Steve Clarke, of Steve Clarke and the Working Stiffs, kicks off his band’s afternoon set at the Art and all that Jazz Festival at Nicollet Commons Park in Burnsville on August 21. Band vocalist Katie Gearty (right) awaits her cue next to Clarke. The festival included headliner Larry Carlton’s opening night jazz guitar performance in the Burnsville PAC on Friday August 20. Photos by Rick Orndorf and John Gessner
The Loop, an urban restaurant located in Minneapolis, is looking to expand and is in negotiations with Metro Equity Management to lease the old Ace Hardware building in downtown Lakeville. Photo by Derrick Williams
by Derrick Williams
Thisweek Newspapers
A deal isn’t in place yet, but the coming soon sign hanging in the window is proof that an urban dining experience could soon be available in downtown Lakeville.
The Loop, a downtown Minneapolis-based bar and restaurant, is looking to expand into Lakeville.
Mark Hotzler, owner of Metro Equity Management, which owns the former Ace Hardware building along downtown Lakeville’s Holyoke Avenue, confirmed talks were being held with representatives from The Loop, but he declined to comment further until an agreement was in place. (more…)
Christina Crafton, 9, is presented the Chief’s Award of Merit by Lakeville Police Chief Thomas Vonhof during the July 19 City Council meeting. Christina helped to save her mother after she had a seizure and had fallen in the shower in May. Photo by Derrick Williams
by Derrick Williams
Thisweek Newspapers
There was a scream.
A little girl’s mother had just gone down. A seizure in the shower.
It wasn’t the first time this had happened. That’s why the 9-year-old girl had been playing with her 5-month-old baby brother in the bathroom while her mom showered.
When Christina Crafton, 9, heard her mother Karlyn Crafton scream, then saw her collapse, she was ready.
“I was a little bit scared, but I knew I had to call my dad before anything else,” Christina said.
Her father Eric was driving a group of friends to church when he got his daughter’s call.
“There was some internal panic,” Eric said. “Christina told me what had happened. I gave her instructions and told her I’d call 911.”
What Christina described was scary.
Karlyn had another seizure. She had fallen face forward and hit her head. Now she was unconscious, facedown in the water and the shower was running. (more…)
Christopher Goeke
by Andrew Miller
Thisweek Newspapers
A soldier from Apple Valley was killed in combat July 13 in Afghanistan.
Christopher Goeke, 23, was one of three American soldiers killed while responding to an attack on an Afghanistan National Army facility in Kandahar City.
According to the U.S. Department of Defense, the three soldiers – including Christopher Stout, 34, of Kentucky, and Sheldon Tate, 27, of Georgia – died of wounds sustained when insurgents attacked their unit with small arms and rocket-propelled grenades.
A first lieutenant with the 4th Brigade Combat Team of the 82nd Airborne Division based at Fort Bragg, N.C., Goeke grew up in Apple Valley and graduated from Apple Valley High School in 2004. (more…)
Summer maintenance projects, such as the roof replacement at McGuire Middle School, being done on July 21, came in significantly under budget according to district officials. Photo by Derrick Williams
by Derrick Williams
Thisweek Newspapers
A year ago, Lakeville’s School Board reached a financial decision that board members hoped would save the district and its taxpayers millions of dollars.
In December, the board decided to lump the 2010 and 2011 building maintenance projects into one year, and then ask for federal construction bonds to pay for it all.
The idea was to take advantage of a favorable bidding climate for major projects like roof repair and carpet replacement, and pay for them with Qualified School Construction Bonds on which the federal government would pay the interest. (more…)
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