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Local Girl Scout attends leadership academy in Alabama MADELINE DOLBY EDITOR
room for a holiday season. This year, he estimates he planted somewhere between 4,000 and 5,000 future Christmas trees. “Not all of them survive,” he says
Circle Pines resident Eva-Marie Lee, a junior at Centennial High School, has been a Girl Scout for the last 2 1/2 years. She joined after attending a Hmong summer camp hosted by the Girl Scout organization. “I wanted to learn more about my culture and how to connect with people,” said Lee. “A big part was wanting to step out of my comfort zone and learn how to speak up for myself.” She added that her CONTRIBUTED favorite memory since One of Lee’s favorite activities going Girl Scouts, was an incident exercise where including the Hmong she and her team had to save summer camp, has been Huntsville from danger. attending the Honeywell Leadership Challenge Academy at the U.S. Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama, earlier this month. “I think it (the space camp) had to be one of the best experiences ever,” Lee said. “I not only got to meet up with Girl Scouts from other cities, but I got to meet people internationally.” As part of a new partnership with Honeywell, Girl Scouts of Minnesota and Wisconsin River Valleys recently had the opportunity to send 10 local Girl Scouts to attend the Honeywell Leadership Challenge Academy at the U.S. Space and Rocket
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North Oaks residents Steve and Lauren Kavan, pictured with daughter Lydia (12) and son Wade (9), bought their Lino Lakes farmland in 2019.
Christmas tree farm comes to Lino Lakes BY ANDREA SWENSSON NORTH OAKS NEWS EDITOR
Is there anything more hopeful than the sight of a tiny young Christmas tree sprouting out of the dirt? It’s a sight that Steve Kavan is
trees get to him they are already two to five years old, and stand anywhere from 12 to 24 inches high. It takes another eight years of growth before it will be tall enough to end up in someone’s living
getting used to now that he’s started planting thousands of foot-tall seedlings on the property on Ash Street in Lino Lakes that he and his wife, Lauren, purchased in 2018. By the time the
Lino Retail 2.0: Residents raise concerns about proposed businesses LINO LAKES — An auto part retail store, an instant oil change facility and a three-unit multi tenant retail building is in the works near Lake Drive, Market Place Drive and 77th Street after the City Council approved the preliminary plat proposed by Java Companies w. The land use application that was submitted includes rezoning, the preliminary plat, a conditional use permit (CUP), site and building place review and vacation of a portion of 77th Street. The lots will be rezoned from Neighborhood Business (NB) to General
Business (GB) because a NB zone does not allow for drive-thrus or automotive repair. The existing 5-acre site includes the redevelopment of six existing lots along the west side of Lake Drive. Two of the lots north of 77th Street, currently owned by the city of Lino Lakes, were temporarily used for community gardens. There are four lots south of 77th Street that are now or occupied by single-family dwellings. The developer will acquire and remove these homes. The American Legion is north of the development. City Planner Katie Larsen said staff are requiring that the developer provide a potential shared access point. The access point would run along the backside
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of the auto part retail parking lot and lead into the American Legion. Architectural plans show that all three multitenant buildings will complement each other and the Marketplace Drive development to the east. Materials include two different colors of brick, glass, stone and rock-faced block. Colors proposed for the buildings are browns, tans, charcoal greys and black. “We are requiring that they install a 6-foot-high maintenance-free fence along their west lot line on both the north side and south side of the street,” Larsen clarified after a resident asked during the
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