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News stories from Eden Prairie, Minnesota
Approximately 9,700 kids went back to school in Eden Prairie Tuesday. Click below to see a slide show of back-to-school moments.
By Shannon Fiecke
As a trainer for Best Buy, Sean LaCoste ends icebreaker sessions with a question: If you could be somebody famous for a day, who would it be and why?
His answer is always Bear Grylls, the young British explorer and star of the Discovery Channel’s “Man vs. Wild.”
By Shannon Fiecke
As a trainer for Best Buy, Sean LaCoste ends icebreaker sessions with a question: If you could be somebody famous for a day, who would it be and why?
His answer is always Bear Grylls, the young British explorer and star of the Discovery Channel’s “Man vs. Wild.”
Susan Olson, 49, of Chanhassen, died Sunday, Sept. 5, 2010.
A celebration of Susan’s life will be held Saturday, Sept. 11, at 2 p.m. at Washburn-McReavy Edina Chapel, W. 50th St. & Vernon Ave. at Highway 100, Edina. Following the service, everyone is welcome to a spaghetti dinner at Buca’s in Eden Prairie.
Washburn-McReavy Edina Chapel, 952-920-3996.
(From left) Danielle Junker-Gustafson and Tina Liu faced a blustery first day of their eighth grade year at Central Middle School. Eden Prairie students went back to school Tuesday morning.
By Marie Wittenberg
School will be starting in September, right after Labor Day.
Since the consolidating of the country schools in Eden Prairie in 1924, there are modern schools for all grades and classes in Eden Prairie with yellow school buses and all.
In the 1800s, there was a school in all four corners of Eden Prairie. The Anderson log school was first and was located where Sears’ parking lot is in the Eden Prairie Center.
The Gould School followed shortly after where Marshall’s Market is located on the corner of Pioneer Trail and Eden Prairie Road.
By Pastor Rod Anderson
Tickets go on sale Sept. 18 for Nov. 6 show
Calling all foodies, cooks and would-be cooks: whatever your skill level in the kitchen, become a master just in time for the holidays and have fun while doing it at the Taste of Home Cooking School show, presented live at Prior Lake High School in Savage on Saturday, Nov. 6.
This event is the first time the national company has presented the cooking school in the Twin Cities area. It is sponsored by Southwest Newspapers and Prior Lake-Savage Area Schools Community Education.
Jeans Day for Charity, an ongoing, fun method for raising funds for nonprofits while boosting employee morale, is being planned for the Greater Southwest Metro Area of the Twin Cities.
Jeans Day is spearheaded by Southwest Newspapers, a multimedia company that serves the Twin Cities southwest suburbs with seven community weekly newspapers, three shoppers, a large number of informational websites and a growing array of specialty and niche publications.
Southwest Newspapers employees are asking companies and businesses in the area to participate with them in this activity.
McCleary-Scholz
Allison Scholz and Ryan McCleary of Columbus, Ohio, announce their engagement and upcoming wedding.
Allison is the daughter of Terrence and Carolyn Scholz of Tonka Bay, Minn. She attended Eden Prairie High School and the University of St. Thomas and is a marketing specialist at Matthews Paint.
Ryan is the son of Jim McCleary of Chanhassen and Carol McCleary of Shorewood. He attended Eden Prairie High School and the University of St. Thomas and is a sales representative at Compellent Technologies.
Drum Major Lindsay Lundeen directs the Eagle Marching Band during a recent practice at Eden Prairie High school. For more photos of the band, click here
Click below to see photos from the Eden Prairie High School Band Preview Night. This year, the Eagle Band will be performing "Once Upon a Time..." at various competitions around the state. The show is based on the musical "Chess."
Mary Schroeder, 61, of Eden Prairie, died Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2010.
Visitation is Tuesday, Sept. 7, from 5-8 p.m. at Washburn-McReavy Eden Prairie Chapel, 7625 Mitchell Rd. Mass of Christian Burial is Wednesday, Sept. 8, at 11 a.m. with visitation one hour prior at Pax Christi Catholic Community, 12100 Pioneer Trail.
Washburn-McReavy Eden Prairie Chapel, 952-975-0400.
Motorists can expect heightened DWI (driving while impaired) enforcement efforts statewide this Labor Day weekend, which is the seventh deadliest weekend of the year for alcohol-related deaths, according to the Minnesota Department of Public Safety Office of Traffic Safety.
Around 400 Minnesota law enforcement agencies will conduct intense DWI enforcement throughout the weekend, accompanied by 10,000 agencies nationwide.
Irene Nesbitt, 90, of Eden Prairie, has passed away.
Celebration of Life will be held Friday, Sept. 10, at 7 p.m. at Eden Prairie Presbyterian Church, 9145 Eden Prairie Rd.
Huber Funeral & Cremation Service Eden Prairie Chapel, 952-949-4970. www.huberfunerals.com
Four homes were burglarized in Eden Prairie in late August.
EP police reported the following:
Between 12:59 and 6:45 a.m. Aug. 24 someone removed a window in a kitchen of a residence on the 18000 block of Winnfield Road and stole a laptop. The residents were home at the time of the burglary but discovered that the window was open and the laptop stolen the next morning.
Are you interested in reading the public notices published in the September 2, 2010 print edition of the Eden Prairie News newspaper? The page or pages on which those notices were printed are attached to this item, in the form of .pdf’s that can be opened with Adobe Acrobat.
By True Grimes
Eighth-graders will usually have at least one adult in their family. Maybe even two.
But when an adult outside of their family takes the time to be a mentor to them, that is pretty powerful stuff, says Central Middle School counselor Stephanie Bender.
That’s why the “Hope for Tomorrow” mentor program is in need of Eden Prairie women to step up as mentors at the middle school at 8025 School Road.
The following obituaries are from the Sept. 2, 2010 print edition of the Eden Prairie News newspaper:
This year, Eden Prairie plans to replace canned vegetables with fresh vegetables. The bakery will be trans-fat free.
By Karla Wennerstrom
It’s two weeks before the start of school, and the Eden Prairie School District kitchens are steaming, stirring, whipping and chopping hubs of activity.
In one kitchen, Production Manager Don Colbrun is working on spaghetti sauce, which will be frozen and ready for the school year to begin on Tuesday, Sept. 7. Spaghetti sauce is one of a variety of soups and sauces the district makes from scratch.
An Irene Lev Memorial fly-in/drive-in pancake breakfast and silent auction is set for 8 a.m. to noon Sunday, Sept. 12, at Flying Cloud Airport Modern Avionics Hangar.
Proceeds from breakfast and raffle will go into a scholarship for her son and for other future aviators, according to a news release. For information, contact Jessica Miller at 320-296-5200.
Cost is $8 for adults, $5 for children under 12.
A new season for the St. Andrew Cancer and Extended Illness Support Group begins from 6:30-8 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 7, at St. Andrew Lutheran Church in Eden Prairie.
Kick-off speaker for this monthly group is Ruth Bachman, a St. Andrew member and member of the Eden Prairie community.
Proposed boundary maps for the 2011-2012 school year may not be available to the public until October, according to an update the Eden Prairie School Board received Tuesday.
According to a district communication plan, feedback will be accepted in a variety of ways through October, with a final decision in early November.
The Boundary Committee again asked the School Board its opinion on non-contiguous boundaries.
The Eagle Marching Band performed Michael Jackson’s “Thriller,” during the first day of the Minnesota State Fair. For more lists of fair participants, click here.
- Photo by John Molene
Wes Dunsmore has probably earned a break. Dunsmore, Eden Prairie’s retiring park operations supervisor, has been working in parks since he was 16, and, following a stint in the Marines, he’s been working in the Eden Prairie parks since 1972. That’s 37 years and eight months on the job in Eden Prairie.
And he’s never taken a sick day.
You do what you’ve always done and “time takes care of itself,” said Dunsmore, 60, who had his last day of work in Eden Prairie Tuesday.
In 1981 Tracy Luke was finishing up her officer training program at Normandale Community College and needed to find an internship. The head of her program recommended Eden Prairie. It turned out to be some life-changing advice.
“They expected a lot more from an officer here, and I wanted that. I wanted to be at some place that had really high expectations of all its workers,” said Luke.
Luke, now Lt. Luke, was hired full-time in Eden Prairie 1985, and hasn’t looked back. She’s retired this month after 25 years of work in Eden Prairie.
By John Molene
With a pickle-on-a-stick in one hand, and a Pronto Pup in the other, Joel Fuller of Eden Prairie was well on his way toward achieving his state fair dreams.
“My goal is to eat at least one of everything that’s on a stick,” said Fuller, 17.
A noble goal, and Fuller wasn’t alone. Each year thousands of Minnesotans head for the annual food-on-a-stick festival, also known as the Minnesota State Fair.
The corner service station at Singletree Lane and Flying Cloud Drive is in the midst of a massive makeover. By the start of next year, Bobby and Steve’s Autoworld will have expanded to a two-story, 22,400-square-foot service station. Owner Randy Neis said it’s all based on a vision he had for the location when he purchased it four years ago.
Architect Brian Cluts, who also designed Windsor Plaza, said the idea is for the new service station to be a landmark.
“That’s the No. 1 reason why I bought that location,” said Neis.
The job offer is in place — the next question is if Eden Prairie will soon have to begin its own search for a new city manager. Tuesday, the Edina City Council unanimously picked Eden Prairie City Manager Scott Neal to be hired as Edina’s new city manager.
The next step, as Edina City Council member Scot Housh remarked, will be to “close the deal.”
A negotiating team that includes Mayor Jim Hovland and Council member Ann Swenson will be contacting Neal to negotiate the terms of his contract.
CHASKA — A Chaska man has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for violating his probation and failing to register as a predatory offender.