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Boatworks restaurant gets off back burner BY DEBRA NEUTKENS EDITOR

WHITE BEAR LAKE — Sushi lovers will be excited about plans for a new Boatworks Commons restaurant. "It appears the timing has lined up to secure a restaurant tenant," said Community Development Director Anne Kane. DC Restaurant Group, doing business as Acqua Restaurant and Bar v3 with the future name to be determined, plans an 86-seat upscale Japanese cocktail and sushi bar for the first floor of the two-story building at 4475 Lake Ave. S. According to Kane, Acqua owner Daron Close learned a few months ago that the vision for the lakefront restaurant had evolved from a two-story, full-service concept to a much broader range of food service categories limited to just the first floor. He and partner JJ Maleitzke met with the developer and the city and hashed out details of a 10-year lease. A yoga studio and offices are planned for the second floor. The restaurant build-out is estimated to cost $600,000, to be shared equally by the landlord and tenant. Close and Maleitzke requested an economic development loan for half their investment, or $150,000, from the city to be repaid over 10 years at 2 percent interest. The City Council considered the request at its Oct. 25 meeting. Kane told members that the city approved a similar loan for Manitou Station. There is a difference with this loan, however. SEE BOATWORKS, PAGE 8A

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Lots of little helpers Keira Rodgers and Greta Birkett immerse themselves in their work while raking leaves with volunteers from Lincoln Elementary School Friday, Oct. 28. They were among the youngest members of several Hug-A-Heart community service groups organized by Lincoln Elementary teacher Pamela Johnstone. The groups, comprised of children, faculty and adult volunteers, helped rake leaves for 18 elderly residents who needed assistance with their seasonal yard work.

Students get in touch with brains BY SARA MARIE MOORE VADNAIS HEIGHTS EDITOR

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Fifth-grader Mikey Zewdie examines a pig brain in a jar held by University of Minnesota master’s student Melissa Asher during Brain Awareness Week Oct. 26.

HUGO – “It feels like a mushroom,” said an Oneka Elementary fifth-grader, after touching a human brain through plastic wrap. “It was so weird, it was jello-y,” concurred a classmate. “They actually are a lot like jello,” said Melissa Asher, a University of Minnesota master's student in neuroscience. Asher and Elizabeth Snarer, a child development master's student from the U of M, visited Oneka fifth-graders during Brain Awareness Week Oct. 26. Asher and Snarer came bearing several brains – students had the opportunity to view pig, cat, rabbit, and ferret brains in jars and touch human brains through plastic wrap. “So here we have our brain zoo,” said Snarer, show-

ing off a membrane still intact on a pig brain. “These are human brains – one whole and one cut in half so you can see what it looks like on the inside,” Asher said, before instructing students to line up to take turns looking at and touching the brains up close. Asher and Snarer also taught the students about how the brain works through other interactive activities. Students acted as cells, dendrites and an axon, squeezing each other's hands to send a signal from one student – a brain cell – to another student – a muscle cell. Students also took turns learning about nerves by poking each other gently with pins – they learned they could more easily identify two pins poking their hands than their arms because there are more nerves in hands. SEE BRAINS, PAGE 8A

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