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School board election set for November 5 Collier, Barbara Jahnke, Juanita Reed-Boniface, David Roberts, Marsha Van Denburgh and Malcolm T. Vinger II. Running for a two-year term are Betsy Roed and Scott Schwarz. A Meet the Candidates forum was held October 22, visit www.isd15.org to view the video of the event. In this issue read the candidate profiles submitted by Education Minnesota St. Francis Local 1977 beginning on page 27.
Ann Johnson ISD 15 Election Official
a division of Independent School District 15 Community Education | St. Francis, Minnesota
November 2013 | Volume 21, Issue 4
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An election for members to the Independent School District 15 (ISD 15) School Board will be held Tuesday, November 5, 2013. Candidates running for a four-year term are Shannon
Voting locations
The polls for the school district election will open at 7:00 a.m. and will close at 8:00 p.m. on Tuesday, November 5, 2013. A voter must be registered to vote to be eligible to vote in this election. An unregistered individual may register to vote at the polling place on election day. The combined polling places for this election and the precincts served by those polling places will be as follows: Precinct 1 ISD 15 Central Services Center 4115 Ambassador Blvd. NW St. Francis Precinct 1 encompasses all territory in ISD 15 located in the City of Bethel, the City of St. Francis and City of Nowthen, Anoka County, Minnesota and Stanford Township, Athens Township and Spencerbrook Township, Third grade students in Candi Blosberg and Karen Holsten’s St. Francis Elementary School classes enjoyed an integrated thematic unit on bridges. Students began the unit by reading a historical fiction selection from their reading curriculum, Pop’s Bridge, about two young boys who follow the construction of the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco in the early 1930s. The teachers guided their classes through an internet study of various types of bridges. Students, such as Faith, Cheyenne and Lily (above), integrated science into their study by observing and analyzing the structures of the bridges. As a culminating activity, Blosberg and Holsten took their classes on a field trip to view the Bridge Street bridge in St. Francis. Students used math to measure the distance across the bridge, technology to photograph the bridge using iPads and writing to record their observations. Read student essays on the bridge on page 7. Submitted Photo
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Register to vote
Before you can vote, you must register. In Minnesota, you may register on election day at your polling place with appropriate identification showing residency in the precinct. For more information, contact the Minnesota Secretary of State’s office at 651-296-2803 or go online to www.sos.state.mn.us. You may also call the Anoka County Elections office at 763-323-5275 for voting information and for absentee ballot information. Your registration remains current until you move, change your name or do not vote for four consecutive years. You may update your registration information by completing another voter registration application.
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November What’s Inside Schools in Action..........................................2 School Board Highlights.........................12 Community Education............................14 Community & Business...........................17 School Board Candidate Profiles..........27 Sports & Outdoors....................................35 Life..................................................................37 Classified.......................................................40