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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2013
BELLE PLAINE HERALD, BELLE PLAINE, MINNESOTA
Local Wedding Barn Owner Seeks After-the-Fact Permit
The cast and crew of Belle Plaine Junior-Senior High School’s production of “A Christmas Carol� includes (back row, from left) Joe Stoterau, Derek May, Gavin Dauwalter, Noah Mewes, Taylor Witt, Patrick Selly, Patrick Shaefer, Michael Chabot, Max Hughes, Schuyler Sterk, Emma Stringer, Makenzie Thomas, Taylor Cote, Ashlyn Berscheit, (middle row, from left) Catherine Littlepage, Caitlyn Schoon, Jonah Meyer, Megan Littlepage, Katelyn Schmit, Nick Johnson, Dylan O’Brien, Felicity Mecredy, Aiden Winterfeldt, Jake Hart-
mann, Mikhayla Clausen, Hannah Burmeister, Jennifer He, Alec Lorenz, Kali Gorman, Ben Wagner, Lauren Murphy, Rachel Fahey Allison Jacobson, Allison Burmeister, (front row, from left) Avery Czarnecki , Gabby Malecha, Noelle Czarnecki, Tyson Fahey, Jamie Piampiano, Neil Bigaouette, Collin Schultz, Michael Davis, Hunter Meyer, Chastity Swenson, Griffin Rudd, Jacob Winters, Maddy Horvorka, Cassidy Burkeman. (Not pictured) Vanessa Anderson.
Belle Plaine High School Presents Holiday Classic, ‘A Christmas Carol,’ Next Week Ebenezer Scrooge, a miserly old man, sits in his office counting his money with his clerk, Bob Cratchit. Mr. Cratchit is the father of a family of six, one of whom is Tiny Tim, an ailing young child with high spirits. Mr. Scrooge, who despises holiday cheer, greets all who wish him a ‘Merry Christmas’ with an irritated ‘Bah Humbug!’ On Christmas Eve, his deceased business partner, Jacob Marley, visits Scrooge. Draped in chains. He warns Scrooge that he too will meet the same fate if he doesn’t change his ways. Scrooge in desperation of hope, is given a chance when Marley informs him he will be
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ing classic comes to life in Belle Plaine’s Performing Arts Center. “A Christmas Carol,� based on the novel by Charles Dickens, will be performed on Friday, Nov. 22, 7 p.m.; Saturday, Nov. 23 at 1 and 7 p.m.,; and Sunday, Nov. 24, 2 p.m. Around 50 students are working to bring Christmas cheer to Belle Plaine a month early. Tickets are on sale at the Belle Plaine School District Office on South Willow Street. Tickets go on sale Today (Nov. 13) at the District Office on Willow Street. There will be no reserved seating, only reserved tickets.
B.P. Area Food Shelf Hosting Annual Fund-raiser Nov. 16 The Belle Plaine Area Food Shelf is hosting its annual fundraiser Saturday, Nov. 16 at Valley View Golf Course. The benefit begins with a social hour at 5:30 p.m. followed by a buffet-style dinner at 6:30 p.m. Entertainment, the raffles and auctions will follow dinner. The event includes raffles for $500 cash, $150 cash, a golf package and many other prizes.
Tickets for the event and the raffles are available at State Bank of Belle Plaine (201 Main Street W.), CornerStone State Bank (406 Commerce Drive E.), Coborn’s Superstore (1010 Enterprise Drive E.) or from Betsy and Pat Ollhoff (8736142). All net proceeds of the event will go to the Belle Plaine Food Shelf. Thrivent Financial will provide supplemental funding.
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Side doors (off of parking lot) open at 6:15 p.m. for advanced ticket holders. Front doors open at 6:30 p.m. for general admission (any unsold tickets). At 6:45 p.m., ushers will fill in all unfilled seats with general admission. At 7 p.m., ushers will close the doors to the PAC and there will be no entrance after doors close. Please do not save seats for large groups of people. Call 873-2400 for more information.
After a lengthy discussion, a township recommendation was completed, approved and signed for Heimerl to continue to operate her business during and after the process of working with Scott County to obtain a permit on the condition that parking is on-site only and the right-of-way is clear of all garbage. County staff is recommending approval of the conditional use permit subject to a number of conditions, including maximum people (150) and that the barn remain structurally sound and maintained, etc. The conditional use permit will be annually reviewed by the township to ensure all conditions are being met. “Based on the project information submitted by the applicant and subject to the conditions of approval, the proposed conditional use permit conforms to the zoning ordinance,â€? reports county staff. According to the Rubies and Rust website, the barn has two levÂels. The ground floor can seat approximately 60 peoÂple and includes a wide aisle and space on both sides for guests to assemÂble. The upper level is large and vaulted, with a small stage and room for dancÂing for up to 120 guests.
The Belle Plaine City-Township Joint Planning Board will meet today (Wednesday) at 5 p.m. to discuss Cindy Heimerl’s request for an after-thefact conditional use permit to continue operating her wedding barn business, Rubies and Rust, at 23961 Kittson Boulevard in Belle Plaine Township. Belle Plaine Community Development Director Chelsea Alger explained that the business is within the city of Belle Plaine’s orderly annexation agreement area, resulting in the city’s need to be made aware of the issue. Scott County staff did not become aware of Rubies and Rust until this past spring through a complaint. Heimerl explained that she was unaware of the zoning requirements to run this type of business, and stated that she had 24 weddings booked for the 2013 season. The primary concerns of the township and county were parking and possible weddingrelated debris ending up in the right-of-ways. In working with various county departments, Rubies and Rust was permitted to host the weddings provided a large assembly permit was applied for and issued for each one of the events.
Egg Company With Local Tie in Final Four of Contest for Free Super Bowl Commercial It was a big Veterans Day for one Duluth-area vet and his family. The twice laid-off Army veteran who started a farm business with his wife got some big news on Monday. Locally Laid Egg Company, Minnesota’s only commercialscale pasture-raised egg business, has advanced to the Final Four in Intuit’s Small Business Big Game contest. If selected as the winner by popular voting, the company will receive a television commercial during football’s biggest game, the Super Bowl, on Feb. 2. Intuit, makers of QuickBooks, had well over 15,000 business entrants in the contest and after several rounds, whittled it down to four, including Locally Laid Egg Company, located in the Duluth region. “We are blown away,� said Jason Amundsen, co-owner of the company and son of Belle Plaine High School graduate Jean McCue. “Literally, everything we have as a family is invested in this farm. To have that vision of an environmentally focused kind of agriculture lifted up to this national level is just wild.� The Amundsen family found out they were in the Final Four when a limo arrived at their farm last week with several Intuit employees and Bill Rancic, television host and winner of the first season of Donald Trump’s reality show, “The Apprentice.� “It was wet, cold and muddy out on the pasture and our surprise guests could not have been more gracious,� said Lucie Amundsen, co-owner of Locally Laid. “They came into the paddocks, picked up chickens and asked great
Dollars for Scholars Big Fund-Raiser Upcoming
Belle Plaine Dollars for Scholars recently sent a group to the National Scholarship America Conference held at Normandale Community College. Sue Halloran, Teri Kiewatt, Tiffany Stier, Michelle Bahr and Lisa Bahr went as representatives for the Belle Plaine chapter of Dollars for Scholars. They were entered in a drawing and won a $500 scholarship for the Belle Plaine Chapter from Scholarship America. On Saturday, Nov. 23, the fund-raising will continue with the Belle Plaine Dollars for Scholars Wine & Beer Tasting and Silent Auction. This event will be held locally at Valley View Golf Course. Doors open at 7 p.m. Tickets can be purchased in advance for $20 at Coborn’s, State Bank of Belle Plaine, Cornerstone State Bank and Belle Plaine High School. Tickets at the door will cost $25. Please mark your calendars and plan on attending this great community event.
questions about the way we farm. I’m pretty sure some of them had to throw out their shoes after.� Tens of thousands of companies entered the contest that began in August. 15,000 advanced to the contest’s second round, which required four essays and an introduction video, which can be found at (https://www.smallbusinessbiggame.com/MN/LocallyLaid-Egg-Company/382873). The third round, voted on by thousands of Intuit employees, brought forward only 20 small businesses and now the Final Four – Goldie Blox, CA; Barley Labs, NC; Dairy Poop, ID and Locally Laid Egg Company, MN. This final round will be determined by public Internet voting,
which started Monday and continues to Dec 1, when the winner of the Big Game ad will be announced. For more information about the contest and to vote, visit www.smallbusinessbiggame.com. To learn more about Locally Laid, visit www.locallylaid.com. About Locally Laid Locally Laid is a family-run farm in Wrenshall, located just outside of Duluth. LoLa is the acronym for Locally Laid and also the name of each of the 2,500 chickens on pasture at the farm. The company believes in getting people real food, while treating livestock and the planet well in the process. Locally Laid eggs are available at select grocery stores in Minnesota’s Northland, the Twin Cities and western Wisconsin, as well as multiple restaurants in the Duluth and Twin Cities areas. The company partners with a farm in Iowa that produces Locally Laid eggs to its pasture-raised standards, and is announcing a new Midwest farm in mid-November. Locally Laid also has a line of chicken feed for backyard hens called LoLa’s Layer Mix.
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