Looking back in 2010

Year of hard work, amazing stories and fun features

• A winter picnic last Afton, Andy Weaver brought women young peregrine small leather cap on his head and eyes. Pilgrim was conceived in mid-May at the Stillwater High School, where Weaver teaches biology and oversees a falcon breeding program successful. Hunting with the Raptor can be compared with the use of masks for the fish, "says Weaver, who became interested in falconry in middle school.

• John Polehna Stillwater speaks of "emotional components" and "energy meridians." But contrary to what you think, "she says, no age is nothing new about their work." It's really a very "old age", said the recreation therapist in mental health. Polehna, 55, was a practicing psychotherapist for more than three decades. But the comprehensive work-oriented, which now focuses began in 2002 when his father was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. She learned about the therapy called Brain Gym, which combines yoga movements, such as mental exercises, and said that may be useful for people with the disease.

• Rutherford kindergarten teacher Julie Johnson greeted his students, as he greeted each new day that she called "a great life - with love, hope and positive outlook that helped her breast cancer battle and" live "through of adversity. Two good friends, colleagues, teachers, Rutherford Andy and Stan Hoeppner Spain, proposed the idea that Johnson would help the family financially and allowed him to inspire courage and commitment in others. Inspired by the motto in its day sandy Johnson of chemotherapy - "Game - two developed a business plan for a line of shirts and other products designed to make words.

When it is sunny here somewhere, Fred Hundt more than happy to take credit. Residents of Santa Cruz Marine who works "pretty good Fred weather station, has recently updated its weather monitoring equipment -" Version 2.0 ", he said - and celebrated its fifth anniversary as a city self-proclaimed meteorologists. Hundt weather station, which runs Wilkie home of the street, the measured humidity, precipitation, wind speed and direction, barometric pressure and other indicators of climate change. • A winter picnic last Afton, Andy Weaver brought together women of young peregrine falcons cap small leather in the head and eyes. Peregrino was conceived in mid-May at the Stillwater High School, where Weaver teaches biology and oversees a falcon breeding program successful. Hunting with the Raptor can be compared with a mask fish "govorit Weaver, who first became interested in falconry in high school.

• John Polehna Stillwater speaks of "emotional components" and "energy meridians." But contrary to what you think, "she says, no age is nothing new about their work." It's really a very "old age", said the recreation therapist in mental health. Polehna, 55, was a practicing psychotherapist for more than three decades. But the comprehensive work-oriented, which now focuses began in 2002 when his father was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. She learned about the therapy called Brain Gym, which combines yoga movements, such as mental exercises, and said that may be useful for people with the disease.

• Rutherford kindergarten teacher Julie Johnson greeted his students, as he greeted each new day that she called "a great life - with love, hope and positive outlook that helped her breast cancer battle and" live "through of adversity. Two good friends, colleagues, teachers, Rutherford Andy and Stan Hoeppner Spain, proposed the idea that Johnson would help the family financially and allowed him to inspire courage and commitment in others. Inspired by the motto in its day sandy Johnson of chemotherapy - "Game - two developed a business plan for a line of shirts and other products designed to make words.

When it is sunny here somewhere, Fred Hundt more than happy to take credit. Residents of Santa Cruz Marine who works "pretty good Fred weather station, has recently updated its weather monitoring equipment -" Version 2.0 ", he said - and celebrated its fifth anniversary as a city self-proclaimed meteorologists. Hundt weather station, which runs Wilkie home of the street, the measured humidity, precipitation, wind speed and direction, barometric pressure and other indicators of climate change. • When Auleciems West Lakeland Township Karl built his summer house 13 years ago, he realized that residential construction industry sometimes works differently than the rest of the world of business. His comments on the construction industry led him to open a construction business called Castle Advisors in 2006. The company offers building projects business or residential renovation, a lawyer or construction consultant, who can represent their interests with the developer when it comes to cost and quality.

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• Imagine a country where nine in 10 people are uninsured, many hospitals are dirty and lack of basic hygiene - and where the rate of cardiovascular disease is 10 times greater than that of the United States that part of the population has the full attention of Rahul Mehra, a former high-tech biomedical engineer, Medtronic, who often travels to India. Stillwater resident Indian began the heart of the Alliance, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to develop programs to reduce cardiovascular disease in his native India.

Rachel Steil • Students are the beneficiaries of their past experiences, including work on "Nightline" on ABC News "and news headlines on the local station rack 11. Becoming an English teacher and adviser for the school newspaper" Pony Express "in the Stillwater Area High School for 11 years ago, she has helped document twice to earn a place among the top 10 newspapers in the country, students of the National Press Association School, plus many other prizes.

• In June 1983, Pedro Vodenka (then known as Peter) was 27 years and lifelong resident of the former communist Czechoslovakia. He and his family Defected literally running for their lives. Now 54, living in Scandia Vodenka in the last decade and a half and has a successful business with its partners in the international business of fire protection, fire sprinkler installation company. We documented the history of his family in his book "Journey to Freedom: a departure from communist Czechoslovakia," released in March.

• Stillwater latest tools in crime prevention has four legs, runny nose, incredible work ethic and responds to the name "Buzz." for the first time in the history of the Police Department dogs, a German shepherd 69 lbs of the Slovak Republic, graduated from the training program of 12 weeks last week in May, his coach, David Wülfing Official. Wülfing, a veteran of six years in the Stillwater Police Department, said he started looking into getting a K-9 makes more than two years.

• It was founded 32 years ago and has since hosted more than 1,850 children with adoptive parents. Public Relations Coordinator Julie Kink said Hope adoption and family started as a place for those who wish to take in less than a traditional situation. For many years, it expanded to the point where he regularly works with several U.S. organizations and foreign children placed last year from 53 different countries, so that parents in Minnesota and northwestern Wisconsin.

• Sheridyn McClain First introduced in some ways related to Japanese anime subculture that was a bit puzzled - and the terminology sounds like so much now a long time seamstress, 57, has used their specialty "gibberish." suits of this type into a profitable business for herself and her daughter 21 years old, Caitlin. MMC Construcciones SA manufactures a line in Stillwater lolita style, elegant gothic clothing, which sells online at www.kmkdesigns.org and anime conventions known as "against" a group of Minnesota and Wisconsin.

• a lot of horror stories start in the cities is calm and EE Knight is no exception. The author, known for his Vampire Earth series - set in a future post-apocalyptic United States where the alien is draining energy - actually began his writing career as a young man in Stillwater. Now 45, Knight lives in Oak Park, Illinois, and usually it turns out, science fiction and fantasy, collecting public and critical acclaim. A quick check on Amazon.com shows that at least 14 of its titles in print, on the other towards the end of this year.

• In the heart of all journalists, they say, there are books awaiting publication. By Chris Niskanen Mei residents, but do not expect more. Niskanen, columnist for the St. Paul Pioneer Press, has recently published "Prairie, lake, forest: Minnesota state parks," the publication of Minnesota Historical Society Press. Niskanen and recognized photographer Doug Oman, have joined to create the book, which highlights each of the 66 state parks.