By Mike Huang

What would I do if I wanted to open a restaurant in downtown Chaska?

First, I’d do some research. A long time ago, I learned that selling the same thing as the next guy would only be an uphill battle.

The Chaska Police Department released this statement pertaining to the emergency sirens that went off this morning:

"The outdoor warning sirens were activated in Chaska moments ago. This was a false alarm. The county is aware…

"The City of Chanhassen is in control of a remote device, which activates the sirens; indeed, the sirens were activated without a legitimate cause. Chanhassen wrongly activated the warning sirens for the cities of Chaska, Victoria, and Watertown. Perplexingly the sirens did not sound in Chanhassen.

Computer science, rocketry, even robots – there’s no question about it, this isn’t your grandma’s 4-H.

And while members of the Sugar City 4-H in Chaska are markedly different from their early predecessors, this year they will pay homage to those that came before them.

Chaska’s 4-Hers are looking for memories and memorabilia from the club’s 75-year history. They are hoping to put together a scrapbook and a short film with the materials in order to celebrate the group’s past.

A project to turn the C.P. Klein mansion on the corner of Fourth and Walnut streets into a fine dining restaurant is back on, after some successful brainstorming to make the financing work.

Developers Norm and Jan Kraus gave the council an update at its meeting Monday night. Things looked bleak for the restaurant recently with financing problems that were forcing the city to begin considering other options for the historic building’s reuse.

Jack Hendrickson, 66, of Carver, died Saturday, June 27, 2009.

Funeral service is Thursday, July 2, at 11 a.m. at St. John’s Lutheran Church, 300 Fourth Street East, Chaska. Visitation is Wednesday, July 1, from 4-8 p.m. at Huber Funeral Home, Excelsior. Visitation is also one hour prior to the service at the church on Thursday.

Huber Funeral & Cremation Services Excelsior Chapel, 952-474-9595. www.huberfunerals.com

This holiday weekend will be full of patriotic fun and events on Saturday. 

The Jonathan Association homeowners group will kick off its Fourth of July Saturday morning with a 5K fun run/walk on Jonathan trails, with registration at 8 a.m. and the run kicking off at 8:30 a.m.

Are you interested in reading the public notices published in the July 2, 2009 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.

There are no bullet holes left as proof that notorious gangster John Dillinger once inhabited Apartment 303 at the Lincoln Court Apartments in St. Paul.

Seventy-five years after his 12-day stint at the corner of Lexington Parkway and Lincoln Avenue, there is only the occasional stop, by local gangster tours, to serve as a reminder that the quiet building in the tree-lined neighborhood was once the site of an infamous shootout between Dillinger and the FBI. 

The following obituaries are from the July 2, 2009 print edition of the Chaska Herald newspaper:

Lynn Stephens-Headley, of Richmond, Va. and formerly of Shakopee, passed away suddenly Thursday, June 25, 2009.