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Thanks to the Moscow Ballet’s innovative Dance With Us program, which casts student dancers as extras in a major performance, Forest Lake area dancers will be dancing alongside talents in a Russian rendition of “The Nutcracker” this holiday season. Dancers will take the stage at 7 p.m. Nov. 26 at the Orpheum Theater located at 910 Hennepin Ave. in Minneapolis. The traveling Moscow Ballet company, now in its 24th season, includes award-winning principal dancers and, in total, a corps of about 40 dancers.

Moscow Ballet audition directors, who are also dancers in the company, travel the United States each fall before the Nutcracker tour to personally audition and rehearse aspiring student dancers. The Dance With Us program provides dancers age 7 to 17 the experience of participating in real auditions, with an opportunity to be cast, rehearse, be costumed with the company, and take the stage alongside professional dancers for a

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Running Aces Casino & Racetrack is hosting a custom artwork contest to select a talented local artist or artist group to create an original wall installed art piece to be a permanent fixture in its High Limit VIP Area.
Running Aces is seeking professional artists age 18 and older who can bring the property’s rich history alive through a three-dimensional original piece of artwork that represents Trout Air, harness racing and/or casino gaming and entertainment. Running Aces will award the top two finalists for the design proposals with $500, and the Grand Prize winner will receive $7,777.
To enter, artists must provide the following information in a single word document and submit digitally:broadstreet.zone(48036);
• Contact information (name, email, phone, address, URL link or media link)
• A one-page letter of interest, including a description of working methodology and project proposal description of how the artist proposes to address the thematic and formal issues relevant

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Fifteen years ago, Dr. Richard Ottomeyer was in the process of expanding his medical practice to include physical therapy and wanted to get the word out. That is when he heard about Business Networking International.
BNI is a referral group that has chapters throughout the U.S. and the world. Ottomeyer decided that Forest Lake needed a chapter of its own.broadstreet.zone(48036);
“Initially we began meeting with just five other business owners from the area and held regular meetings at Famous Dave’s at 7:30 in the morning. Eventually we outgrew the Famous Dave’s space as they weren’t really set up for a breakfast crowd,” Ottomeyer said. “We then spent three years at Forest Hills Golf Course and then we moved to what used to be The Laker. We bounced around a few other places after that before landing at City Hall in a meeting room. That space is really the best fit we’ve had

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Submitted photoSteve Carr was fortunate enough to run a marathon with his daughters Megan and Britta.
A deep dive into the world of competitive distance running was never something that Steve Carr planned on, but now that he is up to his neck in the sport, he would have it no other way.
“In high school, running was something I just did,” Carr said. “It was something I enjoyed and was good at, and so I kept it up.”broadstreet.zone(48036);
Carr’s running continued into college where he competed for Golden Valley Lutheran and then one summer, without really planning it, he found himself running 100 miles a week for 13 weeks.
“After that summer, I pretty much knew that this running thing was more than just a hobby, but rather a real passion,” Carr said. “Running is my church. It is where I go to be by myself and do a lot of my deep

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