Get a firsthand glimpse of the Arboretum Auxiliary Holiday Sale, and early shopping privileges, when attending a special Preview Night Sale, with wine and hors d’oeuvres, on Thursday from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., in the Arboretum’s historic Snyder Building.

Tickets for the evening are $25 per person and may be reserved by calling Diana at (952) 448-1608. The actual Holiday Sale runs Saturday, Dec. 4, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. and Sunday, Dec. 5, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the Snyder Building Auditorium.

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Senior Megan Pold and the Prior Lake girls basketball team will open the season Tuesday, Nov. 30 at Eden Prairie in a non-conference game at 7 p.m. The Lakers won 21 games last year and return four starters. Follow the team this winter at www.scoreboard.mn.

Luverne Bethwars was 87 years young when she passed away early on Thanksgiving day, Nov. 25, 2010 at the Belle Plaine Lutheran Home in Belle Plaine.

Visitation was Sunday, Nov. 28, from 4-8 p.m. at Ballard-Sunder Funeral Home, Jordan, and one hour prior to the service on Monday, Nov. 29.

Funeral Service is Monday 11 a.m. at St. Paul's Lutheran Church in Jordan.

Funeral arrangements by Ballard-Sunder Funeral Homes, Jordan. www.ballardsunderfuneral.com

I am feed up of the political news these days. That is all we hear is the corporate media gloat about how great the Republicans and the GOP's right-wing corporate funded splinter faction called " The Tea Party" is. They can thank Obama for their victories. as for Obama and Pelosi all of their reform policies were piecemeal and sell out to major corporate interests and big banks. both major parties including Bush, Jr and Obama has proven my theory. This century America is on the way out as a fist-world nation or a nation that rests of the world looks up to.

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Mrs. Minnesota, Susie Overvold (right) presents a banner to the new Mrs. Scott County International, Mindy Urzua, on Nov. 19. Urzua, of New Prague, will promote her platform, “Life is for Living – the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization” throughout 2011. Urzua has a 10-year background in nursing and is a hospice advocate and educator. She will compete for Mrs. Minnesota International in March in St. Cloud. She also is available for meet and greets, speaking engagements, appearances and volunteer opportunities. (Submitted photo)

It’s a “lame-duck” session of Congress, but Republicans keep talking about pork.

Pork-barrel spending is the term used when a member of Congress earmarks money specifically for a project in his or her congressional district within a larger spending bill.

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Katy Relling reads “The Night Before Thanksgiving” to siblings Mason Kong, 4, and his sister Lindsay, 6, both of Prior Lake Monday night during pajama story time at the Prior Lake Library. Pajama story time takes place at the library the second and fourth Mondays of every month starting at 7 p.m. (Photo by Shawn Hogendorf)

Are you interested in reading the public notices published in the November 27, 2010 print edition of the Prior Lake American newspaper? The page or pages on which those notices were printed are attached to this item, in the form of .pdf's that can be opened with Adobe Acrobat.

The following obituary is from the Nov. 27, 2010 print edition of the Prior Lake American newspaper:

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Dave E. Moonen, 63, of Shakopee, passed away peacefully surrounded by his loving family on Thursday, Nov. 25, 2010 at St. Francis Regional Medical Center in Shakopee.

Mass of Christian Burial is Monday, Nov. 29, at 10:30 a.m. at St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Shakopee. Visitation is Sunday, Nov. 28, from 3-7 p.m., and Monday from 9-10 a.m., all at McNearney Funeral Home, 1220 E. Third Ave., Shakopee. The family prefers memorials.

Funeral arrangements through McNearney Funeral Home in Shakopee, 952-445-2755. www.mcnearneyfuneralhome.com

By Shawn Hogendorf, Staff Writer

A 29-year-old Prior Lake man was arrested for drunken driving for the fourth time in seven years last week near Lakeside and Eagle Creek avenues.

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The Ramsey County Attorney’s Office last week dismissed a fraud charge filed against a 33-year-old Prior Lake man.

On July 2, Matthew Daniel Lind was charged with theft by swindle after prosecutors alleged that he stole more than $22,000 from his former employer, Dakota Mechanical, by filing fraudulent expense reports.

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Colton Wagner (left) watches as Lydia Ross (center) and Jenna Johnson stuff pajamas into a box on Nov. 19. All three are from Prior Lake and are students in Dawnetta Isaacson’s first-grade class at WestWood Elementary School. Along with two other classes, the students collected new pajamas for Scholastic’s annual Great Bedtime Story Pajama Drive. The company delivers the pajamas and donates a new book with each set of clothes to children in need. (Photo by Meryn Fluker)

Jennifer Hansen, a first-grade teacher at Redtail Ridge Elementary School, serves a Thanksgiving feast to first-graders Justin Simonson, 7, Alexa Golle, 6, and Charles Running, 7, all of Savage, on Tuesday afternoon. The students churned their own butter, made cornbread and enjoyed a meal together as a way to learn about and remember the national holiday, as well as be thankful for everything they have. (Photo by Shawn Hogendorf)

The Minnesota departments of Transportation and the Public Safety encourage motorists to use their winter driving skills for the Thanksgiving holiday travel period, as winter storms move through the state beginning today and continuing through the early hours Thursday.

National Weather Service forecasts predict that freezing rain, snow and winds will hit Minnesota between 3 and 9 p.m. Wednesday, during drive-time, dark-time and holiday travel-time. Motorists should remember to:

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Walter Shoemaker, 76, of New Prague, formerly of Prior Lake, died Sunday, Nov. 21, 2010.

Funeral service is Friday, Nov. 26, at 11 a.m. with visitation one hour prior at Washburn-McReavy Nokomis Park Chapel (612-721-1651), 1838 E. Minnehaha Parkway.

Prior Lake senior Claire Clark moves the puck up the ice the Lakers' 4-0 loss at Lakeville South in a South Suburban Conference game Nov. 23. The Lakers are 0-4 on the season (0-1 in the conference) and have scored just three goals. Follow the Lakers at www.scoreboard.mn.

I would just like to warn anyone thinking of having their book published by Publish America and other publish on demand book publishers. I wrote a book called Snowflakes and Diamonds for Jesus, Poems of Love and faith and wanted to get it published. Not having much money I went with Publish America because they leed you into their scam by saying they will pay you to publish your book. Well I got paid $1 dollar and they published my book.

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Minnesota National Guard Counterdrug Task Force Chief Warrant Officer Ryan Roberts speaks to a group of fifth graders on the playground at Jeffers Pond Elementary School on Nov. 19. Roberts and two of his colleagues landed a Black Hawk helicopter at the school as part of its Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE) program. Roberts talked to the students about how the task force operates, how the helicopter works and why it's important to stay drug-free. (Photo by Meryn Fluker)

The Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community will hold a holiday blood drive on Tuesday, Dec. 7, from noon to 7 p.m. at Dakotah! Sport and Fitness.

The public is invited to participate.

Blood donors are desperately needed. Typically during the holidays blood donations decline while demand increases.

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