Gloria Anderson, 58, of Maple Grove, MN, formerly of Chaska, died Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2010 at her residence.

Funeral service will be held Saturday, Feb. 20, at 2:30 p.m. at the Chaska Moravian Church, 115 E. Fourth St., Chaska. The visitation will be one hour prior to the service at the church.

Funeral arrangements were with the Bertas Funeral Home of Chaska, 952-448-2137.

Each week we publish a detail of a local building. The next week we indentify the building, along with a detail of a different building. Do you know where the heck this is? Post your answer; e-mail [email protected]; or call (952) 345-6574.

By Chuck Friedbauer

The results of the Chaska Education Association (CEA) survey to District 112 teachers indicate the primary reason the recent contract proposal was rejected was due to a lack of “steps,” the pay increase piece normally present in contracts related to time spent in the district.

CEA president Tim Griffin said approximately 400 teachers, or two-thirds of the union members, responded to the survey, with 96 percent responding the reason they voted no was the lack of a steps component.

Gubernatorial candidate Mark Dayton will visit Chaska at 9 a.m., Saturday, Feb. 20 as part of his campaign’s “87 counties in 87 days.”

Dayton’s “meet and greet” will be at Dunn Bros, on Second Street in downtown Chaska.

Dayton will “listen to and learn from Carver County residents and share with them his vision for ‘A Better Minnesota’ as he campaigns to become Minnesota’s next governor,” states a press release.

Looking for a place to locate your small business, your office, your restaurant? Look no further. Chaska’s got space – plenty of it.

A rough count of retail/commercial vacancies in Chaska turned up more than 48 available spaces all around town, from small storefronts in the Chaska Commons to the massive Chaska Building Center.

Are you interested in reading the public notices published in the February 18, 2010 print edition of the Chaska Herald 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 obituaries are from the Feb. 18, 2010 print edition of the Chaska Herald newspaper:

For one week earlier this month, local doctors were on hand in Haiti to see first hand some of the devastation caused by the recent earthquake.

Three physicians from Ridgeview Medical Center in Waconia made the trek to Limbe some 75 miles north of the earthquake’s epicenter. Among them were Dr. Jeffry Twidwell, urology; Dr. David Larson, emergency medicine; and Dr. Paul Savaryn, anesthesia. The trio, along with several other physicians from the metro area, volunteered their services at the Hôpital Bon Samaritain.

The Carver County deputies assigned to the cities of Chanhassen, Victoria, and Carver and the townships of Laketown, San Francisco and Dahlgren responded to the following calls from Feb. 8 to Feb. 14.

Feb. 8Numerous reports of vehicles off roadways and snowbird violations.

At 2:48 p.m., winter parking violations were reported in Chanhassen.

At 5:03 p.m., responded to the 1400 block of Heron Drive in Chanhassen for a report of damage to a mailbox.

Carver County is the fourth healthiest county in Minnesota, according to a recent health ranking.

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute released today their 2010 County Health Rankings, a collection of 50 reports that reflect the overall health of counties in every state across the country.

Joanne Zenke, 78, of Norwood Young America, died Friday, Feb. 12, 2010 in Glencoe.

Funeral service will be Friday, Feb. 19, at 11 a.m. at St. John's United Church of Christ in Bongard. Visitation is Thursday, Feb. 18, from 4-8 p.m. at the Johnson Funeral Home in Waconia and one hour prior to the service at church.

Arrangements have been handled by the Johnson Funeral Home of Waconia. Online Condolences to the family are available at www.johnsonfh.com.

Rev. Marion L. Zenke, 79, of Norwood Young America, died Friday, Feb. 12, 2010 in Glencoe.

Funeral service will be held Friday, Feb. 19, at 11 a.m. at St. John's United Church of Christ in Bongard. Visitation is Thursday, Feb. 18, from 4-8 p.m. at the Johnson Funeral Home in Waconia and one hour prior to the service at church.

Arrangements are with the Johnson Funeral Home in Waconia. Online condolences are available at www.johnsonfh.com.

Marilyn Wassink, 69, of Chanhassen, died Saturday, Feb. 13, 2010 at her residence.

Mass of Christian Burial will be held Thursday, Feb. 18, at noon at St Hubert’s Catholic Community, 8201 Main St., Chanhassen. Visitation is Wednesday, Feb. 17, from 4-8 p.m., prayer service 7:30, at the Bertas Funeral Home, 200 W. Third St., Chaska, and also one hour prior to the service at church.

Funeral arrangements were with the Bertas Funeral Home of Chaska, 952-448-2137.

Adella Rademacher, 73, of Carver, died Sunday, Feb. 14, 2010 at her residence.

Memorial Mass of Christian Burial will be held Thursday, Feb. 18, at 11 a.m. at St. Nicholas Catholic Church, 412 W. Fourth St., Carver. The visitation will be one prior to the mass at church.

Funeral arrangements were with the Bertas Funeral Home of Chaska, 952-448-2137.

Regardless of your political views, one thing that has always struck me about President Barack Obama is his relentless daily workout routine. He plays a ton of basketball and puts in his 45-60 minute workout day in and day out. He claims it sets the tone for his entire day- that it gives him the energy he needs to grapple with the world’s problems.

“Please obey and stay on all marked trails,” said Pat Borak, president of the Chaska Sno-Hawks Snowmobile Club.

The club operates and grooms a trail system between Chaska and Victoria, marking the route and receiving special permission from some landowners to travel on their property.

However, Borak has received some complaints about snowmobilers going around marked signs and onto private property.

“Stay on all trails, or we will lose our trail system,” Borak said. If snowmobilers have any questions, they should call Borak at (952) 201-6826.

Author: Unknown

Published: This anonymous essay was found in Guardian Angels Catholic Church archives, and reprinted in the church’s 150th anniversary booklet.

When: Pre-1941, when the clock was modernized, eliminating the need for it to be hand-wound. The clock has been updated a few times in the last century, most recently in 2006 when an electronic carillon was added.

Chaska Police Chief Scott Knight recently received an e-mail asking about who is responsible for digging fire hydrants out of the snow and issued this reply:

“We always remind folks to ‘watch over their’ hydrants. In fact I have put out a reminder in our CPD 411 newsletter in the past.

"Celebrating Youth … Celebrating Community" is a community-wide event designed to recognize and celebrate kindergarten through 12th-grade students for contributions to their community and commitment to community values.

The community values are: generosity, environmentalism, citizenship, human worth and dignity, learning, respect, responsibility and integrity.

Jill Theobald, 45, of Santa Maria, CA, went home to be with the Lord on Monday, Feb. 8, 2010 after a long, courageous battle with cancer. She is survived by her mother, Marlene Mahoney of Chaska.

Memorial service will be held 1 p.m. Friday, Feb. 19, at Dudley Hoffman Gardens, 1003 E. Stowell Rd., Santa Maria.

Arrangements through Dudley Hoffman Funeral Home, 805-922-8463.