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Pre-Derby Party The Chain of Lakes Rotary will host a Pre-Derby party from 6 to 9 p.m. Friday, May 3 at the Peder Pedersen Pavilion at Lions Volunteer Park in Hugo. Attendees should plan to wear their best Derby attire. The event will feature dinner, games and prizes. Proceeds will be given to a clean water initiative called Mukuyuini, as well as the Rotary’s Camp Ryla, Youth Exchange Program and Blue herons on Peltier Island. For more information, visit chainoflakesrotary.com.
Swift changes are coming to the National Association of Realtors (NAR). It comes after years of lawsuits from various homeowners arguing that the company enforces unfair practices. The homeowners said these practices have led to high commission rates between a seller and a buyer’s agent, forcing them to pay unnecessary fees to buy a house. The NAR agreed to pay $418 million to settle the commission lawsuits. Additionally, they abolished their Participation Rule, allowing sell-side agents to offer compensation to buyer brokers. Larry Mahoney, a Realtor with Keller Williams Realty in Vadnais Heights, and Justin Larson, branch manager for Summit Mortgage Corporation in Lino Lakes, both pushed back on what they considered misreporting by the media on realtors’ business dealings. “Realtors will need to step up their game,” said Mahoney. “They need to continue to be professional and clear about the services they provide clients.” SEE ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS, PAGE 2
Parent group helps others feel like they are not alone BY SHANNON GRANHOLM MANAGING EDITOR
For parents or guardians who have children with special needs, they can often feel isolated — but the goal of a local support group aims to change that. Lino Lakes resident Bre Larson has an 8-year-old son with non-verbal autism. “I’ve had this vision for quite a while, but I had to find the right people to talk to to get the group (going),” Larson explained. “To have something where everybody can just come as they are and ask questions and learn and grow,
“To have something where everybody can just come as they are and ask questions and learn and grow,” Bre Larson SPIN founder I think would have been a huge thing for me, and I want that for other people, too.”
The group is called SPIN. “Our heads are always spinning in all different directions in trying to navigate all of the things to help our kids.” From August through May, the group meets from 6 to 7:30 p.m. on the second Tuesday of the month at Rice Lake Elementary School (on the Early Childhood side). Over the summer, in June and July, the group will meet at the same time, but on the second Friday of the month. All are welcome to the group, and many of the parents and guardians that attend have children with a wide range
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