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MOUNDS VIEW: City honors Arbor Day with tree planting PAGE 7
Residents speak out against proposed curriculum changes BY MADELINE DOLBY EDITOR
ing wedding without telling anyone in an attempt to better understand herself before her big day. Her mother, Donna, an independent and free-spirited single mom, is faced with the rekindling of old feelings when all three of them
SHOREVIEW — Middle schoolers and their parents can expect to see a change in the curriculum within the next few years. One of those changes includes moving music from daily instruction to every other day for students in seventh and eighth grade. The Mounds View Public Schools School District and middle school staff began exploring preadolescent development beginning in the 2022-2023 school year. As part of the school board’s district operational goal (DOP), a consulting group, Education Elements, was hired to gather input from families, students and staff on middle school experience and programming. Education Elements provided four recommendations to the school board (see sidebar for more information.) Over time, the district has been working to implement the recommendations at all three middle schools, Chippewa, Edgewood and Highview. According to the school district, sixth graders at Highview Middle School are already following the new curriculum. Seventh and eighth graders at Highview Middle School will follow the curriculum next year. Edgewood and Chippewa will implement the structure by the 2028-29 school year. During the most recent comments to the school
SEE ‘MAMMA MIA’, PAGE 7
SEE CURRICULUM CHANGES, PAGE 5
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The cast of “Mamma Mia” rehearses the first number of act 2. The show runs April 30 - May 3.
Here we go again: ‘Mamma Mia’ comes to the stage BY CLAIRE LAMATSCH SPECIAL TO THE PRESS
Get your tickets fast for the spring production of “Mamma Mia” at Mounds View High School. Every year, Mounds View High School theater students put on a musical performance to dazzle audi-
ences: this year is no different. The more than 100 students involved in the theater program are hard at work on their production of “Mamma Mia,” which runs Thursday, April 30, through Sunday, May 3. Based on the music by the hit ’70s and ’80s band, ABBA, “Mamma
Mia” follows a young bride-to-be, Sofie Sheridan, as she prepares for her wedding and discovers truths about who her father could be after spending her whole life without him. When she learns that she has three possible fathers, she decides to invite all of them to her upcom-
The more you know: PFAS in Minnesota and its impact BY MADELINE DOLBY EDITOR
SHOREVIEW — Did you know that per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are a large family of “forever chemicals” that don’t break down and are widespread in the environment? PFAS enter and move through the environment in a variety of different ways. These chemicals can enter the environment through landfills; wastewater treatment plants; industrial buildings; firefighting foam; soil and household items such as aerosols, fabric and carpeting cleaner; cookware; and food packaging. At the most recent Shoreview Environmental Quality Committee Speaker Series, Fawkes Char from the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) provided an update on the progress made across the state to help reduce PFAS pollution.
Char explained that PFAS are composed of chains of carbon-fluorine bonds and fall under a diverse class of compounds. “Because there are so many ways to produce these PFAS, depending on whose definition you’re using, we’re talking somewhere between 14,000 to 7 million potential chemicals that fall into this class,” they added. They also included that these chemicals all serve a different purpose.
The impact PFAS has on our health
PFAS have been used in consumer products since the 1950s due to their ability to make products waterproof, stainproof, nonstick, heat resistant and more. “They have qualities, as modern humans, that we have come to expect in a lot of our products,”
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