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July 28, 2017 | Volume 38 | Number 22
More than just a place for football New Vikings home has plans for kayaking, sculptures, rugby and beyond by Andy Rogers SUN THISWEEK DAKOTA COUNTY TRIBUNE
Get ready for the county fair Inside this edition is a special section devote to the Dakota County Fair with a schedule and other information. See inside
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Football will not be the only activity at the new Minnesota Vikings development under construction in Eagan. Beyond coming to watch the Vikings training camp next summer, residents may visit the Vikings Lake development to kayak or cross-country ski in the future. Plans for a plaza, trails system and a land bridge were unveiled last week during the Eagan City See VIKINGS, 5A
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The Minnesota Viking released updated amenities plans for Vikings Lake development during an Eagan City Council meeting last week.
‘Close to You’ show slated Lisa Rock and her six-piece band are bringing the music of the Carpenters back to the stage, including an 8 p.m. Friday, Oct. 20, engagement at the Ames Center in Burnsville Page 19A
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NEWS Woman dies in boat crash A Burnsville woman died in a July 22 boat crash in northeast Minnesota. Page 3A
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Athletes from across the south metro and the state of Minnesota gathered in Apple Valley to compete in a wide range of sports during the Special Olympics Minnesota Summer Games in June.
Summer Games grew while at Eastview Next year’s games to be held at St. Thomas University by Tad Johnson SUN THISWEEK DAKOTA COUNTY TRIBUNE
For the past two years, Special Olympics Minnesota has run its Summer Games at Eastview High School in Apple Valley. During that time, attendance at the event has grown so much that it has led to the organization to need a larger facility. Next year, the Summer Games will be held at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, where it can stage more
sports and competitions along with giving the event a bigger feel, according to organizers. “We have loved holding our Summer Games at Eastview for the past two years, but the expansion of our games called for the need for a larger event facility,� said Taylor Dale, marketing manager for Special Olympics Minnesota. This year’s Summer Games held June 22-24 hosted more than 1,700 Special Olympics Minnesota athletes, 100 Unified Partners (Unified Sports mix athletes with and without disabilities on the same team) and 620 coaches. More than 1,110 volunteers and spec-
Annie Young
This is an example of some of Annie Young’s recent work, which she says reflects her study of color relationships, textures and compositions.
Blind artist gets hometown show Young exhibit opens Aug. 10 at Burnsville’s Ames Center by John Gessner SUN THISWEEK DAKOTA COUNTY TRIBUNE
Acrylic artist Annie Young’s early works are thick with paint — impasto — applied with her finSee GAMES, 9A gers. The canvas dried to a high relief, giving the artist Photo submitted the tactile stimulation she Special needed to affirm her work. Olympics Young, who is blind, Minnesota now paints with both finheld its Sumgers and brush, increasmer Games ingly confident she doesn’t at Eastview need to feel her paintings High School in to know viewers appreciApple Valley ate them. from June “I still love touching 22-24. those (early) pieces, because I can feel the energy,� the 54-year-old Burnsville resident said. “I have a great connection and memory to making
Annie Young them. With my new works, I don’t get that. It’s very limited as far as the tactile stimulation that I would receive after it’s dry. The benefit or the pleasure I get from those works are the reactions that people have when they tell me what they see in it.� The evolving artist tasted her first professionSee YOUNG, 5A