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WYOMING
Recycled vehicle design
Creative people ages 4 and up are invited to the Wyoming library July 27 from 1 to 4 p.m. to work with recycled material to design a car, boat, spacecraft, or anything else that moves. Children age 4 to 7 must be accompanied by an adult.
CHISAGO CITY
Toughman Minnesota
Toughman Minnesota will be held July 30 at Paradise Park. The event begins at 7 a.m. and features half, iron, and sprint triathlon courses. To register, visit dutrirun.com, active.com, or call 920-574-2972.
COLUMBUS
Grand opening
Total Family Chiropractic will host a grand reopening event Aug. 3 from 2 to 4 p.m. at 15226 W. Freeway Dr. Ice cream will be available.
WYOMING
Zoomobile
The MN Zoomobile will come to the Wyoming Library Aug. 3 at 1:30 p.m. Guests can experience a variety of live animals native to Minnesota and learn about ecological concepts unique to the state. Doors will open no earlier than 10 minutes before the

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Bluegrass festival
Area churches will host a bluegrass festival with a silent auction July 29 from 3 to 8 p.m. at Lakeside Memorial Park. Featured performers include the Sawtooth Brothers, King Wilkie’s Dream, and North Shore Trail. Proceeds from the event will benefit Feed My Starving Children, St. Andrews Family Shelter, and Our Lady of the Mountains Elementary School.
Clothing giveaway
A clothing giveaway will be held at Willowbrook Church, 840 Lake St. S., Aug. 2 from 5 to 8 p.m. Guests will be given a time slot and a bag for clothing. Groups of 10 will make selections in a 15-minute time slot. For more information, contact Jolene Organ at 651-982-6361 or jolene@willowbrookchurch.com.
District building tours
Residents, parents, students, and school district staff are invited to a summer tour of Lino Lakes Elementary School Aug. 10 at 6 p.m.
Senior expo
A 30th anniversary expo will be held at the Forest Lake Senior Center, 767 4th

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Photo from Google MapsThe “Triangle” property in Columbus just south of the Interstate Highway 35 split is the proposed location of a new asphalt plant operated by Bituminous Roadways.
A Minnesota-based roadway company is trying to make Columbus the site of its fourth asphalt plant, but some nearby neighbors still have questions about the site – including Running Aces Casino & Racetrack, which sits roughly 2 miles north of the proposed site.
At its July 19 meeting, which was attended by several locals interested in speaking on or hearing about the progress of the facility, the Columbus Planning Commission forwarded a rezoning request, a preliminary plat approval and a conditional use permit approval to the Columbus City Council. The council was set to discuss the topic at its 7 p.m. July 26 meeting, which took place after press time.broadstreet.zone(48036);
Bituminous Roadways Inc., which currently operates asphalt plants in Shakopee, Inver Grove Heights and

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Lenora “Sis” Bradshaw, age 74 of Forest Lake passed away on July 24, 2017. Preceded in death by parents John and Theora Halstead, siblings Bud and Mary Lee Murphy, and son-in-law Scott Sabo. Survived by husband Jim, daughter Barb Sabo, son Tim, granddaughter Erin Sabo, brother Johnny and other relatives and friends. Celebration of Life will be at The Blacksmith Lounge Hugo, MN August 5th, 1pm to 4pm. Please no flowers.

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File photo Dick Damchik counted the Forest Lake Town Board, the Forest Lake Planning Commission, the Forest Lake – Comfort Lake Watershed District and the Forest Lake Area Athletic Association among the many organizations on which he served.
Forest Lake lost a long-standing civil servant this month when Richard “Dick” Damchik, 85, died July 12. Damchik served on multiple governmental boards throughout his time in Forest Lake, most notably as a member of the Forest Lake Township Board from 1976 through 1998.
“I think he really wanted to make sure that people were treated fairly,” said Dick Tschida, who served with Damchik for more than 15 years after Tschida’s own election to the Town Board in 1981. “A lot of people thought he was too rough and too tough, but they didn’t know him. He had a big heart.”broadstreet.zone(48036);
Dick Damchik was raised in St. Paul, but in 1969, he moved his family

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The Forest Lake man who was charged earlier this summer with stalking and a sex crime related to hidden sexual videos he made of a former neighbor has now also been accused of possessing child pornography.
Alan Douglas Running, 69, made his first appearance July 3 for two charges of possessing an illegal pornographic work. According to court records, child pornography was allegedly found on one or more of Running’s electronic devices as police investigated him for the stalking and sex crime charges (read more about those in the June 29 story “Man charged with stalking, sex crime” or online here).broadstreet.zone(48036);
After obtaining a search warrant for Running’s devices in April, investigators allegedly found more than 100,000 “graphic images,” records state, much of it adult pornography (not including the surreptitious videos Running made of his former neighbor). However, they also found two instances of what appeared be girls under the age of

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EDITOR’S NOTE: Letters will be accepted for the Open Forum for publication in the next available issue after receipt. Letters may be sent to Forest Lake Times, 146 N. Lake St., Suite 125, Forest Lake, or by e-mail to ryan.howard@ecm-inc.com. Letters should not exceed 250 words and must be signed with the writer’s name, address and telephone number. Deadline is noon Monday. The newspaper reserves the right to edit letters and assure that rules of libel and good taste are not violated. Letters by the same writer will not be published more than once per calendar month.
Trees, pleasebroadstreet.zone(48036);
What happened to my trees? I returned home July 10 to find that two of my mature trees had been drastically trimmed. If I assume that this was done by the city of a Forest Lake, I would have appreciated some sort of notice of the necessity. There are no power lines or

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Joy Autey, age 73, of Wyoming, MN, passed away peacefully at home on July 23, 2017.
She is preceded in death by her husband of 50 years, Theodore; daughter, Jo Ellen; and grandson, Timothy.
She is survived by her sons, John (Heather) and Theodore (Dawn) and grandchildren, Jessica, Brandon, Cordelia, Duncan, and Henry.
Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m., Friday, July 28, 2017 at Crossroads Covenant Church, 17445 Notre Dame St., Forest Lake, MN. Visitation will be held from 5-8 p.m., Thursday, at Mattson Funeral Home, 343 North Shore Drive, Forest Lake; continuing one hour prior to the service at the church. Interment at Fort Snelling National Cemetery on Monday. In lieu of flowers, memorials preferred to Give the Kids the World.

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