Beer lovers are invited to join the Washington County Historical Society from 4 to 7 p.m. June 18 for the ninth Annual Hay Lake Beer Tasting fundraiser and silent auction. Admission to the event is $15 per person and participants must be 21 years or older. All proceeds from this event go directly to the Washington County Historical Society.

For nine years running, this event has become the keystone fundraiser for the Washington County Historical Society. This year’s event is sponsored by Opinion Brewing Company and will include 10 different breweries from around the Minnesota area. Many Minnesota favorites will be participating, including Joseph Wolf Brewing, Lift Bridge Brewing, Burning Brothers Brewing, Tin Whiskers Brewing, and more.

The beer is just a part of it, as the tasting will also consist of food from the Scandia-Marine Lions Club and snacks provided by Dot’s Homestyle Pretzels. All attendees will be able to take home their commemorative glass. Capital City Wind Ensemble and Hammerschlagen will provide musical entertainment.

Additionally, the Taproom Travelers will be shooting a bonus episode of their web show at the beer tasting. These men travel the midwest with cameras to speak to the people behind the making of craft beer. Taproom Travelers will also be presenting at the event about the making of their web show and the importance of craft beer in Minnesota.

The silent auction will include items from the Minnesota Vikings, Minnesota Orchestra, Water Street Inn, Guthrie Theater, River Moon Coffee, and more from all over Minnesota and Wisconsin.

The Hay Lake School Museum is located at 14020 195th St. N., Marine on St Croix. Contact Dustyn Dubuque at dustyn.dubuque@hotmail.com or 651-433-4019 with any questions regarding this event or to schedule a tour of the museum.

Graphic provided
Forest Lake Area Schools announced that this week marks the beginning of some of the major construction taking place at the Forest Lake Area High School as part of the district’s facilities improvement project. The work will limit parking and access to the high school during the summer. According to a release from the district, while the current phase of the project is underway, all visitors to the high school will need to enter the building via Door 9, on the south side of the school. The only access to the school’s parking lots will be from Goodview Avenue, at the large parking lot’s north entrance. Overflow parking will be available at Century Junior High.

Something unusual and important is happening in many Minnesota suburbs and small towns: the significant increase in the number of students attending charter public schools – an idea that started here in Minnesota, 25 years ago this month. These are free, public, non-sectarian schools open to all, with no admissions tests.

Minnesota charter K-12 enrollment grew in the past 10 years from 17,544 in 2004-05 to 47,747 in 2014-15. Meanwhile K-12 enrollment in non-charter public schools decreased from 809,787 in 2004-05 to 795,185 in 2014-15.

Nationally, the number of students enrolled in charters has grown from less than 100 in 1992 to an estimated 2.6 million in 2014-15, according to the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, which offers information at bit.ly/1NVy2BE.

National Gallup polls consistently find more than 60 percent of Americans support the charter idea. Although charters are controversial for some, the majority of Americans would agree with what Nekima Levy-Pounds, Minneapolis NAACP president and St. Thomas law professor, recently wrote to me, in part, via email: “It’s important for parents to have a choice in identifying schools that will be the best fit for their children.”

Last month included National Charter School Week. Both President Barack Obama and a bipartisan group of U.S. senators issued proclamations explaining that, as the president wrote, charters “play an important role in our country’s education system.” The full proclamation is at 1.usa.gov/1WFY79c.

While thousands of charter public schools have opened since 1991 in 42 states and the District of Columbia, nationally, most are found in cities. In Minnesota, many suburban and small town families have access to the free public education offered in charters as well as traditional district schools.

I don’t think either district or charter option is inherently better. We should be learning from the most effective schools, whether district or charter.

Charters are found in suburbs such as Blaine, Bloomington, Brooklyn Park, Brooklyn Center, Coon Rapids, Crystal, Eden Prairie, Hopkins, Minnetonka, Ramsey, Richfield and Stillwater. They’re found in small and medium-size cities like Cologne, Elk River, Forest Lake, Isanti, Maple Lake, Monticello, Otsego, Owatonna and Willmar.

More information about all 164 Minnesota charters is available from the Minnesota Association of Charter Schools website, bit.ly/1SYe9sz.

Eugene Piccolo, executive director of the Minnesota Association of Charter Schools, told me: “There’s no single reason why families select charters. For some, it’s a particular feature, like smaller class size and overall smaller school size. Others like the Montessori, classical or International Baccalaureate curriculum. Some families want their children in a language immersion school that offers another language along with English.” One or more Minnesota charters offer instruction in Arabic, Chinese, Dakota, German, Hmong, Korean, Ojibwe, Spanish or Russian.

“Some families like the idea of an ‘online’ school,” he added. “Other families like the idea that some charters are K-12, so that all the children can attend school together, if that’s the parents’ desire.”

That diversity of reasons Piccolo mentions is supported by parent surveys.

Vanessta Spark, executive director of Spectrum High School in Elk River, shared a parent survey her school conducted in the 2014-15 school year. The most frequently cited reasons for selecting Spectrum were small school size and high academic standards.

Tom Kearney, superintendent and principal of New Heights School in Stillwater, sent me a recent parent survey citing small class sizes, more individualized attention and flexible academic program as among the most frequently cited reasons for selecting the charter school.

Nearby charter public schools include North Lakes Academy (grades 5 through 12, www.northlakesacademy.org) and Lakes International Language Academy (preschool through 12th grade, www.lakesinternational.org).

There are few things as American as the ability to choose among various options – whether it’s where to live, who we’ll elect to office or what job we have. We rightly value freedom. Fortunately, Minnesota has decided to provide families with a variety of public school options, including both district and charter public schools.

Minnesota wisely gives educators the chance to create the kinds of schools they think make sense for students. This gives more educators the power to use their professional insights and, most important, helps more students succeed.

Joe Nathan, formerly a Minnesota public school teacher, administrator and PTA president, is a former director and now senior fellow at the Center for School Change. Reactions are welcome at joe@centerforschoolchange.org.

Forest Lake Sports Center supervisor Mike Elam had a lot of big plans when he was hired by the school district in August 2014. Two years later, many of those plans have come to fruition with more waiting in the wings. Ultimately, his goal is to make the space a comfortable sports facility befitting of the Forest Lake Rangers that will also be a boon to the community at large.

“We want to make this our home and we want everyone to know that it is,” Elam said. “To that effect, we put a new Ranger logo in the ice with the help of the National Guard and the Forest Lake Lakers. We also erected 65 feet of vinyl lettering to spell out our team name. You come here, you now know where you are.”

Elam presented his facility operations report to the Forest Lake Area School Board on June 2. Within, he highlighted the employees both full and part time.

“When I was hired, I was given a set of keys and I was given Larry Bailey,” Elam said. “Larry has been a maintenance supervisor since this place first opened in October of 2008, and he knows the building up and down. He is a great maintenance guy and a great person.”

He also spoke of assistant ice arena manager Andrew Isakson who was hired in January 2014. Elam said that he is a young man who is very willing to learn and has been an asset.

“We also have about 16 part-time employees,” he said. “Those include six rink supervisors and 10 rink attendants. The attendants are all Forest Lake students and they all work very hard at the arena. They are a great group of kids.”

Elam next mentioned a series of upgrades that have been done to the facility, the most noteworthy and cost efficient being the installation of rooftop solar panels.

“There are 751 panels on our roof and every day they save us more and more money,” he said. “They are low enough to where they can’t be seen from the ground, and so they don’t cause any eyesore, and they are just a great addition to our building.”

According to the installers of the panels, Apex Corporation, the district has seen a savings of $1,730 in March, $2,375 in April, and $3,061 in May. With June, July, and August being typically sunny months, those savings are expected to increase. Elam estimated that a plan to place solar panels on the ground could see savings double. That plan is currently being discussed with the Forest Lake City Council, as the city owns the land where the panels were planned to be placed.

Other facility upgrades include a revitalized training room.

“We had kids training all over the place before we made this change,” Elam said. “Sometimes they would find space here, but often they would drive back to the school to use the weight room. We added medicine balls and other training equipment to our space here and now everything can be done in-house. The training room is so nice in fact that we have a group of yoga moms who rent it out once a week.”

Other efforts to give the space a more homey feel included the addition of nine trophy cases as well as a large mural featuring a photo collage of Forest Lake athletes.

“Eight of the photos in the mural can be switched out to represent the current high school boys and girls teams,” Elam said. “Not only are the mural and trophy cases a sense of pride for the players, but it is also nice for the community as well as visiting opponents to see how much pride we take in our players.”

Currently, the Forest Lake Sports Center leases out space to several different community groups. Forest Lake Skate and Cycle operate a shop on the first floor of the facility, the Forest Lake Athletic Association holds several offices in the building and also leases the concession stand, the Hockey Association leases storage space, and the Skoglund meeting room is rented out for educational purposes and Chamber of Commerce meetings as well as other events.

Other planned improvements include upgraded exterior lighting, the addition of a meeting and party room, a conference room renovation, and parking lot improvements that will see pavement placed where dirt is currently on the south side of the building.

Elam’s hard work to get the sports center in shape has not gone unnoticed. The facility was recently chosen for a rare honor.

“The Forest lake Sports Center was one of only 16 sites in the entire state chosen for the Little Wild Learn to Play Hockey Program,” Elam said. “It is a four-week session, and for $100, kids get four hours of ice time and free equipment. That program filled up in about 15 minutes.”

Board Member Karen Morehead praised not only the upgrades to the facility, but also the competence of Elam. Several other board members concurred.

“I am just so glad that we have such a nice facility and that our kids don’t have to travel far away to get ice time,” she said. “Just buying the building wasn’t enough to make that happen, though.

We needed someone with a lot of expertise and excitement for the job, and Mike was the perfect person at the perfect time.”

Age 87 of Forest Lake

Six local students graduated June 8 from a Fairview Lakes Medical Center-facilitated program designed to give people with disabilities better positioning in the job market.

In 1996, the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center launched an effort to “lead the community in increasing employment opportunities for persons with (developmental or cognitive) disabilities and advocate on behalf of their employment to other organizations.” The director of Cincinnati Children’s emergency department presented a plan to the Great Oaks Career Campuses special education director, and the resulting partnership became Project SEARCH.

Project SEARCH’s goal was to train people with developmental disabilities to fill some of the high-turnover, entry-level positions in the hospital, which involved complex and systematic tasks such as stocking supply cabinets, and to secure competitive employment for individuals with disabilities.

That Cincinnati program has since spread to over 240 job sites that include Canada, England, Scotland, Ireland and Australia, as well as the United States. In Minnesota, the program has been in existence since 2009. Sites include Medtronic, Children’s Hospitals of Minnesota, Avera Medical Center, Hennepin County Medical Center, Mayo Clinic and Fairview Lakes Medical Center in Wyoming. The Forest Lake Area School District was chosen to facilitate the Fairview program.

During their time as interns, the six local students who graduated from the Fairview program, aged 18 to 21, worked in the housekeeping, clerical, nutrition, security, store, facilities, and in-patient pharmacy departments. Over the course of one school year, each student would spend two weeks in the classroom learning job preparedness skills and would then interview in one of the hospital departments. They would spend 10 weeks on the job as an intern in that department and then would start the process over with two more weeks of classroom time. Each student worked in three different departments throughout their time at the hospital.

“None of these students were ready to interview for or work a job out in the real world when they first joined Project SEARCH,” instructor Lesa Genovese said. “Walking out of here on graduation day, however, I am confident that every member of this class of interns will be a valuable asset to the workforce.”

The Fairview Wyoming program accepts students from Forest Lake, Century, White Bear Lake, St. Francis, North Branch, Anoka-Hennepin and Spring Lake Park school districts. Potential interns must fill out an application, which will usually lead to a family meeting to determine if the student is a right fit. Interested students are then put through an interview and skills test process before finally gaining acceptance into the program.

“It is a very special thing for these young people to get into this program,” Genovese said. “For some, this is the only chance they have at being able to successfully join the workforce. Independence, financial and otherwise, is a huge step for someone with a disability and that is one of the big things this program provides an opportunity for.”

Bailee Sandbakken started the program in September 2015 and graduated June 8. Gaining the skills and confidence to able to work independently on her own without someone shadowing her to provide assistance was a major milestone for Sandbakken.

“I got a job at Caribou Coffee, and I think it’s fantastic,” Sandbakken said. “Without the things I learned here at the hospital and the help from everyone I worked with, I would not have been able to get that job.”

Sandbakken’s mother also noticed a huge change in her daughter from day one to the end.

“She is so much more outgoing socially,” Julie Gerr said. “When we are out shopping or running errands, she is not afraid to say hi to people and interact. That was something that didn’t happen before Project SEARCH.”

Fairview Nutritional Services Supervisor Wendy Braski is so confident in the program that she hired one of the 2014 graduates, Alyssa Kurrelmeyer, to work in her department.

“I noticed such a tremendous change in Alyssa as she made her way through the program that I had no worries about hiring her as a part of my team after she graduated,” Braski said. “She recently celebrated her two-year work anniversary and she has so far had perfect attendance. Another positive aspect to hiring someone from the program is that it teaches our other staff members compassion toward others ,and that is one of the Fairview values that we all want to embody.”

Beginning in 2017, Fairview will see a new Project SEARCH instructor as Genovese has been asked to lead a brand-new program in the state. Gov. Mark Dayton is a proponent of Project SEARCH and has decided to start a program at the state Capitol. That program will also be facilitated by the Forest Lake District, and Genovese will take charge of the new interns.

Donald Dingman age 86, long time resident of Forest Lake, passed away peacefully March 6, 2016.
A celebration of his life will take place at 3 p.m. on Friday, June 24, 2016 at Mattson Funeral Home, 343 N. Shore Drive, Forest Lake. Visitation will be held from 1-3 p.m. Interment will be at Scandinavian Cemetery.
In lieu of flowers, family requests memorials be made to Disabled American Veterans or Alzheimer's Assn.
Online condolences may be made at www.mattsonfuneralhome.com. Cards and memorials may be directed to Mattson Funeral Home and Cremation Services.

A Honor Roll

Quarter 4

2015-2016

Grade 7

Logan Anderson, Paige Anderson, HalleJo Baldwin, Emma Barborak, Amanda Barsness, Nicholas Belle Isle, Isabella Berg, Natalie Berg, Emma Bergman, Sidona Berhanemeskel, Natalie Brandl, Tyler Brischke, Emily Bromert, Hadley Bruce, Connor Brust, Emma Brust, Abigail Buff, Kevin Bump, Hayden Carlson, Megan Carlson, Cailee Casiday, Samantha Clark, Salvatore Coviello, Seth DuPaul, Danila Egorov, Rachel Golnitz, Steven Goodnow, Matthew Greenfield, Anika Haley, Amelea Hauer, Jocelyn Hildreth, Jacob Ihfe, Emily Johnson, Andrew Jorgenson, Nicholas Jorgenson, Ava Krajewski, Mason LaBarre, Grace Land, Kabao Lee, Marvella Leroux, Matthew Livgard, Elise Marquardt, Talia Martinson, Marshall Moon, Grace Muellner, Connor Neeser, Wyatt Nelson, Zachary Nelson, Joseph Olson, McKenna Olson, Chase Osterberg, Luke Ostercamp, Alaini Parlow, Grace Patnode, Catelin Peck, Olivia Pekron, Jenna Peterson, Hailey Pitzl, Joseph Praught, Nikolas Ramberg, Tyler Raway, Joshua Redepenning, Harris Ritter, Andrea Rocha-Navarrete, Isaac Roers, Zachary Ruger, Natalie Runquist, Allyson Sanders, Casey Sauve, Emma Savage, Jacob Sawyer, Joshua Schlichting, Thomas Schoessow, Sophia Stanek, Katelynn Stanius, Ella Stewart, Jenna Stockinger, Kirsten Swanson, Megan Tetzlaff, Carissa Thaemert, Austin Traylor, Sumaya Tumli, Andrew Valentini, Lucy Vue, Madison Walters, Madeline Welsch, Ava Wilde, Hayle Windingstad, Adam Witzel, Jennifer Wood, Nathan Yechout, Madelyn Zak, Ethan Zimmerman, Lydia Zimmerman

Grade 8

Jackson Barnes, Madeline Best, Hannah Bier, Kaitlyn Blackburn, Aaron Bloomberg, Ryan Blumenthal, Paige Bracht, Gabriel Brisbois, Jordan Buelow, Kayla Burns, Kieler Carlson, William Chatwin, Hannah Clinton,  Alexis Docter, Ian Dow, Amelia Drayfahl, Madeline Dreher, Bailey Dunaski, Amanda Ekvall, Kodie Engst, Ethan Erickson, Quentin Evans, Alexander Ferraro, Desiree Finstrom, Ethan Fore, Eli Freeman, Caleb Friesen, Katelyn Galatowitsch, Alana Gleaves, Ciaran Gomez, Gracie Gregoire, Alexis Grzybek, Ashley Halliday, Hannah Helinsky, Ronald Henderson, Avery Hiller, Robin Holt, Andrew Jensen, Taylor Jensen, Maron Jents, Allison Joslin, Autumn Kosec, Katelyn Krause, Madeline Krieger, Morgan Kuchenmeister, Cassondra LaFond, Anneliese Larson, McKinley Leavitt, Joshua Lee, Madelyn Lee, Preston Leigh, Jack Luedtke, Brady Maloney, Nicholas McCarver, Amanda McCullough, Joseph McMahon, Kristine Murphy, Nader Mustafa, Jordan Oberholtzer, Alecia Olson, Josie Olson, William Pelto, Jonah Peterson, Julia Peterson, Beck Pope, Ashton Posey, Angelina Rachie, Anna Reifschneider, Madison Richert, Lauren Rohan, Alyssa Ryan, Sean Sardeson, Rhea Schaberg, Sydney Schmidt, Trevor Schmidt, Kelsey Severeid, Kabachwezi Shalita, Grace Sieber, Austin Sievers, Erik Stone, Harrison Taylor, Sydney Thibault, Allyson Thompson, Hunter Vickery, Cameron Vidlund, Michael Voge, Livia Wagner, Emily Wert, Tresa Wickenheiser, Kade Wilson, Gus Woolley, Lauryn Wurscher

 Grade 9

Sara Anderson, Dulcie Ashworth, Mollie Barnes, Abigail Barsness, Cassandra Bergman, Ashley Bergum, Hailey Bolin, Jordan Brelje, Mariah Byl, Jack Callahan, Nicholas Cameron, Logan Carlson, Benjamin Cartford, Erika Cedarbloom, Rachel Croft, Hunter Damon, Kyle Devich, Emily Dironca, Emily Distler, Nicole Dixon, Sofia Dodge, Jacqueline Dohm, Madeline Dolby, Regan Duffy, Dane DuPaul, Nissa Edstrom, Kevin Elvine, Elizabeth Ely, Natasha Friedges, Natalie Gale, Emily Goodnow, Alexander Goodpaster, Andrew Haines, Alessandra Hale, Faith Hollihan-Moy, Jaycen Holt, Kenneth Hyrkas, Amelia Janisch, Callie Johnson, Danielle Johnson, Derrick Johnson, Grace Johnson, Zachary Jorgensen, Abigail Leach, Hailee Leipzig, Olivia Leurer, Mitchell Livgard, Leala Lundmark, Grant Marquardt, Jeremiah McNamara, Dinah Melchor, Thomas Milbauer, Grace Navratil, Trind Nesvold, Ethan Niles, Aria Norcross,  Madeline Olson, Alise Ostercamp, Abigail Palmer, Drew Peterson, Kira Peterson, Sydney Redden, Jacob Reifschneider, Madison Reis, Taylor Ritchot, Rachel Roers, Nicole Salava, Matthew Schoessow, Shawn Smith, Zachary Smith, Carly Sorbe, Sofie Swanson, Logan Thomas, Maren Thompson, Grace Torgerson, Katherine Ulanowski, Chanel Underwood, Mason VanVleet, Jonathan Vue, Kazong Vue, Jordyn Wald, Kiana Welsch, Neng Yang, Tayjal Zeidler

B Honor Roll

Quarter 4

2015-2016

Grade 7

Ethan Ahmann, Hope Anderson, Kelly Anderson, Fru Awason, Bailey Babcock, Zachary Baldwin, Laila Balfany, Christopher Beard, Makenna Beckham, Austin Bergum, Lillian Betker, Madelyn Bromert, Pa Ying Chang, Jacqueline Clasen, Kyla Cleveland, Benjamin Desrosier, Hailee Dunaski, Alana Frahm, Grant Gibson, Madeline Gibson, Ashton Hanson, Joshua Hastings, Zoe Hawthorne, Eric Henrikson, Hunter Herman, Riley Hitzemann, Jacob Holm, Hannah Hoyland, Zachary Hubbard, Daisy Hudson, Heidi Hyrkas, Emelia Jacobson, Blake Johnson, Reegan Klingberg, Caitlyn Kolias, Thomas LaBelle, McKenna Larson, Tyler Lashinski, Breanna Lavigne, Blake Leach, Kahler Leipzig, Devin Lor, Sophia Lyzhoft, Ashlyn Mackowick, Dylan Marcellus, Olivia Marks, Jordan McNamara, Lucas Modine, Safi Mohamed, Kaitlyn Navara, Kylie Nelson, Mitchell Nesseth, Mia Nguyen, James Novatney, Katherine Page, Ashlee Peck, Emma Peterfeso, Blake Rasmussen, Anthony Rausch, Jacob Rivard, Adriannah Sanchez, Andrew Schaeffer, Khloe Scully, Michael Slavik, Grace Solomonson, Jaxen Steele, Landon Stene, Jared Steuernagel, Amanda Thill, Sarah Tower, Ryan Udd, Luke Ulbricht, Angelina Ventimiglia, Nicholas Vincent, Mariah Waddle, Gabrielle Wandersee, Jaiden Watson, Megan Wolff, Joshua Wollan, Kaitlin Wood, Madeline Wood

Grade 8

Ella Anderson, Jack Beaudette, Celia Bennett, Jessica Bies, Kennedy Brandvold, Tyanna Carver, Max Charlsen, Ryan Christiansen, Zachary Conway, Connor Duckson, Logan Ebertz, Calder Erick, Noah Erickson, Anthony Full, Zachary Furlong, Braedon Gehrke, Abigale Gleixner, Alexis Grabau, Gunnar Green, Ryan Grindahl, Cole Gullikson, Luca Hale, Kaitlyn Hall, Jaden Her, Taylor Hickerson, Jessica Hodgkins, Benjamin Kaiser, Mackenzie Karas, Matthew Kleinhans, Ryan Koppy, Brianna Kreft, Hayden Krohnke, Austin LaCasse, Thomas LaMere, Rebecca Larson, Megan Lesch, Ellen Lieffring, Gunner Linn, Lara Lueddecke, McKenzie Lundberg, Jack Makelke, Cora Martinez, Rachel Milbauer, Drew Moody, Olivia Morgan, Alec Moseng, Caleb Nadeau, Sydney Nenn, Austin Noha, Haley Nortrom-Copeland, Jared Nuebel, Nicole Oelkers, Allison Olson, Bridget Olson, Emilee Olson, Jacob Olson, Ella Pedrys, Courtney Peterson, Westen Peterson, Emma Picard, Daniel Pruchnik, Justin Rose, Cullin Schwintek, Brittney Scott, Trenton Setterstrom, Dakotah Shaub, Joshua Soukkala, Tyler Steffens, Olivia Stenberg, Samuel Streff, Mason Theis, Samantha Thobe, Zachary Tusler, Gavin Vetsch, Maria Villella, Lucas Wallinga, Shayla Weinke, Mason Werkheiser, Ethan Willcocks, Lyda Xiong, Isaiah Zak

 Grade 9

Yasmina Anderson, Christian Andre, Lillian Bartholmy, Connor Benson, Kyler Berens, Natalie Berg, Aidan Bjoraker, Ashley Bohn, Emma Brown, Thea Burton, Zachary Buttacavoli, Grace Conley, Bryan Corbett, Alexa Czarnecki, Donovan Decker, Logan Ferraro, Kevin Frederickson, Travis Galleberg, Dylan Golaski, Mikayla Greeley, Julia Hanson, Micah Headley, Izaak Herrera, Julia Holton, John Hopkins, Sadys Hoppenrath, Samuel Hubrich, Spencer Hunt, Cade Hunter, Liam Hunter, Jacob Kaufmann, Daniel Keefe, Taylor Kuebelbeck, Jacob LaBarre, Samantha Lancette, Nathan Leppanen, Robert McDonough, Meghan Mills, Skylar Moon, Cody Mouch, Rachel Munkberg, Jacob Murphy, Elise Neudecker, Joseph Nolan, Hayden Ogilvie, Kaylina Ommen, Jessica Palm, Derek Palmer, Jack Pekron, Cassandra Pierre, Sydney Pogue, Jacqueline Rooney, Jessecah Rustand, Abbriella Sherman, Tyler Stebleton, Nicolas Stensberg, Skyler Thaemert, Autumn Tillman, Madelyn Tusler, Carly Walker, Donte’ Weber, Addyson Windingstad, Matthew Xiong

“People like us because we are senior sensitive.” Those are the words coming from Elliot Grater and Scott Krisher of the band The Hi-Tones. The duo will perform at the Forest Lake Senior Center, 767 SW 4^th St., at 1 p.m. June 22.
Grater and Krisher take into account the age of the audience, watch their volume, keep the performances fun and lively and give the name of each song so no one in the audience stresses about trying to remember the artist. The Hi-Tones bond over a shared love of music by Elvis, Dean Martin, Bing Crosby, and the like.

CENTURY JUNIOR HIGH’S HONOR ROLL

(Quarter 4 – 2015-2016)

“A” Honor Roll

7^th Grade

Grace Ackerman, Anika Amlee, Ben Anderson, Rebecca Anderson, McKenna Andrews, Emma Armitage, Sabina Bahr, Paige Bakkestuen, Ariel Ball, Ian Bautch, Sophia Biedny, Lydia Bostrom, Jordan Boysen, Isaac Brisson, Nicholas Brown, Allison Buesseler, Andrew Calcagno, Derrick Cardinal, Nathan Chanak, Cayden Christenson, Connor Clark, Emma Crandell, Reese Davids, Madeline Demars, Mason Devine, Josilyn Farrier, Olivia Ferderer, Faith Fitzhugh, Alayna Forliti, Destiny Funston, Robert Gaffney, Jacob Gervais, Samuel Gierke, Maxwell Goeken, William Grams, Mikaela Haney, Amanda Hanowski, Alexa Heath, Elizabeth Hentges, Augustus Herman, Cadence Hitt, Kathleen Hogan, Kaylyn Holzschuh, Jonathan Hudrlik, Reid Hultman, Erik Ivester, Hannah Jacobs, Katelyn Johnson, Michael Karan, Caleb Kasa, Katelyn Kaup, Joel Kavaloski, Sophia Keis, Madelyn Kinny, Jordan Klund, Kaia Kohnen, Claire Kolstad, Samuel Larsen, Kinsey Larson, Austin Latessa, Tza-ia Lee, Jack LeGeault, Charles Leonhart, Marcus Longsdorf, Aidan Lux, Maximilian Mahnke, Ethan Mate, Constance May, Kennedy Mayer, Bergen McJames, Brady Mettel, Jade Milligan, Gina Moua, Jett Nelsen, Jaeger Niles, Christina Ochsenbauer, Olivia Olson, Allie Organ, Nicholas Paige, Lauren Palmer, Eshaan Patel, Emma Peterson, Sarah Puyleart, Rachel Quevedo, Logan Rachel, Victoria Rangitsch, Nathan Reeder, Shelby Ringwelski, Madie Roberts, Jocelyn Sandstrom, Jack Schlichtmann, Jack Schuldt, Jack Slagle, Madeline Smith, Michael Springer, Sebastian Studier, Kelly Sullivan, Cole Swan, Paige Swanson, Frances Tarlizzo, John Tarlizzo, Vincent Tarlizzo, Margaret Thompson, Walker Tinklenberg, Adam Todd, Zachary Trotto, Sarah Udstuen, Gaosheng Vang, Nuchi Vang, Jack Walde, Indy Walstrom, Anna Weiss, Emma Whitson, Abigail Will, Katrina Yaeger, Molly Zobitz, Ellen Zupon.

8^th Grade

Reagan Anderson, Saige Anderson, Kaitlyn Atkin, Logan Bahr, Malissa Ball, Dominic Becker, Brianna Bellanger, Starr Boileau, Josephine Bothun, Derek Bradshaw, Ryan Brown, Jane Burk, Pedro Castillo, Amy Chen, Abigail Drury, Brianna Erickson, Samantha Feidt, Daniel Findell, Benjamin Forsberg, William Forsberg, Alexis Fournier, Angel Gagliardi, Kate Gemuenden, Elena Gierke, Taylor Glumack, Grace Halley, Noah Hanson, Shelby Hantho, James Hogan, Erick Houle, Natalie Jacobson, Jazmine Jendersee, Sydney Johnson, Logan Kelley, Dylan Kinny, Logan Kissell, Maxwell Lamppa, Hunter Lange, Morgan Langer, Jaida Larson, Blaine Lewellen, Hanna Maciej, Heather McKoskey, Brynn Miron, Eva Moua, Theodore Neururer, Nicholas Niemi, Megan Nieters, Spencer Notch, Camryn Oachs, Rebecca Olson, Thomas Organ, Brieja Parent, Emma Passeri, Lyndsey Perron, Dylan Person, Annie Petersen, Abigail Peterson, Megan Philipson, Abigail Plante, Kasan Rindels, Jake Ross, Sydney Rydel, Samantha Schoonover, Andrew Schumacher, Blake Speidel, Madeline Steele, Kaylee Stewart, Adam Strupp, Alexander Sykora, Evelyn Thiele, Tyler Thomas, Morgan Tomas, Lillian Walesheck, Gabriela Walrath, Jenna Walton, Delani Wille, Steven Winnick, Mayah Zebrasky, Hanna Zlab, Noah Zobitz, Jenna Zowin.

9^th Grade

McKenzie Adams, Kelley Alberg, Jack Anderson, Oyuky Aragon-Flores, Autumn Asp, Gabrielle Ayers, Charles Babcock, Nicole Babineau, Claire Bakkestuen, Lindsey Biebl, Tristan Brunfelt, Kevin Buck, Kelli Bush, Elizabeth Campbell, Brody Christians, Erin Collins, Megan Crawford, Tessa Crohn, Rachel De Sobrino, Angela Denney, Levi Edwards, Cassabella Farrier, Julie Godar, Alexis Goeken, Katherine Grams, Nicole Groth, Samantha Howell, Matthew Hunt, David Isaac, Abigail Janssen, Teegan Johnson, Phoebe Karan, Carter Kehn, Braedon Kemplin, Jill Kittelson, Amber Knudson, Sarah Larson, Parker Lay, Mitchell Longsdorf, Leeanna Lor, Madison Lowe, Nathan Manni, Mary McMahon, Kennedy Mesenbring, Makayla Mobeck, Ariana Montzka, Joe Moran, Kate Motzko, McKenna Nelson, Reed Nelson, Erin O’Brien, Michael Ochsenbauer, Nia Olson, Grant Parrish, Emma Schaefer, Autumn Schuldt, Vincent Soukup, Matthew Strupp, Lindsey Sumstad, Kalley Tietje, Eva-Noelle Todd, Connor Tokie, Mikayla Whitehill, Tayler Williamson, Calvin Yeager, Amber Zebrasky, Geena Zebrasky.

 “B” Honor Roll

7^th Grade

Vivian Algiere, Sam Anderson, Jack Bahe, Isabella Battis, Matthew Berg, Owen Berg, Brianika Betz, Quinlan Bonnett, Cassondra Bradshaw, Desiree Breezee, Quinten Caron, Madison Carpenter, Keith Crohn, Lauren Deeb, Brandon Dennis, William DeWitt, Ian Fakler, Logan Giles, Sara Gutz, Tyler Hays, Slade Heald, Tiana Higgins, Odessa Hill, Isaac Himraj, Emma Hinton, Kevin Hoeben, LaurelEileen Holden, Robert Holzschuh, Eden Hoyt, Owen Jensen, Luke Johnsen, Hunter Johnson, Lainey Keller, Max Kelly, Adam Kennedy, Gabriella Kneeland, Paige Julick, Thomas Kurz, Emily Larson, Caleb Le Mire, Sophie Leonard, Madeline Leroux, Ethan Lundwall, Lauren Marsh, Ashley McAlpine, William McMahon, Jaxon Millette, Tess Moscatelli, Reid Nelson, Emma Newcomb, Alexis Nolan, Claire O’Gorman, Jacob Orthaus, Kaitlyn Przybilla, Zoe Scholl, Justin Schroer, Maria Shaw, Luke Sieben, Madison Siebenaler, Leah Skalsky, Trevor Skupien, Morgan Slowinski, Michael Sopp, Ashton Soulisak, Julie Thiel, Katie Thompson, Alexandra Thomson, Maxamilian True, Brian VanWagner, Cole Wachter, Owen Wagner, Hailie Wellcome, Bryce Westbrock, Nadia Wingard, Nicholas Womack, Jasmine Yang, Shineann Yang, Cameron Zuniga.

8^th Grade

Maria Anderson, Christopher Blount, Blake Boyd, Larissa Brodeur, Bianca Brown, Jayna Carlson, Cole Carpenter, Jessica Collyard, Noah DeWolfe, Ryleigh Eischen, Charles Ferderer, James Fleming, Caysey Frattalone, Allyn Goehner, Shelby Groezinger, Tony Guizzetti, Dillon Hale, Alexis Hamernick, Bailey Hansen,  Sarah Heald, Zachary Hentges, Tsimmeej Her, Autumn Huddleston, Brooklinn Huss, Isabella Jackomino, Alexander Jankowski, Luke Jordan, Marcus Kaiser, Amillya Kendall, Kaleb Ketcham, Steven Kronmiller, Natalie Leko, Anna Lindell, Armando Lorenzi, Katie Mastell, Parker Messingham, Ashley Mills, Michael Monette, Lindsey Muntifering, Stephen Ndirangu, Austin Nelson, Bailey O’Donovan, Skyler Olson, Nick Parent, Hanna Pink, Troy Pleski, Brooke Remington, Logan Rowe, Jaci Rugland, Joslyn Rustad, Jenna Skarphol, Shaynah Smith, Jenna Spiegelberg, Tatum Stevens, Michael Strenger, Emily Sumey, Jaedyn Thoma,

Kurt Walstrom, Matthew Weierke, Dominic Whall, Abigail Youngman.

9^th Grade

Nadine Allee, Natalie Anderl, Haley Ausmus, Autumn Ayer, Kaitlyn Bakke, Peri Bell, Anthony Berken, Amanda Boldt, Talyr Brady, Gabriel Brand, Allison Christenson, Kayla Deiman, Vincent Dimitrov, Austin Eisch, Autumn Erickson, Nicholas Glashan, Brennan Gregorich, Thalia Griffitt, Abigail Groeneweg, Spencer Hausmann, Kamra Heldman, Billy Her, Alexis Hultman, Sara Hutchinson, Christopher Johns, Lindsey Johnson, Brandon Kennedy,  Elizabeth Kephart, Naomi Krueger, Kevin Larson, Josephine LeGeault, Cameron Lind, Samuel Locke, Hannah McMahon, Sidney Metcalf, Daisy Miller, Carter Munt, Sari Niles, Cole Norgard, Isabel North, Jesseca Overland, Sydney Parker, Gabriella Pleitez, Tyler Renslow, Kannen Reynolds, Benjamin Rice, Madeline Rice, Emily Sanford, Holly Sauve, Amanda Scheel, Ava Schmoll, John Schrader, Lisa Seitz, Aaron Sergot, Tess Sibbald, Kendall Sisco, McKenna Slattery, Julia Slusarek, Mason Soye, Theresa Stafford, McKenzie Stumne, Emily Tornio, Rachel Tornio, Ryan Trautner, Jennifer Valley, Stephen Vue, Colby Walker, Eliza Walters, Allilson Witzmann, Alexus Yang, John Ziegelski, Jacob Zowin.

Minnesota

Ambassadors of Music

Local former student, Daniel Johnson, will join the Minnesota Ambassadors of Music on a sixteen day European music performance from July 6 to 21, 2016. He will be playing the baritone with the band and singing bass with the choir. Daniel was nominated before graduating high school in 2015 by North lakes Academy school music director, Nicole Ottjes. High school directors statewide were asked to nominate students based on musicianship and character.

The Minnesota Ambassadors Band and Choir, consisting of students from over 90 Minnesota communities, will spend four days rehearsing together prior to departure and will present a farewell concert. They will then fly to Europe to travel in seven European countries. The tour itinerary, among other destinations, will include concerts and sightseeing in London, Paris, Switzerland, Austria, Germany and Italy. Daniel said, “I am super stoked about this trip. Never did I think I would get to travel to these places.”

Walmart of Forest Lake and Best Prep have teamed up to offer two local students a scholarship to attend Minnesota Business Venture, a summer program for high school students focused on building skills needed for college and career success.

MBV is an opportunity for students who are thinking about college, interested in learning about career options, or just enjoy interacting with new people. At MBV, students from across Minnesota work in small teams led by business professionals who facilitate activities and mentor the group. Participants have the opportunity to listen to knowledgeable speakers on topics such as marketing, entrepreneurship, finance, ethics and career preparation. Each group develops a product idea, and the students split into marketing, finance, and operations to create a business plan.
Forest Lake Area High School student KaSue Vue attended MBV in 2015 through Walmart’s scholarship.

“From the first day, I was impressed by the high quality of the program and all of the opportunities I was opened to,” she said in a press release. “It was very cool to build a business plan on how the whole product would work. I highly recommend MBV to other Forest Lake students.”
Students participate in mock interviews, improve networking skills and attend breakout sessions led by industry experts. MBV offers a chance to develop leadership, teamwork and presentation skills, all while making new friends.

Minnesota Business Venture is hosted by the Herberger Business School at St. Cloud State University July 10-15 and by the Donald McNeely Center for Entrepreneurship at St. John’s University in Collegeville July 24-29. Students from grades 9 to 12 attend from more than 100 high schools across Minnesota. Students stay in college dormitories, experiencing college life first-hand.

Applications are currently being accepted from Forest Lake High School students interested in attending MBV. The fee for the week is just $150, but two students will be selected to receive the Walmart scholarship to have all expenses covered, including room and board, materials and activities. Additional financial support is available to students that qualify for free and reduced lunch. Interested students can obtain an application and sponsorship information by contacting BestPrep at mbv@bestprep.org or online at www.bestprep.org/mbvapp. BestPrep expects 400 students from over 100 high schools to attend one of the two sessions this summer.

Submitted photo
Richard and Marlys Hjort, National Weather Service cooperative weather observers from the Forest Lake-Chisago City area were recently presented with a 30-year length of service award.

Hartlynn Martens had the crowd flipping out during her gymnastics routine June 3 at a talent show at Wyoming Elementary School.

Myah Ryan and Abigail Gibbs played the part well as they performed a dance routine to “Cotton Eyed Joe.”

Joli Nickles rocked out a unique rendition of “Hot Cross Buns” on the electric guitar.

Paul Rignell
Columbus Reporter

Columbus City Council members returned their attention June 8 to a street petition that they had reviewed in early May.

The city is open to scheduling a paving project for Xingu Street (between 159th and 162nd avenues) and a connecting portion of 159th Avenue (from Xingu Street to Kettle River Boulevard). City staff had said last month, however, that starting the lengthy process for paving neighborhood streets in late spring could put a project at risk for being unfinished when the next winter begins.

Staff announced plans to host a neighborhood meeting for property owners on those roads in June. A resident’s petition that the council received in May did not include support or signatures for street paving from residents on any other roads, but the city is considering more paving at the same time, including on 165th Avenue (from Furman Street to Kettle River Boulevard) and also at the three parking lots at Columbus Community Park.

With enough confirmed support from lot owners on all affected roads, the council may schedule a street improvement hearing for late September and award a project in early November for work that could take two months for completion in spring 2017.

Besides the plan to avoid having roads unfinished before winter, City Engineer Dennis Postler also advised the council that bids from street contractors could be lower and more competitive if the city asks for bids during the fall rather than in summer.

In other business June 8, the council authorized Postler to apply for a MnDOT grant that could enable the city to complete its desired plan for relocating the Hornsby Street North access to State Highway 97, east of Interstate 35. The city could receive a maximum of $710,000 in state aid for help in covering road construction costs.

Columbus won a grant through the same program in 2010 in support of moving the Hornsby Street South access farther east on Highway 97. The goal for moving both of the Hornsby accesses to the east has been to increase safety for traffic around the freeway overpass.

This will be the city’s second attempt to attract state support for the northern Hornsby Street project, but the city also waited until its second request to get aid for the southern Hornsby Street project.

The city would be responsible for all design costs and other required expenses (for which the state aid is not applicable), but the grant for the earlier Hornsby Street work covered about 40 percent of total costs.

Columbus is eligible to seek aid for Hornsby through the state program because of the road’s connection to a state highway.

In other city business, city is seeking a communications intern this summer for part-time help with website maintenance, social media updates and other tasks (including customer service). City Administrator Elizabeth Mursko is handling the applications.

Senior Dance
The Forest Lake VFW will host “Our Dance Place“ for seniors from 5 to 8 p.m. every Wednesday
Class reunion
The FLHS class of 1946 will hold a 70th reunion at noon July 13 at Vanellis. Guests are asked to RSVP by calling 651-464-3065.
Toughman
Toughman Minnesota will be held July 24 at the Paradise Park in Chisago City. The event begins at 7 a.m. and features half iron and sprint triathlon courses. The youth triathlon will be held July 23 in Paradise Park starting at 9 a.m. To register, visit dutrirun.com, active.com or call 920-574-2972.
Class reunion
The FLHS class of 1991 will hold a 25-year reunion at 7 p.m. July 30 at Vanellis. Email Kelley.Walhof@genmills.com with questions.
Karate tournament
The International Karate League will hold its family-friendly annual tournament featuring rookie talent all the way up to renowned champions at 8 a.m. July 23 at Maranatha Assembly of God, 24799 Forest Blvd. Participants must be invited to compete.
Class reunion
The Forest Lake class of 1976 will hold a 40 year reunion July 30 at Split Rocks Entertainment Center in Wyoming. All classmates are asked to send name, email and address to forestlake76reunion@gmail.com to receive email updates or call Jaime Theobald at 913-271-6818 with contact information.
Bingo
The Forest Lake Lions will host a purse and merchandise bingo at 2 p.m. Aug. 14 at Friars. Cost is $26 for a 13 game packet.

About 40 people attended a prayer vigil at Faith Lutheran Church in Forest Lake June 14, many of them lighting candles to commemorate the 49 people killed in a June 12 shooting at gay nightclub Pulse in Orlando, Florida. The vigil was held in remembrance and support for the victims of the shooting, and in addition to lighting the candles, the attendees, shared personal stories, sang songs and heard the names of the club attendees who died. Many who spoke during the vigil expressed their solidarity with the LGBT community and hope for a future with less violence toward that community.

If project costs and state grants go as anticipated, Forest Lake’s Daniel DePonti Airport will have a paved runway.

After years of airport advocates pushing for the project and several months of close votes at the Forest Lake City Council, the council voted 3-1 on June 13 (Ed Eigner was absent) to approve a bid to pave the airport’s grass runway.

The paving project has been a subject of much discussion and debate in the council chambers as of late, as councilmen and residents alike scrutinized its costs and overall impact on the community, both positive (a predicted increase in airport revenue and local commerce) and negative (a contribution of taxpayer dollars and noise concerns over Clear Lake).

“The Airport Commission is excited that the pricing came in at a level that meets the City Council’s requirements,” Commission Member Rick Ashbach said.

Multiple council members had made clear in previous meetings that they would oppose the project if its total cost estimate was higher than $3 million – or $300,000 in local city costs with an expected 90 percent matching grant from the Minnesota Department of Transportation. In the end, the low bid including two alternates was $2.47 million and the total project estimate was about $12,000 over $3 million, leaving the city with a local estimated bill of $301,202. An anonymous donor wrote the city a check for the extra $1,202 that the city can use if the project ends up costing the full estimate. Currently, the city as a whole is set to contribute $150,000 to the project while the airport commission funds the other half of local costs with fund balance and future revenues.

Before the council voted, some members had some comments and questions for SEH, the engineering firm that’s been managing the project. Councilman Ben Winnick said the drawn-out nature of determining the project’s cost, which included multiple revelations about additional costs that the city wasn’t originally aware of, had created anxiety in the public about a project that should have been simple. Councilman Michael Freer, who ultimately voted against the bid approval, said that he believed SEH was charging too much for construction administration cost at $198,000 (of which $19,800 would be the local share). Doing some rough math on the amount of time SEH would be on-site during the projected 90 days of construction, Freer put SEH’s cost for administration at roughly $220 per hour.

“I think that’s excessive,” he said.

Joel Dresel, an SEH engineer on the project and a member of the company’s board of directors, said more than one person would be managing the site and that the project would also involve off-site office work.

Councilman Richard Weber and Mayor Stev Stegner were curious about the approximately $123,000 in project contingency and how the city could compensate for unforeseen costs. Dresel said that if unexpected costs occur in a project like this, they usually arise when the area to be paved is being excavated. Since excavation is among the first steps taken during this kind of progress, Dresel said SEH would stop the project and seek a council decision if a major concern came up. In such a situation, the council could choose to get rid of the project alternates (some specialized runway lights and an approach guidance system) or take another money-saving measure.

“We’ll be on top of (the budget) every week,” Dresel said.

“I hope we don’t have to touch that contingency at all,” Winnick added.

Stegner and Winnick praised the potential of the project and noted that it had come in essentially on budget, allowing the council to fund it at a rate previously agreed to. Freer and Stegner encouraged the Airport Commission to work with Clear Lake residents and other airport neighbors on noise mitigation efforts. Ashbach told The Times that the commission would be working on such efforts and that the runway’s shift to the south was expected to mitigate some noise over the lake already.

Since the project was sent out for bids, the airport commission has received multiple inquiries from pilots hoping to lease hangar space at the airport, and Ashbach said multiple transactions have already been made. The runway will be closed during construction, which is expected to take place roughly in the months of August, September and October before a late fall opening, which means that the airport’s annual fly-in event will be canceled in 2016. However, Ashbach said the commission is hopeful that the paved surface will lead to more and different kinds of aircraft coming to the event next year.

“All of us … really like to have the community come out and enjoy the airport with us,” he said.

An 86-year-old Marine on St. Croix man is dead after a two-vehicle crash in May Township on the afternoon of June 20, according to the Washington County Sheriff’s Office. Donald Louis Goral was pronounced dead on the scene after a collision with a dump truck.

On Monday, June 20, at 1:51 p.m., Washington County Sheriff’s Office deputies, the Scandia Fire Department, Lakeview EMS and the Forest Lake Police Department were dispatched to a two-vehicle accident at the intersection of Manning Trail North and 170th Street North. Upon arrival, crews found an SUV and a dump truck had collided, possibly in a T-bone crash.

It was determined that each vehicle had a single occupant. Goral, who was driving an SUV, was pronounced dead at the scene. The dump truck’s driver — Nicholos Ansel Pack, 38, of Baldwin, Wis. — was evaluated and released on scene.

The Minnesota State Patrol is assisting with the ongoing investigation and accident reconstruction. Authorities do not suspect criminal activity was involved.

16-103867

THE RIGHT TO VERIFICATION OF THE DEBT AND IDENTITY OF THE ORIGINAL CREDITOR WITHIN THE TIME PROVIDED BY LAW IS NOT AFFECTED BY THIS ACTION.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that default has occurred in the conditions of the following described mortgage:

DATE OF MORTGAGE:

February 10, 2010

ORIGINAL PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF MORTGAGE: $151,353.00

MORTGAGOR(S): Daniel R. Martinez and Laura L. Martinez, husband and wife

MORTGAGEE:

Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.

LENDER OR BROKER AND MORTGAGE ORIGINATOR STATED ON THE MORTGAGE:

Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.

SERVICER:

Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.

DATE AND PLACE OF FILING: Filed February 24, 2010, Washington County Registrar of Titles, as Document Number 1197388

LEGAL DESCRIPTION OF PROPERTY:

Lot 7, Block 2, Thompson Grove Estates 9th Addition

REGISTERED PROPERTY

PROPERTY ADDRESS: 8303 80th St, Cottage Grove, MN 55016

PROPERTY IDENTIFICATION NUMBER: 16.027.21.21.0020

COT# 55515

COUNTY IN WHICH PROPERTY IS LOCATED: Washington

THE AMOUNT CLAIMED TO BE DUE ON THE MORTGAGE ON THE DATE OF THE NOTICE:

$106,010.51

THAT all pre-foreclosure requirements have been complied with; that no action or proceeding has been instituted at law or otherwise to recover the debt secured by said mortgage, or any part thereof;

PURSUANT, to the power of sale contained in said mortgage, the above described property will be sold by the Sheriff of said county as follows:

DATE AND TIME OF SALE:

August 11, 2016, 10:00 am

PLACE OF SALE: Sheriffs Main Office, Law Enforcement Center, 15015 62nd Street N, Stillwater, MN 55082

to pay the debt secured by said mortgage and taxes, if any, on said premises and the costs and disbursements, including attorneys fees allowed by law, subject to redemption within 6 months from the date of said sale by the mortgagor(s) the personal representatives or assigns.

TIME AND DATE TO VACATE PROPERTY: If the real estate is an owner-occupied, single-family dwelling, unless otherwise provided by law, the date on or before which the mortgagor(s) must vacate the property, if the mortgage is not reinstated under section 580.30 or the property is not redeemed under section 580.23, is 11:59 p.m. on February 11, 2017, or the next business day if February 11, 2017 falls on a Saturday, Sunday or legal holiday.

THE TIME ALLOWED BY LAW FOR REDEMPTION BY THE MORTGAGOR, THE MORTGAGORS PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVES OR ASSIGNS, MAY BE REDUCED TO FIVE WEEKS IF A JUDICIAL ORDER IS ENTERED UNDER MINNESOTA STATUTES SECTION 582.032 DETERMINING, AMONG OTHER THINGS, THAT THE MORTGAGED PREMISES ARE IMPROVED WITH A RESIDENTIAL DWELLING OF LESS THAN 5 UNITS, ARE NOT PROPERTY USED FOR AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION, AND ARE ABANDONED.

Dated: June 15, 2016

Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.

Mortgagee

SHAPIRO & ZIELKE, LLP

BY /s/

Lawrence P. Zielke – 152559

Diane F. Mach – 273788

Melissa L. B. Porter – 0337778

Randolph W. Dawdy – 2160X

Gary J. Evers – 0134764

Tracy J. Halliday – 034610X

Attorneys for Mortgagee

12550 West Frontage Road,

Suite 200

Burnsville, MN 55337

(952) 831-4060

THIS IS A COMMUNICATION FROM A DEBT COLLECTOR

Published in the

Forest Lake Times

June 23, 30,

July 7, 14, 21, 28, 2016

562980