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Local police honored before Lakers game
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Sgt. Jake Ayers, Sgt. Mark Richert, Detective Nancy Carlson and officers Pat Ferguson, Trevor Johnson, Sean Lafferty, Troy Meyer, Megan Olstad, Nathan Olstad and Maryrose Warke of the Forest Lake Police Department are honored on the ice as part of Law Enforcement Night at the Forest Lake Lakers game on Feb. 3. Carlson also performed the ceremonial puck drop. Through a silent auction the Lakers and their fans helped raise more than $1,000 for the Minnesota Law Enforcement Memorial Association. The Lakers lost the game to the Dells Ducks 4-1, but they got their revenge a day later, beating the same opposition 3-2. The Lakers are 20-15-5 on the season and will play at home against the Chicago Cougars on Feb. 17 and 18, with both games beginning at 7:30 p.m.
Dance team falls short of state
The Forest Lake dance team competed in the Section 4AAA

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Submitted photoThe renovation process has begun as volunteers with the Lakes Center for Youth and Families (formerly LAYSB) prepare to move into a new space in the Town Square building.
In 2013, after 20 years of occupancy in the same space, the Lakes Area Youth Service Bureau was given notice from the city of Forest Lake that an option to sell the group’s city-owned building was being exercised. There was no specific timeline, but Executive Director Jeanne Walz knew that time was running short.
“This was going to be the biggest thing that has ever happened to us, and so we wanted to make sure that we did it right,” she said. “We began exploring options to either build or rent or possibly purchase.”broadstreet.zone(48036);
In September 2016, LAYSB was told that it would need to be gone from its current space at 244 N. Lake St. by March 1.
“The key was to find

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Angie Hong
Guest Columnist
On Friday, Jan. 27, the Comfort Lake-Forest Lake Watershed District broke ground on a $536,605 wetland restoration project in southern Chisago County that will ultimately improve water quality in Moody Lake (Chisago Lake Township) and Bone Lake (Scandia). The project will serve as an example for how to work at a watershed scale, as well as how to target water quality improvement projects to get the biggest bang for the buck.broadstreet.zone(48036);
The district began a five-year project to improve Bone and Moody lakes in late 2010 when it harvested more than 23,000 pounds of carp from Bone Lake and 3,600 small bullheads from Moody Lake. In 2012, the district installed low-velocity fish barriers to prevent rough fish from migrating in and out of the two lakes. Last year, the district installed a winter aeration system in Moody Lake to prevent winter fish kills and help keep the bullhead population

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Lakes International Language Academy recently collaborated with the Sport Management capstone class of Dr. Lisa Kihl at the University of Minnesota – Twin Cities to explore best practices in developing and expanding the Upper School (grades 6-12) athletic program.broadstreet.zone(48036);
“This is the students’ opportunity to demonstrate that they are prepared academically and professionally as graduates to contribute meaningful work for real-world sports concerns,” Dr. Kihl said in a press release. “I set the expectations high, and every time, these students amaze me.”
The university students worked in groups to study concerns related to developing an athletics department operational manual, such as policies, sports offerings and facilities, league schedules and transportation, recruiting and training coaches, and marketing. Each university group presented its recommendations at a culminating class meeting, which included LILA Director Shannon Peterson and Athletic and Activities Director Jenni Muras.
“We were thrilled to participate in this capstone project,” Muras said in a

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The Minnesota Job Honor Awards is accepting nominations for its first awards event set for May 10 in the Twin Cities. The awards will celebrate “A New Kind of Hero” – Minnesotans who have overcome significant barriers to employment and the employers who hire them. Deadline for nominations is Feb. 15.broadstreet.zone(48036);
The awards will be presented in partnership with the Minnesota Chamber’s workforce conference “The Hidden Labor Pool: Are you looking in the right places?” This half-day program will examine Minnesota’s workforce shortage and introduce employers to frequently-overlooked talent pools. Speakers and panelists will challenge participants to think differently about where they look for employees, sharing “best practices” of companies that are finding great talent in Minnesota’s untapped workforce.
“Minnesota employers continue to seek new solutions to our state’s workforce shortage,” Minnesota Chamber president Doug Loon said in a press release. “Finding qualified workers is a persistent challenge among companies of all

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The Forest View Suns stand together after a victory. From left: Ashlee Carlson, Dahlia Berg, Haley Hohenstein, Natalie Krutzig, Ava Bauer, Sadie Fearing, Savannah Syring, Ava Jendersee, Savanna Puent, Bailey Zauner. Back: coach Jenny Simon.

The Forest View Suns have dominated their division in the Forest Lake Community Ed girls basketball league so far. Jenny Simon’s squad of second- and third-graders have lost only one game in their six-team circuit, which brings together elementary-school players from throughout the Forest Lake Area school district.
“We try to not only teach the girls the necessary skills, but also practice fun,” Simon said.broadstreet.zone(48036);
Because the girls in the league are all future Rangers, every squad uses maroon and gold as its team colors. The “home” side in each game wears maroon and the “away” side wears gold, though all the teams share the same home floor.
At the beginning of each half, the girls on the court

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Sophomore Regan Duffy finished second overall in the girls race.
Duffy, Mead lead Rangers in individual standings
The Forest Lake boys and girls Nordic teams earned nearly identical results in the final standings at the Suburban East Conference championships on Feb. 1. Both squads placed second of eight (Cretin-Derham Hall does not particpate in Nordic) behind Stillwater, with the girls scoring 457 points and the boys 454, and both Ranger squads were well clear of double third-placers Roseville.broadstreet.zone(48036);
“Conditions were a little icy, which doesn’t hurt a team like Stillwater who is used to skiing in questionable conditions,” coach Deno Johnson said.
The conference races were contested in two parts. In the morning, skiers particpated in a 5-kilometer classic-style race. In the afternoon the skiers raced skate-style, with racers leaving the starting area at intervals equal to their time differences in the first race.
Ranger junior Jenna Parent (16:27) and sophomore Regan Duffy (16:30) were

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After coming back from a five-point deficit, Parrish earns his pin against Mounds View’s Rowan Morgan in overtime.
Parrish’s up-class pin highlights victory
With under a minute to go in his match at 182 pounds on Feb. 2, Forest Lake’s Grant Parrish was trailing Mounds View’s Rowan Morgan 9-4. He then pulled off an aggressive sequence against his opponent, forcing him to the mat and nearly pinning him. The Mustang was saved because the action took the wrestlers out of bounds, but Parrish earned five points, sending the match into a one-minute overtime period in which he finally pinned Morgan.broadstreet.zone(48036);
That result is remarkable for two reasons: Morgan is rated as the state’s third-best wrestler at 182, and Parrish is actually a 170-pounder – he wrestled up 12 pounds to get a match with Morgan.
“Those guys are rivals, they wrestled a great match,” head coach Joe Kunshier said. “We talk to Grant about

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