Eden Prairie Commmunity Education Services, a division of the Eden Prairie School District, sponsors an event each year called the Annual Partnership Breakfast. The purpose of the Annual Partnership Breakfast each year is bring together community leaders to discuss thought provoking topics that are relevant to the life of the community.
This year's Annual Partnership [...]
Monthly Archives: March 2006
A Courageous Conversation on Race
March 22, 2006 – 5:55 am
The 2006 EPy Award Winners
March 21, 2006 – 2:35 pm
We recognize our employees twice each year. Once in the fall and once in the spring. In both ceremonies, we recognize employees who have achieved certain thresholds of service such as 5, 10, 15, 20, etc years as City employees.
But in the spring we also recognize employees for achievements in customer service, teamwork, community service [...]
Eden Prairie: A Fabulous Place To Raise a Family
March 17, 2006 – 8:48 am
Eden Prairie is a fabulous place. We all know that. But now it's in a book: 50 Fabulous Places To Raise Your Family. The book, written by Kathleen Shaputis, is in its third addition. Eden Prairie was in the second addition too. There are only two Minnesota cities included in the book: Rochester and Eden Prairie. Not bad. [...]
Freon and Response
March 15, 2006 – 6:24 am
At approx. 10:45 am yesterday, Tuesday, March 14, Jeff Elwell, a Facilities Division employee at our Community Center, heard an odd noise coming from the refrigeration room at the Community Center. When he entered the room to investigate he immediately recognized the noise as a Freon leak, and the leak was louder than the refrigerant alarm going off in the [...]
NLC: Day 3
March 14, 2006 – 1:36 pm
This is my last day in Washington DC at the 2006 NLC Congressional Cities Conference. The day started with a rousing address from Illinois Senator Barak Obama. His address was short, but it was thought provoking and inspiring. The Senator is a great speaker. If you have the chance to see him in person or [...]
NLC Day 2
March 13, 2006 – 5:04 pm
Today marked the second day of the National League of Cities conference. It started with an address this morning by a former congressman from Ohio named John Kasich. He was fantastic. He was inspiring. He was the best speaker I’ve heard in a long time.
If you don’t remember John Kasich, it’s [...]
NLC: Day 1
March 12, 2006 – 3:20 pm
Today is Sunday. It’s my first day of the 2006 National League of Cities (NLC)Congressional Cities Conference. The conference actually started yesterday with pre-conference meetings and seminars all day. Councilmember Sherry Butcher was here for that. I came in last night. I flew into Dulles Airport while my bags flew into Reagan National Airport. We [...]
Tucker Bucks
March 10, 2006 – 6:37 am
On July 16, 2005 vandals destroyed this tube slide in Staring Lake Park. Sometime during that night, they poured gasoline, or some kind of flamable liquid, down the slide and then lit it on fire. The slide, which had been one of our most popular playground attractions in Eden Prairie since 1985, burned and melted away.
That's the [...]
Blog Speaking
March 8, 2006 – 8:54 pm
I was a guest speaker earlier today at the March luncheon meeting of the Minnesota Association of Government Communicators (MAGC) in Eagan. The other guest speaker was a Rhetoric professor from the University of Minnesota named Dr. John Logie. We spoke under the subject title of "To Blog, or Not To Blog". Dr. Logie gave [...]
Dirty Snow Season
March 7, 2006 – 7:32 am
Anyone who has lived in Minnesota for one full year or more knows that we are now entering the season of Dirty Snow. Fortunately, Dirty Snow season usually lasts only 4-6 weeks. It starts on March 1 and is almost always over by mid April. It's sandwiched between winter and spring. If it weren't for St. Patrick's [...]
The Ball
March 6, 2006 – 6:45 am
Saturday night was a big night for Eden Prairie. It was the night of the 25th annual Eden Prairie Foundation Ball. And it was beautiful. I snapped this photo with a camera phone. Sorry about the quality, but even at 1.3 megapixels, you can tell this was a bash to remember.
The Eden Prairie Foundation [...]
A Legislative Breakfast
March 3, 2006 – 9:11 am
I attended the Eden Prairie Chamber of Commerce's annual legislative kick-off breakfast this morning. All three legislators who represent Eden Prairie in the State Legislature – Rep. Erik Paulsen, Rep. Maria Ruud, and Sen. David Hann – were in present at the breakfast. They each gave a brief description of what they expected to [...]
EPHS
March 2, 2006 – 1:31 pm
I spent my afternoon today at Eden Prairie High School as a guest speaker for Mr. Mark Anderson's "career explorations" class. I spoke to six consectutive groups of 10-12 students for about 22-25 minutes on the joys and pains of being a city manager. There are many more joys than there are pains for me, so [...]
A Southerly View
March 1, 2006 – 9:34 am
This is a photo of the new C.H. Robinson building that is under construction in a new office/industrial area south of Flying Cloud Airport. The ares is part of the larger Hennepin Village development that also includes multi-family and single family residential development as well. This new building, which is located at the intersection of [...]
