By Richard Crawford

In addition to recounts for the gubernatorial and District 112 school board races, you can also add a Carver County Board seat to the recount mix. Bruce Schwichtenberg has requested a recount of the District 5 election, according to his wife, Darlene.

Incumbent Jim Ische received 3,375 votes to Schwichtenberg’s 2,614 in the election. Because the margin of victory is not within state parameters, public funds won’t be used for the county board recount.

St. John’s Lutheran Church and Love INC host a Thanksgiving Community Meal from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. There is no cost, and transportation is available if needed.

This is the fourth year St. John’s has hosted the event. Last year the church served about 250 people.

For more information, call (952) 448-2433. The church is located at Fourth and Oak streets in downtown Chaska.

By Richard Crawford

Since purchasing the landmark Waconia ballroom property and deciding to help keep the event center open, Carver County experienced challenges getting the septic system up to par.

But a plan approved last year to regularly pump the septic tank, rather than using the drainfield on the property, has alleviated that problem.

Lancer Hospitality, the firm hired by the county to run Waconia Event Center, has been managing events ranging from weddings to concerts to conferences.

By Unsie Zuege

It’s a week before Thanksgiving, and many of the warehouse shelves at the Bountiful Basket food shelf in Chaska are empty. Julie Falkenstein, volunteer coordinator, looked up at the stacks of empty storage boxes on the top shelves. They should be full of nonperishable food items, but they’re not.

And yet the demand keeps growing.

By Mollee Francisco

Maintaining his innocence despite a guilty plea, a somber Phil Link appeared in Carver County Court Wednesday morning to receive his sentence for stealing from the school district.

The former Chaska High School football coach and administrative dean faced two charges of theft by swindle (one a felony and one a misdemeanor) for double-dipping while he ran summer football camps in 2009.

Sen. Julianne Ortman (R-Chanhassen) has been appointed chair of the Senate Tax Committee.

Ortman has served on the Tax Committee for eight years. From 2007-2010, Ortman served as the ranking minority member on the tax committee. The Senate Tax Committee has jurisdiction over all bills related to taxes and aid to local governments, stated a press release from Ortman’s office

The latest Chaska Police Department's 411 newsletter reported this news of the weird.

"During a routine driver’s license check, an officer learned a male had numerous active arrest warrants.

"The male denied his identity and gave a false name to the officer. However, the officer did not believe him due to one simple fact. The male had his name tattooed on his arm, which was visible to the officer.

The 10 inches of snow that fell Nov. 13 resulted in:

* 19 Chaska Public Works employees who plowed a total of 137 hours.

* 48 tons of salt/sand used.

* Four power outages.

Are you interested in reading the public notices published in the November 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.

Conservative talk show host Jason Lewis will be at Dunn Bros in Chaska on Saturday, Dec. 4.

Lewis, of "The Jason Lewis Show," will be signing copies of his new book “Power Divided is Power Checked,” between 10 a.m. and 11:45 a.m.