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Thursday, February 22, 2007 — Eden Prairie News — Page 11
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Public NoticesEDEN PRAIRIE SCHOOLS
8100 SCHOOL ROADEDEN PRAIRE, MN 55344
ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDEden Prairie School District 272
will receive sealed bids for the 2007Summer Project: “2007 GymnasiumRe-lighting at Eden Prairie HighSchool, Central Middle School,A d m i n i s t r a t i o n / C e n t r a lKindergarten Center, Prairie ViewElementary, Forest Hills Elementary,Cedar Ridge Elementary, Oak PointIntermediate School, and Eden LakeElementary”, In accordance with theDocuments that have been prepared,until 2:00 PM, March 16th, 2007. Bidswill be publicly opened and read aloud.Bidders are invited to attend. Bidsreceived after this time will be returnedunopened.
Bids shall be upon the formprovided by the Owner. Envelopescontaining the bid and documentsubmittals must be sealed, marked“2007 Gymnasium Re-lightingProject”, with the name and addressof the bidder, along with date and timeof bid opening. Sealed Bid Envelopsshall be delivered to: Bev Matheson,Eden Prairie Schools, 8100 SchoolRoad, Eden Prairie, MN 55344.
Copies of the Bidding Documentswill be on file and available for reviewat the Builders Exchange ofMinneapolis and St. Paul.
Bidding Documents may beobtained at the office of DolejsAssociates Inc., upon payment of$50.00 for each set. The deposit will berefunded if all documents are returnedin good condition within ten days of
the bid opening date.Each bidder shall accompany the
Bid Form and submittals requestedwith bid security as described in the“Instructions to Bidders” section ofthe Project Documents.
A mandatory pre-bid conferencewill be held at 10:00 AM at the CentralMiddle School (west main entrance /8025 School Road / Eden Prairie, MN)of March 5th, 2007; the walk though willinclude a visit to each school and Gymshown on the documents. Failure toattend these pre-bid conferences willresult in rejection of the Contractor’sBid and it shall be returned unopened.
The Eden Prairie School District272 reserves the right to accept orreject any or all bids or parts of suchbids and waive any formalities orirregularities in bidding. No bid maybe withdrawn for a period of sixty (60)days after the bid opening without thewritten consent of the School Board.
Independent School District #272Eden Prairie, MN
School Board Clerk: Ann Haines(Published in the Eden Prairie Newson Thursday, February 22 and March1, 2007; No. 3279)
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Taking her passions to another level
PHOTO BY JOHN MOLENE
Working on her mother’s hair, while her father looks on in the background, Kassie Kuehl of Eden Prairie is ready to preach the raw foods gospel at the Miss Minnesota Pageant in March.
EP’s Kassie Kuehl to preach the message of healthy living as she participates in Miss Minnesota International PageantBy John Molene
Working as a hairdresser, small business owner and with a platform of raw foods, Kassie Kue-hl of Eden Prairie isn’t your typi-cal beauty pageant contestant.
Therefore, it only made sense for her to enter an untypical beau-ty queen pageant.
Kuehl will compete in March in the 2007 Miss Minnesota Inter-national Pageant, a pageant, she says, which holds its participants to a different set of standards.
There’s no swimsuit or talent competitions in the Miss Minne-sota International Pageant. In-stead, participants are judged on an interview (40 percent), plus how they do in evening gown, fi t-ness wear and “fun fashion” wear events (20 percent each). The pag-eant also that emphasizes each participant have a solid service platform, unlike some pageants in which mere lip service is giv-en to a platform.
Kuehl won’t have any trouble with the platform part of the com-petition. She is devoted to her plat-form – raw foods. And combined with a devoted belief in being a Christian – makes this endeavor seem more like an evangelical mission than a quest for a pag-eant crown.
The contestant’s roles of pro-fessional and community volun-teer are recognized and celebrated, according to the Miss Minnesota International Pageant Web site. The pageant also seeks to motivate young women to make a difference by getting involved in their com-munities. This year’s event will be held March 10 and 11 in the Ritsche Auditorium in St. Cloud.
Kuehl, 24, from Redwood Falls originally, moved to Eden Prairie about four months ago. Her expe-riences with pageants began in her hometown where she com-peted in local and statewide com-petitions as a junior and senior in high school.
Two years after graduating from high school in 2001, Kuehl moved to the Twin Cities. Prior to her move, she began a six-year career with Aveda Institute. Two years ago she began operating as the sole proprietor of her own shop and now operates her own business out of Salon Junallo in Richfi eld.
It was about two and a half years ago that Kuehl became a certifi ed personal trainer. With her interest in yoga, Pilates and a healthy lifestyle continuing to grow, she started seeking addi-tional outlets to showcase her pas-sions. She started participating in some fi tness shows and lecturing on the value of healthy eating.
It was that combination of interests in health, fitness, nu-trition and competition that led her to her decision to enter the Miss Minnesota International
Pageant.Like many participants in
bodybuilding and fitness com-petitions, Kuehl began studying what she was putting in her body. But while most competitors were gulping down supplements and protein powder shakes, Kuehl began to think that going back to the basics of raw foods made the most sense.
Back in school, Kuehl was soon devouring information on raw foods, nutrition and a healthy lifestyle.
In fact, she developed such an expertise on nutrition and fi t-ness, that offi cials from the Miss Minnesota USA and Miss Teen Minnesota pageants contacted her to speak and help coach their contestants.
“They wanted me to send them the right message,” she said. “And I said, ‘this is my message.’
Those talks also lit a fi re in Kuehl that maybe she should give pageant competition another try.
She believes the Miss Minne-sota International Pageant will give her a unique opportunity to display her knowledge and prow-ess for her passions.
And Kuehl is nothing if not passionate about her platform.
“I care about living foods, raw foods,” she said. “I love raw foods and have seen how they have re-ally healed a lot of diseases, such as diabetes.”
Somewhere down the road, Kuehl is very interested in open-ing a raw foods/living foods deli.
In the meantime she’ll con-tinue to preach her passions of healthy living, healthy eating and exercise.
“I feel this is my calling from the Lord,” she added. “To fulfi ll this mission.”
City receives update on Major Center Area plansBy Karla Wennerstrom
Interest in redevelopment in Eden Prairie’s Major Center Area has exceeded expectations, according to a report from Com-munity Development Director Ja-net Jeremiah Tuesday. The MCA includes Eden Prairie Center and the surrounding area, the city’s downtown.
Jeremiah said the city didn’t need to spend money on a pro-posed Town Center market study because of substantial redevelop-ment interest.
“Catalyst sites” like Town Center Phase I (at 212 and Sin-gletree Lane), Gander Mountain (near Costco) and the Columbine/Prairie Center Drive sites are in the works. Presbyterian Homes
has entered into a purchase agreement for the Columbine site and plans to add housing and retail to the facilities they already have on Prairie Center Drive. And a redevelopment con-cept for Town Center Phase II (the Wal-Mart site) is being com-pleted by an architect.
A “wayfinding” committee met fi ve times last year to discuss how to make it easier to navigate the MCA area. The group did not come to a consensus on names for proposed subareas, or on how to phase improvements. Jeremiah said that the Chamber of Com-merce is working to get a consen-sus from the business community regarding those issues.
Several proposals for trails
in the MCA are being consid-ered. Town Center Phase I will include a trail along 212, for ex-ample, as well as new sidewalks. Signal timing in the area is al-most complete.
Some transportation projects are on hold, like the proposed re-alignment of Singletree Lane and West 78th Street, which met with excitement, according to Public Works Director Gene Dietz, just the wrong kind of excitement.
Long-term goalsSome long-term goals, like
proposed changes to the Eden Prairie Center mall ring road, are on hold as well. But some are progressing, like improvements to Technology Drive, “required
as part of the Gander Mountain redevelopment.”
Plans for LRT, although not expected to be built until at least 2015, according to the report, are progressing, with Hennepin County “expected to take action on the alternatives analysis this month.” Eden Prairie is one of the LRT routes being consid-ered.
More parking was another long-term goal that is being ad-dressed by the Town Center Phase I development. The site will include a ramp that could be expanded later. Developers will seek tax increment fi nancing to make the ramp “structurally capable of future expansion,” ac-cording to the report.
Budget Advisory Commission approved; applications soughtBy Karla Wennerstrom
The Eden Prairie City Council approved a Budget Advisory Com-mission during its meeting Tues-day, encouraging anyone who is interested to apply for a spot on the commission.
Council member Kathy Nelson offered an amendment, clarifying language so the Budget Advisory Commission would “learn about the overall policy direction for the budget,” as opposed to “review the overall policy direction.”
Nelson then cast the only vote against the first reading of the ordinance establishing the com-mission.
She said she questioned the
city giving up any of its fi duciary responsibility to the commission.
Nelson voted in favor of the second reading of the ordinance, because when second readings are held on the same night as fi rst readings, they need unanimous approval to pass. If she had voted against the second motions, the commission would not have been part of the regular commission in-terview process this year.
Council member Sherry Butcher asked if the commission would be reviewed, “to see that it is working the way we wish it to work?”
City Manager Scott Neal said he expected that in addition to the
joint meetings throughout the budget process, the City Council would meet with the commission next year to evaluate its work.
Council member Jon Duckstad said that the work of the commis-sion would be only advisory. “To that extent we would retain total control.”
Mayor Phil Young agreed that he didn’t expect the commission to relieve the council of its responsi-bility at all.
In an interview after the meet-ing, Nelson said she voted against it because she considers budgeting and taxing to be the primary job of the City Council.
She said she hopes it will be a
positive situation, but her prefer-ence would be for the City Council members to go through the budget step by step.
She also said that she had stated her position on a possible budget task force during last fall’s campaign and, “I don’t make prom-ises lightly.”
City staff hopes to include the commission in its regular commis-sion interview process set to begin on Tuesday, Feb. 27.
For more information about the commission, visit the city’s Web site at www.edenprairie.org or contact Michael Barone, assistant to the city manager, at 952-949-8433 or [email protected].
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