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By Chuck Friedbauer

Pioneer Ridge Freshman Center student Rebecca Olene has been selected as a “Doodle 4 Google” regional winner.

Her artwork was selected as one of the 40 best entries in the country from a pool of thousands of submissions. Four national finalists will be decided via a public vote between Monday, May 12 and Sunday, May 18 at www.google.com/doodle4google.

Olene is invited, along with a parent or legal guardian, to attend a regional winner’s celebration at the Googleplex in Mountain View, Calif. on May 21, at which the four national finalists and the national winner, whose doodle will be displayed on the Google homepage, will be named.

The national winner will win a $10,000 college scholarship to be used at the school of their choice, a trip to the Googleplex, a laptop computer, and a T-shirt printed with their doodle.

Google will also award the winner’s school a $25,000 grant towards the establishment/improvement of a computer lab.

 

“The Heron” has arrived in Chaska. The sculpture, pictured Tuesday morning, is the fourth of the Chaska Arts in Public Places creations, and is located in Walden Park in Chaska’s Clover Ridge neighborhood.

It is a $21,000 metal sculpture created by artist Parker McDonald from Monticello. The funding for the new artwork comes from a Livable Communities grant from the Metropolitan Council.

McDonald is the same artist who painted the murals in the Chaska Community Center gym and pool. The Heron has been installed with the help of Public Works at Walden Park in Chaska. (Photo by Josh Hed)

Bryce Koprucki, Jenny Doan, Kristina Doan, Alyssa Gammelgaard, and David Doan (pictured left to right) plant flowers at a Christmas in May home on Saturday afternoon. The annual event helps rehabilitate homes for Chaska resident. All those pictured are CHS students except for Jenny Doan, a Macalester College student, and sister of Kristina and David. The weather, sunny with temps in the 50s, lent itself to home repair.

Annette Hentz, owner of Carver Country Flowers & Gifts in downtown Carver is participating in the 2008 "Art in Bloom" show at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts.

Hentz selected “Temple Woods,” an oil on canvas painted in 1882 by Max Weyl, as her design inspiration. Her floral creation is displayed in the Impressionist area on the third floor of the museum, in front of the painting.

Art In Bloom is celebrating its silver anniversary at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts this spring. The four-day festival of fresh flowers and art is presented each year by the Friends of the Institute. This year the event is May 1-4.

Twin Cities floral arrangers are invited to select an inspirational work of art from the Institute’s collection, create a floral interpretation of that piece using fresh flowers and plant material, and display their design next to the original art work for the public to view.

For more information about Art In Bloom, visit www.artsmia.org/art-in-bloom-2008/, or call (612) 870-3045.

Sean Bloomfield and Colton Witte reach the Minnesota River railroad bridge in Carver on Monday morning, about an hour after leaving Chaska. The duo plans to canoe to the Hudson Bay, on a 70-day journey, via the Minnesota River, Red River, Lake Winnipeg, Nelson River and the Hayes River. A small group of friends, family and media saw them off at 7:30 a.m., Monday. Their canoe was emblazened with "Bloomitte Expeditions" and "Minneapolis to Hudson Bay."