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Dog beach stays put after fumbled effort to close it BY DEBRA NEUTKENS STAFF WRITER
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A view from above Astronauts aboard the International Space Station, including White Bear Lake graduate Josh Cassada, captured the aurora borealis activity from space last week. SEE SPACE STATION, PAGE 12
Attention all brides: Annual wedding show coming this month BY NOELLE OLSON SHOREVIEW PRESS EDITOR
If you are looking for a wedding show that has over 25 vendors and is easy to get to, the 38th annual wedding show is for you. Press Publications will host its annual wedding show from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday, March 26, at the White Bear Country Inn in White Bear Lake. The wedding show will feature a discounted wedding dress shop with gently used donated
dresses that will be resold for $10 each. All proceeds from the dresses will be donated to the White Bear Area Food Shelf. Since a wedding dress can be a large part of a wedding budget, the wedding show aims to make one’s dream dress more accessible. “We started this last year and had a huge response,” Multimedia Marketing Director Patty Steele said. “This year, we are looking for wedding dress donations from the last five years.”
The show, emceed by Gary LaRue, will include approximately 25 vendors covering wedding musthaves like venues, catering, officiants and flowers. Many of the vendors have continued to return to the wedding show in order to keep their business local. Local vendors have been a draw to the show over the years, but Press is excited to bring some new ideas to this year’s
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The Matoska Park dog beach is a rare spot where humans can take their dogs for a dip. SEE DOG BEACH, PAGE 18
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WHITE BEAR LAKE — Several improvements are in the works for the dog beach, but in general, the resolution to maintain status quo passed, but not before it was reversed, then passed again. Parliamentary procedure was put to task in the jumbled back-and-forth last week when a council member wanted to renege on her vote after the fact, saying she was confused as to what she was voting on. Bottom line, the resolution approved by City Council Feb. 28 continues operations of the dog beach located at Matoska Park, subject to conditions. How council arrived at that decision, however, proved to be rather unprecedented. After taking public comment, all favorable to keeping the beach, and allowing council members to orate on the matter, the mayor called for a vote. It passed 4-0. (Council Member Steve Engstran had an excused absence). Council Member Heidi Hughes immediately asked if she could make a new motion and was told no, because the vote was done. “Oh God. I didn’t understand that,” was her response. Hughes lives across the street from the dog beach and wants it closed or moved. Prior to the vote, the councilwoman pitched reasons for removing dogs from the beach, noting the canines “scare kids who don’t have a dog at home” and use the nearby swim dock. Since the beach is in her ward, Hughes said she is the “storehouse” for complaints. “It’s not just private property owners who