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Jan. 4, 2019 • Volume 39 • Number 44
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Eagan boy rescues man from bottom of swimming pool by Tad Johnson SUN THISWEEK DAKOTA COUNTY TRIBUNE
A 34-year-old man who didn’t know how to swim was rescued from the bottom of an indoor pool at an Eagan apartment building on Sunday night
by an 11-year-old boy, according to Eagan police. The boy, whose name is Advaik Nandikotkur as reported by the Star Tribune, was the only person at the pool where his family and friends had gathered when Srinivasa
R. Yalavarthi was wading in the pool at Town Centre Apartments when he slid to the deep end of the pool and went under the water for a few minutes before anyone had noticed, according to Eagan police. Police said that Ad-
vaik’s mother told the boy to jump into the pool when it was apparent no one else could help immediately, as at least two people at the pool called 911 right away at 7:25 p.m. Yalavarthi had sunk into the 8-foot-deep end,
Year in Review
Contract, enrollment, budget were challenges in School District 191
by John Gessner
by John Gessner
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As Eric Gieseke recalls it, he was mouthing off to a senior officer when the much larger man tossed him into some freshly finished drywall in the Burnsville police station. Their horseplay left a police cadet-sized hole in the brand-new station — bad news for the cadet and the cop to break to Chief Mike DuMoulin on a Friday afternoon. DuMoulin demanded they have the wall fixed by the time he returned to work on Monday. “Later we all laughed about it,” said DuMoulin, who issued only a “quasiverbal reprimand.” Three decades later Gieseke has announced his retirement as Burnsville’s sixth chief of police, the fourth since DuMoulin hired him in 1989. He’s leaving April 30, 30 years
uncle, Suseel Kumar Nandikotkur, 38, of Detroit, Mich., resuscitated Yalavarthi who was not breathing “and was dead essentially,” according to Aaron Machtemes, Eagan police spokesperson. See Rescue, 21A
2018
Police chief to retire in April Gieseke started as police cadet 30 years ago
but Advaik was able to pull him up despite a significant weight difference, according to the Star Tribune. Advaik’s father, Raghu Nandikotkur, and others pulled Yalavarthi out of the water, and Advaik’s
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Contentious negotiations with teachers, continued enrollment decline and more budget shortfalls challenged School District 191 in 2018. But students in the Burnsville-Eagan Savage district continued to celebrate their successes. The district gained attention for programs such as Career Fields and Pathways. And district leadership continued to churn, with three new School Board members winning office and Superintendent Cindy Amoroso announcing her Photo by John Gessner coming retirement. Burnsville Police Chief Eric Gieseke, who started as Here are some 2018 a Burnsville police cadet three decades ago, will retire highlights in District 191, April 30. from the pages of Burnsafter starting in Burnsville job,” said DuMoulin, who ville-Eagan Sun Thisweek. as a community service of- was chief for 25 years, reficer (known then as a po- tiring in 1998. “He’s bright Contract lice cadet). and people like him, supOn April 26 and May See Chief, 24A “He’s just done a stellar 24, car horns blared as
File photo by John Gessner
School District 191 teachers picketed on Burnsville Parkway and Nicollet Avenue April 26, protesting 300 days without a contract. Talks got hung up on contract language governing teacher layoffs. throngs of sign-carrying than usual, without lanteachers picketed along guage it had sought makBurnsville Parkway and ing teachers’ disciplinary Nicollet Avenue. records a potential factor The School Board ap- in layoffs. proved a new teacher conThe proposal inflamed tract Aug. 9, months later See 191, 14A
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