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Residents oppose connection to city water BY SARA MARIE MOORE EDITOR
SHOREVIEW — Ten homes in Shoreview will be provided access to city water this summer. The homes in Dale Court S. and Dale Court N. are 10 of only 55 lots in the city that are still on wells, said City Engineer Tom Wesolowski at a March 19 meeting. There is a street reconstruction project on nearby Dale Street this summer, which makes it the right time to give residents with 30- to 40-year-old wells access to city water, said Mayor Sandy Martin. Under city policy, new wells cannot be dug, so it would provide an option to homeowners if their well goes bad, she noted. Residents will not be required to hook up to city water but will be assessed a maximum of about $6,600 each for the extension of the water main. The total cost of the project is about $270,000. Some residents at the meeting and in letters opposed the project due to NHLC | SUBMITTED
Chad Schultis plays Jesus and Kevin Norberg plays Peter during an Easter play at North Heights Lutheran Church in Arden Hills April 1.
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Sex trafficking ‘marketplace’ perpetuated by middle-class men BY SARA MARIE MOORE EDITOR
ST. PAUL — Ramsey County Attorney John Choi imagines a world 40 years from now without sex trafficking, where boys will grow up to be loving and kind and girls will be valued and safe. “How we raise our boys matters,” said Choi during an awareness event held at Kessler and Maguire Funeral Home in St. Paul March 29. “Trafficking is all about the demand.” The majority of sex trafficking perpetrators and buyers are male and the majority of victims are female.
When local law enforcement does undercover stings posing as 13- to 14-year-old girls for sale for sex, they receive numerous phone calls, Choi said. “I swear to you, within two minutes the phone would ring,” Choi said. “I swear to you we would have 160 phone calls just on that one ad. That is the demand that exists in our own community.” The criminal justice system in Minnesota has seen an uptick in charges and convictions related to sex trafficking over the last decade. In 2007, there were five convictions for sex trafficking state-
“I swear to you, we would have 160 phone calls just on that one ad. That is the demand that exists in our own community.” John Choi Ramsey County Attorney
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Ramsey County Attorney John Choi speaks about sex trafficking during an awareness event in St. Paul March 29.
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wide and in 2016, 45 convictions. Victims often don’t call for help. Law enforcement has begun to search for them instead. “We were missing a lot of these situations that were right in front of us,” said Choi, who has been an advocate for the issue since he took office in 2010.
In 2011, Minnesota enacted the Safe Harbor Law that protects sexually exploited youth under 18 from being charged for being involved in prostitution. Choi said the change has helped victims trust police and be involved in testifying at trials. SEE TRAFFICKING, PAGE 15
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