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ROBOTICS: Mounds View team wins state competition PAGE 10
Hall-of-fame food artist launches cooking lessons
School upgrades begin
BY SARA MARIE MOORE EDITOR
Soile Anderson can’t stop cooking. The retired North Oaks foodie and her friend Eleanor Ostman are beginning a new phase of their careers this spring — giving private cooking lessons. Anderson and Ostman discussed the prospect over scones inside the Taste of Scandinavia bakery Anderson founded in North Oaks in 1992. Anderson, a first-generation Finnish American, created three different food service brands in the Twin Cities over her over 30-plus-year career in the U.S. — The Deco Catering, Taste of Scandinavia and The Finnish Bistro. She has served the likes of former U.S. President Barack Obama, King Harald and Queen Sylvia of Norway, and the Dalai Lama. In 2017, she was inducted into the Scandinavian-American Hall of Fame at the Norsk Hostfest in Minot, North Dakota. Anderson’s fi rst project when she retired a few years ago was to compile many of her favorite recipes and party tips in a book she and Ostman
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book, they spent many hours in the kitchen together testing Anderson’s recipes to adjust them from industrial amounts to domestic amounts. “It was a very delicious effort because I got to taste
SHOREVIEW — The bonds have been sold. Detailed plans are underway to revamp Mounds View Public Schools buildings with bond referendum funds approved by voters last fall. The school board accepted the lowest bid for sale of the bonds at a meeting last month. Springsted representatives said they received six bids. The interest rate of the lowest bid was 3.5 percent instead of the projected 4.0 percent. That will save the district about $18 million over 25 years, said Colin Sokolowski, public relations director. The $165 million bond sale approved by voters last fall came in at $156.5 million instead. “Mounds View had a very competitive bond sale and the overall fi nancing for the bond projects came in lower than projected,” Sokolowski noted. The district has a AA bond rating. “The high level of interest and premium rates are a credit to the
SEE COOKING LESSONS, PAGE 9
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Soile Anderson, of North Oaks, was inducted into the Scandinavian-American Hall of Fame at the Norsk Hostfest in Minot, North Dakota in 2017, for her work in food service.
published in 2016, “Celebrations to Remember.” Anderson is well-known for her themed parties and edible décor, such as tomato roses and onion flowers. The book documents in photos some of her mostraved-about parties, from a tennis-themed Bar Mitz-
vah to a Norsk holiday buffet. Ostman, of Roseville, was a food writer for the Pioneer Press for 38 years and wrote the content for the book. The third-generation Finnish American met Anderson when she wrote about her in the ‘80s. To collaborate on the
Defense calls for dismissal of traffic death trial BY SARA MARIE MOORE EDITOR
ARDEN HILLS — The defense attorney has called for dismissal of the trial in the criminal case involving the death of two Mounds View High School students in a 2016 car accident. Adam Johnson, representing Rachel Diane Kayl, 32, argued that the teenage driver, Samantha Redden, mistakenly entered the intersection to take a left turn because she thought she had a green arrow but did not, according to court documents.
Johnson said this information was left out of the criminal complaint from the Ramsey County Attorney’s Office charging Kayl last year but is clearly deduced from other data related to the case. Ramsey County Sheriff’s Office Investigator Jessica O’Hern interviewed Redden at the hospital after the crash in which she received injuries but survived. Two other students, juniors Bridget Giere and Stephanie Carlson, died at the scene of the accident. Redden was turning onto southbound Old Highway 10
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Two Mounds View students died in a car crash in 2016.
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from westbound Highway 96 in an Chevy Equinox at the time of the accident. She stated she remembered waiting at a flashing yellow arrow and started to turn when she had a green arrow. She also stated she did not see any cars coming. However, bus dash cam video shows eastbound Highway 96 traffic had a green light when the accident occurred and for 20 seconds after the accident occurred. That would mean Redden likely still had a flashing yellow arrow when she turned and collided with Kayl’s Trailblaz-
er unless there was a signal malfunction, according to Daniel Lofgren, an accredited accident reconstructionist hired by the defense. Squad video shows lights cycling correctly. “Even if the Trailblazer had been going 50 mph, this still would have been uncomfortably close to a collision,” the defense stated. The vehicles were only about 200 feet away from each other when Redden turned into the intersection. Johnson argues that even though Kayl was speeding SEE TRIAL, PAGE 8
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