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Heroin: Cheap and on the rise Cases have quadrupled since 2009

BY SHANNON FIECKE sfiecke@swpub.com

As 27-year-old Matthew Cooley stood before him, jittery while claiming he was no longer hooked on hero-

in, Judge Rex Stacey wasn’t buying it.

Cooley, who tested positive for opiates during a random drug analysis on his visit home from work on the North Dakota oil fields, told the judge he obtained a prescription for oxyco-

done due to pain.

Stacey was flabbergasted that a Minneapolis doctor provided drugs to a “heroin addict� and refused to let Cooley go, accusing him of doctor shopping. “I’m not going to let you hurt yourself if I can do something about it,�

Stacey said. “You look terrible. In my

33 years [as an attorney and judge], I’ve met a lot of junkies and you fit it to a tee.� “I just don’t understand,� Cooley objected, claiming he was no longer using and had quit prior to his original May 25 arrest.

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DISTRICT 191

Tearful tribute

Residents demand answers

BY MERYN FLUKER mfluker@swpub.com

Current and former Prior Lake High School students, joined by staff members and family members, gathered outside the high school immediately following sixth period on Feb. 24 to pay tribute to Lauren Peterson.

The 18 -year- old Prior Lake resident and member of the high school’s class of 2011 died Feb. 20 in a car accident on her way back to Fargo where she was a freshman at North Dakota State University. She was traveling with fellow NDSU students 19-year-old Jordan Playle of Elk River, 18-yearold Megan Sample of Rogers and 18-year-old Danielle Renninger of Excelsior, who also died in the accident, which occurred west of Alexandria, Minn. on Interstate Highway 94.

For more photos from the vigil or to read about Peterson’s life, visit www.savagepacer.com and search “Lauren Peterson.�

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BY ALEX HALL ahall@swpub.com

PHOTO BY MERYN FLUKER

Paulina Son of Prior Lake, second from left, graduated with Peterson from the high school, where they were both cheerleaders and members of the 2010 homecoming court. Son briefly spoke at the beginning of the almost 40-minute vigil, at one point remarking that “Lauren would be laughing at all of us crying.�

More than 200 parents and taxpayers from the Burnsville-EaganSavage School District packed the Diamondhead Education Center in Burnsville Thursday night to express their outrage with the School Board over the buyout of former HR Director Tania Chance.

The Board passed a separation agreement with Chance on Jan. 19 that gave her a lump sum of nearly $255,000 in exchange for the full

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No Child Left Behind waiver allows ‘greater flexibility’

BY MERYN FLUKER mfluker@swpub.com

Minnesota is leaving behind No Child Left Behind (NCLB).

On Feb. 9, news broke that the U.S. Department of Education had granted the Minnesota Department of Education’s (MDE) waiver for the program, which mandates and monitors student academic proficiency with a goal of all students performing at or above grade level in reading and math by 2014.

Ten other states have been granted the waiver, and by the U.S. Department of Education’s Wednesday deadline, 26 more states applied for the waiver.

The waiver removes that expectation, as well as designations of “in need of improvement, corrective action and restructuring� for schools and districts that receive Title I funds and miss Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) benchmarks. Also disappearing under the waiver is the mandate that districts set aside dollars for school choice and supplemental edu-

cational services. “I believe that the Minnesota waiver will allow for much more flexibility for our students, schools and state in the coming two years,� said Prior Lake-Savage Area School District Superintendent Sue Ann Gruver. “It is my hope that the greater flexibility offered by the waiver will allow District 719 students to demonstrate their knowledge of the state standards.�

Burnsville-Eagan-Savage School District Superintendent Randy Clegg expressed similar optimism that the flexibility will benefit students, but also noted that school districts are still dealing with a great deal of uncertainty in relation to the waiver and federal education policy. “We realize that (federal education policy) probably will shift again as soon as Congress figures out how they’re going to reauthorize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act,� said Clegg.

District 719 does receive Title I funds and did not make AYP last year, but is not facing consequences

and is not on a needs-improvement list. District 191 also receives Title I funds and hasn’t made AYP for eight straight years, and only two schools in the District made AYP last year.

Hidden Valley Elementary in Savage, which hasn’t made AYP since the 2006-2007 school year, has had to implement the School Choice option and has been forced to offer supplemental services to low-income students — two consequences brought on by the No Child Left Behind Act. The waiver isn’t expected to affect the amount of Title I dollars districts are receiving, at least this year. “The waiver allows for some flexibility, but the dollar amounts we don’t anticipate changing next fiscal year,� District 191 Business Services Director Lisa Rider told School Board members at its Feb. 16 meeting.

MEASURING GROWTH Students will continue to take the Minnesota Comprehensive Assessments (MCAs) but in addition to AYP will be the Multiple Measurements Rating (MMR), a score given to each

state school based on performance in proficiency, individual student growth, achievement gap reduction and graduation rates.

One major difference between NCLB and the state’s new accountability system is that students can take the MCAs up to three times, and the best score will be used in the formula to determine the MMR. Teachers will be able to get the test results quickly — unlike in the past, when MCAs were given in the spring and the results weren’t released until summer, after the school year was over.

Jeff Holmberg, District 719’s director of Curriculum, Instruction and Assessment, said the new system will allow teachers to interpret students’ performance, modify instruction and then assess progress — instead of taking “one test on a day of a student’s life.� “We get the results immediately so the teacher can see this is what the student needs instruction on or improvement in,� he said. “It’s a much more user friendly and appropriate

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Delonna Darsow, director of assessment for District 191, agreed with Holmberg, saying that in theory, the new model will “more accurately reflect the true work of our teachers and our students.�

However, like Clegg, Darsow said the new system comes with plenty of uncertainty. “There’s a lot that’s yet to be determined, that even the Minnesota Department of Education hasn’t wrapped their head around, such as the MMR measure,� said Darsow.

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County will now New House districts in Scott County redraw its lines 55A

BY SHANNON FIECKE sfiecke@swpub.com

After a 14-year run, state Rep. Mark Buesgens, R-Savage, has decided it’s time to wrap it up.

His announcement not to seek re-election came two days after redistricting split his new home of Savage from his hometown of Jordan, but Buesgens said his decision is not due to redistricting.

“It’s time for new blood and thoughts, and for me and family to seek new adventures,” Buesgens said.

This means an open seat and likely hotly contested GOP endorsement battle for the rightleaning new House District 55B, which includes southern chunks of Shakopee, along with Prior Lake, the city of Jordan and the townships from St. Lawrence east to Credit River.

State Rep. Michael Beard, R-Shakopee, and Sen. Claire Robling, R-Jordan, also announced late last week their intentions to seek re-election, ending weeks of speculation.

Beard, who would be seeking a sixth term, will likely face former Shakopee School Board member Chuck Berg, the only DFLer to announce for the new House district that contains only Shakopee plus its two closest townships.

It’s unclear yet if Robling — who maintained good swaths of her old Senate district — will have the same smooth sailing she enjoyed in 2006, when no one filed against her. However, her chances for re-election are high, given her nearly 70 percent win in 2010.

Given the stresses of last year’s session, Robling had given serious thought as to whether she should run again, but decided to seek a sixth term because of her experience and new role as assistant majority leader.

“I really believe in that position I’m in an even better position to represent my constituency,” she said. “I would not want to give that up right now.

And I love my district.”

Her deliberations would have been much more difficult had she lost more of her base district and been forced to consider relocation. Her husband, a farmer, is happy to stay.

Shakopee loses Savage and Elko New Market from its Senate district, but continues to be combined with Jordan and Prior Lake.

Robling, who lives in a rural area between Prior Lake and Jordan, was pleased to retain three cities from her current district, places she also once covered as a Savage Pacer reporter and editor. She added townships she previously had under a previous Senate district.

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Robling, who won every precinct in the 2010 election, is considered a safe bet for reelection. No DFL candidate has announced a run against her.

Prior Lake online college student, Josh Ondich, who ran in the 2010 DFL primary for state House, now says he will seek the Independence Party’s endorsement for state Senate.

The mid-section of Scott County that is paired with Shakopee in its Senate district will have a new state representative, given that Buesgens opted not to move back to his hometown of Jordan.

Buesgens — who could have been stuck in an endorsement battle with state Rep. Pam Myhra of Burnsville and Savage City Councilor Lee Bernick should he have run his new district — noted that 80 percent of his current district’s population is in the House District 56A. (Savage now shares a House district with a quarter of Burnsville) “It isn’t about pairing,” Buesgens said of his decision, noting he could have easily moved back to Jordan.

Watch for a major contest between Tony Albright, an investment adviser from Spring Lake Township, and Prior LakeSavage School Board member Eric Pratt, the only two Republicans to announce. DFLer Brent Lawrence, a Credit River Township supervisor, is seeking his party’s endorsement.

Pratt, who previously only said he would run for state Legislature, decided to seek the House seat following Robling’s announcement Thursday last week that she will seek reelection.

SOUTHERN COUNTY Southern Scott County will gain a new state senator, but could retain Kelby Woodard of Belle Plaine as a state representative.

Sen. Al DeKruif of Madison Lake, who now represents this section minus the Elko New Market area, has been shoved into a different Senate district, where he is pitted against fellow Republican Julie Rosen of Fairmont.

With DeKruif out of the picture, former Sen. Kevin Dahle, a Northfield DFLer who repre-

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sented a swath of sout her n Scott County for one term, has announced he’ll try to win the seat in Senate District 20, which includes parts of Le Sueur and Rice Michael counties.

Beard T he sout hern Scott County strip — from Blakeley Township to New Market Township — will share the new House District 20A with western Le Sueur County, a seat that could be picked up by Woodard.

Blakeley Township, in the county’s far western corner, is currently represented by State Rep. Glenn Gruenhagen, RGlencoe, who has been thrown into a different district with fellow Republican Ron Shimanski of Silver Lake.

This leaves Woodard, a Republican who already represents the area from Belle Plaine to Cedar Lake Township, well-situated. No one else has announced, although the area’s former Rep. David Bly of Northfield plans to seek the DFL endorsement in the other half of the senate district.

COUNTY NEXT With redistricting out of the way, now the cities must redraw their precinct lines and the county’s five commissioner districts.

While cities aren’t bound by population guidelines (unless they have wards) in determining precincts, the county must size its commissioner districts similarly.

Scott County’s cities must establish their precincts (April 3 deadline) before the county can redraw its lines. County commissioner boundaries can’t divide townships or precincts.

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A few residents of Savage have complained to the City that a distinctive odor has been emanating from a few of the ice rinks.

Parks and Natural Resources Superintendent Jon Allen determined that the freeze-andthaw cycles of the unseasonably warm winter have caused grass and vegetation below the ice to decay, emitting a rotten egg smell.

Parks Commission elects officers During a silent-ballot process at its Feb. 27 meeting, the Savage Parks, Recreation and Natural Resources Commission selected Ron Schwartz as its 2012 Chair and Kathy Peterson as ViceChair.

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For many, the idea of elementary students visiting seniors in an assisted living facility, brightening their days with glowing faces and shimmering smiles, would make for a great service project in and of itself. But for students in Amy Engen’s fifth-grade class at Harriet Bishop Elementary in Savage, that’s just not enough.

For more than a decade, Engen has been taking her students to visit seniors at Ebenezer Ridges Care Center in Burnsville. While there, the students and their elderly companions work on service projects to benefit the community.

Over the years, students and seniors have put together care packages for soldiers overseas, made blankets for sick infants in the nursery at Fairview Ridges Hospital (and for homeless animals at the animal shelter) and even made breakfast for the Ronald McDonald House, just to name a few projects. On Friday, Feb. 10, Engen’s class worked with the residents to make Valentine’s Day-themed get well cards for patients at Fairview Ridges Hospital.

“Not on ly a re we doi n g something fun with them when we come, we’re doing a service project while we’re here,” said Engen. “It’s like a service project within a service project.”

Engen, who’s been with at Harriet Bishop since 19 9 6, first started taking her students to hang out with seniors after she had participated in a program called SPORE, which partnered schools with local businesses in the community.

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Burnsville, and shortly after she was contacted by someone from the hospital who suggested doing some sort of project with the residents at Ebenezer Ridges. Engen obliged, and she’s been taking her kids there ever since.

“We started just coming and playing Bingo with the residents, and then it changed into doing di f ferent cra fts and going on walks with them outside,” said Engen. “(Events Director) Chantel Brace and (Life-Long Learning and Intergenerational Coordinator) Andrea Lewandoski have really been running it the last t h ree or fou r yea rs where they’ve really tried to make it intergenerational, having the day program (participants) and the residents come, so it’s like having three generations together at once.”

Now, the other three classes in Harriet Bishop’s Willow Community, to which Engen’s class belongs, all participate in the Ebenezer Ridges program.

One of the four classes tries to make it out to the care center each month, averaging out to about two visits per year for each class.

Engen said the visits are beneficial for the students for a number of reasons. For one, it gives students a chance to interact with and learn from elders, something several students may not have an opportunity to do outside of school.

“Some of these kids have never had any interaction with elders or an older generation, especially if they don’t have grandparents,” said Engen.

“And vice-versa, some of the residents don’t have family nearby, either.”

Of course, the visits also teach the students the value of community service. “And it always feels good to do good,” said fifth-grader Jenna Zenner. “It’s really fun, and I really like meeting the people.”

The students may get a lot out of the visits to Ebenezer Ridges, but so do the seniors. “I

just love having the kids here,” said Joy Donlon, a resident at Ebenezer Ridges, “and I love the age they’re at. They’re still so pure and have such beautiful ideas. The things they say sometimes, and at that age, I’m just like ‘How did you think of that?’”

Donlon said the students have brightened up her time at Ebenezer Ridges. “They’ve made a difference in my life, very much so,” she said. “They teach you about the importance of the small things, and as you get older, that’s very important.”

Engen said that when she talks with students at the end of the year and asks what their favorite activity was, the trips to Ebenezer always rank near the top. “They always talk about their experience when they get back (from Ebenezer),” said Engen, “the kinds of smiles they brought to the residents’ faces, and the feeling of giving back to the community.

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The nebulous nature surrounding speculation on the committee’s recommendation falls in line with the overall STEM mentality.

“You just have to embrace the ambiguity and realize that the definition is whatever you make it,” said Rieckenberg, who will leave District 719 in June to begin as a Science, Te ch nolog y, En g i ne er i n g , Arts and Math coordinator for Robbinsdale Area Schools.

“I think in the next couple weeks, we’ll get it all fleshed out.”

O n c e t h e c o m m i t t e e ’s E - ST EM work i s complete — i mplement ation wi l l be handled by others — the focu s wi l l shi f t to st udyi n g world-language immersion.

No start date is set for that study, which could begin as early as this spring or as late as fall 2012.

The committee membership may change to confront that task, Holmberg said, in part because it’s a different animal and not required by state standards like E-STEM. “With E-STEM, it’s not if, it’s how,” he said. “With immersion, it’s if and how.”

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Harriet Bishop fi fth-graders Alaina Rivera and Alex Gromackiwork with Ebenezer Ridges Care Center resident Joy Donlon create Valentine’s Day-themed get-well cards for the patients at Fairview Ridges Hospital in Burnsville. Harriet Bishop teacher Amy Engen has been taking her students to Ebenezer Ridges for more than a decade to participate in service projects with the seniors.

Committee moving full STEM ahead The end is near for the Prior Lake-Savage Area School District’s E-STEM Committee.

The group, comprised of teachers, administrators, parents and District 719 School Board members, will present its final recommendation regarding elementary Science, Technology, Engineering and M at h ( E - S T E M ) prog r a mming options for the district at the Monday, April 23 regular School Board meeting.

The group was formed last spring and in that time has met with educators and gone on site visits to area STEM schools in the Ossea and Richfield school districts all with the goal of devising a STEM model that will work in District 719. The committee will meet five more times this month and next to draft the proposal for the School Board.

Jeff Holmberg, who is leading the committee and presented an update to the board at its Monday, March 5 work session, said he is “pretty confident” the committee will be able to meet its timeline. However, what that recommendation will include is still a mystery.

“In committee members’ minds, I think they’re all having ideas,” said Holmberg, who is also the district’s director of curriculum, instruction and assessment. “They’re dedicated to having conversations and

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Environment will be disrupted by structure I would like to take this opportunity to express my sincere and strong opposition to the plan to build a sports dome at the Savage Community Park location.

I am motivated to state my opinion on this subject as a result of the recent visit of our three grandchildren to our home in Savage for several days.

With the delightful weather that we had during their visit, we walked to the Community Park most every day. They were delighted by the playground, certainly, but they loved the environmental areas of the park and the freedom and safety of being able to run through the wooded paths, read the instructional signage, explore the ramp to the pond as well as the ramp to the swamp area near the tennis courts.

These kids, ages 8 (twins) and 7, had no trouble spending upwards of 90 minutes each day in the park, and my wife and I had an equally wonderful time watching them in this environment.

The proposed sports dome will clearly have a very negative impact on this community gem that contributes and celebrates so well the quality of life of our city. The juxtaposition of this monolithic facility adjacent to (and removing portions of) the park appears to us to be so very short-sighted.

In a tangle of suburban entertainment and repetitive retail areas, the Community Park is a stand-out feature of the Savage community.

The sports dome does not fit the environment or the vision of previous city planners who worked hard to create a unique, enjoyable and educational area so mindful of the needs of the public.

I strongly encourage the current Savage leadership to reassess the city’s position on the sports dome.

Let’s use the opportunity of using the acquired land to expand and improve one of the outstanding community parks in the region rather than lessen its appeal and the environmental education impact that it currently provides.

David Mathieu Savage

ARTS PROGRAM

Setting record straight on reduced rent I am responding to your editorial about nonprofits and Savage Arts Studio, LLC (SAS) getting “special treatment” in the Feb. 18 Savage Pacer.

I’d like to present the other side.

Although I understand that it is part of a newspaper editor’s job to bring focus on issues, it should also be their responsibility to report the complete facts. To me, from my own prospective, this has not been done.

The reported information is that SAS is getting reduced rent for no reason other than the space we occupy might be empty without us.

This was NOT the case.

The “reduced rent contract” that some City Council members like to refer to as “special treatment for a for-profit business,” was never that.

Although there hasn’t been any discussion of “the art program” on the City side during this process, our reduced rent was actually a contract with the City of Savage to provide them with a Recreation Fine Arts Program.

They acted quite responsibly in getting value for their City dollars when they negotiated the rental agreement.

At the end of 2007, five of the original artists decided they wanted to go back to doing their art full time. Two of us remained to run the gallery, school and studios, plus

participate in the lease-mandated Savage Arts Council. We believed, at that time, that it might be easier for us to simply close SAS rather than continue on and take on the risks of running the business.

The City responded to our concerns by having Tom Brennan and Scott Somers approach us with an opportunity. They reviewed all of our financial information, plus looked at the City needs. The City needed a recreational arts program to help balance out their recreational sports program. The art classes at that moment in time were simply not a program. They felt that they could gain a program at an extremely low cost and reduce our risks at the same time.

SAS was to provide an art program and adsorb all costs for the program; the City was to reduce SAS’ rent AND provide marketing support in their recreational brochure quarterly. Win-win.

SAS has provided classes for the City of Savage since 2008. SAS was supposed to provide listings for up to five classes per session and often times we have been able to offer City residents up to 15 diverse classes per session to select from.

SAS absorbed costs and coordination of all staff, students, facilities, materials and assets. Plus, SAS has consistently exceeded all of our contracted requirements and fulfilled its obligation under the original lease to provide display space and participation in the Savage Arts Council.

Also, as part of that contract, the City of Savage was to provide us with marketing services in their quarterly recreational brochure and staff time to take their orders.

Early on we agreed with Recreation Department staff to continue to take our own orders as it was easier for both our groups. But we had a full scope of classes in the brochure, which we provided in print-ready format for staff. The Recreation Department provided this brochure to residences through distribution in the Savage Pacer.

Then in 2010ish, the City had budget cuts, which are part of the times, and canceled the printing and citywide distribution of the recreational brochure. The ripple effect to SAS of the loss of this marketing service was an increased cost of marketing and impacted the SAS bottom line.

The original financial thinking for the City to have SAS provide its art program was very smart on the City’s part. Looking at other cities our size, their recreational arts programs require paid staff, including a director ($40,000 to $ 68,000 per year) plus teachers ($15 to $30 per hour multiplied by class hours multiplied by the number of teachers) plus administrative staff ($15 to $25 per hour per person) plus class/ admin/display space plus marketing plus class materials/supplies/ fixtures plus asset management costs equals $175,000 to $ 250,000 per year.

Remember, our Parks and Recreation costs for the City are now about $1.2 million per year, so arts programs are small in comparison but still add up.

Therefore, by having SAS provide the City art program, the cost to the City is about $24,000 per year for the building plus two pages in their already existing marketing brochure each quarter for the time period that they provided that service.

Therefore, conservatively by providing us with “special treatment,” the City saved something like $145,000 per year on a community recreational art program!

So to answer the question, why aren’t other nonprofits asking for reduced rent from the City? The answer is NOTHING IS FREE when you work with government... there is always a cost. I assume they would rather pay their rent and run their programs without absorbing the cost of another service.

Jo Storey Savage

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Seeking the natural rhythm of life Did you catch the full moon this month? Large, bold and beautiful.

Maybe it’s because of the curious changes in my disposition during the full moon phase, but whatever the reason, full moons mesmerize me. Changing seasons, too, and the way I have always strained to catch the subtle changes but never really can. Natural cycles in general, I guess, so predictable and inevitable but seemingly invisible to the eye.

Slowly, so slowly things change.

Recently I’ve spent a lot of time around old people: nursing homes, hospitals and transitional care units. Transitional care units, or TCUs as they’re referred to by those in the know, are murky gray waters where you end up if you’re not sick enough for hospital care, yet not well enough for home.

This ain’t no joyride, my friends.

My mother has had a rough time of things lately. I’ll spare you the details, but suffice it to say, old age now has her firmly in its clammy, boney grip.

Her first taste of a TCU was the Masonic Home in Bloomington.

Complete with a little chapel, a cobblestone walkway and even a small ice cream parlor, trust me when I say this is a great place for folks to land if need be.

After mom’s next unfortunate calamity, she ended up at the Methodist Hospital TCU. Courtesy of their Bachman’s sponsored gift shop, the shiny pristine floors are full of glossy green plants and trailing colorful bouquets.

The Methodist is beautiful, with seemingly deep pockets.

In January (Round 3), after an absurdly short hospital stay, we found ourselves preparing for yet another TCU. Unfortunately, the Masonic and Methodist were full.

Luckily they found us a bed at a third TCU to help us prepare her for home. This TCU, hoo daddy, was a bit of a relic. Dreary, tired and

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strapped it would appear.

The staff was very nice for the most part. There’s always one or two that chap my hide, but generally speaking, in all of my many dealings with the medical profession peeps of late, these are a special kind of folk. Without any doubt in my mind, heaven holds a fast track for those that care for the elderly.

Most of the patients there, in my humble and probably ignorant opinion, didn’t appear like they’d be going home anytime soon ... or ever.

Too many were left parked in their wheelchairs, seemingly forgotten, scattered all over the facility, their craggy heads bowed down and eyes open but not seeing.

It’s unsettling. This is how, after a long meaningful life, we end up?

Say it ain’t so. One horrifying and unforgettable afternoon, I found my mom in the lobby, among them. I needed to get her home.

While she was there, my mom’s roommate died. As it turned out, she had stage four bone cancer. She was 50. The day before she died, her mom, with empty, weary eyes told me her daughter wasn’t expected to get better; it was now just a matter of merciless time. I couldn’t sleep that night, her heartbreaking story and miserable eyes haunting me.

The next morning I brought her a

stone with the word faith engraved into it. It was too late. They were all gone, the staff busy scrubbing the area down with bleach. My mom was oblivious, gratefully so, but I was left horrified. I imagined the pain of cancer eating her from the inside and robbing her of her life.

Pure, raw humanity.

There was a bright spot amongst the gloom. A bird cage, rather an aviary. Mom was indifferent, but I couldn’t pull myself away. I swear I could whistle and tweet, and those beautiful tiny birds would hurry to the nearest branch and sing back to me.

In a brick and mortar building, full of bad coffee, cheerless forgottens and dedicated people with a sad job, I found some joy in those vibrant little finches with nowhere to go but to a branch near me.

Eventually we brought mom home again and I’m left to consider our life cycles. Despite the gifted care givers, and the complex structures designed to house us through our final transition, is this how we are intended to finish up?

Mom hates me much of the time — any flicker of gratitude long lost among the traumas and transitions.

But, much like I do with my children, I grab hold of the smiles and the reasonable conversations as I get them and do my best to leave the rest behind.

There must be a natural rhythm to every person’s life cycle. Maybe we’re not meant to recognize the subtle changes. Maybe the plan, like the stunning moon, we’re meant to just realize the splendor of the full phase.

(Mary S. Schulz is one of several people in the Savage community who write for Community Voices — a column appearing weekly in the opinion and commentary section of this newspaper.)

GUEST COMMENTARY

Taking a step in the right direction

BY LYNN WILLMERT

What happens when one day, the master of multi-tasking (aka the working mom) is no longer working?

What happens when for years you have been recognized and rewarded in your center of expertise and it abruptly ends? What happens? You take a step back and breathe. Just breathe.

I, like so many, have been touched by the reality of today’s market in one way or another these past few years.

Whether it was a friend, acquaintance, family member — no matter — the result is still the same. Someone is not working and it’s not by choice.

And now it’s my turn.

Over the years, I’ve wrestled with the guilt that comes with being a working mom. I know, I know. There are a lot of fathers out there that are probably tired of hearing about how it’s so hard to be a working mom when

they themselves have been hard at work outside the home and pitching in at home as well.

But, we moms are hardwired differently. It’s a simple case of Venus vs. Mars. We agonize over leaving our children at daycare after carrying them safely to work every day. When we get a lunch hour and rush to do a few errands during that “down” time, we see the stay-at-home moms at the mall and perhaps show our jealousy through not so nice comments under the breath. The grass is always greener, right? But, we love what we do. We enjoy working. It’s part of who we are — who I am.

Sadly, after many successful years in a company, the time ended. But, I view it as a positive change. A step in the right direction — that is, a step forward. There are days when I’m more positive than others. Days when I’m overly confident in my talent and ability to add value to the right company.

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But, these days, I’m also enjoying breathing a little deeper. A little longer. Because I can. Because in order to take a step forward, one must take a step back. Reflect on where you came from. Reflect on what’s possible.

So far I’ve discovered a few things:  If you’re nice to people, respectful to all individuals that make up a company, they’re more than willing to help. They know people, who know people ... you know the drill  Your family’s support makes ALL the difference  It’s nice to walk a little slower, breathe a little deeper and dream a little more. Enjoy the time while you have it because soon that wiring charges up and you realize that it’s necessary to work. Because no matter the small amount of guilt working brings, it’s who you were, who you are and who you want to be.

(Lynn Willmert lives in Savage with her husband, three children and dog.)

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Light: A south-facing window is the ideal spot for starting seeds. If the seedlings start to grow toward the window, rotate the flat daily and consider adding another light source.

Inexpensive shop lights or grow lights could be used to supplement. Ideally, the lights should hang 6-to-8 inches above the flats and should be kept on for about 14 hours a day.

Heat: Adding bottom heat will also help with seed germination. Heating mats can be purchased at a local nursery; an old electric blanket is an inexpensive

alternative. Or, the flats could be placed on top of a radiator or heat vent.

Timing: Read each seed packet to determine when to start seeds indoors.

Generally, seeds should be started six-to-eight weeks before the last frost — our average last frost date is May 15. Starting seeds too early will result in weak and leggy seedlings, which may not survive the transition to the garden.

Water: Seedlings prefer consistently moist soil. Keep in mind that the soil can dry out very quickly once the lid has been removed from the flat. Seedlings can’t survive long without water. Soggy soil promotes pest infestations and disease.

Ventilation: Once most of the seedlings in a flat have started to grow, begin ventilating them. Slowly acclimate the seedlings to the room by propping the lid open an inch. Keep propping it open an inch every few days until the lid is completely off, then leave it off. At this point, an osculating fan can be used if desired. The fan will provide additional ventilation and will help to strengthen the seedlings.

Harden off: Hardening off the seedlings to the outdoors is a crucial step.

The seedlings need time to get used to being outside before they are planted into the garden. Once the weather warms in the spring, put the seedlings outside in a shady location for several hours each day. The seedlings should be protected from sun, wind and heavy rain.

Gradually expose them to the sun over several days. Keep in mind that the soil will dry out much faster outside and the flats may need to be watered more than once a day. When the weather is warm enough, the seedlings can be left outside overnight.

It’s exciting to watch the seedlings start to pop out of the soil. Starting your seeds indoors will have you seeing green in no time. Good luck and I hope that you have an abundance of seedlings to plant in your garden this year!

(Amy Andrychowicz writes about gardening and is a Savage resident. She spends her spare time gardening, indoors and out. She also blogs at www. getbusygardening.com. You can email her at getbusygardening@ gmail.com.)

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Spring is just around the corner and it’s time to start thinking about starting seeds indoors. Growing plants from seed is a great way to get a jump on the gardening season, and it’s much cheaper than buying plants from the store. Why not indulge your spring fever and get your hands dirty by starting your seeds indoors.

Here are some tips ...

Flats: The best flats to use are the type that have a tray, a clear top and several cells.

These flats can be purchased wherever seeds are sold. Seed flats can be reused each year, but it is essential to clean and disinfect them first. Wash them in soapy water, then soak in a one-part bleach to nine-parts water solution.

This will help prevent seedling blight, a fungus that causes seedlings to die off at the base.

Soil: It’s best to spend a little more money and get the kind of potting soil specifically made for starting seeds. This will help with germination and give seedlings a healthy start in life. General potting soil can be used, but it tends to be too heavy for seedlings. Always use fresh, sterile potting

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Extended-day kindergarten will continue as fee-based program District has no plans to move to free model like BurnsvilleEagan-Savage

BY MERYN FLUKER mfluker@swpub.com

Parents planning to send their students to extended-day kindergarten in the Prior LakeSavage Area School District will still have to pony up close to $3,000.

That’s a far cry from the free price tag that will come this fall with sending students to the same program in the neighboring Burnsville-Eagan-Savage School District 191.

“I think I’ve had two emails from parents wondering, ‘Is this something that you would offer in the future?’” said District 719 Superintendent Sue Ann Gruver. “I can’t tell you we will or will not at this point. It’s a very expensive proposition.”

G r uve r ’s s el f- p r o fe s s e d “rough estimate” puts offering a single-year of no-tuition extended-day kindergarten at $800,000 in District 719 — compared to the $1.5 million District 191 expects to spend on the program next year, but “expensive” nonetheless.

“We’d have to take that from somewhere else,” Gruver said, nodding to the hundreds of thousands of dollars the district has set aside and spent to combat rising class sizes. “We have a positive fund balance and we’d like to keep it that way.”

District 191 is funding its free full-day kindergarten through compensatory dollars it receives from the state based on the district’s population of students receiving free- and reduced-price lunches. As that revenue source has grown deeper in the last decade, District 191 has been able to leverage those dollars.

Because the demographics of District 719 are such a stark contrast to those of District 191, that funding is not as plentiful

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ability the waiver provides to focus on individual students.

“I do hope that we can better understand achievement of our students and have the results better ref lect what’s really going on in the classrooms,” said Darsow. “So now we’re really looking at each kid and where they are, and how far we can get them, rather than saying everybody has to be at this arbitrary threshold ... The one-size-fits-all approach does not fit all, and it’s not fair to all kids.”

Also, in Holmberg’s view, the new system gives students

for the bordering district.

“The reason why we can’t offer [free extended-day kindergarten] is because we don’t have the funding sourcSue Ann es that BurnsGruver ville has, for ex a mple,” Gruver said.

“They can use those funds in different ways. They also have integration money ... They have much deeper pockets than we have in Prior Lake-Savage.”

That’s one forecast that, in the eyes of District 719 administrators, seems unlikely to change.

“The Board currently is not looking at [free extended-day kindergarten] as an option,” said Jeff Holmberg, director of curriculum, instruction and assessment. “We’re very proud of our full- and half-day programs.”

Extended-day kindergarten is still an option for Prior LakeSavage area parents who can foot the $2,835 annual tuition or qualify for full or partial scholarships based on their free- and reduced-price lunch status. For all other parents, District 719 offers free half-day kindergarten at Edgewood School in Prior Lake.

In addition, students who attend half-day programs can also take advantage of District 719’s before-and-after-school care program Kids’ Company.

“We can get so much closer to hitting the nail on the head with each child and each family,” said Deb Williams, principal at Edgewood, about the various offerings open to kindergarten families in the area.

Holmberg and Gruver agreed that there are benefits to extended-day kindergarten, particularly due to the increase in instructional time, but they also noted that students in halfday programs who spend the remainder of their days doing enriching activities can see the same results.

Williams noted that extendedday kindergarten is not a fit for all students, particularly those

a more active role in their education and assessment.

“What I think is important about this alternative system is that students are central to this process, whereas with No Child Left Behind, I felt that students were more removed,” said Holmberg. “They’ll have immediate feedback on how well they did and what they need to work on. That’s something they didn’t have with the old system.”

Holmberg said the MDE has discussed possibly opening the examination window as early as November and keeping it open through the end of the school year. Another value of havi ng mu ltiple testi ng days is being able to gauge stu-

Jeff Holmberg

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www.savagepacer.com who are seeing slower progress with their motor skills or socialemotional development.

“The kids can really hold it together for three hours in a day but it might be a really big challenge for them to be on their A game for seven hours a day,” the principal said. “For students whose development is still coming along, it’s a huge benefit for them to see their school day as successful.”

After six years of offering tuition-based extended-day kindergarten, District 719 is going to begin reviewing its entire kindergarten curriculum, tentatively set to start in August. Gruver said she anticipates the review will take about six months and Holmberg said any resulting recommendations — pending approval from the School Board — would be implemented by the 2013-14 school year.

Both administrators said the review, however, is not about finding a tuition-free way to offer full-day kindergarten and insist the review was planned long before District 191 unveiled its new kindergarten plan.

Williams is thinking a bit bigger.

“I would like to see the entire state of Minnesota be able to offer [free full-day kindergarten] so that it would be an option for every family in every district,” she said.

dent growth, in part because that progress is beneficial to a district’s MMR.

CATEGORIES Title I schools will then be placed into one of five categories: reward (top 15 percent), celebration (the next 25 percent of schools can apply, 10 percent of them will be chosen), continuous improvement (the bottom 25 percent), focus (10 percent of schools with the lowest combined M M R proficiency score and smallest reduction in the achievement gap) and priority (bottom 5 percent). “ I h av e n o i d e a w h e r e schools in Prior Lake-Savage would fall in these categories

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as this time,” Holmberg said.

Those designations will be revealed in May. Under Minnesota’s new accountability system, rather than face the punitive measures of NCLB, low-performing districts will still be monitored and high performance will instead be incentivized.

There will be new AYP targets but districts will not be penalized for failing to reach them.

“Again, it’s about accountability,” Holmberg said of the new system. “That’s the part that’s consistent. It’s not going to go away.”

A l hou g h Hol mb er g a nd Darsow noted that detailed information on how the new system will impact the school

districts is unavailable, the announcement of the waiver’s acceptance was received well at Five Hawks Elementary School in Prior Lake, which wa s t he lone Di st r ic t 7 1 9 school facing consequences for missing AYP for two years in a row.

Five Hawks implemented School Choice, allowing students living within its boundaries to transfer to Grainwood Elementary School with the District footing the transportation cost, but no Five Hawks families opted in. The Title I dollars set aside for School Choice were then dispersed evenly throughout the district’s Title I schools. In 201213, Five Hawks will no longer

LIVESREMEMBERED Virginia M. Pickus

Muriel Fern Christopherson

Virginia Pickus, 78, of Savage, died Sunday, Feb. 26, 2012 at her residence in Savage.

Virginia was born in Bloomington, MN, July 7, 1933 to George and Annie (Lallak) Coleman. She and Gordon E. Pickus were married April 1, 1950. Virginia worked for Green Giant Container Company, and later Silgan, in Savage.

Virginia is preceded in death by her husband, Gordon; son, Henry; parents; brothers and sister, Irv, Howard, Bucky, and Irene. Survivors include her sons and daughters, Eugene (Judy), Vernon (Susan), Darrell, Bonnie Jeurissen, Joanne (Jim) Nelsen, Irene (Mike) LeMieux, Sandy Pickus, and Brenda Pickus; 12 grandchildren; 11 great-grandchildren.

Visitation was Thursday, March 1 from 9-11 a.m., followed by funeral services at 11 a.m., all at McNearney Funeral Home, Shakopee. Officiating at the funeral service was the Rev. Michael Golay. Pallbearers were Brandon and Travis Rollheiser, Brad and Jason LeMieux, Quentin Pickus, Francis Conrady, Jr. Interment at Valley Cemetery in Shakopee.

Funeral arrangements through McNearney Funeral Home in Shakopee, 952-445-2755. www.mcnearneyfuneralhome.com

Muriel Christopherson, 88, of Belle Plaine, died Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2012, at Kingsway Retirement Living.

Funeral Service will be at 2 p.m. on Saturday, March 3, at the Lutheran Home Chapel in Belle Plaine, the Rev. Ed Frederich will officiate. Visitation will be from 12:30- 2 p.m. prior to the service.

Interment will be in the Fort Snelling National Cemetery in Minneapolis.

Muriel was born Oct. 29, 1923 to Thomas and Ina (Chase) Hunter in Lime Springs, IA. She graduated from Austin High School. On Feb. 26, 1944, she married Ewayne “Chris” Christopherson in the United Brethren Church in Austin, MN. She worked for Rosemount Engineering Company as a solderer. They moved to rural Belle Plaine in 1980. Muriel enjoyed crocheting, knitting, sewing, gardening, crafting and above all she loved spending time with her grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

She is preceded in death by her parents; her husband Ewayne; sons, Norman and Roger; daughter, Anne Marie; brother, Lorraine Hunter; sister, Vivian Johnson.

She is survived by her sons, Terry of Burnsville, David (Ute) of Farmington, Bennie (Carolyn) of Belle Plaine, and Kevin (LeeAnn) Christopherson of Savage; eight grandchildren; seven great-grandchildren; nieces; nephews; many relatives and friends.

Love’s greatest gift — Remembrance

have to offer School Choice.

“It took that burden off our shoulders, that we were going to be publicly acknowledged for not doi n g somet hi n g,” said Tim Bell, the principal at Five Hawks. “We’re still working as hard, if not harder, to make sure all our student populations are improving ...

We were very happy for that [waiver], but it didn’t change what we were already going to do.”

A l l Mi n nesot a schools working on NCLB-mandated improvement plans must continue them throughout the end of the school year, per MDE’s requirement.

Alex Hall contributed to this report

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District reaches tentative contract with teachers’ union Negotiators for the Burnsvi l le -Eaga n- Savage School District and the Burnsville teachers’ union, Burnsville Education Association (BEA), reached a tentative two-year contract agreement late last week. News of the agreement was announced at a BEA rally on Feb. 23. “I can’t speak for all the different teachers, because not everybody has gotten (the details of the contract) yet, but I am happy with it,� said Libby Duethman, president of the BEA. D et ai l s of t he tent ative agreement have yet to be made public and likely won’t be out until it’s ratified by the union and brought to t he School Board for approval. “The tentative agreement is reflective of current economic reality,� Superintendent Randy Clegg said in a District 191 news release. “It also allows the district to attract and retain quality teachers and to offer a contract that is competitive with neighboring school districts.�

District 191 teachers have been operating without a con-

tract since July 1, 2011, when their last contract expired, and the new contract will be retroactive to that date. The union filed their “intent to negotiate� with the District last May, but negotiations didn’t begin in earnest until late November as the District waited to see the results of November’s roughly $10 million levy renewal, which ended up passing.

H o w e v e r, n e g o t i a t i o n s seemed to be dragging on, said Duethman, and by the Feb. 16 School Board meeting, teachers were getting concerned about the prolonged process. “Teachers were absolutely getting worried, so we had to come up with a plan of activities that would help move this along a little bit,� said Duethman.

So at that Feb. 16 meeting, District teachers showed up in full force, filling the Diamondhead Education Center, all wearing red BEA T-shirts with the word “Unite� on the back. “I think it did help,� said Duethman.

Duethman said that the departure of Tania Chance, the former HR director that the District paid nearly $255,000 to last month, impacted the negotiations.

“Her departure from the negotiations table sped (the process) along,� said Duethman. “I think the last meeting she was at was on Jan. 3 ... and as the month of January went on, we made a lot more progress.�

Stacey Sovine, who has filled Chance’s position on an interim basis, led negotiations for the District once Chance left. “I feel that the negotiations process was col laborative, respectful, and focused on solutions for issues from both the BEA and the district,� Sovine said in an email to the Savage Pacer.

There are still some steps that need to be taken before the deal is made official. The 4 5 -member BEA Executive Board received the tentative agreement on Feb. 27 and started getting information out to teachers this past week. A general membership vote is planned for March 8, according to Duethman.

If ratified by teachers, the proposal would go to the Board of Education for approval, possibly at the March 22 meeting.

However, Duethman said she’s heard talk that a special Board meeting might be scheduled before March 22 to get the deal done sooner.

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release of any claims against the District. The full release of claims stipulated in the agreement led some in attendance to question what kind of dirt Chance has on the District.

Chance still had 18 months left on the contract the Board approved last July, and the nearly $255,000 is the amount she would be owed in salary and benefits over that time.

Chance was making $136,273 per year.

Comments and questions from dozens of residents were taken during a listening session held by Board Chair Ron Hill and Board member DeeDee Currier before Thursday’s regular meeting. Much of the outrage centered on the size of the buyout and the District’s unwillingness to provide a reason for the separation. “The issue that I have is that such a massive amount of public money was used, and it’s inexcusable to not reveal exactly what led to this point,� said Burnsville resident Joel Smetanka.

The District has said from the beginning that the portion of the separation agreement concerning the reason for Chance’s buyout was redacted because it contained private personnel data. They said that on the advice of their attorney, they’ve withheld that information to avoid violating the Minnesota Data Practices Act. However, several taxpayers accused the District of using the law to keep from being held responsible for their actions. “Frankly I’m stunned,� said Mark Nesvig of Savage. “The fact that you guys are hiding behind a law which a lot of people are pretty confident you’re actually in violation of,

is just quite disturbing to me ...

I have a hard time believing it’s in the District’s best interest not to tell us.�

Nesvig was referring to a Minnesota law in which institutions must provide a reason for a buyout if it involves more than $10,000 in taxpayer money. Still, the District said they’re protected by the private personnel clause in the Minnesota Data Practices Act, and that they would rather err on the side of caution than risk a lawsuit down the road.

Hill said the District’s attorney requested an advisory opinion with the Information Policy Analysis Division of the Minnesota Department of Administration to make sure they are in compliance with the law and have released the required information. That opinion could come as soon as April.

S av a g e r e s i d e nt L au r a Wickham asked where the money was coming from to pay Chance. “Is it from the general fund, do we have a contingency fund for this, an insurance policy, a rainy day fund? Where did it come from?� she asked.

Hill said that was something the Board was still working on figuring out, eliciting a few loud groans and a handful of jeers.

Some residents questioned why Chance was given a twoyear contract last summer before a full performance review had been conducted.

More than one speaker suggested that Board members resign over the situation, and several intimated that Board members up for re-election this year should be voted out.

Nesvig was one parent who requested t he resig nation of Hill and his fellow Board members, eliciting the biggest cheers of the night. “If you do have the District’s

best interests in mind, and I do believe that you do, you guys need to step aside and let us turn the page and go with new leadership,� Nesvig said.

Andy Karageorgiou, a social studies teacher at Metcalf Junior High, said that fractures between the District and the community could be repaired, but that immediate actions needed to be taken. “This is a mess right now and it needs to be fixed. I’ve always told my kids to tell the truth, even if you screw up,�

Karageorgiou said. “This is something that can be corrected, but it has to start tonight ... If you continue to do what you’re doing, you’re not going to get the people back on your side.�

Some said perceived poor decision making by Board leadership would prevent them from voting for levies for the District in the future. An approximately $10 million levy was renewed last fall. “You can’t ever expect a levy to ever be passed in this District (again) with you guys in place directing where those funds are going to go,� said Nesvig. “I have never in my life voted against a levy before, but I just couldn’t possibly imagine voting for a levy with you, Mr. Hill, or anyone else who approved this package in charge of where my money is going to go.�

Board member Paula Teiken spoke toward the end of the meeting, saying she fully understood the anger the buyout has caused, but said that not voting for levies would be taking it out on the wrong people. “I feel terrible about the distress this has caused the district,� said Teiken. “You can vote board members in or out. (But) the children who are receiving those levy dollars are our future.�

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Rewriting the book club Book clubs introduce readers to new books, friends

BY AMY LYON editor@savagepacer.com

I

n a back corner meeting room at the Burnhaven Library, members of the newlyformed Literary Ladies Book Club gather to talk about their February title, “The Devil

in the White City.”

The small group of six discusses details of the book: How it believes the World’s Fair changed America, the motives of a young doctor and murderer and the reality that truth is sometimes stranger than fiction.

Some members peruse the paperback version while others utilize the technology of their e-readers. Two ladies armed with iPads research questions that arise.

The Literary Ladies Book Club operates in a casual structure with a playful tone that seems comfortable even though some ladies just met for the first time. The book is the bridge; their love of literature fills any gaps.

Literary Ladies first met in January and its book selection process is simple: Each month a member chooses a book in the genre of her choice and leads the discussion during the meeting.

The only rule: “Nothing too obscene,” said group founder Lisa Kvam of Burnsville.

Kvam visited litladies. com for discussion guides and googled “how to start a book club” when laying the foundation for the group.

“It helped to have a base of four people that were interested and would be there no matter what,” said Kvam.

“I also talked to people of successful and unsuccessful book clubs to see how they operated.”

Literary Ladies member Briana Capra of Prior Lake likes that she’s getting involved with this book club at the beginning to see how it grows and evolves. She also likes the opportunity the book club gives her to meet new people.

“I like the selection process,” said Capra, who knits during the meeting. “It opens me up to some books I may not have selected on my own.”

The Burnhaven Library in Burnsville offers free space each month to the group, which meets from 6:30 to 8:15 p.m. the third Wednesday of the month. In March, the Literary Ladies will discuss “The Hunger Games,” “The Night Circus” in April and “The Tiger’s Wife” is the selection for May. Literary Ladies is excited to welcome new members, Kvam said. Visit the group on Facebook (literaryladiesmn) or email at literaryladiesmn@ gmail.com.

Current page-turners “Art of Fielding” by Chad Harbach “Behind the Beautiful Forevers” by Katherine Boo “Catherine the Great” by Robert K. Massie

PHOTOS BY AMY LYON

The Literary Ladies, from left, Lynne Rudolph of Savage, Judy Brown of Prior Lake, Ann Day of Burnsville, Margaret Eustice of Savage and Briana Capra of Prior Lake, discuss their February book selection, Erik Larson's "The Devil in a White City."

“Defending Jacob” by William Landay

At left – Using iPads, the women research background on the book, such as the history of the World’s Fair.

“Fault in Our Stars” by John Green “Hedy’s Folly” by Richard Rhodes “Last Man in Tower” by Aravind Adiga “Norumbega Park” by Anthony Giardina “Rin Tin Tin” by Susan Orleans

Bookmarks

“Sleeping with the Enemy: Coco Chanel” by Hal Vaughan

Interested in joining or forming your own book club? Try these links:

“Steve Jobs” by Walter Isaacson

Litlovers.com: Start your own book club with this 10step guide.

“The House at Tyneford” by Natasha Solomon

Bookmovement.com: Find out what other book clubs are reading and read book reviews.

“To End All Wars” by Adam Hochschild “Train Dreams” by Denis Johnson

Meetup.com: Find a local book club to join.

Source: Litlovers.com

Club Book author events Utilizing a Minnesota Legacy grant, Club Book brings acclaimed authors to libraries across the metro area. The programs are free and open to the public. For more information, visit clubbook.org.

Richard Louv “Last Child in the Woods” and “The Nature Principle” 2 p.m. Sunday, April 22 Ridgedale Library, 12601 Ridgedale Drive, Minnetonka

Lynne Rossetto Kasper and Sally Swift “The Splendid Table’s How to Eat Weekends”

Julie Schumacher

7 p.m. Tuesday, April 3

“The Unbearable Book Club for Unsinkable Girls”

Prior Lake Library, 16210 Eagle Creek Parkway, Prior Lake

6:30 p.m. Thursday, May 17 Chanhassen Library, 7711 Kerber Blvd., Chasnhassen

Rita Mae Brown “The Big Cat Nap: The 20th Anniversary Mrs. Murphy Mystery” 7 p.m. Tuesday, April 10 Galaxie Library, 14955 Galaxie Ave., Apple Valley

Richard Louv

Jenni Holm “Our Only May Amelia” and “Babymouse”

Lynne Rossetto Kasper and Sally Swift

7 p.m. Tuesday, April 24 New Brighton Library, 400 10th St. N.W., New Brighton

Don Shelby David Rhodes

“The Season Never Ends: Wins, Losses, and Wisdom of the Court”

“Rock Island Line,” “The Easter House” and “Driftless”

2 p.m. Saturday, April 14 Rum River Library, 4201 Sixth Ave., Anoka Anne Fadiman

7 p.m. Thursday, May 3 Jenni Holm

Stillwater Public Library, 224 Third St. N., Stillwater

“The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down” 7 p.m. Monday, May 7 Don Shelby

Highland Park Library, 1974 Ford Parkway, St. Paul

David Rhodes

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Time: 3-4 p.m. Sundays, March 4, 11, 25 Cost: Free Location: Richardson Nature Center, 8737 E. Bush Lake Road, Bloomington Info: (763) 559-9000 or threeriversparkdistrict.org

2. MY PRESCHOOLER AND ME: MAPLE SYRUP Parents and their children ages 2-5 are invited to come to The Landing and find out what makes maple trees special. Tap a tree, collect sap and sample real maple syrup and sugar. Adults and children pay program fee. Reservations required; reference activity 238403-01. Enter the park through the west entrance.

March’s warm days and cool nights are perfect for tree tapping.

Time: 1-2:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 7 Cost: $5 Location: The Landing - Minnesota River Heritage Park, 2187 E. County Road 101, Shakopee Info: (763) 559-6700 or threeriversparkdistrict.org

3. MAPLE SYRUP FESTIVAL Collect “sweet water” from the sugar maples and boil it down to make syrup on traditional wood-fired, barrel-stove evaporator. Discover the syruping process from start to finish: learn how to find a maple tree without the leaves, help to tap a tree, taste and collect sap, and watch as it is being boiled down. Make a craft and enjoy a taste of Lowry’s award-winning maple syrup on ice cream. For all ages.

Time: 12-4 p.m. Saturday, March 17 Cost: $5 Location: Lowry Nature Center (Carver Park Reserve), 7025 Victoria Dr., Victoria Info: (763) 559-6700 or threeriversparkdistrict.org

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As a professional stand-up comedian known for his engaging personality and stage presence, Dwayne Gill can be depended on to serve up laughter wherever he appears. And when it comes to protecting, it’s not the audience’s funny bones he’s worried about – it’s the citizens of Michigan where he works as a cop.

Time: 8 p.m. and 10:30 p.m.

Saturday, March 3 Cost: $13 for 8:30 p.m. show; $10 for 10:30 p.m. show; law enforcement get in for $10 for any show Location: MinneHAHA Comedy Club, 1583 First Ave., Shakopee Info: minnehahacomedyclub.com/ shakopee

PHOTOGRAPHING THE LAND Nature and humans coexist, and many examples can be seen in the Refuge’s river valley. Take an early morning hike and find your own land ethic through the lens of your camera.

Time: 8-9:30 a.m. Saturday, March 3 Cost: Free Location: Bloomington Visitor Center, 3815 American Blvd. E., Bloomington Info: (952) 854-5900 or fws.gov/ midwest/minnesotavalley

GREEN FIRE: ALDO LEOPOLD AND A LAND ETHIC FOR OUR TIME Green Fire explores the life and legacy of conservationist Aldo Leopold and the many ways his land ethic philosophy lives on in the work of people and organizations across the country today. Meet wildlife biologists who bring endangered species back to the landscapes where they once thrived and learn how Leopold’s vision ties modern conservation stories together and offers inspiration and insight for the future.

Time: 9:30-10:45 a.m. and 12:301:45 p.m. Saturday, March 3 and Sunday, March 4 Cost: Free Location: Bloomington Visitor Center, 3815 American Blvd. E., Bloomington Info: (952) 854-5900 or fws.gov/ midwest/minnesotavalley

WILD WRITERS! CONNECTING TO NATURE THROUGH LITERATURE Discover how to make a difference— and a future—for human and wildlife habitat through literature. Discuss a variety of books that nurture a land ethic with Minnesota Valley Librarian Judy Geck. Find out how to use the MN Valley Resource Center to make meaningful connections with the natural world.

Time: 11 a.m.-noon Saturday, March 3 Cost: Free Location: Bloomington Visitor Center, 3815 American Blvd. E., Bloomington Info: (952) 854-5900 or fws.gov/ midwest/minnesotavalley

WILDLIFE JEOPARDY! HIKE Test personal knowledge of Minnesota wildlife while hiking through the refuge. Compete as a team or as an individual. The winner gets a blue goose.

Time: 3-4 p.m. Saturday, March 3 Cost: Free Location: Bloomington Visitor Center, 3815 American Blvd. E., Bloomington Info: (952) 854-5900 or fws.gov/ midwest/minnesotavalley

Join expert birder Craig Mandel on an early morning hike to look for feathered friends. Program is appropriate for all birding skill levels; binoculars are available for loan.

Time: 8-9:30 a.m. Sunday, March 4 Cost: Free Location: Bloomington Visitor Center, 3815 American Blvd. E., Bloomington Info: (952) 854-5900 or fws.gov/ midwest/minnesotavalley

DEFINED BY NATURE The Twin Cities is home to millions of people and hundreds of species of wildlife. Explore the natural history that created this urban network of wildlife and human habitat. Whether downtown, at home or in the suburbs, visitors will discover how to appreciate and enjoy the diverse and easily accessible natural areas and learn about the history of natural resource conservation in the major metropolitan area.

Time: 11 a.m.-noon Sunday, March 4 Cost: Free Location: Bloomington Visitor Center, 3815 American Blvd. E., Bloomington Info: (952) 854-5900 or fws.gov/ midwest/minnesotavalley

THINGS NATURAL, WILD, AND FREE: THE LIFE OF ALDO LEOPOLD Like her hero, Aldo Leopold, awardwinning author Marybeth Lorbiecki shares her excitement for conservation by exploring the relationships of people to each other and to the natural world. Lorbiecki brings Leopold to life in a new biography, featuring resource and activity sections, a timeline, bibliography and historic photographs. Her previous biography, “Aldo Leopold: A Fierce Green Fire,” earned a Minnesota Book Award and a Distinguished Contribution to History Award from the State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Lorbiecki is the author of more than 25 books for children and adults. Books will be available for purchase.

Time: 2-3 p.m. Sunday, March 4 Cost: Free Location: Bloomington Visitor Center, 3815 American Blvd. E., Bloomington Info: (952) 854-5900 or fws.gov/ midwest/minnesotavalley

FEEDING TIME Watch feeding time with snakes, turtles, salamanders and toads. Learn about their diets and the adaptations they each have for eating specific foods. Cameras welcome. For ages 1 and older.

Time: 1-2 p.m. Sunday, March 4 Cost: Free Location: Lowry Nature Center (Carver Park Reserve), 7025 Victoria Dr., Victoria Info: (763) 559-9000 or threeriversparkdistrict.org

TINY TREASURES: FAIRIES AND GNOMES They walk among us - hiding under leaves, flying through treetops, waving wands and sprinkling magic on the morning dew. The Minnesota Landscape Arboretum will host “Tiny Treasures: Fairies & Gnomes,” a display of fairy gardens and gnomes.

“Tiny Treasures” will encompass three vignettes featuring miniature landscapes and fairy gardens, plus gnome displays in the Great Hall of the visitor center. In the center’s balcony area and in the Snyder Building, visitors will find a variety of dish gardens, terrariums and other diminutive displays created

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Tickets are $15 for adults, $8 for seniors/students and are available at the Center. For more information, call (952) 985-4640.

Special fairy story times will be scheduled at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. on weekends through the run of “Tiny Treasures.”

Time: Exhibit runs through March 4 Cost: $9 for adults; free for ages 15 and younger; free to Arboretum members Location: Minnesota Landscape Arboretum, 3675 Arboretum Drive, Chaska Info: www.arboretum.umn.edu or (952) 443-1422

MEDALIST CONCERT BAND: ‘SHALL WE DANCE?’ From the minuet to the mambo, dance music has intrigued audiences for centuries. Experience a variety of dance forms in selections by composers such as Malcolm Arnold, Leonard Bernstein and Peter Tchaikovsky.

Time: 4 p.m. Sunday, March 4 Cost: Adults $12; seniors and students $10 Location: Bloomington Center for the Arts, 1800 W. Old Shakopee Road, Bloomington Info: bloomingtoncivictheatre.org

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MARCH 6 SECRETS OF SEED STARTING Scott-Carver Master Gardeners will present a class on the secrets of starting plants from seed. Skip the nursery and give your plants and vegetables a head start by planting your own.

Time: 6-8:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 6 Cost: free, no registration Location: Shakopee Library, 235 S. Lewis St. Info: (952) 447-3061

COMMUNITY BOOK FAIR Students from Twin Oaks Middle School will host this Scholastic fair to raise funds for new books and equipment repairs. Books include those for young teens and adults and the latest bestsellers from more than 150 publishers. Area businesses interested in making a donation can contact Lisa Wensmann at lwensmann@priorlake-savage.k12. mn.us.

Time: 7 a.m.-7 p.m. March 6 and 8;

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7 a.m. to 3 p.m. March 7 Cost: Items for purchase Location: Twin Oaks Middle School, 15860 Fish Point Road, Prior Lake Info: www.priorlake-savage.k12. mn.us Thursday

GREENFIT CLUB: SPRING Meet others on a similar path to fitness and find motivation in the friendships. The program will include Nordic walking, yoga, paddling and a variety of outdoor recreation activities.

Reservations required; reference activity 223117-00. For ages 18 and older.

Time: 10-11 a.m. Mondays, Wednesdays and Thursdays, March 5-May 31 Cost: $75 per season Location: Hyland Lake Park Reserve, 10145 Bush Lake Road, Bloomington Info: (763) 559-6700 or threeriversparkdistrict.org

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MARCH 8 SPENCERS: THEATRE OF ILLUSION Magic is no longer merely about baffling the audience by doing something seemingly impossible.

Instead, magic by Kevin and Cindy Spencer is about spectacle, drama, danger and personality. You won’t believe your eyes!

Time: 7:30 p.m. Thursday, March 8 Cost: $15-$39 Location: Burnsville Performing Arts Center, 12600 Nicollet Ave. Info: 800-982-2787 (Ticketmaster) or burnsvillepac.com Friday

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MARCH 9 FISH DINNER The Shakopee Knights of Columbus are sponsoring a dinner of baked or fried fish, potato salad and au gratin potatoes, green beans, fresh baked bread, dessert and beverages.

Time: 5-7:30 p.m. Friday, March 9 Cost: $11 adults; $6 children 5-10; free for children 4 and younger Location: Knights Event Center, 1760 Fourth Ave. E., Shakopee Info: (952) 445-5555

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SYRUP THROUGH HISTORY Follow sap from tree to tap and from syrup to sugar as you discover Minnesota’s rich history of maple syruping. Ride a trolley pulled by Percheron horses and visit with maple syrup makers from the past.

Time: 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday, March 17 Cost: $5 ages 18-64; $3 ages 2-17 and seniors; children under 2 admitted free Location: The Landing-Minnesota River Heritage Park, 2187 Highway 101 E., Shakopee Info: (763) 559-6700

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GIRLS TEA: MOTHERDAUGHTER EVENT The Scott County Historical Society will host its annual Girl’s Tea event. Girls are encouraged to bring their American Girl dolls to make jewelry for the dolls and themselves.

Time: 1:30-3 p.m. Saturday, March 10 Cost: $15/non-member; $10/member Location: Stans Museum/Scott County Historical Society, 235 Fuller St. S., Shakopee Info: (952) 445-0378

Upcoming IRISH MUSIC AND SONG National performers Tim O’Neill (O’Neill Brothers) and Laura MacKenzie will provide a sing-along and Irish humor.

There will also be corn beef brisket or chicken dinner, soda bread and prize drawings. Ticket includes a free O’Neill Brothers CD and day care with a pizza party and games for children 12 and under.

Time: 5-8:30 p.m. Sunday, March 11 Cost: $17 Location: Knights Event Center, 1760 Fourth Ave. E., Shakopee Info: (952) 445-1287

Celebrate the cultural heritage of Ireland with live Irish music in a publike setting featuring an as-sortment of Irish-influenced appetizers, dessert, coffee and a cash bar.

Time: 7:30 p.m. Saturday, March 17 Cost: $15 Location: Lakeville Area Arts Center 20965 Holyoke Ave. Info: (952) 985-4640

PIONEERING OBOE/BASS DUO “A Time and Place for Music” concert series founders Carrie Vecchione (oboe) and Rolf Erdahl (bass) perform music including a Norwegian folktale, Americana and a world premiere.

Time: 2 p.m. Sunday, March 18 Cost: $12 adults, $10 seniors and students; season tickets available at discount Location: Lakeville Area Arts Center 20965 Holyoke Ave. Info: (952) 985-4640 CELTIC

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COMMUNITY GATHERINGS AND SUPPORT will meet from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Wednesday, March 7 at the Valley Green Workforce Center, 752 Canterbury Road, in Shakopee. The group meets on the first and third Wednesdays of the month. For more information, call Janet (952) 890-1669.

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Savage Library story times The following weekly story time events take place at 10:30 a.m.

Mondays and Tuesdays at the Savage Library, 13090 Alabama Ave. No registration is required.  Preschool Story Time: Children ages 3 to 6 can join Miss Julie for stories, songs and fun activities. This week’s theme is “The Wind Blew”.  Toddler Story Time: Children and parents/caregivers are invited to the Library for 20 to 30 minutes of themed stories and rhymes for children 18 to 36 months of age. Scott County Relay for Life

Grief Support Group A Grief Support Group will meet from 7 to 8 p.m. Wednesday, March 7 at St. Francis Regional Medical Center, 1455 St. Francis Ave., Shakopee. The group meets the first Wednesday of every month. For more information, call (952) 403-2002.

A Scott County Relay for Life Committee meeting will take place at 6:30 p.m. Monday, March 5 in the Rotary Room at the Shakopee Community Center, 1255 Fuller St. The public is invited to volunteer and to learn more about Relay for Life by attending the meeting or visiting www.relayforlife.org/ scottcountymn.

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Beyond the Yellow Ribbon — South of the River will meet from 7 to 9 p.m. Tuesday, March 6 at the Prior Lake VFW, 16306 Main Ave. S.E. Beyond the Yellow Ribbon — South of the River is a commu-nity based out of Scott County that honors, serves and supports all military families both past and present. The group meets on the first Tuesday of the month.

For more information, call (952) 440-5011 or visit www.btyrsouthoftheriver.org.

The MOMS Club (MOMS Offering Moms Support) — North will meet at 9:30 a.m. Thursday, March 8. The club is for Savage residents who live north of County Road 42 and Shakopee residents who live east of County Road 83. Meetings are held on the second Thursday of each month.

For more information and to get the location of the meeting, contact Angie at (612) 819-4404 via email at MomsofSavage@yahoo.com.

Infant Loss Support Group

The South Suburban Coalition of churches is sponsoring a presentation titled “Finding God in the Midst of Grief” as part of its “Growing Through Loss” series.

The session will take place from 6:30 to 9 p.m. Thursday, March 8 at All Saints Catholic Church, 19795 Holyoke Ave., Lakeville. Suggested donation is $3. For more information, call Jim Marschall at (952) 985-9983.

An Infant Loss Support Group will meet from 7 to 8 p.m. Tuesday, March 6 at St. Francis Regional Medical Center, 1455 St. Francis Ave., Shakopee. The group meets the first Tuesday of every month.

For more information, call (952) 403-2002.

Heart Support Group A Heart Support Group will meet from 7 to 8 p.m. Tuesday, March 6 at St. Francis Regional Medical Center, 1455 St. Francis Ave., Shakopee. The group meets the first Tuesday of every month. For more information, call (952) 403-2080.

NAMI Support Group The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) support group

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Feed My Starving Children The Savage Area Women of Today will volunteer to pack meals at Feed My Starving Children in Eagan from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Friday, March 9.

To volunteer with the group, visit http://volunteer.fmsc.org/ Register/Default.aspx and click on “Join an existing group.” Enter the code 188677 to register. For more information, call Stacy at (952) 226-6815 or email savageareawt@gmail.com.

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CAP Agency WIC voucher pickup days The CAP Agency WIC voucher pickup dates for residents of Scott County are the second Monday, third Thursday and fourth Tuesday of each month from 9 a.m. to noon and 1 to 4 p.m. at the CAP Agency, 712 Canterbury Road S., Shakopee. For more in-formation about WIC, call the CAP Agency WIC Program at (952) 402-9869.

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Mobile Health Clinic Scott County Public Health is offering a Mobile Health Clinic from 2 to 5 p.m. Thursday, March 8 at the Scott County Fairgrounds, 7151 190th St. W., Jordan.

The mission of the Mobile Health Clinic is to provide access to healthcare, health education and outreach for services to residents of Scott County of all ages, cultures, ethnic groups and spoken languages. For more information on services available at these clinics, call (952) 496-8555.

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Buffalo Tap, 4990 123rd St., Savage has bingo games at 8 p.m. every Thursday night. All proceeds support Climb Theatre, a local nonprofit organization that helps elementary school children.

Bingo at Tin Shed for area nonprofits The Tin Shed Tavern and Pizza, 12250 Zinran Ave., Savage has a variety of weekly bingo activities that benefit area nonprofits:  Two sessions of bingo at 7 p.m. every Tuesday night.  Mega bingo every Tuesday afternoon and Sunday evening.

For more information, call (952) 736-2444.

TABLE offers parent support TABLE is a small group formed by Shepherd of the Lake Lutheran Church that offers support and information for parents of children with special behavioral, learning or emotional challenges. The group meets the second and fourth Thursdays of each month from 7:15 to 8:45 p.m. There is no cost to attend. The church is located at 3611 North Berens Road N.W., Prior Lake.

For more information, call Mary Wangerin at (952) 447-1884 or visit www.sollc.org.

Savage Unity Alcoholics Anonymous Open meetings of the Savage Unity Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) group take place at 6:30 p.m. each Monday at Bridgewood Church, 6201 W. 135th St., Savage. The non-smoking group features the “step” and “tradition” programs. The building is handicapped accessible. For more information, call Jon H. at (952) 297-4777.

Savage Network Plus Savage Network Plus, a business referral group, meets every Thursday from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Savage City Hall, 6000 McColl Drive. Savage Network Plus is a Business Network International (BNI) group. For more information, call Bruce at (952) 440-5261 or e-mail bprimeau@summitwealthadvocates.com.

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Grainwood glides to recycling glory

BY MERYN FLUKER mfluker@swpub.com

SCHOOL NEWS

View middle school honor rolls online Honor rolls for Hidden Oaks Middle School, Twin Oaks Middle School and Eagle Ridge Junior High can be found online at www.savagepacer.com by searching the school name and “honor roll”.

Madonna tickets. A trip to Paris. All the burritos you can eat. There are a lot of worthwhile ways to spend $1,000.

Principal Patrick Glynn will soon devise another one.

G r a i nwo o d E le m e nt a r y School was recently awarded $ 1,0 0 0 for c om i n g i n f i r st place statewide in the RecycleBowl Competition, a national contest sponsored by Nestle through Keep America Beautiful. Grainwood students and staff bested all other Prior L a ke - S ava g e A r e a S cho ol District schools in the contest, which rewarded the buildings that recycled the most weight per person over a four-week period between Oct. 17 and Nov. 12 last year.

Special guests Bert and Ernie were on hand to deliver the news to the students at an allschool meeting on Wednesday afternoon. The Sesame Street roommates also presented a plaque — made of recycled material, of course — to the school’s students for recycling an average of 8.82 pounds per person and over 15,000 pounds for the period.

“I think it validates the district’s work and the commitment the district has [to environmental education],” said Glynn of the win. “It just validates what we do.”

Lending Glynn’s comment more weight is that the students and staff at Grainwood had no idea they’d even been entered into the contest during the month in which they were monitored. Environmenta l Education Coordinator Cara Rieckenberg found the contest online in September during her regular weekly search for grant opportunities and information.

“It’s core practice in the district with our curriculum.

Recycling is part of it,” she said. “I don’t want it to be something they do because there’s an extrinsic goal.”

Rieckenberg wasn’t shocked when she found out Grainwood had outperformed its fellow District 719 schools.

She pointed to the school’s past environmental successes, such as winning an ice cream party sponsored by Culver’s and Dick’s Sanitation Inc. in June 2010 for recycling more

PLHS Hall of Fame seeks nominations The Prior Lake High School Hall of Fame is looking for nominations for activities, distinguished alumni and athletics.

Forms can be found on the Prior Lake-Savage Area School District’s website at www. priorlake-savage.k12.mn.us.

The deadline for nominations is Saturday, March 31.

The sale is scheduled from 8 a.m. to noon Saturday, April 14 at Edgewood School, 5304 WestWood Drive, Prior Lake.

For more information, email ecfesale@hotmail.com.

PLHS nursery school has openings Prior Lake High School’s Family and Consumer Science Department has openings in its nursery school program, which serves children ages 3 to 5.

The program runs from 10:15 to 11:25 a.m. Monday through Friday — though not on Tuesdays — from now through Monday, March 26 in room 133 at the high school, 7575 150 St., Savage.

To enroll or get more information, email Mary Kay Lien at mlien@priorlake-savage. k12.mn.us.

Seeking consignors St. John’s holding open house March 8 for Kids Stuff Sale PHOTO BY MERYN FLUKER/REPRINTS AT PHOTOS.SAVAGEPACER.COM

These students are members of Grainwood Elementary School’s Kids’ Company. They played a large role in the school’s recent statewide fi rst-place fi nish in the RecycleBowl competition. On Tuesdays and Thursdays, Kids’ Company students take bins throughout the school and collect classrooms’ recyclables. Photographed students include: Gracie DiPerna, Jacob Doll, Brianna Elbon, Sadie Haben, Peyton Hopkins, Brynn Liddle, Greyson McKinney, Stasia McKinney, Sydney Mickett, Emma Smith, Mckenzie Weimerskirch and Julia Wieskus. Bert and Ernie dropped by the school Wednesday afternoon to deliver the good news. than any other district school. “ It ’s a whole - scho ol ap proach,” Rieckenberg said.

“The custodians are just as much teachers as the classroom teachers when it comes to recycling.”

“What I think helps is that we have some embedded routines,” Glynn followed.

Those routines reinforce that whole-school approach.

Eileen Hanson, site coordinator for Grainwood’s Kids’ Company before- and afterschool program, asked Glynn if there was any way her students could give back to the school. Glynn enlisted them to help with the district’s new organic recycling initiative.

So every Tuesday and Thursday, staff members know to put their recycling out so that the Kids’ Company kids can collect their recyclables and make sure they get where they need to go.

“You’re one of the leaders

for that,” Rieckenberg noted. “[Organic recycling] emphasizes that culture of reduce, reuse and recycle. It increases that awareness.”

Grainwood’s Junior Naturalists have even gotten in on the act. Each day, they set up a sample lunch tray to sit near the lunch line, where students have labeled which items need to be recycled or disposed of in which bins. Minnesota GreenCorps Member Shawn Hel meke, who h a s help e d with the district’s organic recycli ng prog ra m — said that display has made a large difference.

“This is the only school that does that,” Rieckenberg said.

Rieckenberg was notified in December that the school had come out on top in Minnesota.

“I thought that we were going to win the whole thing,” she laughed. “I was disap pointed when we didn’t win

The Prior Lake-Savage Early Childhood Family Education (ECFE) Advisory Council is sponsoring its third annual Kids Stuff Sale of gently used maternity and children’s clothes, toys, books, videos/ CDs, and baby/chi ld ren’s equipment.

St. John the Baptist Catholic School will host an all-day open house from 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Thursday, March 8.

The school is located at 12508 Lynn Ave., Savage. For more information call (952) 890-6604 or visit www.stjohnssavage.org.

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www.savagepacer.com the national contest and excited when we won the state.”

The administrators have not yet decided what to do wit h t hei r $ 1,0 0 0 wi nd fa l l but encouraged students to submit their ideas. They hope to unveil the final decision at the school’s environmental festival on Friday, May 25.

Rieckenberg said the dollars w i l l go towa rd somet h i n g environmental-education related.

“Something that will give back to the kids for the work that they do,” Glynn added.

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M.W. Savage teachers rehearse their “Dancing Munchkins” routine for this Saturday’s performance of Class Acts, an annual show put on by staff members in District 191.

The show raises money for scholarships for graduating seniors. This year’s show, dubbed “Lights, Cameras, Class Acts,” will feature new twists on favorite Hollywood moments.

Two performances will take place at 2:30 and 7:30 p.m. today, March 3. All performances are in the Mraz Center at Burnsville High School, 600 E. Highway 13.

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That was the day his friend stopped breathing while shooting up. Cooley had spilled out of the truck with his limp friend in his arms after their pickup truck was stopped by police on Highway 169 as it sped toward the hospital.

“He overdosed; you didn’t,” Stacey responded.

Stacey has become an advocate for automatically booking and treating the increasing number of heroin addicts that come through his doors at Scott County District Court.

“This stuff is so powerful, it’s killing a lot of people,” he said. “I’m not going to let them die on my watch.”

Stacey, who lost a loved one to heroin, knows the risk.

A lthough he is assig ned drug-abuse cases along with the rest of the Scott County judges, he is able to pull defendants and their families over to share his personal story. In court last month, Stacey asked Cooley whether he knew another person from Belle Plaine who overdosed in a car a few weeks prior. That person was saved because a passenger managed

to g rab t he wheel, according to police.

H e r o i n has become as common as methamphetamine in Stacey’s courtroom.

Judge Rex “I can count Stacey on one hand the number of heroin cases I had prior to 2009,” Stacey said, including his 16 years as a federal public defender.

Heroin cases have quadrupled from 10 in 2009 to 45 last year in Scott County. This doesn’t count the countless related theft cases.

The picture is as grim in courtrooms across the state, rural and urban, authorities say.

A fter dropping with the slowdown in meth cases, childprotection cases have also picked up, rising 30 percent from 2009, in part due to heroin usage, said Scott County Attorney Pat Ciliberto.

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County Attorney Pat Ciliberto recently informed them of the growing heroin problem. Two individuals later approached him to share that their college student children had confirmed a heroin craze on their campuses.

“We had to play a lot of catchup on methamphetamines,” Ciliberto said. “We want to get ahead of this problem. We don’t want to be in the same spot we were with meth in this County.”

While drug use may be a fact of life, local authorities are especially alarmed about heroin because of how potent and cheap the local supply currently is — designed like any good marketing campaign, they say, to get users hooked before the price is jacked up and quality lowers.

A small baggie of heroin can go for $40, Stacey said, half of what an oxycodone pill could sell for on the street.

Heroin is also more accessible to users than meth, he said.

There’s a concentrated effort to flood this area with cheap heroin, said an undercover drug officer.

“They’re preying on people looking for a cheap fix,” said Tate.

because of new formulas, heroin is more potent and proving much harder for addicts to kick, local experts say.

Trafficked by Mexican drug cartels, most of the heroin being used locally is smoked — not injected, drug officers say.

Users are typically in their late teens and 20s — typically people who have part-time jobs or not employed, often because of their addictions.

As opposed to coke or meth, there’s a lot of female users-perhaps even more than males, said one officer.

Unlike meth (an upper), heroin acts as a depressant and can cause vital bodily functions to shut down. It can be more potent if mixed with alcohol, which is also a downer.

In addition to the risk of a deadly overdose, heroin usage is particularly alarming, police say, because of how addictive the drug is — even for those who’ve completed treatment.

Of well over 100 heroin users he knows, only a handful have successfully kicked their habit, said an undercover officer with the Southwest Metro Drug Task Force.

“Almost every heroin user I see says they want to clean up, it’s just so hard to do,” Stacey said.

Heroin’s rapid rise sneaked up on local law enforcement, which is planning to start educational efforts through the Scott County Meth Task Force in hopes of preventing an epidemic like meth.

“This came fast,” said Shakopee Police Chief Jeff Tate.

HARDER TO KICK “I could just work heroin cases and be continuously busy,” an undercover officer said.

Drug task force officers say many families are unaware their children are on heroin — a drug that has been seen as an East and West Coast thing and was known for being injected, not smoked.

“That stigma just isn’t there anymore,” said one officer.

Parents, “I don’t think they have a clue,” he said.”It’s like the last thing they would have thought of.”

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Unusual items around the house such as pen tubes, capsules, small plastic bags, syringes, packaging material for antihistamines or unusual residue in the coffee-bean grinder or on tinfoil. Cash or other valuables may be missing and a sudden pattern of stealing or borrowing money appears. On the other hand, you also may find unexplained valuables.

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Heroin is processed from morphine. It is typically sold as a white or brownish powder or as the black sticky substance known on the streets as “black tar heroin.” It can be snorted or injected.

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And users often don’t know what they’re getting into.

“I don’t think they’re aware of how physically addictive it is,” said a drug off icer, who be lieves addiction is almost immediate.

“It’s a very, PHOTO BY SHANNON FIECKE ver y d i f f icu lt A pen capsule and tinfoil used to smoke drug to kick,” heroin. s a id T at e, r e counting a rare recovered tercepted in December at the user from Shakopee whose ad- Minneapolis-St. Paul Internadiction was so bad he forgot to tional Airport. show up for his own birthday In Stacey’s courtroom, Lauparty. ro Riera, a suspected member This particular young man of a drug cartel, was caught had used other drugs, but al- videotaping a court hearing ways said heroin was the one for Armando Diaz-Gomez, who drug he would never do. was arrested in the bust of a “But he tried it anyway,” Shakopee safe house.

Tate said.

Given his personal loss, StaAs authorities plan efforts cey said he’s removed himself to educate the public, they are from these cases and won’t also mindful of the inherent take others. He views alleged risk of interfering with heroin traffickers like Riera and Diaztrafficking.

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“There’s a lot of money in“It’s caused an epidemic volved in this business; people of overdose deaths,” he said. have a lot to lose,” said an un- “Early users and people who dercover officer. have been off it for a while and The area has recently seen go back, this stuff is so powermajor busts — including 2 ki- ful that they will use as much los of black-tar heroin headed they were using when they quit for Scott County that was in- and it kills them.”

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Long-term effects Addiction is a chronic, relapsing disease, characterized by compulsive drug seeking, and neurochemical and molecular changes in the brain. Withdrawal may occur within a few hours after the last time the drug is taken. Craving and relapse can occur weeks and months after withdrawal symptoms are long gone.

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Fun way to finish Lakers’ Stang, Noer deliver in their first-ever state showing

BY TOM SCHARDIN tschardin@swpub.com

PHOTO BY TOM SCHARDIN

Burnsville junior goalie Chris Mallon shows dejection after Edina scored to a take 4-3 lead late in the Section 2AA fi nals Feb. 29 at Mariucci Arena. The Hornets went on to the beat the Blaze 6-3.

Stung once again Edina denies Blaze section title for a second straight year

BY TOM SCHARDIN tschardin@swpub.com

The Burnsville boys hockey team just can’t seem to beat at Edina.

Not at home. Not on the road. Not on a small ice sheet.

And not on a big one either like at Mariucci Arena in Minneapolis.

That’s where the secondseeded Blaze met top-seeded Edina for the Section 2AA title and the Hornets stung Burnsville once again with a 6-3 victory.

The Blaze is 0-9 versus Edina in the six seasons Janne Kivihalme has been coach.

Three of those losses are in

the section final, including 3-2 last year and 4-3 in overtime in 2008.

Six of the nine games have decided by one goal.

The Blaze advanced to the title game with a 4-1 win over third-seeded Prior Lake in the semifinals Feb. 25 and a 9-0 quarterfinal victory over s event h - s e e de d Sh a kop e e Feb. 23.

Burnsville trailed Edina 3-2 going into the third period and being behind after two frames has spelled trouble for the Blaze this season.

Burnsville was 0-7 when it trailed going into the third heading into the title game. So combine that with the Blaze’s

winless streak versus the Hornets over the last six years and the odds of a comeback looked bleak.

But come back the Blaze did.

Senior Cory Chapman scored 4:46 into the final period to tie the game at 3-3. Sophomore Tyler Sheehy scored at the 10:52 mark of the second period to cut Edina’s lead to one goal.

Burnsville had a couple good chances to take the lead in the third. Senior Hunter Anderson just missed on a shot from near the faceoff circle shortly after the Blaze tied the game.

But Edina’s speed started to take over late in the game, just like it did in the first period

when the Hornets scored three unanswered goals to build a 3-1 lead.

With 5:49 left to play, the Hornets scored two goals 33 seconds apart to put Burnsville away. Edina added an empty-net goal with 53 seconds to go.

The Hornets outshot the Blaze 37-14.

Burnsville had trouble on the big ice sheet keeping up with Edina, especially in the first period. But Burnsville made the necessary adjustments in the second period and into the third to get back into the game.

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Senior Jamie Stang finished her career in style, while it’s just the beginning for ninthgrader Angela Noer.

The two Prior Lake gymnasts were f irst-time competitors at the Class AA state meet Feb. 25 at the University of Minnesota Sports Pavilion with Stang delivering a career-best score on the uneven bars and Noer showing poise and composure beyond her years.

Stang scored a 9.41 on the bars and that almost got her on the medal stand. She knew she nailed her final routine afterward and was all smiles and getting plenty of hugs. She ended up 11th overall.

“I am so proud of Jamie,” said Lakers coach Barb Kass.

“She officially placed 11th, but actually her score was tied for eighth. The tie-breaking procedure put her at 11th. She worked so hard all season and it was so nice to see all of her hard work pay off.”

Meanwhile, Noer was competing in the all-around, as well on the balance beam and the bars. She ended up 30th in the all-around with a score of 34.337. Her best score came on the vault where she earned a 9.05. She scored an 8.62 on the floor exercise.

Noer’s best individual finish was on the beam where she finished 27th with a score of 8.31. She was 28th on the bars with an 8.35.

“Angela did amazing for a ninth-grader,” said Kass. “It’s a very difficult meet for the most experienced gymnasts, so it’s very impressive for a young gymnast like Angela to do so well. She did very well on her first two events floor and vault, but unfortunately had a fall on both bars and beam, which hurt her in the all-around.

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Prior Lake senior Jamie Stang fi nished 11th on the uneven bars at the Class AA state meet Feb. 25.

Prior Lake ninth-grader Angela Noer competed in the all-around and on the balance beam and uneven bars at state.

Luckily, she has three more years to return.”

The last time Prior Lake had two g y mnasts at state was in 2010 when Sydney Notermann and Elizabeth Kuntz competed on the beam and vault, respectively.

BOYS SWIMMING

Records fall, berths earned Robrock wins twice at section meet, leads five Lakers to state

BY TOM SCHARDIN tschardin@swpub.com

Four school records and plenty of state berths highlighted the Prior Lake boys swimming team’s efforts in the Section 3AA finals Feb. 24.

Five individuals are representing the Lakers at the Class A A state meet — se niors Kyle Robrock and Zach Kleist, junior Alex Jenness, ninth-grader Matt Anderson and eighth-grader Marshall Heskin.

Robrock, Heskin and Jenness each earned state berths in two individual events, while the Lakers qualified two relays.

But it was Robrock, who took center stage, winning the 100-yard freestyle with section record time of 46.67. That also set a new school mark, breaking the old one of 46.83 set by Jacob Kalinowski in 2007.

Robrock also won the 100 backstroke, breaking his own school mark with a time of 50.50. He was .03 off the section record held by Apple Valley’s Michael Zee in 2003.

Robrock took second in the 100 backstroke at state last year. He’ll be seeking to become the first Prior Lake swimmer to win an individual state title since Chris Baker won two in 1984.

The state meet began Friday and ends today (Saturday, March 3) at the University of Minnesota Aquatic Center.

Robrock was also part of the Lakers’ two state-bound relays, the 200 medley and 400 freestyle.

Robrock, Jenness, Heskin and A nderson took second in the 200 free with a schoolrecord time of 1:37.84. The old mark was 1:40.01 set last year

by Robrock, Jenness, Heskin and Matthew Wright.

Robrock, Jenness, Anderson and Kleist made up the 400 free relay that finished third (3:17.80), breaking the school mark by .04 set in 2009.

Meanwhi le, Heski n won the 100 butterfly with a time of 52.30, which is only .20 off the school record set by Baker in 1983. Heskin also qualified in the 200 free, taking sixth (1:47.17), which was .55 under the cut.

Jenness was third in both his events, the 200 individual medley (1:59.38) and the 100 backstroke (53.12). He easily beat the state cut in both by more than two seconds.

The Lakers also had two close c a l l s. A nderson was sixth in the 50 free (22.64), finishing .39 off the cut. Anderson, K leist, Heskin and sophomore Austin Nichols

PHOTO BY TOM SCHARDIN

Prior Lake senior Kyle Robrock won the 100 backstroke and 100 freestyle in school-record times at the Section 3AA fi nals Feb. 24. ended up seventh in the 200 free relay (1:31.63) and was only .48 off the cut.

Eighth-g rader Craig Ro brock took eighth in the 500 freestyle (5:06.02).

Other finishes for the Lakers: Kleist in the 200 freestyle (16th, 1:55.08) and the 100 freestyle (15th, 51.55), sophomore

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Lakers are 3-7 in section semifinal matches, earn one title

BY TOM SCHARDIN tschardin@swpub.com

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Burnsville senior Jessica Buck had 20 points in the 57-46 playoff win at Eagan Feb. 29.

Girls hoops: Blaze earns playoff win Led by senior Jessica Buck, the Burnsville girls basketball team is back in the section semifinals for the third time in four years.

Buck scored 20 points to lead the fifth-seeded Blaze to a 57-46 win at fourth-seeded Eagan Feb. 29 in the Section 3AAAA quarterfinals.

Burnsville led 29-17 at the break and never looked back in beating Eagan for the third time this season.

The Blaze (10-17) is taking on top-seeded Eastview (22-5) in the semifinals today (Saturday, March 3) at Hamline University.

The Lightning has ended the Blaze’s season the last two years in the playoffs and has won 13 straight games over Burnsville.

Meanwhile, second-seeded Park (19 - 8) will face thirdseeded Apple Valley (15-12) in the other semifinal game. The title game is Thursday, March 8 at Hamline at 7 p.m.

Buck h a s average d 2 0. 8 points in her last six games and has been in double figures in the 15 of the Blaze’s last 17 contests.

The Lightning won both South Suburban Conference meetings over the Blaze this year by an average of 27.5 points, including a 64-21 win back on Feb. 6.

Seniors Lateeka Thompson and Jessica Ranke each had 11 points in the quarterfinal win, while senior Betsy Sexton and ninth-grader Maddie Kempf both had five.

T he Blaze went into the playoffs off a 60-55 loss at Rosemount Feb. 24 to finish 4-12 in the SSC. Buck led with 18 points, while Kempf had 14.

Boys hoops: Playoffs next for the Blaze The Burnsville boys basketball team has struggled all season long and now it’s time for the Section 2AAAA tournament.

The Blaze took a 1-23 overall record (1-15 in the South Suburban Conference) into its final regular season game at L a kevi l le Sout h F rid ay (results not available at press time).

Section seeds come out today (Saturday, March 3) and are done by QRF ratings (quality results formula). Even if the Blaze managed to upset Lakeville South, it’s doubtful the Blaze would climb out of the No. 8 section seed.

Burnsville looks to be on the road at top-seeded Eden Prairie (19-5) in the quarterfinals Wednesday, March 7 at 7 p.m.

Chanhassen (20-5) and Prior Lake (14-11) are the likely next two seeds, followed by Lakeville South (11-14). Bloomington Kennedy (9-16), Shakopee (1015) and Bloomington Jefferson (5-19).

Meanwhile, Burnsville came to play in its final home game Feb. 28 versus Prior Lake. The game was tied 49-49 with eight minutes to go, but the Lakers pulled away down the stretch for a 61-51 victory.

Burnsville went into the game on the heels of a 73-43 home loss to Rosemount Feb. 24.

Senior Bryan Heard led the Blaze against Prior Lake with 17 points, while senior AJ Coleman scored 12. Seniors Chase Roullier and Ryan Swanson chipped in seven and six points, respectively.

In the loss to Rosemount, Swanson led with 17 points, while Roullier scored nine and sophomore Will Reger finished with five.

The good news for the Prior Lake wrestling team is it earned four state berths at the Section 2AAA individual tournament Feb. 25.

The bad news, the Lakers had five third-place finishers.

That’s five who were one spot shy of state.

“The competition was better than we have ever seen it,” said Lakers coach Joe Block. “We lost a couple close matches that we could have won, but that’s a tribute to the section being real tough this year. It should drive some of those guys to work harder in the offseason. Overall, I was proud of the boys. They wrestled hard and should be proud of themselves.”

T h e L a ke r s ’ lo n e s e c tion champion was senior Matt Kahnke, who won the 138-pound title to earn his fourth state berth.

Junior Tanner Johnshoy made his second state tourney the hard way — winning a true-second match at 113 pounds, whi le sophomore Blake Carlisle and ninthg rader A lex Ha r t ea r ned their first-ever berths finishing runner-up at 126 and 170 pounds, respectively.

The Class AAA state individual tournament began Friday and ends today (Saturday, March 3) at the Xcel

PHOTOS BY TOM SCHARDIN

Prior Lake senior Matt Kahnke (photo left) won the 138-pound title at the Section 2AAA individual tourney Feb. 25 to qualify for state, while ninth-grader Alex Hart took second at 170 pounds to earn a state spot.

Energy Center. The Lakers also competed in the team tourney for the fourth time since 2006, facing White Bear Lake in the quarterfinals March 1 (results not available at press time).

Kahnke took a 30-12 record into state. He went 3 - 0 in winning the section crown, beating Brenden Olevson of Chanhassen 6-2 in final.

Meanwhile, Johnshoy went into the sections ranked No. 2 in the state at 113 pounds.

But he was upset in the semifinals, falling 14-11 to Alex Coleman of Shakopee.

Johnshoy won 7-2 in the third-place match. And when

Coleman beat Jacob Gabbard of Farmington 4-2 in overtime for the title, Johnshoy got a second chance in a truesecond match with Gabbard in which he won.

I f Gabba rd wou ld have beaten Coleman, Johnshoy would have been out. Johnshoy (37-7) was the state runner-up last year at 103 pounds.

Carlisle and Hart both went 2-1 at sections. Carlisle lost 17-6 to second-ranked Sam Brancale of Eden Prairie in the title match. He took a 24-13 mark into state.

Hart earned a little revenge en route to his state berth. He beat Jacob Glynn of Shakopee

7-3 in the semifinals, before losing 4 -3 in the finals to Tristyn Hanson of Lakeville North.

Glynn pinned Hart in the Section 2AAA title match a week earlier. Hart took a 27-15 record into state.

Sophomore Robbie Schultz had a chance at state in a truesecond match at 182 pounds, falling to Melvin DeSouza of Eden Prairie. Schultz won 2-1 in the third-place match after losing 5-2 in the semifinals.

Ju nior Ben Rock (132 ), sophomores Sean O’Neil (120) and Luis Pinto (220) and senior heavyweight Ross Larson also took third.

Rock (ranked No. 9) was seeking his third state berth, but lost 5-4 in the semifinals.

O’Neil was seeking his second berth, but also lost in the semis (5-4).

Larson, ranked No. 8, lost 6-4 in the semis, while Pinto fell lost a tough 3-2 decision in the semis. Junior Ryan Norton was also in the semifinals at 145 pounds, losing 4-1. He ended up fourth.

So the Lakers went 3-7 in semifinal matches with three wrestlers losing by a point, one by two and three by three.

That’s how close they were to having 10 wrestlers in the finals.

Other finishes for Prior Lake: senior Tucker Breitung at 152 (5th) and junior Tom Schwenbeck at 195 (4th).

Two get through Blaze seniors second at sections to get to state

BY TOM SCHARDIN tschardin@swpub.com

Wrestling in a section with perennial national power Apple Valley isn’t easy.

But even so, Burnsville was hoping to get more than two state entrants at the Section 3AAA individual competition Feb. 25 at Eastview.

W hile the No. 1-ranked Eagles won 12 of the 14 weights and had 13 state qualifiers, the Blaze managed to get two runner-up finishers — Andy Underhill at 120 pounds and Harry Bramley at 145.

The two seniors are representing Burnsville at the Class AAA state individual tournament, which began Friday and ends today (Saturday,

March 3) at the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul.

For Underhill, it will be his third straight appearance, while Bramley will be making his first.

Overall, the Blaze had 11 place winners at sections, including a third-place finish from sophomore Bill Underhill at 106 pounds. It was the second straight year he’s finished third after getting to state as an eighth-grader.

Both Andy Underhill and Bramley needed to win truesecond matches to earn state berths.

Underhill defeated Adam Hedlin of Rosemount 12-3 to finish 3-1 in the tourney.

Underhill, ranked No. 2 in the state at 120, lost by fall to top-

ranked Seth Gross of Apple Valley in the title match.

Underhill took a 33-2 record into state.

Bramley went 4-1 in the tou r ney, beati ng Michael Rahman of Eagan 3-2 to get to state. He won 3-2 in the thirdplace match to earn a shot at a true-second match. Bramley took a 26-17 mark into state.

Bill Underhill, ranked No. 3 in the state, lost 10-7 to eighthranked Reid Lyden of East Ridge in the semifinals. Lyden lost to Apple Valley’s Maolu Woiwor in the title match, so Underhill did not get a truesecond match since Lyden had already beaten him. Underhill finished 30-6.

O t her f i n i she s for t he Blaze: senior Andre Sellars

PHOTO BY TOM SCHARDIN

Burnsville senior Harry Bramley took second at 145 pounds at the Section 3AAA individual tournament Feb. 25 to qualify for state. at 132 (4th, 2-2 record), sophomore John Dahl at 220 (4th, 2-2), junior Alonso Quintana at 138 (5th, 3-2), junior Lucas Grossoehme at 170 (5th, 2-2), junior Kevin Moruri at 195 (5th, 3-2), senior BJ Vang at 126 (6th, 2-2), senior Dmytro Hutsal at 182 (6th, 1-3), and sophomore Ethan Morgel at heavyweight (6th, 1-3).

BOYS SWIMMING

State reserved for a foursome Juniors lead the Blaze at sections

BY TOM SCHARDIN tschardin@swpub.com PHOTO BY TOM SCHARDIN

Prior Lake eighth-grader Marshall Heskin won the 100 butterfly at the Section 3AA meet Feb. 24.

LAKERS continued from B1

Wil liam Bragg in the 2 0 0 freestyle (11th, 1:52.15) and the 500 freestyle (13th, 5:11.98), Nichols in the 50 freestyle (15th, 23.21) and the 100 freestyle (14th, 51.45), sophomore Alec Robrock in the 100 butterfly (16th, 57.46) and the 100 breaststroke (15th, 1:06.54), ninth-grader Paul Hescott in the 500 freestyle (16th, 5:16.07), senior Ben McGahan in the 100 backstroke (15th, 1:01.04), sophomore Mitchell McGahan in diving (14th, 238.25 points) and sophomore Carter Francis in the 100 breaststroke (14th, 1:06.52).

The Lakers were fourth in the team standings with 246.5 points. Rosemount won the title (424.5), followed by Lakeville North (383) and Lakeville South (301.5).

The Burnsville boys swimming team has a foursome at the Class AA state meet.

Juniors Ben Albert and Cha rlie Kol lasch led t he Blaze in the Section 3A A finals Feb. 24 in Prior Lake.

Both qualified for state in two individual events and were one half of the one Burnsville relay that got through.

Albert won the 200-yard individual medley with a time of 1:56.84 and was runner-up in the 100 breaststroke (58.79). Kollasch qualified for state in his two individual events by time standard.

Kollasch was fourth in the 100 backstroke with a time of 54.0, which was well below the state cut (55.80). He was fifth in the 200 freestyle (1:46.59), more than a full second under the cut (1:47.72).

The state meet began Friday and ends today (Saturday, March 3) at the University of Minnesota Aquatic Center.

Meanwhile, Albert, Kollasch, senior Justin Clem and junior Shawn Wong ended up third at sections in the 200 medley relay to qualify

for state. They had a time of 1:40.90, which was well under the state standard (1:42.14).

In the team standings, the Blaze finished eighth with 162 points. Burnsville had only seven individual swims make it back to the finals (top 16) from the prelims Feb. 22.

Rosemount won the section crown with 424.5 points, followed by Lakeville North (383), Lakeville South (301.5), Prior Lake (246.5), Eagan (221), Eastview (178.5) and Apple Valley (164).

Wong ended up 10th in the 100 breaststroke (1:05.48) and 15th in the 200 individual medley (2:08.74).

Clem finished 10th in the 100 butterfly (55.37), less than a second off the state cut (54.69).

Albert, Kollasch, Clem and Wong came up short of state in the 400 freestyle, taking sixth (3:26.42). The state cut is 3:20.61.

The Blaze’s 200 freestyle relay team of seniors Anthony Nguyen and Patrick Solinger, junior Shane Harrison and seventh-grader Ryan Dobrzynski ended up eighth (1:38.58).

Last year at state Albert ended up 18th in the 200 individual medley and 15th in

PHOTOS BY TOM SCHARDIN

Burnsville junior Ben Albert qualified for state in the 200 individual medley and the 100 breaststroke at the Section 3AA meet Feb. 24.

Burnsville senior Justin Clem is part of the statebound 200 medley relay. the 100 breaststroke, while Kollasch was 11th in the 100 backstroke.

Kollasch, Clem and Albert were also part of the 200 medley relay that made state last year and took 14th.

Last year, the Blaze finished 28th in the state team standings with Minnetonka winning the title and Eden Prairie taking second.

PHOTO BY TOM SCHARDIN

Prior Lake senior Lauren Busse tries to score inside in the Lakers’ 77-73 playoff win at Chanhassen Feb. 29.

Girls hoops: Lakers win playoff thriller The Prior Lake girls basketball team had a never-say-die attitude to open the playoffs Feb. 29.

The Lakers pretty much trailed all game — 9-0, 34-26, 54-44 and 56-51 with 1:30 left to play — in their Section 2AAAA quarterfinal game at fourthseeded Chanhassen.

But the fifth-seeded Lakers kept fighting and earned a 77-73 double-overtime win.

The Lakers (14-13) are playing in the semifinals today (Saturday, March 3) against top-seeded Edina (23-4) at Hopkins High School. Secondseeded Eden Prairie (21-5) is facing third-seeded Bloomington Kennedy (23-4) in the other semifinal tilt. The title game is Friday, March 9 at Hopkins at 7 p.m.

In beating Chanhassen, the Lakers’ only lead in regulation was 18-15 midway through the first half.

Senior Molly Simpkins led Prior Lake with 2 0 points, adding 12 rebounds and seven steals.

Junior Deanna Busse finished with 19 points, hitting four threes. Junior Tiffany Flaata had 17 points, 12 rebounds and six blocks, while ninth-grader Shaye Barton had eight points.

Prior Lake went into the playoffs off a 71-47 home win over Eagan Feb. 23 to finish to 10-8 in the South Suburban Conference.

Senior Lauren Busse and Flaata each finished with 16 points. Busse hit four threepointers, while Flaata grabbed eight rebounds.

Simpkins scored 12 points, adding six boards and five steals.

Sophomore Taylor Zupan finished with nine points.

Boys hoops: Playoffs next for the Lakers The Prior Lake boys basketball team is 0-8 in the playoffs since becoming a Class 4 A program nine years ago. But all eight of those losses were on the road.

This year, Prior Lake will be home for the Section 2AAAA qu a r ter f i n a l s We d nesd ay, March 7 at 7 p.m. Seeds are out today (Saturday, March 3) and are done by QRF ratings (quality results formula).

Prior Lake ended the regular season Friday (results not available at press time) at home to No. 2-ranked Lakeville North. If the Lakers pulled off the upset, they’d likely get the No. 2 seed. Eden Prairie (19-6) will be the No. 1, while Chanhassen (20-5) is also vying for the No. 2 spot.

Other teams in the field: L a kev i l le S out h (11-14 ) .

Bloomington Kennedy (9-16), Shakopee (10-15), Bloomington Jefferson (5-19) and Burnsville (1-23).

Prior Lake went into the Lakeville North game winn i n g si x of it s l a st s even with a 14-11 mark (10-7 in the South Suburban Conference).

The Lakers won 61-51 win at Burnsville Feb. 28 and had a 63-62 double overtime win at Eagan Feb. 24.

Junior Noah Scanlon hit a half-court shot at the buzzer ver su s E a g a n t o s end t he game into overtime. Senior Evan Kotchevar led the Lakers with 24 points. He had 18 against Burnsville. He’s led the team in scoring in si x straight games, averaging 19.7 in that span.

Scanlon had a season-high 16 points against Burnsville and scored nine against Eagan.

Sophomore Jon Sobaski and senior Jack Kasier both had 10 points against Eagan.

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SPORTS BRIEFS

No title shot for skaters

Former Laker earns MIAC honor

Improved PL falls in semifinals

BY TOM SCHARDIN tschardin@swpub.com

Vidmar was under heavy fire in the first and second periods. Burnsville could have easily been up five goals if it wasn’t for Vidmar’s play. The Blaze had 14 shots on goal in both periods.

Me a nwh i le, P r ior L a ke couldn’t solve Burnsville goalie Chris Mallon until late in the third period. Mallon lost the shutout when Lakers’ sophomore Jack Murphy scored with 4:13 left. Junior Gavin Smith assisted.

But the Blaze iced the game with an empty-net goal with 38 seconds to play.

In the quarterfinals, Prior Lake’s seniors led the way. Kyle Krueger finished with the hat trick, while Matt Crist had four assist and senior Derek Johnson had three.

Prior Lake beat Holy Angels 4-3 in the first playoff round last year for its first-ever quarterfinal win as a Class 2A program. The Stars were in position for revenge in the rematch, leading by one goal three times — 2-1, 3-2 and again 4-3 midway through the second period.

But Krueger’s third goal of the game (his 27th) tied it up at the 10:44 mark. Sophomore Connor Bump scored 1:02 later to give the Lakers the lead for good.

Junior Austin Hill scored 2:39 into the third period. Hill, juniors Dylan Zins and Joey Kleven each had one assist.

Smith had a first-period for goal.

Miller finished with 16 saves.

Krueger finished his career as the Lakers’ all-time leading scorer with 102 points (55 goals, 47 assists). Crist set the Lakers’ single-season scoring record this year with 53 points (24 goals, 29 assists).

The Prior Lake boys hockey team lost for the second straight year in the Section 2AA semifinals, but the program appears to be on the right track.

The Lakers finished with 16 wins (16-11), their most since becoming a Class 2A program nine years ago.

Prior Lake’s season ended Feb. 25 in a 4-1 playoff loss to second-seeded Burnsville. The third-seeded Lakers won 6-5 in the quarterfinals over sixthseeded Holy Angels Feb. 23.

“We keep getting better every year,” Lakers third-year coach Joe Pankratz told the Minnesota Hockey Hub following the playoff loss. “Now we’re turning into a pretty good program that nobody is looking past anymore.”

The Lakers finished fourth in the South Suburban Conference with a 10-7 mark after finishing 5-11-2 last year.

Prior Lake went into semifinals with hopes it could pull off the upset. But the Blaze scored two goals 39 seconds apart in the second period to build a 3-0 lead.

One positive in the loss, it looks like the Lakers found their future goalie in sophomore Nick Vidmar. Pankratz decided to give Vidmar his first-career start in the Lakers’ biggest game of the season.

Pankratz said it was a tough decision to sit senior goalie Kyle Miller, who has started every game this year and owns school records for most wins in goal, shutouts and goals-against.

But Pankratz said Miller had been “fighting the puck lately.”

It was a difficult decision, but Vidmar’s play (29 saves) confirmed it was the right one.

PHOTO BY TOM SCHARDIN

Burnsville senior Mason Wyman (19) tries to score in the near the crease past Prior Lake goalie Nick Vidmar in the Blaze’s 4-1 Section 2AA semifi nal win Feb. 25.

BLAZE continued from B1

Bu r nsvi l le act ua l ly struck first, scoring 50 seconds into the contest on a goa l f rom senior Ja ke Maxson.

Sheehy had the assist.

Senior Jake Senta assisted on Sheey’s goal, while senior Mason Wyman assisted on Chapman’s.

Junior Chris Mallon finished with 32 saves. He was under heavy fire most of the game as the Edina forwards were crashing the net and using their speed to duck under Burnsville defenders.

Meanwhile, in the semifinal win over Prior Lake, scoring goals for the Blaze were senior Kyle K auth, sophomore Te emu K iv ihalme, Sheehy and Chapman. Getting assists: Chapm a n, S ent a a nd ju n ior s Adam Schweitzer and Daniel A mes. Mal lon had 2 8 saves.

In beating Shakopee, the Blaze goal scorers were: Chapman (2), Senta (2) and senior Tanner Barnes (2), Anderson (1), Wyman (1) a nd sophomore Nick DiGregorio (1). Assists went to: Wyman (4), Sheehy (2), Chapman (1), Schweitzer

(1), Kivihalme (1), Maxson (1) Anderson (1), Kauth (1) and senior Hunter Bowlin (1). Mallon had seven saves in the shutout.

Going into next season, the Blaze will to find a way to replace some big-time scoring. Four of the team’s top-five point producers are seniors.

Chapman led the team in points with 57 points (26 goals, 31 assists), while Anderson had 18 goals and 30 assists, followed by Wyman (16 goals, 31 assists) and Senta (19 goals, 13 assists).

Sheehy was second on the team in points with 49 (21 goals, 28 assists), so he will be the focal point of the Blaze’s offense next year, while Kivihalme (9 goals, 21 assists) will be back to anchor the defense.

Mallon also proved he can play in his first varsity season. Going into the title game, he al lowed two or fewer goals in seven of his last eight games, including two shutouts. He finished with a 2.55 goals-against average.

O t her s to watch nex t year: Ames (4 goals, 8 assists), sophomore Anthony Rikberg (5 goals, 8 assists), Schweitzer (4 assists) and sophomore Sam Dockry (5 assists).

Brianna Schulz of Prior Lake was named Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (MIAC) Player of the Week Feb. 13.

The first-year goalie, a 2009 Prior Lake graduate, had an 86 total saves for the Augsburg College women’s hockey team’s series with Bethel Feb. 10-11.

Schulz had 53 saves in the Auggies’ 2-1 loss in the series opener and followed with 33 stops in a 1-1 tie the next night.

Brianna Schulz started 17 games for the Auggies this Schulz year. She had three shutouts and 2.65 goals-against average, helping the team to a 6-11-8 overall record (3-11-4 in the MIAC). Schulz also had .932 save percentage, making 632 saves in her 17 games. She had 11 games of 30 or more stops.

Schulz was a two-time All-Missota Conference goalie for the Lakers and a four-year letterwinner.

Spring light goose hunting is underway Interested participants are reminded that the spring conservation action on “light” geese (snow geese, blue-phased snow geese, and the smaller Ross’s goose) opened march and runs through April 30.

The action is allowed under a federal conservation order that permits the take of “light” geese during the spring.

A required spring light goose permit may be obtained through any Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) license agent, via telephone at (888) 665-4236. The permits are free, but there is a $3.50 application fee to cover the cost of issuing the permit. No other license, stamp or permit is required to participate.

Customers using the phone will receive a temporary authorization number in lieu of the permit until it is mailed to the applicant. Internet customers will be able to print their own permit when completing the transaction, and will not receive a permit by mail.

A summary of regulations will be available from license vendors, DNR wildlife offices or by calling the DNR Information Center at (651) 296-6157. For more, go to http://dnr.state.mn.us.

P.L.A.Y. spring sports registration online Prior Lake Athletics for Youth (P.L.A.Y.) is taking registrations online for its spring sports programs — softball, baseball, track and lacrosse.

Registration for traveling programs usually ends in February, while in-house signups goes to the end of March. For more information or details on each sport go to www.playinfo.org.

Laker Athletic Booster Club meetings The Laker Athletic Booster Club will have its monthly meeting on the third Monday of every month (except July and December) in the lecture hall next to the auditorium at Prior Lake High School, 7575 W. 150th St., Savage, starting at 7 p.m.

Prior Lake Area Running Club The Prior Lake Area Running Club meets weekly for group runs and also has guest speakers and can provide discounts at local running stores. All levels of runners and joggers are welcome. You don’t have to be from Prior Lake to join the club.

For more information contact Doug Krohn at doug.krohn@ comcast.net.

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publicnotices NOTICE OF MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE SALE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that default has occurred in the conditions of the following described mortgage: DATE OF MORTGAGE: March 27, 2007 O R I G I N A L P R I N C I PA L A M O U N T O F M O RT G AG E : $175,200.00 MORTGAGOR(S): Carol J. Wahlstrom and Robert W. Wahlstrom, wife and husband, as joint tenants MORTGAGEE: Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee for Aegis Wholesale Corporation, its successors and assigns DATE AND PLACE OF RECORDING: Recorded: April 12, 2007 Scott County Recorder Document Number: A769909 ASSIGNMENTS OF MORTGAGE: And assigned to: Nationstar Mortgage, LLC Dated: December 29, 2011 Transaction Agent: Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. Transaction Agent Mortg a g e I d e n t i f i c at i o n N u m b e r: 100053030011225803 Lender or Broker: Aegis Wholesale Corporation Residential Mortgage Servicer: Nationstar Mortgage, LLC Mortgage Originator: Not Applicable COUNTY IN WHICH PROPERTY IS LOCATED: Scott Property Address: 26595 Woodcrest Dr, Elko, MN 55020-9506 Tax Parcel ID Number: 230310250 LEGAL DESCRIPTION OF PROPERTY: Lot 23, Block 2, Woodcrest, together with and subject to easement created by Document No. 1965154, Scott County, Minnesota AMOUNT DUE AND CLAIMED TO BE DUE AS OF DATE OF NOTICE: $177,635.01 THAT all pre-foreclosure requirements have been complied with; that no action or proceeding has been instituted at law or otherwise to recover the debt secured by said mortgage, or any part thereof; PURSUANT to the power of sale contained in said mortgage, the above-described property will be sold by the Sheriff of said county as follows: DATE AND TIME OF SALE: March 13, 2012 at 10:00 AM PLACE OF SALE: Sheriff ’s Office, Civil Unit, 301 South Fuller St., Shakopee, Minnesota to pay the debt secured by said mortgage and taxes, if any, on said premises and the costs and disbursements, including attorney fees allowed by law, subject to redemption within six (6) months from the date of said sale by the mortgagor(s), their personal representatives or assigns.

If the Mortgage is not reinstated under Minn. Stat. §580.30 or the property is not redeemed under Minn. Stat. §580.23, the Mortgagor must vacate the property on or before 11:59 p.m. on September 13, 2012, or the next business day if September 13, 2012 falls on a Saturday, Sunday or legal holiday.

Mortgagor(s) released from financial obligation: NONE THIS COMMUNICATION IS FROM A DEBT COLLECTOR ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. THE RIGHT TO VERIFICATION OF THE DEBT AND IDENTITY OF THE ORIGINAL CREDITOR WITHIN THE TIME PROVIDED BY LAW IS NOT AFFECTED BY THIS ACTION. 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 ORDER IS ENTERED UNDER MINNESOTA STATUTES, SECTION 582.032, DETERMINING, AMONG OTHER THINGS, THAT THE MORTGAGED PREMISES ARE IMPROVED WITH A RESIDENTIAL DWELLING OF LESS THAN FIVE UNITS, ARE NOT PROPERTY USED IN AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION, AND ARE ABANDONED. DATED: January 28, 2012 ASSIGNEE OF MORTGAGEE: Nationstar Mortgage, LLC Wilford, Geske & Cook P.A. Attorneys for Assignee of Mortgagee Lawrence A. Wilford James A. Geske 8425 Seasons Parkway, Suite 105 Woodbury, MN 55125-4393 (651) 209-3300 File Number: 023538F01 (Published in the Savage Pacer on Saturday, January 28, February 4, 11, 18, 25 and March 3, 2012; No. 2044) NOTICE OF MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE SALE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that default has occurred in the conditions of the following described mortgage: DATE OF MORTGAGE: September 14, 2006 O R I G I N A L P R I N C I PA L A M O U N T O F M O RT G AG E : $360,000.00 MORTGAGOR(S): Peter M Kruschke and Jeanine K Kruschke, Husband and Wife MORTGAGEE: Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. as nominee for Tradition Mortgage, its successors and assigns.

DATE AND PLACE OF RECORDING: Recorded: September 19, 2006 Scott County Recorder Document Number: A 751647 ASSIGNMENTS OF MORTGAGE: And assigned to: BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO BAC HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP FKA COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS SERVICING LP Dated: October 05, 2011 Recorded: October 17, 2011 Scott County Recorder Document Number: A889559 Transaction Agent: Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. Transaction Agent Mortgage Identification Number: 10001570007250924-9 Lender or Broker: Tradition Mortgage Residential Mortgage Servicer: Bank of America, N.A. Mortgage Originator: Not Ap-

plicable COUNTY IN WHICH PROPERTY IS LOCATED: Scott Property Address: 23384 Bluff Ct, Belle Plaine, MN 56011-4214 Tax Parcel ID Number: 010310040 LEGAL DESCRIPTION OF PROPERTY: Lot 4, Block 1, Farmers Bluff, Scott County, Minnesota AMOUNT DUE AND CLAIMED TO BE DUE AS OF DATE OF NOTICE: $378,147.37 THAT all pre-foreclosure requirements have been complied with; that no action or proceeding has been instituted at law or otherwise to recover the debt secured by said mortgage, or any part thereof; PURSUANT to the power of sale contained in said mortgage, the above-described property will be sold by the Sheriff of said county as follows: DATE AND TIME OF SALE: March 20, 2012 at 10:00 AM PLACE OF SALE: Sheriff ’s Office, Civil Unit, 301 South Fuller St., Shakopee, Minnesota to pay the debt secured by said mortgage and taxes, if any, on said premises and the costs and disbursements, including attorney fees allowed by law, subject to redemption within six (6) months from the date of said sale by the mortgagor(s), their personal representatives or assigns.

If the Mortgage is not reinstated under Minn. Stat. §580.30 or the property is not redeemed under Minn. Stat. §580.23, the Mortgagor must vacate the property on or before 11:59 p.m. on September 20, 2012, or the next business day if September 20, 2012 falls on a Saturday, Sunday or legal holiday.

Mortgagor(s) released from financial obligation: NONE THIS COMMUNICATION IS FROM A DEBT COLLECTOR ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. THE RIGHT TO VERIFICATION OF THE DEBT AND IDENTITY OF THE ORIGINAL CREDITOR WITHIN THE TIME PROVIDED BY LAW IS NOT AFFECTED BY THIS ACTION. 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 ORDER IS ENTERED UNDER MINNESOTA STATUTES, SECTION 582.032, DETERMINING, AMONG OTHER THINGS, THAT THE MORTGAGED PREMISES ARE IMPROVED WITH A RESIDENTIAL DWELLING OF LESS THAN FIVE UNITS, ARE NOT PROPERTY USED IN AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION, AND ARE ABANDONED. DATED: February 04, 2012 ASSIGNEE OF MORTGAGEE: Bank of America, N.A., Successor

by Merger to BAC Home Loans Servicing, LP FKA Countrywide Home Loans Servicing LP Wilford, Geske & Cook P.A. Attorneys for Assignee of Mortgagee Lawrence A. Wilford James A. Geske 8425 Seasons Parkway, Suite 105 Woodbury, MN 55125-4393 (651) 209-3300 File Number: 023914F01 (Published in the Savage Pacer on Saturday, February 4, 11, 18, 25 and March 3, 10, 2012; No. 2046) NOTICE OF MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE SALE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that default has occurred in the conditions of the following described mortgage: DATE OF MORTGAGE: July 25, 2008 O R I G I N A L P R I N C I PA L A M O U N T O F M O RT G AG E : $202,746.00 MORTGAGOR(S): Alyssa A. Seykora and Jeremy A. Seykora, wife and husband, and Sandra Seykora, a single person MORTGAGEE: Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., acting solely as nominee for the Business Bank, dba Prime Mortgage, its successors and assigns DATE AND PLACE OF REGISTERING: Registered: September 03, 2008 Scott County Registrar of Titles Document Number: T191966 ASSIGNMENTS OF MORTGAGE: And assigned to: BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO BAC HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP FKA COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP Dated: September 27, 2011 Registered: October 05, 2011 Scott County Registrar of Titles Document Number: T211341 Transaction Agent: Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. Transaction Agent Mortg a g e I d e n t i f i c at i o n N u m b e r: 100103210000374818 Lender or Broker: Business Bank, dba Prime Mortgage, its successors and assigns Residential Mortgage Servicer: Bank of America, N.A. Mortgage Originator: Not Applicable CERTIFICATE OF TITLE NUMBER: 45782.0 COUNTY IN WHICH PROPERTY IS LOCATED: Scott Property Address: 13549 Dan Patch Drive, Savage, MN 55378 Tax Parcel ID Number: 26.062030.0 LEGAL DESCRIPTION OF PROPERTY: Lot 9, Block 3, Dan Patch 2nd Addition, Scott County, Minnesota AMOUNT DUE AND CLAIMED TO BE DUE AS OF DATE OF NOTICE: $239,041.18 THAT all pre-foreclosure requirements have been complied with; that no action or proceeding has been instituted at law or otherwise to recover the debt secured by said mortgage, or any part thereof; that this is registered property; PURSUANT to the power of sale contained in said mortgage, the above-described property will be sold by the Sheriff of said county as follows: DATE AND TIME OF SALE: March 27, 2012 at 10:00 AM PLACE OF SALE: Sheriff ’s Office, Civil Unit, 301 South Fuller St., Shakopee, Minnesota

to pay the debt secured by said mortgage and taxes, if any, on said premises and the costs and disbursements, including attorney fees allowed by law, subject to redemption within six (6) months from the date of said sale by the mortgagor(s), their personal representatives or assigns.

If the Mortgage is not reinstated under Minn. Stat. §580.30 or the property is not redeemed under Minn. Stat. §580.23, the Mortgagor must vacate the property on or before 11:59 p.m. on September 27, 2012, or the next business day if September 27, 2012 falls on a Saturday, Sunday or legal holiday.

Mortgagor(s) released from financial obligation: NONE THIS COMMUNICATION IS FROM A DEBT COLLECTOR ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. THE RIGHT TO VERIFICATION OF THE DEBT AND IDENTITY OF THE ORIGINAL CREDITOR WITHIN THE TIME PROVIDED BY LAW IS NOT AFFECTED BY THIS ACTION. 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 ORDER IS ENTERED UNDER MINNESOTA STATUTES, SECTION 582.032, DETERMINING, AMONG OTHER THINGS, THAT THE MORTGAGED PREMISES ARE IMPROVED WITH A RESIDENTIAL DWELLING OF LESS THAN FIVE UNITS, ARE NOT PROPERTY USED IN AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION, AND ARE ABANDONED. DATED: February 11, 2012 ASSIGNEE OF MORTGAGEE: BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO BAC HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP FKA COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP Wilford, Geske & Cook P.A. Attorneys for Assignee of Mortgagee Lawrence A. Wilford James A. Geske 8425 Seasons Parkway, Suite 105 Woodbury, MN 55125-4393 (651) 209-3300 File Number: 023917F01 (Published in the Savage Pacer on Saturday, February 11, 18, 25 and March 3, 10, 17, 2012; No. 2051) NOTICE OF MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE SALE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that default has occurred in the conditions of the following described mortgage: DATE OF MORTGAGE: December 22, 2009 O R I G I N A L P R I N C I PA L A M O U N T O F M O RT G AG E : $365,000.00 MORTGAGOR(S): Craig Hinz and Cynthia Hinz, husband and wife MORTGAGEE: Think Mutual Bank DATE AND PLACE OF RECORDING: Recorded: January 05, 2010 Scott County Recorder Document Number: A844298 Transaction Agent: Not Applicable Transaction Agent Mortgage Identification Number: Not Applicable Lender or Broker: Think Mutual Bank Residential Mortgage Servicer: Think Credit Union Mortgage Originator: Not Applicable COUNTY IN WHICH PROPERTY IS LOCATED: Scott Property Address: 4313 Grainwood Cir NE, Prior Lake, MN 55372-1741 Tax Parcel ID Number: 25.033016.0 LEGAL DESCRIPTION OF PROPERTY: Lot 19, Grainwood Park, Scott County, Minnesota.

(Parcel 1) Together with that part of the abandoned right-of-way of the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad in Government Lot 4, Section 35, Township 115, Range 22, adjacent to said Lot 19 and Easterly of the center line of the track formerly thereon as shown in Scott County Recorder’s Document No. 178669 less the property previously taken by condenmation for road.

(Parcel 2) AMOUNT DUE AND CLAIMED TO BE DUE AS OF DATE OF NOTICE: $363,168.43 THAT all pre-foreclosure requirements have been complied with; that no action or proceeding has been instituted at law or otherwise to recover the debt secured by said mortgage, or any part thereof; PURSUANT to the power of sale contained in said mortgage, the above-described property will be sold by the Sheriff of said county as follows: DATE AND TIME OF SALE: March 27, 2012 at 10:00 AM PLACE OF SALE: Sheriff ’s Office, Civil Unit, 301 South Fuller St., Shakopee, Minnesota to pay the debt secured by said mortgage and taxes, if any, on said premises and the costs and disbursements, including attorney fees allowed by law, subject to redemption within six (6) months from the date of said sale by the mortgagor(s), their personal representatives or assigns.

If the Mortgage is not reinstated under Minn. Stat. §580.30 or the property is not redeemed under Minn. Stat. §580.23, the Mortgagor must vacate the property on or before 11:59 p.m. on September 27, 2012, or the next business day if September 27, 2012 falls on a Saturday, Sunday or legal holiday.

Mortgagor(s) released from financial obligation: NONE THIS COMMUNICATION IS FROM A DEBT COLLECTOR ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. THE RIGHT TO VERIFICATION OF THE DEBT AND IDENTITY OF THE ORIGINAL CREDITOR WITHIN THE TIME PROVIDED BY LAW IS NOT AFFECTED BY THIS ACTION. 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

ORDER IS ENTERED UNDER MINNESOTA STATUTES, SECTION 582.032, DETERMINING, AMONG OTHER THINGS, THAT THE MORTGAGED PREMISES ARE IMPROVED WITH A RESIDENTIAL DWELLING OF LESS THAN FIVE UNITS, ARE NOT PROPERTY USED IN AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION, AND ARE ABANDONED. DATED: February 11, 2012 MORTGAGEE: Think Mutual Bank Wilford, Geske & Cook P.A. Attorneys for Mortgagee Lawrence A. Wilford James A. Geske 8425 Seasons Parkway, Suite 105 Woodbury, MN 55125-4393 (651) 209-3300 File Number: 023810F01 (Published in the Savage Pacer on Saturday, February 11, 18, 25 and March 3, 10, 17, 2012; No. 2052) NOTICE OF MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE SALE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that default has occurred in the conditions of the following described mortgage: DATE OF MORTGAGE: October 12, 2004 O R I G I N A L P R I N C I PA L A M O U N T O F M O RT G AG E : $390,549.00 MORTGAGOR(S): Chana Klaysingha and Apichart Klaysingha, wife and husband MORTGAGEE: Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. as nominee for America’s Wholesale Lender, its successors and assigns DATE AND PLACE OF RECORDING: Recorded: October 21, 2004 Scott County Recorder Document Number: A 675730 ASSIGNMENTS OF MORTGAGE: And assigned to: THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON FKA THE BANK OF NEW YORK AS TRUSTEE FOR THE CERTIFICATEHOLDERS OF CWALT, INC., ALTERNATIVE LOAN TRUST 2005-J8 MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2005-J8 Dated: July 02, 2009 Recorded: October 22, 2009 Scott County Recorder Document Number: A 838744 And assigned to: THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON FKA THE BANK OF NEW YORK AS TRUSTEE FOR THE CERTIFICATEHOLDERS OF CWMBS, INC., CHL MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH TRUST 2004-J8 MORTGAGE PASSTHROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2004-J8 Dated: December 13, 2011 Recorded: December 15, 2011 Scott County Recorder Document Number: A894107 And assigned to: THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON FKA THE BANK OF NEW YORK AS TRUSTEE FOR THE CERTIFICATEHOLDERS OF CWMBS, INC., CHL MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH TRUST 2004-J8 MORTGAGE PASSTHROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2004-J8 Dated: February 01, 2012 Transaction Agent: Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. Transaction Agent Mortgage Identification Number: 10001570004256712-9 Lender or Broker: America’s Wholesale Lender Residential Mortgage Servicer: Bank of America, N.A. Mortgage Originator: Not Applicable COUNTY IN WHICH PROPERTY IS LOCATED: Scott Property Address: 8974 Horizon Dr, Shakopee, MN 55379-8500 Tax Parcel ID Number: 27362130.0 LEGAL DESCRIPTION OF PROPERTY: Lot 27, Block 6, Whispering Oaks, according to the recorded plat thereof, Scott County, Minnesota.

AMOUNT DUE AND CLAIMED TO BE DUE AS OF DATE OF NOTICE: $456,054.05 THAT all pre-foreclosure requirements have been complied with; that no action or proceeding has been instituted at law or otherwise to recover the debt secured by said mortgage, or any part thereof; PURSUANT to the power of sale contained in said mortgage, the above-described property will be sold by the Sheriff of said county as follows: DATE AND TIME OF SALE: March 27, 2012 at 10:00 AM PLACE OF SALE: Sheriff ’s Office, Civil Unit, 301 South Fuller St., Shakopee, Minnesota to pay the debt secured by said mortgage and taxes, if any, on said premises and the costs and disbursements, including attorney fees allowed by law, subject to redemption within six (6) months from the date of said sale by the mortgagor(s), their personal representatives or assigns.

If the Mortgage is not reinstated under Minn. Stat. §580.30 or the property is not redeemed under Minn. Stat. §580.23, the Mortgagor must vacate the property on or before 11:59 p.m. on September 27, 2012, or the next business day if September 27, 2012 falls on a Saturday, Sunday or legal holiday.

Mortgagor(s) released from financial obligation: NONE THIS COMMUNICATION IS FROM A DEBT COLLECTOR ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. THE RIGHT TO VERIFICATION OF THE DEBT AND IDENTITY OF THE ORIGINAL CREDITOR WITHIN THE TIME PROVIDED BY LAW IS NOT AFFECTED BY THIS ACTION. 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 ORDER IS ENTERED UNDER MINNESOTA STATUTES, SECTION 582.032, DETERMINING, AMONG OTHER THINGS, THAT THE MORTGAGED PREMISES ARE IMPROVED WITH A RESIDENTIAL DWELLING OF LESS THAN FIVE UNITS, ARE NOT PROPERTY USED IN AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION, AND ARE ABANDONED. DATED: February 11, 2012 ASSIGNEE OF MORTGAGEE: THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON FKA THE BANK OF

NEW YORK AS TRUSTEE FOR THE CERTIFICATEHOLDERS OF CWMBS, INC., CHL MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH TRUST 2004-J8 MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2004-J8 Wilford, Geske & Cook P.A. Attorneys for Assignee of Mortgagee Lawrence A. Wilford James A. Geske 8425 Seasons Parkway, Suite 105 Woodbury, MN 55125-4393 (651) 209-3300 File Number: 023581F01 (Published in the Savage Pacer on Saturday, February 11, 18, 25 and March 3, 10, 17, 2012; No. 2053) NOTICE OF MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE SALE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that default has occurred in the conditions of the following described mortgage: DATE OF MORTGAGE: November 22, 2006 O R I G I N A L P R I N C I PA L A M O U N T O F M O RT G AG E : $175,902.00 MORTGAGOR(S): Carol Hvinden, an unmarried woman MORTGAGEE: Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. as a nominee for First Franklin, a Division of National City Bank, its successor and assigns.

DATE AND PLACE OF RECORDING: Recorded: December 22, 2006 Scott County Recorder Document Number: A760411 ASSIGNMENTS OF MORTGAGE: And assigned to: US Bank NA Successor Trustee to Bank of America, NA , as Successor Trustee to LaSalle Bank, NA, as Trustee for the holders of the Merrill Lynch First Franklin Mortgage Loan Trust, Mortgage Loan Asset-Backed Certificates, Series 2007-FF1 Dated: January 19, 2012 Recorded: January 20, 2012 Scott County Recorder Document Number: A896794 Transaction Agent: Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. Transaction Agent Mortg a g e I d e n t i f i c at i o n N u m b e r: 100425240011490049 Lender or Broker: First Franklin, a Division of National City Bank Residential Mortgage Servicer: Bank of America, N.A. Mortgage Originator: Not Applicable COUNTY IN WHICH PROPERTY IS LOCATED: Scott Property Address: 3831 Raspberry Ridge Rd NW, Prior Lake, MN 55372-1122 Tax Parcel ID Number: 25395025-0 LEGAL DESCRIPTION OF PROPERTY: Lot 11, Block 2, Jeffers South, Common Interest Community No. 1110, according to the recorded plat thereof, Scott County, Minnesota AMOUNT DUE AND CLAIMED TO BE DUE AS OF DATE OF NOTICE: $185,040.78 THAT all pre-foreclosure requirements have been complied with; that no action or proceeding has been instituted at law or otherwise to recover the debt secured by said mortgage, or any part thereof; PURSUANT to the power of sale contained in said mortgage, the above-described property will be sold by the Sheriff of said county as follows: DATE AND TIME OF SALE: April 03, 2012 at 10:00 AM PLACE OF SALE: Sheriff ’s Office, Civil Unit, 301 South Fuller St., Shakopee, Minnesota to pay the debt secured by said mortgage and taxes, if any, on said premises and the costs and disbursements, including attorney fees allowed by law, subject to redemption within six (6) months from the date of said sale by the mortgagor(s), their personal representatives or assigns.

If the Mortgage is not reinstated under Minn. Stat. §580.30 or the property is not redeemed under Minn. Stat. §580.23, the Mortgagor must vacate the property on or before 11:59 p.m. on October 03, 2012, or the next business day if October 03, 2012 falls on a Saturday, Sunday or legal holiday.

Mortgagor(s) released from financial obligation: NONE THIS COMMUNICATION IS FROM A DEBT COLLECTOR ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. THE RIGHT TO VERIFICATION OF THE DEBT AND IDENTITY OF THE ORIGINAL CREDITOR WITHIN THE TIME PROVIDED BY LAW IS NOT AFFECTED BY THIS ACTION. 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 ORDER IS ENTERED UNDER MINNESOTA STATUTES, SECTION 582.032, DETERMINING, AMONG OTHER THINGS, THAT THE MORTGAGED PREMISES ARE IMPROVED WITH A RESIDENTIAL DWELLING OF LESS THAN FIVE UNITS, ARE NOT PROPERTY USED IN AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION, AND ARE ABANDONED. DATED: February 18, 2012 ASSIGNEE OF MORTGAGEE: U.S. BANK, N.A., SUCCESSOR TRUSTEE TO BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., AS SUCCESSOR TRUSTEE TO LASALLE BANK, N.A., AS TRUSTEE FOR THE HOLDERS OF THE MERRILL LYNCH FIRST FRANKLIN MORTGAGE LOAN TRUST, MORTGAGE LOAN ASSETBACKED CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2007-FF1 Wilford, Geske & Cook P.A. Attorneys for Assignee of Mortgagee Lawrence A. Wilford James A. Geske 8425 Seasons Parkway, Suite 105 Woodbury, MN 55125-4393 (651) 209-3300 File Number: 023993F01 (Published in the Savage Pacer on Saturday, February 18, 25 and March 3, 10, 17, 24, 2012; No. 2054) NOTICE OF MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE SALE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that default has occurred in the con-

ditions of the following described mortgage: DATE OF MORTGAGE: August 05, 2009 O R I G I N A L P R I N C I PA L A M O U N T O F M O RT G AG E : $286,426.00 MORTGAGOR(S): Eric Souvannarath married to Phetsamone Souvannarath, husband and wife MORTGAGEE: Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. as nominee for Suntrust Mortgage, Inc., its successors and assigns DATE AND PLACE OF RECORDING: Recorded: September 09, 2009 Scott County Recorder Document Number: A 835640 ASSIGNMENTS OF MORTGAGE: And assigned to: Suntrust Mortgage, Inc. Dated: December 07, 2011 Recorded: December 13, 2011 Scott County Recorder Document Number: A893909 Transaction Agent: Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. Transaction Agent Mortg a g e I d e n t i f i c at i o n N u m b e r: 100010402330975677 Lender or Broker: Suntrust Mortgage, Inc. Residential Mortgage Servicer: SunTrust Mortgage, Inc. Mortgage Originator: Not Applicable COUNTY IN WHICH PROPERTY IS LOCATED: Scott Property Address: 1763 Parkway Ave, Shakopee, MN 55379-3902 Tax Parcel ID Number: 27191049-0 LEGAL DESCRIPTION OF PROPERTY: Lot 11, Block 4, Prairie Bend 1st, Scott County, Minnesota AMOUNT DUE AND CLAIMED TO BE DUE AS OF DATE OF NOTICE: $293,304.30 THAT all pre-foreclosure requirements have been complied with; that no action or proceeding has been instituted at law or otherwise to recover the debt secured by said mortgage, or any part thereof; PURSUANT to the power of sale contained in said mortgage, the above-described property will be sold by the Sheriff of said county as follows: DATE AND TIME OF SALE: April 03, 2012 at 10:00 AM PLACE OF SALE: Sheriff ’s Office, Civil Unit, 301 South Fuller St., Shakopee, Minnesota to pay the debt secured by said mortgage and taxes, if any, on said premises and the costs and disbursements, including attorney fees allowed by law, subject to redemption within six (6) months from the date of said sale by the mortgagor(s), their personal representatives or assigns.

If the Mortgage is not reinstated under Minn. Stat. §580.30 or the property is not redeemed under Minn. Stat. §580.23, the Mortgagor must vacate the property on or before 11:59 p.m. on October 03, 2012, or the next business day if October 03, 2012 falls on a Saturday, Sunday or legal holiday.

Mortgagor(s) released from financial obligation: NONE THIS COMMUNICATION IS FROM A DEBT COLLECTOR ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. THE RIGHT TO VERIFICATION OF THE DEBT AND IDENTITY OF THE ORIGINAL CREDITOR WITHIN THE TIME PROVIDED BY LAW IS NOT AFFECTED BY THIS ACTION. 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 ORDER IS ENTERED UNDER MINNESOTA STATUTES, SECTION 582.032, DETERMINING, AMONG OTHER THINGS, THAT THE MORTGAGED PREMISES ARE IMPROVED WITH A RESIDENTIAL DWELLING OF LESS THAN FIVE UNITS, ARE NOT PROPERTY USED IN AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION, AND ARE ABANDONED. DATED: February 18, 2012 ASSIGNEE OF MORTGAGEE: Suntrust Mortgage, Inc. Wilford, Geske & Cook P.A. Attorneys for Assignee of Mortgagee Lawrence A. Wilford James A. Geske 8425 Seasons Parkway, Suite 105 Woodbury, MN 55125-4393 (651) 209-3300 File Number: 023360F01 (Published in the Savage Pacer on Saturday, February 18, 25 and March 3, 10, 17, 24, 2012; No. 2055) NOTICE OF MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE SALE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that default has occurred in the conditions of the following described mortgage: DATE OF MORTGAGE: May 25, 2006 O R I G I N A L P R I N C I PA L A M O U N T O F M O RT G AG E : $388,000.00 MORTGAGOR(S): Brian A. Larson and Jodi A. Larson, Husband and Wife MORTGAGEE: ABN AMRO Mortgage Group, Inc. DATE AND PLACE OF RECORDING: Recorded: June 14, 2006 Scott County Recorder Document Number: A 741977 ASSIGNMENTS OF MORTGAGE: And assigned to: Lasalle Bank Midwest National Association Dated: November 29, 2007 Recorded: December 26, 2007 Scott County Recorder Document Number: A 790477 Transaction Agent: Not Applicable Transaction Agent Mortgage Identification Number: Not Applicable Lender or Broker: ABN AMRO Mortgage Group, Inc. Residential Mortgage Servicer: Bank of America, N.A. Mortgage Originator: Not Applicable COUNTY IN WHICH PROPERTY IS LOCATED: Scott Property Address: 19790 Doonbey Cir, Prior Lake, MN 55372-8787 Tax Parcel ID Number: 111030140

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publicnotices LEGAL DESCRIPTION OF PROPERTY: Lot 14, Block 1, Doon Bury Knolls Third Addition AMOUNT DUE AND CLAIMED TO BE DUE AS OF DATE OF NOTICE: $409,858.78 THAT all pre-foreclosure requirements have been complied with; that no action or proceeding has been instituted at law or otherwise to recover the debt secured by said mortgage, or any part thereof; PURSUANT to the power of sale contained in said mortgage, the above-described property will be sold by the Sheriff of said county as follows: DATE AND TIME OF SALE: April 03, 2012 at 10:00 AM PLACE OF SALE: Sheriff ’s Office, Civil Unit, 301 South Fuller St., Shakopee, Minnesota to pay the debt secured by said mortgage and taxes, if any, on said premises and the costs and disbursements, including attorney fees allowed by law, subject to redemption within six (6) months from the date of said sale by the mortgagor(s), their personal representatives or assigns.

If the Mortgage is not reinstated under Minn. Stat. §580.30 or the property is not redeemed under Minn. Stat. §580.23, the Mortgagor must vacate the property on or before 11:59 p.m. on October 03, 2012, or the next business day if October 03, 2012 falls on a Saturday, Sunday or legal holiday.

Mortgagor(s) released from financial obligation: NONE THIS COMMUNICATION IS FROM A DEBT COLLECTOR ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. THE RIGHT TO VERIFICATION OF THE DEBT AND IDENTITY OF THE ORIGINAL CREDITOR WITHIN THE TIME PROVIDED BY LAW IS NOT AFFECTED BY THIS ACTION. 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 ORDER IS ENTERED UNDER MINNESOTA STATUTES, SECTION 582.032, DETERMINING, AMONG OTHER THINGS, THAT THE MORTGAGED PREMISES ARE IMPROVED WITH A RESIDENTIAL DWELLING OF LESS THAN FIVE UNITS, ARE NOT PROPERTY USED IN AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION, AND ARE ABANDONED. DATED: February 18, 2012 ASSIGNEE OF MORTGAGEE: BANK OF AMERICA, N.A. successor in interest by merger to LaSalle Bank Midwest, N.A. Wilford, Geske & Cook P.A. Attorneys for Assignee of Mortgagee Lawrence A. Wilford James A. Geske 8425 Seasons Parkway, Suite 105 Woodbury, MN 55125-4393 (651) 209-3300 File Number: 022820F01 (Published in the Savage Pacer on Saturday, February 18, 25 and March 3, 10, 17, 24, 2012; No. 2056) NOTICE OF MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE SALE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that default has occurred in the conditions of the following described mortgage: DATE OF MORTGAGE: September 01, 2005 O R I G I N A L P R I N C I PA L A M O U N T O F M O RT G AG E : $200,000.00 MORTGAGOR(S): Molly K. Murillo, a single woman MORTGAGEE: Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. as nominee for Home Loan Corporation dba Expanded Mortgage Credit, its successors and assigns DATE AND PLACE OF REGISTERING: Registered: November 22, 2005 Scott County Registrar of Titles Document Number: T 172581 ASSIGNMENTS OF MORTGAGE: And assigned to: U.S. Bank National Association, as Trustee, on behalf of the holders of the Home Equity Asset Trust 2005-8, Home Equity Pass-through Certificates, Series 2005-8 Dated: September 22, 2010 Registered: October 04, 2010 Scott County Registrar of Titles Document Number: T 205153 Transaction Agent: Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. Transaction Agent Mortg a g e I d e n t i f i c at i o n N u m b e r: 100056400720513301 Lender or Broker: Home Loan Corporation dba Expanded Mortgage Credit Residential Mortgage Servicer: Select Portfolio Servicing Mortgage Originator: Not Applicable CERTIFICATE OF TITLE NUMBER: 35765 COUNTY IN WHICH PROPERTY IS LOCATED: Scott Property Address: 9390 Country Dr, Prior Lake, MN 55372-2200 Tax Parcel ID Number: 26016005-1 LEGAL DESCRIPTION OF PROPERTY: Lot 5, Block 1, Country Court Addition, Scott County, Minnesota, according to the plat thereof on file and of record in the Office of the Registrar of Titles in and for said county and state.

AMOUNT DUE AND CLAIMED TO BE DUE AS OF DATE OF NOTICE: $251,530.43 THAT all pre-foreclosure requirements have been complied with; that no action or proceeding has been instituted at law or otherwise to recover the debt secured by said mortgage, or any part thereof; that this is registered property; PURSUANT to the power of sale contained in said mortgage, the above-described property will be sold by the Sheriff of said county as follows: DATE AND TIME OF SALE: April 10, 2012 at 10:00 AM PLACE OF SALE: Sheriff ’s Office, Civil Unit, 301 South Fuller St., Shakopee, Minnesota to pay the debt secured by said mortgage and taxes, if any, on said premises and the costs and disbursements, including attorney fees allowed by law, subject to redemption within six (6) months from the date of said sale by the mortgagor(s), their personal representatives or

assigns.

If the Mortgage is not reinstated under Minn. Stat. §580.30 or the property is not redeemed under Minn. Stat. §580.23, the Mortgagor must vacate the property on or before 11:59 p.m. on October 10, 2012, or the next business day if October 10, 2012 falls on a Saturday, Sunday or legal holiday.

Mortgagor(s) released from financial obligation: NONE THIS COMMUNICATION IS FROM A DEBT COLLECTOR ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. THE RIGHT TO VERIFICATION OF THE DEBT AND IDENTITY OF THE ORIGINAL CREDITOR WITHIN THE TIME PROVIDED BY LAW IS NOT AFFECTED BY THIS ACTION. 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 ORDER IS ENTERED UNDER MINNESOTA STATUTES, SECTION 582.032, DETERMINING, AMONG OTHER THINGS, THAT THE MORTGAGED PREMISES ARE IMPROVED WITH A RESIDENTIAL DWELLING OF LESS THAN FIVE UNITS, ARE NOT PROPERTY USED IN AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION, AND ARE ABANDONED. DATED: February 25, 2012 ASSIGNEE OF MORTGAGEE: U.S. Bank National Association, as trustee, on behalf of the holders of the Home Equity Asset Trust 2005-8, Home Equity Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2005-8 Wilford, Geske & Cook P.A. Attorneys for Assignee of Mortgagee Lawrence A. Wilford James A. Geske 8425 Seasons Parkway, Suite 105 Woodbury, MN 55125-4393 (651) 209-3300 File Number: 017013F03 (Published in the Savage Pacer on Saturday, February 25 and March 3, 10, 17, 24, 31, 2012; No. 2059) NOTICE OF MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE SALE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that default has occurred in the conditions of the following described mortgage: DATE OF MORTGAGE: November 29, 2005 O R I G I N A L P R I N C I PA L A M O U N T O F M O RT G AG E : $212,000.00 MORTGAGOR(S): Arnold A. Carlson and Patricia L. Carlson, husband and wife MORTGAGEE: Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. as nominee for Countrywide Bank, N.A., its successors and assigns DATE AND PLACE OF RECORDING: Recorded: December 13, 2005 Scott County Recorder Document Number: A723556 ASSIGNMENTS OF MORTGAGE: And assigned to: Bank of America, N.A. Dated: January 11, 2012 Recorded: January 13, 2012 Scott County Recorder Document Number: A896286 Transaction Agent: Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. Transaction Agent Mortgage Identification Number: 10013370001077305-2 Lender or Broker: Countrywide Bank, N.A. Residential Mortgage Servicer: Bank of America, N.A. Mortgage Originator: Not Applicable COUNTY IN WHICH PROPERTY IS LOCATED: Scott Property Address: 14007 Ottawa Ave, Savage, MN 55378-2065 Tax Parcel ID Number: 26058005-0 LEGAL DESCRIPTION OF PROPERTY: Lot 5, Block 1, Carlson’s Addition to Savage AMOUNT DUE AND CLAIMED TO BE DUE AS OF DATE OF NOTICE: $220,037.27 THAT all pre-foreclosure requirements have been complied with; that no action or proceeding has been instituted at law or otherwise to recover the debt secured by said mortgage, or any part thereof; PURSUANT to the power of sale contained in said mortgage, the above-described property will be sold by the Sheriff of said county as follows: DATE AND TIME OF SALE: April 10, 2012 at 10:00 AM PLACE OF SALE: Sheriff ’s Office, Civil Unit, 301 South Fuller St., Shakopee, Minnesota to pay the debt secured by said mortgage and taxes, if any, on said premises and the costs and disbursements, including attorney fees allowed by law, subject to redemption within six (6) months from the date of said sale by the mortgagor(s), their personal representatives or assigns.

If the Mortgage is not reinstated under Minn. Stat. §580.30 or the property is not redeemed under Minn. Stat. §580.23, the Mortgagor must vacate the property on or before 11:59 p.m. on October 10, 2012, or the next business day if October 10, 2012 falls on a Saturday, Sunday or legal holiday.

Mortgagor(s) released from financial obligation: NONE THIS COMMUNICATION IS FROM A DEBT COLLECTOR ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. THE RIGHT TO VERIFICATION OF THE DEBT AND IDENTITY OF THE ORIGINAL CREDITOR WITHIN THE TIME PROVIDED BY LAW IS NOT AFFECTED BY THIS ACTION. 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 ORDER IS ENTERED UNDER MINNESOTA STATUTES, SECTION 582.032, DETERMINING, AMONG OTHER THINGS, THAT THE MORTGAGED PREMISES ARE IMPROVED WITH A RESIDENTIAL DWELLING OF LESS THAN FIVE UNITS, ARE NOT PROPERTY USED IN AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION, AND ARE ABANDONED.

DATED: February 25, 2012 ASSIGNEE OF MORTGAGEE: BANK OF AMERICA, N.A. Wilford, Geske & Cook P.A. Attorneys for Assignee of Mortgagee Lawrence A. Wilford James A. Geske 8425 Seasons Parkway, Suite 105 Woodbury, MN 55125-4393 (651) 209-3300 File Number: 024101F01 (Published in the Savage Pacer on Saturday, February 25 and March 3, 10, 17, 24, 31, 2012; No. 2062) NOTICE OF MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE SALE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that default has occurred in the conditions of the following described mortgage: DATE OF MORTGAGE: October 28, 2004 O R I G I N A L P R I N C I PA L A M O U N T O F M O RT G AG E : $521,300.00 MORTGAGOR(S): Dorinda Clausen and David Clausen, wife and husband MORTGAGEE: Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. as nominee for Lehman Brothers Bank, FSB., its successors and assigns DATE AND PLACE OF RECORDING: Recorded: November 08, 2004 Scott County Recorder Document Number: A 677699 ASSIGNMENTS OF MORTGAGE: And assigned to: Aurora Bank, FSB Dated: September 22, 2011 Transaction Agent: Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. Transaction Agent Mortgage Identification Number: 100025440001944625 Lender or Broker: Lehman Brothers Bank, FSB Residential Mortgage Servicer: Aurora Bank, FSB Mortgage Originator: Not Applicable COUNTY IN WHICH PROPERTY IS LOCATED: Scott Property Address: 567 Vista Ridge Ln, Shakopee, MN 55379-8998 Tax Parcel ID Number: 271810040 LEGAL DESCRIPTION OF PROPERTY: Lot 4, Block 1, Westridge Lake Estates First Addition, Scott County, Minnesota.

AMOUNT DUE AND CLAIMED TO BE DUE AS OF DATE OF NOTICE: $584,663.72 THAT all pre-foreclosure requirements have been complied with; that no action or proceeding has been instituted at law or otherwise to recover the debt secured by said mortgage, or any part thereof; PURSUANT to the power of sale contained in said mortgage, the above-described property will be sold by the Sheriff of said county as follows: DATE AND TIME OF SALE: April 17, 2012 at 10:00 AM PLACE OF SALE: Sheriff ’s Office, Civil Unit, 301 South Fuller St., Shakopee, Minnesota to pay the debt secured by said mortgage and taxes, if any, on said premises and the costs and disbursements, including attorney fees allowed by law, subject to redemption within six (6) months from the date of said sale by the mortgagor(s), their personal representatives or assigns.

If the Mortgage is not reinstated under Minn. Stat. §580.30 or the property is not redeemed under Minn. Stat. §580.23, the Mortgagor must vacate the property on or before 11:59 p.m. on October 17, 2012, or the next business day if October 17, 2012 falls on a Saturday, Sunday or legal holiday.

Mortgagor(s) released from financial obligation: NONE THIS COMMUNICATION IS FROM A DEBT COLLECTOR ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. THE RIGHT TO VERIFICATION OF THE DEBT AND IDENTITY OF THE ORIGINAL CREDITOR WITHIN THE TIME PROVIDED BY LAW IS NOT AFFECTED BY THIS ACTION. 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 ORDER IS ENTERED UNDER MINNESOTA STATUTES, SECTION 582.032, DETERMINING, AMONG OTHER THINGS, THAT THE MORTGAGED PREMISES ARE IMPROVED WITH A RESIDENTIAL DWELLING OF LESS THAN FIVE UNITS, ARE NOT PROPERTY USED IN AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION, AND ARE ABANDONED. DATED: March 03, 2012 ASSIGNEE OF MORTGAGEE: Aurora Bank, FSB Wilford, Geske & Cook P.A. Attorneys for Assignee of Mortgagee Lawrence A. Wilford James A. Geske 8425 Seasons Parkway, Suite 105 Woodbury, MN 55125-4393 (651) 209-3300 File Number: 023180F01 (Published in the Savage Pacer on Saturday, March 3, 10, 17, 24, 31 and April 7, 2012; No. 2070) NOTICE OF MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE SALE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that default has occurred in the conditions of the following described mortgage: DATE OF MORTGAGE: November 02, 2006 O R I G I N A L P R I N C I PA L A M O U N T O F M O RT G AG E : $362,300.00 MORTGAGOR(S): Bo Song, a single person and Li Chen, a single person MORTGAGEE: Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. as nominee for Mortgageit, Inc., its successors and assigns DATE AND PLACE OF RECORDING: Recorded: November 08, 2006 Scott County Recorder Document Number: A756308 ASSIGNMENTS OF MORTGAGE: And assigned to: Bank of America, N.A., successor by merger to BAC Home Loans Servicing, LP FKA Countrywide Home Loans Servicing LP Dated: February 13, 2012 Recorded: February 15, 2012 Scott County Recorder Document Number: A898683

continued from previous page Transaction Agent: Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. Transaction Agent Mortg a g e I d e n t i f i c at i o n N u m b e r: 100112065735349850 Lender or Broker: Mortgageit, Inc. Residential Mortgage Servicer: Bank of America, N.A. Mortgage Originator: Not Applicable COUNTY IN WHICH PROPERTY IS LOCATED: Scott Property Address: 4529 Hummingbird Trl NE, Prior Lake, MN 55372-1201 Tax Parcel ID Number: 253490130 LEGAL DESCRIPTION OF PROPERTY: Lot 7, Block 2, Knob Hill 3rd Addition AMOUNT DUE AND CLAIMED TO BE DUE AS OF DATE OF NOTICE: $350,778.27 THAT all pre-foreclosure requirements have been complied with; that no action or proceeding has been instituted at law or otherwise to recover the debt secured by said mortgage, or any part thereof; PURSUANT to the power of sale contained in said mortgage, the above-described property will be sold by the Sheriff of said county as follows: DATE AND TIME OF SALE: April 17, 2012 at 10:00 AM PLACE OF SALE: Sheriff ’s Office, Civil Unit, 301 South Fuller St., Shakopee, Minnesota to pay the debt secured by said mortgage and taxes, if any, on said premises and the costs and disbursements, including attorney fees allowed by law, subject to redemption within six (6) months from the date of said sale by the mortgagor(s), their personal representatives or assigns.

If the Mortgage is not reinstated under Minn. Stat. §580.30 or the property is not redeemed under Minn. Stat. §580.23, the Mortgagor must vacate the property on or before 11:59 p.m. on October 17, 2012, or the next business day if October 17, 2012 falls on a Saturday, Sunday or legal holiday.

Mortgagor(s) released from financial obligation: NONE THIS COMMUNICATION IS FROM A DEBT COLLECTOR ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. THE RIGHT TO VERIFICATION OF THE DEBT AND IDENTITY OF THE ORIGINAL CREDITOR WITHIN THE TIME PROVIDED BY LAW IS NOT AFFECTED BY THIS ACTION. 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 ORDER IS ENTERED UNDER MINNESOTA STATUTES, SECTION 582.032, DETERMINING, AMONG OTHER THINGS, THAT THE MORTGAGED PREMISES ARE IMPROVED WITH A RESIDENTIAL DWELLING OF LESS THAN FIVE UNITS, ARE NOT PROPERTY USED IN AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION, AND ARE ABANDONED. DATED: March 03, 2012 ASSIGNEE OF MORTGAGEE: Bank of America, N.A., successor by merger to BAC Home Loans Servicing, LP FKA Countrywide Home Loans Servicing LP Wilford, Geske & Cook P.A. Attorneys for Assignee of Mortgagee Lawrence A. Wilford James A. Geske 8425 Seasons Parkway, Suite 105 Woodbury, MN 55125-4393 (651) 209-3300 File Number: 024175F01 (Published in the Savage Pacer on Saturday, March 3, 10, 17, 24, 31 and April 7, 2012; No. 2073) NOTICE OF MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE SALE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that default has occurred in the conditions of the following described mortgage: DATE OF MORTGAGE: July 02, 2004 O R I G I N A L P R I N C I PA L A M O U N T O F M O RT G AG E : $621,876.00 MORTGAGOR(S): Todd E. Seaton and Susan K. Seaton, husband and wife MORTGAGEE: Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. as nominee for Countrywide Home Loans, Inc., its successors and assigns DATE AND PLACE OF RECORDING: Recorded: August 10, 2004 Scott County Recorder Document Number: A 667426 ASSIGNMENTS OF MORTGAGE: And assigned to: U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION AS TRUSTEE FOR THE HOLDERS OF THE BEAR STEARNS ARM TRUST, MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2004-6 Dated: September 14, 2011 Recorded: October 04, 2011 Scott County Recorder Document Number: A888644 Transaction Agent: Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. Transaction Agent Mortgage Identification Number: 10001570003764563-3 Lender or Broker: Countrywide Home Loans, Inc. Residential Mortgage Servicer: Bank of America, N.A. Mortgage Originator: Not Applicable COUNTY IN WHICH PROPERTY IS LOCATED: Scott Property Address: 23225 Woodland Ridge Dr, Lakeville, MN 550447293 Tax Parcel ID Number: 081040070 LEGAL DESCRIPTION OF PROPERTY: Lot 7, Block 1. Woodland Ridge, Scott County, MN. AMOUNT DUE AND CLAIMED TO BE DUE AS OF DATE OF NOTICE: $649,447.81 THAT all pre-foreclosure requirements have been complied with; that no action or proceeding has been instituted at law or otherwise to recover the debt secured by said mortgage, or any part thereof; PURSUANT to the power of sale contained in said mortgage, the above-described property will be sold by the Sheriff of said county as follows:

DATE AND TIME OF SALE: January 24, 2012 at 10:00 AM PLACE OF SALE: Sheriff ’s Office, Civil Unit, 301 South Fuller St., Shakopee, Minnesota to pay the debt secured by said mortgage and taxes, if any, on said premises and the costs and disbursements, including attorney fees allowed by law, subject to redemption within six (6) months from the date of said sale by the mortgagor(s), their personal representatives or assigns.

If the Mortgage is not reinstated under Minn. Stat. §580.30 or the property is not redeemed under Minn. Stat. §580.23, the Mortgagor must vacate the property on or before 11:59 p.m. on July 24, 2012, or the next business day if July 24, 2012 falls on a Saturday, Sunday or legal holiday.

Mortgagor(s) released from financial obligation: NONE THIS COMMUNICATION IS FROM A DEBT COLLECTOR ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. THE RIGHT TO VERIFICATION OF THE DEBT AND IDENTITY OF THE ORIGINAL CREDITOR WITHIN THE TIME PROVIDED BY LAW IS NOT AFFECTED BY THIS ACTION. 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 ORDER IS ENTERED UNDER MINNESOTA STATUTES, SECTION 582.032, DETERMINING, AMONG OTHER THINGS, THAT THE MORTGAGED PREMISES ARE IMPROVED WITH A RESIDENTIAL DWELLING OF LESS THAN FIVE UNITS, ARE NOT PROPERTY USED IN AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION, AND ARE ABANDONED. DATED: December 10, 2011 ASSIGNEE OF MORTGAGEE: U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION AS TRUSTEE FOR THE HOLDERS OF THE BEAR STEARNS ARM TRUST, MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2004-6 Wilford, Geske & Cook P.A. Attorneys for Assignee of Mortgagee Lawrence A. Wilford James A. Geske 8425 Seasons Parkway, Suite 105 Woodbury, MN 55125-4393 (651) 209-3300 File Number: 022927F01 (Published in the Savage Pacer on Saturday, December 10, 17, 24, 31, 2011 and January 7, 14, 2012; No. 2987) NOTICE OF POSTPONEMENT OF MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE SALE The above referenced sale scheduled for January 24, 2012 at 10:00 AM has been postponed to February 28, 2012 at 10:00 AM in the Sheriff ’s Office, Civil Unit, 301 South Fuller St., Shakopee, Minnesota in said County and State.

DATED: January 19, 2012 ASSIGNEE OF MORTGAGEE: U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION AS TRUSTEE FOR THE HOLDERS OF THE BEAR STEARNS ARM TRUST, MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2004-6 Wilford, Geske & Cook P.A. Attorneys for Assignee Of Mortgagee: Lawrence A. Wilford James A. Geske 8425 Seasons Parkway, Suite 105 Woodbury, MN 55125-4393 (651) 209-3300 File Number: 022927F01 (Published in the Savage Pacer on Saturday, January 28, 2012; No. 2038) NOTICE OF POSTPONEMENT OF MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE SALE The above referenced sale scheduled for February 28, 2012 at 10:00 AM has been postponed to March 29, 2012 at 10:00 AM in the Sheriff ’s Office, Civil Unit, 301 South Fuller St., Shakopee, Minnesota in said County and State.

DATED: February 21, 2012 ASSIGNEE OF MORTGAGEE: U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION AS TRUSTEE FOR THE HOLDERS OF THE BEAR STEARNS ARM TRUST, MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2004-6 Wilford, Geske & Cook P.A. Attorneys for Assignee Of Mortgagee: Lawrence A. Wilford James A. Geske 8425 Seasons Parkway, Suite 105 Woodbury, MN 55125-4393 (651) 209-3300 File Number: 022927F01 (Published in the Savage Pacer on Saturday, March 3, 2012; No. 2069) NOTICE OF MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE SALE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that default has occurred in the conditions of the following described mortgage: DATE OF MORTGAGE: January 09, 2006 O R I G I N A L P R I N C I PA L A M O U N T O F M O RT G AG E : $147,544.00 M O RT G AG O R ( S ) : K r i s t e n Sunde, a single woman MORTGAGEE: Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. DATE AND PLACE OF RECORDING: Recorded: January 25, 2006 Scott County Recorder Document Number: A 728079 ASSIGNMENTS OF MORTGAGE: And assigned to: U.S. Bank National Association, As Trustee For The Holders Of The First Franklin Mortgage Loan Trust 2006-FF10 Mortgage Pass-through Certificates, Series 2006-FF10 Dated: July 08, 2011 Transaction Agent: Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. Transaction Agent Mortg a g e I d e n t i f i c at i o n N u m b e r: 100425240006280355 Lender or Broker: First Franklin a Division of Nat. City Bank of IN Residential Mortgage Servicer: Select Portfolio Servicing Mortgage Originator: Not Applicable COUNTY IN WHICH PROPERTY IS LOCATED: Scott Property Address: 8044 Stratford Cir S, Shakopee, MN 55379-3140

Tax Parcel ID Number: 27330029-0 LEGAL DESCRIPTION OF PROPERTY: Unit No. 505, Stratford Village Condominium, Common Interest Community No. 1100, Scott County, Minnesota AMOUNT DUE AND CLAIMED TO BE DUE AS OF DATE OF NOTICE: $151,055.98 THAT all pre-foreclosure requirements have been complied with; that no action or proceeding has been instituted at law or otherwise to recover the debt secured by said mortgage, or any part thereof; PURSUANT to the power of sale contained in said mortgage, the above-described property will be sold by the Sheriff of said county as follows: DATE AND TIME OF SALE: November 01, 2011 at 10:00 AM PLACE OF SALE: Sheriff ’s Office, Civil Unit, 301 South Fuller St., Shakopee, Minnesota to pay the debt secured by said mortgage and taxes, if any, on said premises and the costs and disbursements, including attorney fees allowed by law, subject to redemption within six (6) months from the date of said sale by the mortgagor(s), their personal representatives or assigns.

If the Mortgage is not reinstated under Minn. Stat. §580.30 or the property is not redeemed under Minn. Stat. §580.23, the Mortgagor must vacate the property on or before 11:59 p.m. on May 01, 2012, or the next business day if May 01, 2012 falls on a Saturday, Sunday or legal holiday.

Mortgagor(s) released from financial obligation: NONE THIS COMMUNICATION IS FROM A DEBT COLLECTOR ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. THE RIGHT TO VERIFICATION OF THE DEBT AND IDENTITY OF THE ORIGINAL CREDITOR WITHIN THE TIME PROVIDED BY LAW IS NOT AFFECTED BY THIS ACTION. 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 ORDER IS ENTERED UNDER MINNESOTA STATUTES, SECTION 582.032, DETERMINING, AMONG OTHER THINGS, THAT THE MORTGAGED PREMISES ARE IMPROVED WITH A RESIDENTIAL DWELLING OF LESS THAN FIVE UNITS, ARE NOT PROPERTY USED IN AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION, AND ARE ABANDONED. DATED: September 17, 2011 ASSIGNEE OF MORTGAGEE: U.S. Bank National Association, As Trustee For The Holders Of The First Franklin Mortgage Loan Trust 2006-FF10 Mortgage Pass-through Certificates, Series 2006-FF10 Wilford, Geske & Cook P.A. Attorneys for Assignee of Mortgagee Lawrence A. Wilford James A. Geske 8425 Seasons Parkway, Suite 105 Woodbury, MN 55125-4393 (651) 209-3300 File Number: 021257F01 (Published in the Savage Pacer on Saturday, September 17, 24 and October 1, 8, 15, 22, 2011; No. 2896) NOTICE OF POSTPONEMENT OF MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE SALE The above referenced sale scheduled for November 01, 2011 at 10:00 AM has been postponed to November 15, 2011 at 10:00 AM in the Sheriff ’s Office, Civil Unit, 301 South Fuller St., Shakopee, Minnesota in said County and State.

DATED: November 01, 2011 ASSIGNEE OF MORTGAGEE: U.S. Bank National Association, As Trustee For The Holders Of The First Franklin Mortgage Loan Trust 2006-FF10 Mortgage Pass-through Certificates, Series 2006-FF10 Wilford, Geske & Cook P.A. Attorneys for Assignee Of Mortgagee: Lawrence A. Wilford James A. Geske 8425 Seasons Parkway, Suite 105 Woodbury, MN 55125-4393 (651) 209-3300 File Number: 021257F01 (Published in the Savage Pacer on Saturday, November 5, 2011; No. 2953) NOTICE OF POSTPONEMENT OF MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE SALE The above referenced sale scheduled for November 15, 2011 at 10:00 AM has been postponed to November 22, 2011 at 10:00 AM in the Sheriff ’s Office, Civil Unit, 301 South Fuller St., Shakopee, Minnesota in said County and State.

DATED: November 09, 2011 ASSIGNEE OF MORTGAGEE: U.S. Bank National Association, As Trustee For The Holders Of The First Franklin Mortgage Loan Trust 2006-FF10 Mortgage Pass-through Certificates, Series 2006-FF10 Wilford, Geske & Cook P.A. Attorneys for Assignee Of Mortgagee: Lawrence A. Wilford James A. Geske 8425 Seasons Parkway, Suite 105 Woodbury, MN 55125-4393 (651) 209-3300 File Number: 021257F01 (Published in the Savage Pacer on Saturday, November 19, 2011; No. 2963) NOTICE OF POSTPONEMENT OF MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE SALE The above referenced sale scheduled for November 22, 2011 at 10:00 AM has been postponed to December 27, 2011 at 10:00 AM in the Sheriff ’s Office, Civil Unit, 301 South Fuller St., Shakopee, Minnesota in said County and State.

DATED: November 11, 2011 ASSIGNEE OF MORTGAGEE: U.S. Bank National Association, As Trustee For The Holders Of The First Franklin Mortgage Loan Trust 2006-FF10 Mortgage Pass-through Certificates, Series 2006-FF10

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What do you do when you feel abandoned by God? The nation of Sudan was ravaged by civil war from 1983-2005. For years, the Islamic government of the north instigated a reign of terror against the largely Christian and African traditionalist populations in southern Sudan. Over two million Sudanese died in the conflict. Millions more were displaced from their homes.

Among the refugees were over 20,000 orphaned boys (mostly of the Nuer and Dinka ethnic groups). Aid workers called them, “The Lost Boys of Sudan.” One of these boys, John Bul Dau, was just 12 years old when mortar shells rained down upon his peaceful Dinka farming village. John fled for his life into the night.

In one terrifying moment, everything he knew was stripped away. John walked over 1,000 miles across Godforsaken terrain in search of hope. Thousands of boys on the same journey died of starvation.

John eventually found refuge in the United States.

As an adult, he chronicled his ordeal in an acclaimed documentary film (2006) and a book (2007). Both works

Dan

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bear the arresting title: “God Grew Tired of Us.” We may never experience the depths of despair suffered

by The Lost Boys of Sudan in their struggle to survive. But if you have never experienced some sense of divine abandonment, you probably will. Somewhere along life’s journey most of us enter a dark valley where it seems the God who is there, isn’t. At some place in time we sense that the God who promises never to leave us or forsake us, has.

King David is suffering such a season of despair in the opening verses of Psalm 13.

While we cannot determine the precise nature of David’s

ordeal, it is instructive to observe how he works himself out of his despair.

What do you do when you feel abandoned by God? In the first place, David honestly expresses his despair. Looking upward he asks, “How long, O Lord?

Will you forget me forever?

How long will you hide your face from me (verse 1)?” The shining face of God is in full eclipse and David grieves transparently. Looking within, David’s soul is overwhelmed with questions; sorrow fills his heart (verse 2). Looking outward, David faces the oppression of an unidentified enemy (verse 2).

Where on earth is God? Having honestly expressed his despair, David turns in the second movement of the psalm to prayer.

Believing that God is his soul’s ultimate satisfaction, David readily concedes that feeling abandoned by God is the deepest of all sorrows.

The lamp of God’s favor has been extinguished. Yet while David languishes in the dark, he does not withdraw from God in self-pity or bitterness.

Nor does he look for hope within himself or in false

publicnotices Wilford, Geske & Cook P.A. Attorneys for Assignee Of Mortgagee: Lawrence A. Wilford James A. Geske 8425 Seasons Parkway, Suite 105 Woodbury, MN 55125-4393 (651) 209-3300 File Number: 021257F01 (Published in the Savage Pacer on Saturday, November 26, 2011; No. 2968) NOTICE OF POSTPONEMENT OF MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE SALE The above referenced sale scheduled for December 27, 2011 at 10:00 AM has been postponed to January 31, 2012 at 10:00 AM in the Sheriff ’s Office, Civil Unit, 301 South Fuller St., Shakopee, Minnesota in said County and State.

DATED: November 28, 2011 ASSIGNEE OF MORTGAGEE: U.S. Bank National Association, As Trustee For The Holders Of The First Franklin Mortgage Loan Trust 2006-FF10 Mortgage Pass-through Certificates, Series 2006-FF10 Wilford, Geske & Cook P.A. Attorneys for Assignee Of Mortgagee: Lawrence A. Wilford James A. Geske 8425 Seasons Parkway, Suite 105 Woodbury, MN 55125-4393 (651) 209-3300 File Number: 021257F01 (Published in the Savage Pacer on Saturday, December 31, 2011; No. 2008) NOTICE OF POSTPONEMENT OF MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE SALE The above referenced sale scheduled for January 31, 2012 at 10:00 AM has been postponed to March 01, 2012 at 10:00 AM in the Sheriff ’s Office, Civil Unit, 301 South Fuller St., Shakopee, Minnesota in said County and State.

DATED: January 31, 2012 ASSIGNEE OF MORTGAGEE: U.S. Bank National Association, As Trustee For The Holders Of The First Franklin Mortgage Loan Trust 2006-FF10 Mortgage Pass-through Certificates, Series 2006-FF10 Wilford, Geske & Cook P.A. Attorneys for Assignee Of Mortgagee: Lawrence A. Wilford James A. Geske 8425 Seasons Parkway, Suite 105 Woodbury, MN 55125-4393 (651) 209-3300 File Number: 021257F01 (Published in the Savage Pacer on Saturday, February 11, 2012; No. 2049) NOTICE OF POSTPONEMENT OF MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE SALE The above referenced sale scheduled for March 01, 2012 at 10:00 AM has been postponed to April 03, 2012 at 10:00 AM in the Sheriff ’s Office, Civil Unit, 301 South Fuller St., Shakopee, Minnesota in said County and State.

DATED: February 22, 2012 ASSIGNEE OF MORTGAGEE: U.S. Bank National Association, As Trustee For The Holders Of The First Franklin Mortgage Loan Trust 2006-FF10 Mortgage Pass-through Certificates, Series 2006-FF10 Wilford, Geske & Cook P.A. Attorneys for Assignee Of Mortgagee: Lawrence A. Wilford James A. Geske 8425 Seasons Parkway, Suite 105 Woodbury, MN 55125-4393 (651) 209-3300 File Number: 021257F01 (Published in the Savage Pacer on Saturday, March 3, 2012; No. 2071) NOTICE OF MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE SALE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that default has occurred in the conditions of the following described mortgage: DATE OF MORTGAGE: May 20, 2005 O R I G I N A L P R I N C I PA L A M O U N T O F M O RT G AG E : $314,000.00 MORTGAGOR(S): Igor Malashenko and Galina Malashenko, husband and wife MORTGAGEE: Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. DATE AND PLACE OF RECORDING: Recorded: June 07, 2005 Scott County Recorder Document Number: A 700621

ASSIGNMENTS OF MORTGAGE: And assigned to: CitiMortgage, Inc. Dated: April 26, 2010 Recorded: May 04, 2010 Scott County Recorder Document Number: A 852677 And assigned to: Nationstar Mortgage, LLC Dated: November 23, 2011 Transaction Agent: Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. Transaction Agent Mortg a g e I d e n t i f i c at i o n N u m b e r: 100060677001451970 Lender or Broker: Integrity One Mortgage, LLC Residential Mortgage Servicer: Nationstar Mortgage, LLC Mortgage Originator: Not Applicable COUNTY IN WHICH PROPERTY IS LOCATED: Scott Property Address: 870 Westchester Ave, Shakopee, MN 55379-4559 Tax Parcel ID Number: 27359108-0 LEGAL DESCRIPTION OF P RO P E RT Y: L o t 1 3 , B l o ck 8 , Westchester Estates, Scott County, Minnesota.

AMOUNT DUE AND CLAIMED TO BE DUE AS OF DATE OF NOTICE: $326,526.60 THAT all pre-foreclosure requirements have been complied with; that no action or proceeding has been instituted at law or otherwise to recover the debt secured by said mortgage, or any part thereof; PURSUANT to the power of sale contained in said mortgage, the above-described property will be sold by the Sheriff of said county as follows: DATE AND TIME OF SALE: January 31, 2012 at 10:00 AM PLACE OF SALE: Sheriff ’s Office, Civil Unit, 301 South Fuller St., Shakopee, Minnesota to pay the debt secured by said mortgage and taxes, if any, on said premises and the costs and disbursements, including attorney fees allowed by law, subject to redemption within six (6) months from the date of said sale by the mortgagor(s), their personal representatives or assigns.

If the Mortgage is not reinstated under Minn. Stat. §580.30 or the property is not redeemed under Minn. Stat. §580.23, the Mortgagor must vacate the property on or before 11:59 p.m. on July 31, 2012, or the next business day if July 31, 2012 falls on a Saturday, Sunday or legal holiday.

Mortgagor(s) released from financial obligation: NONE THIS COMMUNICATION IS FROM A DEBT COLLECTOR ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. THE RIGHT TO VERIFICATION OF THE DEBT AND IDENTITY OF THE ORIGINAL CREDITOR WITHIN THE TIME PROVIDED BY LAW IS NOT AFFECTED BY THIS ACTION. 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 ORDER IS ENTERED UNDER MINNESOTA STATUTES, SECTION 582.032, DETERMINING, AMONG OTHER THINGS, THAT THE MORTGAGED PREMISES ARE IMPROVED WITH A RESIDENTIAL DWELLING OF LESS THAN FIVE UNITS, ARE NOT PROPERTY USED IN AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION, AND ARE ABANDONED. DATED: December 17, 2011 ASSIGNEE OF MORTGAGEE: Nationstar Mortgage, LLC Wilford, Geske & Cook P.A. Attorneys for Assignee of Mortgagee Lawrence A. Wilford James A. Geske 8425 Seasons Parkway, Suite 105 Woodbury, MN 55125-4393 (651) 209-3300 File Number: 019681F01 (Published in the Savage Pacer on Saturday, December 17, 24, 31, 2011 and January 7, 14, 21, 2012; No. 2992) NOTICE OF POSTPONEMENT OF MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE SALE The above referenced sale scheduled for January 31, 2012 at 10:00 AM

has been postponed to March 01, 2012 at 10:00 AM in the Sheriff ’s Office, Civil Unit, 301 South Fuller St., Shakopee, Minnesota in said County and State.

DATED: January 31, 2012 ASSIGNEE OF MORTGAGEE: Nationstar Mortgage, LLC Wilford, Geske & Cook P.A. Attorneys for Assignee Of Mortgagee: Lawrence A. Wilford James A. Geske 8425 Seasons Parkway, Suite 105 Woodbury, MN 55125-4393 (651) 209-3300 File Number: 019681F01 (Published in the Savage Pacer on Saturday, February 11, 2012; No. 2048) NOTICE OF POSTPONEMENT OF MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE SALE The above referenced sale scheduled for March 01, 2012 at 10:00 AM has been postponed to April 03, 2012 at 10:00 AM in the Sheriff ’s Office, Civil Unit, 301 South Fuller St., Shakopee, Minnesota in said County and State.

DATED: February 28, 2012 ASSIGNEE OF MORTGAGEE: Nationstar Mortgage, LLC Wilford, Geske & Cook P.A. Attorneys for Assignee Of Mortgagee: Lawrence A. Wilford James A. Geske 8425 Seasons Parkway, Suite 105 Woodbury, MN 55125-4393 (651) 209-3300 File Number: 019681F01 (Published in the Savage Pacer on Saturday, March 3, 2012; No. 2075) NOTICE OF MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE SALE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that default has occurred in the conditions of the following described mortgage: DATE OF MORTGAGE: October 26, 2007 O R I G I N A L P R I N C I PA L A M O U N T O F M O RT G AG E : $237,700.00 MORTGAGOR(S): Tracy L. Davis and Gavin D. Davis, wife and husband MORTGAGEE: Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee for Cornerstone Mortgage Company, its successors and assigns DATE AND PLACE OF RECORDING: Recorded: November 09, 2007 Scott County Recorder Document Number: A 787389 ASSIGNMENTS OF MORTGAGE: And assigned to: CitiMortgage, Inc. Dated: February 17, 2009 Recorded: March 04, 2009 Scott County Recorder Document Number: A 819241 And assigned to: Nationstar Mortgage, LLC Dated: December 07, 2011 Transaction Agent: Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. Transaction Agent Mortgage Identification Number: 10017705050004082-9 Lender or Broker: Cornerstone Mortgage Company Residential Mortgage Servicer: Nationstar Mortgage, LLC Mortgage Originator: Not Applicable COUNTY IN WHICH PROPERTY IS LOCATED: Scott Property Address: 1637 Thistle Ln, Shakopee, MN 55379-3475 Tax Parcel ID Number: 27180033-0 LEGAL DESCRIPTION OF PROPERTY: Lot 5, Block 3, The Meadows 9th Addition, Scott County, Minnesota AMOUNT DUE AND CLAIMED TO BE DUE AS OF DATE OF NOTICE: $260,506.34 THAT all pre-foreclosure requirements have been complied with; that no action or proceeding has been instituted at law or otherwise to recover the debt secured by said mortgage, or any part thereof; PURSUANT to the power of sale contained in said mortgage, the above-described property will be sold by the Sheriff of said county as follows: DATE AND TIME OF SALE: February 28, 2012 at 10:00 AM PLACE OF SALE: Sheriff ’s Office, Civil Unit, 301 South Fuller St., Shakopee, Minnesota to pay the debt secured by said mortgage and taxes, if any, on said premises and the costs and disburse-

gods. Rather, David turns to raw prayer. He realizes the only answer to a sense of God-forsakenness is God. To respond to feelings of divine abandonment by abandoning God is spiritual suicide.

Fervent prayer is the answer (verses 3-4).

We must resolve, as George Swinnock put it, ‘“never to be dumb when God is deaf’” (quoted by Charles Spurgeon, Treasury of David, p.

156).

In the third movement of the psalm, David slays the giant of despair through focused meditation on salvation history. Fresh off his knees in a season of intense prayer, we find David rejoicing in God’s “steadfast love.” “My heart rejoices in your salvation. I will sing to the Lord, because

he has dealt bountifully with me” (verses 5-6).

Wait a minute! What’s going on here? God’s covenantkeeping, never-failing love? Are you serious? David, weren’t you just saying that God abandoned you?

Is David manicdepressive?

No. On the horizon of David’s soul stands the foreboding castle of doom.

Hanging its battlements a sign declares: “God has forsaken you.”

In these concluding lines of Psalm 13, David takes up the battering ram of God’s steadfast love for his people and slams it into the wall of doubt. With repeated blows of faith in God’s saving grace in history, David conquers despair by meditating on truth. David’s circumstances

Somewhere along life’s journey most of us enter a dark valley where it seems the God who is there, isn’t. At some place in time we sense that the God who promises never to leave us or forsake us, has.

have not changed. God has not changed. David has changed.

Choosing to concentrate his thoughts on God’s grace in salvation history, David abandons despair and lifts his voice in triumphant song.

Today such songs are sung by those who realize the ultimate abandonment by God was suffered for us by Jesus Christ. On the cross Jesus cried, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”

(Matthew 27:46).

Bearing our sins in his body on the cross, Jesus suffered utter Godforsakenness. God did not grow tired of Jesus; the Father poured out the judgment of our sin upon his Son who stood in as the substitute for those who place their full trust in this saving provision. Jesus was forsaken by God so we would never have to be. And he rose from the dead so that we can forever sing and rejoice in God’s presence.

Rev. Dan Miller is a pastor at Eden Baptist Church in Savage and can be contacted at www. edenbaptist.org. He is one of several area pastors who write for “Spiritual Reflections,” a weekly column appearing in this newspaper.

continued from previous page ments, including attorney fees allowed by law, subject to redemption within six (6) months from the date of said sale by the mortgagor(s), their personal representatives or assigns.

If the Mortgage is not reinstated under Minn. Stat. §580.30 or the property is not redeemed under Minn. Stat. §580.23, the Mortgagor must vacate the property on or before 11:59 p.m. on August 28, 2012, or the next business day if August 28, 2012 falls on a Saturday, Sunday or legal holiday.

Mortgagor(s) released from financial obligation: NONE THIS COMMUNICATION IS FROM A DEBT COLLECTOR ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. THE RIGHT TO VERIFICATION OF THE DEBT AND IDENTITY OF THE ORIGINAL CREDITOR WITHIN THE TIME PROVIDED BY LAW IS NOT AFFECTED BY THIS ACTION. 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 ORDER IS ENTERED UNDER MINNESOTA STATUTES, SECTION 582.032, DETERMINING, AMONG OTHER THINGS, THAT THE MORTGAGED PREMISES ARE IMPROVED WITH A RESIDENTIAL DWELLING OF LESS THAN FIVE UNITS, ARE NOT PROPERTY USED IN AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION, AND ARE ABANDONED. DATED: January 14, 2012 ASSIGNEE OF MORTGAGEE: Nationstar Mortgage, LLC Wilford, Geske & Cook P.A. Attorneys for Assignee of Mortgagee Lawrence A. Wilford James A. Geske 8425 Seasons Parkway, Suite 105 Woodbury, MN 55125-4393 (651) 209-3300 File Number: 019646F02 (Published in the Savage Pacer on Saturday, January 14, 21, 28 and February 4, 11, 18, 2012; No. 2022) NOTICE OF POSTPONEMENT OF MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE SALE The above referenced sale scheduled for February 28, 2012 at 10:00 AM has been postponed to March 13, 2012 at 10:00 AM in the Sheriff ’s Office, Civil Unit, 301 South Fuller St., Shakopee, Minnesota in said County and State.

DATED: February 28, 2012 ASSIGNEE OF MORTGAGEE: Nationstar Mortgage, LLC Wilford, Geske & Cook P.A. Attorneys for Assignee Of Mortgagee: Lawrence A. Wilford James A. Geske 8425 Seasons Parkway, Suite 105 Woodbury, MN 55125-4393 (651) 209-3300 File Number: 019646F02 (Published in the Savage Pacer on Saturday, March 3, 2012; No. 2077) Minnesota Secretary of State Assumed Name/Certificate Of Assumed Name Minnesota Statutes Chapter 333 File Number: Date Filed: January 24, 2012 The filing of an assumed name does not provide a user with exclusive rights to that name. The filing is required as a consumer protection, in order to enable consumers to be able to identify the true owner of a business.

1. State the exact assumed name under which the business is or will be conducted: Preschool Perfect 2. Principal Place of Business: 4166 134th Lane, Savage, MN 55378 3. List the name and complete street address of all persons conducting business under the above Assumed Name, OR if an entity, provide the legal corporate, LLC, or Limited Partnership name and registered office address. Attach additional sheet(s) if necessary: Peni Renner Childcare Services, LLC, 4166 134th Lane, Savage, MN 55378 4. I, the undersigned, certify that I am signing this document as the person whose signature is required, or as agent of the person(s) whose signature would be required who has authorized me to sign this document on his/her behalf, or in both capacities. I further certify

that I have completed all required fields, and that the information in this document is true and correct and in compliance with the applicable chapter of Minnesota Statutes. I understand that by signing this document I am subject to the penalties of perjury as set forth in Section 609.48 as if I had signed this document under oath.

Signature: Peni Renner – Authorized Agent Peni Renner - Contact Person 612-616-4824 Date: 12/05/2011 (Published in the Savage Pacer on Saturday, February 25 and March 3, 2012; No. 2060) OFFICE OF THE MINNESOTA SECRETARY OF STATE AMENDMENT TO CERTIFICATE OF ASSUMED NAME Minnesota Statutes Chapter 333 Date Filed: January 24, 2012 All information on this form is public information.

This filing of an assumed name does not protect a user’s exclusive rights to that name. The filing is required as a consumer protection in order to enable consumers to be able to identify the true owner of a business.

1. List the exact assumed name under which the business is or will be conducted: WICCU 2. List the address of the principal place of business; (A complete street address or rural route and rural route box number is required; the address cannot be a P.O. Box.): 5423-133rd Street West, Savage, MN 55378 3. List the names and complete street address of all persons conducting business under the above Assumed Name. Attach additional sheets(s) if necessary. If the business owner is a corporation or other business entity, list the legal name and registered office address: Wildlife Intensive and Critical Care Unit, 5423-133rd Street West, Savage, MN 55378 4. This certificate is an amendment of Certificate of Assumed name number 4408533-2 originally filed on August 11, 2011 under the name: Wildlife Intensive and Critical Care Unit 5. I certify that I am authorized to sign this certificate and I further certify that I understand that by signing this certificate, I am subject to the penalties of perjury as set forth in Minnesota Statutes Section 609.48 as if I had signed this certificate under oath.

Signature: Michelle LaBelle-Lake-President Dated: 01/09/2012 (Published in the Savage Pacer on Saturday, February 25 and March 3, 2012; No. 2061) OFFICE OF THE MINNESOTA SECRETARY OF STATE CERTIFICATE OF ASSUMED NAME Minnesota Statutes Chapter 333 The filing of an assumed name does not provide a user with exclusive rights to that name. The filing is required for consumer protection in order to enable consumer to be able to identify the true owner of a business.

1. List the exact assumed name under which the business is or will be conducted: AMC Drug Testing 2. Principal Place of Business: 8646 Eagle Creek Circle, Suite 103, Savage, MN 55378 3. List the name and complete street address of all persons conducting business under the above Assumed Name, OR if an entity, provide the legal corporate, LLC, or Limited Partnership name and registered office address: American Motor Carrier Consortium, Inc., 801 Patterson Drive, Shakopee, MN 55379 4. I, the undersigned, certify that I am signing this document as the person whose signature is required, or as agent of the person(s) whose signature would be required who has authorized me to sign this document on his/her behalf, or in both capacities. I further certify that I have completed all required fields, and that the information in this document is true and correct and in compliance with the applicable chapter of Minnesota Statutes. I understand that by signing this document I am subject to the penalties of perjury as set forth in Section 609.48 as if I had signed this

document under oath.

Dated: 01/20/2012 Lynne Kuhn-Operations Manager/ C.E.O. Lynne Kuhn-Contact Name 800-339-9993 x: 204 Date Filed: February 09, 2012 (Published in the Savage Pacer on Saturday, February 25 and March 3, 2012; No. 2065) OFFICE OF THE MINNESOTA SECRETARY OF STATE CERTIFICATE OF ASSUMED NAME Minnesota Statutes Chapter 333 The filing of an assumed name does not provide a user with exclusive rights to that name. The filing is required for consumer protection in order to enable consumer to be able to identify the true owner of a business.

1. List the exact assumed name under which the business is or will be conducted: J and D Cleaning Services 2. Principal Place of Business: 13714 Glenhurst Ave South, Savage, MN 55378 3. List the name and complete street address of all persons conducting business under the above Assumed Name, OR if an entity, provide the legal corporate, LLC, or Limited Partnership name and registered office address: Gerardo Oliva Ramirez, 13714 Glenhurst Ave South, Savage, MN 55378 4. I, the undersigned, certify that I am signing this document as the person whose signature is required, or as agent of the person(s) whose signature would be required who has authorized me to sign this document on his/her behalf, or in both capacities. I further certify that I have completed all required fields, and that the information in this document is true and correct and in compliance with the applicable chapter of Minnesota Statutes. I understand that by signing this document I am subject to the penalties of perjury as set forth in Section 609.48 as if I had signed this document under oath.

Dated: 02/13/2012 Gerardo Oliva Ramirez-Drivers Date Filed: February 13, 2012 (Published in the Savage Pacer on Saturday, March 3 and 10, 2012; No. 2072) CIVIL LEGAL SERVICES PRIOR LAKE AND SAVAGE The cities of Prior Lake and Savage are jointly soliciting proposals from qualified law firms interested in providing a full range of general civil legal services to each community. Legal work relating to prosecution of criminal matters and bonding is specifically excluded from this Request for Proposals. Labor and employment law services are included as an alternate.

Proposals may include services to one or both cities. Previous experience in municipal law is required. Innovative proposals for service delivery and fee arrangements are encouraged. To request a copy of the RFP, contact Kelly Meyer at 952.447.9803 or email kmeyer@cityofpriorlake. com.

Deadline for proposals is March 29, 2012 by 4:30 pm.

Charlotte Green Admin Assistant Phone: 952.447.9803 (Published in the Savage Pacer on Saturday, March 3, 2012; No. 2076)

The Public Notice deadline for the Savage Pacer is at noon Tuesday, for the following Saturday's issue. faxes not accepted

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EMPLOYMENT Business Opportunities Urgent! 35 openings available, INC.500 company, advancement bonuses. Email: mnwellness@live.com

Full-Time Network Systems Coordinator Burnsville Eagan Savage School District Visit www.isd191.org for more details and to apply

ASSOCIATE TRAINEE Real Estate Career Excellent Potential Fast Growth

Coldwell Banker Burnet Eden Prairie Irene: 952-949-4759 Rolland: 952-949-4724 EOE

Regional Drivers w/CDL-A exp. We're Growing, $1500 SignOn, OTR, O/O pkgs.

Bonuses/Benefits. www.heyl.net; 800-9739161 Work from home. Create accounts for Inc. 500 Hall of Fame Company. FT/PT. 952-2924473

JORDAN TRANSFORMER, LLC Substation Transformer Repair/Remanufacturing since 1973, now hiring the following position:

Auburn Homes & Services in Chaska is currently hiring.

Care Attendants NAR's Visit our website at www.auburnhomes.org to learn more about these and other opportunities.

EOE/AAP

Utility Locator Twin City Metro Area Multiple positions available. Must have 3-5 year locating experience. Valid driver's license and clean driving record.

Please send resumes to

Marketing Specialist Auburn Homes & Services is expanding!

We are currently hiring a marketing specialist for the Chaska/Waconia Area. Please see our website at: www.auburnhomes.org for details.

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CONTROLS ELECTRICIAN Inquiries must have an electrical background in circuitry, switches and relays, wiring control power panels, able to understand schematics, volt and ohm meters, blueprints as well as experience with conduit running.

Jordan Transformer offers a clean and safe work environment with competitive wages, 401K plan and medical package. Inquiries send complete resume with wage expectations to: Jordan Transformer, LLC Attn: Human Resource Dept.

1000 Syndicate St. Jordan, MN 55352 or Email: hr@jordantransformer.com

WAREHOUSE Harris Communications, an Eden Prairie based company is seeking a full time warehouse person. This position requires the employee to stand for their shift, be able to read and understand picking tickets, and be able to lift up to 50 pounds. This is a fast paced job where accuracy means everything. Previous warehouse experience and knowledge of shipping software would be a plus. The position would be M-F from 9:00-5:30. If this sounds like something you would excel in please e-mail your resume to jobs@harriscomm.com or fax to 952-906-1099 for consideration.

Full-Time BIFFS, INC.: Men & Women Drivers needed to Clean, Deliver, Pickup portable restrooms.

Not just a job; a career.

Must have CDL. FT/OT. Local Routes.

Full benefits package.

Locally Owned & Operated.

EOE/AA Employer & DOT Compliant.

Application REQUIRED, not just a resume: 8610 Hansen Ave., Shakopee or online: www.biffsinc.com

Credit Analyst Community Bank Corporation is seeking a qualified individual to join our Commercial Credit Team. The ideal candidate will have 5+ years of credit underwriting, with credit analysis and loan administration experience, a Bachelor's degree, and excellent interpersonal and communication skills. We offer an exceptional compensation/ benefits program for the ideal candidate.

Please forward your resume, including salary requirements to: Nancy Aune Community Bank Corp.

455 Pond Promenade, Chanhassen, MN 55317 naune@cbchanhassen.com or fax: 952-227-2424

Full-Time

Cole's Salon is looking for outgoing First Impression Team members!

These stars will be the first point of contact with our guests, along with answering phones, trouble shooting, and educating guests on our products and services.

This is a fast pace and fun environment! Positions open in: Burnsville: 952-435-8585 Cedar Cliff, Eagan: 651-454-1390 Apple Valley: 952-891-4112 Savage: 952-226-5310 FT and PT shifts available evenings 3pm to 10pm and Saturdays.

Retrieve our application online at: colessalon.com or call a location of your preference.

SALES PROFESSIONAL

Ashley HomeStore in Shakopee is seeking a SALES PROFESSIONAL. Help others create beautiful living spaces in their homes! Excellent income and benefit package. Learn more and apply at www.Furniture OutletsUSA.com or instore. EOE

Mechanic Ditch Witch of Minnesota is seeking experienced technician with formal hydraulics and electrical system training. Computer skills are a plus. Benefits include: Medical, dental, 401K, disability & uniforms. Fax resume to: 952-445-0035 or mail to: 12826 Emery Way, Shakopee, MN 55379. No phone calls please.

JORDAN TRANSFORMER, LLC

Controls Engineer Inquiries must have analog and digital machine control design experience. Must be motivated and a selfstarter. Associate Degree or higher in electrical engineering required. Assignments require strong computer skills, the ability to read, design and draw wiring control schematics using AutoCAD 2012.

Jordan Transformer offers competitive wages, 401K plan and medical package.

Inquiries send resume with wage expectations to: Email: hr@jordantransformer.com

Field Service Technician Inquiries should have a minimum of 2 years experience oil processing, assembling, and testing power transformers. Candidates must be willing to travel extensively. You must be able to obtain a CDL or carry a current CDL. We offer competitive wages, 401K plan and medical package.

Send resume to: hr@jordantransformer.com or fax 952-492-6947.

JORDAN TRANSFORMER, LLC

FT position with unlimited earning potential, sell-

ing used automotive parts. We are looking for a self motivated, courteous sales professional to join our team. Must have excellent computer skills, be detail oriented and have the ability to work with customers on the phone and in person. Hours 7:30am to 5:00pm, Monday thru Friday. Benefits include: Paid holidays and vacation, uniforms and a health plan. Starting pay is $13.00 hour and up depending upon experience, with transitioning to commission based pay. E-mail resume to: rick.metro@ integraonline.com or apply in person@ Metro Auto Salvage, Inc. 11710 E 263rd St. Lakeville, MN 952-461-8285

Part-Time Customer Service/Sales Part time; Retail Mall; $12 per hr. plus incentives; Send email to dennis.aesi@yahoo.com to receive job application.

Experienced, licensed, commercial lines CSA needed for mid-sized independent agency. SW suburbs. Please email resume: lynda@caminnesota.com

or fax 952-448-3304.

GUEST SERVICE REPRESENTAIVE 7am-3pm & 3pm-11pm 3-4 days/week, Includes Weekends Must be Flexible Starting at $9.00/Hour Apply in Person Holiday Inn Express Chanhassen, Minnesota BREAKFAST BAR ATTENDANT 6am-11am, 3-4 days/week Includes every other weekend Apply in Person Holiday Inn Express Chanhassen, Minnesota NOW HIRING SCHOOL BUS DRIVERS 2011-2012 SCHOOL YEAR No experience Necessary will train Starting wage $13.25 per hour DOE No DUI's, must have Class D license at least 3 years And be 21 years of age Positive Connections 460 N Hickory Street Chaska, MN 55318 952-361-0899

Ridges at Sand Creek in Jordan is looking for talented chefs, line cooks and servers. Must be able to work in fast paced environment.

Front line cooks, banquet prep. Bar and Banquet servers. Part time, year round. Day, nights and weekend shifts.

Must be 18. Email application to jallar@ridgesat sandcreek.com

Part-Time

St. Gertrude's Health and Rehabilitation Center has openings for the following positions: RN Supervisor .9 nights RN/LPN .7 eves RN/LPN .7 nights RN/LPN .4 nights Please complete application online at stgertrudesshakopee.org

StarTribune Newspaper Carrier Needed immediately Shakopee and Chaska, weekend & weekday routes, and PT Sat/Sun. assembly.

For further information see our website at; www.Chaskadelivery.com

Travelodge Shakopee.

PT Front Desk summer position. Customer service experience, open availability, and some computer skills a plus.

Apply in person. No phone calls please.

Sales Positions TELEPHONE SALEScalling business owners nationwide from our Jordan office. Leads furnished. 9am-4pm. Earn up to $1200/ week. Call Vern Schwartz, 612810-8097

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Do you enjoy challenges? Are you a quick thinker and energetic? LearningRx in Savage is hiring cognitive skills trainers to help students overcome learning struggles. It's like being a personal trainer for the the brain! 10-25 hours/wk. Great pay.

Training included. Degree preferred. Send resume and cover letter to brad@learningrx.net

City of Chaska, Minnesota

Customer Service Representative City of Chaska is accepting applications for a part-time (25 hrs/wk) Customer Service Representative working Monday through Friday at City Hall. Duties include phone reception, public reception, cashier tasks, public information inquiries, accounting support, clerical support, and data entry.

Minimum qualifications include one-year accounting experience and clerical experience with excellent keyboard and 10-key skills. Experience using Microsoft Excel and Word desired. Starting pay range is $15.69 to $18.03 per hour DOQ. Required application available at www.chaskamn.com or at Chaska City Hall. Completed applications must be received at City Hall, by 4:00 p.m., Thursday, March 15, 2012. EOE.

POLICE RECORDS TECHNICIAN The Shakopee Police Civil Service Commission is now accepting applications for the full-time, civilian position of Police Records Technician. Minimum Qualifications: Candidates must have a high school diploma or G.E.D., knowledge of contemporary office procedures and equipment and at least two years previous clerical or receptionist experience. Must be able to pass rigorous background check. Starting Wage: $18.11 to $20.37 per hour, DOQ, plus full benefit package. Hours: 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Sunday through Thursday. Application Deadline: March 16, 2012. For more information and an application form, visit www.ci.shakopee.mn.us/employment.cfm or call (952) 233 9320. EOE. TTY/TDD: (952) 233-3837.

Support Specialists FT and PT (MRCI WorkSource) Do you enjoy interacting with other people? Would you like to help make someone's day a success? MRCI WorkSource is seeking to hire Support Specialists to work with individuals with developmental disabilities in our DT&H programs and assist with carrying out daily programs. Hrs 8-4pm with flexibility for routes. Includes an attractive benefit package. PT hours T-Fri, 8-3pm.

Must have HS diploma/ GED, strong interpersonal communication, a valid MN driver's license, reliable transportation, good driving record & ability to obtain Class B - CDL within 3 months of hire. Experience working with individuals with autism and sensory needs, highly desirable. Experience in teaching and assisting with curriculum classes in social, education, and work skills a plus!

Applications available at www.mrciworksource.org or call 800-733-9935 (TDD Hearing Impaired 507-3865600; 8 AM - 4:30 PM; M-F) NO COVER LETTERS OR RESUMES PLEASE. EOE/AA

TOP JOB Full Time Position with unlimited earning potential, selling used automotive parts. We are looking for a self motivated, courteous sales professional to join our team.

Must have excellent computer skills, be detail oriented and have the ability to work with customers on the phone and in person.

E-mail resume to: rick.metro@ integraonline.com or apply in person@ Metro Auto Salvage, Inc. 11710 E 263rd St. Lakeville, MN 952-461-8285 See this & other employment ads in this week’s Classifieds

District Outreach Specialist The Prior Lake-Spring Lake Watershed District has an opening for a District Outreach Specialist. This is a full-time, temporary summer intern position. This position is responsible for erosion control and vegetation inspections, reporting and recording of inspection results, public outreach, and additional administrative and/or field duties as assigned. Minimum Requirements: Enrollment or degree earned in natural resources, geography, engineering, or related field preferred. Proficiency in written and oral communication and working knowledge of computer software including Microsoft Word, Excel and Explorer a must, as well as proficiency with keyboarding.

Call (952) 447-4166 or contact Nat Kale at: nkale@plslwd.org for additional information.

Please submit resumes or letters of interest to nkale@plslwd.org. Position open until filled. www.plslwd.org

Plastic Injection Molding Operator 2 Positions Starkey Hearing Technologies is a recognized world leader in providing the highest quality hearing technology available. If you're interested in working for a company that is dedicated to improving our customers' quality of life, consider the opportunity our team presents at our facility in Glencoe, MN. These positions are responsible for the production of plastic molded parts. Looking to fill one position on 1st shift, Monday-Friday 6:30 am-3:00 pm and 2nd shift Monday-Thursday 3:00 pm-1:30 am.

Qualified candidate should, be able to demonstrate the use of hand held tweezers in the manipulation of small metal inserts and plastic parts. Experience in plastic molded part manufacturing setting desired.

High school diploma required or equivalent.

You'll enjoy a full benefit package: Exceptional medical/dental/prescription coverage 401 (k), ESOP & life insurance Short term disability Vacation & paid holidays To view details and apply on-line go to: www.starkey.com Careers

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Campers Travel Trailers

Campers Travel Trailers

Motorcycles

Motorcycles

Motorcycles

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Boats/Motors

1998 Bayliner Capri Fish & Ski boat, 19 ft.

135HP. Inboard, stored inside. Excellent condition $6900. 952-4126417

2002 Larson 19' FishNSki, SEI 190, 135 HP Outboard, stored indoors. $11,900. or BO, NADA guide suggested $10,500.00, Jon 612730-8116

2006 Crestliner Lsi Angler 2285. Lots of extras. 60 HP Mercury 4 stroke and dual axle trailer. 763-360-6251

Sporting Goods

Cars

94 Starcraft, 17ft. Aluminum. Walleye, Bass ½ Console 75hp.

Mariner & 8hp. Kicker. $6500. 612-554-6725 or bsehlers3242@gmail.com

Hydro Stream Vegas.

20'. 200 HP+++. Complete restoration. 5 passenger. A real head turner! $6,900 or all trades welcome. 952215-5421

1998 Holiday Rambler Vacationer 36' motorhome, great condition, sleeps 6, 60,000 miles, $31,900 or best offer. Call Gary at 952492-1129.

Campers Travel Trailers

2001 Camper, 32', 5th wheel 2 slideouts, golfcart, shed $14,500. Excellent condition.

Parked on beautiful wooded lot in Zumbrota, 612-720-8683/ 612-5990184

1991 Fleetwood Southwind Motorhome, Class A, 33ft. Only 38k miles!

Smooth runner, fully loaded, sleeps 6, hydraulic leveler, $10,500, 612-669-4172

2004 30' RLDS Fifth Wheel Terry Quantum.

Barely used, 2 slides, heated tanks, lots of extra, includes Rigid Hitch $15,500. 952-210-4102.

2004 41' SportsCoach Elite. Fully equipped.

23,000K. Well-maintained.

3 slides. $100,000. 952-797-6264

2007 27' Colorardo RL 5th Wheel, 2 Slide $29,500 or best offer.

507-934-4834 M-F after 5:30

2000 Harley Davidson 883 Sportster, wife's bike, never rode, must go. 1300 miles, Lots, lots of extras, mint! $7000. 952-890-0905

2005 Kawasaki 1600 Vulcan Classic with Vance & Hines pipes.

New tires. 10,895 miles.

Mint condition. $5900 Call (952) 934-7358

Honda style 2007 JMST 250cc Scooter.

1329 miles, original owner, 80 mpg, 4 stroke 2 passenger, $2900.00, call Ray 952-402-9110

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Serving Carver/ Scott counties.

952-220-TOWS, 24/7 $$ Wanted $$ JUNK CARS Viking Auto Salvage 651-460-6166

2003 Harley Softtail Deuce Anniversary model.

5500 miles. $13,000. 952-447-4280

Motorcycles

1994 Harley Heritage Softtail, 26300k, all service records avail, extra set of pipes. $7500. Call Mike @ 612-309-6737

2005 black Yamaha R6, 6,000 miles. Yoshimurd customized exhaust.

With OEM cover & tank bra. $5,500. 952-3610142

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Cars

1968 T-Bird, 429 automatic, new gas tank, tires, fuel pump, sending unit, brakes. Runs.

Needs Restoration.

Asking $1200. 952-4482015

Cars

1975 Datsun B210 AT. Only 10K miles, runs well, good brakes, great mileage, $800. Don't be a fool, drive something cool! 952-426-5657

Cars

1976 Classic Cadillac Convertible.

Low mileage. 8 cyl. 440 engine. Complete facts available by calling.

559-435-3751

Cars

2009 Chev Cobalt LT. Purchased/ driven locally, like brand new, 21,000K. Black, Spoiler, PW, PL, Cruise, CD, non-smoker, more! $10,950. 952-215-5421

Trucks

Trucks

Sport Util Vehicles

1993 Ford F150, 4x4, new motor, 35k, lift kit, dual tanks. ARIZONA TRUCK, NO RUST, $6000 OBO, Chanhassen, 505-803-8232

2000 Chevy Silverado 4x4, regular cab, long box, am, fm, cd. A/C electric locks, windows, good tires.

142,385 $4,700 612-237-9750

'10 Infiniti QX56, $35,000, Black Ext on Gray Leather, 5.6L V8, low mileage, pristine condition, loaded. 612486-2566

1976 Chevy Nova hatchback, 305 AT, new tires & exhaust. Runs/ drives great, fun car to drive! $3,000/BO. 952447-8169

2000 Jaguar XJR. Well maintained. $9700 Silver and black interior, 83,000 miles. Call 612655-6680

1964 Chevy C20, 350 engine, 350 auto tranny, every bolt, nut, part replaced, or sandblasted and painted. 8K. REDUCED- $12,500. 952913-7808

2009 Saturn Outlook XR AWD, leather, power, heated seats, OnStar, remote start, loaded. Great condition.

70,600 miles. $19,200 Mary 952-292-7829

Vans

Trucks

1972 rare triple black 'Cuda, with high compression 340 HP. 727 slapstick tranny. Posirearend, PS, bucket seats, Recession reduced!! $42,500. 612804-4074

Sport Util Vehicles

1995 Chevy 3/4 ton 6.5 L Turbo Diesel ext cab 4 wd ,8' topper, ladder rack, 8' western plow.

174k , $6000. 612-4905078

2004 Chevy Silverado Z71 Ext. Cab. 77,XXX perfect cond. Loaded, leather, Bose, 6Disc, Topper and many xtras. $15,700 B/O 612-2030804

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2002 Ford Expedition, original owner, 4.6 liter, A/C, 6CD, third row seat, no accidents, runs, looks very good. $4700.

952-270-8292

1997 Ford Conversion, 244,000 well maintained miles, HD tow package, $1,200.00 OBO, lots new, email for details scottlacher@ hotmail.com 612-2107303

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1 1/2hp Witte Hit Miss engine $500. 952-2104592 1996 SkiDoo Formulaz instrument panel, all gauges, $79.99, 952658-7877 2 end tables, $20. 612267-8242 4 pop up books. 3 by Robert Sabuda. $35.

952-884-1431 60, brand new. CD/DVD jewel cases for $10.

612-208-6254 Antique, side chair, with beautiful detailing. $125.

952-448-5950 Apple Laptop iBook G3 latest os. Excellent condition, $120. 612-8392933 Baby blankets, 4 homemade, never used. 4 cotton, $15. 612-2371300 Bar stools, 2, red burgundy vinyl, good condition, $10. 952-937-2472 Bed frame, queen 4poster, carved headboard. $75. 952-4455140 Beige couch, double recliner, drop down center table. $100. 952-4458548 Black leather office chair. Excellent condition, $75. 952-226-1560 Boxer, Flashy fawn.

Male puppy, AKC 10 weeks, $500. 952-4961131

Chair, glider with ottoman, green, good condition. $25. 952-4451293 Chaise lounge contemporary and comfortable.

A must have, $200.

612-275-8699 China hutch w/original rounded glass. Excellent condition, antique $500. 612-708-3484 China, seasonal, 6pc for 12. $75. Cash only, 952-220-5339 Clock, New Haven banjo, wall model. $95.

952-934-2883 Clothes, boy 3t, shirts, jeans, pajamas, jackets. $25. 612-237-1300 Couch, 4 pc. sectional, $40. 952-448-5667 Cross vice, $50. 952496-1778 Dresser, antique, medium color, lovely. $75.

612-384-5749 Dryer, electric, Maytagnice. $200. 952-6497936 Entertainment center 5'wx6't oak, glass doors.

Excellent condition, $350. 612-708-3484 Entertainment center, black 64"t X46"t excellent condition, pics. $100. 952-448-6294 Entertainment center, light oak, "60Hx34 Wx20D", good condition. $50.

952-9372472

First Communion dress, it's beautiful. Size 7, $45. 651-755-2924

Kitchen table, formica, 54x36+18. 4 oak chairs. $25. 952-445-1293

Fisher Price newborn rock n play. Brand new $35. 612-876-6566

Laptop memory 1GBDDR2 (2x512MB PC25300) $12. 612-2086254 Maltese pup 1 y/o.

Housebroken, needs good home. $300. 612419-2766 Medela advanced breast pump. Lots of extras included, $100.

952-210-6266 Moving boxes, 60 large size, & bubble wrap.

Free. 952-445-3799

Flush mount ceiling light, brass and crystal. $5. 612-644-8377 Free, refrigerator 2h x 1.5w 1.5d, white.

Home, dorm. 952-2330415 Glass top tables. 2 end, 1 cocktail, $150. b/o 952-220-5339 Graco, Snugfit 35 carrier w/2 bases. Like new $65. 612-876-6566 Great Dane puppy, 8 weeks, female. $500.

812-344-0492 Guitar, Bass, new Peavey Pro, setup plays great. $100. 952-4454177 H.D. aluminum roaster with cover. Good condition, $10. 952-447-4961 Hat Men's summer Stetson. Size 7 1/4 $35.

952-934-2883 Horse drawn Moline cultivator. Good shape. $100. 952-210-4592 Insinkerator, model 555SS 3/4hp, used very little. $25. 952-8841434 Kirby Heritage II, vacuum with attachments.

Good condition, $150.

612-508-1206

New, 40 piece 1/4" and 3/8" socket set. $15.

952-240-1025 New, Samsung Galaxy precedent smartphone.

Straight talk, $120. 952240-1025.

Outdoor patio furniture.

Glass table and 4 chairs. $50. 612-2758699 Outdoor, reclining, patio chairs. 2, comfortable $40. 612-275-8699 Over a thousand stamps, selling at face value. $500. 612-5081206 Piano, Elgin, grand.

Needs tuning service, can deliver. $300. 952445-4177 Pine bead board. New 36 pieces. 8 ft. $35.

952-884-1434 Red exercise ball, $10.

612-267-8242

Pioneer CS-G403 3way speakers.

Freq 3020KHz Max150W $50.

952-447-4746 Portable dishwasher.

Butcher block top. Like new, $250. 612-6690481 Pottery Barn, kids anywhere chair. Green, white. $35. 952-3616633 Queen size bed, very good condition. $175.

952-261-3020 Refrigerator, Kenmore ivory, 22cf. Great condition, $200. 952-4662452 Refrigerator, Kenmore, white, gentle used. Water, ice door. $250. 952388-8000 Remington 1100, 3” Mag. Excellent condition, $335. 952-4475691 Rotti, F, 6 months old.

ACA, Reg, $1,000. o/bo 952-239-9044 Samsung TV, excellent shape, Owner manuals included. $25. 952-4673813 Sectional, light tan color, Good condition $100., pic available.

952-467-3813 Small propane stove, with 2, 20lb tanks. $100. 952-239-2362 Snowblower, Toro, electric start, $250, 952-4732481

Sofa, red and tan. Floral stripe, $50. 952-3689718 Sony 32” Trinitron WEGA TV. 2 remotes, $235. Cash, 952-2205339 Spring, silk, floral arrangement, in beautiful container. $15. 952-4485950 Toliet, Koler, like new.

New seat, never used, $50. 952-250-7490 Treadmill, older but works fine. $10. 952384-5749 Trunk, light gray. Cloth, 20"Lx14"Wx15"D, older, good condition, $15.

952-447-4961 TV, HD, 40”, dish ready, good condition. $85.

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Horn then allegedly attacked the woman and the two ended up on the floor. The woman said Horn was behind her choking her with his arms, and that she couldn’t breathe or scream. She said that Horn eventually let her up and told her that he “needed to decide whether he was going to kill her or not,” according to the complaint. At that time, a friend of the woman arrived at the residence and Horn walked away from her.

Horn pleaded guilty in June 2011 to felony domestic assault in Hennepin County District Court in relation to a separate incident. Horn has also been convicted of fifth-degree assault twice; once in 1995 and once in 1996.

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and her wallet. The total loss is estiThe Savage Police Department mated at $322. issued 42 citations and responded to MORE ONLINE Feb. 21: A man from Savage report220 incidents between Feb. 20 and STAY UP-TO-DATE ed that someone stole two outgoing 27. Some of those included: ON PUBLIC SAFETY checks from his mailbox, forged them BURGLARY NEWS and cashed them in other cities. The Feb. 22: Police received a report of www.savagepacer.com case is inactive. burglary at a house in the 8800 block Feb. 22: A man from the 14400 of Windsor Avenue. There was evidence of forced entry through the front door, and two televisions block of Sumter Avenue reported that a $165 mitre saw with a combined value of $681 were stolen. The case is and a $65 compound saw were taken from his garage. The man said he had listed a table saw for sale on Craigslist under investigation. and that a man and woman came by to view the item inside DOMESTIC ASSAULT Feb. 20: A woman from Savage claimed that her his garage. However, the couple left without purchasing the husband slapped her multiple times on the head, kicked table saw. After they had left, the reporting party noticed her and broke her glasses. The man, a 43-year-old from the two saws were missing. He said that the woman had Savage, was arrested for fifth-degree domestic assault and a large bag that was big enough to hold both saws. The case is inactive. interfering with a 911 call.

Feb. 22: A student reported that her $115 cell phone DWI Feb. 24: A 21-year-old North Dakota man was arrested was stolen from an unattended bag at Eagle Ridge Junior for third-degree DWI after he was pulled over on County High, 13900 block of Glendale Road. There are no suspects.

Feb. 23: Police received a complaint of shoplifting at Road 42 near Quentin Avenue for a driving complaint. He Asian Market Direct, 4200 block of Highway 13. The susregistered a blood alcohol content (BAC) of .20.

Feb. 25: A 30-year-old Shakopee man was arrested pect left the store before officers arrived, but the officers for third-degree DWI, careless driving and driving after located him shortly thereafter a short distance from the revocation after he crashed his vehicle in the 14100 block store. The man admitted to stealing from the store. Two cans of mandarin juice, valued at $3.56, were found in the of Glendale Road. He registered a BAC of .15.

Feb. 26: A 22-year-old Burnsville man was arrested for man’s coat pockets. The man, a 27-year-old from Savage, third-degree DWI after he was pulled over on Glendale Road was cited for theft.

Feb. 24: A woman from Savage reported that her purse for speeding. The man was clocked driving 75 mph in a 45 mph zone. The man said his friend, who was a passenger in was stolen after she left her purse in her unlocked vehicle the vehicle, had just bought a new car and that they were while it was parked at St. Mary Magdalene Lutheran Church, taking it for a drive. An officer observed an “overwhelming” 14200 block of Quentin Avenue. Total loss is estimated odor of alcohol coming from the man, and after performing at $80.

Feb. 24: A woman from Lakeville reported that while she poorly on field sobriety tests, the man was taken to Scott County Jail. He later registered a BAC of .22. The owner was at her job in the 8700 block of Egan Drive, she took off of the vehicle, a 23-year-old man from Savage who was a her wedding ring and wedding band in the bathroom and passenger in the vehicle and let the Burnsville man drive forgot them there. When she returned, the ring and band were gone. The total loss is estimated at $4,600. it, was charged with aiding and abetting DWI. Feb. 25: A woman from the 13700 block of Xenwood MISCHIEF Feb. 20: A woman from the 15000 block of Monterey Avenue reported that someone entered her unlocked Avenue reported that her house was egged and that food vehicle while it was parked in the driveway overnight and items were spread on her vehicle. There are no known stole a jack, utility knife and loose change. The total loss is estimated at $85. damage and no suspects.

Feb. 25: A man from the 4600 block of 131st Street PROPERTY DAMAGE Feb. 20: Police received a report that teenagers had reported that someone entered his unlocked vehicle while damaged a man’s vehicle by kicking and punching it while it was parked in the driveway overnight and stole his walat Community Park, 13500 block of Dakota Avenue. The let. A pair of skis that did not belong to the man were also reporting party said he saw the subjects smoking marijuana left at the scene.

Feb. 25: A woman from the 13100 block of Natchez in the park parking lot and confronted them. A verbal altercation ensued, and one of the teenagers got out of the Avenue reported that a GPS and camera were stolen from vehicle and kicked the reporting party’s door. Another teen- her unlocked vehicle while it was parked in the driveway ager got out and punched the car. The group of teenagers overnight. Total loss is estimated at $400.

Feb. 25: A man from the 5500 block of 133rd Street fled in a vehicle and the reporting party followed them for a period of time before losing them. An officer then found reported that someone entered his unlocked vehicle while it the suspects’ vehicle and pulled it over. The car smelled like was parked in the driveway overnight and stole his sunglasses marijuana, according to the officer. The boy who kicked the and screwdrivers. Total loss is estimated at $45.

Feb. 26: Walgreens, 4200 block of Egan Drive, reported car, a 17-year-old from Savage, was cited for fourth-degree criminal damage to property and disorderly conduct. The that two males came into the store and stuffed their pockets man who punched the car, an 18-year-old from Savage, was full of candy and left. They were also reportedly being rude cited for disorderly conduct. Two 17-year-old boys, one from to the other customers. There are no suspects.

UNDERAGE TOBACCO POSSESSION Savage and one from Burnsville, were cited for possession Feb. 24: A 14-year-old girl from Prior Lake was found in of drug paraphernalia, and an 18-year-old Burnsville man possession of tobacco while at Prior Lake High School, 7500 was cited for underage possession of alcohol.

Feb. 24: A woman reported that someone threw a block of 150th Street. Someone called the school to report piece of concrete through a front window on her house. that the girl was smoking at the bus stop. School adminThe woman said she was in an argument with someone on istrators eventually found a pack containing 12 cigarettes Facebook about an hour and a half prior to the incident. and a lighter in her backpack. She was cited for underage Police are unsure if the two incidents are connected. The possession of tobacco and was disciplined by the school.

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Feb. 24: A 31-year-old Shakopee man was arrested on THEFT Feb. 20: A woman from the 4800 block of 144th Street an outstanding warrant out of Hennepin County for public reported that someone entered her unlocked vehicle while urination after he was pulled over on Highway 13 near it was parked in the driveway overnight and stole an iPod County Road 42.

DISTRICT COURT The following are Scott County District Court felony and gross-misdemeanor dispositions. Defendants either pleaded guilty or were found guilty by the court unless otherwise indicated.

Wallace Richard Flatten Jr., 46, Elko New Market, driving after cancellation (inimical to public safety), a grossmisdemeanor. Two years’ probation, nine days in jail, $210 in fines.

Naomi Star Brekke, 30, Savage, obstruction of the legal process, a gross-misdemeanor. Two years’ probation, five days in jail, follow recommendations of evaluation, $160 in fines.

Leslie Wayne Campbell, 51, Savage, driving while intoxicated (refusal to submit to test), a gross-misdemeanor.

Two years’ probation, follow recommendations of evaluation, $235 in fines.

Petrina Lynn Watson, 46, Minneapolis, theft, a felony. Serve 18 months in prison, provide DNA sample, restitution, $75 in fines.

Christina Donn Alvarado, 32,

Bloomington, driving after cancellation, a gross-misdemeanor. Adjudication stayed: Two years’ probation, 10 days under electronic home-monitoring, $575 in fines.

Andrew Gene Brown, 18, Shakopee, harassment, violation of restraining order, a gross-misdemeanor. Two years’ probation, 20 days in jail, no contact with victim(s).

Mary Louise Pepper, 65, Madison Lake, Minn., fifth-degree possession of controlled substance, a felony. Five years’ probation, no possession of alcohol, random tests, follow recommendations of evaluation, $275 in fines.

Daniel Joseph Dougherty, 37, Prior Lake, DWI, a gross-misdemeanor. Four years’ probation, 90 days in jail, abstain from alcohol, random tests, follow recommendations of evaluation, $300 in fines.

Ralph Joseph Husman, 41, Savage, DWI, a gross-misdemeanor. Two years’ probation, 30 days in jail, 60 days under electronic home-monitoring,

abstain from alcohol, random tests, follow recommendations of evaluation, $410 in fines.

Joseph Michael Smith, 26, Shakopee, DWI, a felony. Seven years’ probation, one year in jail, follow recommendations of evaluation, provide DNA sample, restitution, $450 in fines.

John Alexander Snyder, 53, St. Peter, fifth-degree possession of controlled substance, a felony. Adjudication stayed: Three years’ probation, follow recommendations of evaluation, random tests.

David Michael Raphael, 41, St. Paul, fifth-degree possession of controlled substance, a felony. Adjudication stayed: Three years’ probation, follow recommendations of evaluation, random tests, $375 in fines.

Chad Joseph Valek, 32, New Prague, DWI, a gross-misdemeanor. Two years’ probation, 30 days under electronic home-monitoring, abstain from alcohol, random tests, follow recommendations of evaluation, $410 in fines.