Reader's Choice Awards 2011

The following businesses were voted the “Best of the Best.”thank you to everyone who voted to make this year’s Reader’s Choice Awards a huge success! Read on for special offers from your favorites

as their way of saying, “thanks for voting for us!”

Best Place to Buy an AutomobileDave Syverson

Best Place to service an AutomobileMotor Inn Co.

Best Body shopBlake’s Body Shop

Best PharmacyCurt's Pharmacy

Best hair salonClassic Reflections

Best Nail salonClassic Reflections

Best health ClubAnytime Fitness

Best Massage salonMassage Connections

Best Dental officeUptown Dental

Best Chiropractic officeEaton Sport & Spine

Best Convenience storeKwik Trip

Best CateringHy-Vee

Best Coffee stopLakeside Cafe

Best DessertTrumble's Restaurant

Best fast foodMcDonald’s

Best Pizza PlaceJake’s Pizza

Best Burger/friesElbow Room

Best Mexican foodPlaza Morena

Best Restaurant overallWedgewood Cove

Best BakeryNelson's County Market

Best BankSecurity Bank

Best PlumberJim & Dude’s

Best electricianAlbert Lea Electric

Best secondhand storeSalvation Army

Best Windows/siding CompanyLarson Manufacturing

Best Place to Buy home Improvement ItemsHome Depot

Best Place to Buy CarpetingFloorcrafters

Best Place to Buy furnitureBrick Furniture

Best Place to Buy AppliancesSorenson’s Appliance & TV

Best Place to Buy Lawn equipmentM&S Outdoor

Best Landscaping/NurseryHills Garden

Best ContractorLarson Contracting

Best Place to Buy a hearing AidAudibel

Best Waste Disposal serviceThompson Sanitation

Best flower shopBen's Floral & FrameBest Gift shopAddie's Floral & GiftsBest Jewelry storeFisher’s Fine JewelersBest hardware storeRaleighs Ace HardwareBest Insurance AgencySecurity InsuranceBest tax serviceAlbert Lea Tax ServiceBest Liquor storeHy-Vee Wine & SpiritsBest BarHarold's BarBest hotelAmericInnBest PhotographerPeoble PhotographyBest Websitewww.snapfitness.comBest Golf CourseGreen Lea Golf CourseBest Place to Buy a Cell PhoneVerizonBest Place to Buy sporting equip.Dunham SportsBest Nursing homeSt. John’s Lutheran Home& Knutson PlaceBest Place to Buy GlassesShopkoBest Meat Market/CounterConger Meats

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Some things have changed in the last 20 years...

Some things have not...

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1991

2011

2011

Man cited for

4th-degree DWI

Joshua Robert Klu-

ender, no age listed,

was cited for fourth

degree DWI and pos-

session of drug para-

phernalia near Garfield

Avenue and Hawthorne

Street at 1:22 a.m.

Saturday. A passenger,

Rakshita Lynne Even-

son, no age listed, was

cited for consumption.

Man cited for

3rd-degree DWI

Jeremiah Arnold

Jensen, no age listed,

was charged with a

third degree DWI at

2:53 a.m. Saturday.

Smoke reported

at Northbridge

Mall Friday

Smoke was report-

edly coming out of a

vent in the center court

area of the Northbridge

Mall, 2510 Bridge Ave.,

around 10:30 p.m.

Friday. No injuries were

reported.

House fire

reportedOfficials received

a call about a smoke

smell at the 1306

Martin Road residence

around 11 p.m. Friday,

and when 4P. 2A

By Ed Shannon

[email protected]

Friday, April 8, will be recorded

as Fountain Lake’s ice-out date for

2011, according to Bill Malepsy, the

city’s lake ice observer since 1969.

This is the 42nd year he has per-

formed this public service.

He said the last slivers of honey-

combed ice melted away in Edge-

water Bay in the portion next to

State Highway 13 and across from

Bayview-Freeborn Funeral Home

and the Union Center around 7 p.m.

Friday.Last year’s ice-out date was re-

corded as March 31.

The earliest ice-out date for

Fountain Lake since 1912 is March

7, 2000. That year the last patches

of melting ice were in both Dane and

Edgewater Bays. The latest recorded

ice-out date for this lake is still April

30, 1953.

This is the 99th year of the formal

listing for ice-out dates for Albert

Lea’s centerpiece lake.

The recording of these dates still

ranks as the third oldest in the state

with 10,000-plus lakes, according to

Peter Boulay of the State Climatol-

ogy Office at the University of Min-

nesota. He said the longest-known

recording of ice-out dates in the

state started in 1867 for Lake Osa-

kis near Alexandria but hasn’t been

consistent. The recording of ice-out

dates for Lake Minnetonka west of

the Twin Cities started in 1870 and

has been consistent since 1887.

Malepsy started observing and

recording the ice-out dates for

Fountain Lake in the spring of

1969. He’s continuing a local tradi-

tion started 99 years ago by John E.

“Pop” Murtaugh who died on June

1 that year. Malepsy had earlier

agreed to take over the local tradi-

tion of establishing and recording

the yearly ice-out dates.

Fountain Lake’s earliest ice-out day was March 7, 2000

AM RepoRt

opinions

How the South

and Midwest are

similarAli

Kloster

exam-ines how

Southern

Hospital-

ity and

MId-western

friendliness are basi-

cally the same thing.

There’s still time

to do your taxes

Local tax services

always expect people

to come in at the last

minute to file taxes.

toMoRRow

Former county

employee charged with theft

Warrant is out for

woman’s arrest

By Sarah Stultz

[email protected]

A former Freeborn

County Sheriff’s Office

secretary at the center

of an internal investiga-

tion last year has been

charged in Freeborn

County District Court

with four felony counts

of theft for reportedly

taking more than $3,000

from the department.

According to court

documents, Kelley Ann

Davenport, 37, who

worked in the civil

processing department

of the Sheriff’s Office,

allegedly took a series of

checks made payable to

the Sheriff’s Office and

cashed them for her own

use.A warrant is out for her

arrest because her cur-

rent address is unknown.

Davenport began

with the Sheriff’s Of-

fice in 2007 and re-

signed in February 2010

amid the allegations of

misconduct.

When she was em-

ployed with the Sher-

iff’s Office, Davenport

managed the accounting

books of the depart-

ment’s deposit funds and

checks, along with draft-

ing checks as payment

Council to vote on

sign installation

By Sarah Stultz

[email protected]

The Albert Lea City

Council on Monday is

slated to vote on a project

aimed at improving the

safety of bicyclists riding

around Fountain Lake.

The council is consider-

ing whether to install 25

“Share the Road” signs,

funded by the Statewide

Health Improvement

Program, for the route of

the lake.

The goal of the signs

is to raise awareness of

bicyclists riding around

the lake and to inform

motorists that there are

frequently bikes on this

route. City crews will be

responsible for the sign

installation.

Sign costs by SHIP are

estimated at $3,000.

During the Monday

meeting, the council will

also:• Vote whether to

terminate the agreement

for financial services with

the city of Austin.

The Albert Lea and

Austin City Council

members entered into an

agreement at the end of

February to share Austin

Finance Director Tom

Dankert.

Both cities have since

decided the arrangement

is not practical.

• Vote whether to

4Ice, Page 6A

4Council, Page 6A

Local federal employees don’t

have to worry about shutdown

By Albert Lea Tribune

[email protected]

If a shutdown of the

federal government had

occurred, local federal

offices were prepared.

Federal employees

at the U.S. Department

of Agriculture office in

Albert Lea and across

the nation were plan-

ning to report to work

on Monday, then take

further direction.

Now, they know they

will be able to have the

doors open next week.

A last-minute budget

deal forged amid bluster

and tough bargaining

averted an embarrass-

ing federal shutdown,

cut billions in spending

and provided the first

major test of the divided

government that voters

ushered in five months

ago.Working late

into Friday night,

congressional

and White House

negotiators

finally agreed

on a plan to

pay for govern-

ment operations

through the end

of September while

trimming $38.5 billion

in spending.

Lawmakers then ap-

proved a measure to

keep the government

running for a few more

days while the details

of the new spending

plan are written into

legislation.

Actual approval of the

deal is expected in

the middle of next

week.First District

U.S. Rep. Tim Walz

said he was pleased

an agreement had

been reached and

he would vote in

favor of legislation

to keep the govern-

ment running.

“I continue to believe

we can be fiscally re-

sponsible and make gov-

ernment more efficient,”

Walz said. “Republicans

4Shutdown, Page 7A

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Sunday, April 10, 2011 $1.50

Sports: Scenes and a story

from the Twins home opener.

Lifestyles: Buildings just don’t have

the same trimming details they used to.

Friday declared 2011 ice-out day

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This photo, taken Wednesday afternoon near the

Katherine Island Bridge, shows the chunks of ice blown

up on the shoreline by the winds on Fountain Lake. By

Thursday morning this reminder of ice had melted.

By Andrew Dyrdal

[email protected]

Millionaires are fight-

ing billionaires.

That, in a nutshell,

is why the National

Football League is in

a lockout and the 2011

season in limbo.

While a decision on

how to divide $9 billion

dollars between NFL

players and owners

wouldn’t seem to affect

Albert Lea and greater

Minnesota, it will have

repercussions on local

fans, business and the

economy.

Currently, with the

help of lawyers, players

and owners are work-

ing on a new collective

bargaining agreement

after the old one expired

at the end of the 2010

season. Players want to

keep the NFL schedule

at 16 games and have

better benefits, including

lifelong financial sta-

bility. Owners

want an

18-game schedule, more

money out of the $9

billion pie and to cut pay

for rookies. Fans from

Albert Lea just want the

issue resolved.

Bob Sturtz, an attor-

ney at Goldman Sturtz &

Halvorsen is optimistic

the two will reach an

agreement in time for

the 2011 season opening

week scheduled for early

September.

“I don’t believe there

will be any games

canceled,” Sturtz said.

“There is so much mon-

ey to go around. They

just don’t know how to

split it up.”

Sturtz, who is also

an enthusiastic Vikings

fan, said he isn’t angry

with either side, though,

because they deserved

what they’ve gotten so

far.“I’m not one of those

types of guys to say ‘poor

me’ because it costs

$75 to go to a game and

the rich players and

rich owners are

fighting over

my money,”

Sturtz said.

“They are

where they

are because

of their

talents.”Sturtz also

said that

the players

and owners

provide a

product to

the state that

vastly im-

proves Minneso-

tans’ lives.

Albert Lea High

School football coach

and activities director

Clay Anderson said he

wouldn’t be affected by

the absence of an NFL

season this fall.

“I just makes me shake

my head in disbelief,” he

said. After dealing with

many concussions on his

football team this past

fall, Anderson sympa-

thizes with the players

and their stance against

an 18-game season.

“It is not good for foot-

ball or the players,” he

said. “Their careers are

short enough already.”

Sturtz doesn’t side

with the players or the

owners but said the NFL

Players Association, the

former union which is

now a trade organiza-

tion, does serve an im-

portant purpose during

these mediations.

“They are doing what

they need to do to pro-

tect the players,” he said.

Sturtz pointed to NFL

players of the 1950s

through the ’70s. He said

a lot of them are broke

with health problems.

He said many of those

former players didn’t

have pensions or the

Locked outThe NFL’s lockout will have local

repercussions for fans and businesses

4NFL, Page 6A

Brie Cohen/Albert Lea Tribune

A Viking walks onto the field, helmet in hand, to start the

first practice day of the 2009 Vikings Training Camp in

Mankato.

4Charges, Page 7A

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Stacey Bahr

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