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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30, 2011
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CAPX2020 POWER LINE
ROUTE DIVIDES COMMUNITY
By Ken Hanson
[email protected]
A 17-story power line in their backyard.
That’s what some Oronoco Township residents
face should CapX2020’s high-voltage transmission
line — one of the most ambitious expansions of
Minnesota’s transmission grid ever — continue on
its present path.
“Why put it through a scenic area?” said Paige
Collins, a member of the Oronoco Township planning
commission, which is taking the lead on dealing with
the power line. “Why take it through our valleys and
across the only sports lake in the area?”
The proposed route
crosses the Zumbro
River at Lake Zumbro,
the former location of
Oronoco
the Sandy Point Supper Township board
Club. The proposed route meeting: 7 p.m.
follows Olmsted County
Road 12. Township offi- Monday at Oronoco
cials would prefer that it Community Center.
follow U.S. 52.
Oronoco Township residents are among thousands
of Minnesotans in the path of the 600-mile line that
would run from Brookings, S.D., to La Crosse, Wis.,
carrying energy generated in the west from, the
company says, a mix of coal and wind.
CapX2020, which consists of 11 electrical companies
Jerry Olson / [email protected]
including Xcel Energy and Dairyland Power Cooperative, wants to construct the $1.7 billion project in 2013 Jim and Jeannie Schreader stand on their property just south of Mazeppa. One of the proand start the flow of energy in 2015.
posed routes of the CapX project would cut through their land along Wabasha County Road 1.
They say the upgrade is needed to serve the region’s
arguments; if nothing else, it can get (CapX2020) to
growing population, as the last major upgrade of the
look at alternatives.”
region’s electric transmission infrastructure took
The Oronoco Township board has hired Rochester
place 30 years ago.
engineering
consultant McGhie and Betts to study
They’ve cleared a number of hurdles in MinneWIS.
impacts
and
alternatives, including the possibility
Cannon
Red Wing
sota, winning preliminary approval from the state
Falls
of having the power line run along the U.S. 52 corriPublic Utilities Commission and a Minnesota Court
dor.
of Appeals case against the Citizens Energy Task
Preferred route
Lake City
Force, which opposes the line. They still face a battle
Wabasha
Concerns around Mazeppa
in Wisconsin, where their application for power
MINN.
lines that would span the Mississippi River at Alma,
Jim and Jeannie Schreader, who raise Black Angus
Alternate route
Zumbrota
Nerstrand
Wis., was recently ruled incomplete. The application
cattle on a century-old family farm south of Mazeppa,
Mazeppa
process, and a technical review, are ongoing.
are closely following developments with the CapX2020
Kenyon
project even though a route that would bisect their
farm is being termed an “alternate.”
Waking up
Pine
Plainview
They’re concerned about the impact on their propIsland
The proposal sneaked up on many Oronoco Townerty values, and about the safety of driving machinery
ship residents, when the “preferred route” was
Kasson
Byron
under a 345-kilovolt cable.
changed last year. The original plan, presented to
Rochester
Despite being on an alternate route, they’ll be
Oronoco officials in 2007, had the preferred route
presenting official comments this spring about
running well north of the township.
impacts on their land and livelihood should a high“There hasn’t been a lot of communication from
Rick Dahl / [email protected] voltage line go through.
CapX2020, even with affected residents — homes
“The next few months are going to
within the 150-foot easement,” Collins said.
Collins said she anticipates a grass-roots effort
Township officials have tried to inform residents once residents awaken to the implications of the be pretty intense,” Jeannie Schreader
said.
in ways including the placement of signs saying, “No power line.
To see a map of the proposed
CapX2020 ‘Preferred Route” — Massive Powerlines
“People will get up and make their emotional
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pitches,” she said. “That’s sometimes the way to make
What’s next
CapX2020 proposal
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presidential limousine before
striking him in his left underarm. Reagan, who thought
he’d broken a rib when a Secret
Service agent pushed him into
the limousine, didn’t know he
had a bullet wound until he
was treated at the hospital.
EDUCATION
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By Matthew Stolle
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to create the Southeast Minnesota
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online courses to students as early
as this spring or summer.
Participating superintendents say
initial course offerings would be
modest in scope with a focus on helping students who have fallen behind
their course work get back on track.
But over time, the offerings could also
include advanced courses.
And if it develops as some super-
School District’s Minnesota Virtual
Academy.
“Bottom line is, online education
Pros: Work at your own pace,
is something we’re going to be seeing
and we have already seen,” said Bob
more flexibility, fewer distractions,
Kelly, superintendent of Triton Public
no bad influences or bullies, ability
Schools, one of the six participating
to specialize in subjects interesting
school districts. “We figure as six
to you.
districts, you better be on the bus
Cons: No traditional high
than behind when its gone.”
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The six districts, which all belong
students may find it hard to focus
to the Hiawatha Valley League
Conference, are Kasson-Mantorville,
or master certain subjects without
La Crescent, Stewartville, Kenyonteacher there; students can become
Wanamingo, Hayfield and Triton.
isolated.
Locally, online education is a tiny
but growing phenomenon. Within the
intendents hope, the academy could
Rochester school district itself, there
compete for students with other
wasn’t a single student enrolled in
online schools, such as the Houston
Online pros and cons
an online program eight years ago.
This year there were 113 — with the
number expected to grow.
The Minnesota Virtual Academy
has grown 20 percent to 30 percent
year since its founding in 2002 and
currently enrolls 1,465, officials say.
That is three times the number of
students enrolled in Houston’s traditional classrooms.
Superintendents who are a part of
the SEMVA say that there are still
hurdles to overcome. Their proposal
still must gain approval from the
Minnesota Department of Education. And negotiations with an online
vendor still must be worked out.
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MINNESOTA LEGISLATURE
Mayo speaks out on proposed stem cell research ban
By Heather J. Carlson
Critics argue that this prohibition would prevent
possible lifesaving research and would have a “chilling effect” on efforts to develop the state’s biobusiST. PAUL — Legislation to ban human cloning
ness industry. Supporters argue that this is not
is generating concern among some research instiintended to ban therapeutic cloning and is strictly
tutions — including Mayo Clinic — that it would
focused on human cloning.
result in banning embryonic stem cell research in
Mayo Clinic weighed in on Tuesday in a letter
the state.
The dispute centers on how human cloning is to lawmakers written by Robert Rizza, the clinic’s
defined. The bill would prohibit a process called executive dean for research. While Mayo Clinic is
somatic cell nuclear transfer, where the nucleus of not currently doing this type of stem cell research,
a body cell is placed within an egg that has had its he wrote, “we need to make sure that any legislanucleus removed. That process can be used to clone tion does not limit Mayo Clinic’s ability to develop
humans through reproductive cloning. It can also be new treatments for diseases that can be devastating
used for therapeutic cloning to grow body tissues to people’s lives and for which there are no other
adequate treatments.”
that match a patient’s body.
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On Tuesday, lawmakers in both the House and
Senate approved higher education budget bills that
would prohibit state and federal money from going
towards this type of research. Other bills would make
it a misdemeanor to perform this type of research.
said that when she learned about
the clinic’s concerns, she worked
on this amendment and will look
to improve on it. It passed 41 to 23.
“My goal is to work with all of
the parties involved to make sure
that Mayo Clinic can continue to
do great research, and I will work
to that end,” Nelson said.
Research concerns
Nelson
But critics argue that the amendment does not protect this type of research. Dr.
Aaron Friedman, vice president for Health Sciences
at the University of Minnesota, said the amendment
Spirited floor debates broke out on both the House fails to address their concerns and that if these
and Senate floors on the stem cell debate. Sen. Carla measures become law, it will stifle research and
Nelson, R-Rochester, sponsored an amendment to result in talented researchers leaving the state.
the Senate higher education budget bill that she
See CLONING, page A2
said was aimed at protecting stem cell research. She
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From page A1
“The researchers who are here at the
university have now been sent a very clear
message this type of research should not go
on in Minnesota,” he said.
Attempts to restrict the
ban on funding to “reproductive cloning” failed in
both the Senate and the
House. Rep. Kim Norton,
DFL-Rochester, sponsored
one of those amendments,
saying it would protect the
University of Minnesota
and Mayo Clinic’s research
efforts.
“This will allow them to
Norton
continue some of the good
research they do,” Norton said.
Moral concerns
Beyond the debate over how human
cloning is defined, there is also concern
about the morality of embryonic stem cell
research. Minnesota Concerned Citizens for
Life opposes embryonic stem cell research,
arguing that it involves the destruction of
human life.
“We believe that human life should be
protected at every stage — even at the
earliest stages of development,” said Bill
Poehler, MCCL’s communications director.
Rep. Mike Benson,
R-Rochester, opposed
Norton’s amendment,
saying that he has moral
concerns about embryonic
stem cell research. He also
said scientists are coming
forward saying they do not
believe that this research
is very promising.
He added, “Do we want
to turn a human being into Benson
a commodity?”
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Sushi cuisine returns to downtown Rochester
While Impiana Kitchen will have a full
sushi bar like Sushi Nishiki, it will also
feature a menu that reaches beyond Japan.
[email protected]
“We’ll have selections from Southeast
Sushi is shimmying back Asia cuisine from Malaysia, Singapore,
into downtown Rochester. Thailand and Vietnam,” he said. “We have
always said when we open another restauLawrence Wong and
rant, we’d do something different. There’s
Sammi Loo first opened
no point to open two similar restaurants in
Sushi Nishiki in the northwest quadrant of
Rochester.”
the city in 2008.
It won’t just be the menu and the name
Now they are bringing sushi and more to
that will be different at Impiana.
the downtown with another name, a differ“The ambiance will be more sophistient attitude and a broader menu.
cated. It will be a downtown-type of atmo“It will be kind of like a sister restaurant
sphere,” said Wong, comparing Impiana to
to Sushi Nishiki,” Wong said of their new
project.The duo will manage both locations. Nishiki.
It will serve a quick lunch for the downThe plan is to open Impiana Kitchen and
town lunch crowd and offer fine dining for
Sushi Bar at 318 S. Broadway — the former
after-work meetings and Happy Hour gathhome of Sushi Itto/Katz’s — in early to miderings.
May.
HEARD ON THE STREET
JEFF KIGER
Do they have any concerns about opening
a restaurant in the same spot where Sushi
Itto failed?
“None at all,” he said without any hesitation. “Our regular customers have been telling us for years that we should open a place
downtown.”
After the previous place closed up shop last
year, Wong and Loo started talking to Nicole
and Nels Pierson, who own the more than
100-year-old building at 318 S. Broadway.
Now construction is under way to roll out
Impiana Kitchen and Sushi Bar.
Jeff Kiger’s Heard on the Street column runs Thursdays with daily news tidbits on page A2. You can read
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On the news story headlined “Fiery debate erupts over Rochester
sales tax proposal”
Republicans I am proud of your vote. We do not need 65 Mil for a Senior
Citizen center, or an addition to the library.
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It is actually $26 million for the senior center, which is still a ridiculous
amount. I did a little research and most new senior centers are built for
well under $10 million.So why does Rochester think they need to build
one for $26 million?
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Let us vote on it. I agree with Tina Liebling this time. It IS about local
control. We the people who live here should decide this issue.
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What it’s really about is endless corporate welfare. Glad to see it fail and
I hope this type of spending ends everywhere. We can’t afford ridiculous
municipal project after project just to keep the developers’ pockets full.
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If Greg Davids and the people in Preston don’t want to pay the sales
tax in Rochester, they are certainly welcome to shop, eat and enjoy their
entertainment elsewhere. Or maybe we should install a toll booth and
charge them everytime they come into Rochester, since they have no
trouble using our roads, services and facilities.
Destination Medical folks! Why isn’t there a hue and cry about what
that will do for the city or perhaps more correctly to taxpayers. It is secret.
It is not defined. It is controlled by a very few. Let’s get that dog into the
light of day so citizens know what that involves.
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Thank you Representatives Liebling and Norton for clarifying, for voters,
just who and what the Party of NO! really stands for — nothing much.
At this point, it mostly boils down to the inflexible position of most
GOP pols that nothing can happen (relating to tax revenues, which fund
everything) w/o their approval...
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It is a city tax, it should be controlled by the city residents both whether
it is extended and what it is used for. If Greg Davids the Rep from Preston
does not want to pay it then shop in Preston.
A woman went into the ditch a few weeks ago when the
roads were covered with slushy snow. Her family talked
about it at home and of course her 5-year-old grandson
heard.
A week later, the grandson said, “Grandma, why did you
go into the ditch?”
The woman replied that well, she was probably going too
fast, but really, the snow just pulled her into the ditch.
The grandson was quiet for a few moments and then said:
“Grandma, snow doesn’t have arms!”
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PUBLIC HEALTH
FIRE CALLS
By Jeff Hansel
[email protected]
The University of Wisconsin and Robert Wood Johnson
Foundation have published
their annual list of county
health rankings, and Olmsted
County ranked 19th in Minnesota for 2011.
Seem low for the Med
City? Olmsted County Public
Health Director Mary Wellik
said being ranked in the top
quartile of
one of the
healthiest
states in
the country is good
but there’s
always room
for improvement.
“It tells me
that we need Wellik
to continue
to look at the preventive
end of the spectrum,” Wellik
said.
Already, Public Health
uses the Community Health
Assessment to target problem areas such as obesity (27
percent of adults in Olmsted
County are obese, according to the report), mental
health access, communitybased care for the elderly
and disabled, quality of life
and cost containment.
“We were No. 1 in (the)
clinical care measure last
year and this time. It just
reflects that we just have
outstanding resources in
this community with Olmsted
Medical Center and Mayo
Clinic,” Wellik said.
Four things influence
health, Wellik said — socioeconomic status, environment, genetics and health
care.
“It’s a function of where
we work and play and how
we live our lives,” Wellik
said. “Overall, we’re at a
high level of health in this
community.”
Wellik said that the report
“leads us to discuss and
understand what’s important
about health, and no matter
where we rank, there’s always
room for improvement.”
In Olmsted County:
• 10 percent of adults were
uninsured (vs. 11 percent
statewide).
• There was a population of
250 people for every primary
health provider in the county
(in the U.S., there are 631
people per provider).
• 93 percent of Medicare
enrollees had lab tests to
screen blood sugars, an indicator for diabetes.
• Eight in 10 female Medicare enrollees had had
mammograms.
• Nine in 10 high school
freshmen graduated from
high school.
How healthy
are our counties?
A 2010 ranking of the health
conditions in area counties. 1 is the
highest of the state’s counties.
Dodge
Fillmore
Goodhue
Houston
Mower
Olmsted
Steele
Wabasha
Winona
43
8
36
41
42
19
3
66
13
Source: www.countyhealthrankings.org
Rick Dahl / [email protected]
• 78 percent of adults had
some education after high
school.
• 9 percent of children
younger than 18 lived in
poverty.
• 14 percent of adults
smoked.
• 23 percent of adults lived
in single-parent households.
• 78 percent of the population had access to healthy
foods.
• 6.2 percent of people 16
and older were unemployed
but seeking work.
Health reporter Jeff Hansel
writes the Pulse on Health blog at
Postbulletin.com. Follow him on
Twitter @JeffHansel.
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1:51 p.m.: 2525 Viola Road
N.E., EMS call, excluding vehicle
accident with injury.
1:58 p.m.: 3504 Fairway Ridge
Lane S.W., Assist invalid.
2:57 p.m.: 4611 Maine Ave.
S.E., Motor vehicle accident with
injuries.
3:44 p.m.: 1100 U.S. 14 S.W.,
3:57 p.m.: 5500 U.S. 52 N.W.,
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injuries.
4:04 p.m.: 222 3 Ave. S.W.,
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4:56 p.m.: 2712 Markay St.
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8:23 a.m.: 4220 55 St. N.W.,
8:36 a.m.: 2205 2 St. S.W.,
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8:52 a.m.: 3501 Fairway Ridge
Lane S.W., Public service.
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fire - unintentional.
12:42 p.m.: 1001 14 St. N.W.,
1:23 p.m.: 2205 2 St. S.W.,
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injuries.
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S.W., Medical assist, assist EMS
crew.
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8:35 p.m.: 211 10 St. N.W.,
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9:19 p.m.: 102 2 St. S.E., EMS
call, excluding vehicle accident
with injury.
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crew.
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John Weiss / [email protected]
Three business people listen during the Post-Bulletin’s community event in Byron on Tuesday. From left are Chris
Ryan of First Security State Bank, and Trevor and Tonya Westrom.
P-B discusses issues, coverage
Post-Bulletin staff
BYRON — About 20 people attended
a Post-Bulletin community event in
Byron on Tuesday to talk about Byronarea issues, including education and
economic growth, and how the P-B covers
the region.
The event at Somerby Golf Club was
one of several that the P-B has hosted
over the past two years throughout the
eight-county area it serves. Publisher
Randy Chapman led the informal discussion, and several news, circulation
and advertising staff
members also contributed. Among those who
attended were Byron
business, municipal and
school district leaders.
In the past several
months, the P-B has held
“community coffees”
to meet with readers
in Byron, Stewartville,
Wabasha, Lanesboro, Chapman
Mantorville, Preston,
Plainview, St. Charles, Lake City and
Pine Island. Tuesday’s event was a lateafternoon gathering aimed more at business and community leaders.
Among the topics discussed were signs
of economic recovery in the area, the
P-B’s recent coverage of chronic wasting
disease, Byron schools and city government news, and how the paper’s website,
PostBulletin.com, fits into the company’s
strategy.
The next P-B community event will be
in Stewartville; details will be announced
soon.
One of the challenges in
starting an online school is
the need to provide virtually around-the-clock access
to teachers or tutors for
students, said Peter Grant,
superintendent of KassonMantorville public schools.
Six southeastern Minnesota
school districts are teaming
up to create the Southeast
Minnesota Virtual Academy, which will offer online
courses to students as early
as this spring or summer.
The six districts, which all
belong to the Hiawatha
Valley League Conference,
are Kasson-Mantorville,
La Crescent, Stewartville,
Kenyon-Wanamingo, Hayfield
and Triton.
As classroom teachers can’t
be made available on a 24/7
basis, officials are looking
to partner with an online
vendor, perhaps
Oklahomabased Advanced
Academics.
“In the long
run, it’s going
to be the best
opportunity for
students, and it’s
going to move us
two years faster
by working with Grant
an established
online (partner),” Grant
said.
Grant said one of the
appeals of an online partnership would be the ability
to offer courses unavailable
in the traditional classroom,
THURSDAYS:
OLMSTED COUNTY MARRIAGE LICENSES
Olmsted County marriage
license applications signed
between Feb. 26, 2011, and
March 4, 2011:
• Wayne Steven Cichanski of
Rochester and Shelly Kay Iverson of Rochester.
• Jared Gene Buckbee of
Rochester and Sue Mary Dyck of
Rochester.
• Thomas Ralph Vale of
Oronoco and Christina Carol
Williams of Oronoco.
• Hani Abdussalam Kushlaf of
Rochester and Marwah Usama
Khamaira of Rochester.
• Jonathon Charles Labrecque
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• David Michael Bowman of
Rochester and Catherine Jean
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• Herman Arturo Torres of
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Googins of Rochester.
• Joel Charles Weinberger II
of Milwaukee and Dena Rose
Hammond of Miwaukee.
• Joshua Ryan Zimmerman of
Rochester and Crystal Michelle
Murry of Rochester.
• Richard Lee Sprague of
Rochester and Vicki Lynn Thornton of Rochester.
such as foreign languages
like French and Mandarin Chinese. But it has also
raised questions about the
effect on teacher employment
if a horde of students stampedes to online courses.
Superintendents say that
the venture could enhance
employment opportunities
within their districts, especially if SEMA opens to
students across the state.
They also describe it as a
pooling of resources. Stewartville schools Superintendent
Dave Thompson said that not
all schools in the Hiawatha
Valley League Conference
offer ag classes as his district
does. By making those classes
available to students across
five other districts, it could
build up employment within
his district.
“Right now, some of our
teachers are teaching partial
loads, and this could get them
teaching full time,” said
Bob Kelly, superintendent
of Triton public schools,
who said that the school
has eight to 10 teachers
taking classes to teach
online.
For the time being,
the focus is on helping
students who have failed
classes catch up. School
officials say they expect
modest initial enrollment.
“I think it will be a small
number,” Thompson said.
“We’re in the initial stages,
so I think it’s going to take
a year or two before it gets
fully implemented.”
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southeastern Minnesota, finding the people and things that
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First lady Michelle Obama to speak
at DC school
First lady Michelle Obama will visit a District of Columbia high school as part of a mentoring initiative in honor
of Women’s History Month.
Mrs. Obama is scheduled to speak this
afternoon to students at Ballou High
School about pursuing career goals and
achieving their potential.
Guest mentors will visit several other
area schools to give similar talks. The
speakers include actresses Geena Davis,
Hilary Swank, Kerry Washington and Alfre
Woodard; figure skater Michelle Kwan;
Nancy Brinker, founder and CEO of Susan
G. Komen for the Cure and a former U.S.
Obama
ambassador to Hungary.
By Stephanie Reitz
Associated Press
GREENWICH, Conn. — Teachers said
he was mentally retarded. Some of his
nastier classmates called him dummy.
Today, Dannel P. Malloy is called something else: governor of Connecticut.
Malloy, who still struggles with
1 reading and calls writing “almost
impossible,” credits his lifelong
struggle with dyslexia for developing listening skills and memory tricks
he uses every day with constituents and
legislators.
Despite reaching his state’s top elected
position, he still has lingering embarrassment over his learning difficulties, Malloy
told students Tuesday at Greenwich’s
Eagle Hill School, a private campus for
children with language-based learning
disorders like his own.
“I have to tell you, I’ll be right up front
about it: I’m the governor of the state of
Connecticut and I can’t write anything
well,” Malloy told the rapt students.
“This is who we are. I can’t write things.
I’m embarrassed all the time about that,
particularly if people don’t know that
about me.”
Although he has never hidden his
dyslexia, Malloy’s election as Connecticut’s governor last year placed him on
the national stage as an increasingly
public face for awareness of learning
disorders.
Supreme Court Judge Scalia ticketed
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Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia was ticketed by
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morning.
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correspondence to others, jotting a few
words on a scrap of paper to jog his
memory for his off-the-cuff speeches,
and memorizing short greetings to write
on autographs — usually, “Keep up the
good work!”
The International Dyslexia Association
says perhaps as much as 20 percent of the
population has a language-based learning
disability like Malloy’s, in which people
have difficulty decoding and recognizing
words. It’s believed to have neurological
and genetic causes.
Malloy, who is 55 years old and the
youngest of eight children, also was
born with coordination problems that
made it difficult for him to even button
clothes and tie his shoes until about fifth
grade.
WHAT THE NATION IS TALKING ABOUT
Two co-founders of the plan to build a Muslim community center and mosque in downtown Manhattan have
begun exploring a new, and possibly competing, project: an
interfaith cultural center that they said might be located at
the currently proposed site, two blocks from ground zero,
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resolution.
Khan’s comments were the first in which the couple indicated a willingness to put their names behind a different
religious mission in the city.
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Gov. Dannel P. Malloy speaks to a
group of students and teachers at
Eagle Hill School in Greenwich, on
Tuesday.
Malloy spoke candidly to the students
Tuesday about his struggles growing up
in Stamford in the 1960s, recalling when
teachers would post his failing scores on
the classroom board, or how he stayed
away from collecting baseball cards like
many other boys because deciphering the
words and statistics was so torturous.
“Honestly, it was just terrible. I was
embarrassed most of the time,” he said.
He credits his mother and other adults
who saw his potential, encouraged him to
pursue his passions for public speaking
and government, and refused to let him
be defined by his learning disability.
As he grew older, he found he could
absorb information easily and quickly
through audiobooks. He eventually graduated with honors from Boston College, got
his law degree and became a prosecutor.
Later, the Democrat became Stamford’s
mayor and, in the fall, defeated Republican Tom Foley to become governor.
Today, much of what’s on paper is still
challenging for Malloy, but even political
opponents are impressed by his memory
for detail and ability to absorb information verbally.
His advice to the students revolved
around a basic theme he says has held
true in his life: “If you’re nice, if you like
yourself, if you treat other people well,
you’re going to be successful. I guarantee it.”
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Virgina Tech fined over delays in
campus shooting incident
The Department of Education fined Virginia Tech
$55,000 on Tuesday for waiting too long to notify students
after the 2007 campus shooting that left 33 people dead.
More than two hours passed after the shooting began
before the university sent a notification to the entire
campus, the department said. The fine was the maximum
amount allowed for violating a federal law that requires
timely notification after campus crimes.
Virginia Tech said it planned to appeal the fine.
“We believe that Virginia Tech administrators acted
appropriately in their response to the tragic events,” it
said in a statement. “The department’s own compliance
guidelines had illustrated 48 hours as an acceptable timely
notification time frame.”
On April 16, 2007, Seung-Hui Cho, a senior at the university, killed 32 people and wounded dozens of others before
committing suicide. The shooting began at 7:15 a.m., but
Virginia Tech did not release a notification until 9:26 a.m.
And, according to a letter the Education Department wrote
Tuesday to the school, that notification was insufficient
because it did not say that the gunman was still at large
or that a murder had been committed.
South Carolina
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Wisconsin
Gift from ex-trustee
‘totally unencumbered’
Former DA won’t face
criminal charges
The $5 million gift that ousted University of South Carolina trustee Darla
Moore made to the university has no
strings attached.
“It’s totally unencumbered,” state Sen. John
Courson, a Republican, told legislative
colleagues in remarks
he made on the Senate
floor Tuesday.
Moore surprised an
audience at the university by saying she was
Moore
pledging $5 million so
USC could establish
an aerospace innovation and research
center.
Moore’s announcement underscored
her position as the largest benefactor in
USC history and was seen as a retort of
sorts to Gov. Nikki Haley, who replaced
her on USC’s board with a campaign
contributor.
The state of Wisconsin won’t file criminal charges against a former prosecutor
who was accused of sending sexually
suggestive text messages to a domestic
violence victim.
Kenneth R. Kratz resigned as Calumet
County district attorney in October after
then-Gov. Jim Doyle began the process
to remove him from office.
Kratz, a Republican, had been Calumet
County’s district attorney since 1992. It
was revealed Sept. 15 that Kratz had sent
30 text messages over three days last fall
to Stephanie L. Van Groll, 26, while he
was prosecuting her ex-boyfriend.
Kratz referred to Van Groll in one
text as a “young, hot nymph” and asked
in another message if she “likes secret
contact with an older married elected
DA.”
Officials with the Department of
Justice found no evidence of criminal
conduct but forced Kratz to resign.
Josh Friers, with the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s wildlife services division, catches a 13.5 foot
male Burmese python along the
L-28 levee in Miami-Dade County.
Pythons making a
resurgence in Everglades
Neither record cold temperatures
nor water shortages have stopped the
Everglades python menace, say water
managers bracing for the springtime
peak of python mating season.
The South Florida Water Management
District reported Saturday that it has
removed six pythons in the past week
from territories previously thought to
be uninvaded, including areas deep in
the Everglades and north of Alligator
Alley.
The pythons, which started appearing
in the 1980s, are considered a threat to
multibillion-dollar Everglades restoration efforts because they prey on
bobcats, wading birds, white-tailed deer
and other native Florida species, including alligators.
Since 2000, the water district says it
and other agencies have removed 1,360
Burmese pythons from the Everglades.
The U.S. Geological Survey estimates
the python population at anywhere from
5,000 to more than 100,000 in Florida’s
“River of Grass.”
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SOMALIA
Constitutional crisis ahead?
Poll: Public thinks cartels are
winning drug war
Mexicans are in a funk over their president, and a majority of them think that he’s losing control of the country, an
opinion poll released Tuesday found.
Six out of 10 Mexicans think that organized crime gangs
are getting the upper hand in the war that President Felipe
Calderon launched against drug trafficking
when he came to office in late 2006, the
poll by Demotecnia found.
The poll may augur a change in the country’s approach to its huge drug-trafficking
problem when a new administration takes
over after elections next year.
Calderon, 48, is in the fifth and defining
year of a six-year presidential term. His
National Action Party is struggling to find
a suitable candidate for the 2012 presidenCalderon
tial elections — Mexico’s presidents serve
only one term — and Calderon recently
suggested that the party should look outside its ranks for
a candidate.
While the army-backed offensive that Calderon launched
when he took office has disrupted drug gangs and netted a
handful of drug barons, it’s coincided with a rising death
toll. Last year, 15,273 Mexicans were killed, a spike over the
9,600 killed a year earlier. In total, more than 35,000 people
have died in drug violence since Calderon took office.
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MOGADISHU, Somalia — As pro-Somalia military forces are making inroads
against al-Qaida-linked militants, the
war-ravaged country is facing another
problem: a constitutional crisis that
threatens to unravel hard-won military
gains.
The U.N. representative to
1 Somalia says a crisis is unfolding
over the efforts by the country’s
parliament and government to extend
their terms, and that the international
community “doesn’t buy” the government’s argument for extending itself
beyond its August mandate.
The Horn of Africa country has been
at war for two decades, and the weak,
U.N.-backed government has for years
controlled just a few blocks of the capital. Basic services are mostly unavailable
and residents often are caught in the
middle of clashes between governmentbacked troops and insurgents.
In February, the oversized 550-member
parliament voted itself a three-year
extension.
Then Somalia’s Cabinet said that it
also wants a one-year extension so it can
continue governing through a military
offensive against al-Qaida-linked militants — a battle launched last month in
which African Union and Somali forces
seem to be making gains.
The government’s U.N. mandate
expires Aug. 20, and it’s not yet clear
Japan
Post-tsunami, hundreds take shelter
in nuclear plant
As a massive tsunami ravaged the Japanese fishing
town of Onagawa, hundreds of residents fled for the safest
place they knew: the
local nuclear power
plant.
More than two
weeks later, 240
remain, watching TV
or playing ball games
with their children
next to three atomic
reactors. It’s a startling contrast to the
damaged nuclear Tsunami survivors exercise in an
plant 75 miles south- evacuation center in Onagawa,
east, where radiation Miyagi Prefecture, on Tuesday.
leaks have forced an
evacuation of area residents and terrified the nation.
The town of Onagawa’s embrace of its plant reflects
the mindset in much of Japan, at least before the current
crisis. Nuclear power was accepted as a trade-off: clean
and reliable energy versus the tiny but real risk of catastrophe — one that now may be unfolding at the Fukushima
Dai-ichi plant.
Those sheltering at the plant live in relative luxury
compared to many other survivors. Most of Onagawa is
still covered in a thick layer of dust. There is no running
water or cellphone service, and only a few neighborhoods
have electricity. Nearly 1,100 of the 10,000 residents are
dead or missing, and 5,500 more have moved into schools
and civic centers.
Within the nuclear plant, facilities are pristine, electricity flows directly from Japan’s national grid, and evacuees
can use its dedicated phone network to make calls.
Associated Press
Somali President Sharif Sheik
Ahmed, center, visits the frontline in southern Mogadishu’s Hawl
Wadaag district, on Tuesday.
what will happen then.
The U.N.’s Somalia representative,
Augustine P. Mahiga, said in an interview
that Somalia’s government is suffering a
constitutional crisis even as pro-government forces claim to have captured up to
75 percent of Mogadishu.
Mahiga said that even before the weekend announcement by Somalia’s cabinet,
the government had been asking the
international community for more time.
“The international community did not
buy the argument of the government, and
instead wants to see elections in July,
Mahiga said.
Parliamentarians said they, too, would
not back a Cabinet extension and called
on President Sheik Sharif Sheik Ahmed
to instead seek his extension through an
election. The Cabinet extension requires
parliament’s approval.
Mahiga said the international community is open to a one-year extension for
parliament, but would like to see a new
government voted in by August.
The duration of that new government
would be determined by the adoption of
an interim constitution. The challenge,
Mahiga said, is for everyone to agree on
a constitution, which parliament and
government leaders said can be finished
within a year.
But in yet another twist likely to upset
the international community, Mahiga
said parliament’s position is that the
implementation of that new constitution
would have to wait until parliament’s
three-year extension has expired.
Whether the presidential administration exists or not has historically not
made much difference to the people of
Somalia, whose country has been mired
in conflict since 1991. The government
is protected by 8,000 African Union
peacekeepers although in recent weeks
pro-government forces have driven the
Islamist militants of al-Shabab from a
few towns and key positions in the capital.
Whether the Cabinet gets more time
— which doesn’t seem likely — the political wrangling is unlikely to affect international support for forces leading the
charge against al-Shabab.
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Baltic Sea letter in a bottle found 24
years later
Nearly a quarter-century after a German boy tossed
a message in a bottle off a ship in the Baltic Sea, he’s
received an answer.
A 13-year-old Russian, Daniil Korotkikh, was walking
with his parents on a beach
when he saw something glittering lying in the sand.
“I saw that bottle and it
looked interesting,” Korotkikh told the Associated Press
on Tuesday. “It looked like
a German beer bottle with a
ceramic plug, and there was
a message inside.”
Daniil Korotkikh holds
His father, who knows a bottle with a letter
schoolboy German, translated he found on a beach
the letter.
near Morskoye.
It said: “My name is Frank,
and I’m 5 years old. My dad and I are traveling on a ship
to Denmark. If you find this letter, please write back to
me, and I will write back to you.”
The letter, dated 1987, included an address in the town
of Coesfeld. The boy in the letter, Frank Uesbeck, is now
29. His parents still live at the letter’s address.
Haiti
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Libya
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Results of presidential
election postponed
Gadhafi’s forces beat
Hugo Chavez, a
journalism award-winner back rebels
Haitians will have to wait at least a
few more days to learn the preliminary
results of their presidential election
because of alleged irregularities and
fraud uncovered at the vote-counting
center, officials said Tuesday.
While not disclosing specifics, Gaillot
Dorsinvil, the president of the Haiti’s
Provisional Electoral Council, issued a
brief statement saying officials found a
“high level” of fraud and irregularities
of various kinds at the tabulation center
in the capital, Port-au-Prince.
Dorsinvil said the discovery has
prompted lawyers to adopt “more stringent verification measures,” causing a
delay in counting. He did not describe
the alleged problems.
The preliminary results are now
expected to be released Monday, according to Dorsinvil. They were expected to
be released Thursday.
Hugo Chavez is getting a journalism
award in Argentina.
The Venezuelan
leader threatens opposition media, but the
University of La Plata
is giving him an award
for what it describes as
his work giving people
without a voice access
to the airwaves and
newspapers.
Chavez’s government
has bankrolled the Chavez
growth of the Telesur
network, providing a state-funded alternative to privately financed broadcast
stations across Latin America.
He met Tuesday with his ally President Cristina Fernandez. She is trying to
transform Argentina’s communications
industry through a law that would break
up media monopolies.
In the allies’ shadow war in Libya,
airstrikes are aimed not just at Moammar
Gadhafi’s tanks and artillery but also at
the elite among his remaining armed
forces in an effort to convince them to
turn against their embattled leader. He
may be able to hold out against Western
warplanes, but he cannot long survive
without the loyalty of certain tribes —
the Warfalla, the Margaha and his own
people, the Qaddafa — whose members
now dominate the government’s only
dependable militias.
As Gadhafi’s militias beat back the
rebels’ advance in eastern Libya on
Tuesday, it was clear that the past 10
days of airstrikes had failed to cripple
his forces enough to erase their advantage in firepower.
Nor have the strikes renewed the
uprising that briefly threatened his
stronghold in Tripoli, the capital, four
weeks ago.
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Knutson Construction to
build MnDOT facility
Post-Bulletin staff
The Minnesota Department of Transportation has awarded Knutson Construction the contract to build a 115,000 square
foot, multi-purpose facility along U.S. 52 in
Rochester.
The single-story structure will contain
offices, conference rooms, shop space, vehicle maintenance space, locker rooms, vehicle fueling and material storage space.
The cost was was originally estimated at
$22 million, but Knutson found cost savings
and reduced the state’s price tag to just over
$17 million, it said.
“We are constantly working to make sure
our clients get the most out of every dollar
they spend on a building project,” Knutson
Construction Chief Estimator Mike Larson
said. “It’s especially important on a project
like this one — when taxpayer dollars are
at stake.”
Construction crews will begin work in
April. When it’s finished in the spring of
2012, the facility will be a hub for vehicle
maintenance of state patrol vehicles, snowplows, dump trucks and other roadway
maintenance equipment. The facility will
have storage space for salt and other snow/
ice agents.
Knutson, which is celebrating its 100th
year in business this year, has offices in
Rochester, Minneapolis and Iowa City.
Stock futures up as traders
await economic data
Associated Press
NEW YORK — Stocks are pointed higher
as traders turn their focus to U.S. economic
news from the Japanese nuclear crisis and
battle for control of Libya.
The ADP National Employment Report
due today was expected to say that fewer
jobs were added in March. The report is
a precursor to the government’s March
nonfarm payrolls report due Friday.
This week’s report is particularly important as it may help traders gauge when the
Federal Reserve will raise interest rates.
On Tuesday the Commerce Department
said that consumers spent at the fastest
pace in four months in February.
Ahead of the bell, Dow futures are up
56 points, or 0.5 percent, at 12,281. S&P 500
futures are up 7, or 0.6 percent, at 1,323.
Nasdaq 100 futures are up 20, or 0.8 percent,
at 2,342.
J&J recalls more Tylenol
bottles due to musty odor
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Health care products
maker Johnson & Johnson recalled another
lot of Tylenol on Tuesday due to a musty
odor which has already triggered five other
recalls of the company’s over-the-counter
medicines.
The latest recall involves more than 34,000
bottles of Tylenol 8 Hour Extended Release,
which were distributed throughout the U.S.
All of the products come from lot number
ADM074, which appears on the bottom of
the bottles.
It’s the sixth time that the New Brunswick,
N.J.-based company has recalled nonprescription medicines because of complaints
about an unpleasant odor.
The odor is thought to be caused by trace
amounts of a chemical used to treat wooden
pallets on which bottles are stored and
shipped. The company previously said it
has stopped using wooden pallets.
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The Rochester metropolitan
area’s jobless rate increased
slightly from 6.1 percent in January to 6.2 percent in February,
according to figures released
this week by the Minnesota
Department of Employment and
Economic Development.
However, the local rate
remained below the statewide
rate of 7.4 percent and U.S. rate
of 9.5 percent.
The long-term trend is also good
for the Rochester metro area,
having dropped from 6.6 percent
in February 2010 and 7.1 percent
in February 2009.
Dodge County
Fillmore County
Freeborn County
Goodhue County
Houston County
Mower County
Olmsted County
Rice County
Steele County
Wabasha County
Winona County
Feb.
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8.5%
9.3%
8.7%
8.7%
10.2%
6.4%
6.3%
8.9%
9.2%
7.4%
7.3%
Feb.
’11
7.5%
8.4%
7.9%
7.6%
9.7%
6.2%
5.8%
8.1%
7.8%
7.2%
6.6%
Rochester metro
S.E. Minnesota
Minnesota
U.S.
6.6%
7.7%
8.6%
10.4%
6.1%
7.1%
7.4%
9.5%
(All are not seasonally adjusted)
Source: Minn. Dept. of Employment and Economic Development
Among southeastern Minnesota
counties, Olmsted had the lowest
rate at 5.8 percent, with Mower
close behind at 6.2 percent. The
highest rate was 9.7 percent in
Houston County, although that
is down from 10.2 percent a year
ago.
RPU
Silver Lake power plant sees
reduced use, emissions
By Christina Killion Valdez
[email protected]
To understand how much less the
Silver Lake power plant is being run,
you could ask the geese who’ve been
frozen out of the lake, or consider
the emissions fee paid by Rochester
Public Utilities.
Each year RPU is required to pay
an emission-based fee to the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency to
fund air quality programs. This year,
even though the fee rate increased
by 47 percent from $43.33 per ton to
$63.84 per ton, the total fee being
charged to RPU dropped by 54
percent, from $127,651 to $58,059.
The decrease is a direct reflection
of how much less fuel was burned
at the plant in 2009 compared to
previous years, according to a report
presented to the RPU board Tues-
day. The annual fee paid each year
is based on the actual emissions
from two years earlier.
In 2009 Silver Lake Plant had
909 tons of emissions compared to
2,946 tons of emissions in 2008. This
is the lowest amount of emissions
recorded in the last 10 years. The
highest was 4,913 in 2003.
The decreased usage follows a
statewide trend, according to the
report, and because the majority of
the funding for the state’s air quality
programs come from fees, the Pollution Control Agency simply does the
math to figure out the dollar per ton
needed to support the program.
The fee was included in the RPU
budget previously approved by the
RPU board and Rochester City
Council. The payment was authorized Tuesday by the board.
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During the past year, Minnesota
has gained about 19,600 jobs, for
a growth rate of 0.8 percent. The
U.S. growth rate during that same
period was 1 percent. The Rochester metro area gained 700 jobs
in that time, for a growth rate of
0.7 percent.
“While the recovery is progressing, we’re still seeing mixed
results in the labor market,” said
DEED Commissioner Mark Phillips. “Manufacturing, in particular, has been a bright spot, adding
another 2,400 jobs in February.”
In the Rochester metropolitan area — consisting of Dodge,
Olmsted and Wabasha counties
— manufacturing added nearly
400 jobs in the past year.
Along with manufacturing, other
job gains occurred in February in
professional and business services
(up 1,200 statewide), construction
(up 1,000), other services (up 800),
government (up 100), and logging
and mining (up 100).
Oil prices below $105 after
U.S. crude supply jump
Associated Press
SINGAPORE — Oil prices
hovered below $105 a barrel
today in Asia after a report
showed U.S. crude supplies
rose more than expected
last week, suggesting rising
fuel costs may be crimping
demand.
Benchmark crude for May
delivery was down 19 cents
to $104.60 a barrel at late
afternoon Singapore time in
electronic trading on the New
York Mercantile Exchange.
The contract gained 81 cents
to settle at $104.79 on Tuesday. In London, Brent crude
was down 3 cents at $115.13
a barrel on the ICE futures
exchange.
Crude has jumped about
24 percent since Feb. 15, and
analysts say higher prices for
gasoline and heating oil could
eventually hurt consumer
demand.
The American Petroleum
Institute said late Tuesday
that crude inventories rose
5.7 million barrels last week
while analysts surveyed by
Platts, the energy information arm of McGraw-Hill Cos.,
had forecast an increase of
2.2 million barrels. Inventories of gasoline fell 1.9 million
barrels and distillates fell
112,000 barrels, the API said.
The Energy Department’s
Energy Information Administration reports its weekly
supply data later Wednesday.
In other Nymex trading for
April contracts, heating oil
fell 0.1 cent at $3.03 a gallon
and gasoline dropped 0.5 cents
at $3.04 a gallon. Natural gas
rose 0.5 cents to $4.27 per 1,000
cubic feet.
MARKETS
CHICAGO GRAIN FUTURES
CHICAGO (AP) — Futures trading on the Chicago
Board of Trade Tue.:
Open High
Low
Settle Chg.
WHEAT
5,000 bu minimum; cents per bushel
May 735¼ 742
721¼ 737¼ +12
Jul
770¾ 777
757
772¾ +11¾
Sep
809
814
796
810¼ +11½
Dec
834
841
822¾ 836
+10½
Mar
856
859½ 842½ 856¾ +11½
May 859¾ 865¼ 856¼ 862¼ +9¾
Jul
843½ 848¼ 834
845¼ +9½
Sep
847½ 852¼ 840
850
+10
Dec
855
857¼ 845¾ 854½ +8¾
Mar
858¼ 863
855
863
+8
May 855
861¼ 855
861¼ +6¼
Jul
814
822¾ 814
822¾ +8¾
Est. sales 87,607.
Mon.’s sales 59,510
Mon.’s open int 478,431, up 377
CORN
May 668
677
661¼ 671¾ + ¾
Jul
675¼ 683¾ 668½ 678¾ + ¾
Sep
628½ 636¾ 623
632½ +1¼
Dec
598¾ 604¼ 592¾ 600¼ +3¼
Mar
608¼ 612
602
609½ +4¼
May 616½ 618¾ 608
617
+5
Jul
620
622¾ 613¼ 621½ +5¼
Sep
568
573¾ 566¼ 571¼ +3½
Dec
557
558½ 547¾ 558¼ +8½
Mar
566¼ 566¼ 558¾ 566¼ +7½
May 565¾ 571¼ 565¾ 571¼ +5½
Jul
572¾ 577¼ 572¾ 577¼ +4½
Sep
561¾ 568
561¾ 568
+6¼
Dec
550
558¼ 548¾ 558¼ +7½
Jul
567¾ 575¼ 567¾ 575¼ +7½
Dec
558¾ 565¼ 558¾ 565¼ +7½
Est. sales 280,859.
Mon.’s open int 1,551,287
OATS
May 349¼ 351
344¼ 351
+2
Jul
358½ 359½ 353¾ 359½ +2
Sep
363¼ 367¾ 363¼ 367¾ +2
Dec
377
378¼ 373½ 378¼ +2
Mar
389¼ 391¼ 389¼ 391¼ +2
May 396¼ 398¼ 396¼ 398¼ +2
Jul
403¼ 405¼ 403¼ 405¼ +2
Sep
410¼ 412¼ 410¼ 412¼ +2
Dec
419¼ 421¼ 419¼ 421¼ +2
Mar
430¾ 432¾ 430¾ 432¾ +2
Jul
437¼ 439¼ 437¼ 439¼ +2
Sep
444¼ 446¼ 444¼ 446¼ +2
Est. sales 678. Mon.’s sales 987
Mon.’s open int 13,630, up 146
SOYBEANS
May 1355¾ 1369
1341 1361½ +13
Jul
1366¼ 1379
1351½ 1372¼ +13
Aug
1368 1376½ 1352¼ 1371¾ +13½
Sep
1357 1365
1344¾ 1363¼ +13¼
Nov
1348 1359¾ 1332 1354¼ +12¼
Jan
1353 1362
1341¾ 1358¾ +12
Mar
1351 1360
1343¾ 1355¼ +11½
May 1342 1349¾ 1331½ 1345¾ +11¾
Jul
1337 1347¼ 1334¾ 1342¾ +12½
Aug
1325 1329½ 1317 1329½ +12½
Sep
1278½ 1291
1278½ 1291 +12½
Nov
1261¼ 1270
1247½ 1267½ +12½
Jan
1261¼ 1273¾ 1261¼ 1273¾ +12½
Mar
1262¼ 1274¾ 1262¼ 1274¾ +12½
May 1263¼ 1275¾ 1263¼ 1275¾ +12½
Jul
1261½ 1274
1261½ 1274 +12½
Aug
1251¼ 1263¾ 1251¼ 1263¾ +12½
Sep
1245¼ 1257¾ 1245¼ 1257¾ +12½
Nov
1222½ 1235
1222½ 1235 +12½
Jul
1223 1235½ 1223 1235½ +12½
Nov
1224 1236½ 1224 1236½ +12½
Est. sales 153,024.
Mon.’s open int 615,728
CHICAGO LIVESTOCK FUTURES
CHICAGO (AP) — Early trading on the Chicago
Mercantile Exchange Tue:
Open High
Low
Last
Chg.
CATTLE
40,000 lbs.; cents per lb.
Apr
117.85 118.42 117.60 118.00 +.05
Jun
117.07 117.75 116.87 117.40 +.43
Aug
118.30 118.95 118.15 118.62 +.22
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Oct
121.50 122.10
Dec
122.07 122.65
Feb
121.70 122.40
Apr
122.00 122.35
Jun
118.72 119.30
Aug
118.50
Est. sales 7,028.
Mon.’s open int 376,220,
FEEDER CATTLE
Mar
132.25 132.92
Apr
134.92 135.80
May 136.87 137.70
Aug
138.47 139.25
Sep
137.87 138.60
Oct
137.37 138.00
Nov
136.75 137.77
Jan
134.20
Est. sales 1,289.
HOGS, LEAN
Apr
92.60 93.40
May 101.80 102.50
Jun
103.27 104.15
Jul
102.50 103.35
Aug
102.10 102.95
Oct
91.45 91.95
Dec
87.25 87.85
Feb
87.50 88.00
Apr
88.60 88.87
May 92.40 92.40
Jun
94.15 94.75
Jul
92.97 93.00
Est. sales 7,784.
121.42
121.87
121.70
122.00
118.30
121.70
122.40
122.20
122.35
118.30
+.10
+.10
+.15
—.02
up 2,105
132.25
134.65
136.47
138.15
137.87
137.25
136.75
132.55
135.60
137.50
139.20
138.50
137.50
137.45
+.25
+.70
+.33
+.30
+.40
+.10
+.05
up 419
92.60 93.30 +.70
101.77 102.50 +.63
103.15 104.00 +.75
102.50 103.30 +.73
102.07 102.87 +.75
91.37 91.90 +.25
87.25 87.60 +.45
87.50 87.85 +.40
88.60 88.60
92.00 92.00 +.50
94.12 94.50 +.50
92.50 92.50 +.50
up 2,379
CURRENCY
NEW YORK (AP) — Key currency exchange rates
Tuesday, compared with late Monday in New York:
Dollar vs:
Exchange Rate Pvs Day
Yen
82.43
81.65
Euro
$1.4088
$1.4097
Pound
$1.5990
$1.6000
Swiss franc
0.9219
0.9170
Canadian dollar
0.9751
0.9761
Mexican peso
11.9544
11.9581
METALS
Metal
Price (troy oz.)
NY Merc Gold
$1417.00
NY HSBC Bank US $1419.00
Pvs Day
$1419.80
$1419.00
NY Merc Silver
$37.097
$36.977
ZUMBROTA LIVESTOCK
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
SHEEP & GOATS
Feeder Lambs
50# - 70#
70# - 90#
Fed Lambs
Shorn Lambs 110# - 145#
Unshorn Lambs 110# - 145#
Ewes
Utility & Good Ewes
Thin & Cull Ewes
Goats
Small Goats 40-60#
Med Goats 75-95#
Large Goats 130-205#
Nanny Goats
MARKET HOGS
230# - 280#
280# - 290#
290# - 300#
Sows
Under 450#
450# - 500#
Over 500#
Boars
Under 300#
Over 300#
Feeder Pigs
20# - 40#
40# - 50#
50# - 60#
60# - 80#
80# - 100#
100# - 120#
Over 120#
200.00-215.00cwt
207.00-212.00cwt
195.00-201.00cwt
192.00-197.00cwt
61.00-73.00cwt
50.00-60.00cwt
40.00-77.00hd
110.00-125.00hd
155.00-185.00hd
35.00-140.00hd
60.00cwt
59.00cwt
58.00cwt
51.00-53.00cwt
54.00-55.00cwt
56.00-57.00cwt
40.00cwt
24.00cwt
N/A
N/A
N/A
61.00-83.00hd
83.00-98.00hd
98.00-107.50hd
107.50-120.00hd
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Commentary
Communication is two-way street for readers, media
PUBLISHER’S PICK
RANDY CHAPMAN
C
ommunity
face-time is
important, not just
for Post-Bulletin
employees but for
representatives of any organization, institution and agency that
strives for goodwill as they serve
community interests.
I have observed how well constituencies respond when they feel
they know the leaders in business,
social services, health care, government and education. I also have
observed how problems could have
been mitigated, if not avoided,
had relationships been tested and
established before conflicts arose.
“If only ...” some might declare
about the former beleaguered
Rochester public school superintendent. “If only ...” Romain Dallemand had been more personally
visible and interactive in places
where you wouldn’t have expected
to see and meet him, places where
he didn’t need to be, opportunities where the seeds of productive
and supportive relationships could
have flourished.
Later, as issues with parents,
teachers, taxpayers and advocates for better education arose,
it is possible that the community
could have been a rallying advisory force to the superintendent.
Perhaps the complications Dallemand faced early in his Rochester
tenure would have been less tense
and uncomfortable; perhaps those
complications would not have
evolved into subsequent vitriol
inside and outside the school
system.
Earning your trust
I feel blessed in two ways.
First, I am employed in the
media — your community newspaper and information resource.
Thus, I have a voice in print and
online that reaches deep into
the community. I along with my
Post-Bulletin associates treasure
and preserve the credibility of
that voice, endeavoring every day
to earn and retain your trust in
the news, features and opinion
we provide. More than informing you, we believe that we help
you develop a sense of your own
community where all of us share
the benefits and embrace the challenges of living and working in
southeastern Minnesota.
The second blessing is the
welcoming nature of people I
encounter. Yes, I am referring to
you, those who read my column
and those who do not. Regardless,
your openness to get to know me as
a person who also is the publisher
of your community newspaper
supports my natural tendency to
seek and develop community relationships.
Truthfully, getting out of the
comfort of my cluttered office is
real work, as gratifying as it feels
to me. It takes time, energy and
certain amount of creativity in
juggling my schedule to expose
me to what is important to the
folks who live in the more than 60
communities served by the PostBulletin.
What I often gain in encounters with the public is dialogue
that nourishes me as much as it
feeds the Post-Bulletin’s voracious
appetite for news leads, ideas for
feature stories, and opinion that
reflects the mood of the majority.
A day in the life
Yesterday’s experiences indicate
how I work to get to know you and
you to know me in my role as your
community publisher.
One of the first tasks each day
is to personally address and sign
letters that I send to new subscribers of the Post-Bulletin. More than
a mere welcome, the letter is an
attempt to start a relationship
between publisher and reader
about the value of the community
newspaper that serves them. Do
people really care that I actually write their name and sign
the letters? Perhaps not, yet it
makes me feel good that I for a few
moments know the name of every
new subscriber.
Then I headed to Rochester
Community and Technical College
to meet up with Jane Belau. She
had invited me to tape an interview for her cable program, “The
Belau Report,” a weekly news
information program broadcast on
public access television.
I willingly sat in a chair opposite
Jane, knowing that she demands
candor. A skilled interviewer, Jane
pleasantly but pointedly asks questions that viewers want answers to.
The half-hour sped by as we talked
about the changing face of the
news industry and the effect that
the Internet and social media has
had on the Post-Bulletin Co.
My day ended in a pleasant and
thought-provoking gathering in
Byron, where the staff and I invited
folks to meet and tell us what we
do well in the Post-Bulletin and
what we should do better. For the
past couple years, we have hosted
early morning community coffees,
having visited folks in about 14
communities in Olmsted and
neighboring counties. We get story
ideas and we field concerns and
complaints.
We are revisiting those communities in the next couple years, one
at a time, in the later afternoon
and early evening. Our plan is
to capture the thoughts of business folks who often are unable to
attend a morning gathering with us.
Putting a face on the PostBulletin, whether it is mine or with
other folks here at the P-B, is what
matters to us.
Randy Chapman is publisher of the
Post-Bulletin. He welcomes feedback to his
weekly column at rchapman@ postbulletin.
com.
An informed citizenry enriches our nation’s soul
By Susan Nee
few days ago I was asked to talk to a
group of sixth grade Boy Scouts about
the rights and responsibilities of U.S. citizenship. Understanding
these rights and responsibilities is part of a Boy
Scout’s rank advancement
requirements.
I prepared my notes
and just for fun put in
a few sample questions
from the U.S. citizenship
test, given to those who
apply to become naturalized citizens. To pass the
test you must answer six Nee
of 10 questions correctly.
All the kids passed. The son of Canadian
parents had his hand up the fastest and most
frequently.
A poet once said, “What we learn in childhood is carved in stone. What we learn as
A
adults is carved in ice.” All these scouts are
products of Washington Elementary, so the
teachers who taught them American history
and social studies can feel good about their
stone carving and pat themselves on the back.
These Boy Scouts have a sound foundation to
build on as future citizens.
Newsweek magazine gave a citizenship test
to 1,000 citizens, and 38 percent failed. Many
couldn’t correctly identify the vice president
of the U.S., couldn’t answer what happened at
the Constitutional Convention, or who the U.S.
fought during World War II.
Yes, the stuff your history teacher covered
was important. It’s part of our national soul
and fabric and is what defines us as Americans. One of the things our country’s framers
grappled with was that they were building a
democracy: a government of the people, for
the people and by the people. If the people
are to be part of their government, they must
understand their country and its laws and
be active, informed participants. And, for
goodness sake, if you have presidential aspirations, you should definitely know that the
shots heard around the world were fired in
Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts — not
New Hampshire. Michele Bachmann, could
you pass the citizenship test?
As local citizens, how well do we understand our government? Do we know how
many federal stimulus dollars were used by
our local schools to make ends meet for this
budget cycle? What happens during the next
budget cycle when those dollars aren’t there?
How do we feel about property tax increases
to close the school district’s budget gap that
is sure to come?
Last November, we voted for congressional
representatives to fix our state’s budget. With
education, transportation, health and human
services, and public safety taking up to 80
percent of our state’s budget, where do we start
cutting without stressing the young, the elderly
and poor, who are the most vulnerable? And
how can we responsibly say, “Don’t tax me.
Tax the man behind the tree” in response to
new ideas for revenue sources, such as the
racino proposed by Dave Senjem?
As a government of the people and by the
people, when we exercise our right to vote, we
need to be informed. After all, “the people”
is looking at you every morning in the mirror.
Economics 101 for today’s citizen is that we
live in a globally competitive labor market
(read: no one has a job for life anymore) and
the result of the Great Recession is that we
live in a shrunken economy, with less money
to spread around for all who ask for services
from our government.
As parents and educators of those who will
follow us, we need to do our level best to
get our children ready to be citizens of the
complex, ultra-competitive 21st century that
awaits them.
Susan Nee of Rochester is a member of the PostBulletin’s Editorial Advisory Board.
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WEDNESDAY
MARCH 30, 2011
Member of the Small Newspaper Group, Kankakee, Ill. • Len Robert Small, President & CEO • Thomas P. Small, Senior Vice President • Cordell J. Overgaard, Vice President • Robert L. Hill, Vice President
OUR VIEW
Sales tax isn’t an ‘us-against-them’ issue
I
t’s a safe bet that for the foreseeable future, no one in the
Minnesota House of Representatives will make any further
attempts to restore the
$58.5 million that’s been cut from
the House version of Rochester’s
city sales tax proposal.
Rep. Greg Davids, a Republican
from Preston who chairs the House
Tax Committee, made it clear
Monday that he’s willing to scuttle
the entire bill to keep tax dollars
away from a proposed senior
center, library expansion and the
Boys & Girls Club.
We’re not surprised by his willingness to “go to the mattresses”
on this or any other Rochesterrelated issue. Davids has been
on an anti-Rochester rant since
he rejoined the
House, and he
clearly is enjoying
this opportunity to
flex his political
muscle. We’d go so
far as to say that
threatening to kill
the sales tax in its
entirety was both
spiteful and vindic- Davids
tive.
But we’re even more disappointed with Rep. Duane Quam.
As a Republican from Byron who
represents a lot of Rochester residents, he showed no backbone on
Monday when he voted against a
proposal that would have restored
the very bill he authored. In
explaining this vote, he claimed
that some items
had been added to
the city’s proposal
in a less-than-forthright matter.
That begs the
question: Did
Quam read the
sales tax bill
before he introduced it? His backQuam
ing away from it
now leaves us to choose from three
unflattering conclusions: He didn’t
know what the sales tax proposal
contained; he introduced the bill
as a courtesy to the city but had
no real intention of supporting it;
or, he simply caved in to pressure
from Davids and the rest of the
GOP leadership.
The good news is that Monday’s
events — ugly though they were
— didn’t really change anything.
The Senate version of the sales tax
proposal includes every project
that Quam’s original bill contained,
and the real negotiating will
happen when the House-Senate
conference committee sits down to
reconcile the two bills.
But we’d be remiss if we didn’t
address one of Davids’ chief
claims: namely, that it’s unfair to
ask everyone who shops in Rochester to pay a local sales tax when
some of that money will be spent
on projects that aren’t related to
basic infrastructure and transportation.
Aside from pointing out the obvious — namely, that no one who
lives in an outlying town is forced
to shop in Rochester — we’d also
argue that a healthy, economically
vibrant Rochester feeds vitality into the entire region. How
many Rochester residents spend
money in Lanesboro, St. Charles,
Chatfield or Preston on a typical summer weekend? How many
Mayo and IBM employees take
their paychecks home to Elgin,
Byron, Stewartville or Pine Island,
where they pay property taxes, eat
at local restaurants and send their
kids to local schools?
As our region’s main population
center, Rochester has a symbiotic
relationship with the communities that surround it. Rep. Davids
would do well to think about that.
Letters to the editor
Logging would destroy state parks
I was horrified to read the March 25 article
that Rep. Steve Drazkowski has succeeded to
amend the house environmental budget bill
with a provision to log in Whitewater and
Frontenac State Parks.
I cannot believe that Mr. Drazkowski is
willing to degrade these two very popular
and beautiful parks in southern Minnesota.
These trees take decades to grow to maturity
and he would deprive our children and grandchildren the joy of seeing them and learning
about our state’s history through nature.
Did he even consult with state park authorities and environmentalists who understand
that these natural forest lands need to be
left undisturbed? Logging will change significantly the whole ecosystem of the area — not
to the benefit of the wildlife or the thousands
of people who enjoy camping or hiking, or just
enjoying nature in as undisturbed a setting
as possible.
Mr. Drazkowski and those who voted for
this amendment should be ashamed of themselves. The amount of money gained from
such a short-sighted plan is far outweighed
by the damage that will be done to these
parks.
Alice Laudon
Rochester
Actually, state candidates have been embarrassing
I read the March 24 Post-Bulletin
editorial containing the statement
“we’re fairly optimistic ... neither
Bachmann nor Pawlenty are likely to
embarrass themselves, their party or
their home state!”
I don’t know where the P-B editorial team has been recently while
Pawlenty, and especially Bachmann,
have been touring the nation making
factless and erroneous speeches and
Caucutt
statements that make most Americans cringe.
May I suggest modifying your
statement to “we’re hopeful that
Bachmann and Pawlenty will somehow stop embarrassing their home
state.”
Greg Caucutt
Rochester
Health care for children is an investment
It has been one year since the Affordable
Care Act was signed into law. As a primary
care pediatrician practicing in this town, I
have already witnessed how my own patients
have benefited from this major effort in
health care reform.
Mothers and fathers report that their young
adult children with chronic conditions can
stay on their parents’ insurance until age
26 as the children work to get employment.
Parents of children with chronic diseases
and handicapping injuries report how their
children can access health care without rejection by insurance companies because of
previously diagnosed conditions.
No longer do parents have to fear rescissions of their children’s health insurance or
annual or lifetime caps on their insurance
for their children born with birth defects
or suffering from the aftermath of prematurity.
We cannot afford to undo the progress made
in improving children’s health by repealing
or defunding the law. Providing health care
to children is not a luxury to be put on hold; it
is an important investment in our community
and in our future.
We cannot let our legislators in St. Paul
seek to undermine the law nor let our
Congress in Washington pursue its repeal.
Here at the law’s first year anniversary, I ask
those who care about our children to speak
out to maintain and fund health-care reform.
Help me help my patients.
Dr. Robert M. Jacobson
Rochester
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Thanks, but no thanks, for
Vietnam commemoration
the antiwar and civil rights activists came
together in a powerful display of both
peaceful and vengeful protests. The activists created riots fueled by an unparalleled
Sen. Richard Burr, rankstudent activist sentiment, the draft, the
ing member of the U.S.
My Lai Massacre, and fanned by anti-war
Senate Committee on
underground newspapers and organizations
Veterans’ Affairs, recently
we would call “blogs” today. Martin Luther
introduced a resolution
King Jr. stated, “If America’s soul becomes
declaring March 30 as
totally poisoned, part of the autopsy must
“Welcome Home Vietnam Veterans Day.” It
read ‘Vietnam.’”
passed.
In 1965, polls indicated that 52 percent
This action by the Senate is viewed by
of Americans were in favor of the Amerithose who served in Vietnam in a number
can intervention in Vietnam. By 1971 that
of different ways. Most would
number had slipped to 28
say “thanks, but no thanks.
“By setting March percent. The war became so
You are a little late.” Others
polarizing that you nearly
have expressed contempt for 30th aside as a day
had to declare whether you
the politicians who sent them
were a “hawk” or a “dove,”
to Vietnam, and some wonder to focus on our
with the media siding more
whether this very late recog- Vietnam veterans,
and more over time with the
nition is simply long over“doves.” In addition to 58,267
due. I am in the first group.
we can show our
American soldiers, sailors,
Senators, save your collecairmen and Marines killed in
unified
gratitude
tive breath after nearly four
action in that war, there were
decades of senatorial silence. for their service
303,644 wounded, and 1,711
The resolution did bring
missing in action.
and the
back many memories of the
Remembering 1967 and
Vietnam War. Although I
sacrifices
1968 and my time in Vietnam
served in Vietnam, I can’t
are not easy. It is something
speak for anyone else, since
that
many of us who served would
each of us fought a slightly
like to forget, especially the
these
different war, depending on
really bad parts of our Vietwhere we were assigned.
veterans
nam tours. As I look forward
I couldn’t even if I wanted
to our current geopolitical
to, because more than onemade
and domestic policies and
third of the soldiers, sailors,
strife, I see very distinctly
on
our
airmen and Marines who
a similar “great divide” of
served there are no longer
behalf.”
competing ideologies — a
living, and that does not
new “hawk vs. dove” environinclude the 55,267 who died
— Sen. Richard Burr, R-N.C. ment — and I am saddened.
for our country over there.
Legislators, who are so
Along with my memories
intolerant of each others’ thoughts, shirking
of that war, I once again saw the turmoil
responsibilities on one side, while ramming
and absolute chaos of the 1967-1968 years.
and cramming payback laws in the name
In the spring of 1968 I was sitting on a truck
of fiscal restraint on the other. Meanwhile
bound not for the jungles of Vietnam, but
the Muslim world is exploding across contifor the jungles of a burning national capinents. The cultural atmosphere smells more
tol — Washington, D.C. The assassination of
like the late 1960s in complete and total
Martin Luther King Jr. incensed those in the
intolerance.
civil rights movement to engage in violent
No thanks, Senator Burr. You came keep
protests and riots. A year earlier, in 1967,
your
phony resolution. All it does is remind
there were 159 recorded race riots across
me of 1967 and 1968. Where were you senathe country from Atlanta to Boston — from
tors when we finally came home? Although
Chicago, Milwaukee and Minneapolis to
they were horrible times to live through, the
Tampa. The nation was in flames and we in
the military spent our precious training time results of the efforts expended then made
America a greater nation. I hope for similar
on riot control.
results from the turmoil of today, without
If race riots weren’t enough to destabiloss of life in the ensuing arguments. And I
lize our country, in 1968 we endured the
am thankful that we, as a nation, are grantaftermath of anti-war protesters after four
ing the recognition, so well deserved, by our
Kent State students were killed by members
warriors today. God bless them one and all.
of the Ohio National Guard. Spreading
Dave Shaver is a retired Army colonel who taught at
further west at the Democratic convention
the U.S. Army War College in Carlisle, Pa.
in Chicago, and then from coast to coast,
DAVID SHAVER
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Teens must pay for damage to vehicles
By Matt Russell
[email protected]
Two Rochester teenagers have been
ordered to pay nearly $2,500 in restitution to victims after
pleading guilty to shooting passing vehicles
with BB guns last year,
but both could avoid
having formal verdicts entered on their
records.
In decisions rendered March 23 in
Olmsted County Juvenile Court, Judge
Update
Joseph Chase ordered Shane Michael
Lee and Peter Michael Sulla, who are
both 17, to each do 48 hours of community
work service.
Chase did not enter formal guilty
verdicts on the first-degree damage to
property charges Lee and Sulla faced,
granting both teens a stay of adjudication
as they were placed on six months supervised probation. The teens will split
the $2,482.75 in restitution cost between
them.
Sulla and Lee shot nine passing vehi-
cles in the area of 68th Street and 18th
Avenue Northwest on Oct. 7, according
to juvenile court documents. Two of the
vehicles had the driver’s side window
shot out by Daisy brand .177-caliber BB
guns the boys used, according to the
documents, and at least five of the vehicles had children on board.
Sulla and Lee entered their guilty
pleas to the damage to property charges
on Feb. 7. Chase dismissed a terroristic
threats charge against Sulla on March
23.
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Man remains hospitalized
Man judged incompetent to stand trial
Post-Bulletin staff
By Matt Russell
[email protected]
A 20-year-old Rochester man has been
declared incompetent to stand trial for
arson charges linked to two fires last
year.
Judge Joseph Wieners made the determination March 22 in Olmsted County
District Court. Proceedings for Ryan
Franklin Truax have been suspended
for six months as a result, said prosecutor Eric Woodford of the Olmsted County
Attorney’s Office.
Truax is accused of starting or
A 22-year-old Rochester man who was
involved in an accident last week on
37th Street Northwest remains in critical condition in Saint Marys Hospital.
Juan Gerardo Hernandez Ruiz was
westbound on 37th Street about 7:45 a.m.
on March 23 when he lost control of the
car he was driving near East River Road.
The car crossed the median and collided
with an eastbound car driven by Rachel
Jean Arndt Kunert, 30, of Spring Valley,
according to police Capt. Brian Winters.
Road conditions were poor; snow was
falling after a night of rain.
Kunert was treated and released.
attempting to start small fires in multiple locations inside a house in southeast
Rochester on Nov. 29 and an apartment
in northwest Rochester on Dec. 2. In
both cases, firefighters put out the fires
before there was major damage. Truax
was charged with first-degree arson.
His case has been referred for possible civil commitment, Woodford said. If
Truax’s mental health improves over the
next six months and he can stand trial,
the judge can re-commence criminal
proceedings, Woodford said.
Defense attorney Steven Rolsch could
not be reached for comment.
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B
AREA CENSUS
Kasson,
Byron tops
in growth
By Sam Smith
[email protected]
KASSON — Residents flocked to this small city about 15
miles west of Rochester during the past decade, according to
results of the 2010 census.
Mayor Tim Tjosaas attributed the growth to the city’s strong
businesses and schools, as people working in Rochester and
Owatonna look for a smaller city to buy a home.
It was the second consecutive decade of growth in Kasson,
which has seen steady growth for about 25 years, Tjosaas
said.
“It’s easy to live in Kasson and work where the work is,”
Tjosaas said. “We have a little bit of everything in town — you
can get just about everything you need in Kasson.”
Between 2000, the year of the last census, and 2010, the
population here grew from 4,398 to 5,931, an increase of nearly
35 percent. Most of the new residents work outside of town,
the city having established itself as a bedroom community to
both Rochester and Owatonna.
The 2010 census figures shows that Kassson, Byron, Austin
and Pine Island have added the most people since 2000, among
southeastern Minnesota cities other than the city of Rochester,
which led the area in growth.
Since the 1990 census, Kasson’s population has exploded,
increasing nearly 70 percent over the last 20 years, Tjosaas
said.
While the rapid growth significantly increases Kasson’s
property tax base, it also poses challenges.
How to alleviate traffic congestion from the roughly 14,000
cars that travel Minnesota Highway 57 as a short cut between
U.S. Route 14 and U.S. Route 52, is chief among them Tjosaas
said.
Toward that end, city officials are starting work on bridge
repairs and considering alternate routes to Highway 57, which
is also Kasson’s main business drag.
City workers completed upgrades to the city’s water and
sewer systems early in the decade, and the schools continue
to hire as the population grows, Tjosaas said.
Just a few miles to the east, Byron also saw staggering
growth.
The population there grew more than 40 percent over the
last decade. Byron saw its number of residents increase from
3,500 to 4,194.
In both cities, the growth came largely through annexation
of smaller subdivisions that were built for people who work
outside of town.
Scott Jacobson / [email protected]
Kasson has the second fastest rate of growth among cities around Rochester. Kasson as grown nearly 35 percent
since the last census. This house is under construction in northeast Kasson.
In Kasson’s case, most annexations were no more than 40
acres.
“It’s very well developed — taking pieces at a time,” Tjosaas
said.
Neither city has any major employers, like IBM, Mayo Clinic
or Hormel.
Instead of focusing on attracting major employers, Kasson’s
city council has chosen to focus on its existing business base,
Tjosaas said.
The benefits to that mindset include keeping the city attractive to prospective buyers, while helping to cultivate the
existing business community and maintain the small-town
feel, Tjosaas said.
“It’s very exciting for us to see that growth,” Tjosaas said.
Rochester’s growth costs townships — Page B3
Fastest growing cities
(In southeastern Minnesota other than Rochester.)
“We have a little bit of
everything in town —
you can get just about
everything you need in
Kasson.”
Kasson
Byron
Austin
Pine Island
Goodview
Winona
Stewartville
Zumbrota
Dodge Center
St. Charles
— Mayor Tim Tjosaas
2010
population
5,931
4,914
24,718
3,263
4,036
27,592
5,916
3,252
2,670
3,735
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
2000
population
4,398
3,500
23,314
2,337
3,373
27,069
5,411
2,789
2,226
3,295
Percent
change
34.86
40.4
6.02
40
19.66
1.93
9.33
16.6
19.95
13.35
Number
change
1,533
1,414
1,404
926
663
523
505
463
444
440
2011 Chester Awards have distinctly educator flavor
that Lindsey Reishus is a positive
force who has created a productive
classroom where all students feel
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respected, valued, and capable.
She praises strengths — even when
they aren’t graded on a report card
Welcome to
The second Ches— and encourages growth. She’s
one of my favorter of 2011 goes to
created a classroom of children
ite columns of
Chuck Handlon,
who want to make her proud, and
the year: The
whom I’ve actually
in turn, want to make themselves
Annual Chester Awards. Each
never met. Handproud. I couldn’t have hoped for a
March, the Chesters recognize
lon is someone
better experience for my son.
Rochesterites who exhibit a kindwho’s contacted
When superintendent Romain
ness, a generosity of spirit, or a
me by phone and
Dallemand retired, Dr. Jackie
plain old above-and-beyondness
through email as
Silver stepped into a pressure
that warms my heart and makes me he plays fierce
cooker. I can’t imagine why anyone
happy to live here in southeastern
advocate for Rochwould want that job. But that’s not
Handlon
Minnesota.
ester’s kids and
the reason she’s
district.
A
John
This year, I’m dedicating the
receiving a Chester.
Chesters to people who inspire me Marshall educator and 2010 MinneAt a recent school
sota Science Teacher of the Year
in Rochester Public Schools. RPS
board meeting I
winner,
Handlon
has
a
passion
has seen its share of drama in the
attended, Dr. Silver
for educational excellence for all
past year. But there’s a lot of good
was strong, attenchildren.
He
worked
tirelessly
as
happening in our schools, too —
tive, thoughtful,
part of the referendum commitand it’s time to honor it. So, withknowledgeable,
tee
last
year,
putting,
in
his
words,
out further ado ...
calm and incluI’m awarding the first Chester to “his heart and soul” into the effort.
sive. She believes
Whether
or
not
you
voted
for
the
fifth-grade teacher Ann Miller. I’ve
in solid commureferendum,
there’s
no
denying
known Ann for years, but it was
nication (which
Silver
that
Rochester
needs
people
like
just last fall that she became my
she demonstrates
Handlon
who
not
only
dedicate
son’s teacher. And she’s blown me
through
her
“Message
of the Week”
away. Ms. Miller gives her students their days, but also their nights
posts on the district website), and
and
weekends
so
that
our
children
equal parts respect and responshe recently told the Post-Bulletin
might have the best education
sibility — and you better believe
that repairing the fractured relapossible.
she expects as much in return. She
tionships between teachers, adminAll schools have “those” teachers
talks to and treats her students like
istrators and the community is one
—
the
ones
who’ve
stood
the
test
the maturing people that they are,
thing she believes she can accomof time. The ones you cross your
and sincerely listens when they
plish during her interim tenure.
fingers for when your child enters
talk to her. She’s not only educatAnd to that, I say: Godspeed.
a new grade. My third-grader
ing her students, but preparing
Despite our district’s star educanearly 30 kids for junior high. And didn’t get that teacher this year.
tors, I contend that the greatest
He
got
the
“new
teacher”
—
who
there is no doubt in my mind that
keys to our children’s educations
also happens to be the recipient
they’ll be ready.
of 2011’s third Chester. It turns out are involved parents. And that’s
JEN’S WORLD • JENNIFER KOSKI
INSIDE TODAY
Elizabeth Nida Obert / [email protected]
Hoover Elementary School teachers Ann Miller, left, and Lindsey
Reishus take a break from their classroom duties. Each has been
named a Chester Award winner.
why I’m giving 2011’s final Chester
to the parents who step up day
after day to ensure their children
get the education they deserve.
These are parents who review
their kid’s homework and make
sure they’re studying. Who volunteer their time and donate materials. Who appreciate teachers’ and
administrators’ hard work — and
FRIDAY
Columnist John
Weiss checks in on
the old Fremont
Store, which has
passed some landmarks more than
100 years after it
was started.
Get the straight dope from the
Answer Man on a big marijuana
farm that was growing in a
National Wildlife Refuge.
SATURDAY
• A softening of the dog bark ordinance has
online commentors yipping. Click on Most
Commented.
• A newspaper in Winona is taking some
shots at Rochester, but columnist Greg Sellnow
defends his city. Go to Sellnow’s Journal.
• Some area rivers will be cresting lower
than expected. We’ll have updates today.
Some area horse owners favor
a proposed racino, because
they say it would boost purses
for horse races.
Wilco lead singer Jeff Tweedy
goes solo in a concert in
Rochester. B4
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Rochester Magazine. Her column appears
Wednesdays. Send comments to news@
postbulletin.com.
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tell them that. There’s no doubt
that involved parents and children
are Rochester Public School’s
greatest assets. Keep up the good
work.
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Obituaries
Comments? Local news editor Mike Klein, 281-7481, [email protected]
Edna A. Farmer — Rochester
Allegra M. Standing — Rochester
ROCHESTER — The funeral service for Edna Anna Farmer
will be at 11 a.m. Friday, April 1, 2011, at Redeemer Lutheran
Church in Rochester, with Rev. James Heining officiating. Burial will be in Grandview
Memorial Gardens Cemetery in Rochester.
Visitation will be held from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. on
Thursday, March 31, at River Park Chapel at
Macken Funeral Home, and one hour before
the service at church on Friday.
Mrs. Farmer, 83, of Rochester, died at her
home Sunday, March 27, 2011, after a courageous battle with cancer.
Edna was born Dec. 15, 1927, in rural Elkton,
Farmer
to Henry and Elsie (Boehm) Jech. On Jan. 15,
1948, she married Earl R. Farmer. Mr. Farmer
died in 1980. Prior to living in Rochester, she resided in Grand
Meadow. Edna worked at the front desk and in housekeeping
at Langdon’s Motel and cooked for many years at Blondell’s
Crown Restaurant. She also worked for Rochester Better
Chance and Donut Hut. Mr. Farmer was a carpenter in Grand
Meadow.
Edna was a member of Redeemer Lutheran Church. She
was an avid NASCAR fan and loved spending time with her
family and gardening.
Survivors include her children, Wayne E. Farmer and
Sandra J. (Steve) Nelson, both of Rochester; siblings, Clarence Jech of Elgin, Albert Jech of Rochester, Loren Jech
of Chatfield, Leona “Beezie” (Willie) Cambern of Fountain,
Kenneth Jech of Rochester. She has three grandchildren,
Brian (Jenine) Nelson of Rochester, Kelly (Chris) Schmidt of
Wisconsin, and Jamie (Marty) Hedstrom of Arizona. She is
also survived by four great-grandchildren, Carter and Bryce
Nelson, and Kendall and Madelyn Hedstrom. Edna has two
step-grandchildren, Darcy (Mike) Wilde and Stacy Vreeman;
and great-step-grandchildren, Luke and Carley Wilde. She is
also survived by many nieces, nephews and friends.
Edna was preceded in death by her parents and husband;
brother, Robert Jech; and two sisters, Mildred Sherwin and
Lillian Schmidt.
Macken Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. Online
condolences are welcome at www.mackenfuneralhome.com.
ROCHESTER — Allegra Mae Standing (Jordie), 66, died
suddenly March 27, 2011, surrounded by family and friends,
at Mercy Hospital in Coon Rapids.
Allegra was preceded in death by her father,
Hilton Jordie; mother, Marilyn Jordie; and
father-in-law David Standing.
Allegra retired in October 2010 after working at the Mayo Clinic Foundation for 29 years.
She enjoyed recent travels with husband Joe,
bible studies with friends at People of Hope,
and spending time with her six grandchildren.
She is survived by her loving husband,
Standing
Joseph, of 41 years; children, Sarah Lochan
(Shawn), and Bethany Brost (Kristian); and
cherished grandchildren, Jackson, Julia, Lucas Lochan, and
Sydney, Macy and Cole Brost.
She will be missed deeply by her husband, children, grandchildren, extended family, and friends.
A memorial service will be at People of Hope Church, 3703
Country Club Rd. W., in Rochester. Visitation will be at 10
a.m. followed by the memorial service at 11 a.m. on Saturday,
April 2, 2011.
Memorials preferred to People of Hope Church.
Margy D. Toft — Spring Valley
SPRING VALLEY — Margy Dene Toft, 82, of Spring Valley,
died Tuesday morning, March 29, 2011, at the Spring Valley
Care Center.
Margy was born Feb. 12, 1929, in Steele
County, Minn., the daughter of Otto and
Virginia (Dezell) Sorenson. She was baptized
July 19, 1942, and confirmed May 9, 1945, at
Trinity Lutheran Church in New Richland,
Minn. She graduated from Freeborn High
School in 1947. She married Charles “Chuck”
Toft July 6, 1947, at First Lutheran Church in
Hartland, Minn.
The couple farmed in Steele and Freeborn
counties until moving to Spring Valley in 1958.
Toft
While in Spring Valley she was a waitress at
the Highway Cafe and Frontier Room and retired after working as a clerk at Snyder Drug.
Margy was an active member of Our Savior’s Lutheran
Church in Spring Valley, where she was a Sunday School
and Release Time teacher and served as a past president
of their women’s organization. She enjoyed coffeeing with
friends, playing cards, and spending time with her children
and grandchildren.
Margy is survived by her husband, Chuck; children, Penny
(Garry) Nordhorn of Ellendale, Peggy (Randy) Babbitt of
Breckenridge, Colo., and Sarah (Brent) Kohn of Spring Valley;
grandchildren, Jane Nordhorn Allen, Karren Taillon, Kris
Odenbaugh and Gabriel Kohn; and great-grandsons, Owen
Taillon and Ben Odenbaugh. She was preceded in death by
her parents; an infant granddaughter; and two brothers, Lowell
and Myles Sorenson.
She will be missed by family and friends.
Funeral services will be 11 a.m. Monday, April 4, 2011, at Our
Savior’s Lutheran Church, with the Revs. Dennis Timmerman
and Laura Fladten co-officiating. Burial will be in the church
cemetery.
Friends may call at Thauwald Funeral Home in Spring
Valley from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m., Sunday, April 3, and at the church
on Monday one hour before the service.
Online condolences can be left at
www.thauwaldfuneralhomes.com.
Elizabeth L. Patrin — St. Paul
ROCHESTER — Elizabeth L. “Betty Lou” Patrin (nee Amey),
82, longtime resident of St. Paul, died Thursday, March 24,
2011.
She was born Feb. 11, 1929.
She is preceded in death by husband of 59+
years, Richard J., Sr.; parents, Richard and
Matilda Amey; baby brother, Robert Amey;
and grandson, David Winter. She is survived
by her children, Roberta (Norman) Allan, Beth
(Michael) Colaizy, Rick, Bonnie Patrin (Jane
Strommer), and E.J.; grandchildren, Dawn
(Steve) Nelson, Lisa Winter, Nicole (Randy)
Sharp, Dr. Tarah Colaizy (Dr. Jason Estes),
Patrin
Amy Petersen, Damian, Richie (Angie), and
Christopher Patrin, Amanda (Christopher)
Gasman, Nathan and Jacob Patrin; 22 great-grandchildren; a
nephew, Jim Buse; sisters, Jeanette Olson, Frances Gehrman,
Dorothy Aubin, Gerry (Gary) Walker, Kathy (Porky) Wohlberg;
brothers, Richard (Kazue) Amey, Jack (Marlene) Amey, Donald
(Yvonne) Amey, Edward (Glade) Amey; brother-in-law, Donald
Patrin; and many nieces and nephews.
She will be remembered for her beautiful quilts, her lovely
gardens and most of all, her amazing unconditional love.
A Mass of Christian Burial will be Monday, April 4, 2011, at
St. Mary’s of the Lake Catholic Church, 4741 Bald Eagle Ave.,
in White Bear Lake. Interment will be in St. Mary’s Cemetery
in White Bear Lake. Visitation will be Sunday, April 3, from 3
p.m. to 6 p.m. at Bradshaw, 4600 Greenhaven Dr. at Highway 96
(one mile west of 35E) in White Bear, and also one hour prior
to the Mass at church on Monday.
In lieu of flowers, memorials are preferred to Sunrise
Cottages of Rochester, 4220 55th St. N.W., Rochester, MN 55901;
or Seasons Hospice, 1811 Greenview Pl. S.W., Rochester, MN
55902.
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Eloise Bjornstad — Red Wing
RED WING — Eloise “Sammy” Bjornstad, 89, of Red Wing,
died Friday, March 25, 2011, unexpectedly, while getting her
hair done.
Eloise “Sammy” Salmon was born on March
5, 1922, in Claremont, daughter of Daglin and
Susan (Wermerskirchen) Salmon. She graduated from Claremont High School in 1940, and
Red Wing Nursing School. She served in the
U.S. Army Nursing Corps during WWII in the
Pacific Theatre in a MASH unit and at the VA
Hospital in Minneapolis. She then worked at
City Hospital and Interstate Medical Center
in Red Wing. She married Larry Bjornstad on
Bjornstad
Sept. 1, 1950.
She enjoyed her family, traveling, gardening,
knitting and desserts.
She was preceded in death by four brothers and three sisters. She is survived by her
loving husband of 60 years, Larry; her four
children, Ken (Terese) Bjornstad of Red Wing,
Karen (David) Finnegan of Farmington, Sandy (Jim) Bjornstad
Perkins of Eden Prairie, and Gary (Erin) Bjornstad of Bloomington; grandchildren, Katie (Mike) Finnegan Rose, Lindsey
Finnegan, Ryan Finnegan, Jake Bjornstad, Kristin Bjornstad,
Sarah (Curtis) Powers and Andrew Bjornstad; and her brother,
Maurice Salmon of San Benito,Texas.
Mass of Resurrection was at 11 a.m. on Tuesday, March 29,
2011, at the Church of St. Joseph in Red Wing, with Father
Thomas M. Kommers presiding. Visitation was one hour
prior to the Mass. Private Family burial will be at Oakwood
Cemetery in Red Wing at a later date.
Memorials preferred to the National Parkinson Foundation
or The Church of St. Joseph.
NOTICES OF DEATH
Eloise “Sammy” Bjornstad, 89, of Red Wing, died
unexpectedly Friday.
Dorothy A. Davidson, 67, of Austin, died Tuesday at
the Austin Medical Center. Clasen-Jordan Mortuary, Austin.
Elizabeth M. Kearney, 96, of Mankato, died Saturday
in the home she loved. North Mankato Mortuary, North
Mankato.
Neal C. Lang, 73, of Rochester, died Tuesday at his
residence. Ranfranz and Vine Funeral Homes, Rochester.
Audrey L. Loken, 94, of Grand Rapids, Minn., formerly
of Mantorville and Hayfield, died Tuesday at Grand Village
Nursing Home in Grand Rapids. Dibble Funeral Home,
Kasson.
Ervin M. Marking, 94, of Kellogg, died Tuesday at St.
Elizabeth’s Health Care Center in Wabasha. Abbott Funeral
Home, Wabasha.
Elizabeth L. “Betty Lou” Patrin, 82, longtime resident
of St. Paul, died March 24.
Colleen M. “Nina” Sudor, 80, of Rochester, died
Tuesday at Seasons Hospice. Ranfranz and Vine Funeral
Homes, Rochester.
DODGE COUNTY
Area woman sentenced for theft
Post-Bulletin staff
MANTORVILLE — A Byron
woman who pleaded guilty to
theft by swindle was ordered
March 23 to pay restitution
of $9,379 and do 50 hours of
community work service.
The year in jail for Tina
Marie Mortland, 29, of 513
Third Ave. N.E., was stayed
for five years, and she was
put on five years probation,
according to Dodge County
Court records. She pleaded
guilty Jan. 5.
The complaint filed in
Dodge County District
Court about two years ago
alleged a Kasson company
reported Mortland had stolen
money by adding hours to
her paycheck and that of
another employee. Mortland
was fired.
The charge is a felony, but
if she completes probation,
it will go into her record as
a misdemeanor.
DISTRICT COURT
Farmer investigated for
possible animal cruelty
Horses allegedly
left in area with
metal debris
By John Weiss
[email protected]
plenty of hay, they have
water,” he said. But he was
worried about all the scrap
metal and barbed wire,
which are “things that horses
can get tangled up in ... it’s
not a good environment for
horses.”
Rush said he’s meeting
with Dodge County officials
today to decide what to do.
“We’re trying to figure out
what Minnesota laws apply,”
he said. It’s not obvious
neglect, such as no food or
water, he said.
Another step that will be
investigated is whether the
horses can legally be taken
away, he said. “But in Minnesota law, horses are personal
property and you have to
make sure you follow the
law,” he said. “We will try
to get it resolved.”
The owner was contacted
but he said he didn’t see a
problem, Rush said.
DODGE CENTER — A
rural Dodge Center farmer
is being investigated for
possible cruelty to animals
for allegedly leaving 22
draft horses in an area with
dangerous metal debris such
as barbed wire and old farm
machinery.
Six dead horses were also
found on the site, according
to Barry Rush, a Minnesota
state humane agent from
Austin. They had been dead
for a long time, he said.
He said he got a report
Sunday about the situation
and went there Tuesday with
a Dodge County deputy and
A version of this story appeared
a veterinarian.
in the Austin Post-Bulletin.
“They have plenty of food,
AUSTIN
2 arrested in connection
with Monday’s shooting
By Kay Fate
[email protected]
Two men are in custody
and expected to be charged
in connection with a shooting during a home invasion
Monday night in southeast
Austin.
Kevin Michael Lyke and
Ojulu Oban Onyongo, both
20 and both of Austin, were
arrested Tuesday afternoon
and are in the Mower County
Jail. Austin police are still
looking for a third man,
Mongong Kual Maniang Deng,
22, whom Police Chief Brian
Krueger called “person of
interest.”
In Monday’s incident, a
man was shot in the upper
left leg after a man knocked
on the victim’s apartment
door, barged in carrying
a shotgun and demanded
money. Two children who
were in the house, ages 5 and
7, were not hurt.
The victim was taken to
Austin Medical Center, then
transferred to Saint Marys
Hospital in Rochester by
medical helicopter. Investigators hope to talk to him
today, Krueger said. He said
the arrests were the result
of tips and police investigation.
Investigators are still
exploring whether the shooting Monday, at 200 First St.
S.E., might be connected to
a home invasion in February
in southwest Austin. Four
suspects were described in
that case. No one was hurt
in that incident.
A version of this story appeared
in the Austin Post-Bulletin.
WEST CONCORD
Former chief sentenced
on weapons charge
By John Weiss
[email protected]
MANTORVILLE — A
former West Concord police
chief has entered a plea to
use of a dangerous weaponreckless handling and was
sentenced to two years of
unsupervised probation.
The sentencing March 23
in Dodge County District
Court concludes a history
of charges against Robert
Wallace Utech, 54, of 19506
560th St., West Concord, that
included conviction at a trial,
appeal to the Minnesota
Court of Appeals, a remand
to Dodge County District
Court and now a plea.
Utech was investigated in
2006 after he was accused
of shooting four cats that
belonged to a West Concord
resident. He admitted to killing about 20 feral cats inside
city limits using a .22-caliber
rifle. A former West Concord
police officer testified that
Utech once chased a cat
down Main Street and shot
at it. He resigned in August
2007.
In a trial, he was convicted
of mistreatment of animals,
misconduct of a police officer and reckless discharge
of a firearm in a municipality. He appealed, and his
conviction was reversed by
the court of appeals and
sent back to Dodge County
District Court.
The appeals court
concluded that the evidence
was sufficient to sustain
the convictions; however,
because the state “presented
evidence of separate and
distinct acts to prove the
elements of the charged
offenses and did not elect on
which act it relied for conviction, the district court’s
refusal to provide unanimity instruction violated
Utech’s right to a unanimous
verdict.”
Last week, Utech entered
an Alford plea, which means
he doesn’t admit guilt but
acknowledges that there is
probably enough evidence
to convict him at trial.
KENYON
Felony charges
• Kenneth Earl Kramer, 29, 1211 11th Ave. S.E., Rochester,
charged with stalking. Bail set at $20,000 unconditional and
$5,000 conditional. He returns to court March 28.
• Che Nathaniel Jones, 18, 505 20th St. N.E., Rochester,
charged with violating a no-contact order. Bail set at $80,000
unconditional and $40,000 conditional. He was to return to
court March 21.
• Tina Marie Winters, 24, 1728 First St. S.W., Rochester,
charged with fifth-degree drug possession. Bail set at $25,000
unconditional and $12,000 conditional. She was to return to
court March 24.
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Accident victim upgraded
to serious condition
Post-Bulletin staff
KENYON — The condition of Chad Lexvold, 19, of
Kenyon, has been upgraded
to serious after he was listed
in critical condition for about
a week at Saint Marys Hospital in Rochester.
He was one of four teens
involved in a one-vehicle
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accident March 19 near
Kenyon. One other teen in
the car, Jacob Baalson, 19,
died at the scene. Two others
had less serious injuries.
Authorities say Lexvold
was driving the car when
the accident happened on
Goodhue County Road 30 in
Holden Township.
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Southeast MN
CENSUS
AROUND MINNESOTA
City’s growth costs townships
House passes education bill
By Sam Smith
[email protected]
Rochester’s population boom
during the past decade came at
a price for surrounding townships, which lost residents in
staggering numbers as land
was annexed to the city.
Marion Township, which
borders southeast Rochester,
lost nearly half of its residents.
Between 2000 and 2010, the
township’s population dropped
from 6,159 residents to 3,653 at
the end of the decade, according to 2010 U.S. Census Bureau
figures released this month.
“It definitely affects us
because we lose property
value,” said Roger Bjerke,
chairman of the township
board. “We lose all those real
estate taxes.”
Many townships surrounding
Rochester took a big hit as the
city snatched up rural subdivisions and folded residents
into its property and sales
tax bases. The population in
Rochester Township, which
borders southwest Rochester,
decreased about 44 percent,
dropping from 2,916 to 1,629.
What the effect of the change
will be is a question mark to
Bjerke.
“The property lost, it affects
us. But by the same token, we
lose the roads so we don’t have
to maintain or plow those roads
anymore,” Bjerke said.
The areas in Marion Township that were annexed during
the past 10 years were among
the most populated unincorporated areas of the township, but Bjerke said the town
board didn’t fight annexations
because more than half of the
residents petitioned for it, he
said.
“It wasn’t a huge land grab
on the city’s part,” Bjerke said.
“It was orderly annexation, ...
and it did serve some people
who had some issues.” Among
those issues were small lots
that made having septic and
well systems difficult, and residents wanted municipal sewer
and water service.
“The people wanted it, and
we weren’t going to stand in
their way,” Bjerke said.
Biggest drops in population
(In southeastern Minnesota other than Rochester.)
2010
population
Marion township
3,653
Rochester township
1,629
Austin township
1,004
Rollingstone township 701
Cascade township
2,815
Lansing township
941
Cannon Falls township 1,070
Kalmar township
1,046
Homer township
1,356
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
2000
population
6,159
2,916
1,396
1,087
3,183
1,292
1,236
1,196
1,472
Percent
change
-40.69%
-44.14%
-28.08%
-35.51%
-11.56%
-27.17%
-13.43%
-12.54%
-7.88%
Number
change
-2,506
-1,287
-392
-386
-368
-351
-166
-150
-116
WHITEWATER AND FRONTENAC
House rejects logging in state parks
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Members of the Minnesota House overwhelmingly rejected a proposal on Tuesday that would open up Whitewater and
Frontenac state parks to logging.
Lawmakers voted
106-22 to strip the
logging language out
of an environment Legislature
b u d g e t b i l l . R e p . 2011
Steve Drazkowski,
R-Mazeppa, proposed
the language, which
requires the commissioner of natural
resources to assess the black walnut
and other timber resources in the two
state parks and harvest suitable trees.
Proceeds from logging would go to the
state.
Environmental groups launched a big
push against the proposal, arguing it
would cause lasting harm to the state
parks. The environment budget bill’s
author, GOP Rep. Denny McNamara of
Hastings, sponsored the amendment to
take out the logging language.
Drazkowski, whose district includes
Whitewater State Park, urged his fellow
lawmakers to support logging in the state
parks.
“This is another area of state government where an asset of the government is
actually rotting and going to waste. This
is what Minnesotans are tired of. They
are tired of the waste, fraud and abuse
in government.”
Rep. Tim Kelly, R-Red Wing, whose
district includes Frontenac State Park,
also supports allowing logging in those
state parks.
But several lawmakers from both
parties voiced concerns about the
proposal. Rep. Lyndon Carlson, R-Crystal, said he used to teach in St. Charles
and spent a lot of time at Whitewater
State Park.
“That’s a valley that is very sensitive,
and it is very sensitive to things like
How they voted
Here’s how House members from
southeastern Minnesota voted on an
amendment to strip logging language
out of an environment budget bill.
Yes: Tina Liebling, DFL-Rochester;
Rich Murray, R-Albert Lea; Kim
Norton, DFL-Rochester; Gene Pelowski,
DFL-Winona; and Jeanne Poppe, DFLAustin.
No: Mike Benson, R-Rochester; Greg
Davids, R-Preston; Steve Drazkowski,
R-Mazeppa; Tim Kelly, R-Red Wing;
and Duane Quam, R-Byron.
flooding, and it is also a valley with a lot
of history, and I would be very concerned
if that was opened up for logging or
cutting,” Carlson said.
Board considers party-host ordinance
By Brett Boese
[email protected]
RED WING — Red Wing was
the second city in Minnesota to
adopt a social-host ordinance
in 2007. The first was Chaska.
Kenyon and Lake City have
passed ordinances in recent
years.
Other cities in Goodhue
County — such as Zumbrota,
Goodhue and Cannon Falls
— might have that choice
made for them soon as the
county board appears poised
to adopt a countywide policy.
Such a decision would seek to
discourage underage drinking
by making it a misdemeanor
to knowingly allow alcohol
consumption on your prop-
ST. PAUL — The Minnesota House passed an education
funding bill early today that increases per-pupil payments
to public schools and makes major changes to how schools
operate, including ending the teacher tenure system.
The Republican-sponsored bill passed 68-59 at about
2:45 a.m., after nearly six hours of sometimes contentious
debate in which Democrats assured Republicans that Democratic Gov. Mark Dayton would veto the measure because it
contains policy changes he doesn’t support.
The bill scraps teacher tenure for K-12 schools in favor of
an evaluation-based approach that makes student test scores
a major factor. It contains multiple curbs on teacher bargaining rights, including a strike ban, and creates a system for
grading schools that would award additional state funds to
those that perform well.
The bill wades into another area of disagreement between
Republicans and Democrats by granting vouchers to help
low-income families at failing public schools pay for private
educations.
On Tuesday, legislation was passed that cuts spending
on public colleges, crime prevention initiatives, natural
resources and environmental programs.
The GOP-controlled House and Senate each passed a
series of budget bills, with the House approving its higher
education and environment and natural resources bills and
the Senate passing its own higher education and environment and natural resources bill as well as one for judiciary
and public safety.
Woman accused of threatening agent
MINNEAPOLIS — A woman convicted of threatening to
bomb a plane in 1991 was back in federal custody Tuesday
for allegedly threatening to kill and “slowly cut skin off” the
FBI agent who arrested her 20 years ago.
According to a criminal complaint, Kim Rolene Hutterer,
47, has been threatening agent Dean Scheidler for years,
starting with a threat she carved into her jail cell wall two
decades ago.
She was charged Monday with mailing threatening communications. The complaint says that in October, Hutterer sent
the FBI office in Minneapolis an 11-page, handwritten letter,
with five additional pages of drawings, threatening to injure
and kill Scheidler and others.
Among other things, the letter said Hutterer was going to
“get even” with the FBI agent, and threatened to “cut his
eyelids off” and break his fingers.
“I will never leave Dean Scheidler alone until I kill him,”
the letter said.
Teen to face separate trials
ALGONA, Iowa — A Minnesota teenager charged with
killing two convenience store clerks in Iowa will face separate trials.
Seventeen-year-old Michael Swanson of St. Louis Park,
faces two sets of first-degree murder and first-degree robbery
charges in the November shooting deaths of 61-year-old
Sheila Myers in Humboldt and 47-year-old Vicky Bowman
Hall in Algona.
Kossuth County District Judge David Lester ruled Tuesday
that he can’t merge the trials because the crimes happened
in different counties and judicial districts.
Swanson’s attorney, Charles Kenville argued that the
trials should be merged because he plans to use the insanity
defense in both cases.
Kenville’s spokeswoman says he couldn’t comment because
he had not received a copy of the decision.
Smoking banned on county property
GOODHUE COUNTY
Measure targets
underage drinking
erty.
Details of the plan, which
has been under discussion
for about a year, were shared
by Chemical Health Initiative
board chairwoman Joanne
Pohl at Tuesday’s joint meeting of city, county and Prairie
Island Indian Community officials at the Goodhue Community Center.
“The idea is to create
healthy kids, healthy families
and healthy communities,”
Pohl said.
After Pohl and Stacy Larson,
a CHI coworker, laid out the
proposal, Red Wing Police
Chief Tim Sletten and Kenyon
Police Chief Lee Sjolander
offered testimonials while
urging others to join the
cause. Sletten said it requires
a change in mindset for some
adults — who might allow
underage consumption under
certain circumstances — while
Sjolander wants the support
of the surrounding communities for it to
be effective.
The rural
police chief
says parties
have begun
moving out
of his jurisdiction since
the ordinance
was adopted
a few years Sletten
ago as boozers
instead travel to places where
such policies don’t exist.
“If we can get something
county-wise, that would really
help us,” Sjolander said.
Twelve counties and 58
cities across Minnesota have
this policy in place, Larson
said. Goodhue County commissioner Ron Allen said a vote is
expected this spring.
The county board is also
considering the adoption of
a seller-server alcohol ordinance, which would require
bartenders to take a free
online training class aimed
at education, enforcement and
accountability, according to
Sletten. Red Wing and Kenyon
already have this policy in
place.
The main goal, according
to Pohl, is to prevent underage youths from buying alcohol and to prevent “obviously
intoxicated” patrons from
continuing to be served.
Sletten says it requires more
upkeep by his officers, but he
prefers it to the alternative.
“We’re either going to get it
on the front end or the back
end,” he said. “I’d rather get
it before we’re dealing with
accidents or fights or DUIs.”
MINNEAPOLIS — Smoking will be banned on Hennepin County property starting this summer, even in private
vehicles on county property.
The Hennepin County Board approved the new tobaccofree policy on a 6-1 vote Tuesday. The ban applies to all
county-owned property and leased property where the
county is the only tenant.
Commissioner Jeff Johnson was the lone dissenter. A
nonsmoker, Johnson tried unsuccessfully to amend the
policy to allow smoking in one’s own vehicle while parked
on county property.
The new policy takes effect July 1. The only exceptions
are county-owned roads and right-of-ways, and an area at
Hennepin County Medical Center reserved for psychiatric
patients.
— Associated Press
SPRING VALLEY
PINE ISLAND
Photo submitted by Adam McCaleb
CWD-related deer shooting will wrap up Friday
By John Weiss
[email protected]
PINE ISLAND — Sharpshooters shooting deer in the Pine Island area will
complete their work Friday night.
The state Department of Natural
Resources brought the
sharpshooters in to
shoot deer so they can
be tested for chronic
wasting disease and to
reduce the number of deer to lessen the
chance of the disease spreading.
As of Monday, 716 deer that were 1
year old or older had been shot by local
people, sharpshooters or found killed
along roads. All were tested, and all the
results have been negative, said Lou
Cornicelli, DNR big-game coordinator
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and CWD response team commander. In
addition, nearly 400 younger deer were
tested and all were negative, but they
won’t count in the final
sample.
Final sample results
should be known April
6.
The shoot began in
late January, after a deer
shot by a bow hunter
last fall near Pine Island
tested positive for CWD,
a disease that is fatal to
deer but which experts Cornicelli
say doesn’t hurt humans
or cattle. The DNR put its CWD surveillance plan into action.
The department wants to get at least
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900 adult deer for sampling, Cornicelli
said. If it gets that many and all the
tests are negative, it means there’s 99
percent probability that CWD is in less
than 0.05 percent of the deer population,
he said. The DNR estimates about 6,500
deer were within 10 miles of where the
infected deer was shot.
If that’s true, there’s a good chance
CWD was found early and possibly can
be stopped, he said. Wisconsin and other
states weren’t as lucky and have a bigger
problem.
Even if all the samples are negative,
the DNR will have a special zone during
the fall hunting season that will allow
more deer to be shot. There might also be
restrictions on where deer can be taken
before they’re tested.
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motorcycle that caught fire Tuesday near the Kwik
Trip in Spring Valley.
Motorcycle catches
fire, rider jumps off
By Adam McCaleb
and Edie Grossfield
[email protected]
SPRING VALLEY — A
motorcyclist abandoned his
bike Tuesday near the Kwik
Trip in Spring Valley when it
caught fire.
The incident, which
occurred about 1:25 p.m.,
happened on U.S. 63 just as
the rider was about to pull
into the convenience store’s
parking lot. The Spring
Valley Fire Department,
on its way to a grass fire,
responded, said Fire Chief
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Chris Czatiewski. Firefighters put out the fire within
minutes, and other trucks
continued to the grass fire,
he said.
The motorcyclist, Jason
Watson of Spring Valley,
was not injured. He told firefighters that the motorcycle
caught fire while he was
riding it. A plume of black
smoke could be seen as far
away as Wykoff about 7 miles
away, Czatiewski said.
Traffic on U.S. 63 was
briefly rerouted during the
incident.
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THE DAY IN HISTORY • LOREN ELSE
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2010 — One year ago
Hormel Foods is celebrating the opening of its first new production facility in 15
years. The $89 million plant is in Dubuque,
Iowa.
1986 — 25 years ago
A smoker’s clinic for students will begin at John Marshall High
School. The pilot program includes representatives from Olmsted
County Health Department, Rochester Methodist Hospital and
Rochester public schools.
1961 — 50 years ago
Serious flooding is occurring throughout southeastern Minnesota after a rapid spring thaw. The hardest hit areas include the
Root River Valley, where a number of roads were inundated.
In the nation’s history books
1981 — President Ronald Reagan was shot and seriously
injured outside a Washington, D.C., hotel by John Hinckley Jr.
Also wounded were White House press secretary James Brady,
Secret Service agent Timothy McCarthy and District of Columbia
police officer Thomas Delahanty.
EDUCATION
2 from area are finalists
for teacher of the year
By Michele Jokinen
[email protected]
With so much material to
draw from, it must be daunting for Wilco lead singer Jeff
Tweedy to come up with a set
list on his solo tour.
The disheveled-looking
singer even
joked about
it with the
audience as he took the stage
Tuesday night at Mayo Civic
Theater, with fans shouting
out their requests. It was just
a small part of Tweedy’s audience rapport, which ranged
from asking the crowd if they
worked for Mayo Clinic to
telling a funny story about his
sons. At times the performer
had his audience in stitches.
The singer/songwriter was
comfortable and having a
good time performing, which
made for a fun night for those
in attendance.
Along with songs from more
Review
Musician Jeff Tweedy’s solo tour brought him to
Rochester on Tuesday.
recent Wilco albums, like
“You and I” and “Walken,”
Tweedy dove back into the
archives, breaking out the
fun sing-along songs “Casino
Queen” and “Passenger Side”
from Wilco’s 1994 debut
album A.M. during the first
encore. He also performed
the catchy “Radio King” and
the sweet “Pecan Pie” from
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Ten teachers have been named finalists for Minnesota
Teacher of the Year, and two of them are from southeastern
Minnesota: Katy Smith, an educator at Goodview School in
the Winona school district’s early-childhood family education program, and Mark Nechanicky, a fourth-grade teacher
at Lakeview Elementary School in Albert Lea.
The winner will be named May 1 at a banquet at the Northland Inn in Brooklyn Park.
The other finalists include: Joyce Bauman, a kindergarten teacher at Cold Spring Elementary School, ROCORI;
Scot Hovan, a physics teacher at Mahtomedi High School;
Mary Pereine, a history teacher at Chaska Middle School
East, Eastern Carver County; Peter Redmond, a language
arts teacher at St. Louis Park High School; Christi Schmitt,
an elementary school teacher at L’Etoile du Nord French
Immersion School, St. Paul; Laura Sharp, a music teacher at
Little Canada Elementary School, Roseville; Megan Speers,
a history teacher at Wayzata West Middle School; and J. Scott
Urban, a government and history teacher at Mankato West
High School.
The contest started with 108 teacher candidates from across
the state. A panel of 23 representatives from business, government and nonprofits chose the finalists.
LOURDES HIGH SCHOOL
Drum line to compete at state
By Matthew Stolle
[email protected]
The Lourdes High School winter drum line will compete
this weekend at the Minnesota State Championship at St.
Cloud University.
The group will be compete against 14 other schools in the
Scholastic A Marching Class. The drum line recently scored
91.35 out of 100 points in the Minnesota Percussions Association.
The 17-member team will travel to Dayton, Ohio, later for
the WGI World Championships.
Historian to speak in Mazeppa
By John Weiss
[email protected]
MAZEPPA — A historian will speak on preserving the present for the future and what makes a historical society successful at 2 p.m. April 9 at the Mazeppa Community Center.
The talk by David Grabitske, manager of outreach for the
Minnesota Historical Society, is being sponsored by the new
Mazeppa Area Historical Society, which is trying to preserve
history of “The Village in the Valley.”
side project Golden Smog’s
1995 album, Down by the Old
Mainstream.
However, only one song
from Tweedy’s legendary
former band, Uncle Tupelo,
made the cut, “New Madrid,”
off the band’s final album,
Michele Jokinen is a Post-BulleAnodyne.
tin photographer and music fan.
“New Madrid” is the only
Community Calendar
TODAY
By Matthew Stolle
Uncle Tupelo song I have
ever heard performed by
Wilco in the more than 15
shows I have attended, so I
suppose this shouldn’t come
as a big surprise. However,
considering the number of
Uncle Tupelo songs that
would translate well in his
all-acoustic set, Tweedy
missed a good opportunity
to break out some of these
old gems.
No surprise that touching
love songs like “Far, Far
Away” and “The Mountain
Bed” worked well in the
acoustic set. However, Tweedy
even made the stripped-down
versions of the bass-heavy
“Spiders (Kidsmoke)” and
“A Shot in the Dark” work
with just his voice and guitar,
drawing the listener to pay
more attention to the poetry
of the lyrics. Mix all that with
Tweedy’s stand-up comedy
act, and the evening was one
to remember.
One man, six guitars and
two solid hours of entertainment. Not bad for a Tuesday
night in Rochester.
Welcome Home Vietnam Veterans
Day, VFW Post 1215, 16 Sixth St. S.W.,
Rochester, 289-6818. Deep fried chicken
and fries basket for $5. Vietnam veterans
eat free. Proceeds donated to Disabled
American Veterans chapter No. 28-Rochester. 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Burger Night, American Legion
Post 92, 315 First Ave. N.W., Rochester,
282-1322, 5 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Karaoke by
Karaoke Rat at 6:30 p.m.
THURSDAY
Bingo, Eyota American Legion Hall,
South Front Street and Madison Avenue,
Eyota, 545-2866, 7:15 p.m. to 9:45 p.m.
Packets available at various prices. Early
bird Bingo starts at 7:15 p.m. and regular
bingo session starts at 7:30 p.m.
Elks Club Traverski Charity Auction
for Paws and Claws, 1652 U.S. 52 N.,
Rochester. Doors open at 5:30 p.m.; live
auction at 6:30 p.m.
Happy Feet After Age 50, Elder
Network, 11301⁄2 Seventh St. N.W., suite
205, Rochester, 285-5272. 1 p.m. to 2 p.m.
Information about foot care from Dr.
Panetta, Foot & Ankle Clinic, Rochester.
Grass Class, Rochester Public Library
auditorium. 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. Learn how
to beautify a lawn in an environmentally
friendly way. www.turkeyrunhostas.com.
Rochester Fire Civil Service Commission, city-county Government Center,
room 320, 201 Fourth St. S.E., Rochester,
9 a.m. to 10 a.m.
FRIDAY
Lenten Fish Fry, Church of Christ the
King, Byron, 775-6455. Every Friday
5 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. All-you-can-eat baked
or batter fried fish, potato, vegetable,
coleslaw, bread/butter, lemonade, milk
and coffee, desserts. Adults, $9.50; seniors,
$8.50; children 6-12; $5 and younger 6,
free.
Festival of Fools International
Speech & Evaluation Contest, Calvary
Episcopal Church, 111 Third Ave. S.W.,
Rochester. In the spirit of April Fool’s Day,
local Toastmasters members will perform
from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Open to the public.
Spring Fling, Rochester International
Event Center. 7 p.m. $10, 18+ college
students; $15, adults; at the door prices go
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up $5. Tickets available at RCTC Athletic
Department, second floor of Sports Center
or F&M Banks in Preston and Chatfield,
and all Home Federal banks in Rochester.
Alcohol served with proper ID.
Open house, Jill’s Country Corner,
Byron. One mile south of Salem Corners
off Olmsted County Road 3. 9 a.m. to
6 p.m.
Artists Clearing House Indoor Art
Fair, Crossings at Carnegie, 320 East Ave.
Zumbrota, (507) 732-7616. 4 p.m. to
7:30 p.m.
Sub night, VFW Post 1215, 16 Sixth St.
S.W., Rochester, 289-6818. Sub and chips
for $5. 3 p.m. to 8 p.m. Proceeds support
VFW Color Guard.
Rummage sale, Ronald McDonald
House, 850 Second St. S.W., Rochester,
282-9632. 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Furniture,
books, toys, games, household. No clothes.
Open house, Jill’s Country Corner,
Byron. 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. One mile south of
Salem Corners off Olmsted County Road 3.
Spring flowering trees and shrubs,
Sargents on 2nd, 1811 Second St. S.W.,
Rochester, 289-6068. With Michael Blazing. 1 p.m. Pre-registration required.
SATURDAY
Artists Clearing House Indoor Art
Spring Showcase Expo, Faith
Fair, Crossings at Carnegie, 320 East Ave.
Lutheran Church, U.S 14 East, across from
Zumbrota, (507) 732-7616. 10 a.m. to 5
high school, St. Charles, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
p.m.
Thirty-One, Norwex, Glorify Him, Tweedle
Hanging Basket Planting Class,
Needle, Send Out Cards.
Sargent’s North, 7955 18th Ave. N.W.,
Orthodox Spiritual Life: Therapy for Rochester, 289-0022. 9 a.m. or 11 a.m.
the Soul, Holy Anargyroi Greek OrthoChoose flowers and plant a basket. $55,
dox Church, 703 W. Center St., Rochester,
preregister only.
282-1529, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Lenten retreat,
Spring Bazaar & Expo, St. Pius X
open to the public. Speaker: Harry BoosaChurch,
1315 12th Ave. N.W., Rochester.
lis from St. Tikhon’s seminary in Caanan,
9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Local artisans, crafters,
Penn. Lenten luncheon available for a
home businesses, lunch (11 a.m.-1:30 p.m.),
donation.
silent auction, prizes, food. Proceeds bene“Celebrating Lake Pepin; Its Future
fit St. Pius X Church’s youth mission trip
Flourishing,” Villa Maria Center, south
to Haiti. Sponsored through a matching
side of Historic Frontenac.
grant from Catholic United Financial.
Rummage sale, Community PresbyRobin Bird Walk, Quarry Hill Nature
terian Church, 3705 55th St. N.W., RochCenter, 701 Silver Creek Road N.E., Rochesester. 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.; bag sale at 2 p.m.
ter. 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. Binoculars available.
Proceeds benefit Words Players Theatre.
Dress for the weather.
No calls to the church.
Spring Clean Up Sale, Rochester Public
Food for Kidz packaging project,
Library auditorium, 101 Second St. S.E.,
Stewartville Civic Center, Stewartville. 10
Rochester, 328-2306. Friends of the Library
a.m. to 4 p.m. Assembly-line groups pack
sale from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m.
ingredients for meals to be distributed in
Casino Night and Auction, Stumble
the U.S. and worldwide. Volunteers and
Inn2, 25188 534th St., Plainview, (507)
monetary contributions needed. Mary
Brouillard, 533-4925. Southeastern Minne- 534-4300. 5 p.m.-1 a.m. Proceeds go to
sota Kiwanis Clubs. www.feedingchildren- improve P-E-M stadium. Casino games
and wine tasting from 5 p.m.-7 p.m. Live
stewart.org.
auction. Music by DJ Alan Reed 9 p.m.-1
Introduction to Falconry, Quarry
a.m.
Hill Nature Center, 701 Silver Creek Road
Rummage sale, Fontaine Towers, 102
N.E., Rochester, 281-6114. With Quarry
Second St. S.E., Rochester, 361-1474. White
Hill naturalist and licensed falconer Kirk
elephant, bake sale, rolls and coffee. 8
Payne. $8/$6 Friends members.
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WEDNESDAY EVENING
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9 a.m.
TOMORROW
Noon
30°, feels like 20°
Mostly cloudy
Wind: S 13 mph
3 p.m.
Mostly cloudy
Wind: S 14 mph
7 p.m.
Chance of rain
Wind: S 11 mph
Cannon Falls
45°/32°
Chance of rain
Wind: S 7 mph
Red Wing
46°/33°
Lake City
45°/34°
High
Albuquerque 75
Anchorage
42
Atlanta
57
Boston
48
Charlotte, N.C 51
Chicago
48
Cincinnati
50
Dallas
75
Denver
70
Des Moines
49
Detroit
43
Green Bay
43
Honolulu
81
Indianapolis
50
Jacksonville
72
Las Vegas
86
Low Outlook
46
Sunny
26 Rain/snow
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Rain
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Pcldy
42
Rain
33
Pcldy
33
Shwrs
56
Pcldy
45
Pcldy
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New York
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Wind speed:
Barometer:
Dewpoint:
Windchill
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Alexandria
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10s
20s 30s 40s
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70s
80s
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High
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3.51”
5.12”
1.71”
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Month to date:
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Since July 1:
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79° in 1986
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Rain
T-storms
Flurries
Snow
Abundant precipitation throughout the Nation
Tuesday: 39
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15.28 ft.
13.00 ft.
4.82 ft.
12.92 ft.
13.26 ft.
Austin
Lake City
Red Wing
Rochester
Wabasha
Winona
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14 ft.
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Rochester
43°/40°
Today: 52
GOOD
Good
Twin Cities
44°/32°
Moon phases
AIR QUALITY INDEX
Ice
Duluth
43°/31°
Mankato
42°/30°
43°/25°
45°/28°
24-hour precipitation:
Month to date:
Since March 1:
Since Jan. 1:
Departure from normal:
Wet weather will move into the northern Plains and Mississippi
Valley while thunderstorms plague the Southeast. California will
see sunny weather with warm temperatures as high pressure
builds over the eastern Pacific.
On this day in Minnesota weather history...
Caledonia
45°/30°
Rochester International Airport
Forecast for Thursday, March 31
IN THE WORLD THURSDAY
High
Amsterdam
55
Baghdad
87
Bangkok
80
Beijing
74
Berlin
60
Buenos Aires 83
Cairo
86
Cancun
84
Cape Town
76
Hanoi
69
Havana
91
Hong Kong
68
Rushford
45°/31°
Spring Valley
42°/31°
TODAY
National forecast
Winona
47°/33°
Chatfield
43°/31°
Austin
43°/31°
IN THE NATION THURSDAY
Plainview
44°/31°
Rochester
43°/40°
Hayfield
41°/30°
Source: National
Weather Service
Wabasha
44°/31°
Pine Island
44°/31°
Owatonna
43°/31°
Kasson
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budding
young authors
and artists
FAMILY TIME • LINDY LANGE
[email protected]
If your student likes to
draw, write or create, sign
them up for the Young
Authors, Young Artists
Conference held in May.
Open to all Southeast Minnesota students in
grades 4 through 6, the one-day conference is
designed to pique kids’ interest in written and
visual communication.
Typically a school will bring a group of
students to the conference. Those students will
select three one-hour workshops choosing from
17 hands-on classes, including “Draw from
your Wild Side,” “Mummy or Mommy?” and
“Sniff... Sneeze... Gulp!”
The interactive seminars cover kid-approved
subject matter like graphic novels, watercolor
painting and kid-oriented food packaging, and
are taught by area professionals who pay the
bills writing choose-your-path books, illustrating garden scenes, and drawing coloring books.
“The conference is open to any student in
grades 4 through 6. We publicize it to Southeast Minnesota, but it’s open to anybody,” says
Kirsten Kuehl, conference coordinator, noting
that students must be accompanied by an adult
chaperone (one adult per 10 students). “Typically
students will come with their school, but over
the past several years we’ve gotten a lot more
individual kids and their parents registering.”
The conference, hosted by the Southeast
Service Cooperative in conjunction with RCTC,
is typically attended by 800 area students. In
addition to the one-hour workshops, kids can
pick up a good read at the conference book
store, submit their own original artwork or
writing and hang out with other students who
are interested in writing and art.
Go online to see which day your student’s
school is scheduled to attend. While there,
print out the conference brochure, list of
presentations/presenters, and a registration
form. Cost is $44 per student now through
April 15, after which the price goes up to $48.
Adult chaperones are $8.
Lindy Lange is editor of ROCHESTERfamilies.com. Next
week: Sign up your team and help make Rochester A
Litter Bit Better!
If you go
What: Young Authors,
Young Artists Conference
Where: RCTC Heintz
Center, 1926 Collegeview
Drive S.E.
When: April 22
(registrations due);
8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. May
18 or 19 (conference)
Phone: 281-6670
On the Web: www.ssc.
coop; www.rctc.edu
Email: [email protected]
Other opportunities
• Camp Invention, June 20-24 and June 27 to
July 1, is held in collaboration with the National
Inventors Hall of Fame and the U.S. Patent and
Trademark Office. Open to students entering
grades 1 through 6, it offers kids a hands-on
science day camp opportunity. To sign up, go to
www.campinvention.org.
• Three STEM summer camps will be held
Aug. 1-5 at the Heintz Center. Open to students
in grades 3, 4 and 5, the day camps offer the
opportunity to learn real-world, problem-solving
applications in the areas of science, technology,
engineering and math. To sign up, go to
www.rctc.edu/community/youth.
• Keep the kids’ reading muscles in shape this
summer by signing them up for the Rochester
Public Library’s Summer Reading Program. Open
to readers of all ages, reading logs are available
the end of May and must be turned in by Sept. 3.
Go to www.rochesterpubliclibrary.org to sign up.
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INSIDE TODAY
Photos by Germaine Langer Neumann / [email protected]
Raynell Luhmann, a Kenyon-Wanamingo High School senior, tries on a prom dress at Jenni’s Bridal in Rochester as
her friend, Natalie Haugen, looks on. The biggest new trend for prom dresses is prints rather than solid colors.
Pretty in prints
It’s the latest trend
for prom dresses
Prom dress care
By Karen Rorie
[email protected]
S
pring is here, and along
with April showers and
May flowers comes prom.
Area shops are already
filled with shoppers looking
for the perfect prom attire.
What will fashionable promgoers be wearing this year?
The dramatic ball gown
featuring a long, full skirt
and bright and jewel-toned
colors are hot this year. But
the biggest new trend is
prints rather than a solidcolor dress.
“Everybody is loving the
prints because it’s harder to
duplicate a dress in a print. If
someone has the same print,
but it’s a different dress, it’s
going to look totally different,”
says Amanda Crawley, general
manager of Jenni’s Bridal in
Rochester.
Popular silhouettes include
the Grecian or “goddess” look
with a fitted bust and flowing
skirt.
The high-low hem is another
hot trend this year. This dress
is short in the front and long
in the back. “It’s nice if you
like short but still want a long
dress. It’s the best of both,”
says Amy Chan, prom manager
for Mestads in Rochester.
Go glam with
accessories
When it comes
to accessories,
open-toe shoes
and sandals are
the way to go.
Look for crystal
or rhinestone
embellishments.
“The glitzier the
shoe the better,” says Crawley.
Amanda Crawley of Jenni’s Bridal makes some adjustments
as Sara Wobig, a Pine Island High School senior, tries on a
prom dress.
Rhinestones and colored
stones also make an appearance on chunky statement
jewelry and clutch handbags
this year.
The average cost of a prom
dress this year is between $300
to $400, says Chan.
But if you’re budget
conscious, you can
still find a great
prom look. “We have
dresses in every
price point,” she
says.
To make sure
prom night goes smoothly,
Chan recommends trying on
your dress as soon as you get
it home. If it needs alterations,
schedule the appointment as
soon as possible.
Try on your entire outfit
including your accessories,
hairstyle and make-up
ahead of time to make sure
the overall look is exactly
right.
Also, be sure to stock up
on double-sided fashion
tape, bobby pins and other
necessities to prevent a promnight panic.
Not just for the gals
For the guys, a classic black
tux is the way to go. “The girls
are dressed up and the guys
want to look dressed up
also,” says Chan.
This year, fashionable
men will skip the bow
tie.
“We’re seeing a lot
more of the long ties,”
says Crawley. She
also sees guys shying
away from flowers in favor of
a pocket square and choosing
black instead of white shirts to
really make the tie pop.
For guys who want to stand
out, go for a white jacket with
black pants or jackets with a
contrasting lapel.
“For a lot of guys, it catches
their eye because it’s different. And for prom, the guys
always want something different,” says Crawley.
Karen Rorie is a Rochester freelance
writer.
For a range of prom trends for both guys and gals, visit Jenni’s, Mestads, David’s Bridal or the Men’s
Wearhouse in Rochester, and The Prom Shop in Byron, to name a few. Know of another place to get
dressed in your best for prom? Send details to [email protected].
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Once prom is over, you’ll
want to clean your dress so
you can wear it again, sell
it at a consignment store or
trade with a friend. Here’s
the 411 on prom dress care:
• Dry clean the week after
prom. Be sure to follow
the manufacturer’s care
instructions for the garment.
• If you get something on
your dress, treat the stain
as soon as possible. Good
all-purpose stain removers
are club soda, lemon juice,
baking soda or salt.
• Test the cleaner on the
inside hem of your dress
first to make sure it won’t
damage the fabric.
• Apply cleaner from
the back of the fabric, not
the front. Don’t rub! Blot
or scrape the stain using
a clean white towel for
blotting.
• For lipstick and other
cosmetic stains, pre-treat
dry fabric with a spot stain
remover. Dampen the stain
with warm water and and
rub in the stain remover
until stain is gone. Launder
in the hottest water safest
for the fabric.
If the fabric is
unwashable, try dry
cleaning fluid.
• Point out the stain
when you take the dress
to the dry cleaners. They
have special techniques for
removing stains.
• If your dress is wrinkled,
you can iron it by using a
cool, dry iron. Place a clean
white cloth between the
iron and the dress.
• When hanging your
dress in the closet, make
sure that it has plenty of
space to breath and isn’t
crushed by other items in
the closet.
Are you tough enough to
wear pink? Find out at the
annual bull riding challenge
coming up on April 8.
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among the first
universities to
integrate laptop
computers
into students’
everyday lives.
Now the school
has moved into
smartphone
technology.
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• Saving Abel concert sells out in Rochester.
Details on the Center Stage blog.
• Feed your belly for a cause. Details on the
Center Stage blog.
• On the Great Taste blog, check out a
website that home cooks will adore.
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TEEN VOICES • LINDSAY BLAHNIK
[email protected]
I suppose I
knew it was
coming, but it hit
me rather hard
nonetheless.
When I looked at
March 18 in my student planner, I
saw that my annual end-of-the-year
countdown had begun.
Ever since I’ve been in high
school, I have made a countdown
in my planner of the last 50 days
of school. I’ve usually done this
on whatever is being discussed.
Teachers really can’t compete with
the distractions spring brings to
because spring can get rather long students.
when there are so few breaks.
Seniors tend to be different from
Having a daily reminder that
other students, however, when
time is actually passing can make
it comes to the end of the school
getting through the rest of the year year. Among seniors, there tends to
bearable.
be two distinct groups.
Most kids are excited that school
One group is as excited as ever
is ending and that summer is
for school to be ending because it
almost here. I am definitely one of means that adulthood and indepenthese, as I would much prefer bask- dence are almost upon them. At
ing outside in the sun’s warmth
my school, people from this group
than sitting in an air-conditioned
have had a countdown chain going
classroom trying to stay focused
for a month or so now.
The other group of seniors is
actually wary about the end of the
school year.
To them, it’s not so much that
they want school to continue, but
it’s more that they’re afraid to
start a new life and step out of the
routine that they have experienced
thus far.
For both groups, however, senior
year is an amazing experience.
This year I’ve enjoyed many of the
same activities that I’ve enjoyed
in past years, but because it’s my
senior year, all of these events
have been tinged with the fact that
I will never experience them again.
I have had a last Homecoming,
a last volleyball season, a last 14th
of December (as my biology class
pointed out to our teacher in hopes
that it would get us out of a test),
and now, I will experience a last 50
days of high school.
I will make sure to relish every
day that I check off my countdown
this year, as they will be the last
days of my high school experience.
Lindsay Blahnik is a senior at Stewartville High School. To respond to an opinion
column, send an email to
[email protected].
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Nintendo goes 3-D
By Barbara Ortutay
Associated Press
With the Nintendo 3DS, the Japanese video game company is betting
that it can once again nudge mass
entertainment in a new direction,
just as it did nearly five years ago
when it launched the Wii with its
innovative motion-based controller.
This time, though, the competition
from other devices is tougher.
The handheld 3DS, which became
available on Sunday for $250, lets
users play 3-D games without wearing special glasses. It also takes 3-D
photos. This summer, the 3DS will
play 3-D movies streamed from Netflix on its 3.5-inch screen.
Reggie Fils-Aime, the president of
Nintendo’s U.S. arm, calls it “the first
mass-market 3-D device.”
Handheld technology
Nintendo’s handheld gaming
systems have been wildly popular
since the days of the Game Boy, but in
recent years people have grown accustomed to playing games on their smartphones. “Angry Birds,” for example, is
played by 40 million people a month.
And both AT&T Inc. and Sprint
Nextel Corp. have announced they’ll
be selling smartphones with 3-D
screens soon.
Fils-Aime acknowledges that
consumers have a wide range of
entertainment options. Nintendo, he
says, must provide better entertainment experiences so that people keep
flocking to its games and devices.
So far, they are. While demand for
the handheld DS has slowed over the
past year, video game analyst Jesse
Divnich of Electronic Entertainment
Design and Research said that’s only
because people have been holding
out for the 3DS.
As of Dec. 31, Nintendo had sold
about 145 million units of the DS in
all its iterations worldwide. Divnich
thinks demand for the 3DS will be
more brisk during its first year on sale
than for previous iterations, such as
the DSi, which went on sale in 2008.
In demand
The Wii, which hit store shelves
in 2006 for $250 (it is now $200), was
often sold out or in short supply
as recently as last February. It’s
not clear yet whether this will be
the case with 3DS, but retailers
say demand has been strong based
on the number of pre-orders they
received. Tony Bartel, the president
of GameStop Corp., the world’s largest video game store chain, said the
company is “working every day with
Nintendo” to ensure that they can
meet demand.
Wedbush Morgan analyst Michael
Pachter said Nintendo will sell “as
many as they can make” over the
next 12 months. While the earth-
Associated Press
The handheld Nintendo 3DS, which became available on Sunday, lets
users play 3-D games without wearing special glasses. It also takes 3-D
photos, and this summer, the 3DS will play 3-D movies on its 3.5-inch
screen.
quake and tsunami that devastated
Japan will likely affect supplies, he
called an estimate of 16 million units
“very fair.”
The 3DS isn’t Nintendo’s first foray
into 3-D gaming. In 1995, it launched
the Virtual Boy, which required
bulky headgear and displayed
all images in red. It bombed and
Nintendo soon discontinued it. But it
didn’t give up on 3-D.
The technology used to create 3-D
images on the 3DS is not new. Called
a “parallax barrier” LCD screen, it
works as if two sets of thin blinds
were laid over the screen, so that your
eyes each see a different version of
the image. Your brain then puts them
together, creating the 3-D effect.
Because it only works if the viewer
is at a certain place in relation to the
screen, this technology is better suited
to hand-held devices than TV sets.
Appeal to the masses
As entertainment technology, 3-D
doesn’t have a long track record of
appeal to the mass market. It’s been
possible to play computer games
in 3-D for years, with the help of
glasses, but they have never caught
on. People are willing to pay extra
to see 3-D movies, but they haven’t
helped overall box office receipts.
Veteran game designer Hideki
Konno, who helped develop the
3DS, said being able to see games in
3-D makes it easier to comprehend
distances while playing.
“You will find it easier to grasp the
width, height and the depth of the
gaming world,” he said in an email
message translated from the Japanese.
Ji Soo Yim, 20, is a fan of Nintendo,
but said she might wait to buy the
3DS. She tried it out recently at the
Nintendo World store in New York
City while visiting on spring break
from Grinnell, Iowa.
“It was supposed to be 3-D, but
it looks like it’s going to be a headache,” she said.
Nintendo notes that the 3-D effect
is adjustable (and can be turned off
completely, too), which could help
those prone to headaches from 3-D.
Nintendo hopes that, along with the
lack of glasses, will make the 3DS
appealing to a broad range of people.
It also helps that people are familiar with 3-D technology from movies.
Ross Rubin, an analyst for market
research firm NPD Group, thinks
consumers will eventually adopt
3-D TVs in their homes just as they
bought high-definition screens. The
3DS is one sign that the use of 3-D
is spreading through the electronics
industry, he said, though he noted
that 3-D TV sales haven’t been as
strong as some manufacturers have
expected.
HYPE
Pass it on
Read one of the topic cards aloud to
your friends: “Things you don’t say to a
Choose
from
pop
mix,
70s,
80s,
90s,
Looking for a good game to pass the
house guest.”
time away with some friends? Electronic 2000s, classic rock, hip-hop/R&B, country
The other players then write down
and
oldies
categories.
Catch Phrase, from Hasbro, is a great
their responses for you to guess.
way to get in some laughs and have fun
Win or lose, this game always creates
Thought Jimmy didn’t have a funny
for hours.
a good time, so make sure you have it
side?
Think again when you find out he
All you have to do is split up into two for your next get-together. $24.99-26.99
was the one that responded, “Did you
Requires
3
AAA
batteries
(not
included).
teams and put on your thinking caps.
really just use that? That’s what we use
For four or more players.
Give whatever clues you can think of
to pick up the dog’s poop.”
Find out where you can get them at
to help your teammates guess the phrase
With this game, you can be as funny,
on the electronic screen and get rid of www.hasbro.com.
creative, or outrageous as you want to
that little blue and white controller.
be — that’s the fun in it.
If you end up with it when the buzzer You would say something like
So gather up some friends and be
goes off, the other team gets a point.
that
prepared to get in that ab workout from
So chuck it, throw it, whatever you
Think you know your friends like the laughing so hard.
have to do to make sure you don’t end back of your hand?
Play along online at www.thingstheup with it.
The Game of Things, from Hasbro, is game.com, where you can also enter for
There’s also an all-music version of a great way to test whether you really a chance to get a free game.
It is $29.99 at Amazon.com.
the game, where you have to get your know the kinds of things your friends
fellow players to guess the song titles by would say.
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As
winter
begins to
melt into
spring, I
find a new
weightlessness in life.
Suddenly, 6 a.m. doesn’t
seem quite as early, the
afternoons become longer,
and all the little hairs on my
body stand at the sound of
“summer vacation.”
However, time doesn’t
seem to understand my
preparedness as fully as
it should, and it somehow
manages to meander its way
through April, May and half
of June quite slowly. It folds
back my eyelids and makes
me stare at the sight of
summer, encompassing the
distance.
So I fill my time with all
sorts of inhumane activities.
School is school of course,
but afterward I strap on my
goggles and play catch with
my rod-basket for two hours
each day.
Some may be familiar with
this fine sport. Most call it
lacrosse, but in reality, the
title of “Please Smash My
Unprotected Fingers With
Your Big, Metal Stick” is
probably more fitting.
After I tend to my accumulating knuckle bruises, I
spend my nights drowning
in pages of material that I
will probably never need to
remember. AP tests are less
than the highlight of my May,
and they are just another
metaphorical punch in the
face that spring loves to dole
out.
I can almost hear spiteful
laughter as the clock rounds
2 a.m, but that could also just
be from prolonged lack of
sleep. I never fail to procrastinate for these tests, and
just when I would appreciate time to move a bit more
slowly so that I can carefully cram knowledge into
my brain’s tired capacity, it
speeds up and stresses me to
sleeplessness.
Don’t be fooled into believing that my work is complete
after my testing is finished.
The next three weeks are
swallowed up by projects
and papers and things to
occupy the empty space
between then and final
exams. I will be able to taste
summer so strongly at this
point that I will probably
know, down to the hour, the
amount of time I have left to
serve.
The only thing that keeps
me and the rest of us going
is the light we see. It encompasses the plans we’ve made
and the spontaneous thing
we’ll do in the next three
months. All of the hard work
becomes more than worth
it when we hear the final
bell sound on the last day of
school.
So I’ll keep the routine
because I know it’ll end. And
when it all ends for good
next year, I know I’ll miss it
sometimes. For now, though,
I’ll just be content with
spring break.
Jessica Faunce is a junior at
Century High School. To respond to
an opinion column, send an email
to [email protected].
WEBSITE OF THE WEEK
By Eric Goodwin
McClatchy-Tribune
When most of us ask about the weather forecast, it’s not
because we care what the barometric pressure will be, or
what direction the wind will be blowing in. We want to know
what to wear. Swackett (www.swackett.com) is a fun weather
application that answers this pertinent question, letting you
know how to dress for what Mother Nature has in store for
the day.
Deriving its name from the catchphrase “sweater, coat
or jacket,” Swackett takes a visual approach to presenting
weather data. Upon launching the application (or website), the
first things you see are two large people icons one representing
a woman, the other a man outfitted in attire that matches the
day’s forecast. For example, if the forecast calls for rain, the
icons, which Swackett calls “peeps,” will be dressed in rain
coats and galoshes. If the forecast is sunny and hot, the peeps
will be clothed in shorts, sunglasses and sunhats.
In large letters above the peeps is a brief description of
the expected weather. So with just a quick glance, Swackett
tells you everything you need to know to get ready in the
morning.
In addition to the day’s forecast, the main image area
provides information on the current conditions, tonight’s and
tomorrow’s forecast, all in information panes that slide out to
take center stage when clicked. Slick and intuitive.
With data provided by AccuWeather, Swackett is more than
mere novelty. If you care about things such as wind speeds,
the application has that information as well as radar and
satellite maps of your town and region, plus 14-hour and 7-day
outlooks.
In addition to being clever, Swackett also likes to mix things
up a bit. Occasionally, the application will dress the peeps in
wacky, full-color, pop-culture themed outfits that service calls
“easter eggs.” These range from “Star Trek”-inspired space
suits to “American Gothic”-themed farm attire. Speaking of
peeps fashion, you can customize Swackett by buying peeps
editions, expansion packs that add wardrobe options for the
icons, priced at $1.29 a pack.
For weather data that mixes practical with dashes of fun,
the forecast is Swackett.
Eric Goodwin writes Hotlink for McClatchy-Tribune News Service. You
can send e-mail to [email protected]. Follow Hotlink on
Twitter at http://twitter.com/mct_hotlink.
THURSDAYS:
BACK ROADS
Reporter John Weiss takes the roads less traveled in
southeastern Minnesota, finding the people and things that
make up a big part of life here.
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FAMILY CALENDAR
Colorful classroom may be distraction
A night out with the kids
Enjoy a kid-friendly evening at the Teen MOPS spaghetti
supper and auction. The event features a catered meal from
Olive Garden, kid games and activities, as well as an auction
that includes a family four-pack to the Minnesota Children’s
Museum, hotel stays and restaurant gift certificates.
Tickets are available at Christ Community Church, Christos Bookstore, and Christian Book & Gift. Cost is $10 for
adults and $5 for kids ages 2-10.
Teen MOPS is open to teen moms and pregnant teens.
Meetings are held 5:45 p.m. to 7:45 p.m. at Christ Community
Church. Upcoming meeting dates include April 12 and 26,
and May 10 and 24. Meetings include free childcare, a free
meal, free diapers and the chance to meet and mingle with
other teen moms.
If you go
What: Teen MOPS spaghetti supper and auction
Where: Christ Community Church, 4400 55th St. N.W.
When: 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. April 8
On the Web: www.teenmopsrochester.blogspot.com;
www.mops.org; www.christosbookcenter.com/e/about.asp;
www.christbk.com
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Creepy crawlies
Create your own hemiptera at Saturday’s Free Family
Days. Hosted by the Rochester Art Center, family members
of all ages are invited to join art center staff and create cute
egg carton bug mobiles.
Admission is free; no registration is necessary.
Free Family Days are held the first Saturday of each
month (unless it’s a holiday weekend). Upcoming Free
Family Days include May 7, June 4, July 9 and Aug. 6.
If you go
What: Free Family Days
Where: Rochester Art Center, 40 Civic Center Drive S.E.
When: 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday
Phone: 424-3308
On the Web: www.rochesterartcenter.org
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Have fun, raise funds
[email protected]
Our daughter’s
fourth-grade teacher
scarcely has a free
space on her walls.
She has hung up all
kinds of charts, pictures and examples
of the children’s work. The doors and
even the blinds have stuff on them.
Is so much on the walls visual overload? Does it affect students’ ability to
concentrate? — Curious
Teachers are usually encouraged to
have bright, colorful displays on their
classroom walls. When a classroom
takes on the appearance of a supermarket, some educators now believe
that it can make it difficult for children to concentrate. They believe that
when teachers are presenting a lesson,
students need to pay close attention to
the teacher rather than look at all the
things on the walls.
On the other hand, more educators
think this is a ridiculous view and that
students need to be stimulated. There
is no solid research on this subject.
Why don’t you ask your daughter if she
finds that all the things on the wall
bother her concentration? If so, you
might ask the teacher to evaluate how
Fun for the preschool crowd
Score big with your little ones at Soccer World’s Open
Gym. Held Mondays and Thursdays in April, Open Gym
offers a fun indoor spot (bounce house, balance beam, soccer
nets) for the preschool crowd to use their outside voice.
Cost is $3 per child, free for parents and kids 23 months
and younger.
What else? Soccer World offers a variety of summer soccer
camps for kids ages 4 and older. Go online to download a
registration form.
If you go
What: Open Gym
Where: Soccer World, 380 Woodlake Drive S.E.
When: 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Mondays and Thursdays in
April
Phone: 424-3018
On the Web: www.soccerworldmn.com
The Family Calendar is a weekly calendar of family-oriented events
compiled by Lindy Lange, editor of www.ROCHESTERfamilies.com. Do
you know of an upcoming event? Email details to
[email protected].
DA I LY morseL
Before washing a mustard stain, dab with white
distilled vinegar.
Attack spaghetti, barbecue or ketchup stains
with a white distilled vinegar and water solution.
Remove perspiration odor and stains on clothing,
as well as those left by deodorants, by spraying
full-strength white distilled vinegar on underarm
and collar areas before tossing them into the
washing machine.
Source: Vinegartips.com
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The Rochester Symphony’s final
concert of the season at Mayo Civic
Center Saturday night was aptly named;
it was indeed a “Starry Night” outside
after the final notes had sounded.
The jazzy season-closer — 12 starthemed tunes written or especially
arranged for singer Jackie Allen and
her jazz trio — could as well have been
called “star-struck.” Everyone went away
happy, sated by the classy and sophisticated menu and licking their chops for
next season.
Adding to the “Starry Night” program,
Lantz began each half of the evening with
the orchestra alone. He set the hall’s
upbeat mood with “International Dixieland Jamboree,” a tastefully rousing
three-song medley taken at a relaxed
tempo.
A surprisingly moving and interesting
visit back to the Starship Enterprise
— “Star Trek through the Years” —
announced the second half. Both choices
— not terribly difficult, but well chosen
and thoughtfully done — highlighted the
orchestra’s warmly expressive strings,
bullet-precise percussion and dexterous
choral brass.
A pre-intermission treat was the winner
of this year’s Aspiring Conductor fundraiser. Anne Judisch, a 50-year veteran
of the orchestra, conducted the finale
from Igor Stravinsky’s “Firebird.” It was
a triple win, as the audience, Judisch and
orchestra all enjoyed it and gave their
very best.
Allen and her combo — Michael
Kocour on piano, Hans Sturm on bass
and Dane Richeson on percussion —
were breathtaking. They made Presentation Hall as intimate as a smoky New
on her or get someone else to do it. You
need to make sure she is OK. Also, call
her doctor’s office, inform them that
she seems depressed, and ask that it
her away by trying an intervention.
be addressed at her next appointment.
Mom sees the doctor regularly,
Then contact the American Liver Founbut until her blood tests show consedation (liverfoundation.org) for suggesquences from the drinking, nothing will tions on how to get through to Mom.
change. I do believe she is suffering
DEAR ANNIE: I read the letter from
from depression. She hasn’t gone to
work in more than a month and doesn’t “Wisconsin,” the woman who lost her
husband and was saddened because
return my phone calls.
her friends avoided her after the
I don’t know how to help her realize that she can still lead a normal life funeral. That letter hit home.
for many more years if she takes care
I followed the suggestions of the
of herself and stops drinking. Maybe
American Hospice Association when
she is further along than we know, and my friends lost a spouse. But when my
she just doesn’t care anymore. Can you husband died, those same friends told
offer any advice? — Need Help
me they had new lives now or were
really busy. The disappointment still
DEAR NEED: As a recovering alcohurts. When people are in mourning,
holic, you certainly understand that
they need friends — the friends they
you cannot make your mother do
thought they had. — Also in Wisconsin
anything unless she is willing. Right
now, she is ignoring the long-term
Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell
effects of her drinking because she
and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann
isn’t ready to quit, possibly because
Landers column. Please email your questions to
[email protected], or write to: Annie’s
she is self-medicating for depression.
Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 5777 W. Century
Since Mom isn’t returning your phone
Blvd., Ste. 700, Los Angeles, CA 90045.
calls, please go to her home and check
ANNIE’S MAILBOX • KATHY MITCHELL AND MARCY SUGAR
[email protected]
DEAR ANNIE: My
mom is 50 years old
and just told me that
she has hepatitis C.
I think she has probably had it for quite
some time, since my late father also
had it.
Saturday, April 16 • 11 am-6 pm
FREE
Bike • Walk • Bus to the
Family Friendly
Celebration of
GREEN
Living
York jazz club.
Her sultry fluidity bewitched her audience, which applauded and cheered
vigorously at key points.
The orchestra’s challenge was to
“accompany” Allen and her trio; dipping
in and out of jazz combo riffs is no mean
feat. Being unobtrusive is not easy, and
the seamless grace and panache with
which the orchestra managed its various
transitions, and did so musically, was
impressive.
A few stars stood out in this galaxy of
songs. The opener, “Lazy Afternoon,”
showcased Richeson’s talents on the
African Mbira, building to a languid,
breathless quartet of utter dreaminess.
“Turnin’ Round,” by bassist Sturm,
was a brilliant rockin’ pun play, and “Do
Wrong Shoes” was a sassy bluesy rant
on the power of a woman’s best friend
— stiletto heels.
Is alcohol more important than her life?
I know I can’t make her quit drinking
— I have tried. It’s hard to bring up the
subject because she gets very defensive, and I don’t want to cause conflict
between us. I also don’t want to push
Comment on this tip, or submit your own tip-of-the-day ideas to Life Section
Editor Marissa Block at [email protected].
Kindergarten teachers typically
advise retaining students so they can
gain cognitive and social skills for first
Send questions and comments to Dear
Teacher, in care of this newspaper, Box 395,
Carmel, IN 46082-0395, or log on to www.
dearteacher.com, or email
[email protected].
Symphony shines on a ‘Starry’ night of jazz
Growing up, Mom and I were never
close. She kept to herself a lot. Things
have improved over the years, but talking to her is still like pulling teeth.
The problem is, Mom is an alcoholic
and has no interest in giving up booze.
I know all about AA, and so does she.
I have been in recovery for five years.
Those with hepatitis should not be
drinking, and it upsets me that the
alcohol is more important to her than
her life.
Vinegar for clothing stains
Is retention the right step to take? —
Yes or No
REVIEW
By Drue Fergison
Fun for mom and dad equals funds for youth at Saturday’s
Spring Bazaar and Expo.
Held at St. Pius X Church, the event includes more than
50 local artisans, crafters and home businesses as well as
concessions, prizes and a silent auction. Proceeds benefit
the church’s summer youth mission trip to Haiti.
If you go
What: Spring Bazaar and Expo
Where: St. Pius X Church, 1315 12th Ave. N.W.
When: 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday
Phone: 289-6317
On the Web: www.piusx.org
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grade. At the present time, from 10
percent to 30 percent of all kindergartners are retained or are placed in transitional classes.
other students regard the classroom
walls.
Most research seems to support not
retaining your child. These studies find
One area in which some research
no lasting advantage to retention and
has been done is on papers (worksee it as potentially negative socially.
sheets, handouts and tests) that are
At the end of first grade, students who
crowded. Students will look at a math
have repeated kindergarten typically
test with 10 problems and think that
they can handle it. Seeing 50 problems have lower reading and math scores
than those who haven’t.
on a page can completely overwhelm
and discourage them — making them
We, of course, are speaking about
believe the task is impossible to accom- “most” children. Individual students
plish. This is a situation of visual
obviously may benefit.
overload. Teachers should be aware
A great number of parents who
that too-small print size and little spac- retained their children in kindergarten
ing between letters do slow down the
write glowingly to us about how well it
students’ reading rate. This is espeworked out for their children.
cially true for those with dyslexia.
Because early childhood is a period
My son turned 5 in December.
of such rapid development, the child
Recently, the teacher told me he
who appears immature today may be
a far more mature child in just a few
should repeat kindergarten because
months.
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TELEVISION
‘Coal’ spoon-feeds tough-guy platitudes
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TUNE IN TONIGHT
KEVIN MCDONOUGH
[email protected]
Do you have to be lobotomized to enjoy reality TV? Or is
reality TV out to lobotomize its viewers?
“Coal” (9 p.m., Spike, TV-14) basically follows in the
path of “Deadliest Catch,” “Ice Road Truckers” and “Ax
Men,” programs also produced by its creators, Thom Beers’
Productions. On a purely visual (or televisual) level, those
three established shows take place in the great outdoors
set against the stirring scenery of Alaska and the Northwest
forests. For the most part, “Coal” unfolds in the blackness of
a mine.
The “stars” of the series are the mine owners Mike
Crowder and Tom Roberts, two guys who seem to spend
most of their time in a trailer fretting about whether their
daytime or evening shifts are going to gouge enough stuff
from the mountainside. They’ve put their savings into the
mine, but it’s the miners who put their lives on the line.
But in the logic of reality TV, we’re supposed to root for the
bosses.
Many of the miners come off as desperate men, born of
a long line of desperate men. They proudly declare that
mining is in their blood and that they know nothing else.
One machine operator, who may or may not get fired by the
first episode, tells us that he’s returning to the grim worksite after suffering several heart attacks. His wife doesn’t
want him there and has inscribed a love letter on his lunchbox, in case that’s the last thing he ever sees.
A lot of the miners’ patter will be bleeped to keep the
FCC off Spike’s back. And almost all of their commentary is
presented with subtitles because their strong West Virginia
accents make them nearly incomprehensible.
So, just to recap, Spike is presenting a show set almost
entirely in darkness, with subtitled dialogue. But this is not
some bleak Ingmar Bergman movie but rather a weird effort
to graft the American myth of the rugged individual onto
what used to be one of the most highly organized and unionized professions around.
Coal mines have seen capitalist exploitation at its most
callous and cruel, union corruption at its most violent and
extreme, and environmental blight at its most hellish. But
this is reality television, so in place of reality or history,
we’re spoon-fed tough-guy platitudes straight out of a beer
commercial. Not sure viewers will be buying it.
• “South Beach Classics” (9 p.m., Discovery) follows the
operations of a Florida car dealer specializing in vintage
automobiles.
• “Secret Access: The Vatican” (8 p.m., History) offers a
glimpse of the pope’s working day.
Other highlights
• Two hours of performances on “American Idol” (7 p.m.,
Fox, TV-PG).
• “Nova” (7 p.m., PBS) examines the earthquake and
tsunami that struck Japan.
• Claire and Mitchell meddle on “Modern Family” (8 p.m.,
ABC, r, TV-14).
• Abductions abound on “Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior” (9 p.m., CBS, TV-14).
Kevin McDonough writes for United Feature Syndicate.
Hemsworth hammers on Hollywood’s door as Thor
By David Germain
ing back to the set to reprise
the role in the ensemble
superhero adventure “The
LAS VEGAS — Chris
Avengers,” due out in 2012.
Hemsworth is turning the
The film teams Hemsworth’s
mighty Thor’s fall from grace
Thor with other big-screen
into his own personal rise to
Marvel Comics idols, includHollywood stardom.
ing Robert Downey Jr. as
Hemsworth stars in the
Iron Man, Chris Evans as
title role of “Thor,” the
Captain America and Mark
Marvel Comics superhero
Ruffalo as the Incredible
adaptation that opens May 6 Hulk.
to lead off what is expected
The “Thor” footage shown
to be a season of summer
at CinemaCon chronicles the
blockbusters.
fall of the hero from Asgard,
The 27-year-old Austrathe realm of the Norse gods.
lian actor joined distribuCocky and quarrelsome,
tor Paramount Pictures to
Thor is cast out by his father
show off footage of “Thor” to (Hopkins) and banished to
theater owners Monday night learn some humility among
at their CinemaCon convenmortals on Earth, where he
tion in Las Vegas, where
falls in with a team of scienHemsworth will receive an
tists that includes Portman.
award Thursday as male star
After a start in Austraof tomorrow.
lian television, Hemsworth
After a six-month casting
landed a small role as James
process, Hemsworth said
Kirk’s father in 2009’s “Star
he felt as if he had won
Trek.” Bigger roles followed
the lottery when he got the
in the action tale “Red
role as the fallen Norse
Dawn” and the horror story
god, particularly given his
“Cabin in the Woods,” two
colleagues on “Thor.” Among films that have sat on the
them: Oscar winners Natashelf awaiting release amid
lie Portman and Anthony
financial troubles at distribHopkins and director
utor MGM.
Kenneth Branagh.
Hemsworth is the middle
“As a young actor being
sibling in a family of three
in this town, prior to this, it
brothers who all went into
was knocking on doors and
acting. His older brother is
auditioning and going on the Australian TV veteran Luke
rounds,” Hemsworth said
Hemsworth and his younger
in an interview. “This has
sibling is Miley Cyrus’
sort of set me up, hopefully,
ex-boyfriend and “The Last
for more of these films and
Song” co-star Liam Hemsopened other doors.”
worth.
With “Thor” still weeks
While “Thor” is the biggest
away from its premiere,
score for the Hemsworth
Hemsworth already is headacting clan, there was no
Associated Press
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ARIES (March 21-April 19). The
omens suggest that it may be just
as easy to make a big change as it
is to make a small one. So, as long
as you are envisioning a change, it
may as well be dramatic.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20).
Once you accept the way things
are, you have power over the situation. So consider dropping your
resistance. Why struggle? Come to
terms with the way things are, and
you’ll be instantly influential.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21). Your
creativity and intelligence will
stretch into new realms. You’ll
apply what you learned in one
area of life to a completely different subject and have success.
CANCER (June 22-July 22).
Sometimes the prize goes to the
one who deserves it most. Other
times the prize goes to the one
who thinks to ask for it. Take a
chance, and ask for what you
want.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). A relationship is improving. It may
feel like you are coasting along
together. Enjoy this mellow,
harmonious state. You have an
especially easy time getting to
know Gemini and Libra people.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). You
have an excellent eye for what
is going right in the world. Share
your upbeat observations with
anyone who will listen. Your
optimism will have far-reaching
repercussions.
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sibling rivalry when he
landed the role, the film’s
star said.
“We’re competitive in the
best ways. Always have been
growing up,” Hemsworth
said. “In this particular business, I guess we’re all aware
of the uncertainly of it. The
odds are against you. So it’s
kind of a team effort. When
somebody gets a job, you’re
just as happy for each, and
this particular thing, they
were just as excited as I
was.”
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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). If you
don’t have a mentor yet, this will
be a fine day to find one. Others
are receptive to your charm and
will find it easy to spot your talent
and take note of the rich potential
in you.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21).
Consider changing the rules of
a game or agreeing to different terms in a relationship. It’s
also an auspicious time to make
new arrangements with a boss,
colleague, client or customer.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec.
21). You will benefit from selfparenting. For instance, you
may make a deal with yourself
that you can “play” after you’ve
cleaned your room or finished
your “homework.”
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19).
Let your inner confidence show in
your style of speaking. If you are
too self-effacing, your credibility
may be called into question. Talk
with certainty, and others will be
certain of you, as well.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18).
You will effectively integrate two
parts of your life that don’t always
fit nicely together—for instance,
your work with your family life, or
your leisure with your work.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20).
Research an influential person
you would like to know. The future
holds an encounter. If you say the
right thing, this person will not
only show you the ropes, but will
also pull a few strings.
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HINTS FROM HELOISE
Race topic of discussion
Wipe away worries with clean wipers
challenging stereotypes.
Terrell has worked with
“Restoring Humanity,”
organizations and busia discussion about race,
racial prejudice, racism
nesses nationwide, includand racial unity, will
ing several times in recent
be presented by Calvin
years in Rochester.
Terrell on April 6 at the
“Restoring Humanity”
Mayo High School auditois designed as an interacrium.
tive presentation. The
Terrell is founder of
Social Centric, an Arizona- program, from 6 p.m. to
8 p.m., is open to local
based organization dedigroups, organizations and
cated to creating peace,
fighting injustice and
individual citizens.
By Heloise Cruse
well, they should be replaced!
Most experts say that wipers
should be replaced every six
DEAR READERS: April
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is National Car Care Month,
wear and tear, etc.
sponsored by the Car Care
There are many things that
Council (www.carcare.org),
and it’s the perfect time to can affect the wipers, such as
have your car checked out. UV rays, hot and cold weather
Windshield wipers are impor- changes, and exposure to the
tant and a safety concern, but sun.
often they are overlooked.
All of these can cause the
There are some things that blades to crack, tear and
can make wipers not work become brittle. — Heloise
correctly. Examples are: tar
DEAR HELOISE: My son
from the road, grime, dirt and finds it amusing to bring me a
even tree sap. So clean the souvenir back scratcher from
wipers occasionally to keep each of his many travels. So I
them in good condition. To have a few. I keep one in the
do this, just wet a clean cloth kitchen and use it to reach
(a terry towel or microfiber things on the higher shelves.
towel) with a good-quality If something is at the back of
window cleaner, then wipe the shelf, I can drag it forward
and rinse with plain water.
with the scratcher and then be
If the wipers still don’t work able to reach it. It’s helpful
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the American Revolution,
the American History
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Shirley Russo of RochThe event will be held
ester, who participated in
April
9 at the Olmsted
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County History Center,
MIA Hunters trip in May
1195 W. Circle Drive S.W.
2010, will speak about
in Rochester.
her experience during an
Light refreshments will
awards ceremony sponbe served starting at 9:30
sored by the Rochester
a.m. The program begins
chapter of Daughters of
the American Revolution. at 10 a.m.
To attend, RSVP
The annual awards cereby April 5 to Bonnie
mony honors the winners
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sored by the Daughters of
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still checks her credit-card
bills very carefully. She got
tired of the messy pile of
receipts and how long it took
to hunt through them when the
bill came, so she started writing the store and the amount
in the day block of an extra
calendar. Since she gets many
free calendars, this doesn’t
cost a thing, and it saves her
lots of time. — Joanne in Pennsylvania
MAINTENANCE TECHNICIAN
Local real estate firm now accepting applications for a Maintenance Technician to
serve their Rochester apartment communities. Interested applicants should possess
three years or more of facilities maintenance experience. Detailed job description available upon request.
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NEW
GENERAL
GENERAL
Strategic Account
Manager Position
Foldcraft Co., a 100%
employee-owned
manufacturer of booths,
chairs, stools, cluster
seating, cabinetry and
millwork is currently seeking
a Strategic Account
Manager for our Kenyon,
MN location. Foldcraft Co.
offers competitive wages
and a complete benefit
package including
insurance plans, vacation,
holiday and sick pay, 401(k)
plan, and Employee Stock
Ownership Plan (ESOP).
To learn more about this
opportunity, and how to
apply, visit our website at:
www.plymold.com
and click on our News and
Events tab.
NEW
TODAY!
SALES
IMMEDIATE NEED!
*ROCHESTER BRANCH*
Looking for a CAREER,
NOT just a pay check?
All exp. levels
encouraged to apply!
~SALES REPS:
Comp. base salary +
lucrative commission
~LAWN CARE SPECIALIST:
Hourly + X 1/2 + Comm.
Benefits:
Pd. training & benefits
you’d expect from U.S.
Industry Leader
Required to pass:
Drug screen, background
& Motor vehicle record
checks.
APPLY TODAY!
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800-717-5296 #4
AA/EOE/M/F/V/D
GENERAL
RETAIL
People Skills.
Retail Smarts.
We are currently looking
for an experienced
HVAC/refrigeration
service technician to
troubleshoot equipment
malfunctions and make
the necessary repairs.
NATE and Universal
EPA certification required
and a minimum of 12
months work experience.
Must be able to work
some evening and
weekend hours.
Must have a good driving
record and be able to
pass a pre-employment
background check and
drug screening.
K&S offers a competitive
wage and benefit
package. Please e-mail
resume to:
[email protected] or
apply in person at:
4205 Hwy 14 W,
GENERAL
Coordinator for
Exchange Students
Recruit hosts, provide
support and activities.
www.aspectfoundation.org
GENERAL
FULL TIME
MAINTENANCE
Al-Corn Clean Fuel is
seeking a full time
maintenance position.
3 years mechanical
experience is required.
Please apply within.
797 5th St. Claremont,
MN 55924.
SALES
Sales Manager
For local Mfg of Safety
Equip. Products. Fulltime career position. We
are a 20 year-old company with established
distribution.
Position
requires some domestic
travel. Salary with bonus
program, and benefit
package. Send reply to:
Box 505
c/o The Post-Bulletin
18 First Avenue SE
Rochester, MN 55904
TODAY!
As the food industry
leader behind the brands
Green Giant, Cheerios,
Betty Crocker, and Pillsbury, General Mills offers
exciting opportunities for
self-starters to share their
sales skills. If you live
within 30 miles of Rochester, MN area join us as a:
RETAIL
MERCHANDISING REP
Full-time
This is an excellent opportunity for a retail professional to work with grocery
store management to ensure positive in-store conditions of GMI products in
focus categories within a
defined retail territory.
We'll rely on you for timely
execution of distribution,
display, shelving and pricing.
If you have 1-3 years' retail merchandising experience with a national food
broker, grocery manufacturer or retailer, can prioritize and complete multiple
tasks on tight deadlines,
have superior customer
service / communication
skills and working knowledge of MS Word, Excel
and Outlook, we might
have what you're looking
for! Proof of high school
diploma, valid driver's license, and reliable transportation is required.
We offer an attractive
compensation
package,
which includes $12.25/
hour, annual incentive opportunity, mileage reimbursement, medical/dental, generous vacation,
401(k) and retirement
plans.
To apply for this position,
please upload your resume
by
4/1/11
at:
www.generalmills.com/cor
porate/careers. Click on
"Job Search" then "Search
Openings." Enter "5272BR
or Retail" in the Keyword
field. To submit to this job,
you must create a login.
*Your resume MUST include an email address.
Minority candidates are
strongly encouraged to
apply. Equal Opportunity
Employer.
GENERAL
Full-time Compliance Officer
We are seeking an experienced full-time Compliance
Officer for Pine Island Bank and Bank of Zumbrota.
Looking for qualified candidates with a strong
compliance knowledge base and 2-3 years of
regulatory compliance experience. Responsibilities
include, maintain compliance program, regulatory
compliance testing, maintain a system of internal
controls to ensure compliance with all regulatory
requirements, coordinate the annual review and
revisions of policies and procedures, conduct
compliance related training, coordinate and oversee
compliance audits and examinations. Attention to
detail, excellent work ethics and self-motivation to stay
abreast of all regulatory requirements. Strong
interpersonal skills. Must be able to work independently
and efficiently and have a friendly disposition.
Candidates must have a favorable pre-employment
background check that includes, credit check
employment verification, references, and criminal
background check.
Application deadline is April 8, 2011.
Send resume by e-mail to:
[email protected] or mail to:
Jim Mack, President, Pine Island Bank,
PO Box 68, Pine Island MN 55963
EOE
Consultative
Sales
Rochester/
Mankato Area
Develop new client
relationships with focus
on total value-creation,
collaboration, and longterm success. Manage
the interface between
customers and the
company, selling a broad
portfolio of products and
services. U.S. Foodservice provides food,
equipment, suplies, and
consulting services to
restaurants, hotels, delis,
caterers, schools, and
other foodservice
operations.
We seek an assertive,
high-energy, independent person with a contagiously positive attitude.
A bachelor’s degree is
required. We offer a
generous benefits package including medical,
life, and disability
insurance, 401(k) with
match, paid vacation,
tuition reimbursement,
and more. Interested
applicants should apply
at:
www.usfoodservice.com/
careers
Job Req. #11001100
US Foodservice
Plymouth MN
EOE/AA/M/F/D/V
THE Post-Bulletin
delivers
SE Minnesota’s
most qualified job
seekers!
GENERAL
Experienced Timber
Cutter: Competitive piece
rate pay, health insurance,
401K. Drug test req., Call
507-259-5361.
NEW
TODAY!
TRADES
Basement Water Control
hiring Water Proofing
Installers. Driving record
information
required,
must have good driving
record and valid driver’s
license.
Call 507-281-2714 for
interviewing information.
TRADES
HVAC INSTALLER
Immediate FT opening in
our Commercial HVAC
Installation Dept. Min 3-5
yrs exp, EPA certified,
Valid MN driver’s license,
& able to lift 50-75 lbs.
Competitive wages &
benefits. Send resume
to:
Tonna Mechanical
2411 7th St NW
Rochester, MN 55901
or email:
[email protected]
NEW
HEALTHCARE
DENTAL
ASSISTANT
CERTIFIED &
REGISTERED
TODAY!
EDUCATIONAL
Full time position at
Stewartville dental
office, Chair-side &
Expanded functions. Call
Julie at 507-533-7735.
HEALTHCARE
$500 Sign On Bonus!
RN/LPN
Zumbrota Health Services, a 52 bed, 5 Star
Quality senior living facility is currently accepting
applications for an RN/
LPN to join our superior
nursing team! This is a
full time PM position,
Monday ~ Friday.
Please submit resume or
request an application to:
Zumbrota Health Services
Kerri Nyblom
433 Mill Street
Zumbrota, MN 55992
507-732-8401 (direct)
507-732-8432 (fax)
[email protected]
EEO/AA
HEALTHCARE
Dental Receptionist
Part-time, dental office
exp. very helpful. Contact
Dr. Postier’s Office at
507-288-1066.
PART TIME
Attention
CNA’s!
Stewartville
Public
Schools have the following positions open for the
2011-2012 school year.
• 1.0 FTE DCD-SP
Teacher
• 1.0 FTE ECSE Teacher
• .5 to 1.0 FTE Speech
Language Pathologist
• 1.0 FTE High School
Science Teacher
• 1.0 FTE Middle School
Math Teacher
• .4 to .6 FTE Middle
School Choir Teacher
• 1.0 FTE High school
Physical Ed/Health
Teacher
• 1.0 FTE Kindergarten
or 1st Grade Teacher
• 1.0 FTE 5th Grade
Teacher
• 1.0 FTE MS Reading
Specialist
• Head Girls Basketball
Coach
• 8th Grade Volleyball
Coach
• Asst Football Coach
• Asst Cheerleading
Coach
Please send resume,
license, credentials, transcripts and application to:
Stewartville Public
Schools
Office Superintendent
440 6th Avenue S.W.
Stewartville, MN 55976
Application
and
job
description can be downloaded at:
www.ssd.k12.mn.us
Looking for PT/FT
CNA’s for
Days or PM’s
Work in the Rochester
Area. For more infomation about this nursing
pool call 507-951-7384!
Drs. Elrod, Green &
Hyland
800 1st Ave SW
Austin, MN 55912
TRADES
Truck Shop
Mechanic
need for working on
trucks and trailers.
Experience helpful.
Call 507-876-2831 Ext. 3
or [email protected]
Essentia Health St. Mary’s, a progressive
integrated healthcare campus is seeking a full
time Clinic Nursing Services Manager.
Responsibilities include managing, planning and
coordinating the nursing care of the clinic to
include: supervision of nursing staff, monitors
deliver of patient services, space planning,
supervising patient flow, acting as liaison with
patients, hospitals and long-term care facilities;
creating patient-focused care delivery. Qualified
applicants are required to have a BSN or RN
enrolled in accredited BSN program; if enrolled
in program, must complete within 3 years of
hire. Minimum of 2 years supervisory
experience in ambulatory care or physician
group practice. This position will require strong
leadership, decision making and interpersonal
skills. EHSM is located in the lakes country
community of Detroit Lakes, MN offering an
abundance of outdoor recreational activities,
affordable housing and excellent schools.
Crenlo, Attn: Human Resources
1600 4th Avenue NW • Rochester, MN 55901
Telephone # (507) 287-3614 •Fax # (507) 280-2350.
E-mail: [email protected].
0326621826PU
Menards
5150 Hwy 52 North
Rochester, MN 55901
Professional
Employment
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For more information
or to apply, contact
Adam at 281-7457 or
1-800-562-1758
Sandy Frank
Mortgage
Loan Officer
507-951-5376
CLAREMONT
Monday -Saturday
Delivery
Requires Valid Drivers
License & Insurance.
Contact Doug at
1-800-562-1758 ext.
17795 for more
information.
Foot Route
Available
Immediately!
NW Foot Route.
Now accepting
Applications.
By Watson soccer
field.
Summitt Square
Apartments 900 to
1100 block of 40th
and 41st street NW.
For more
information or
to apply
Contact: Tim
507-281-7422
NE Rochester Foot
Route Available!
Viola Heights
Drive NE area.
If you live near
this area and are
interested in a
route, please call:
Jessica
507-285-7683
for more
information
PROFESSIONAL
DENTAL ASSISTANTS
Near Dairy
Queen North.
www.expresspros.com,
or contact Express at:
507-285-1616.
ATTENTION EMPLOYERS:
Perioperative Manager
POST-BULLETIN’S 12TH ANNUAL
St. Mary’s Innovis Health, a progressive
integrated healthcare campus is seeking a full
time Perioperative Manager to provide
leadership in the areas of Pre-Op, Operating
Room, Post Anesthesa Care Unit (PACU),
Sterile Processing, and Endoscopy Unit in
support of established policies, goals and
objectives. This position will coordinate the day
to day operations of the surgery services,
collaborate with other departments for care
coordination, utilize QI methods for clinic and
non-clinic process improvement, and ensure
compliance with clinical and regulatory
standards. Qualified applicants are required to
have minimum of three years perioperative
nursing experience, current MN RN license and
Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing. Three years
management experience is preferred.
This
position will require strong leadership, decision
making and interpersonal skills. SMIH is located
in the lakes country community of Detroit Lakes,
MN offering an abundance of outdoor
recreational activities, affordable housing and
excellent schools.
Please send letter of interest and resume to:
St. Mary’s Innovis Health
Human Resources
1027 Washington Avenue
Detroit Lakes, MN 56501
www.trustedcareforlife.org
(P) 218-844-8914 (F) 218-847-0886
CAREER FAIR
For more
information or
to apply
Contact: Tim
507-281-7422
FOOT ROUTE
AVAILABLE IN
BROWNSDALE !
For more
information call
Tiffany Arett
507-434-7346 or
507-440-8200.
local
Homes
Homes for Sale
3 BD, 2 BA, Rambler.
Remodeled. 2019 5th
Ave NW. $133,000.
Call Reuben at
507-259-4240.
Looking for a
new home?
Real Estate
Marketplace.
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Referral Specialist
Child Care Resource & Referral, Inc.
Attn: Human Resources
126 Woodlake Dr. SE
Rochester, MN 55904
Fax: (507) 287-2411
Email: [email protected]
Position will remain open until filled.
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gar.
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3 ACRE LOT
Early Head Start Teacher/
Home Visitor
EHS Teacher/Home Visitor
Attn: Human Resources
Child Care Resource and Referral
126 Woodlake Drive SE
Rochester, MN 55904
fax: 507-287-2411
e-mail: [email protected]
Elcor Realty of
Rochester Inc.
Lake/River
Property
Every Friday in the
Post-Bulletin you can
find our
Child Care Referral Specialist
Edina Realty
GOLFVIEW VILLAGE
PROFESSIONAL
CCR&R, Inc. has a position open for a full-time
Child Care Referral Specialist. This position
provides telephone and personal consultation
services for parents seeking child care. This
position is responsible for data collection and
entry as well as special projects related to
marketing, resource development and public
relations.
The ideal candidate will have a two or four-year
degree from a college or university or a
combined equivalent of education, experience
and/or training.
Experience in Child
Development, Family Relations, Social Work or
related field preferred but not required. Ideal
candidates will be detail-oriented and have
excellent communication, interpersonal and data
entry skills.
If you value children and families and are
interested in working in an environment that
supports those values, send your cover letter/
resume to:
Century 21
Condo/
Townhouses
Space is limited!
Express
Specialized
Recruiting
Group
(SRG) has an immediate opportunity for a talented Web Designer with social media marketing experience to lend their talents to a growing
business located just 20 miles from Rochester.
This position will require the development and
design of four business websites, including one
e-commerce site. Experience in professional
website development required, as well as familiarity with e-commerce, plug-ins, and Joomla.
Additionally, this candidate will be responsible
for implementing effective social media strategies for various businesses within the agrigulture industry, and effectively training on site staff
to upkeep strategies. Excellent communication
and interpersonal skills will play a vital role in
this position.
Experience with the agriculture industry a plus.
If you feel you would be a good candidate for
this position, please submit your resume, along
with professional references to:
[email protected]
Bigelow Homes
generate
more
qualified
calls!
For information on becoming an exhibitor,
please contact Chad Decker 507-285-7650 or
the Classified Department 507-285-7777.
Marketing Specialist/Web Designer
Listings and agents
are included from:
Homes For Sale
SW
Thursday, April 21, 2011
Ramada Hotel & Conference Center
10 a.m. - 3 p.m.
PROFESSIONAL
Check out
homes.
postbulletin.com
New World Realty
Gates of Rochester on
41st St NW, 3800-4000
block of 19th Ave NW,
1800-2100 block of
38th St NW, 1800
block of 41st St NW.
Express Employment Professionals has immediate opportunities available for both full time and
part time Licensed Dental Assistants. Convenient day shift hours along with competitive wage
ranging from $16 to $23 per hour, depending
upon experience. Experience with Softdent
and/or Dentrix software preferred.
Applicants may apply online at:
Looking
for Open Houses?
Looking
for an Agent?
Counselor Realty
Rochester
COMING SOON.......
CCR&R has an opening for a Home Based
Combo Lead Teacher/Home Visitor (full-time) in
its Early Head Start Program. This position
works with children and parents in the home and
in a group setting. The Home Visitor will share
ideas and model developmentally appropriate
activities in the home environment and will
discuss each child’s individual growth and
development.
The ideal candidate will have a Bachelor’s
degree (B.A.) or Associate’s degree (A.A.) in
Child Development/Education/Social or related
field, or a combined equivalent of education,
experience and/or training. Experience working
with low-income and diverse populations as well
as infants, toddlers and families is preferred.
The ideal candidate will be a team player who
supports the Head Start philosophy of
partnering with families and supporting staff.
If you value children and families and are
interested in working in an environment that
supports those values, send your cover letter/
resume to:
Homes For Sale
NW
Coldwell Banker
Burnet
Foot Route
Available
Immediately!
IT professional needed to teach courses for
Minnesota School of Business, Rochester
campus. Master’s degree required.
Fwd resume to:
Sara Govrik, [email protected]
or fax: 507-535-8011.
HEALTHCARE
EDUCATIONAL
Home Loans
Bank of America, N.A., Member FDIC
Equal Housing
Lender © 2009 Bank of America Corporation. Credit and
collateral are subject to approval. Terms and conditions apply.
This is not a commitment to lend. Programs, rates, terms and
conditions are subject to change without notice. 00-62-0114D
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for a Home?
IT
INSTRUCTOR
Essentia Health St. Mary’s
Human Resources
1027 Washington Avenue
Detroit Lakes, MN 56501
www.essentiahealth.org
(P) 218-844-8914 (F) 218-847-0886
CCRR is committed to creating a multi-cultural,
bias-free agency.
A Dover Company • ISO 9001:2000 EOE • www.crenlo.com
www.dovercorporation.com
Cherry Grove,
Chester, IA, Lime
Springs, IA areas.
100 Miles and 3 1/2
hours. Must have
valid drivers license
and insurance.
Motor
Routes
Available:
Human Resources
No experience needed.
Bachelor’s degree in
Human Resource Management or Business
Management with an
emphasis in Human
Resources is required.
Must have analytical,
organizational and communication skills. Responsibilities include interviewing,
recruiting,
training, scheduling and
payroll and benefits
coordination. Apply in
person at:
Please send letter of interest and resume to:
Professional
Crenlo is known to be among the
nation’s largest, most capable and
complete sheet metal fabricators.
Crenlo is a leading manufacturer of
highly engineered steel frame cab
enclosures and rollover structures
serving major OEM’s in the
construction, agriculture and
commercial equipment markets. Crenlo also produces enclosures
to store and protect electronic equipment including a proprietary
line of enclosures under its EMCOR trademark, which serves the
commercial, telecom, datacom, test & measurement, broadcast
and security markets. Crenlo, located in Rochester MN has an
opening for a Manager Materials.
Responsible for materials management including scheduling,
master scheduling, inside sales, inventory control, stockroom and
receiving, shipping, fleet, cab service, and tactical procurement. A
major focus on the planning side of the business to achieve
continually improving financial performance and to exceed
customer expectations for delivery, quality, cycle time and cost.
Excellent planning and organizational skills required.
Implementation of process improvements is critical. Strong
emphasis on inventory management. Must have strong leadership,
problem solving, team building, and communication skills.
Requires a Bachelors degree in Materials Management or
Business with 5-10 years experience in the materials field.
Masters Degree preferred. APICS certification a plus.
Qualified applicants can send resumes and salary requirements to:
Motor Route
Available:
PROFESSIONAL
Clinic Nursing Services Manager
MANAGER MATERIALS
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Please send resume to:
Clear. Straight Forward.
PROFESSIONAL
EOE
•
State of the art dental
practice in Austin is
seeking a part-time
Registered Dental
Hygienist. Paperless
charting, digital x-rays,
competitive wages,
computer skills a must.
Prefer an experienced,
enthusiastic patient
oriented & good listener
to join our supportive
dental team.
Homes for Sale
HOME LOANS
DENTAL HYGIENIST
Medical
Employment
HEALTHCARE
TRADES
Business
Opportunities
PROFESSIONAL
EOE
MECHANICS &
WORKING FOREMAN!
RIHM KENWORTH
of ALBERT LEA
Our business volume is
growing and we want
more help!
• Excellent Pay
• 401
• Medical/dental plan
• Paid vacations
• Paid holidays
• Growing location with a
79 year old company.
Does this interest you?
Are you an experienced
truck technician? Then
this is an opportunity for
you to grow with us.
507-552-1340
800-988-8235
Contact Shane Yule
www.rihmkenworth.com
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Located in the Chipawa
National Forest next to
Dora Lake in NW Itasca
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sell for $30,000 on contract
for deed or cash. For
additional info. please call
651-564-0266.
CABIN FURNISHED,
in Hayward, Wi.
Includes extra lake lot
with total of 9 acres on
north shore of Lake
Couderay. 3BD. 12
course basement. All
knotty pine. 4 stair
furnace. Same owner for
35 yrs. No realtors. Call
for info., 952-457-8905.
Business Sites/
Buildings.
EXISTING window cleaning business for sale.
Great contracts. Call Jack
at 1-866-wash now.
Lots &
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Vicki Nelson
Call today! 254-9756
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2+ACRES W/O, Nat gas,
Woods, Blacktop, Cul-desac, Well, Out bldg ok. 3
mi to Roch, Bldr choice,
Cable, Build later. Fin avl:
$59,900 507-289-3215.
Cannon Falls Single
Family Home lots adjoining
preserved acres. City S/W;
natural gas;Cable; Ready
to build. Prices
Negotiable. Phone
507-259-4966.
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Unfurnished
Apartments
Mobile Homes
SELLING your
Manufactured home?
We are BUYING used single section homes! TOP
DOLLAR paid. Contact
Ray at: 507-533-4743 or
email at:
Raymond.Reichert@
AmericanLandLease.com
Houses for Rent
CONDOS NE. 2BD. W/D,
C/A & many updates!
Deposit negotiable. Avail.
now! $525-$650/month.
507-282-3226 or 990-0985
ARE you 55 or older and
need affordable housing?
Come visit us at
Park Towers Aparments.
EHO. Call (507)285-9051.
Ask for Patti.
local
Real Estate/
Rent
GREAT location. NW
4-plex, 2BD, secure entry,
air conditioner, dish
washer, on site laundry, off
street parking & NP.
$525/month plus elect. 6
month lease required.
507-867-4364.
LG. 1 BD Plainview upstairs. Garage, N/P. $450
+ elec. Dep. & ref. required. 507-450-2684.
1 BDRM NW downtown:
coin-op W/D. $520 + elec.
(507)282-2494. www.
jlpropertymanagement.com
EFF & 1BD: Furn. Util/
Cable TV! Elevator,
Security, Off st. parking!
By Mayo. 507-288-0178.
Roommate wanted: mobile
home just North of Roch.
$300/mo.+ half of util.
NS/NP. Call 507-356-8456.
Unfurnished
Apartments
1 & 2 BD apartments in
Plainview. Rent based on
income starting at $425.
No pets. Heat, car plug in’s
& major appliances
furnished. 507-534-3969.
besslermanagement.com
SPACIOUS SW 1BD.
Large living room. Lots of
closets. Free heat and
more. $495 plus elect.
Med City Management.
507-272-9595. E.H.O.
ST MARYS Condo - Large
2 BD, garage, W/D, garbage disposal, AC. $595/
mo. Call 507-358-7014.
2BD, Heat included. Call
for details. Ask about our
move in specials.
507-529-1192.
Why Rent? $650 total payment + you own the land.
Beautiful 2002, 28X56, 3
BD, 2 BA, Planned community, Close to Mayo &
shopping. $99,500. Owner
Financing possible.
612-581-5200, Harry.
✸ CROWN ✸
✸ APARTMENTS ✸
2007 Chevy Suburban
4x4 1/2 ton LTZ package. Leather, heated
seats, sun roof, new
tires, too many options to
mention.
$27,900.
507-259-1953.
Cars for Sale
1999 Lincoln Continental,
96k, excellent condition.
Heated seats, front
wheel drive, traction control, ABS, and leather.
$4,900. 507-289-4163.
Cars for Sale
2010 Ford Escape XLT
4x4 4 door. Automatic,
air, full power, 15K miles,
factory warranty, gorgeous dark gray finish,
like new throughout. Milage
maker.
Sale
$22,900.
Tom Heffernan Ford
Lake City MN
(651) 345-5313
www.tomheffernanford.com
2003 Chevy Suburban,
4X4, Z71 package, sunroof, running boards,
heated leather seats,
new tires, $9,750 or best
offer. 507-259-1953.
1999 Chevy Tahoe 4X4
LT pkg., heated lthr, front
& rear heat & A/C, loaded
w/ options. Looks & runs
great. $3,200. CountrySide Sales, Kellogg, MN
1-800-223-3617.
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AC, WD, garage. On bus
line. $750 + util. & dep.
507-529-0753.
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Condos &
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2005 CADILLIAC STS,
320
HP,
completely
loaded, keyless entry,
heated lthr seats, 117K,
sunroof, remote start keyless entry, owned by mechanic,
$9,800.
Call
507-251-6810.
2007 Lincoln Town Car 4
door. Full power, air,
leather,
exceptional
clean throughout, Arizona beige finish, 70K
miles. Sale priced at
$18,900.
Tom Heffernan Ford
Lake City MN
(651) 345-5313
30th anniversary car, red
exterior, 6 cycle, auto,
black leather interior, viper alarm system, alpine
sound system with satellite radio, new black top
and new tires in 2008,
122k miles, exc. cond.
$6,000. Call
507-250-5101 during
days & 507-280-6223
after 5pm
1BD, 1BA, formal dining,
patio, heat, water, garbage
incl. $545. 1905 26th Ave
NW. 507-269-2594.
AUTO SPECIAL
Runs One Month in the
Post-Bulletin and online
Only $50
(includes photo)
Private party only please
For rent in Rochester
3BD condos. $695.mo
Section 8 ok.
Call 507-288-1376.
2002 Mazda Miata,
ZOOM, ZOOM, 64K,
automatic, removable
hardtop included.
$8,200. Call
507-251-9528.
Beat the high price of
gas, buy me! 2007 Toyota Camry LE 4 door.
20K miles, power moon
roof, automatic, air, gorgeous red finish, spoiler,
great gas mileage. Was
$17,900, now sale price
is $16,900.
Tom Heffernan Ford
Lake City MN
(651) 345-5313
2009 Chevy Impala LT 4
door sedan. 30K miles,
power moonroof, leather
hot
seats,
loaded,
spoiler,
great
family
sedan w/ great gas mileage! Crisp red finish.
Was $19,900, sale price
only $17,900.
Tom Heffernan Ford
Lake City MN
(651) 345-5313
2000 Mercury Mystique 4
door.
70,000
actual
miles, lady driven, 4 cylinder, great gas mileage,
ideal going to work car or
for that student, like new
throughout. Where do
you find 1 with that low
mileage?
Sale
price
$6,995.
Tom Heffernan Ford
Lake City MN
(651) 345-5313
Rooms for Rent
Wanted roommate: Mature
person. Ref. req. Private
bath & room. Rent $400/
mo. Split all other costs.
Center Street Village: 507-281-1715
or
620-632 E. Center Street, 507-990-3695 lv. msg.
(507) 285-9469. Quality
2BD apts near Mayo:
Controlled access, Balcony
/Patio, Garage rental, OffHouses for Rent
street parking, Dishwasher,
AC, W/D in every apt!
$675/mo. Application and
Lease required. Crime-free
multi-housing Shown by
3 BD country home near
appointment only.
Dover, MN & I90. Available
May 1. $900/mo.
CLEAN, 2 BD St. Charles.
507-932-4166.
$446-$499. No pets, major
appliances furnished.
Laundry, playground,
Unfurnished
off- street parking.
507-272-2385.
Apartments
Winchester
Village Green
0331618932P
507-288-1322
2004
VOLKSWAGEN
Passat,
gray,
4DR,
AUTO, 101,000 miles,
$7,300, 507-259-5149.
Furnished &
Unfurnished
1-BD & Effic.
No pets. Call to
schedule a viewing.
The Right Address for You!
EQUAL HOUSING
2005 Buick Century 4
door. Gas sipping V6,
automatic, air, outside
finish without a blemish,
looks and runs great.
Great gas mileage. Sale
price $8,995.
Tom Heffernan Ford
Lake City MN
(651) 345-5313
2004
Chrysler
PT
Cruiser. 4 cylinder, automatic, 60K miles, gorgeous jet black finish,
great gas mileage. Was
$9,995, now sale priced
at only $8,995.
Tom Heffernan Ford
Lake City MN
(651) 345-5313
M-F, 8 a.m.-12 p.m.
& 1-5 p.m.
507.289.8982
0301618885P
2008
Mercury
Milan
Premier V6 4 door. Ford
lease return, 20K miles,
leather hot seats, power
moon roof, aluminum
wheels, rear spoiler, sync
radio, gorgeous platinum
white finish, full power,
air, loaded, like new. Gas
saver. Sale priced at only
$18,900.
Tom Heffernan Ford
Lake City MN
(651) 345-5313
Beat the high gas prices,
buy me! 2007 Toyota
Camry 4 door XLE. 30K
miles, leather seating,
power moon roof, aluminum wheels, Toyota factory program car, snow
white finish, mileage
maker. Was $19,900,
now sale price is only
$18,900.
Tom Heffernan Ford
Lake City MN
(651) 345-5313
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Details
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2007 Ford Focus SES 5
door hatchback. Here’s a
station wagon and a car.
20,000
actual
miles,
automatic, a gas sipper.
Sale priced at only
$13,900.
Tom Heffernan Ford
Lake City MN
(651) 345-5313
2008 Mercury Sable premium 4 door. All wheel
drive, leather hot seats,
full power, 20K miles,
great
gas
mileage,
loaded. Was $21,900,
sale priced at a low
$20,900.
Tom Heffernan Ford
Lake City MN
(651) 345-5313
Call Us Today To Arrange Your Apartment Tour
It feels like a HOME
Free Computer Access • Free Tanning & Sauna
Outdoor Basketball Court • 24-hr. Fitness Center
1-877-465-0535
182 Grandeville Rd. SW
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1997 Lincoln Town Car
Exc. series. Burgundy,
78,000 miles,well taken
care
of.
$3000.
(507)251-8242.
•
JOLES ASPHALT PAVING
25% DISCOUNT SPRING SPECIAL
Jo knows blacktop!
No job too big or small!
Residential, Commercial, Driveways,
Parking Lots, Patching & Seal Coating!
FREE ESTIMATES ! 507-285-4985.
Construction
Construction
Bob’s Construction Inc.
“JUST CALL BOB’S”
• Windows • Siding
• Roofing • Doors
2004 Ford Escape 4 door
4x4. V6, automatic, air,
power moon roof, aluminum wheels. Clean as
new throughout, and
dark blue finish. Mileage
maker.
Sale
priced
$11,900.
Tom Heffernan Ford
Lake City MN
(651) 345-5313
4004 Highway 14 East, Rochester, MN 55904
507-288-8379
www.bobs-construction.com • License # 04842
Engine Repair
ALL CHECK SMALL ENGINE REPAIR
We service all makes! Gas & Diesel.
• Push mowers/Tractors/Riders • Trimmers •
Blowers
• Snowblowers • Tillers •Chainsaws
• Welding & Fabrication
Spring Special! Push mower tune up for $44!
507-990-8054 Mon.-Sat. 7AM-7PM
Lawn Care
Lawn Care
JOHNNY CUTS, LLC
2005
Ford
Freestyle
(Taurus X). 3rd seat, 60K
miles, full power, air, aluminum wheels, like new,
two tone silver/gray finish, soccer Mom's special. Sale priced at
$13,900.
Tom Heffernan Ford
Lake City MN
(651) 345-5313
Residential/Commercial
Minnesota limited liability
company that specializes in Lawn
Care Service & Snow Removal.
Let start a business relationship
today! Call: 763-438-5185
Roofing
Protect Your Home with a New Roof
from Ryan Windows and Siding
Lic #0008077
2008 Ford Edge SEL.
Full power, air, 40K, gorgeous toreador red finish, like new throughout,
loaded. Sale priced at
$21,900.
Tom Heffernan Ford
Lake City MN
(651) 345-5313
Call for a free estimate.
Rochester, MN
507-281-6363 • 800-367-2606
www.ryan-ws.com
Siding & Windows
In Business Since 1958
Largest Dealer in SE Minnesota
2009 Ford Flex SEL 4
door. All wheel drive, 3rd
seat, leather, hot seats,
30K miles, like new
throughout. Need a van?
See me, I have good gas
mileage! I was $28,900,
now
sale
price
at
$26,900.
Tom Heffernan Ford
Lake City MN
(651) 345-5313
Looking for a new
or used vehicle?
Check out our
classifieds
every day in print
or online at
2001 JEEP Grand
Cherokee. Limited
loaded,V8 leather,
taupe/tinted and clean.
166k miles $5300 OBO.
507-421-6385.
2003 Black Honda CRV,
all pwr, moon roof, hatch
back, excellent condition.
$7,500 will negotiate.
Call 507-951-0362.
Car Show
Calendar
Car Show
Calendar
Lic # 0001482
Ryan Windows & Siding was ranked
#1 Home Improvement
Company in Southern MN by
•Windows •Doors •Roofing •Siding •Blown
Insulation •Retractable Awnings
Call to arrange your free in-home estimate.
507-281-6363 800-367-2606
www.ryan-ws.com
email: [email protected]
Lic # 0008077
CAR SHOW
CALENDAR
2009 Mercury Grand
Marquis Ultima. Leather,
full power, 30K miles,
here’s the last of the full
size Mercs. 28 Mpg highway. Sale price only
$17,900.
Tom Heffernan Ford
Lake City MN
(651) 345-5313
6910 38th Avenue SE • Rochester, MN
(507) 288-7111 1-800-221-7111
www.larsonsidingandwindows.com
WINDOWS • DOORS • SUNROOMS
STEEL, VINYL & HARDIE BOARD
SEAMLESS GUTTERS WITH COVERS
Remodeling Magazine.
autos.postbulletin.com
2009 Ford Focus 4 door.
Factory warranty, automatic, all wheel drive, Sirus radio, PW & PL, 30K
miles, great mileage, gorgeous red finish. Sale at
$14,900.
Tom Heffernan Ford
Lake City MN
(651) 345-5313
Asphalt
Faster
Sales!
SUVs
Time For
A Change
grandevilleatcascadelake.com
email: [email protected]
2007 Dodge Caliber SUV
R/T series. All wheel
drive,
leather,
power
moon roof, 20K miles,
loaded, like new throughout. Mileage maker. Was
$17,900, now sale priced
at $15,900.
Tom Heffernan Ford
Lake City MN
(651) 345-5313
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1978 Ford ranchero:
brown & automatic.
60,000 miles. $8,500.
Call 507-269-9730.
SILVER
LAKE APTS
3908 19th Ave. NW
507-288-6559
[email protected]
1 & 2 BD Apartments
2 & 3 BD Townhomes
OPPORTUNITY
2009 Mercury Milan 4
door. 6,000 unbelievable
miles, automatic, air,
spoiler, leather seats,
aluminum wheels, gorgeous onyx black finish,
great gas mileage, Ford
warranty. Mileage maker.
Was $20,999, now sale
at $19,900.
Tom Heffernan Ford
Lake City MN
(651) 345-5313
1997 Camaro
RS convertible
Get results by using
the Post-Bulletin
Classifieds!
2 & 3BD Townhomes. PIne
Island. C/A, W/D, dish
washer, insulated garage
w/opener, patio. Starting at
$750. Call 507-356-2213.
DIRECTORY
Business
& Service
Are you listed?
CAR CLUBS
Clean Apts! Fresh paint, off
street parking. W/D in bldg,
1BD, $480-$520.
Efficiency. $330- $430.
Call 507-288-6773.
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2010 Ford Edge Limited
4 door. All wheel drive,
20K, leather hot seats,
reverse sensing system,
chrome wheels, gorgeous toreador red finish, factory warranty.
Why pay over $40,000
for new? Sale priced at
only $31,900!
Tom Heffernan Ford
Lake City MN
(651) 345-5313
Call 507-285-7777 or 1-800-562-1758
Now partnered with
findcars!
1 BD, quiet SE 4 plex w/
garage, heat & Garbage
paid. W/D on site. NS. NP.
$525. 507-254-6908.
AVAILABLE NOW: 1 &
2BD apartments in Pine
Island. Rent based on 30%
of adjusted gross income.
Includes HEAT, water, and
garbage removal.
507-356-8979. EOH
Large efficiencies, studios,
1 & 2 BD Starting at $455
Controlled Access, Heat
Included, Cats Welcome,
On site laundry
Convenient NW Location
2006 Chevy Trailblazer
LT 4 door 4x4 extended.
Full power, hot and cold
leather
seats,
power
moonroof, DVD player, 1
owner, lady driven, this
vehicle has every accessory possible, and good
gas
mileage.
Was
$17,900 now sale priced
at $15,900.
Tom Heffernan Ford
Lake City MN
(651) 345-5313
local
AUTO MARKETPLACE,
Duplex/
Twinplex
2BD in secure building.
Garage, natural gas fireplace, laundry, neutral
colors, on busline. $550 +
electric. 507-273-9524.
AVAILABLE now!
Crossroads area, 1 BD apt.
Includes heat/etc.
$500/month. Bus line & no
pets. 507-951-1729.
SW near Mayo Clinic & St.
Marys, DT, nicely decorated. 4BD 2BA, 2 car garage, rambler w/ cherry
kitchen. Hardwood floors,
fam room w/fireplace, nice
deck view. Laundry, quiet,
$1500/mo. Avail. 6/1. Call
507-254-2437.
everything auto related.
We have quality
1, 2 & 3BD Apts
with W/D
(507)288-6559.
2 BD Ground level apt. in
4-plex located at Northern
Valley Drive NE. Garage,
water, garbage included.
Free laundry lower level.
$650/mo.
Call (507)285-0388.
Avail now! 2BD in upper
level 7 plex, walk to Mayo.
Heat, water, garbage paid.
Coin-op laundry. NP. NS
$575/mo. (507)876-0121.
SUVs
2003 Chevy Tahoe LT,
blk, 4 dr, fully loaded,
sunroof, cream lthr interior, 3rd seat, bose system, 2nd owner. $9,995.
507-458-1910.
REMODELED
APARTMENTS Available! $600
mo. + electricity. Park
Place Apts. 507-281-2929.
2 + BD avail April 1. Completely remodeled, close to
Mayo & St. Mary’s, off st.
parking, coin-op W/D on
site, all util incl. NP. $750
mo. credit & background
checks req. 507-226-4957.
TODAY!
SUVs
507-271-9393
1&2 BD SE, $525-$600 +
elec, gar. 507-282-2494
www.jlpropertymanage
ment.com
NEW
HARD to read
ads
don’t work well.
Abbreviations
lead to slower
sales
and rentals.
Effic. $400, 1BD $495,
2BD $545. Path to Mayo,
Secure building, Patio,
Laundry, AC. New Mgmt.
ONE BD apart. util. paid.
$449/Month. N/P N/S.
Background Check. 1615
4th St. SE. 507-319-6173.
Apartments
to Share
SUVs
Autos
REDUCED RENT!
NO APP. FEE!
Furnished
Apartments
Bizarro / Dan Piraro
LOCAL
C8
Miscellaneous
INCREASE YOUR SALES
By Promoting YOUR BUSINESS HERE
This special directory runs
daily in our classified
section.
As a service to car enthusiasts, the Post-Bulletin will run
a daily listing of car shows and events which will be held.
Every effort will be made to publish the calendar weekly,
however if space does not permit, the calendar will be
omitted, or the latest listings willbe omitted. To submit an
event for the calendar e-mail to:
For as low as $5.89 a day
reach over 160,000
potential customers.
[email protected]
April 10th, 8 AM - 4 PM 35th Annual Swap Meet /
Car Corral at Omni Center (255 Riders Club Road) in
Onalaska, WI. Information at [email protected].
507-281-1097.
Third Monday Each Month: 7:00 p.m. - Rochester
Area Corvette Enthusiasts monthly meeting at the Elks
Lodge in Rochester. www.raceclub.info
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Miscellaneous
(Based on a 3/mo. contract2 7/16” x 1” ad size)
Call Post-Bulletin Classifieds for details
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NEW
Vans
Trucks For Sale
TODAY!
1996 GMC Jimmy 4x4.
White, leather, good condition, runs great, 158K
miles,
new
brakes,
shocks, and more. Good
tires, must see. $2,499.
507-254-4504
leave
message.
2007 Lincoln MKX 4
door. All wheel drive,
leather hot and cold
seats, 30K, power moon
roof, power lift gate,
chrome wheels. Loaded
with all the fine appointments you would expect
on a luxury motor car
with great gas mileage!
Sale priced at $28,900.
Tom Heffernan Ford
Lake City MN
(651) 345-5313
2009 Chrysler Town and
Country LX van. This has
the ‘new look’, stow ‘n’
go seats, 40K miles, metallic blue finish, very
clean!! Sale price only
$15,900.
Tom Heffernan Ford
Lake City MN
(651) 345-5313
1965 Ford Thunderbird 2
door hard top. Fully restored with peacock blue
finish. Have $13,000 of
restoration receipts, buy
this one for less than the
restoration cost and get
the car for free! Sale
$10,900.
Tom Heffernan Ford
Lake City MN
(651) 345-5313
1972 Mustang 2 door
hard top. Fresh barn find.
V8, automatic, air, rust
free, newer lime gold finish paint, exceptional
clean throughout. Sale
$10,900.
Tom Heffernan Ford
Lake City MN
(651) 345-5313
1951 PLYMOUTH
Business Coupe. 2 DR
3 speed, extra original
parts, & $12,000 or best
offer. Call after 5 PM.
507-634-4113.
1995 GMC C6500 Van
truck, 16’ enclosed box,
new lift gate, 198,851
miles, runs good. Asking
$11K-firm.
Call 507-990-1268.
HORSES for Sale.
Trail Horse Gelding. Quiet.
$1800.
12 yo Reining Gelding.
Broke. Shown. Trail ridden.
507-456-0299.
Pets
Pets
3 Month old Olde English
bulldog puppy, started on
housebreaking, white w/
one colored ear & one
speckled, good with kids,
good
distemperment.
$1000. 563-379-3982.
DESIGNER small breed
puppies. 14 weeks old, low
to no shedding, vacinations, potty training started.
$150 to $250 each, cash.
507-358-1471 Albert Lea.
GERMAN Shepherd pups;
AKC Registered,
Excellent temperaments!
US/German bloodlines,
Genetic guaranteed.
Call (715) 537-5413
www.jerland.com
PAPI-POO pups, home
raised, shots, wormed,
ready now, health
guaranteed. $250.
563-586-2102 or
563-419-2486
AKC registered lab
puppies for sale, black &
yellow. Ready to go!
For info email:
[email protected]
or 507-254-7226.
Cavachons puppies,
beautiful hair coats,
excellent w/ children, shots
& vet checked. $350.
641-797-2921.
FEMALE Tea cup puppy
for sale. Only 2.5 pounds
and 6” tall. $600. Please
call 319-240-6443.
GERMAN Shepard Purebreds for sale at Byron
Country Kennels. Both parents
on-site.
Beautiful
dogs. Call 507-250-4320.
www.mallardmarshkennels.com
2005 GMC Sierra 1500,
4wd, show cond., loaded,
heated/lthr seats, new
tires, box cover,72K, running boards, done little
work. $17,500. 507-529
-0087 or 507-884-4095.
2008 Ford F150 4x4 4
door Super Crew Lariat
series pickup. Leather
hot seats, 5.4 V8, automatic,
air,
aluminum
wheels, trailer tow package, power moon roof,
reverse camera, factory
warranty, 20,000 actual
miles. Show floor new
throughout! Why pay
$50,000 for new? Sale
priced at only $31,900.
Tom Heffernan Ford
Lake City MN
(651) 345-5313
89 Ford F150 Pick up,
4WD, new battery &
starter, good condition,
$1,000. 715-442-2749.
99 Chevy Silverado 1500
3rd door, push button
4WD. New brakes, AC &
tires in 2010. Newer
trans., some rust, high
miles,
$3,500
obo.
507-273-8800.
2007 Chevy Impala LT.
18,000 mi., 1 owner, sunroof, XM radio, On Star,
3.5 V6, 30+ mpg, 1 yr.
bumper to bumper warranty. Excellent condition. $16,800. 507-2027011 or 507-289-3059.
1997 Ford F150 Super
Cab Pick-up 4x2 with fiberglass topper. Gas
saving V6, automatic, air,
new rubber, California
truck, 120K actual miles,
$2,700 spent on rebuilt
motor, great mileage to
and from work. Sale
price $4,995.
Tom Heffernan Ford
Lake City MN
(651) 345-5313
NEW
TODAY!
2008 Ford F350 Super
Duty 4 door crew cab
4x4. Lariat series power
stroke diesel, automatic,
leather, running boards,
chrome wheels, loaded,
with hydra turn V plow
(will separate or sell plow
separate). New cost today over $62,000, listing
50% sale of a low
$31,900.
Tom Heffernan Ford
Lake City MN
(651) 345-5313
ATVs
Snowmobiles
*WANTED: Scrap cars
for recycling or repair,
CASH PAID! WILL HAUL!
(507)272-9149.
$75 - $7,500 Junkers & Repairables
MORE IF SALEABLE
Licensed MN Dealer
oronocoautoparts.com
(507) 367-4315
(800) 369-4315
2012 Arctic Cat F1100
Sno Pro $11,199 with
No Down payment,No
payments,No Interest until March 1, 2012 and 2
year Warranty plus $500
Spring Guarantee Bonus
only at:
MotoProz 507-843-2855
or www.MotoProz.com
Motorcycles
& Equipment
The more you
tell,
the surer
you’ll
sell!
•
TODAY!
2012 Arctic Cat F800
sno-pro $11,799 Check
them out at the Graham
Arena April 11th from
2:00-9:00! See at:
MotoProz for more info in
Mazeppa or
507-843-2855 or
www.MotoProz.com
Boats
2001 Custom Suzuki Savage.
Custom paint, custom
design sheet metal.
652 cc. Low miles.
Exc. condition.
$2,000 OBO.
Call 507-440-3007.
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TODAY!
AKC German Shepherd
puppies. Black, red & tan.
Two females, 8 weeks old.
Champion line, OPHA.
$400/each. 651-764-0393
or 651-764-0309.
AKC lab pups. All colors.
Dew claws. First shots.
Health guarantee.
$400-$600
. Call 507-951-1506
beaverridgelabradors.com
WE BUY Used
Appliances (within 7
years old) and
SELL Reconditioned
Appliances at:
Bob’s Appliance
1912 SW 2nd St
507-281-2239
AKC Pomeranian pups. 6
months old, 2nd shots,
cream color. 2 males, $200
each. 507-438-2816.
AKC toy poodle pups
champion sired teacup one
red female $750. One tiny
toy Apri. female $700. Two
red males $400/each. Lots
of quality. 608-865-1444.
Garage Sales
NW
AKC yellow lab pups for
sale. Excellent pedigrees,
good
hunting
dogs.
2 males ($300 each) and 1
Call The Salvation Army to
female
($350).
Born
"pick up" your saleable do1/26/11, ready to go.
nations of left over garage
651-565-4908.
sale items... 507-281-1561
AKC YORKIES: 1-Female
$350. each; 1-Male $300.
10 weeks old, 1st shots,
Estate Sales
dew claws done.
507-251-0876 or
507-251-0877.
ESTATE SALE
713 11TH ST, SW
Rochester, MN
April 2nd - 7:30 to 6 PM
April 3rd 8 AM - 3 PM
9 rooms, basement and
garage are full! Sign up
sheet to receive numbers
Saturday & Sunday.
AMERICAN Bulldog
Puppies, NKC. Registered,
1male/1female avail.
4/6/11. Vet check, one
year health guarantee.
$600. Call Julie,
507-459-9716.
Musical
Instruments
1978 Chris Craft Catalina,
28 ft., twin 283’s rebuilt in
2000. Sleeps 6, head,
dinette, v-berth, AC, great
for cruising Mississippi.
$2,000. 507-421-3931 or
507-273-2753.
2008 Yamaha YZ 85
Great shape many extras
just $1,795! See all our
new and used at:
www.MotoProz.com or
507-843-2855
NEW
There is a
NEW group
of people
EVERY day,
looking for a
DEAL in the
classifieds.
American Bulldog,
neutered, male, 5 mo.,
house broke, shots, $225.
952-200-2884...
FOR sale: Baldwin walnut
SF10 artist series 7’ grand
piano. Like new, 1 owner,
purchased in 1990. Renner
action, finest spruce sound
board. Sound sheer perfection.
$22,500.
Call
Mankato, 507-387-4220.
Electronic
Beagle/Basset Mix,
female, spade, shots,
house broke, $195.
952-200-2884...
COCKER POO puppies.
First worming and shots.
Cute and lovable. Ready
now! $175 each. Fairbault
507-333-3907 or
507-491-1034.
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EVERYTHING PRICED UNDER $
$200
1 dozen
recycled, packaged
golf balls. $5.
507-732-5186.
1 pair of large
porcelain white persian
cats. $48 for pair .
507-634-4955.
14 foot Jump King trampoline with netting on the
sides and pads on the
posts. $200. firm. Call
507-282-5717 to see.
ENTERTAINMENT/MUSIC
center never assembled.
All-steel. Walnut grain finish. 60" long, 16" deep, 30"
high. $85 purchase price,
asking $50. 507-534-2787.
Epiphone bass guitar amp.
Good for practice. Nice
clear tone. $150.
507-458-4729.
EXERCISE bike.
$50.
Please call
(507)533-7888.
OAK Entertainment
Center. Holds 27" TV.
Space below w/ doors to
hide components.
Includes oak TV swivel.
Exc. cond. $175/cash.
You haul. 507-254-8321.
Oak pedistal dining
set w/ 4 chairs &
2 leaves. $175.
507-282-5826.
One pay pen,
one baby car seat,
2 child car seats.
All for $25. 507-292-0062.
Pre hung steel
entry door w/ 9
pane window. 36 X 80.
$25. 507-567-2320.
PROM dress, floor length,
strapless, has train, purple
fuchsia in color, size 4-6 ,
Reg. $300, selling $100.
20 Budweiser stines.
FOR
Sale:
Country (507)288-6305.
All in the boxes. Many
Women magazines. 46
years. $200. Call
copies. 1987-2004. Only QUASAR 20" TV with VHS
507-269-8750.
$25. Call 507-732-5186.
player in the bottom.
$40.
3 WEEKS (approx.) of
FORMAL jacket or wrap by
Call 507-282-5717 to see.
Nutrisystem food
Glenoit. Beige. Perfect for
(including frozen). $25.
Prom. Worn twice. $35.
RARE Elton John mirror,
507-252-1098.
Fits all 651-345-3073.
Captain Fantastic and the
Brown Dirt Cowboy 1975.
55 GALLON fish aquarium FOUR ELVIS PRESLEY
Mirror is in exc. condition.
with lights and filters. Oak 45 rpm records. $39 or
13" x 13" $175. Phone
cabinet stand. Excellent best offer. Please call
507-867-1690.
shape.
$125. (507)254-0373.
(507)282-9645.
RCA Clothes dryer.
Glider
Whirlpool. In good
rocker chair,
8 piece bedroom furniture,
condition. $75.
good condition. $25.
20 years old. Armoire/
507-867-4574.
507-282-5826.
display case w/ lights.
$100. 507-202-1514.
Rochester, MN. Sterling
GOLDWING standard
spoon; “Rochester, Minn.”
windshield
taken
off
Honda
AIR purifier,
engraved. $25.
Goldwing 1500cc with vent
$30.
507-288-2387.
cut out in good condition.
Please call
$80. 507-843-5340.
ROLLER skates.
(507)289-4465.
Zinger, size 6, girls.
Harley Davidson chrome
Good condition. $15.
ANTIQUE 98 pc. 1847
Call 507-696-5345.
Rogers Brothers silverplate warp around engine guard.
dinnerware set, in box. Save your bike, save your
life.
$150.
507-259-6659.
Schuster’s
brewery, excep$175. (507)634-4955.
tional article, “Pride of
Heavy duty rock
Rochester The Schuster’s
Antique 98 pcs. 1847
box w/ drop out
Families.” 10 pages, picRoger Brothers silver plate
door.
$100.
tures
of brewery and coldinnerware set. In box.
507-282-5921.
lectibles. Mint cond. jour$175. 507-634-4955.
nal. $20. 507-288-2387.
Hot Wheels collection.
ANTIQUE cedar chest.
1999-present.
Mostly
street
SINGER sewing machine
Bought for $300 will sell for
rods, custom and muscle
cabinet. $35.
$150. Please call
cars.
$200
obo.
Please call
507-378-4284.
507-289-4627.
507)289-4465.
Automotive repair manual
HULL Art vase. 6.5Ó high.
SKECHER wheelers.
for 1982-1993 S10
Marked on bottom. U S A
Size 2, girls.
Chevy pickup. $20.
Hull
Art.
Flower
is
blue.
Good
condition. $15.
507-754-5437.
$40. 507-528-2405.
Call 507-696-5345.
BABY backpack & car seat
Ideals books 15 copies.
SQUARE Picnic Table.
blanket. Both in like
Large paper back, seaSeats 6, metal base,
new cond. 2 items
sonal, like new, only $25.
wooden table top and
for $10. Pictures avail to
Please
call
507-732-5186.
seats. $25.
email or text:
507-252-1098.
507-208-2778.
LAZYBOY lift chair.
$70.
TIRES 20 Inch: set of 4
BIKE helmet. Bike riding
Please call
Goodyear
SRA
P275/
season is coming... Helmet
(507)289-4465.
60R20 with nominal tread
never
worn.
Medium/
remaining on tires is 37000
Large. $15 purchace price,
LONGABERGER tea
miles use. 4 for $50.
asking $10. 507-534-2787.
basket #10740 with
507-281-2836.
maroon liner dated 1997.
Brass 4 panel fireplace
TORO, 21 inch self
$75. Call 507-843-5340.
screen. Great condition.
propelled lawn
Beautiful. $25.
Matching chair
mower for sale.
507-993-5582.
and ottoman. Excellent
507-545-2199.
condition. $180.
BREAD Machine
TOY Box. Child-size couch
507-676-3500.
Toastmaster with manual.
w/ teal material. Toy's are
Like new. $20.
Mayo Clinic gold pin;
stored in the area under
507-454-7365.
“Mayo Clinic 25 year and
the couch cushion. Very
argent,” society pin. $35.
sturdy. Good cond.
CANON EOS Rebel S,
507-288-2387.
$50/cash. You haul.
autofocus SLR camera.
507-254-832.
Has 35-80 mm lens and a
METAL ANIMAL shelter.
75-300mm lens with it.
4 ft. x 5 ft. $55.
Tractor tire,
Camera case. All pieces
Please call
10.00-16.
$150. Call 507-378-4284.
(507)754-5437.
$25.
507-676-3500.
CERAMICS: 6 boxes of ceMid-high motorcycle
ramics, good for church or
handle bars. Chrome
Treadmill,
other classroom. $100 firm.
mid ape hangers. $100.
Weslo Cadence
(507)213-7328.
507-259-6659.
875. $50.
507-279-4416.
CHILDREN'S Play Table.
MILWAUKEE 12 volt
33"W x 47"L x H". White
cordless drill with charger TV stand. Great shape,
frame w/large green play
and 2 batteries. $100.
black in color with shelving
area and 2 drawers to
Call 507-843-5340.
below, approximately as
store toys. Good
long as a coffee table. $40
Mint condition
condition. $175/cash.
firm. Call 507-282-5717.
couch, $40 obo.
You haul. 507-254-832.
You haul.
VINTAGE 3 piece walnut
507-649-7202.
COLOR TV. 13 inch Zenith
set. 2 end tables & a coffee
with remote.
table. Early American.
MN North Stars collector
PERFECT $20.
$125. 507-437-8111, after
sweatshirt.
1995,
Size
M,
507-454- 7365.
3:30 PM.
in black. In excellant cond.
$100. 507-867-1690.
VINTAGE Metal Milk
CROCKS: Clio sandals,
Cooler . $40.00
size 8, new with tags.
New Dunlap Touring
507-437-8111 after
$35. Please call
motorcycle tire.
3:30 PM.
(507)288-5225.
MM90-19M/C61H. Front
tire
for
Harley
or
any
other
WILSON STAFF 1200
DIECAST Cars. 4 Dale
large frame bike. $125.
Golf Clubs. Complete set
Earnhart and 4 Dale
507-259-6659.
with bag. $50.00.
Earnhart, Jr. $250 for all
Call 507-433-7669.
8 of them.
New
Washburn
electric
Call 507-378-4284.
bass guitar, sounds and
plays excellent. Comes
WOOD
DOLLS: 25 collector dolls with stand. $200.
play fort.
large selection.
507-458-4729.
$50.
$150 for all. Please call
507-272-1778.
(507)352-4783.
NOAH’S ARK book ends.
Good for boy or girl, very WOODEN highchair. Nice
cond. Can be used as a
nice.
$20. Please call
ELECTRIC cigarette
highchair with table or
(507)213-7328.
like new condition kit.
table can flip back for an
Includes battery, 5 flavor
open chair. $49.
cartridges, charger $49.
OAK dining room table w/
507-208-2778 for
Pictures avail to email or
4 oak chairs. Excellent
pictures or email.
text: 507- 208-2778.
condition. $125 obo.
ENTERTAINMENT
Center.
507-272-0016.
End table.
Oak, 63 1/2"X54 1/4"X21".
Cherry top. $40.
Oak
dining
room
Glass and wood door
Good condition.
table. Mission style.
storage. VHS storage.
507-250-4954.
$100. Good condition.
2 drawers. TV opening.
507-250-4954.
$125. 507-528-2407.
PUBLISHED EVERYDAY IN THE CLASSIFIEDS
PLAYSTATION 3
REPAIR
postbulletin.com/boocoo
SMALL Dachshunds,
parents 7-12 Ibs. AKC,
exceptional. Wormed.
Vet checked. First shots.
$350 + full written
disclosure breeder.
507-534-2856.
THRIFTY TREASURES
Aviation
Specialized in “yellow
light of death.” $50 if
fixed, no charge if unfixable. Also will buy
un-fixable units for
parts. 507-358-8202.
Pure bread black lab
puppies. Born 1/24,
family raised. Parents
good hunters. Shots and
de wormed. Ready soon.
Female $225. Male
$175. 507-798-2414.
THRIFTY
TREASURES
dogs
Pets
www.jeanneshybrids.itgo.com
Bargains,
g
by George!
For Sale:
Sears 17 cubic ft.
upright freezer. $35.
507-867-4306.
Household
Goods
other
2 candle holders and fruit
or flower dish. By Lenox,
$50. 651-345-3073.
Light oak dining room set. Round claw foot
table, four chairs, Lighted china hutch. All
excellent condition. $780 or best offer for all!
Call (507) 634-4410 for more information.
2010 Arctic Cat 90 DVX
brand new was $2599.
Now MotoProz priced at
$1995! See all at:
www.MotoProz.com or
507-843-2855.
www.mallardmarshkennels.com
cats
AKC English Bulldog puppies, born 12/4, wormed,
shots, family raised with
children. 1 M, 1 F. Call
507-523-2231 lv. msg.
LARGE solid cherry entertainment center with 42
inch HD TV. Excellent condition. $800 firm. Call
Steve @ 507-289-0764 after 5:00 p.m.
MORKIES (yorkie/maltese)
shots, vet checked, and
parents are registered and
on site. $350. Call
641-797-2921.
EXERCISE Lifestyler
cardiofit.
Like new. $75.
Call 507-696-5345.
AKC Boxer puppies avail.
to good homes 3/22. $600.
Pups come w/ full reg.
papers, tails, dewclaws
done, current vaccines,
dewormed, 1 yr health
guar. and vet exam.
507-272-3094 507-533-6146.
BED 9” thick
orthopedic pillow top
mattress & box. Still in
plastic. Cost $600, selling
for $275. 651-564-1223.
GREAT DANE PUPS AKC
registered. Shots, vet
checked. Mantles 1-male
and 1-female. Great
temperment. OFA tested.
Call 507-931-4280.
18 speed giant Yukon
mountain bike. Good
condition. New, $600.
Asking, $175.
507-250-4954.
4 Yorkie Poo puppies.
Family
raised,
very
friendly. 2 males and 2
females. Dew claws and
tails done, wormed, and
shot up to date. Parents on
site. $400. 563-419-2078.
Wanted:
Vehicles
WANTED: REPAIRABLE/
JUNK CARS, TRUCKS, &
VANS! CASH PAID!
WE HAUL! 507-251-8660.
Lg. round alfalfa grass hay
bale, lg. round barley hay
bale, stored inside. Excellent for beef cattle, horses.
Delivery avail. Mark Thoreson 507-319-1586.
Dachshund puppies, purebred,
miniature,
born
1/29/11, shots & wormed,
parents on site, $275/ea. 1
red male, 1 blk & tan female, 2 white females w/
markings. 507-250-4138.
Treasures
WANTED: Cars & pickups.
Bought outright. Arrow
Motors, 507-289-4747 or
1-800-908-4747.
2002 Ford F250 4 door
super cab 4x4 pickup.
7.3 diesel, V8, automatic,
air, captains chairs. Sale
price only $14,900.
Tom Heffernan Ford
Lake City MN
(651) 345-5313
Feeds, Seeds
& Hay
local
Lee/BuyRV/SellRV
507-367-2333
507-398-8711
2002 FORD F150 crew
cab, lariat, 4X4, heated
lthr seats, new tires/
running boards. $7,900
or best offer.
507-259-1953.
CAVATESE puppies! King
Charles Cavalier and Maltese cross. House raised
with kids & cats. Very social and make great family
pets. Small and non shed.
3 Gold and 3 Tri-color.
Shots and wormed. $250$300. 507-765-2216.
CHOCOLATE Lap pups.
Excellent hunters and family dogs. Sire is a pointing
lab. Vet work up to date,
health guarantee. $300.
507-696-3450.
Household
Goods
NEW
•
TODAY!
2005 Ford F350 4 door
super crew 4x4 King
Ranch edition pickup.
Power stroke diesel, special leather King Ranch
interior, hot seats, 1
owner, sold & serviced
by us since new. 70K
miles, new rubber, like
new throughout. New
cost today $62,000, 50%
sale
price
at
only
$29,900.
Tom Heffernan Ford
Lake City MN
(651) 345-5313
05 Harley Davidson soft
tail deluxe. 6,500 miles.
Exc. cond. Many extras.
$13,800. 507-206-3030.
Handicap mini van. 1998
Grand Voyager SE w/
fully automatic Braun
wheelchair lift. Remote
start, rear heat & air, pwr
seats, ect. Great condition.
$6,900.
Call
507-259-2290.
NEW
CASE 314’s manual pull
type plow, $500. AC 2 row
culivator fits WD or WD 45
AC, $500. Steel posts, $2
each. 507-254-2249.
2003 FORD F150 4x4
Super cab pickup: XLT,
off road package, power
moon
roof,
captain
chairs, aluminum wheels,
5.4 V-8, gorgeous jet
black finish, great gas
mileage. Was $16,900 sale $14,900.
Tom Heffernan Ford
Lake City MN
(651) 345-5313
7.3 power stoke.6
speed. Extended cab,
4 door truck, 116K
miles, 5th wheel
hitch. Texas trade.
$14,500.
2000 Ford Ranger Ext
cab. Chestnut,
SPU,
auto,
38,332
miles.
$7,500. 507-252-9709.
2008 Chrysler Town &
Country Touring Edition,
fully loaded, like new,
26K
mi.
$16,750.
507-259-8768.
‘02 Colmen Sedona
pop-up camper. Full &
queen bed. Stove,
refrigerator, and heater.
Stored inside. Excellent
cond. $3,800.
507-281-3352.
Pets
AKC Collie puppies, born
2/23/11, ready to go for
Easter! Males, $300.
Females, $400. NE Iowa.
563-569-8457.
Livestock
Trucks For Sale
Vans
2001 Chevy Venture 7
passenger van. Automatic, air, snow white finish. Sale priced at only
$6,995.
Tom Heffernan Ford
Lake City MN
(651) 345-5313
RVs
Pets
Agricultural
Farm
Machinery
2000 F350
Antique/Classic
2002 Ford Sport Track
pickup 4 door 4x4. Power
moon roof, leather, running boards, chrome bed
extender, black on black,
looks and runs like new.
Sale priced at $9,995.
Tom Heffernan Ford
Lake City MN
(651) 345-5313
2004 DODGE Caravan.
Inferno red, auto &
115,780 miles. $7,900.00.
Call 402-730-8190.
DIESEL DUALLY
2004 Mercury Mountaineer 4x4. Leather seating,
3rd seat, V8, automatic,
air, this one will pull your
boat or snowmobile. Sale
price at only $10,900.
Tom Heffernan Ford
Lake City MN
(651) 345-5313
local
2009 Harley Street Glide.
5024 miles. Pewter pearl,
ABS,
cruise,
security
system. Drivers back rest,
new Klockwerks windshield
and new Wild Pig exhaust.
Below book. Must sell,
$17,500. 507-219-1140.
2006 Ford Freestar 7
passenger SEL model
van. Quad captain chairs
done in stunning leather,
50K miles. Where do you
find a Ford van, but here.
Sale price only $13,900.
Tom Heffernan Ford
Lake City MN
(651) 345-5313
2009 Lincoln MKZ 4
door. Factory warranty,
20,000
actual
miles,
leather hot and cold
memory seats, CD, custom carriage vinyl roof,
aluminum wheels, gorgeous dark gray finish,
show floor new. Why pay
$40,000-$50,000
for
new? Sale priced at only
$21,900.
Tom Heffernan Ford
Lake City MN
(651) 345-5313
Motorcycles
& Equipment
C9
Individuals can place their FREE ads for merchandise priced under $200!
COCKER Spaniel APR
pups.
Females
$250,
Males $200. Black, red,
and buff. 507-455-0043.
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25 words) per ad. ONLY ONE (1) PRICE POINT PER AD. NO “PER PIECE” OR “PER ITEM” PRICING No businesses, firewood,
hay for sale, tickets/voucher sales, Garage Sales, Auctions, Real Estate for sale, rentals, or “Wanted to buy” ads. Other
restrictions also apply. 3 ads per household per week. PLEASE allow 3 to 4 business days for your ad(s) to appear.
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CALL 507-252-1271 or 888-755-5333
Email: classifi[email protected]
Mail to: 18 1st Ave. SE, Rochester MN, 55904
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SUVs
Pets
Real Life Adventures / Wise and Aldrich
Pets
NEW
Shih-Tzu/Maltese adorable
babies. Ready for new
homes. 10 weeks. No
shed.
Dewormed.
1st
shots. Home raised. White
& Multi-color. Males & Females avail. $150-$300.
507-765-3357.
TODAY!
REGISTERED Old English
Bulldogs. 2 famales and 1
male. Great with kids, on
the smaller side, 7 weeks
old, all shots, dew claws
and worming done. Parents on site, family raised.
Call
if
interested
507-732-4454.
YOCHO Yorkie/Bishon/
Srise. 5 mo. old, 1st shots,
vet checked, very small (3
lbs), $300 obo. includes
playpen and kennel.
507-202-5842.
Sporting Goods
STANDARD
registered
Poodle Pups. Dews, shots,
tails, champion blood lines.
$400. 507-383-4778.
TEDDY Bear pups. Toy
size, non shed, house
raised w/kids & cats. Very
social, shots & wormed.
Black, white or Brindle
colored. $250. Preston
507-765-2216.
Classified
shoppers aren’t
desperate...
just smart
consumers
that like to
save money.
Sporting Goods
MOSSBERG 935 semi
auto 12 gauge shot gun.
Aultra- full turkey barrell
plus bird barrell. SN #
AM071111.
$500.
507-533-8875.
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your products and services for those
searching for pet related needs.
20 HP tractor with 40”
2-stage snowblower, 50”
mower deck, $450. Turf
tires
with
chains.
(507)352-4783.
To advertise in the Pet Services Directory
call Heather at 507-281-7443.
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runs each Wednesday
in our Family section.
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opportunity to highlight
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Candidates make last
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With time running
out before
Tuesday’s election,
candidates
crisscrossing
the area to fire are
supporters, as
up
an
knocks on doors army of volunteers
and calls voters.
On Saturday,
Rochester Mayor
Ardell Brede and
Minneapolis Mayor
R.T. Rybak joined
DFL 1st District
Rep. Tim Walz
and others for
a getout-the-vote rally
in front of the DFL
Olmsted County
office. Speaking
a crowd of more
to
than 100 on a sunny
morning, Walz
said
UPDATE | Two men
the media pundits it’s time to defy
arrested
in connection with
are not fired up who say Democrats
Rochester robbery southeast
for this election.
Friday. A3
“There has been
S.E. MINNESOTA
a
big media storm
to try and say
aren’t enough names| There
you’re not motivated,
you are not enthusiastic,
local school ballots. on some
you don’t
B1
want to vote, you’re
said. “You know frustrated,” Walz
what?
We’ll
Tuesday how that
see
works.”
Meanwhile Walz’s
Republican
opponent, Randy
Demmer, continued
his Heartland Values
Tour, making a
stop in each of
the 1st Congressional
District’s 22 counties
in the lead-up
the election. As
of Saturday, he to Minneapolis Mayor
already made
R.T. Rybak speaks
Photos by Elizabeth
15 stops, includinghad
at a DFL rally at
Nida Obert / [email protected]
Kasson, Mankato
in
the Olmsted County
and Owatonna.
m
DFL headquarters
Demmer’s campaign
Saturday.
manager,
Jason Flohrs, said
that at every stop
Demmer emphasized
how critical it is
that supporters
turn out at the
polls.
Polls are open 7
Demmer “is always
a.m. to 8 p.m.
closing with
the message, ‘It’s
People of Hope
Looking for your
not over,’” Flohrs
Lutheran
polling place?
said. “The campaign
Church in Rochester
Use the Minnesota
so far has just
“trunk or treat” offered a
been setting up
Secretary of
event
for
the
Sunday
election
State’s poll finder
to give families
Tuesday, and we
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ballot counters.
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at Postbulletin.
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and GOP candidate
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Trust I pursuant to that certain Assignment and Assumption of Mortgage, Assignment of Leases and
Rents and Loan Documents dated as of September 16, 2010, executed by
Associated Bank, National
Association, as Seller, to
Alba Loanco Grantor Trust
I, as Purchaser, and recorded in the Office of the
Olmsted County Recorder
on October 28, 2010 as
Document No. A-1243796.
Amount Due as of
March 4, 2011:
$631,504.21(which
includes, without limitation,
principal, interest, costs,
fees, and attorneys’ fees
and costs, all of which will
continue to accrue).
Legal Description of
Property: That part of
Outlot “B” and of Lot 1,
Block 4, Plaza 41 Northwest, according to plat
thereof on file at the
County Recorder’s Office,
Olmsted County, Minnesota, described as follows:
Beginning at the northwest
corner of said Outlot “B”;
thence southerly on a Minnesota State Plane Grid
Azimuth from north of 178
degrees 13 minutes 11
seconds along the west
line of said Outlot “B” and
along the west line of said
Lot 1 a distance of 198.45
feet to the southwest corner of said Lot 1; thence
local
easterly 88 degrees 13
minutes 11 seconds azimuth along the south line
Public Notices of said Lot 1 a distance of
236.95 feet to the westerly
right of way line of State
Trunk Highway No. 52 as
defined by Minnesota Department of Transportation
Right of Way Plat No.
55-22; thence northerly
205.64 feet along said
westerly right of way line
on a nontangential curve
concave westerly having a
central angle 02 degrees
07 minutes 07 seconds, a
radius of 5561.21 feet and
a chord azimuth for 343
degrees 02 minutes 17
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said Outlot “B”; thence
westerly 268 degrees 13
minutes 11 seconds azimuth along said north line
183.11 feet to the point of
NOTICE OF SHERIFF’S
beginning. Said tract conMORTGAGE
FORECLOSURE SALE BY tains 0.96 acres more or
less, or 41,818 square feet.
PUBLIC AUCTION
Common Addresses and
Tax Parcel Identification
Name of Mortgagor:
High Pointe Properties, Numbers of Property:
The real property has a
LLC
common address of 4320
Name of Mortgagee:
West
Frontage
Road,
Alba Loano Grantor Trust I
Original Principal Amount
The
tax
parcel
identificaSecured by the Mortgage:
tion number of the real
$750,000.00
property
is
Date and Recording
Information of Mortgage: 74.16.44.053828.
Mortgage
Origination
October 17, 2005; that certain Mortgage dated as of And Servicer Information:
The mortgage
October 17, 2005, executed by High Pointe Prop- servicer is Capital Crossing
Servicing
Company,
LLC.
erties, LLC, a Minnesota
limited liability company, as Associated Bank, National
Mortgagor, to Associated Association originated the
Bank, National Associa- loan. There is no transaction, as Mortgagee, secur- tion agent. Capital Crossing the original principal ing Servicing Company,
amount of $750,000, and LLC’s address is 99 High
recorded in the Office of Street, 7th Floor, Boston,
the Olmsted County Re- MA 02110-2359. A person
corder on November 16, with knowledge of the loan
2005 as Document No. and the Mortgage can be
A-1082957 and assigned reached at 617-880-1003
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10:00 a.m. on
April 21, 2011, at 101 4th
Street SE, Rochester, MN
55904.
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Interests: Any purchase
by the Mortgagee of the
Property at the foreclosure
sale and/or the Mortgagee’s obtaining title to the
Property at the end of the
redemption period shall not
cause the lien of the Mortgage, or any other lien or
interest in favor of the
Mortgagee against or with
respect to the Property to
merge with fee title or any
other interest acquired by
the Mortgagee, or in any
manner otherwise impair
the security or priority of
such liens or the Mortgagee’s rights and remedies
under such liens and applicable law. To the contrary,
the Mortgagee intends to
reserve, and hereby expressly reserves, all of its
rights and remedies with
respect to such liens and
interests.
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Mortgagor’s
Redemption
Period shall expire 6
months after the date of
sale. THE TIME ALLOWED BY LAW FOR REDEMPTION
BY
THE
MORTGAGOR,
THE
MORTGAGOR'S
PERSONAL
REPRESENTATIVES OR ASSIGNS, MAY
BE REDUCED TO FIVE
WEEKS IF A JUDICIAL
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DETERMINING, AMONG
OTHER THINGS, THAT
THE PROPERTY ARE IMPROVED WITH A RESIDENTIAL DWELLING OF
LESS THAN FIVE UNITS,
ARE NOT PROPERTY
USED IN AGRICULTURAL
PRODUCTION, AND ARE
ABANDONED.
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preserves the right to pursue any deficiency in the
indebtedness in accordance with applicable law.
documents must be submitted in duplicate on the
forms provided by Rochester Public Utilities and must
be delivered in a sealed
envelope addressed to:
Materials Manager, Rochester Public Utilities, 4000
East River Road NE,
Rochester, MN 559062813
and shall have endorsed
thereon “Bid Opening – Directional Boring and Miscellaneous
Excavation
work – April 14, 2011,
2:00pm”.
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City of Rochester, Minnesota, for five (5) percent of
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the letting of the contract to
him/her, shall fail to enter
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Voters head
to the polls
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today as a
comes to a lengthy campaign season
close.
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for southeaste
sota voters
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governor, legislator
for Congress
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and a host
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PRESSBOX VIEW • PAUL CHRISTIAN
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Tears were flowing in the Rochester
Ice Hawks locker
room following their
4-3 overtime loss to the Granite City
Lumberjacks in the deciding Game 3
of the Bush Cup finals.
That night in Sauk Rapids, the team
lost a trophy it owned for six consecutive seasons. Yet, no matter how hard
he tried, Ice Hawks coach Nick Fatis
couldn’t force himself to be upset.
Fatis hates losing as much as the
next guy. Maybe more. But what the
Ice Hawks did that weekend was far
more important than any trophy.
The Ice Hawks, after almost two
months of struggling, became a team.
No, make that a family.
I rode along that Sunday afternoon
to watch the team as it interacted
and prepared for the biggest game of
their season. And I was on the bus to
witness the attitude after the setback.
It was a thing of beauty.
On the ice, the Ice Hawks still made
plenty of mistakes. But they played
with a fire they’d lacked since early in
the season.
When that final puck went in the
net, the Ice Hawks showed more maturity than they’ve displayed all season.
Immediately, forward Shaun
Walters raced over to the penalty box
and embraced Jake Sikkema, whose
kneeing penalty sent him to the sin
bin about a minute before Minnesota
Junior Hockey league MVP Bobby
Chayka scored the game-winner for
Granite City.
Walters was there to tell Sikkema it
wasn’t his fault. That’s amazing on so
many levels. First off, it wasn’t Sikkema’s fault. The penalty was questionable, and Sikkema simply was doing
his job, flying around the ice and
creating havoc.
This also showed how far a guy
like Walters and the rest of the team
had come in terms of developing that
“family” mentality. Walters was upset,
I’m sure of it. But he was mature
enough to realize there were more
important things on the horizon. Did
he want to lose the Bush Cup? No way.
But a national championship is far
more important than a league title,
and despite the loss, the Ice Hawks
made themselves a better team by
facing a new brand of adversity.
While Walters was taking care of
Sikkema, the rest of the team rushed
to the side of backup goalie Lawrence
Dvorak.
Dvorak was down in the dumps. But
he shouldn’t have been. Had it not
been for him, the Ice Hawks wouldn’t
have even been in the game. He
made too many remarkable stops to
mention. Dvorak came off the bench
cold when starter Cory Simons went
down due to injury, and he delivered
in the most critical situation.
In fact, it took a shot that hit the
The Rochester Ice Hawks work out at the Recreation Center for Friday’s
USA Hockey Junior A, Tier III national tournament.
At a glance
What: USA Hockey Junior A, Tier III
national tournament.
When: Starts Friday and runs
through the national championship
game, which will be at noon Tuesday.
crossbar and trickled into the goal to
finally beat Dvorak.
Dvorak’s teammates were there for
him, just like they were during the
season, when Dvorak lost his mother.
The kid didn’t deserve to face more
adversity, but he will be stronger
because of it.
Fatis realized what happened that
night in Sauk Rapids, and he couldn’t
be angry about losing the trophy.
Now, it definitely took a great
deal of time for this collection of Ice
Hawks to become a “family.” In my
five years with the program, I’ve seen
teams become a family even before
the season started. And sometimes,
they never truly become a family.
But these Ice Hawks will need that
family mantra this weekend at the
national tournament, which begins
for the Ice Hawks at 7 p.m. Friday at
the Recreation Center against one of
the country’s best teams, the Helena
Bighorns.
Helena is 60-2 this season. Let that
sink in for a second. ...
Despite the gaudy numbers, the
Ice Hawks have one big advantage:
they’re playing in their own barn. In
front of their own fans.
And hopefully, the entire city of
Rochester will join the family this
weekend. Trust me, there’s room on
the bandwagon.
And they’ll save a seat for you in the
Hawks Nest.
Ben Pherson is a Post-Bulletin sports writer.
He can be reached at bpherson@postbulletin.
com
One
thing
about
cancer
is that it
plays no favorite. Young, old,
male, female, tall, skinny,
short, black, white, yellow —
anyone — it affects us all.
And then there’s a day
when you think you might
have the upper hand and,
boom, the deadly disease
strikes again.
Pastor
Leah
McDowell
knows what
we’re talking about,
all too
well; she
has been
battling
cancer since
McDowell
late 2008.
“It’s been
an incredibly long journey,’’
she said.
McDowell, 34, is pastor
at Saint Paul’s UCC/ELCA
Church in Lewiston. She
grew up in Rushford, graduating in 1995 and did undergraduate studies at St. Olaf.
She attended seminary in
Philadelphia where she
then served for five years at
an inner-city church before
coming back to Minnesota
late in 2008.
That’s when the cancer hit.
“I had pains in my upper
leg,’’ she said, “and it continually got worse. At first, I
thought it was a pinched
nerve but finally, I had
surgery. To our surprise, the
tumor was malignant.’’
That was two years ago, in
March of 2009.
“I had six weeks of radiation and it appeared that
everything was fine,’’ she
said, “and, in fact, I was
declared cancer-free.’’
Soon after her one-year
checkup in June of 2010,
though, Pastor Leah noticed
a small lump under her right
arm, over in the chest wall.
Based on history, a red light
went up.
“It was the same type of
cancer,’’ she said, “and that
happens sometimes with
this type. We removed it last
September.’’
More radiation and
chemotherapy followed but
in January more bad news.
The tumor reappeared. She
was hospitalized due to a
low blood count and that’s
when doctors discovered
that a cancerous mass had
developed in her adrenal
gland. Surgery. More chemo.
And now comes word that
the mass has metastasized, it
is growing. Real soon, there
will another surgery and
more chemo, although not
necessarily in that order.
“As a pastor, I was called
to guide others through
tough times, and I always
had a shoulder to cry on.
“All of a sudden, the tables
are turned. It’s been a learning process,’’ she said.
The Fools Five will be
held Sunday in Lewiston,
which is a wonderful community event with all proceeds
going to cancer research.
For the past two years,
Pastor Leah had walked the
one-mile course with her
mother (Sonja Cook).
“I’m not much of a
runner,’’ she said, “but I
was planning to get in shape
and do the five-mile run this
year. My dad (Duane) had
signed us up.’’
With the relapse in
September, those plans
have changed, although
she still plans to walk the
course with her mother and
husband (Dave).
“Yes, I have cancer but
Sunday isn’t about me,’’ she
said. “There are thousands
like me; we’re all waiting for
a cure. One day at a time.’’
Pastor Leah said there is
no way she could fight her
battle alone.
“This community has been
so supportive, and they’ve
been through so much,’’ she
said. “I can’t go to a store
without someone asking how
I’m doing.
“And the Saint Paul’s
congregation has been
tremendous, a Godsend.
They are the reason I get up
on Sunday mornings.
“No way, I could do any
of this without their support
and prayers.’’
All through her life, it’s
been Pastor Leah who has
offered prayers for others.
Now it’s our turn.
Paul Christian and Craig
Swalboski of the Post-Bulletin
try to give readers a perspective
they can’t get elsewhere each
Wednesday in their “view from
the press box.’’ Christian can
be contacted at pchristian@
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HIGH SCHOOLS
All together now, time to think about spring
Some sports might be
delayed due to weather
get out there for a half an hour.
Things are progressing.”
One school that seemed most at
risk from all of this winter’s moisWhat’s happening: The high
ture, Pine Island — which was
school spring sports season may be
rocked by flooding this past fall —
By Pat Ruff
delayed in a few sports thanks to
might be among the schools with
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wet and frozen playing surfaces.
the best chance of
After a winter of record-setting
starting its spring
The
forecast:
There
is
a
chance
snow, and a cool last couple of
sports on time.
of rain and snow the next seven
weeks, the spring sports season in
The Zumbro
southeastern Minnesota figured to
days, with temperatures climbing
River crept up on
get off to a slow start.
only into the middle 40s.
the Pine Island
However, a handful of RochesterHigh School basearea athletic directors are indicatunplayable. At least as of Tuesday.
ball and softball
ing that a spring-sports schedule
fields last week.
Still,
the
tone
offered
up
by
those
that was set to begin in earnest next
But this week,
ADs is more optimistic than you
week, has a chance to do just that.
notes Panthers
might think.
Canton
That’s depending on the weather,
athletic director
“Our
coaches
and
kids
are
itching
of course.
Rick
Canton,
it’s
to get out on the fields,” Dover-Eyota
Yes, traces of snow remain on
gone.
athletic director John Ostrowski
some softball and baseball fields, as said. “They’ve been walking on the
“It flooded, but now it’s receded,”
well as golf courses. And, yes, those
Canton said. “Now we just need a
diamonds before and after school.
same fields continue to alternate
light rain to clean things up. But
It’s a day-to-day decision. Our
from soggy during the day, to frozen
I’d say that by Friday we’ll have a
coaches are telling our kids that if
at night, rendering most of them
the sun is out (today) that they might scrimmage. It’s good to go. Once we
INSIDE TODAY
At a glance
get some (temperatures in the) 50s,
and a little bit of rain, we’ll be in
good shape. We’ve had two feet of
water on our fields before, then two
or three days later we’re playing on
them.
“Generally our school is one of
the first to play (home) games. Our
fields dry in a hurry.”
Had it not been for a snowfall
last week, almost all of the Rochester-area baseball and softball
fields, and golf courses would have
been ready to go now.
But that snow was a setback.
Now, with a mix of rain and snow
predicted to fall intermittently the
next seven days, and temperatures
expected to rise no further than
the middle-40s, immediately getting
in a full schedule of games is up
for grabs.
“If we could get a couple of days
in the 50s, it wouldn’t take long at
all for our fields to be ready,” said
Lake City athletic director Doug
LOOK AHEAD | Sports
THURSDAY X
Outdoors
columnist John
Weiss looks
forward to
the Pope and
Young national
bowhunting
convention
next month in
Rochester.
FRIDAY
SATURDAY
We’ll preview
Saturday’s Final
Four, which
includes
Virginia
Commonwealth, Butler,
Kentucky and
Connecticut.
The USA Hockey Junior A,
Tier III national
tournament
begins Friday
and P-B staff
writers Ben
Pherson and
Jason Feldman
has it all
covered.
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Vaith, who like his colleagues in
the area has had baseball, softball
and golf teams practicing inside.
While the Rochester-area
athletic directors admit that the
start to this spring sports season
has been set back more than average, none of them is at wits end. At
least not yet.
They’ve all been living in Minnesota way too long for that.
“The only way you can handle
being an AD during spring sports
in Minnesota is to do the best you
can,” Kingsland athletic director
Trent Langemo said.
Added Lake City’s Vaith: “We
live in Minnesota. You just have to
roll with it.”
• The Rochester golf teams look
like they are going to be able to
move their practices to public
courses this week. Virtually all of
the Rochester courses are set to
open by the end of the week, and
some are open already.
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• There’s a video with Ice Hawks
defenseman Nick LaRue, talking about the
USA Hockey Junior A, Tier III nationals.
• In the Faceoff blog, Jason Feldman talks
about life with the John Marshall boys
hockey team without head coach Scott Lecy,
who resigned last week.
• There will be new video every day of the
USA Hockey, Junior A national tournament.
Contact Sports Editor Craig Swalboski
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TV HIGHLIGHTS
TODAY
Major League Baseball
Spring training, Minnesota at Atlanta,
11 a.m. (FSN North).
High School Boys Basketball
All-American game, East vs. West, from
Chicago, 9 p.m. (ESPN).
Pro Basketball
Chicago at Minnesota, 7 p.m. (FSN
North).
New Jersey at New York, 6:30 p.m.
(ESPN).
Pro Hockey
New York Rangers at Buffalo, 6 p.m.
(Versus).
Pro Tennis
ATP/WTA Tour, Sony Ericsson Open,
quarterfinals, noon and 6 p.m. (ESPN2).
THURSDAY
Major League Baseball
Detroit at New York Yankees, noon
(ESPN).
San Diego at St. Louis, 3 p.m. (ESPN).
San Francisco at Los Angeles Dodgers,
7 p.m. (ESPN).
Men’s College Basketball
NIT, championship, 6 p.m. (ESPN2).
Exhibition, Slam Dunk, Three-Point
Championships, from Houston, 8 p.m.
(ESPN2).
Pro Basketball
Boston at San Antonio, 7 p.m. (TNT).
Dallas at Los Angeles Lakers, 9:30 p.m.
(TNT).
Pro Golf
European PGA Tour, Trophee Hassan II,
first round, 10 a.m. (Golf Channel).
LPGA, Kraft Nabisco Championship, first
round, 11 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. (Golf
Channel).
PGA Tour, Houston Open, first round,
2 p.m. (Golf Channel).
Pro Hockey
Edmonton at Minnesota, 7 p.m. (FSN
North).
Columbus at Washington, 6 p.m. (Versus).
Pro Tennis
ATP/WTA Tour, Sony Ericsson Open,
women’s semifinals, men’s quarterfinals,
noon and 10 p.m. (ESPN2).
RADIO HIGHLIGHTS
TODAY
Pro Basketball
Chicago at Minnesota, 7 p.m. (KOLMAM 1520).
THURSDAY
(No local events scheduled).
BASKETBALL
NCAA TOURNAMENT
REGIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS
EAST REGIONAL
Sunday, March 27
Kentucky 76, North Carolina 69
SOUTHEAST REGIONAL
Saturday, March 26
Butler 74, Florida 71, OT
SOUTHWEST REGIONAL
Sunday, March 27
Virginia Commonwealth 71, Kansas 61
WEST REGIONAL
Saturday, March 26
Connecticut 65, Arizona 63
FINAL FOUR
At Reliant Stadium, Houston
National Semifinals
Saturday, April 2
Butler (27-9) vs. Virginia Commonwealth (2811), 5:09 p.m. CDT
Kentucky (29-8) vs. Connecticut (30-9), 40
minutes after first game
NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP
Monday, April 4
Semifinal winners
NIT TOURNAMENT
SEMIFINALS
at Madison Square Garden, New York
Tuesday’s games
Wichita State 75, Washington State 44
Alabama 62, Colorado 61
CHAMPIONSHIP
Thursday, March 31
Wichita State (28-8) vs. Alabama (25-11),
6 p.m.
HOCKEY
NCAA TOURNAMENT
FROZEN FOUR
SEMIFINALS
at Xcel Energy Center, St. Paul
Thursday, April 7
Notre Dame vs. Minnesota-Duluth, 4 p.m.
North Dakota vs. Michigan, 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, April 9
Championship, 6 p.m.
TRANSACTIONS
BASEBALL
COMMISSIONER’S OFFICE — Suspended
minor league players free agent P Junior
Astacio, C Erick Castillo (Cubs), free agent
RHP Tony Feliz, free agent OF Pedro Nunez
and RHP Amalio Reyes (Cubs) 50 games for
violations of the Minor League Drug Prevention
and Treatment Program.
American League
BALTIMORE ORIOLES — Optioned C Craig
Tatum and LHP Zach Britton to Norfolk (IL).
Assigned INF Brendan Harris to their minor
league camp. Placed RHP Justin Duchscherer
on the 15-day DL.
CLEVELAND INDIANS — Traded INF/OF Jayson Nix to Toronto for cash considerations.
KANSAS CITY ROYALS — Optioned RHP
Vin Mazzaro to Omaha (PCL). Assigned RHP
Louis Coleman, RHP Luis Mendoza, RHP Zach
Miner, INF Irving Falu and INF Lance Zawadzki
to their minor league camp.
SEATTLE MARINERS — Assigned LHP Cesar
Jimenez outright to Tacoma (PCL).
TAMPA BAY RAYS — Returned LHP Cesar
Cabral to Boston.
TORONTO BLUE JAYS — Selected the
contract of OF Corey Patterson from Las
Vegas (PCL). Assigned OF Eric Thames, 1B
David Cooper, RHP Winston Abreu, RHP Chad
Cordero, LHP Sean Henn, LHP Mike Hinckley,
LHP Will Ledezma and LHP Rommie Lewis to
their minor league camp. Placed LHP Jesse
Carlson on the 60-day DL.
National League
LOS ANGELES DODGERS — Agreed to
terms with RHP Chad Billingsley on a fouryear contract.
SAN DIEGO PADRES — Traded 1B Allan
Dykstra to the N.Y. Mets for RHP Eddie Kunz.
Recalled RHP Samuel Deduno from Tucson
(PCL). Placed RHP Mat Latos, LHP Joe Thatcher,
INF Kyle Blanks and INF Jarrett Hoffpauir on
the 15-day DL, retroactive to March 22.
HOCKEY
National Hockey League
COLUMBUS BLUE JACKETS — Signed G
Allen York to a two-year contract.
NEW YORK ISLANDERS — Agreed to terms
with G Al Montoya on a one-year contract
extension. Recalled D Dylan Reese and D Mark
Katic from Bridgeport (AHL).
NEW YORK RANGERS — Agreed to terms
with F Tommy Grant.
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BASEBALL
HOCKEY
Seven-day DL for concussions instituted
Associated Press
MINNEAPOLIS — A seven-day
disabled list for concussions wouldn’t
have done Aaron Hill much good when
the Toronto Blue Jays second baseman
missed the final four months of 2008
with the injury.
That didn’t stop him from saying the
move, and several other guidelines
instituted by Major League Baseball
on Tuesday, was another positive sign
the sport is doing more and more to
address concussions.
MLB and the players’ union
announced a new set of protocols that
take effect on opening day to deal with
concussions, including the creation
of the new seven-day disabled list
that should give team doctors and the
injured players more flexibility to
address head injuries.
“I think it’s good they’re paying
more attention to these things because
they’re seeing the long-term effects
concussions can have on players,” Hill
said before the Blue Jays played an
exhibition game against Baltimore.
“Not just baseball, but all sports. So,
it’s a good thing they’re looking into
it.”
It’s the latest in a series of moves by
professional sports leagues to address
an injury that doctors, players and
executives are only beginning to fully
understand. The NFL started imposing
heavy fines and threatening suspensions for hits that were deemed illegal
or dangerous last season. And NHL
officials earlier this month recommended tighter enforcement of boarding and charging penalties in an effort
to reduce concussions.
The joint statement from MLB and
the union establishes mandatory baseline testing for all players and umpires
and new steps for evaluating players
who may have suffered the injury and
for having them return to action.
The new disabled list is in addition
to the 15- and 60-day DLs that already
exist. Any player needing more than
14 days to recover will automatically
be transferred to the 15-day disabled
list.
“It really is comporting our disabled
lists with the reality of management of
concussions,” MLB senior vice president of labor Dan Halem said.
Each team will also have to designate a specialist who deals with mild
brain injuries to evaluate players and
umpires when needed and be required
send its medical reports to Dr. Gary
Green, MLB’s medical director, for
approval before the injured player is
cleared to return to the field.
“This policy, which reflects the
collective expertise of many of the
foremost authorities in the field, will
benefit players, umpires and clubs
alike, and I am proud of the spirit of
cooperation that has led us to this
result,” Commissioner Bud Selig said
in a statement.
It’s a topic that has been on base-
Rose faces DUI charge
BASKETBALL
Calhoun to decide on
future after Final Four
STORRS, Conn. — Connecticut coach
Jim Calhoun says he won’t make a decision on his future until well after the
Final Four.
The 68-year-old Hall of Famer, with
two national championships, is taking
his fourth UConn team to the national
semifinals.
He said Tuesday if
UConn wins another
title, “standing on the
podium would be a bad
time to make a decision, and quite frankly
if things don’t go well it
would be a lousy time
to make a decision.”
There were calls for
Calhoun’s job after
the Huskies failed to
Calhoun
make the tournament
in 2010 and the NCAA issued a report
that found several major recruiting
violations in the UConn program.
UConn finished this regular season
with losses in four of its last five games,
but has gone 9-0 since.
Trio declare for draft
LOS ANGELES — UCLA’s defensive stopper is a go for the NBA draft,
though there are scenarios that would
give Malcolm Lee pause before giving
up his final year of college eligibility.
As expected, the 6-foot-5 junior guard
announced Tuesday that he would
declare for the NBA draft but not hire
an agent, preserving his option to return
for his senior season.
Lee said the biggest factor in his decision was the improvement he made
from his sophomore season to this
season, when he became the Bruins’
top defender and second-leading scorer,
averaging 13.1 points while helping
them reach the third round of the NCAA
tournament.
• COLLEGE PARK, Md. — Maryland
sophomore center Jordan Williams has
filed paperwork to enter his name into
the NBA draft, though he does not plan
to hire an agent and will leave open the
option of returning to school.
Williams averaged 16.9 points and 11.8
rebounds per game for the Terrapins
this season.
Maryland coach Gary Williams says
he supports the player’s decision.
• PITTSBURGH — Pittsburgh junior
Ashton Gibbs will declare for the NBA
draft, but he will not hire an agent
during the process.
Gibbs has until April 24 to formally
apply and submit his NBA paperwork.
As long as he doesn’t hire an agent, he
would have until May 8 to withdraw his
name without losing his eligibility with
the Panthers.
Gibbs, a 6-foot-2, 190-pound guard
from Scotch Plains, N.J., has led the
Panthers in scoring the last two seasons.
He averaged 16.8 points this season, a
career high, while shooting 49 percent
from 3-point range.
Items from Associated Press and
other wire services.
•
Associated Press
Twins first baseman Justin
Morneau missed almost half of the
2010 season after suffering a concussion.
•
WEST BLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP,
Mich. — Former NBA and Fab Five
standout Jalen Rose was arrested
earlier this month on suspicion of
drunken driving.
West Bloomfield Township Police Lt.
Tim Diamond said Tuesday that Rose
was arrested around 2 a.m. March 11.
He’s accused of operating a vehicle
while impaired.
A representative for Rose didn’t
immediately return a call by The Associated Press seeking comment.
The 38-year-old Rose played 13 years
in the NBA, reaching the finals with
Indiana in 2000. He was also part of
Michigan’s famous Fab Five, which
reached the NCAA title game in 1992
and 1993. Rose was part of a recent
ESPN documentary on the Fab Five.
ball’s radar for more than two years,
Halem said.
With players such as Hill, Minnesota
Twins first baseman Justin Morneau
and New York Mets outfielder Jason
Bay missing huge chunks of games
because of concussions in the last few
seasons, baseball officials formed a
committee to examine the issue this
winter.
“The one thing you don’t want to do
is put someone in position the day after
or two days later all of a sudden by
saying, ‘Are you feeling OK?’ “ Morneau
said. “The worst thing you can do with a
concussion is rush back to play. You’re
diagnosed and you have a week and if
it clears up like most people hope it
does and they usually do, with most
people it’s short-term, that’s the bestcase scenario.”
The committee was chaired by Dr.
Alex Valadka, MLB’s consultant on
mild traumatic brain injuries and the
chief of adult neurosciences and neurosurgery at the Seton Brain and Spine
Institute in Austin, Texas. It included
Green, head athletic trainers from
the Twins, Brewers and Indians, team
doctors from the Pirates, Indians and
White Sox, and Tony Clark, the union’s
director of player relations.
Halem said that several medical
experts on the committee recommended the seven-day DL as a way to
address one of the most fundamental
challenges to evaluating players with
concussions. He said medical research
has shown that the average concussion
— not the more serious ones suffered
by Morneau, Bay and Hill, of course —
clears within five to seven days.
Committee member Rick McWane,
head athletic trainer for the Twins,
said one of the goals was to take the
onus off the player.
“You try to take as much off the
player as possible, to try to be a hero,
to try to shake it off,” McWane said.
“That’s just not acceptable.”
BASEBALL
Giambis take witness
stand in Bonds trial
FOOTBALL
Fiesta Bowl CEO fired
Billingsley extended
Phillies’ closer sidelined
PHILADELPHIA — Philadelphia
DALLAS — In the 18 months before
Dez Bryant signed with the Dallas Phillies closer Brad Lidge is expected
Cowboys, he apparently spent like a to miss three to six weeks after an MRI
exam Tuesday showed he has a strained
superstar.
right shoulder.
He bought at least seven men’s
Philadelphia general manager Ruben
watches and two more for women. He
Amaro Jr. said the reliever will not need
paid $65,500 for a diamond cross made
surgery to fix the problem, deemed a
of white gold and $60,000 for a custom posterior rotator cuff strain.
charm. And, according to a pair of Texas
Lidge will start the season on the
lawsuits, Bryant ponied up for tickets to
Cowboys and Mavericks playoff games, disabled list. The NL East champions
and to see LeBron James play. He also open at home Friday against Houston.
Phillies manager Charlie Manuel said
acquired some cash, at least $35,000.
Jose Contreras likely would begin as the
Bryant got it all through a line of team’s closer. Setup man Ryan Madson
credit set up by his adviser, the lawsuits is another option for Manuel.
say, all with the understanding that
he’d settle up once he signed his first
pro contract.
GOODYEAR, Ariz. — Infielder Jayson
But eight months after striking a deal
that included $8.5 million guaranteed Nix has been traded by the Cleveland
from the Cowboys, Bryant is facing two Indians to the Toronto Blue Jays.
claims from people who say they are
The Indians got cash in Tuesday’s
tired of waiting to get paid. A man from deal.
the Dallas-Fort Worth area, and a New
Nix was claimed by Cleveland off
York company, are seeking a total of waivers from the Chicago White Sox on
$861,350, plus interest and attorneys June 24. He hit .234 with 12 home runs
fees.
in 78 games for the Indians.
Indians Nix trade
•
•
EASTERN CONFERENCE
Atlantic Division
GP W
L OT Pts GF GA
x-Philadelphia 76 46 20 10 102 243 202
x-Pittsburgh ...77 45 24 8 98 220 188
N.Y. Rangers .76 41 30 5 87 218 181
New Jersey ....75 34 36 5 73 155 189
N.Y. Islanders 76 29 35 12 70 210 241
Northeast Division
x-Boston ........76 43 23 10 96 229 178
Montreal ........77 41 29 7 89 203 197
Buffalo ...........76 38 29 9 85 225 214
Toronto .........77 35 32 10 80 205 235
Ottawa ..........77 29 38 10 68 177 238
Southeast Division
x-Washington 77 44 22 11 99 207 185
Tampa Bay ....76 41 24 11 93 228 230
Carolina .........76 36 30 10 82 214 226
Atlanta ..........76 32 32 12 76 211 249
Florida ...........77 29 36 12 70 187 212
WESTERN CONFERENCE
Central Division
GP W
L OT Pts GF GA
Detroit ...........76 44 22 10 98 244 216
Nashville ........77 41 26 10 92 203 182
Chicago .........76 41 27 8 90 242 209
Columbus ......76 34 31 11 79 203 232
St. Louis ........76 34 32 10 78 214 222
Northwest Division
z-Vancouver ...77 51 17 9 111 250 176
Calgary ..........77 38 28 11 87 235 226
Minnesota ....76 36 32 8 80 191 215
Colorado .......75 28 39 8 64 211 267
Edmonton ......76 23 42 11 57 180 251
Pacific Division
San Jose ........76 44 23 9 97 224 199
Phoenix ..........78 42 25 11 95 221 213
Los Angeles ...76 44 26 6 94 209 181
Anaheim ........76 43 28 5 91 219 221
Dallas .............75 38 26 11 87 209 212
x-clinched playoff spot; z-clinched conference
TUESDAY’S GAMES
Carolina 3, Washington 2, SO
Columbus 3, Florida 2, SO
Minnesota 3, St. Louis 2, SO
Phoenix 2, Dallas 1, SO
Toronto 4, Buffalo 3
Philadelphia 5, Pittsburgh 2
Boston 3, Chicago 0
Montreal 3, Atlanta 1
Tampa Bay 5, Ottawa 2
Vancouver 3, Nashville 1
Los Angeles 2, Edmonton 0
TODAY’S GAMES
N.Y. Rangers at Buffalo, 6 p.m.
N.Y. Islanders at New Jersey, 6 p.m.
Montreal at Carolina, 6 p.m.
St. Louis at Detroit, 6:30 p.m.
Anaheim at Calgary, 8:30 p.m.
THURSDAY’S GAME
Toronto at Boston, 6 p.m.
N.Y. Rangers at N.Y. Islanders, 6 p.m.
Atlanta at Philadelphia, 6 p.m.
Columbus at Washington, 6 p.m.
Pittsburgh at Tampa Bay, 6:30 p.m.
Ottawa at Florida, 6:30 p.m.
Edmonton at Minnesota, 7 p.m.
Nashville at Colorado, 8 p.m.
Los Angeles at Vancouver, 9 p.m.
Dallas at San Jose, 9:30 p.m.
BASKETBALL
NBA
SAN FRANCISCO — Colorado Rockies first baseman Jason Giambi and his
brother testified Tuesday that Barry
Bonds’ personal trainer supplied them
with performance-enhancing drugs.
The two were the first athletes called
to testify at the Bonds perjury trial,
which is in its second week.
Appearing calm, Jason Giambi testified that he met trainer Greg Anderson
after the 2002 season while both were
travelling through Japan with a U.S.
all-star team.
When they returned to the states,
Anderson had Giambi’s blood tested
and it turned up positive for a steroid
that Major League Baseball was planning to test for during the 2003 season.
“Anderson told me that would trip
a Major League Baseball test and that
I should take something else,” Giambi
said.
Giambi’s brother, Jeremy Giambi,
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — The Fiesta
Bowl will be asked to justify its inclu- testified similarly.
sion in the BCS after organizers for
the Arizona game fired president and
CEO John Junker for “an apparent
scheme” to reimburse
LOS ANGELES — Pitcher Chad
employees for political Billingsley and the Los Angeles Dodgers
contributions and “an agreed Tuesday to a four-year contract
apparent conspiracy” worth about $41.3 million that adds $35
to cover it up.
million in guaranteed money over the
final three seasons.
The Fiesta Bowl
released a scathing
A first-round pick
internal report Tuesby the Dodgers in the
day.
2003 draft, Billingsley
has posted a winning
The reimbursements,
record in each of his
listed as at least $46,539,
five major league
are
an
apparent
violaJunker
seasons.
tion of state campaign
finance laws and the charter that allows
Billingsley avoided
the Fiesta Bowl its nonprofit status.
arbitration when he
The Arizona attorney general’s office is
agreed to a one-year
conducting a probe of the matter.
Billingsley
contract in January
worth $6,275,000. The
The BCS reacted swiftly, saying it
would undertake an investigation of new deal gives him salaries of $9
its own to “consider whether the Fiesta million in 2012, $11 million in 2013 and
Bowl should remain a BCS bowl game $12 million in 2014. The Dodgers have
a $14 million option for 2015.
or other appropriate sanctions.”
Cowboys WR sued
NHL
•
•
EASTERN CONFERENCE
Atlantic Division
W
L
Pct GB
y-Boston .......................51 22 .699
—
Philadelphia ..................38 36 .514 13½
New York .....................36 38 .486 15½
New Jersey ...................23 50 .315
28
Toronto ........................20 53 .274
31
Southeast Division
x-Miami ........................51 23 .689
—
x-Orlando .....................47 27 .635
4
x-Atlanta .......................42 32 .568
9
Charlotte ......................31 42 .425 19½
Washington ..................18 55 .247 32½
Central Division
y-Chicago .....................53 20 .726
—
Indiana .........................33 42 .440
21
Milwaukee ....................29 44 .397
24
Detroit ..........................26 47 .356
27
Cleveland ......................15 58 .205
38
WESTERN CONFERENCE
Southwest Division
W
L
Pct GB
x-San Antonio ..............57 17 .770
—
x-Dallas .........................52 21 .712 4½
New Orleans ................42 32 .568
15
Memphis ......................41 33 .554
16
Houston ........................39 35 .527
18
Northwest Division
x-Oklahoma City ..........49 24 .671
—
Denver ..........................44 29 .603
5
Portland ........................43 31 .581 6½
Utah .............................36 39 .480
14
Minnesota ...................17 57 .230 32½
Pacific Division
y-L.A. Lakers ................53 20 .726
—
Phoenix .........................36 37 .493
17
Golden State ................32 43 .427
22
L.A. Clippers ................29 45 .392 24½
Sacramento ..................21 52 .288
32
x-clinched playoff spot; y-clinched division
TUESDAY’S GAMES
Cleveland 102, Miami 90
Houston 112, New Jersey 87
Oklahoma City 115, Golden State 114, OT
Sacramento 116, Phoenix 113
TODAY’S GAMES
Orlando at Atlanta, 6 p.m.
Cleveland at Charlotte, 6 p.m.
Detroit at Indiana, 6 p.m.
Milwaukee at Toronto, 6 p.m.
Houston at Philadelphia, 6 p.m.
Miami at Washington, 6 p.m.
New Jersey at New York, 6:30 p.m.
Golden State at Memphis, 7 p.m.
Chicago at Minnesota, 7 p.m.
Portland at New Orleans, 7 p.m.
Sacramento at Denver, 8 p.m.
Oklahoma City at Phoenix, 9 p.m.
Dallas at L.A. Clippers, 9:30 p.m..
THURSDAY’S GAMES
Boston at San Antonio, 7 p.m.
Dallas at L.A. Lakers, 9:30 p.m.
BASEBALL
MLB SPRING TRAINING
AMERICAN LEAGUE
W
L
Kansas City .............. 20
10
Minnesota ............... 19
12
Detroit ...................... 20
14
Los Angeles .............. 18
13
Seattle ...................... 16
12
Toronto .................... 16
13
Cleveland .................. 15
14
Baltimore .................. 15
15
Tampa Bay ............... 14
14
New York ................. 13
15
Texas ........................ 13
16
Boston ...................... 13
19
Oakland .................... 12
20
Chicago .................... 11
20
NATIONAL LEAGUE
W
L
San Francisco ........... 22
12
Colorado .................. 20
11
Milwaukee ................ 19
11
Philadelphia .............. 21
13
Atlanta ..................... 17
12
Cincinnati ................. 17
14
Florida ...................... 15
14
Washington .............. 15
14
New York ................. 16
15
St. Louis ................... 14
16
San Diego ................ 13
17
Chicago .................... 14
19
Los Angeles .............. 13
21
Pittsburgh ................. 11
21
Arizona ..................... 12
25
Houston .................... 11
23
TUESDAY’S GAMES
N.Y. Mets 8, Washington 2
Toronto 7, Baltimore 4
N.Y. Yankees 2, Detroit 1
Boston 1, Tampa Bay 1, tie
Florida 4, St. Louis 2
Milwaukee 8, San Diego 7
Cincinnati 8, Cleveland 3
Kansas City 3, Chicago White Sox 2
Arizona 15, Chicago Cubs 8
Seattle 7, Colorado 2
Philadelphia 8, Pittsburgh 5
Atlanta 4, Minnesota 2, 10 innings
L.A. Angels 5, L.A. Dodgers 1
San Francisco 4, Oakland 1
•
Pct
.667
.613
.588
.581
.571
.552
.517
.500
.500
.464
.448
.406
.375
.355
Pct
.647
.645
.633
.618
.586
.548
.517
.517
.516
.467
.433
.424
.382
.344
.324
.324
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MINNESOTA ROUNDUP
NEXT 3
Blackburn sharp but Twins bullpen blows lead
The next 3 games for Minnesota teams
Associated Press
Team
ATLANTA — Nick Blackburn looked ready for the
regular season before problems in Minnesota’s bullpen
kept him from winning his
final spring start.
Blackburn shut down Atlanta’s projected opening-day
lineup during four scoreless
innings but Mauro Gomez hit
a two-run homer in the 10th
inning to give the Braves a 4-2
win over the Minnesota Twins
in an exhibition on Tuesday
night.
Gomez hit the homer off
former Atlanta left-hander
Chuck James after the Braves
scored two runs in the ninth
off Matt Capps.
Gomez entered the game
as a pinch-runner. His homer
came in his first at-bat of the
spring — and his first time
playing in front of new Braves
manager Fredi Gonzalez.
Blackburn surrendered one
hit and walked one. Helped
by two double plays, the righthander faced the minimum
12 batters.
Blackburn won his third
straight start while lowering
his spring ERA to 1.73. He
was 10-12 in 2010 with a 5.42
ERA, the worst of his three
full seasons in the Twins’
rotation.
“I feel so much better about
my mechanics right now,”
Blackburn said.
“For the most part, I was
keeping them off-balance. I
mixed in a lot of curveballs
and change-ups. That makes
my harder stuff more effective. I’m really pleased about
how my pitches were coming
out of my hand.”
An error by Twins first
baseman Chase Lambin led to
the two runs, both unearned,
off Capps, who hit a batter
and gave up three hits while
recording two outs.
“He ended up throwing a
lot more pitches because we
didn’t make a play,” Twins
manager Ron Gardenhire
Rochester Ice Hawks
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
Nick Blackburn
pitched four
scoreless
innings but
the bullpen
— called on
early because
of fears that
today’s game
would be
rained out —
surrendered
the lead and
the Twins lost
to the Braves
Tuesday in
Atlanta.
Opponent
Time (CST)
Junior Nationals (Helena)...... 7 p.m.
Junior Nationals (Walpole).... 7 p.m.
Junior Nationals (NA3HL) ..... 3 p.m.
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Sunday
Edmonton ............................. 7 p.m.
Tampa Bay ............................ 1 p.m.
at Detroit .............................. 4 p.m.
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Friday
Saturday
Chicago .............................. 7 p.m.
Miami ............................... 7 p.m.
at Memphis ...................... 7 p.m.
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Love hoping to play tonight
Associated Press
said.
The Braves and Twins are
scheduled to play again today,
but a rainy forecast prompted
Gardenhire to tweak his
pitching plans. Blackburn
threw only four innings to
give Gardenhire a chance to
use more relievers.
Blackburn said he threw 30
more pitches in the bullpen
after his four innings.
“Those guys were swinging out there so I was able to
get some pretty quick outs,”
Blackburn said.
The Twins’ 2-0 lead held
until the bottom of the ninth.
Ed Lucas had a bases-loaded
single before Capps struck out
Shawn Bowman. J.C. Boscan’s
infield hit tied the game.
Minnesota’s second reliever,
Joe Nathan, pitched a perfect
sixth inning.
NOTES: Braves C David
Ross threw out Tsuyoshi Nishioka and Alexi Casilla trying
to steal second base. ... 1B
Justin Morneau was 0-for-4 to
drop his spring batting average at .167.
MINNEAPOLIS — Kevin
Love is back practicing full-go
with the Minnesota Timberwolves and says he is ready to
return to the court against the
Chicago Bulls tonight.
Love has missed the last
three games with a strained left
groin. He says “most likely all
systems are a go” for the game
against Chicago, but wants to
see how his body responds to
Tuesday’s practice.
WILD
Losing skid ends at 8
of the Blues’ three attempts.
Minnesota, which had been
outscored 37-12 during the
ST. LOUIS — After shaking slump, also tied a franchise
off a frustrating overtime, the record with its 19th road
Minnesota Wild finally ended victory.
their free fall.
Wild 3, Blues 2 (OT)
Pierre-Marc Bouchard Minnesota .............. 1 0 1 0 — 3
scored in regulation and in St. Louis ................... 1 0 1 0 — 2
Minnesota won shootout 2-1
the shootout in a 3-2 victory
First Period — 1, Minnesota, Nystrom 4
over the St. Louis Blues Tues- (Havlat,
Stoner), 1:43. 2, St. Louis, Stewart
day night, helping the Wild 25 (Berglund, McDonald), 11:02 (pp). Penalties
—
Koivu,
Min (tripping), 6:39; Madden,
end an eight-game losing
(tripping), 7:44; Koivu, Min (hooking),
streak that had dropped them Min
10:47; Berglund, StL (interference), 13:05;
to 12th in the Western Confer- Burns, Min (boarding), 16:41; Stewart, StL
(roughing), 16:41.
ence.
Second Period — None. Penalties —
“It’s just good for the guys Cracknell,
StL (tripping), 2:27; Staubitz, Min
to get a win,” forward Eric (charging), 6:01; Stoner, Min (boarding),
16:10;
Janssen,
StL (slashing), 16:10.
Nystrom said. “It’s really hard
Third Period — 3, St. Louis, Stewart 26
on us. You leave the rink and
(Shattenkirk, Colaiacovo), 1:19. 4, Minnesota,
you want to leave the game Bouchard 10 (Stoner), 3:47. Penalties —
there, but it just dwells on D’Agostini, StL (delay of game), 19:05.
Overtime — None. Penalties — Sobotka,
you. It’s good to feel good
StL (tripping), :55.
about ourselves.”
Shootout — Minnesota 2 (Bouchard G,
The Wild outshot St. Louis Koivu G, Miettinen NG), St. Louis 1 (Stewart
8-1 in the extra period. No NG, McDonald G, D’Agostini NG).
Shots on Goal — Minnesota 9-5-6-8 — 28.
doubt frustrating at the time,
Louis 11-7-10-1 — 29.
it was forgotten after beating St.Power-play
opportunities — Minnesota 0
the Blues for the third time in of 4; St. Louis 1 of 4.
four meetings.
Goalies — Minnesota, Theodore 13-10-3
shots-27 saves). St. Louis, Halak 23Bouchard and Mikko Koivu (29
20-7 (28-26).
beat Halak the first two
A — 19,150 (19,150). T — 2:35.
rounds of the shootout while
Referees — Dean Morton, Dave Jackson.
Jose Theodore stopped two Linesmen — Mike Cvik, Shane Heyer.
The NBA’s leading
rebounder says he never
considered shutting it down
for the rest of the season.
Love is averaging 20.3 points
and 15.4 rebounds per game
this season.
Anthony Randolph filled
in wonderfully the first two
games, averaging 27.5 points
and 13 rebounds. But he had
just three points and struggled
with foul trouble against the
Celtics on Sunday.
HIGH SCHOOL BOYS BASKETBALL
Hopkins guard is Mr. Basketball
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season.
Hopkins’ Joe Coleman on
Tuesday was chosen the state’s
Mr. Basketball.
The award goes each year
to the top senior high school
player in Minnesota as determined by the Minnesota Basketball Coaches Association.
Coleman, a senior guard,
led Hopkins to its third
consecutive Class AAAA state
championship last week. He
has signed to play for the
University of Minnesota next
The other finalists were
Lucas Brown of Roseville;
Shelby Moats of Waconia;
Kyle Noreen of Minnesota
Transitions, and Jake White
of Chaska.
Coleman will be among
dozens of top seniors in the
state who will play this weekend in the MBCA All-Star
Series, which begins Friday
with games at St. Cloud State
and ends Saturday with a championship game at Macalester.
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Lesnar surprised he liked ‘Ultimate Fighter’ job
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LOS ANGELES — Brock
Lesnar needed plenty of
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to accept a job as a coach on
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The former heavyweight
champion was downright
surprised to learn he actually liked it.
Lesnar said his experience teaching welterweights
on “The Ultimate Fighter”
improved his own game as
he prepares to make another
run at the championship belt
he lost to Cain Velasquez last
fall.
“I was apprehensive at doing
the show because I was out
of my comfort zone,” Lesnar
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to get out of your comfort zone.
I learned good and bad things
about myself, and I was able to
make some changes to what I
did. I enjoyed the guys. It was
actually very painless.”
The UFC’s biggest pay-perview draw and his next opponent, Junior Dos Santos, are
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UFC President Dana White
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The Byron 5th grade boys traveling basketball team
took 2nd place in the MYAS Boys Grade State Championships-Division C, held at Buffalo High School on
March 12-13. Front: Luke Barth, Logan Snow, Nick Splinter, Talston Stangler, Ben Marolt. Back: Coach Brian
Barth, Bailey Underwood, Aaron Velander, Nick Brown,
Michael Coble, Kaden Koski, Sean LaPlante, Coach Kristin LaPlante.
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The 2010 Rochester Track Club Youth Grand Prix participants: Front Row: Sidney Lichty, Emily Peterson,
Madison Couser, Emma Giere. Back Row: Ethan Couser,
Christopher Peterson, Chad Couser, Diana Sorenson,
David Sorenson. Not Pictured: Tom Sorenson, Ben
Gathje, Henry Gathje, Nate Fitzgerald.
Baseball
Volleyball
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upcoming season. Cost is $200 per
team. Please contact Mike “Bergie” Young at 282-9065 or [email protected] if interested.
Dick’s Sporting Goods extends
an exclusive invitation to a one-day
RYBA special shopping event at
their Rochester store on Sunday,
April 3, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Visit the RYBA web site (www.rybamn.com) for more details and to
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On March 12-13, the Austin
U13 team won the 2011 Minnesota Sports Federation Girls’
State Volleyball Tournament held in
Austin. On Saturday, Austin took
second in their pool play behind
the Blooming Prairie Sundogs. On
Saturday, the team beat KassonMantorville 27-26 and 25-22 to
advance to the championship
game. In the Championship, Austin
beat the Blooming Prairie Sundogs
in three games with scores of 2522, 21-25, and 16-14.
Running
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The Rochester Track Club would
like to announce the 2011 Youth
Grand Prix Series! This opportunity
helps promote a healthy lifestyle in
youth through participation in local
area running events. The program
encourages running with an emphasis on participation. It is open
to participants 18 years old and
under. The cost is $5 and includes
a free t-shirt with registration prior
to May 28. Many YGPS races offer
entry-fee discounts for members.
A pizza party at the end of the
season celebrates participants with
awards based on participation
level. For more information, contact
Kristin Sorenson at eksorenson@
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Grand Prix Series tab.
Nine Pine Island youth wrestlers
competed March 11-13 in the
Minnesota USA State Individual
Championships. Kaleb Walter won
silver (Intermediate 103), Cade
Predmore won bronze (Intermediate 87), and Luke Williams won
bronze (Bantam 45). The MN USA
is a premier league featuring Minnesota’s best contestants. Those
who competed at the MN State
Individuals are now eligible for the
USAW Nationals April 1-3 at in the
Uni-Dome, Cedar Falls, Iowa. The
other youth wrestlers from Pine
Island are: Gavin Tilford (Bantam
55), Kaleb Carman (Intermediate
65), Dawson Fallon (Intermediate
65), Maxwel Biberdorf (Novice 80),
and Trevor Turner (Schoolboy 98).
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Cade Predmore, of Pine Island, took third place at Intermediate 87 in the Minnesota USA State Individual
Championships March 11-13, becoming eligible for the
USAW Nationals wrestling tournament April 1-3 at in
the Uni-Dome, Cedar Falls, Iowa.
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The Byron Black 7th grade girls traveling basketball
team took 2nd place in the MYAS Girls State Championships-Division C, held at Bloomington Jefferson High
School on March 5-6. Front: Lexi Barth, Jessica Marolt,
Emma Nelson, Kennedy Koski, Heidi Zamzow. Back:
Coach Eric Okstad, Coach Brian Barth, Marin Stellner,
Maddie Ford, Kayla Richardson, Alli Ihrke, Coach Jeff
Ihrke.
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The Byron 13-Black JO volleyball team took second out
of 24 teams in the Berg Lake Division Playoff Bracket
at the North Country Region 21st Annual Presidents’
Day Festival 14s Bronze Division February 19-20 at RCTC.
Front: Lexi Barth, Emma Nelson, Mitaya Johnson, Heidi
Zamzow. Back: Melissa DeCook, Michelle McNeil, Coach
Missy Barth, Kayla Richardson, Maddeson Hintz.
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Pictured are Archery Headquarters youth champions,
from the 11 a.m. Saturday group. From left: Alex
Moreno, Doug Eaton (instructor), Morgan Stock, Tim
Waters, Emma Helland, Josh Miller, Marty Stubstad (instructor), Adam Huitved, Eric Philips.
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On March 12-13, the Austin U13 team won the 2011
Minnesota Sports Federation Girls’ State Volleyball Tournament held in Austin. From left: Coach Krissy SchemSubmitted photo mel, Jordan Huntley, Erin Arjes, Payton Merritt, Jaidyn
Bastian, Kelsey Sederquest, Marissa Hart, and Coach MeThe Byron Bears were champions of the MYAS boys 7th lissa Sederquest.
grade 4A state basketball tournament. Front row: Shawn
Paradise, Alex Lanning, Nate Lillestol, Riley Truax. Back
row: James Long, Andy Pan, Andrew Sorenson, Spencer
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Rochester Mayor
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Minneapolis Mayor
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DFL 1st District
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The John Marshall Rockets 9th Grade A team took second place in the top bracket of the MYAS 9th Grade
Submitted photo State Tournament held March 12-13 in Minneapolis.
On March 6, the Rochester Squirt A Black team won
The Rockets finished the season 25-1. Front: Asst Coach
the District 9 Tournament championship game in KasTim Burkholder, Michael Ojeikhodion, Deonte Moore,
son. The Squirt A Black players: Matt Wennberg, Nolan Emerson Gonyea, Kyle Gossman, Coach Chad Fritsche.
Morrey, Sky Klingfus, Max Jones, Erick Bromberg, Zach
Back: Zach Becker, Jeylin Smith, Kyle Dahlstrom, Ngor
Angst, Taylor Stewart, Andrew Clark, Ian McBane, Zach Barnaba, Josh Milligan.
Anderson, Brady Kraling, Eli McGuire, Seth Karsell, Zach
Walston, and TJ Miller. Coaches: Josh Klingfus, Paul
Wennberg, Brad Jones, and Mike Bromberg.
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The KM 7th grade traveling boys basketball team won
the recent MYAS Grade B State Championships at
Wayzata High School in Plymouth, Minn., winning four
straight games against Edina, East Ridge, Forest Lake,
and Wayzata. Front row: Brady Borwege, Jace Wohlfiel,
Dan Rappe. Back row: Ross Wagener, Andy Plein, Jack
Peterson, Kaleb Klepel, Luke Jorgenson, Cole Kremers,
Coach Pat Fitch.
The Century 7th grade team took 3rd out of 16 teams
at the MYAS State 7AAAA basketball championship on
March 12-13. The team went 5-1 overall in the tournament, winning three games in overtime. Front row:
Christian Fiksdal, Thomas Hanson, Shawn Brown, Evan
Holmes, Bailey Hollenbeck. Back row: Addison Israelson,
John Meier, Ross Luinenburg, Elijah Anderson, Lucas
Fleissner.
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The Rochester Lourdes 7th grade girls traveling basketball team recently completed their basketball season
by winning the Austin Tournament and the Owatonna
Tournament, and by placing second in the Rochester
Tournament. Team members: Clare Buntrock, Gabby
Williams, Michaela Thompson, Makaelyn Praska, Katie
Helt, Carley Hickey, and Katie Lawler. Coaches: Scott
Helt and Lonny Hickey.
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Notre Dame and Texas A&M,
two No. 1 seeds and two No.
2s, will be in Indianapolis
on Sunday for the national
semifinals.
The double-digit seeds
don’t rule here — just the
double-digit wins. The
Huskies, Irish, the Cardinal
and the Aggies all won their
regional final games by at
least 10 points, sucking the
drama out of the most meaningful games of the season.
In one game in Indianapolis, the top-seeded Huskies
(36-1) have a third straight
national championship in
sight when they play secondseeded Notre Dame (30-7).
The Big East teams already
played three times this
season, UConn winning each
time.
In another game, No.
1-seed Stanford (33-2) makes
its fourth straight Final Four
and plays second-seeded
Texas A&M (31-5).
The winners play Tuesday
for the national championship.
The Huskies made their
fourth straight Final Four
after cruising to a 75-40 win
Tuesday night against Duke.
Maya Moore, only the second
four-time All-American,
expects to leave the Huskies
with a third straight national
title.
“One thing is the absolute truth, there’s only one
team playing right now that
knows how to win a national
championship,” UConn coach
Geno Auriemma said. “Only
a couple kids playing next
weekend know how to win a
national championship and
I’m fortunate to have them
on my team.”
In UConn’s way is a Notre
Dame team that will have the
home-state advantage, but not
much else. The Irish are 0-3
this season against their Big
East antagonist: losing 79-76
on Jan. 8; 78-57 on Feb. 19;
and 73-64 in the conference
tournament on March 8.
“You would love to be playing somebody that’s not in
your conference, but, at the
same time, there’s going to
be a Big East team playing
for the national championship next Tuesday night and
Women’s Final 4
At Conseco Fieldhouse,
Indianapolis
National Semifinals
Sunday, April 3
Stanford (33-2) vs. Texas
A&M (31-5), 6 p.m. CDT
Connecticut (36-1) vs.
Notre Dame (30-7), 8 p.m.
National Championship
Tuesday, April 5
Semifinal winners, TBA
that’s pretty cool,” Auriemma
said.
The Huskies are two victories away from winning an
eighth overall championship to match Tennessee’s
record. It would also match
the title run that the Huskies
had from 2002-04 and the one
that the Lady Vols achieved
from 1996-98.
Notre Dame was making
its first trip to the Final
Four since 2001, when Muffet
McGraw’s team won it all. In
that season, the Irish lost to
Connecticut in the Big East
tournament championship
game before beating UConn
in the national semifinals.
“I think it’s just another
example of how exceptionally strong our conference
is,” McGraw said Tuesday.
“Connecticut is a tremendous
team and, of course, we’re
both very familiar with one
another from our three games
earlier this season. It should
be another competitive and
exciting matchup and we’ll
be working hard in practice
this weekend to get ready for
Sunday night’s game in Indianapolis.”
Perhaps the Irish can take
some inspiration from the
Aggies, who proved a lengthy
losing streak against one
team isn’t fatal in the NCAA
tournament. Texas A&M lost
eight straight against Baylor,
including three this season,
before pulling off the 58-46
win on Tuesday and advance
to the first Final Four in team
history.
“We’re coming in as a twoseed, a very good two-seed
that could’ve been a oneseed. We’re coming in with
a lot of ammunition,” Texas
A&M coach Gary Blair said.
For Stanford’s Jeanette
Pohlen and Kayla Pedersen,
they’ve reached the Final
Four in every season of their
four-year careers, a run that
began by in 2008.
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HIGH SCHOOL BOYS BASKETBALL
From Rochester to Three-Peat City
Stahl is part of
Hopkins’ success
Royals dynasty
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Dale Stahl has been the
assistant varsity coach for
Hopkins boys basketball
program since 1999.
In those 16 seasons, Hopkins
has been to the state tournament eight times and won
the championship six times,
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title game win over Eden Prairie.
Stahl got
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players take it as their responsibility to work hard and get
better. I think as a group our
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areas of need in the offseason.
“And the other thing is
(head coach) Kenny (Novak)
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are good teachers. Like Kenny
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know it and another for the
kids to know it.’ And then the
kids take it to heart.”
The bottom line is a program
where success, although it is
the expectation, is not taken
for granted, he said.
Stahl has been a history
and macroeconomics teacher
at Hopkins since 1996, so his
job history has been basically
unchanged for 15 years and a
few whirlwind ones.
After graduating from St.
Olaf, the Proctor, Minn., native
was in Rochester in the early
1990s for three years while
his wife worked here. He
took courses at Winona State
to finish his teaching degree
and taught for a year at John
Adams Middle School.
When his wife was transferred to the Chicago area,
Stahl landed the head coaching
position for girls basketball at
Geneva, Ill. After three seasons
there, the family moved to the
Twin Cities, and after a year
in Chaska, Stahl arrived at
Hopkins just as the program
started the process of becoming the best in the state.
Coincidence?
Numerous Royals have
graduated from the program
and gone on the Division I
basketball, including four
from the 2009 championship
team. Kris Humphries played
there en route to the NBA.
Dan Coleman and Blake
Hoffarber (Novak’s nephew),
like Humphries, went on to
play for the Gophers.
Hopkins’ success has bothered some, who figure there
must be recruiting or at least
a lot of transfers into the
district. When Royce White —
who signed with the Gophers
but because of off-the-court
problems never played for
them — turned up there after
being dismissed from De La
Salle, that perception was
reinforced.
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The 6-foot-6 junior could be
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we should add — in the largest
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“It’s fun having Zach here
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daughter in ninth grade at
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“The teams really support
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When former Division I players and others come back
and practice with the current
team, a lot can be learned.
One of the “alumni” who
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Sweetest of all for Stahl, his
son Zach was the sixth man on
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all the kids on the (varsity)
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since junior high,” Stahl said.
“Actually White is the only
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hasn’t been in the program
from junior high on.”
About one-fourth of the
school’s entire student body is
there due to open enrollment.
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