DFL-Eagan, au-thored a bill during the special session to repeal all three taxes on the contdi-tion that the state surplus

is at minimum $846 mil-lion as predicted. After the bill was defeated in com-mittee, Halverson filed a similar bill to be discussed in February. “The warehouse tax is my top priority, because it has already impacted so many businesses in Eagan,” said Halverson, a member of the House Small Business Caucus. Although she strongly supports a repeal, Hal-verson concurs with her fellow Democrats that a repeal can be achieved only if the state maintains a healthy budget. For Forester, a repeal can’t come soon enough. “It won’t undo what’s been done, but can stop the bleeding,” she said.

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Prior to the sales tax on warehousing services, Strategic Warehousing’s 100,000-square-foot Eagan warehouse was packed with goods, company representatives say. To-day, one-third of the facility is vacant. (Photo by Jessica Harper)

Kathy Forester, general manager for Strategic Warehousing in Eagan, says the com-pany’s revenue has fallen by 18 percent since the sales tax was passed in 2013. (Photo by Jessica Harper)

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Reasons to support Obermueller To the editor: A late October poll showed Mike Obermueller leading the race to repre-sent the 2nd Congressio-nal District in Congress. This poll by Public Policy Polling has Obermueller running ahead of the in-cumbent, for several ap-parent reasons. Unlike the incumbent, Obermueller reaches out frequently to people in the 2nd District about what is important to them. He is also dif-ferent in his support for the education of all our young people, regardless of their family’s wealth.

He opposes allowing stu-dent loan rates to double, and doesn’t favor cutting college aid. Obermueller’s leadership in funding early education can save our country billions in reme-dial services in the future. It’s interesting that Obermueller works to-gether with folks across the aisle. He says people should not be kept from cooperating just because they come from different parties. He thinks this is what people are elected to do, rather than exclud-ing other points of view. Unlike some incumbents, Obermueller also seems to believe that saving tax money doesn’t need to favor folks in upper tax brackets over the rest of

us. A lot of people in the 2nd District have begun to see the value of sup-porting key projects like education and jobs. Ober-mueller has reliably sup-ported those key projects for family stability. He advocates cutting govern-ment waste in subsidies for those who are already rich, and keeping more of our hard-earned dollars at home. Obermueller is rec-ognized as a dependable, forward-thinking citizen. He’s the kind of person we need to represent us in Congress. CATHY JOHNSONFarmington

Wills to carry bill repealing business tax To the editor: With the 2014 legisla-tive session nearing, activ-ity is starting to pick up in St. Paul with the pre-filing of bills that will receive their first reading Feb. 25 when the Legislature re-convenes. Among those bills are one that I’ve chief authored and two I’ve co-authored. Since the last session ended, I’ve spoken with countless constituents and businesses about the need to repeal the damaging business-to-business tax-es passed in 2013. These taxes are an added cost to businesses, which puts jobs at risk and adds costs to consumers purchasing goods and services from businesses impacted by these new taxes. There is a great deal of bipartisan support for repealing these taxes. I’ve introduced a bill that would repeal all of the business-to-business taxes using money from the projected billion dollar surplus. With the tax increases implemented last session, government is taking too much money. It’s time to undo these mistakes and ease the burdens placed on Minnesota businesses and families. I plan to work with any legislator, Repub-lican or Democrat, to help

make the repeal of these taxes a reality. I’ve also signed on to a bill by Rep. Pat Garofalo, R-Farmington, that would eliminate the tax families have to pay for receiving employer-provided adop-tion assistance, and a bill to repeal only the ware-housing tax that begins in April. Taxes are sure to be a hot topic, and it remains to be seen which provisions, if any, will be repealed. What do residents hope the Legislature focuses on next session? Are there other tax provisions or laws that were passed that people would like to see re-visited? My door is always open, and I hope residents will contact me either by phone or email to pass along thoughts and sug-gestions. For those who would like to set up a meet-ing, I’m happy to meet for coffee with constituents in Rosemount or Apple Val-ley, or in St. Paul at my of-fice. Thank you for the con-tinued privilege of serv-ing our community in the Legislature, and I look for-ward to working hard for Rosemount, Apple Valley, and Coates in 2014.

Rep. ANNA WILLSR-Apple Valley, District 57B

Parks staff deserves thanks To the editor: Much was on display at the Dakota County’s Lebanon Hills Regional Park open house last week (the second in as many months), but nothing more so than the patience, courtesy and professional-ism of the park system’s staff. I was struck by the care they took care to re-spectfully answer every citizens’ questions, staying long after the scheduled closing time in what was surely already an extended work day. It was clearly evident to me how much each of these civil servants cared deeply about the park system they are inter-ested with. While there is still dis-agreement over how best to utilize this great natural resource, the citizens of Dakota County should be proud of the everyday peo-ple we have working hard on our behalf. Park Com-missioner Steve Sullivan, conservation manager Al Singer, Kurt Chatfield, Beth Landahl, and all the other kind staff present that evening deserve a gen-uine “thank you” for pre-senting their hopes for the future and for listening to the opinions of the people. Having met them all, I am

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Addressing hunger through strategic collaboration

Many different congregations pray for Christian unity

by Brian Geratyand Jeff Mortensen

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Earlier this year, the Brookings Insti-tute released data showing that between 2000 and 2011, the ranks of the poor in the Twin Cities suburbs grew by more than 115,000 – a 128 percent increase in that time. This report highlights the hard reality food shelves are facing: an esca-lated need for healthy food and financial assistance that is overwhelming the com-munity safety-net. Food banks have responded by bud-geting to dispense more food and dol-lars, while funders influence this system by promoting increased food distribution with easier access. Hunger could theoret-ically be eliminated by distributing more and more food, but only temporarily. Unless there is a paradigm shift in how food banks and funders approach food insecurity and food injustice, we will be hard-pressed to reverse the trend of families relying on food shelves as part of their family’s financial budget. The opportunity exists to work to-gether differently, leveraging the ex-pansive set of local access points and community competencies to promote long-term self-sufficiency. This includes access to a greater volume of nutrition-ally rich food products and targeted ser-vices among many community partners. We believe authentic collaborative efforts between resource providers, including the recipients of food, will correct the cycle that is creating food shelf dependency. We must continue to meet the immediate need for food and move people toward longer-term self-sufficiency to reverse the current trend. With that in mind, 360 Communities

and Vineyard Community Services have signed a memorandum of collaboration that seeks to change the way we address hunger and access to healthy food in the south metro by leveraging each organi-zation’s core competencies and relation-ships with families. This collaboration will focus on making healthy foods more accessible to the food insecure, while ef-fectively providing pathways that build stability and promoting self-sufficiency. Food inequality remains a daunting factor costing government, health care and individuals billions of dollars each year as well as lives. According to the Center for American Progress, hunger costs the United States at least $167.5 billion every year in health care, govern-ment, education and more. While the context of and circumstanc-es surrounding food injustice and insecu-rity vary, a common denominator exists: inadequate access to sufficient quantities of healthy food. In addition to address-ing under-nutrition, we seek to bridge the gap between food security and health sustainability. In 2012, 360 Communities served 14,000 individuals with its network of five food shelves, two resource centers, two domestic violence shelters and three school success programs. With nine pro-grams in 40 locations acting as access points for families in need, 360 Com-munities provides resources and referrals

that stabilize families. Staff work directly in homes and schools addressing a whole host of needs to build parenting skills and develop learning plans for students. Domestic violence advocates work from shelters and throughout Dakota Coun-ty to provide counseling and life skills coaching that help women and children start new lives. Staff leverage community funding and locations where families are naturally congregating to stabilize hous-ing and address other financial concerns. A critical underpinning of all of this work is access to healthy food. When that basic need is met, a family can concen-trate on increasing stability and working on the skills it takes to reach self-suffi-ciency. Vineyard Community Services served 23,000 individuals with healthy food during that same period. The organiza-tion utilizes technological and process efficiencies to make nutritious food avail-able to more people. We believe that by working together our two organizations can deliver greater resources to the com-munity that are more accessible to meet immediate needs, build stability and pro-mote longer-term self-sufficiency. And just as importantly, we believe these syn-ergies can be achieved in a way that is more cost effective longer-term through collaboration. We plan on doing the following: • Distribute healthy, nutritious food more efficiently. Integrate Vineyard Community Services’ food shelf opera-tions to provide greater access to emer-gency hunger relief services for the Da-kota County food insecure population. • Build stability and promote self-sufficiency more effectively. Integrate and streamline 360 Communities intake/assessment operations to provide greater

access to self-sufficiency services for fam-ilies seeking assistance. Dakota County Director of Commu-nity Services Kelly Harder is encouraged by organizations that look beyond com-petition and work together to achieve common goals. “There’s more than enough work for all of us and there’s never going to be enough resources to resolve some of these issues,” says Harder, “so I really commend the partnership that is cur-rently going on between 360 Communi-ties and Vineyard Community Services. … If we just provide food and don’t work for greater self-sufficiency, then we just perpetuated the cycle of in the door out the door.” With this collaboration, we seek to change the dialogue and action sur-rounding the issues of poverty, hunger and nutrition. We believe there are other organizations with core strengths and ex-pertise we do not possess that would en-hance our ability to reach and empower more people. We invite others to join us. If we work together in a new way, we can change lives in Minnesota, break the cycle of poverty and reach more people with healthy food.

Brian Geraty is executive director of Vine-yard Community Services, a nonprofit that serves families and individuals in times of need. The organization utilizes techno-logical and process efficiencies to make nutritious food available to more people. Jeff Mortensen is chief operating officer of 360 Communities, a nonprofit that en-gages communities to prevent violence, en-sure school success and promote long-term self-sufficiency. Columns reflect the opin-ion of the authors.

by the Rev. Paul JarvisSPECIAL TO SUN THISWEEKDAKOTA COUNTY TRIBUNE

Back in 1908, Father Paul Wattson – a Greymoor Friar in New York – started an ecumenical prayer movement that would eventually catch on, and not just with the hierarchy of the Catholic Chris-tian Church. The week of prayer for Christian uni-ty, Jan. 18-25, would eventually catch on with many other traditions within Chris-tianity: especially during the 60s, when most mainline denominations were rec-ognizing other denominations’ baptisms. Believe it or not, these mainline churches actually considered each other to be – hold onto your seat – “Chris-tians.” One doctrinal difference had of-ten been all it took for denominations to fracture into smaller and smaller slivers of Christianity. Whereas it used to be the tendency of nearly all Christians to pray that all may be one … within one’s particular denom-ination. And whereas pastors tended to be

more concerned about growing their congregations to pay the bills, and less about ecumenical collaboration and mu-tual respect. Within the past 50 years, the vast ma-jority of Christian denominations have been praying for the unity of all Chris-tians, according to God’s will and ac-cording to the means that God wills. Once dormant, the ecumenical spir-it is again blossoming here in Dakota County. Over the past few years, congrega-tions’ pastors and still more congrega-tions’ members have gathered at our local Thanksgiving Eve Service, with do-nations of food and money for our local food shelf. Two years ago, Rosemount

United Methodist hosted the service, and St. Joseph’s Church played host this past year. For three years in a row, St. Joseph’s Church has hosted an ecumenical Bless-ing of the Animals on the first Satur-day of October. Lutheran ministers and Catholic deacons and priests blessed quite a few “Cath-eran” pets and farm animals, as well as their owners. Joining other civic organizations and businesses, Rosemount denominations of all stripes came together in One Rose-mount Feeding Families, absolutely and positively impacting a great many lives locally and globally. And Leprechaun Days wouldn’t be the celebration of community that it is if were not for all the local congregations getting involved. This past weekend, a unity prayer penned by the Rev. Karen Bruins, lead pastor of Rosemount United Methodist, was read by pastors at her church and at St. Joseph and hopefully at other congre-gations as well. The unity prayer seeks to expand on the united efforts of the body

of Christ already flourishing in our com-munity. Who knows! Perhaps in several years’ time we’ll not only have a bigger Thanks-giving Eve Service, we’ll have a powerful combined multi-congregation choir sing-ing at several community functions. We’ll have even more combined prayer services and events. We’ll unite in Bible study and devotions and ministries. We’ll bless a horde of Baptcathpresbymethepisco-theran animals. And we’ll not only call each other broth-ers and sisters in Christ … we’ll actually mean it. Please join faith-filled folks in Rose-mount, Lakeville, Eagan, Farmington, Apple Valley, Burnsville, Inver Grove Heights, Coates and other towns in pray-ing daily this prayer for unity … as God wills and guides.

The Rev. Paul Jarvis is the lead pastor at Church of St. Joseph in Rosemount. A copy of the Prayer for Unity is at www.SunThisweek.com/tag/unity-prayer. Col-umns reflect the opinion of the author.

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ever more hopeful that in the end a great plan will be formed … one based upon consensus and rep-resentative of our shared concerns, hopes and love for Lebanon Hills.

DAVID SCOTTEagan

Build paved trails around Lebanon Hills To the editor: I’m concerned about what may happen to the gem of Dakota County – the beautiful Lebanon Hills Regional Park. We have lived and worked here since 1985, raising a family and enjoying park trails and programs such as camping, swimming, canoeing and even kick-sledding. At the same time, there was a respect to leave some areas quiet for habitat and wildlife. The only way to get to those areas was by unpaved paths. Wow, how lucky we are to enjoy these woods and prairies as if we were “Up North.” This new Park Development Plan will bulldoze and de-stroy it. I’m a park volunteer and have seen how they suffer under-budget and under-staffed with proj-ects that beg to be done. Now comes the commis-sioners’ “Master Plan,” a rather grandiose develop-ment plan with millions of dollars for a project that many don’t want and with no future revenue to main-tain it. A few years ago, when I attended an earlier plan meeting, it was more in compliance with resi-dents’ wishes. What hap-pened? Why did it change? It’s not about stewardship, restoration or protection, which used to be the key-stones of the parks sys-tem. That needs to be a part of the plan. Let’s consider alterna-tives. Let’s ask ourselves what harm will be done? On the current plans, there

has been discussion of habitat destruction. We need to define ecological stewardship and water re-source management. As an alternative, why not build network trails con-necting with each other around the parks. Let’s keep encroachment to a minimum. This is an opportunity to leave either a bigger de-velopment footprint (as of the current plan) or mini-mize it. There is develop-ment everywhere. There are only the parks left – and development is there, too. How much should there be? How do we want our parks used? Do we want to protect them for the future? “How often we speak of the great silences of the wilderness and of the importance of preserving them and the wonder and peace to be found there. … However should their si-lences be broken, they will never be the same.” – Sig-urd Olson

CAROL-ANN BLOOMApple Valley

Balance needs to be found To the editor: Why does it seem like all the letters to the paper oppose paving any part of Lebanon Hills Regional Park? Why does it seem like the comments in pub-lic meetings oppose pav-ing any part of the park? Why does it seem like the Dakota County Parks De-partment and the county commissioners ignore the public outcry? Why does it seem that they have their own agenda and are ig-noring their constituents? Who was the person who first stood up and said: “Let’s look into paving some trails”? Will he or she stand up now and tell the paper why, and why it continues to be pushed? Will the present Park De-partment members and commissioners who are for the paving, tell the paper why it continues to

be pushed in the face of what seems to be an over-whelming opposition? It seems like the people sit-ting around the table are saying: “We know what’s good for you.” Who will stand up and tell the paper why the 2001 Master Plan, calling for the park to be preserved as a natural en-vironment is wrong and we should now have paved trails? What next? Concession stands in the woods? Why not pave every trail? Why not have guides every 50 feet? Why not have neon trail markers? Why not drinking fountains every 100 yards? Why not trail-side speakers explaining the local flora and fauna? Why not light the trails? How about vending ma-chines dispensing granola bars? How about diaper changing stations? If this was some time ago in Kansas City, Chi-cago, or even St. Paul, one might wonder if someone had a relative in the land-scaping or paving busi-ness.

JOE CHANSLOREagan

Meaningful citizen involvement To the editor: Many appreciate that the Dakota County Board has delayed the process to adopt the Development Master Plan for Lebanon Hills Regional Park. De-spite the delay, the plan continues to emphasize capital development over ecological stewardship, and creating the plan still does not have meaningful citizen involvement. Prior to adoption of any master plan, the board needs to amend the pro-cess to involve citizens in creation of the plan, rath-er then asking for their in-put after the fact.

HOLLY JENKINSEagan

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the 2012 legislative ses-sion aimed to offer some changes in the way budget reports are assembled in an effort for taxpayers to bet-ter understand their money at work. NAIOP, also called the Commercial Real Estate Development Association, forwarded the legislation, which was approved by the House and the Senate but was vetoed by Gov. Mark Dayton after it was added to the omnibus tax bills. The association hopes the legislation will gain traction in 2014. In an effort to spread the word about the legislation, NAIOP conducted the Transparency Project with Dakota County’s budget, which demonstrated how a budget report would look under the proposed legisla-tion. The Minnesota Center for Fiscal Excellence pre-pared the transparency report, which essentially added comparison of the current budget to that of four years ago and report-ed the expenditures by type

– personnel, client services and materials, capital out-lay, to reserves, department and county support, and other. Dakota County Finance Director Matt Smith said the budget history provides a useful perspective. He added that expendi-ture reporting by type also may be more familiar to an audience of business tax-payers. “The effort was a suc-cess to the extent that it provided useful informa-tion to those taxpayers,” Smith said, “and based on the feedback received at the meeting to discuss it, I think they did find it use-ful.” Mark Lofthus, econom-ic development director for Farmington-based Dakota Electric, said the trend lines, in this instance com-paring 2009 to 2013, “are so critical.” For example, the report showed that Dakota Coun-ty had reduced its spend-ing by about $40.9 million from $318.8 million in 2009 to $277.9 million in 2013. Lofthus told NAIOP

that knowing and under-standing changes in spend-ing will lead to greater citi-zen engagement. NAIOP says reporting by expenditure type aims to show why county ser-vices cost what they do, such as the biggest part of the county’s budget – em-ployee costs. The report showed that salaries and wages had de-clined from 2009 to 2013 by $15.89 million and full-time equivalent positions fell by 132 during the same time frame. With that in-formation, NAIOP says taxpayers can then ask if that has any implications for service delivery. “The standards (as pro-posed by NAIOP and the MCFE) would ensure that local governments provide transparency within their budgets and reports, much like a business,” Vicki Stute, Dakota County Regional Chamber of Commerce president, told NAIOP. Smith said he didn’t think the additional re-porting that would be re-quired by the legislation would be too burdensome. “We had the informa-

tion in our data systems and just had to assemble and report it out in a dif-ferent format,” he said. NAIOP says the typical budget that shows spend-ing by department doesn’t tell the whole story. Dako-ta County and many of the cities in the county know this and prepare many dif-ferent charts and graphics in an attempt to help tax-payers understand it. Smith said the county hasn’t received a lot of tax-payer feedback in the past regarding its budget and financial reporting. “We can probably take that as a sign they’ve been fairly satisfied,” he said. Information about Da-kota County’s budget can be found on its website, in newsletters and through presentations at board meetings, which are web-cast. The same can be said of cities and school districts in Dakota County that provide budget informa-tion in a variety of formats and venues.

Email Tad Johnson at [email protected].

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his students in the future, possibly even partner-ing with the Constanza school. He will also be vis-iting other schools in the country to talk and play with students during lunch and recess. Geis also farms soy-beans and corn in south-western Minnesota, so he will be looking at the crops grown around the farming community where he will be working. Sugar cane is the main crop grown near Costanza. The group will be com-pleting Phase 2 of the building project, complet-ing block and concrete work, stucco and paint

finishing. The group will also be visiting with com-munity members and participating in a day of photography with the chil-dren, providing first-ever portraits for many of the children in this village. “My ultimate goal is to educate and enlighten my students here at North Trail and the broader community in Farming-ton,” Geis said, “to open their eyes to the broader sense of education. Here are people that are less fortunate than we are, but they have such a positive outlook. It’s been my ex-perience that the people who are the most poor financially are often the most rich spiritually.”

He imagines the bright futures now possible for those students who will be learning at this new voca-tional school. “Someday they could be teaching here in the United States,” he said. “They could be doctors.” This opportunity was presented to Geis because he is on the board of direc-tors for the National As-sociation of Elementary School Principals. He has also gone on a mission trip to Guatemala, and five years ago, he was a Ful-bright scholar to Japan. “I love traveling, I love helping others, and I love learning,” he said. “We get to teach every single day. The day we stop learning

is the day they bury us.” Geis began his mission trip on Mon., Jan. 20, and will be in the Dominican Republic until Jan. 28. On Monday, he stopped in Atlanta to visit Our Lady of Perpetual Help, an or-ganization that shares its beginnings with Our Lady of Peace in St. Paul, a can-cer hospice where Geis and his family volunteers every week. This is the third Life-touch Memory Mission to Constanza. In 2011 and 2012, volunteers built an elementary school there that now serves hundreds of children.

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Sauser elected Jan. 17 to school association board Farmington Area School Board Member Melissa Sauser was elected to the Minnesota School Boards Associa-tion board of di-rectors on Jan. 17. Sauser will serve a three-year term, running a state board consist-ing of 13 school board members from each area in the state. Sauser’s term runs through Dec. 31, 2016. She represents school board members in the southern suburbs. MSBA is a statewide

nonprofit organization representing 337 Minne-

sota public school boards. MSBA provides technical assistance, advo-cates for public school students and offers train-ing opportunities for board mem-bers. MSBA is com-

posed of 13 districts. School board members from each district elect one board member to a seat on the board of direc-tors, which oversees the organization.

Melissa Sauser

District 196 students advance to debate finals Nine of the 19 District 196 high school students who qualified to compete at this year’s state debate tournament Jan. 17-18 at the University of Minne-sota advanced to the final rounds of competition. In public forum debate, the team of Ryan Mather and Mikhil Venkatasu-bramanian of Eastview High School finished state runners-up to a team from Maple Grove High School. Three other two-person teams from the district ad-vanced to the final rounds in public forum debate. Anum Ahmed and Anant

Naik of Eastview made it to the semifinal round, and the quarterfinal round included Mollie Clark and Alexandra Rosati of Ea-gan High School, and An-drea Aguilar and Margo Sanders of Apple Valley High School. Ryan Lowder of Eagan advanced to the semifinal round in Lincoln-Douglas debate. No District 196 students advanced to the final rounds in policy de-bate. This was the 113th annual state debate tour-nament, the longest run-ning event of the Min-nesota State High School League.

Catholic Schools Week celebrated

The staff and students of All Saints Catholic School in Lakeville will kick off a week of events celebrating faith, school spirit, service and edu-cation during National

Catholic Schools Week, which runs Jan. 26 through Feb. 1. This year’s theme is “Catholic Schools: Com-munities of Faith, Knowl-edge and Service.”

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One in three. That’s how many adults over 65fall each year in the United States. Becauseolder bones break more easily, falling injuriesfor seniors can be traumatic. Staying activeand strong is key — along with making homeenvironments as safe as possible. For moreinfo on senior fitness and home safety, visitorthoinfo.org and nata.org.


Gaylord elected MICA president Dakota County Commissioner Kathleen Gaylord has been elected president of the Minnesota Inter-County Association for 2014. Gay-lord just finished chairing the Da-kota County Board for 2013, and will serve as president of MICA while continuing her current term as a county commissioner. The Minnesota Inter-County Association is a vehicle for plan-ning and implementing projects of similar interest to member counties. MICA counties include Benton, Blue Earth, Carver, Crow Wing, Dakota, Olmsted, Rice, St. Louis, Scott, Sherburne, Stearns, Washing-

ton and Winona. As commissioner, Gaylord serves District 2 of Dakota County, in-cluding the cities of South St. Paul, West St. Paul, Sunfish Lake and In-ver Grove Heights, precincts 1 and 8-10. Her current term expires at the end of 2014.

Pancake breakfast The Farmington Knights of Co-lumbus will host a pancake break-fast from 9 a.m. to noon on Super Bowl Sunday, Feb. 2, at the Church of St. Michael, 22120 Denmark Ave., Farmington. Pancakes, French toast, sausage links and scrambled eggs will be served along with coffee, juice and water.

Good-will offerings will be ac-cepted. Proceeds will go towards DARTS.

Job Transitions Group Anne Johnson will present “Re-building Trust…A Journey of Faith” at the Jan. 28 meeting of the Easter Job Transitions Group. The group meets at 7:30 a.m. at Easter Lutheran Church – By the Lake, 4545 Pilot Knob Road, Eagan. Small group sessions for those who would like the opportunity to process their job loss in a safe, car-ing environment will be offered at 9:30 a.m. in a private setting at the church following the speaker. Call 651-452-3680 for informa-tion.

Paperwork mix-up delays Ugandan dancers Performance postponed at Apple Valley’s Heartbeat Studios



A scheduled perfor-mance by Uganda’s Kika Troupe at Heartbeat Stu-dios in Apple Valley last weekend was postponed, owing to a paperwork mix-up that prevented the dancers from boarding their plane to the United States. “The troupe was at the airport ready to depart, and they were stopped because the U.S. Embassy noticed a mistake on the paperwork necessary to enter the U.S.,” explained Heartbeat Studios direc-tor Deborah Lysholm. “It literally was like an ‘i’ not dotted or a ‘t’ not crossed,” she said. The Kika Troupe had scheduled a Jan. 19 perfor-mance at Heartbeat as the opening event in its first tour of the United States. Additional performances had been planned at area schools and arts venues Jan. 19-27, as well as at the Mall of America and the Minneapolis-St. Paul Airport on Jan. 23 as part of Martin Luther King Jr./

Nelson Mandela tributes. The 20-some Kika Troupe dancers and musi-cians based in the Ugan-dan capital city of Kam-pala were devastated by the unexpected delay. As Kika Troupe direc-tor Kaddu Yusuf broke the news to Lysholm in a conference call from the

Ugandan airport, “I could hear some of the danc-ers sobbing in the back-ground,” Lysholm said. The troupe hopes to reschedule many of its Minnesota performanc-es, including its show at Heartbeat, once the paper-work issues get sorted out. “Sen. Al Franken is

getting involved to help with the situation, but it will take about two weeks to get the documents cor-rected,” Lysholm said. “They’re still coming – it’s just delayed. They are determined to make it work.”

Email Andrew Miller at

The Kika Troupe hopes to reschedule many of its Minnesota performances, including its show at Heartbeat Studios, after issues regarding the dancers’ paperwork needed to enter the United States get sorted out. (Photo submitted)

Lakeville woman found dead in front of her home died of hypothermia

Andrea Marker remembered

for heart, bright spirit

by Laura AdelmannSUN THISWEEK


Andrea Marker, of Lakeville, had a caring heart and pursued a ca-reer that showed her com-passion, said her mother, Sheila Marker. The 32-year-old sister, daughter and mother was found dead in front of her parents’ home in brutal cold weather conditions the afternoon of Jan. 7, according to Lakeville po-lice. She died of hypother-mia, according to the Hennepin County Medi-cal Examiner’s Office, and also had acute levels of alcoholic toxicity that reportedly contributed to her death. Chief Hennepin Coun-ty Medical Examiner An-drew Baker said acute in-toxication means Marker’s blood-alcohol level was at least .08 percent at the time of her death. The office cited privacy laws and said it does not release exact toxicology results. Sheila Marker said her daughter, a 1991 Lakeville

High School (now Lake-ville North) graduate, was pursuing a nursing degree. The second of five chil-dren, “Andie” Marker and had an active childhood, loved birthday parties and often invited friends to gather at their home, Shei-la Marker said. During family games nights, Andie Marker al-ways encouraged everyone to play her mother’s favor-ite game, even though she did not like it very much, Sheila Marker said. Sheila Marker added that Andie Marker liked caring for children and volunteered in the church nursery and babysat for relatives. “I remember how her smile could brighten any room,” Sheila Marker wrote. “How infectious her laugh was, and how she knew when you needed a hug.” Andrea Marker’s fu-neral was held Jan. 11 at Berean Baptist Church in Burnsville. She is survived by her son, parents Bryan and Sheila, and siblings Tri-sha, Stephen, Erika, and Jessica (Patrik), according to the obituary.

Laura Adelmann is at [email protected].

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music, keeping in touch with social media,” Jenny said. The name JC Twisted Photography comes from the way Jenny and Casey merge their styles into a unique representation of each event. While Jenny has an eye for people, emotion and posing, Casey brings a style that originates in a lot of detail with compositions and a different way of looking at the ordinary. The name is unique, so when the Ham-borgs explain the name, they get to also describe

their photography styles. They’ve learned a lot since that first wedding about how to work togeth-er and how to work with the families of those get-ting married. “It’s a lot of working on the fly at a wedding,” Jenny said. “We’re really good at adapting.” “Along the way, there have been a lot of aha moments,” Casey said. “I think every single time we do a wedding, we do something different, but our template is the same. Our eyes have gotten bet-ter at seeing the potential.” For Jenny and Casey,

the day is all about the couple. “We’re good at making sure our couples get all the shots they want, even if it’s not exactly when they planned,” Jenny said. “I think you really have to make sure you are in con-trol for the day.” And the two never tire of working together. “I think that we have one of those great rela-tionships,” Casey said. “If we could spend every day together, we would.” They met at a small southern Minnesota sum-mer camp and then kept up a long-distance rela-

tionship for many years. After 11 years of court-ship, they were married on May 19, 2007. And that relationship is a plus when working with couples planning to get married. “I think our relation-ship really helps with our couples and putting them at ease on that day,” Jenny said. “They know we’ve been through it.” Jenny is a full-time photographer, while Casey helps out at many of the weddings. He is a full-time audio engineering student who also manages several bands. The couple shoots promotional photos for the bands as well as family photos, senior photos and baby photos. Their portfolio is avail-able at www.jctwisted.com. To contact JC Twist-ed Photography, call 952-220-9249 or email [email protected].

LEGAL NOTICES

INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 194 REGULAR BOARD

MEETING DECEMBER 10, 2013

This is a summary of the Indepen-dent School District No. 194 Regular School Board Meeting on Tues. De-cember 10, 2013 with full text avail-able for public inspection on thedistrict website at www.isd194.k12.mn.us or District Office at 8670 210thStreet W., Lakeville, MN 55044

The meeting was called to order at7:02 p.m. followed by pledge of alle-giance. All board members and ad-ministrators were present.

A moment of silence was observedin honor of LNHS student Allysa Ettl who died in an automobile accident.

Public Comment: Melissa Wich-man, 17515 Heidelberg Way sharedconcerns regarding kindergarten op-tions; Kathy Erickson, 1201 W. 155th St, shared how as a para-professionalshe helps students succeed.

Consent agenda items approved: Minutes of the meetings on November 26; employment recommendations, leave requests and resignations; pay-ment of bills & claims as presented; authorization to release checks; do-nations, fieldtrips and alt facilities project update.

Reports presented: High schoolprogram of studies; World’s Best Workforce Plan; Achievement & In-tegration.

Recommended actions approved: Certification of Pay 14 Tax Levy at$35,784,366.89; All Day Kindergar-ten.

Adjournment at 8:47 p.m. Published in the

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INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 194 SPECIAL BOARD

MEETING DECEMBER 10, 2013

This is a summary of the Indepen-dent School District No. 194 Special Board of Education Meeting on Tues-day, December 10, 2013 with full text available for public inspection on the district website at www.isd194.k12.mn.us or 8670 210th Street W., Lakeville, MN 55044

The meeting was called to order at5:03 p.m. All board members and ad-ministrators were present.

Discussions: EVE School ResourceDog Proposal and Update; Achieve-ment and Integration; Planning for Addressing Class Size and STEMPhase-in Plan; Alt Facilities Update;Update on Certification of Pay 14 Tax Levy.

Meeting adjourned at 6:54 p.m.Published in the

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Lebanon Hills by candlelight event is Feb. 8 More than 1,500 lumi-naries will light the way for nighttime entertain-ment as Dakota County Parks hosts its eighth an-nual Trails by Candlelight event from 6-9 p.m. Satur-day, Feb. 8, at the Visitor Center at Lebanon Hills Regional Park, 860 Cliff Road, Eagan. The event features can-dlelit hiking, snowshoeing and cross-country skiing trails in addition to an il-luminated sledding hill. Schulze Lake will also be lit for ice skating. Cross-country skis and snow-shoes will be available for rent, but guests should bring their own sleds and ice skates. Attendees will be able to warm up at one of the nine bonfires that will be burning throughout the evening. Hot concessions will be available for pur-chase from The Tot Boss, RA MacSammy’s, and Sandy’s Grill and Italian Ice. Cost for the event is $8 per person if pre-reg-istered by Feb. 7, $10 per person at the door and free for children age 5 and younger. Lebanon Hills will have free on-site parking. There will also be free off-site parking at Woodcrest Church, 525 Cliff Road, Eagan, with a complimen-tary shuttle to the park starting at 5:45 p.m. Volunteers are need-ed to help light candles prior to the event and perform other tasks dur-ing the event. Volunteers receive free admission and a hot meal. To learn more about volunteering, visit www.signupgenius.com/go/60B054CA9AF2CAA8-trails. For more information or to pre-register to attend, visit www.dakotacounty.us/parks and search Trails by Candlelight or call 952-891-7000.

Dakota County


Congressional candidate Paula Overby spent a

lifetime searching for her identity by Jessica Harper

SUN THISWEEKDAKOTA COUNTY TRIBUNE

Congressional candi-date Paula Overby has built her platform on be-coming a voice for the voiceless. And Overby is no stranger to adversity herself. Born Paul Overby, the Eagan resident always knew she was different. As a young boy growing up in Wisconsin, Overby, who is transgender, hated having short hair, wearing boys clothes and preferred the company of girls over boys. Though she never dressed as a girl during her formative years, Overby said she always identified with girls. “I had a great child-hood. I had all girl friends so, for the most part, I got to be a girl,” said Overby who is seeking the Demo-cratic nomination in the 2nd Congressional Dis-trict. The seat is currently held by Republican U.S. Rep. John Kline. This all changed in 1968 when Overby’s fam-ily moved from the Mil-waukee area to Nashua, N.H. “It was a horrible move,” Overby said. “It was a huge culture shock.” Growing up in the Milwaukee area, Overby could sit by his female friends at lunch, but at his new junior high school, students were separated by gender. It was around this time Overby realized he identi-fied more with girls than boys and began to do whatever he could to hide his gender issues. “I felt I had to hide it by being more masculine,” she said. After graduating from high school in 1972, Over-by attended the University of Minnesota where he found a more liberating environment. Yet he con-tinued to hide his inner battle. “You do it all in secret,” she said. “You feel guilt and shame.” While in college, Over-by began to identify as gay and started dating a man. Within a couple years, he dropped out of college due to an abusive relation-ship — a relationship he had kept secret from his parents. Two years later, Overby returned to the univer-sity and graduated with a bachelor’s in psychology.

Finding fulfi llment In 1979, Overby be-gan working as a mental health counselor in South St. Paul. “It was very reward-ing,” she said. “You get a sense you are making a big difference in someone’s life.” At the time, mental health patients were begin-ning to be released from state hospitals, which was reportedly rife with abuse. Life in society, however, wasn’t always much bet-ter, Overby said. Many of her clients struggled with homelessness, and some committed suicide. “That never gets easy,” she said. “But I learned a lot from the people I worked with.” As a candidate for the DFL endorsement, Over-by said she is committed to supporting programs that best serve the needs of people suffering from mental illness. Overby said she plans to examine ways to make some of these programs more efficient.

Family life Following the suicide of a male love interest in 1980, Overby decided to date women again. “I think it was a sense of denial,” she said. “I was attracted more by jealou-sy of what women had. I found them attractive but not sexually attractive.” That year, she met

her ex-wife, Marie, while working with Marie’s mother. “I thought it was love at first sight,” Overby said. Though Overby lived as a heterosexual man, he privately dressed as a woman. Since he was terrified friends or co-workers would discover the cross-dressing. Overby would change into dresses in the car before driving home from work. When stop-ping for gas, he would change back into male clothes before getting out of the car. “I was always terrified someone would catch me,” she said. Over time, Overby be-came comfortable wearing women’s clothing in pub-lic, but would tell people he lost a bet or some simi-lar story. “I always had a good excuse and people would accept it,” she said. Though Overby hid it from friends and family, he shared the truth behind the cross-dressing with Marie and even proposed to her while wearing a dress. The couple were wed in 1984. That same year Overby took a job at an IT company after gradu-ating from the University of Minnesota with a com-puter science degree. Over the years the cou-ple tried to live an other-wise ordinary family life. Excited to be a parent, Overby had no qualms raising Marie’s 3-year-old daughter, Jamie, as his own. “The best thing I got out of my marriage was being a parent, and I love it,” Overby said. Within a few years, the couple had two more chil-dren: Courtney and Tyler. “Growing up, he was a very involved dad,” Ty-ler, 20, said. “But looking back, I could tell she had a very motherly nature.” Overby’s children knew their father dressed in women’s clothing — a fact that Tyler said never both-ered him. “We were a pretty nor-mal family,” he said. “We’d go to the park and grill. He’d teach me to do guy stuff like use a riding lawn mower and a chain saw safely.” The couple moved to Eagan in 1987 to raise their growing family. Early in the relation-ship, Overby’s wife seemed to accept her husband’s lifestyle, but over the next 10 years, it became one of many wedges in the rela-tionship, Overby said. By 1993, Overby be-gan to question her gen-der identity and began to more frequently wear women’s clothing in pub-lic. It was the beginning of what Overby calls her “man in a dress” phase. Though she frequently wore dresses, she contin-ued to maintain short hair and a mustache. Soon Overby and Marie became increasingly estranged. “I think she saw the transgender issue as a threat,” Overby said. By 2009, the couple headed into a bitter di-vorce and a two-year-long battle over their Eagan home and custody of Ty-ler, then 15.

Overby spent two de-cades working in the IT in-dustry and even owned her own startup at one point, but now found herself un-employed and homeless. After bouncing between shelters and other tempo-rary living arrangements for five months, Overby found an apartment. But distraught by the loss of her home and son, Overby had spiraled into a depression and heavy drinking. “It began to mani-fest as a death wish, and I thought that drinking myself to death was the only possible conclusion,” Overby said. Within a year, Overby quit drinking with the as-sistance of a 12-step pro-gram and decided to take back control of her life. By January 2011, Over-by won her battle with her ex-wife by reclaiming the family home and custody of their son who gradu-ated six months early that spring from Eagan High School.

Finding identity By that time, Overby had also finally realized who she was — a trans-gender woman. And that spring she began her transition by taking hor-mones. She had just started a new job at a corporate bank and was nervous how her colleagues would adjust to the change. Un-able to stand the anxiety, Overby marched into her boss’ office and told him she would be, from then on, coming to work as a woman. “Looking back, I didn’t need to do it that way,” Overby said. “I should have given them more no-tice.” Overby worked from home for the following week while the compa-ny prepared employees. When she returned, she was pleasantly surprised by her co-workers’ accep-tance. Though she found re-lief at work, not every-thing went as smoothly as Overby had hoped. Eager to legally change her identity to female, Overby was often frustrat-ed that she was required to first seek approval from a therapist. “I agree most trans people benefit from ther-apy,” she said. “But I felt I had already gotten ther-apy through AA. I know who I am.” By March 2012, Over-by was no longer Paul but legally Paula. Choosing a name so similar to her male name is relatively rare in the transgender community. Overby said she didn’t want to forget her past life but rather bridge the two. Though she is legally a woman, Overby said she hopes to one day take the final step in her process with surgery. It’s a costly endeavor that is often not covered by health insur-ance and, like other steps in the process, would re-quire a therapist’s approv-al.

Letting go Though letting go of her male identity was easy for Overby, it came as a challenge for some of her

family. Her two sisters supported her decision but still struggle in some ways to understand, Overby said. “It’s often hardest for friends and family because they’ve known that person so long in one way,” she said. “For myself, it’s not a change. It’s finally being who I am and not pretend-ing anymore.” The change has been hardest for Overby’s 86-year-old mother, who still refers to her as Paul. “It was hard at first, but I’ve accepted it,” Overby said. “I know she loves me, and that’s what matters.”

Overby’s father and broth-er, who died decades ago, never knew Overby was transgender. “I wish (my father) could be here today,” she said. “I think we would have interesting conversa-tions. I think he would be proud of me.” Through it all, Overby said her children have been some of her greatest supporters. Overby said her eldest daughter sometimes feels uncomfortable with the change but is otherwise accepting of it. “She feels some loss of her father, which is pretty normal,” Overby said. Tyler said he was a little surprised to learn his father would become a woman but was always supportive. “It was a little weird at first,” Tyler said. Unlike his eldest sister, Tyler said he doesn’t feel like he lost a father but rather still has two parents — both of whom happen to be female. “She’s still my parent,” he said. “But instead of calling her Mom or Dad, she’s Paula.” Tyler said he was more surprised when Overby announced she would run for office. “I think it’s awesome,” he said of her campaign. “I think she has a great message and can get young people involved.” He said he doesn’t wor-ry about the attention — even negative — that may come with having a trans-gender parent seeking the

Democrat endorsement.. Like Tyler, his 24-year-old sister, Courtney has supported Overby from the start. A college student in Minneapolis, she has em-braced the transgender community and has a transgender boyfriend. Her daughter’s struggle with mounting student loan debt inspired Overby to focus much of her cam-paign on higher education and addressing its rising cost. Overby said she never had any qualms about be-ing a transgender candi-date. Perhaps a sign of the times, Overby said she has generally encountered positive reactions from people since coming out as transgender. Even a few negative ex-periences turned positive in the end, she said. Overby recalls one in-stance when a group of men at a gas station be-gan laughing and making jokes upon seeing she was transgender, yet when she asked for their assistance with her vehicle, the jokes ended and they helped. Though she’s the first to admit her chances of winning are slim, Overby said her goal is to provide a voice for all the district’s citizens. “It’s not so much who we send to Washington as the message we create,” she said. Jessica Harper is at [email protected] or facebook.com/sunthisweek.

Candidate takes journey of self-discovery

Born Paul Overby, Eagan resident Paula Overby is a transgender woman and seeking the DFL endorsement for the 2nd Congressional seat.

Overby (right) is the parent of three children, including her son, Tyler, who graduated in 2011 from Eagan High School. Though her marriage to her ex-wife, Marie (left), ended in a bitter divorce, their children made it all worthwhile, Overby said.

I wish (my father) could be here today. I think we would have interesting conversations. I think he would be proud of me.

”– Paula Overby EAGAN

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SportsEagan, Lakeville South go to True Team finalsIrish, Tigers third in their section swimming and diving meets

by Mike ShaughnessySUN THISWEEK


Eagan and Lakev-ille South will be among the 12 teams chasing the Class AA True Team boys swimming and diving championship Saturday at the University of Min-nesota Aquatic Center. Eagan qualified by winning the Section 2AA championship Jan. 18 at Olson Middle School in Bloomington. Lakev-ille South earned a wild-card spot after finishing second to Prior Lake in

the Section 3AA meet in Prior Lake. Also getting a wild-card spot was Eden Prairie, which won the 2013 Class AA True Team championship. This year’s Class AA True Team finals begin at 6:30 p.m. Saturday.

Section 2AA Eagan earned its place at state by finishing first in the eight-team Section 2AA meet, 200.5 points ahead of Bloomington Jefferson. The Wildcats opened with victories in four of the first five swimming events. In the 200-yard individual medley Parker Lemke, Max Griesgraber, Eli Broman and Grant Swanson took first in 1 minute, 43.56 seconds.

Lemke won the 200 freestyle in 1:49.44, Bro-man won the 200 individ-ual medley in 2:02.31 and added a victory in the 100 butterfly in 53.97. The Wildcats’ Gries-graber, Jasper Appleton, Tal Shub and Sam Zenner won the 200 medley relay in 1:31.76. Eagan also dominated in diving, taking four of the top six places. Toby Heller (407.75 points) and Alex Crow (401.95) were first and second.

Section 3AA Prior Lake scored 877 points to edge Lakeville South by five, although the Cougars still advanced to the state meet through the wild card scoring pro-cedure. Rosemount (846),

Lakeville North (756), Apple Valley (566) and Eastview (509) completed the field. Lakeville South senior Mitch Herrera dominat-ed the distance freestyle races, winning the 200 by almost three seconds (his time was 1:46.33) and the 500 by almost 14 seconds (his time was 4:52.22). Two other South swim-mers won two races each. Luke Sabal took the 200 individual medley (2:01.18) and 100 breast-stroke (1:02.13), and Adrian Sommers won the 50 freestyle (22.00) and 100 freestyle (49.44). Rosemount’s Daniel Monaghan, the defend-ing state Class AA diving champion, won that event at True Team sections

with 404.90 points. Lakeville North sev-enth-grader Andrew Tre-panier won the 100 back-stroke in 54.67 and added a second-place finish in the 100 butterfly. Apple Valley’s top indi-vidual was senior Aaron Olson, who finished third in the 100 backstroke and fourth in the 100 butterfly. Eastview senior Tucker Hoffman was second to Monaghan in the diving competition with 348.60 points.

Section 1AA Farmington was sched-uled to be host of the Section 1AA True Team meet but a power outage at Dodge Middle School forced a venue change to Owatonna.

Rochester Century, which recently won its 100th consecutive dual meet, took the Section 1AA True Team title with 963 points. Farmington, which won the previous three section titles, was third this time with 859. Oddly, both Century and Section 1AA runner-up Hastings declined invi-tations to the True Team finals. That opened a place for a fifth wild card team and Maple Grove earned the spot. Farmington’s Jona-than Bovee won the div-ing championship with 338.10 points.

Email Mike Shaughnessy at [email protected].

Notes: local speedskater just misses Olympics by Mike Shaughnessy

SUN THISWEEKDAKOTA COUNTY TRIBUNE

When Lindsey Vonn announced earlier this month she would not compete at the 2014 Win-ter Olympics, she was not the only athlete with Da-kota County ties who was denied a trip to Sochi, Russia. Apple Valley native Rebekah Bradford, a U.S. Olympic speedskater in 2010, just missed making this year’s Olympic team. She was one-tenth of a second from qualifying in the 1,000-meter race – the event she skated in the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver – at the U.S. speedskating trials in Salt Lake City. Health issues had side-tracked Bradford since she skated in the 2010 Olympics. She had sur-gery on both knees in 2011, and in 2012 devel-oped a pulmonary embo-lism that was potentially life-threatening. Bradford, 30, lives in the Salt Lake City area with her husband, Eric Plath. While her speed-skating future is up in the air, Vonn, the Buck Hill-trained Alpine skier, made it clear she intends to be back. Vonn recently had another operation on her right knee, which re-quired surgery in Febru-ary 2013 after she crashed during a World Cup race. She re-injured the knee twice since then and de-termined that it would not be stable enough for her to compete in Sochi. Vonn, a four-time wom-en’s World Cup overall champion and Olympic downhill gold medalist in 2010, has said she intends to return for the 2014-15 World Cup season.

North volleyball

coach Jackie Richter, former-ly head volleyball coach at Minneapolis South-west, has been named to the same position at Lakeville North, the St. Paul Pioneer Press re-ported last week. She will replace Walt Weaver, who coached the Panthers for two years following Milan Mader’s retirement. Weaver, a hall of fame coach who had more than 600 victories at Apple Valley, had said he viewed himself as an interim coach at Lakeville North while the school sought a permanent re-placement. North was 58-6 the last two seasons, winning the state Class 3A championship in 2012 and finishing second to eventual state champion Eagan in the 2013 Section 3 final.

Fritze promoted Former Apple Valley High School head foot-ball and boys basketball coach Mike Fritze has been named head football coach at the University

of Minnesota Crookston. Fritze was the Golden Eagles’ interim head coach in 2013. After retiring from teaching and coaching at AVHS in late 2012, Fritze was hired as Minnesota Crookston’s defensive coordinator. The Golden Eagles’ head coach at the time was Paul Miller, who was Fritze’s predecessor as head football coach at Apple Valley. Miller, however, took a leave of absence last July to ad-dress health issues, and Fritze was put in charge of the program. The Golden Eagles went 2-9 last year with a lineup that had more true freshmen playing than is common in the North-ern Sun Intercollegiate Conference. The victo-ries were against Bemi-dji State and Minnesota State Moorhead.

Sportscaster

of the year Lakeville resident Mike Grimm was named Minnesota Sportscaster of the Year by the Na-tional Sportswriters and Sportscasters Associa-tion. Grimm has done play-by-play of University of Minnesota men’s basket-ball on the Gopher Ra-dio Network since 2006. He also was a pregame, halftime and postgame show host for University of Minnesota football ra-dio broadcasts from 2006 until 2011, at which time he became the football team’s play-by-play voice. This is the third time Grimm has been named Minnesota Sportscaster of the Year. He also was named Iowa Sportscaster of the Year in 1999. In ad-dition to his play-by-play duties, Grimm is sports director of the Minnesota News Network.

Winiecki

to St. Cloud Lakeville North High School graduate Blake Winiecki, currently play-ing for the Waterloo Black Hawks in the Unit-ed States Hockey League, verbally committed last week to attend St. Cloud State University. Winiecki, who turned 20 on Jan. 10, is in his second season at Water-loo. He has 28 points (16 goals, 12 assists) in 33 games this season and has a plus-13 rating. He played three var-sity seasons at Lakeville North and helped the Panthers reach the state Class AA tournament in 2010 and 2011. At St. Cloud State, Winiecki will join former Lakeville North team-mate Charlie Lindgren, who’s a freshman goalie for the Huskies.


Farmington skaters extend winning streak to 9Tigers anticipating showdown with New Prague for Missota lead

by Mike ShaughnessySUN THISWEEK


Two of the hottest teams in Minnesota high school boys hockey play just a few miles apart in Dakota County. One, Lakeville North, has zoomed into the top five of the state Class AA rankings. The other, Farmington, is getting by with less public attention. Farmington is 14-3-1 after drubbing Owatonna 9-0 on Tuesday night. The Tigers have won nine in a row and are unbeaten in their last 10 games. But last week they weren’t ranked in the top 20 in Class AA by Let’s Play Hockey. That doesn’t bother Ti-gers coach Keith Revels, who said he wouldn’t mind if the team stayed under the radar all season. “To be honest, we very rarely make any kind of reference to the winning streak,” he said. “That’s not what we’re the most concerned about. We’re trying to be the best team we can be come playoff time.” Farmington is in Sec-tion 1AA, which means the Tigers could face Lakeville North at some point in the postseason. Lakeville North, which is unbeaten in its last 14 games, has played an as-sortment of ranked teams. The last ranked team Farmington played was New Prague (sixth in Class

A) on Dec. 19. The teams skated to a 4-4 tie. The Tigers haven’t taken days off against the teams they’ve been play-ing. Farmington has out-scored opponents 56-14 over the nine-game win-ning streak. This year’s Tigers are deeper than last year’s, with more offensive skill. “Our leading scorer last year had 28 points,” Revels said. “We’ll probably have five guys with more than that this year. “Last year we scored 91 goals in 27 games. This year we have 94 in 18. Last year we were playing a lot of freshmen and sopho-mores. This year they’re sophomores and juniors with a lot more experi-ence, and we’ve been able to combine them with a good senior group.” Farmington’s top-scor-ing line of John Siebenaler, Justin Novak and Austin Martinsen had one goal – the first goal – in Tues-day’s victory at Owatonna. Jack Erickson scored three of his team’s five second-period goals as the Tigers rolled to victory. Fifteen players had at least one point. Gage Overby made 18 saves to earn the shutout. Overby has played the ma-jority of time in goal in part because Nick Schoe-ning, the Tigers’ other var-sity goalie, missed some time because of an injury. “We have two goalies we have a lot of confi-

dence in,” Revels said. “At some point we’re going to have to make a decision (as to which one starts in the playoffs), but I’m not sure when that will be.” Farmington rotates six defensemen, all of whom have helped the Tigers hold opponents to about 2.3 goals per game. Before the playoffs, the Tigers would like to win the Missota Confer-ence. New Prague leads the league at 7-0-1 while Farmington is 6-0-1. The race appears to be between those two as none of the other Missota teams has a winning record in the con-ference. The Tigers play host to Red Wing at 7:15 p.m. Friday, then take on New Prague on Tuesday, Jan. 28, at Schmitz-Maki Are-na. “The winner of that game (against New Prague) will have the up-per hand in the conference – unless it’s another tie,” Revels said. “Our games against New Prague are usually close. I’m glad we’re getting them at home.”

Rosemount The Irish lost 4-1 to No. 2-ranked Burnsville on Tuesday night but have been playing better of late. Rosemount started the season with losses in its first six games but has gone 6-4-1 since then. Rosemount broke the losing streak by beating

Farmington 8-2 on Dec. 17; coincidentally, that’s the last time Farmington lost. In the last 11 games the Irish have beaten Ap-ple Valley twice, defeated Lakeville South and Clo-quet-Esko-Carlton, and tied Bloomington Jeffer-son. Sophomore forward Charlie Monn scored in the first period of the Burnsville game, pulling the Irish into a 1-1 tie. Zach Bichler and Andy Glad assisted. Burnsville scored two goals about three minutes apart in the second pe-riod to take control. Rose-mount goalie Tom Fraune made 28 saves. Lukas Gillett had a hat trick in a 7-5 loss to Lakeville South last Satur-day. The Cougars avenged an 8-5 loss to Rosemount two weeks earlier, a game where the Irish’s Ryan Foley had three goals and three assists and Gillett had two goals and two as-sists. Gillett (29 points) and Foley (27) are Rose-mount’s leading scorers. Rosemount (6-10-1 overall, 3-8-1 South Sub-urban Conference) plays at Rochester Lourdes at 7 p.m. Thursday before re-turning to conference play against Eagan at 3 p.m. Saturday at Rosemount Community Center.


Girls and Women in Sports Day Former Rosemount High School girls track and field coach Mary Eigner and current Lakeville South boys and girls swimming coach Rick Ringeisen are among 17 individuals who will receive awards at the 28th annu-al Minnesota Girls and Women in Sports Day at noon Feb. 5 at the Minnesota State Capitol in St. Paul. Eigner, who taught physical education and health at Rosemount High School, will receive the Marie Berg Award for Excellence in Education. Ringeisen will re-ceive a Breaking Barriers Award. In addition to the 17 individual award winners, two teams will be honored – the Concordia University, St. Paul volleyball team, which in 2013 won its seventh consecutive NCAA Division II national champion-ship, and the University of Minnesota women’s hockey

team, which won the NCAA Division I championship and had a national-record 62-game winning streak. The Minnesota award ceremony will be held in conjunction with the 28th annual National Girls and Women in Sports Day, a nationwide celebration recog-nizing individuals who promote and advance girls and women’s sports. More information about Minnesota Girls and Wom-en in Sports Day can be found at ngwsd-mn.com.

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Farmington’s Tanner Grubb (17) battles for the puck along the boards during a recent game against Northfield. (Photo by Rick Orndorf)


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College News University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, fall dean’s list, from Rosemount – Laura Bodurtha, Alexandra Kemmet, Madison Norris, Emma Weibel. Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Pe-ter, fall dean’s list, from Rosemount – Jackson Eliason, Chloe Everson, Shelby Gamache, Kevin Larson, Nicole Mid-

dendorf, Taylor Sommers, Cole Tucker. University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, winter graduate, Jennifer Anton of Rosemount, B.S., wildlife ecology. University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, fall dean’s list, Sarah Benson of Rose-mount.


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Sunday, Jan. 26 Wedding Expo, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., Best Western Pre-mier Nicollet Inn, 14201 Nicollet Ave. S., Burnsville. Free if RSVP on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/events/263400773811052. In-formation: Amber at 952-646-3605 or [email protected]. Discovery Day Open House, 1-3 p.m., Faithful Shep-herd Catholic School, 3355 Columbia Drive, Eagan. Short

presentation at 1 p.m. followed by a tour and hands-on class-room experiences for families of students in grades K-4 and a middle school information ses-sion for families of students in grades 5-8. Information: Shaw-nessy Schwartz at 651-262-2898 or [email protected]. All-you-can-eat buffet din-ner fundraiser by the Burns-ville Blazettes dance team, 3:30-6 p.m., Mediterranean Cruise Café in Burnsville. Tick-ets at the door: $15 adults, $10 children ages 12 and under. Spaghetti dinner and si-lent auction fundraiser for two 12-year-old Burnsville Traveling Baseball teams, 4-7 p.m., Neis-

en’s Sports Bar, 4851 W. 123rd St., Savage. Meal catered by The Olive Garden. Silent auc-tion to include trips, gift bas-kets, gift certificates and more. Tickets can be purchased at the door. Cost: $7. Funds raised will go to the teams’ summer baseball trip to Coopers town, N.Y., to play at the Coopers-town Dream Park. For more in-formation, visit www.burnsville-travelingbaseball.com and click on Cooperstown 2014.

Tuesday, Jan. 28 Blue Ribbon Baker Mar-jorie Johnson and former Vi-king Bob Lurtsema, 2-4 p.m., Kingsley Shores, 16880 Klam-ath Trail, Lakeville. They will make ginger snap cookies and sign autographs. Johnson will sign copies of her cookbook. Free. Information: 952-435-8002.

Thursday, Jan. 30 “Help! I’m Getting Di-vorced,” free information ses-sion, 7-8 p.m. Summit Execu-tive Suites, 1500 McAndrews Road W., Burnsville. Get your questions answered on the di-vorce process. Free, but seat-ing is limited. Call Terryl John-son at 952-431-0805 to reserve a seat. Sponsored by Divorce Financial Directions of Burns-ville.

Friday, Jan. 31 Family Fun Night, 5:30-8 p.m., Church of St. Joseph and School, 13900 Biscayne Ave. W., Rosemount. Theme: Under the Big Top. Carnival games, prizes, music, raffles, silent auction and more. Pasta dinner served until 7 p.m. Con-cessions available. Free admis-sion. Dinner tickets at the door: $6 children, $9 adult, $30 family maximum. Information: www.stjosephcommunity.org or 651-423-1658.

Saturday, Feb. 1 Winter Farmers Market, 9 a.m. to noon, Eagan Com-munity Center, 1501 Central Parkway, Eagan. Items for sale include locally produced food items such as honey, jams, sauces, sweet treats, artisan bakery items, strudel, root veg-etables and more. Youth Ice Fishing Con-test, noon to 2 p.m., Valley Lake Park, 16050 Garrett Path. Prizes will be awarded to youth ages 13 and under for different fish categories. Participants need to bring their own fishing equipment and bait. Register the day of the contest. Free. Sponsored by Lakeville Knights of Columbus.

Blood drives The American Red Cross will hold the following blood drives. Call 1-800-RED CROSS (1-800-733-2767) or visit red-crossblood.org to make an ap-pointment or for more informa-tion. • Jan. 24, noon to 6 p.m., Hosanna Lutheran Church, 9600 163rd St. W., Lakeville. • Jan. 25, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Wescott Library, 1340 Wescott Road, Eagan. • Jan. 29, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., Apple Valley Medical Center, 14655 Galaxie Ave., Apple Val-ley. • Jan. 30, 2-7 p.m., Glen-dale United Methodist Church, 13550 Glendale Road, Savage. • Jan. 31, 1-6 p.m., Advent United Methodist Church, 3945 Lexington Ave. S., Eagan. • Feb. 3, 1-7 p.m., Berean Baptist Church, 309 E. County Road 42, Burnsville. • Feb. 3, 12:30-6:30 p.m., Mount Calvary Lutheran Church, 3930 Rahn Road, Ea-gan.

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Books Lori Campbell, 10-11 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 1, Dakota Lodge, Thompson County Park, 360 Butler Ave. E., West St. Paul, 952-891-7000. Meet Lori Campbell, an expert in wellness and aging and author of “Awaken Your Age Poten-tial: Exploring Chosen Paths of Thrivers,” and learn how to master the art of aging. Spon-sored in part with TriDistrict Community Education. Regis-tration required: Call 651-403-8313 or visit www.celearn4ever.org. Master storyteller Noth-ando Zulu, 7-7:45 p.m. Mon-day, Feb. 3, Burnhaven Library, 1101 W. County Road 42, Burnsville, 952-891-0300. Zulu will recreate colorful characters from African and African-Amer-ican folktales. Free.

Comedy Comedy and magic show featuring Dennis Carney, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 25, at the Steeple Center, 14375 S. Rob-ert Trail, Rosemount. Special guest star PizPor the Magi-cian. Also appearing William Hill, from Stone Mountain, Ga. Tickets: $5. Reservations rec-ommended. For information or reservations, call John at 952-255-8545.

Dance Twin Cities Chinese Dance Center, 11 a.m. to noon Satur-day, Jan. 25, Galaxie Library, 14955 Galaxie Ave., Apple Valley, 952-891-7045. Experi-ence traditional Chinese dance movements and learn about the historic and cultural back-ground of these movements to celebrate the Chinese New Year. Free.

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stone & Friends exhibit will be on display through Feb. 1 in the art gallery at Burnsville Performing Arts Center, 12600 Nicollet Ave. Information: 952-895-4685, facebook.com/bon-nieandfriends. Winter Art Experience, an exhibit sponsored by the Ea-gan Art Festival and Eagan Art House, is on display through February at the Eagan Byerly’s, 1299 Promenade Place. Infor-mation: 651-675-5521.

Music Patti Labelle, 8 p.m. Satur-day, Jan. 25, Mystic Lake Ca-sino Hotel, Prior Lake. Tickets: $54-$62. Information: mysti-clake.com. Patty Peterson with Family & Friends, 6-9 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 1, Valleywood Golf Course clubhouse, 4851 McAndrews Road, Apple Valley. Part of the Frozen Apple concert series by the Apple Valley Arts Founda-tion. Free. Information: avarts-foundation.org.

Theater Auditions for “B-I-N-G-O Spells Murder” by the Eagan Theater Company, 5:30-8:30 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 29, in the Eagan Room of Eagan City Hall, 3830 Pilot Knob Road. Roles include seven characters (four men, three women). Per-formances will be March 13-14. Auditions for “The Dixie Swim Club” by Expressions Community Theater, 6-8 p.m. Feb. 3-4, at the Lakeville Area Arts Center, 20965 Holyoke Ave. Roles for five women who will be portrayed at ages 44, 49, 54 and 77. Must be able to speak with a Southern accent. Performances will be April 4-6, 11-13. Call backs, if needed, will be 6 p.m. Feb. 6. Informa-tion: 952-985-4640. “Tarzan,” presented by Children’s Castle Theater Jan. 24-26, at Lakeville Area Arts Center, 20965 Holyoke Ave., Lakeville. Tickets: $10 adults,

$8 seniors and children 12 and younger; www.lakevil-leareaartscenter.com, 952-985-4640.

Workshops/classes/other Poetry Jam and Rap Battle, 1-3 p.m. Friday, Jan. 24, Apple Valley Teen Center, 14255 Johnny Cake Ridge Road. Information: 952-953-2385 or cityofapplevalley.org. Allegro Choral Academy is accepting registrations for its second semester for grades 2-8. Registrations accepted until classes are full. Campuses in Lakeville and Rosemount. Information: allegroca.org, [email protected] or 952-846-8585. Drawing from the Imagi-nation, ages 11-plus, 6-8 p.m. Wednesdays, Feb. 5-19, Eagan Art House, 3981 Lexington Ave. S. Cost: $62. Supplies provid-ed. Registration/information: 651-675-5521. Young Artists, ages 6-10, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 25, or 4:30-5:45 p.m. Tuesdays, Feb. 4-25, Eagan Art House, 3981 Lexington Ave. S. Cost: $45. Supplies provided. Reg-istration/information: 651-675-5521. Teen Poetry Jam/Rap Bat-tle, 4-5 p.m. the first Tuesday of each month at Apple Valley Teen Center, 14255 Johnny Cake Ridge Road, Apple Valley, 952-953-2385. Ages 12-18. Adult painting open stu-dio, 9 a.m. to noon Fridays at the Eagan Art House, 3981 Lexington Ave. S. Fee is $5 per session. Information: 651-675-5521. Drawing & Painting (adults and teens) with Christine Tier-ney, 9 a.m. to noon Wednes-days, River Ridge Arts Building, Burnsville. Information: www.christinetierney.com, 612-210-3377. Teens Express Yourself with Paint, 5-7 p.m. Mondays at Brushworks School of Art in Burnsville, www.BrushworksS-

choolofArt.com, 651-214-4732. Act-Sing-Dance winter session enrollment open for ages 7-17. Burnsville location. Information: 952-220-1676, Drama Interaction. Homeschool Theatre Pro-gram, winter session open enrollment, Wednesdays, ages 7-17. In the Company of Kids, 13710 Nicollet Ave., Burnsville, 952-736-3644. Show Biz Kids Theater Class for children with special needs (ASD/DCD programs), In the Company of Kids, 13710 Nicollet Ave., Burnsville, 952-736-3644. Broadway Kids Dance and Theater Program for all ages and abilities, In the Company of Kids, 13710 Nicollet Ave., Burnsville, 952-736-3644. Join other 55-plus adults at the Eagan Art House to create beaded jewelry. The Jewelry Club meets on the third Friday of each month from 1-3 p.m. Information: 651-675-5500. Soy candle making class-es held weekly in Eagan near 55 and Yankee Doodle. Call Ja-mie at 651-315-4849 for dates and times. $10 per person. Presented by Making Scents in Minnesota. Country line dance class-es held for intermediates Mon-days 1:30-4 p.m. at Rambling River Center, 325 Oak St., Farmington, $5/class. Call Mar-ilyn 651-463-7833. Country line dance class-es on Wednesdays at the Lake-ville Senior Center, 20110 Holy-oke Ave. Beginners, 9-10 a.m.; Intermediate, 10 a.m. to noon. $5/class. Call Marilyn 651-463-7833. The Lakeville Area Arts Center offers arts classes for all ages, www.lakevillemn.gov, 952-985-4640. Rosemount History Book Club meets 6:30-8 p.m. the second Tuesday of each month at the Robert Trail Library. Infor-mation: John Loch, 952-255-8545 or [email protected]

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theater and arts briefsRockie Lynne CD release Country artist Rockie Lynne will celebrate the re-lease of his “Radio Road” CD at an event Saturday, Feb. 8, at Bogart’s Place, 14917 Garrett Ave., Apple Valley. Lynne will perform at an intimate, pre-show din-ner with limited seating at 6 p.m. with a main show at 9 p.m. Cost is $40 for the pre-show dinner, which in-cludes admission and re-served seating to the main show as well as a special, acoustic performance by Lynne. Tickets to the pre-show dinner are available through Feb. 4 at http://shop.rockielynnemusic-group.com/. Tickets for the perfor-mance only are $15 at the door. More information is at www.rockielynne.com.

Unconventional ‘Snow White’ Lakeville Area Com-munity Education and Gi-ant Step Children’s Theatre present “Snow White & the 7 or 8 Dwarfs” at 7 p.m. Fridays, Jan. 31, Feb. 7 and 14; 1:30 and 7 p.m. Satur-days, Feb. 1, 8 and 15; and 1:30 p.m. Monday, Feb. 17. Performances are at Lake-ville North High School,

19600 Ipava Ave. W. Tickets are on sale at www.lakevilleareacommu-nityed.net; go to Registra-tion – Youth Enrichment – “Art, Theatre (Snow White), Music, Dance & Cooking” or call 952-232-2150. Tickets are $6 (pre-sale) or $8 at the door.

‘Scooby-Doo’ mysteries Scooby-Doo and the Mystery Inc. Gang take center stage at 4 and 7 p.m. Thursday, March 6, in an all-new family musical, “Scooby-Doo Live! Musi-cal Mysteries,” presented by Warner Bros. Consum-er Products and Life Like Touring at the Burnsville Performing Arts Center, 12600 Nicollet Ave. Tickets are $65 VIP (in-cludes pre-show meet and greet with the cast), $35 and $25, and can be pur-chased at the box office, by phone at 800-982-2787 or online at Ticketmaster.com.

Art park builds new stage Construction of a new stage for Family Fun Tues-days at Caponi Art Park in Eagan will begin in 2014. Plans are for the new stage to be open for the 2015 season.




Rosemount’s Steeple Center will be a hotbed of murder, suspense, secret agents and knife-wielding horror in coming months. The Rosemount Area Arts Council is kicking off its Hitchcock Film Series on Jan. 31 with “Rear Window,” the 1954 suspense thriller starring James Stewart and Grace Kelly. Other Hitchcock films in the series include “Ver-tigo” (Feb. 28), “North by Northwest” (March 28) and “Psycho” (April 25). The roster of Hitchcock films is the second install-ment in the arts council’s ongoing Classic Film Se-ries, which began in March 2013 with a screening of “Casablanca.” For “Casablanca,” guests were encouraged to come dressed in attire in-spired by the classic Hum-phrey Bogart film – Bogie’s

iconic white suit, Ingrid Bergman’s khaki blazer, or Sydney Greenstreet’s fez. For “Rear Window,” guests can come dressed in costume, though the arts council isn’t hyping that aspect of the screening this time around – partly be-cause the Alfred Hitchcock film is big on psychological thrills but not so much on memorable costumes. “You can come dressed in costume – we’re open to that and we like the festive-ness, but we’re not empha-sizing that this time,” said Jim Kotz, the RAAC mem-ber chairing the Hitchcock series. As to why the arts council decided to shine the spotlight on Hitchcock for this season of films, classic-film buff Kotz said it was a matter of paying homage to one of the mov-ie industry’s all-time great directors. “To me, there’s a differ-ence between a good old movie and a classic film,”

he said. “I honestly think that by watching a Hitch-cock film you’re watching a master. “Moviemaker maga-zine called him the ‘most influential filmmaker of all time,’ and you will hear other directors, modern-day directors, say they have learned a lot from him. … He was known as the ‘mas-ter of suspense,’ and he was able to do these really neat, artsy-type of things with his films.” The arts council is rent-ing a 14-foot screen for the Steeple Center showing of “Rear Window,” and stan-dard movie theater refresh-ments such as popcorn, candy and soda will be on offer. Tickets for “Rear Win-dow” are $6 and can be purchased at the Steeple Center, 14375 S. Robert Trail, and online at www.rosemountarts.com. Email Andrew Miller at [email protected].

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Arts council hosts ‘Comedy Club’ event Jan. 25 at Steeple Center



Dennis Carney isn’t a big fan of what comics refer to as “blue” material. In other words, the 72-year-old standup comic from Savage likes to keep it clean. “A comedian friend told me a long time ago, if you have to use the F-word to get a laugh, you might as well quit right now,” he said. Carney will be bringing his PG-rated routine to Rosemount’s Steeple Center on Saturday, Jan. 25, at the Rosemount Area Arts Council’s first “Comedy Club” event. He’ll be joined at the show by two other comics – William Hill and Pizpor the Magician – from his Car-Den Pro-ductions comedy group, which hosts standup events throughout the Twin Cities about twice a month. Hill, an impressionist, does come-dic takes on celebrities such as Arnold Schwarzenegger and Rodney Danger-field. Renaissance Festival veteran Pizpor the Magician is billed as “the finest ma-gician to ever emerge from the tick-in-fested forests of northern Minnesota.” He’s a comic magician whose act hinges on flubbing sleights of hand and stage illusions. “He’s a very good magician, but things always go wrong,” Carney said. Carney, who retired in 2000 after nearly four decades working in the production department at the Pioneer Press, said he got interested in doing comedy after joining Toastmasters, the nonprofit which aims to build public speaking and leadership skills. Carney began honing his standup skills at open-mic nights at Twin Cities comedy venues such as the Joke Joint and Acme Comedy Club. Recruiting

some of the other comics he met at those events, Carney formed the Car-Den troupe and started staging his own shows. A fan of Jack Benny and Jay Leno, Carney said self-effacing humor is at the heart of his act. “Basically, I poke fun at myself,” he said. The Jan. 25 show is the first of what Rosemount Area Arts Council members hope will be a series of comedy nights. A second event featuring the Car-Den comics is scheduled for March 8. Tickets for the 7:30 p.m. Jan. 25 show are $5 and can be purchased in advance at the Steeple Center, 14375 S. Robert Trail, and online at www.rosemoun-tarts.com. Email Andrew Miller at [email protected].

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Michael (Ole) and Julie (Lena) Bateson of Can-non Falls perform in “Ole & Lena’s 50th Wedding Anniversary and Vow Re-newal” at 2 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 16, at the Burnsville Performing Arts Center. For tickets, contact the box office at 952-895-4680 or Ticketmaster.com. (Photo submitted)

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attending caucuses is per-haps the easiest way to take that first step.” Staley said the chance for people to make known their preferences for the Republican endorsement for U.S. Senate and gover-nor will bring out voters. “We have a number of terrific candidates for gov-ernor and U.S. Senate, and caucuses are a first step to-ward a favorite emerging there,” Staley said. Martin said Day-ton and DFL legislators worked to build a better Minnesota. Among their accom-plishments, he said, are that more Minnesotans are working since Dayton took office, the state has a fairer tax system and people are free to marry whom they love. Staley said GOP activ-ists are most concerned about the negative impact of the DFL and gover-nor’s tax increases and greater regulations on the economy. Other concerns are over the “deeply flawed” implementation of the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, and MNsure, the statewide health care exchange website. “The bottom line for Minnesota is that the DFL in the Legislature and the governor spent a lot of money on a health care program that seems un-likely to deliver any sub-stantial improvements to the system,” Staley said. Martin cited the state budget surplus and Min-nesota’s economy being the fifth fastest growing the country as positive indicators of the DFL ef-forts in state government. “With free all-day kin-dergarten for all students, a tuition freeze at state colleges and universities, and affordable, accessible health care for every Min-nesotan, Gov. Dayton and DFL leaders have made investments that will pro-vide long-term prosperity for the state,” he said.

Staley said Republicans are also concerned about the approval of the union-ization vote for in-home day care providers. “(That) is seen as an ex-treme overreach and a po-litical payoff,” Staley said. “It is an intrusion into a simple small business.” Staley said Republi-cans continue to advocate for limited, back-to-the-basics, affordable govern-ment. He said the party is focused on accountabil-ity and results in the areas where the state govern-ment has a constitutional role, such a education and infrastructure. “When government is too big and takes too much from the private economy in taxes and the impact of

regulation, it actually has the terrible potential of hurting those it intends to help,” Staley said. For those new to the precinct caucuses, the Minnesota DFL has de-veloped a video, “What to expect at a precinct cau-cus” at www.dfl.org under “Find Your District.” The website also features a pre-cinct caucus locator for people unsure of where their precinct caucus is held. Some precinct locations may have changed this year, so people are encour-aged to check out what precinct they live in by go-ing to http://pollfinder.sos.state.mn.us. Email Tad Johnson at [email protected].

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About 30 Farmington-area DFLers gathered at Farm-ington High School for their caucus in 2012. (Photo by Laura Adelmann)

DFL District 52: Henry Sibley High School, 1897 Delaware Ave., Mendota Heights – Ea-gan P-1; Inver Grove Heights P-1 to P-10; Lilydale; Men-dota; Mendota Heights P-1 to P-5; South St. Paul; West St. Paul. District 57: Apple Valley High School, 14450 Hayes Road, Apple Valley – Apple Valley P-1 to P-15; Coates; Lakeville P-16 and P-17; Rosemount P-1 to P-7

Republican District 52: Simley High School, 2920 80th St. E., In-ver Grove Heights – Eagan P-1; Inver Grove Heights P-1

to P-10; Lilydale; Mendota; Mendota Heights P-1 to P-5; South St. Paul; West St. Paul. District 57: Eastview High School, 6200 140th St. W., Apple Valley – Apple Valley P-1 to P-15; Coates; Lake-ville P-16 and P-17; Rose-mount P-1 to P-7

Independence Districts 51, 52 and 58 will have online caucuses at www.mnip.org/get-involved/caucuses/live-online-caucus. District 57: Rosemount High School, 3335 142nd St. W., Rosemount – Apple Valley P-1 to P-15; Coates; Lakeville P-16 and P-17; Rosemount P-1 to P-7

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