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April 11, 2014 | Volume 34 | Number 6
State of the City: ‘Our future looks bright’ noted: • opening of Crooked Pint Ale House in the Cobblestone Lake Mayor Mary Hamann-Roland area; offered a positive outlook for Apple • completion of the first two Valley in her annual State of the phases of the Apple Valley Business City address on Wednesday. Campus, with 100 percent The mayor emphasized of the multi-tenant office business growth, transit opwarehouse leased; portunities and recognition • expansion of longtime the city has received in her Apple Valley business Wartalk at the Valleywood Golf ners’ Stellian in the Times Course clubhouse. Square Shopping Center; Hamann-Roland noted • the opening of Chick-filApple Valley’s recent des- HamannA as well as a multi-tenant ignation by CNN’s Money Roland retail building at 160th and magazine as the 17th Best Cedar Avenue; Place to Live in America, as well • honors for Apple Valley-based as the city’s triple-A credit rating Uponor North America, which was by both Standard and Poor’s and named state Manufacturer of the Moody’s Investor Services, as signs Year and completed a major expanthe city is headed in the right direc- sion; and tion. • more than $1 million in planned The opening of the bus-rapid- upgrades at GrandStay Hotel. transit Red Line on Cedar Avenue In her address, Hamann-Roland was an investment in the city’s fu- announced a new arts event that will ture, said the mayor, who empha- be coming to Apple Valley this sumsized the need for a pedestrian sky mer. The Apple Valley Arts Foundabridge, as well as a pedestrian and tion will be presenting “Shakespeare bicycle system that link to transit Under the Starsâ€? with Theatre Coup services. d’Etat starting in August. Among the progress Apple Valley has seen in the business sector Email Andrew Miller at in the past year, Hamann-Roland andrew.miller@ecm-inc.com.
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by Andrew Miller
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OPINION Invasive species fight State officials can approve provisions to help stop the spread of invasive species, but it is local residents who will help ensure that resources are protected. Page 4A
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Eighth-grader Ben Schwartz gets to tickle a surreal set of ivories in Valley Middle School’s production of “Seussical Jr.� Schwartz plays The Cat in the Hat in the musical, which will be presented at 7 p.m. Friday, April 11, and 2 p.m. Saturday, April 12, at the school located at 900 Garden View Drive. For more about “Seussical Jr.� turn to Page 6A. (Photo by Andrew Miller)
Good things growing at Pahl’s Market Cole Moldenhauer (left), farmer for the CSA program, tends to a pumpkin in the Pahl’s fields.
Family-run Apple Valley market launches Community Supported Agriculture program
After purchasing shares in the Community Supported Agriculture program at Pahl’s Market, members pick up their “share box� each week during the 20-week CSA season with food grown on farmland in Dakota and Scott counties. The program was launched this year; below are Pahl’s co-owner Gary Pahl and Pahl’s CSA farmer Cole Moldenhauer. (Photos submitted)
by Andrew Miller
Music in the Zoo returns
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The annual concert series returns with shows all summer at the Minnesota Zoo in Apple Valley. Page 19A
SPORTS Area athletes honored Area high school girls who earned the Athena Award were honored recently at a ceremony in St. Paul. Page 12A
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The route from farm field to your dining table doesn’t get much more direct than through the new Community Supported Agriculture program at Pahl’s Market in Apple Valley. By purchasing shares at the onset of the growing season, members receive fresh produce — grown at Pahl’s own farmland in Dakota and Scott counties — from mid-June through the end of October. “When you shop at the grocery store you might notice produce from all over the world, but with a CSA you can support a local farmer and your local economy,� said Pahl’s coowner Gary Pahl. Members in the CSA program pick up their
“share box� each week during the 20-week CSA season. The program offers two “share options� for members — the standard share is a half bushel ($425) and the family share offers a full bushel ($775). Heading the farming duties for the CSA program is Cole Moldenhauer, who started working at Pahl’s in 2008 when he was 15, hoeing pumpkins and working the fields. His roots in farming run deep — he started
working on his grandpa’s dairy farm as a young boy. “I am a firm believer in the farm-to-table movement, which ensures fresh homegrown foods are distributed locally,� said Moldenhauer. The CSA program at Pahl’s also offers members opportunities to visit the farm where the food is grown and take part in Harvest Event days — a snap pea picking event in June, for example, and a freezing and canning event in August.
More about the program, including sign-up information, is at www. pahls.com/csa-program. Pahl’s Market is located
at 6885 160th St. W., in Apple Valley. Email Andrew Miller at andrew.miller@ecm-inc.com.
The ultimate trickster Eagle Magic Store owner continues to amaze by Martha Lueders UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MURPHY NEWS SERVICE
Those who walk into the Eagle Magic Store in Burnsville will see a colorful display of tubes and boxes bearing Chinese writing and Egyptian hieroglyphics. In the back is an entire room filled with antique tricks, Larry Kahlow, owner of the practical joke and magic store, said. Kahlow, who is in his 60s, has owned Eagle Magic for 45 years and has managed it himself since 2008. “I have a lot of titles,� Kahlow joked. “But it’s kind of pretentious to call yourself the CEO of a oneperson store.� Regardless of what Kahlow calls himself, he is the owner of what he
said is the oldest magic store in the United States. Eagle Magic was founded by Collin Pentz and opened in 1899, Kahlow said. The store was inherited by one of Pentz’s employees. She was running the store the first time Kahlow set foot inside Eagle Magic’s doors at 8 years old. Kahlow remembers looking at the gag jokes in particular. “I probably bought a snake in a can and rubber dog doo,� Kahlow said. He had an eye operation in downtown Minneapolis not long after visiting the store. His parents bought him some more magic tricks and jokes to play with while he was recovering. Sometimes the See EAGLE, 14A
Larry Kahlow and his wife, Jennifer, own Eagle Magic Store on County Road 11 south of Highway 13 in Burnsville. (Photo submitted)
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