2008-10-03 Friday News
October 3, 2008
Yom Kippur
We opened City Hall up to Beth Jacob Synagogue for use during the Yom
Kippur High Holiday.
For two days this week approximately 50 kids from the Beth Jacob
Synagogue were at City Hall for classes. Pam Deeb our receptionist told
me everything went very well with the kids while they were playing such
games as “Jewish Jeopardy”.
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Sage Market Now a Drive-Thru
This Wednesday a senior citizen who was parking in front of Sage Market
pushed on the accelerator instead of the brake and drove through both of the
front sliding glass doors to the Sage Market. No one was injured, but you
now need to enter the Market through the wine bar until the sliding doors are
repaired.
Absentee Ballots Now Available
Nancy informed me today that the absentee ballots were delivered to City
Hall on Thursday and are now available. She said that she already has 211
requests for the ballots. A sample ballot is attached.
CO Monitors Now Required
Today all homes are required to have CO Monitors (see attached). The Fire
Chief tells me that he believes that this is a good law, but do not connect them
to your central monitoring system. They cause too many false alarms. The
detectors should have digital readouts on them also.
Citizens Academy—Week 3
This week was week 3 of the joint WSP/MH Police Citizens Academy. This
week classes were held at WSP where WSP Sgt John Hinderscheid led the
class. (John’s brother was killed by a drunk driver). John was assisted by
Phil Windschitl who is WSP’s traffic enforcement officer. First was class-
room instruction on the laws affected, which followed by field sobriety tests
being administered by the students to six drunken volunteers. These drunks
were all in various levels of drunkenness.
Police Rookie Liz Petschel informed me this morning that this was her favor-
ite class yet, and although it was also the longest class (6:30—10 p.m) she
was so interested in it that she didn’t even realize that it was going over-time.
She said that the rookies administered the sobriety test, (horizontal and verti-
cal Nystagmus—eye test, walking the line and standing on one leg). She said
that the eye test is the most telling, however you need to perform all three
tests because different individuals can perform some tests but not all, when
intoxicated.
October 3, 2008
Attachments
Just the Facts, Pipeline, City Council Meeting Agenda, TwinCities.com Article “Lilydale Club land may
be divided” and “Sun Country warns of shutdown” Article on “Law requires carbon monoxide detectors
in single-family homes and a sample election ballot.
HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND!!
Dates to Remember in October
City Council Meeting 10/7/08 7:00
Parks & Recreation Meeting 10/14/08 6:30
City Council Meeting 10/21/08 7:00
Airports Commission Meeting 10/29/08 7:00
Planning Commission Meeting 10/28/08 7:00
MAC Meeting 10/21/08 1:00
Five-day forecast (Details)
Tomorrow
Tomorrow
Oct 04
Clear
Sunday
Sunday
Oct 05
Showers
Monday
Monday
Oct 06
Sprinkles
Tuesday
Tuesday
Oct 07
Sprinkles
Wednesday
Wednesday
Oct 08
T-storms
Hi: 65°
Lo: 49°
Hi: 61°
Lo: 51°
Hi: 64°
Lo: 52°
Hi: 65°
Lo: 55°
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