It’s Memorial Day. Summer starts in America today. We don’t have to wait for the summer solstice. It’s Schooner Days in EP. School is almost ready to wrap up for the year. Mayny School Districts have had their graduation ceremonies already.
But before we take off to a soccer game or put [...]
Monthly Archives: May 2004
Memorial Day
May 31, 2004 – 8:56 am
Those Pesky Weeds
May 28, 2004 – 7:39 am
Last year I heard an unusually high number (at least in my opinion) of concerns expressed by citizens about the aesthetic look of our roads in town. Not that a road will ever look pretty, but there are things that can be done to improve the appearance of our streets, highways, and bridges.
One of [...]
Annual Board and Commission Banquet
May 27, 2004 – 1:41 pm
One of the nice traditions that we have here in Eden Prairie is our annual recognition and awards banquet for the dozens of volunteers that serve on our City advisory boards, commissions, commmittees, task forces, etc. The event allows the City to, in qa small way, thank the volunteers that share their time and [...]
Smoking Bans All Around
May 25, 2004 – 7:54 am
But first, a story…….
After a long interview process [I'm not complaining here - it was worth it] I finally secured my new job here in Eden Prairie in the early spring of 2002. On the final night of interviews, I interviewed before the City Council with two other people who were seeking the same [...]
CMS Student Council
May 24, 2004 – 8:57 am
This is the Central Middle School Student Council. They raised money for the Heart Safe Eden Prairie program and raised enough to place a new Automated External Defibrulator for their school. Great kids. Great cause. Great work.
Row 1 (L to R): Fire Chief George Esbensen, Kayla Preston, Anna Baker, Alyssa [...]
Special Session
May 23, 2004 – 10:10 am
I read in the Star Tribue Sunday edition today that state legislators are continuing to talk about the potential of a special session. I’m sure there are issues to examine and problems to resolve, but for those of us that must track state legislation, the end of the session hasn’t been all bad.
There’s time [...]
Local Cops Foil Jewel Heist!
May 20, 2004 – 10:04 am
Now that’s a headline! I’ve always wanted to write under a headline like that. Here’s how it went down.
Around 2:00 a.m. on Saturday morning, May 15th, a couple of fellows backed up their car to the Wedding Day Diamonds jewelry store here in Eden Prairie. They smashed the glass doors with hammers [...]
Making Ice Is Not Cheap
May 19, 2004 – 7:43 am
There’s probably a lot of old hockey players out there reading this blog who know how an indoor ice arena works. I suppose if you grow up on the ice you probably get to know a bit about what actually makes the ice. I grew up in Iowa, so the whole indoor ice [...]
Human Rights in Eden Prairie
May 18, 2004 – 3:12 pm
Each year the Eden Prairie Human Rights Commission recognizes an individual and an organization that have accomplished something significant in the field of human rights during the previous year. They also award a $1,000 scholarship in the name of former Eden Prairie Mayor Dr. Jean Harris to a high school student from Eden Prairie.
The [...]
Arson
May 17, 2004 – 7:41 am
In one of my posts from last week I showed some photos of what we were calling a “suspicious fire”. Now we are calling it arson. And it looks like we are now seeing a trend in several other suspicious fires that could point to a series of arsons.
Arson is a [...]
Citizens say “no”.
May 12, 2004 – 7:48 am
Eden Prairie citizens voted yesterday in a special election to determine the fate of a proposed $22.5 million dollar bond issue that would have been used to construct a number of improvements to the City’s overall park and recreational facilities.
Citizens said “no”.
3,078 voted against the proposal. 2,357 voted in favor [...]
Fire!
May 11, 2004 – 4:02 pm
The Eden Prairie Fire Department responded to a fire early Saturday morning on May 8th in a town house project under construction near the intersection of Pincherry Lane and Indigo Drive in the Hennepin Village area of Eden Prairie. This is what they saw when they got there:
This is the same fire a few [...]
The Ultimate Sunburn
May 10, 2004 – 7:43 am
These fine young people represented Eden Prairie at the Granite City Cup ultimate frisbee tournament this weekend in St. Cloud. Eden Prairie’s team was the class of the tournament. My son was participating on another team, so I had the opportunity to sit in the hot afternoon sun all day on Saturday and watch [...]
Victory Sports is Gone
May 9, 2004 – 8:08 pm
I hope no one is cheering. Victory Sports could have been a good idea, but it’s dead. Dead as the proverbial doornail.
I serve on the board of the Southwest Suburban Cable Commission. We meet twice each year to discuss issues that effect cable television in the communities of Eden Prairie, Minnetonka, Richfield, [...]
CPR and AED Training Day
May 6, 2004 – 4:12 pm
Today was CPR and AED training day for me, my assistant Mike Barone, and my executive assistant Lorene McWaters. It took four hours, but we are now trained in CPR and in the use of the automated external deifbrulator (AED). Our goal this year is to train 50% of our City employees in [...]
