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See inside for the following news items: Bald Eagle Island sale closes, Sunrise Park Middle School has a new principal, downtown liquor lounge and Noodles and Company opens, Asia’s Finest Restaurant is closing and residential development proposed near Benson Airport.
Upcoming events See page 6A for info on the following upcoming events: “Who were the Fillebrowns? history presentation, Fare For All Express discounted food, Ski Otters 20th anniversary show and the final Birchwood Music in the Park concert of the season.
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Watchmaker takes time to make time by Debra Neutkens Regional Editor Calling himself the "last of the Mohicans," watchmaker Ken Anderson is among a dying breed. Good thing he's nowhere close to winding down. The owner of White Bear Jewelers has a passion for old pocket watches. He owns about 50 himself in varying states of disrepair, which means some tick and some don't. Anderson figures he'll get around to restore his personal collection when he retires. For now, he doesn't have time. Dozens of watches await Anderson's attention at his White Bear Shopping
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Center store. People send him timepieces from all over the country, he said, because they can't find people who have that skill. "Every jewelry store around sends customers here," Anderson said, "which has its benefits. People who come in the store realize we do custom goldsmithing, size rings and sell jewelry, too. But we do mostly watch repair." Anderson and wife Kathy bought the store in 1997 from Steve Ertl, who bought it from Ronald Jewelers. The store has been in the strip mall at 4421 Lake Ave. S. about 50 years. You might think the demand for watches is dropping as millennials use their cell phones for telling time. Not so, according to Anderson. "Kids are still
wearing watches. They don't rely on a watch for time; it's become a piece of jewelry, an accessory." And there is still grandpa's pocket watch or heirloom piece that needs to be fixed. "It's a cool feeling," Anderson said, "to bring a 50-year-old watch back to life." The jeweler recalled a pocket railroad watch that a resident brought in belonging to his great-grandfather. The customer told the jeweler his ancestor, Frank D. Mehlhorn, was a White Bear Lake train station master. The watch was an 1892 Elgin given to Mehlhorn when he was 18 and working for the
Watchmaker/see page 7A
Public notices
Pull-tab operator change blocked
See pages 4B-6B for public notices, including a Mahtomedi public hearing on the summer road improvements assessments.
by Kristine Goodrich Editor
Weather Tidbits
Week of Aug. 26 - Sept. 1, 2015 Weather tidbit: August 31, 1975 tornado touches down in Rollag, MN (near Fargo), demolishing a garage and a portion of a house. 15 farms north of Rollag were badly damaged with power and telephone lines severed. Year Ago this week: Rain totals 1.31 inches the last three days of the month to bring August rain total to 4.67 inches.
Weekly Averages High Low %Sun PCP 79° 59° 64% 1.05” (More weather on sports page)
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VADNAIS HEIGHTS — An outdated form gave the City Council a reason to deny an application for the youth hockey association to take over charitable gambling at Jimmy's Food and Drink. The council then approved a moratorium to indefinitely block the hockey group from reapplying. The Vadnais Heights Fire Relief Association currently conducts charitable gambling at Jimmy's and donates net proceeds to the city's fire department. The owner of Jimmy's opted to expel the fire association at the end of the month and allow the White Bear Lake Area Hockey Association to take over the charitable gambling operation. Owner Jim Proulx reportedly hopes the change will bring in more customers. The state gambling board and the city needed to OK the operator change. The application to the city contained the old version of a required state form. A city attorney advised the council that the old and new forms don't contain any substantive differences and therefore use of the old form doesn't necessitate denial of the application. The council nevertheless denied the application. The vote was 3-2 with Mayor Marc Johannsen and councilmen Jerry Auge and Terry Nylbom voting to deny and councilmen Craig Johnson and Bob Fletcher voting against denial. The council then unanimously voted to enact a moratorium on gambling permit applications while it considers changing the city's regulations on charitable gambling operations and operators. When contacted by the Press, Proulx declined to comment about the council's actions or whether he'd allow the fire relief association to continue operating in his establishment. Hockey Association President Kevin McFarlane said in an email he was “disappointed” with the council's denial based upon what he described as “a minor technicality.
Gambling/see page 7A
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Ryan O’Connell says goodbye to one of her new senior friends Aug. 18.
New music class brings together young and old by Kristine Goodrich Editor After 45 minutes of singing, dancing and playing instruments together, toddlers and preschoolers gave goodbye hugs to new senior citizen friends at Cerenity Senior Care. Music bridges the divide of generations, says Clarice Wilson. But the director of Music Together in the Valley says that the youngest of learners are receiving less and less early exposure to
music. Increasingly in each recent generation, fewer parents are making music with their children, Wilson claims. The Stillwater woman has led the east metro franchise of Music Together, a company that developed family music classes, since 2004. In addition to dozens of classes for babies, toddlers and preschoolers and their caregivers, Wilson is hoping to offer new “intergenerational” classes at two area senior care facilities this fall. If
enough paying families enroll, classes will be held Tuesday mornings at Cerenity Senior Care in White Bear Lake and Friday mornings at Waverly Gardens in North Oaks. Senior residents will be invited to participate at no charge. A demonstration class for prospective families and senior participants was held last week at Cerenity. The instructor led a variety of original songs and classic favorites,
Music Together/see page 7A
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