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Photo by Ryan Howard Za’s has lain dormant for weeks after an unexpected closure and sale. The space will be reopened as Pi Pizzeria.
After a closure of a few weeks at longtime Forest Lake pizza spot Za’s, the team behind Acqua and Meet Market has announced that the location will be the new site of a pizza restaurant called Pi Pizzeria.
Za’s was founded in the late 1990s by Paul Dueth and Patricia Haarman on the current site of Daniela’s Chocolates. The business later moved to a unit in the Park Place buildings, where it remained until closing unexpectedly in November. Dueth and Haarman sold Za’s to Sue Barrera and her husband Chris in late 2015.broadstreet.zone(48036);
Shortly before the announcement about Pi Pizzeria, The Forest Lake Times interviewed Sue Barrera, who said that she’d sold the business to the local restaurant group run by J.J. Maleitzke, Daron Close, Nicole Close and chef

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Arliss Rose Banta (Plotnik), age 85, of Forest Lake, went home to be with her Lord on December 21, 2016.
Arliss had been an R.N. and nurse educator for many years.
She was preceded in death by her husband of 58 years, Kenneth; parents; children, Debbie and Duane.
Arliss is survived by her children, Keith, Kathleen (Dominic) Comerate, David (Beth), Mark (Cynthia), Douglas; seven grandchildren; three great-grandchildren; and brothers, Kenneth (Beryl) and Rodney Plotnik.
Memorial service will be held at 11 a.m., Tuesday, December 27, 2016 at Mattson Funeral Home, 343 North Shore Drive, Forest Lake. Visitation 10 a.m. until the time of service. Spring interment at Wyoming United Methodist Cemetery. Memorials are preferred to Hosanna Lutheran Church, Forest Lake.

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A group of current and former Forest Lake Area High School students began rallying for the termination of current high school Spanish instructor Kelly Wing last week after several screenshots of social media posts from 2014, attributed to Wing, were posted to social media. The content of the posts, which some have deemed homophobic or slut-shaming, has prompted the use of the hashtag #FireKellyWing on Twitter as students and alumni have publicized their cause in an attempt to force the high school to act.
The two most frequently shared Facebook posts were from the fall of 2014, from a profile that appears to be Wing’s. One, which linked to an article about Catholic priests debating ministry policies regarding homosexuals, featured some graphic language describing certain sex acts before an argument that sex acts should be used for procreation – “not disordered pleasure.”broadstreet.zone(48036);
“If these (homosexual) acts sound nice to you, then you

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