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THE RIGHT TO VERIFICATION OF THE DEBT AND IDENTITY OF THE ORIGINAL CREDITOR WITHIN THE TIME PROVIDED BY LAW IS NOT AFFECTED BY THIS ACTION.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that default has occurred in conditions of the following described mortgage:broadstreet.zone(48036);
DATE OF MORTGAGE:
April 16, 2008
MORTGAGOR: Kimberly M. Morgan and Richard A. Morgan, wife and husband.
MORTGAGEE: Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc.
DATE AND PLACE OF RECORDING: Recorded May 29, 2008 Washington County Recorder, Document No. 3694432.broadstreet.zone(50962);
ASSIGNMENTS OF MORTGAGE: Assigned to: JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association. Dated February 12, 2013 Recorded February 19, 2013, as Document No. 3932393.
TRANSACTION AGENT:
Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc.
TRANSACTION AGENTS MORTGAGE IDENTIFICATION NUMBER ON MORTGAGE:
100085200635233028
LENDER OR BROKER AND MORTGAGE ORIGINATOR STATED ON MORTGAGE: First Horizon Home Loans, a Division of First Tennessee Bank, N.A.
RESIDENTIAL MORTGAGE SERVICER: JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association
MORTGAGED PROPERTY ADDRESS: 432 Juniper Street, Mahtomedi, MN 55115
TAX PARCEL I.D. #:
2003021410034
LEGAL DESCRIPTION OF PROPERTY:
Lot 8,

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Submitted photoDon Halvorsen, a member of the Forest Lake Snowmobile Club since 1969, helps Colleen Slattery, food shelf coordinator at Community Helping Hand, unpack food items collected by the club during a holiday food drive.
An unseasonably warm February has nearly eliminated the area snow cover, but that won’t stop the Forest Lake Snowmobile Club from having some fun this weekend. The next scheduled ride for club members takes place in the Ely area this weekend, and nonmembers are welcome to tag along.
The club now sports 20 family members and is hoping to see new snowmobile fans add their names to the roster.broadstreet.zone(48036);
“Our club’s primary goal is to ride,” said Jason Kuhlman, club president. “We pride ourselves on providing our members with multiple rides throughout the snow season. We have planned alternatives in the case conditions do not allow us to ride in a specific location.”
The Ely outing is on tap

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Photo by Ryan HowardAn overflow crowd watched the Forest Lake City Council’s Feb. 13 meeting from a city hall hallway as residents and the council discussed the city’s contract law enforcement evaluation process.
The Forest Lake City Council chamber overflowed again Feb. 13 as the body discussed and approved its contract law enforcement evaluation guiding principles.
The principles were passed more or less as discussed at the council’s Feb. 6 work session. They include tenets on public engagement and weighing the possibility of contracting with the Washington County Sheriff’s Office for law enforcement on the basis of service delivery and budget impact comparisons with the Forest Lake Police Department.broadstreet.zone(48036);
The changes that were made included the addition of more aspects of law enforcement to the list of what will be benchmarked and the addition of a council intention to conduct a statistically valid poll of residents regarding the evaluation once the city receives

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Amy Doeun
Linwood Reporter
At the Jan. 24, meeting of the Linwood Town Board, Supervisor Ed Kramer said: “Today at 2, the new van rolled in. (Planning Commissioner) Joe Dolphy searched for two weeks and had pretty much given up on finding one in our price range, and he found one in Oklahoma.”broadstreet.zone(48036);
The township had received $30,000 in funds from an Anoka County Community Development Block Grant to pay for a van for transportation to the senior center and related activities.
“They wanted $32,000 for it, but he gave them a sob story about the township, and he got it for $30,000,” Kramer said.
The van is a 2012 Chrysler Town and Country.
“All electrical, the ramp comes out so nice,” Kramer added.
The van has 54,000 miles on it, and Kramer thinks it would be a good idea to undercoat it because it comes from a part of the country where the roads aren’t regularly

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Greg Galler
Guest Columnist
It’s the day of the big game. Your team is playing its biggest rival for the championship. You’re confident and excited. But before the game starts, the officials announce that they will favor the other team to guarantee that it wins. Could you even imagine such a thing happening? Does that sound fair? How much would that upset you?broadstreet.zone(48036);
You may be surprised to learn that in some parts of the world, judicial systems openly behave in that very way.
Last week, one of the metro papers ran a short article quoting the head of China’s Supreme People’s Court stating that the idea of an independent judiciary is an “erroneous Western ideal.” He further instructed China’s judges to “draw your swords” against words or actions that run counter to the dictates of China’s Communist Party. In our analogy, that is functionally the same as sports officials saying that they will

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Submitted photosSheree Vincent’s design of a living area in a local lake home earned her a top honor in the Sustainable Furnishing Council’s #GetYourGreenOn competition.
Sheree Vincent, owner of Wyoming interior design business Fusion Designed, was one of five winners of the Sustainable Furnishing Council’s #GetYourGreenOn competition in January. The competition sought to find designers who could create tasteful designs with energy efficient and environmentally friendly components.
Vincent won the Shared Spaces $30,000 and Above Category Award with a design for a local lake home. The design included SFC products, energy-efficient windows and appliances, low-VOC paints and other environmentally conscious features. broadstreet.zone(48036);
“Going green is important to me for the same reasons it should be important to everyone,” Vincent said, noting that the clients that owned the home that garnered her the competition win were equally enthused about being earth-conscious. “The green movement in design shows that we are making an effort to ensure

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The Watershed District will be holding an open house Feb. 21. This year, members of the district want to ramp up community engagement and make sure that residents know that questions can be answered and help in protecting their water resources is available.
From 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. will be a reception with snacks. A brief (15-20 minutes) overview of district activities will be presented. district managers and staff will be available for informal questions and answers with residents. Fact sheets and updates available for current projects and district lakes will also be available. From 6:30 to 6:45 p.m., there will be a volunteer appreciation for the Citizen Assisted Monitoring Program and Citizen Advisory Committee members to be recognized.broadstreet.zone(48036);
From 6:45 to 7 p.m. (or later depending on interest level) will be an overview of the watershed management plan amendment process. There will also be time for a question and answer session

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Cora Boehm, age 95, born in Portland, Oregon, passed away on Sunday, February 12, 2017.
She is preceded in death by her parents, Josephine and Josiah Batson; stepfather, Jacob Goebel; former husband, Maurice; son, Robert; sister, Margaret DuCharme.
She is survived children, Gregory, Patricia Tietz, Linda (Harry) Haluptzok, Kathleen (Steven) LeVesseur, Mary (Mark) Pogreba, Berta; eight grandchildren; 13 great-grandchildren; one great-great grandson.
Cora was a former Forest Lake businesswoman, co-owner of Der Lach Haus Supper Club, artist, traveler, and decorator.
Memorial services will be held at 11 a.m. on Thursday, February 16th at Mattson Funeral Home, 343 North Shore Drive, Forest Lake, MN 55025. Visitation will be 9-11 a.m. at Mattson Funeral Home.
Cards and memorials may be directed to Mattson Funeral Home and Cremation Services, 343 N. Shore Drive, Forest Lake, MN 55025. Online condolences may be made at www.mattsonfuneralhome.com.

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A Honor Roll
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2016-2017
 Grade 7
Amanda Aukes,  Nicholas Bartlett, Alyssa Bergum, Aryn Blumenthal, Cole Brisbois, Marcus Bump, Erin Christiansen, Jonathon Cubus, June Darling, Adam Distler, Hugh Drinkwitz, Katie Dubois, Jill DuPaul, Noah Erickson, Andrew Erkenbrack, Jacob Ford, Nico Gallegos, Annika Gunderson, Hunter Haines, Brooklyn Hansen, Holly Hansen, Olivia Headley, Marissa Hefty, Jacob Henry, Ashton Her, Mikyla Jo Herman, Aliyah Hussein, Devin Johnson, Henry Kerkow, Emma Krause, Greta Krieger, Andrew Krueger, Dylan LaCasse, Ruby LaMere, Mary Landherr, Morgan Larrabee, Anna Luedtke, Abigail Lund, Gage Lund, Kameron Mager, Ava Malrick, Carley Martens, Destini Maslowski, Ava McCarver, Colin McGeary, Samuel Moberg, Kathryn Morgan, Sophia Nelson, Katelyn Ness, Ryan Olson, Addison Orth, Brandon Payment, Taylen Peterson, Teren Peterson, Zachary Rau, Natalie Rebelein, Andrew Reif, Thomas Schwartzbauer, Dominik Scott, Angelina Shamota, Ethan Sievers, Annabelle Stang, Hayden Swanson, Gaven Thompson, Zainab Tumli, Allie Vetsch, Ashlyn Vetsch, Sophia Villella, Emma Volkenant, Jenna Warmbold, Ashley Wert, Caige Witzel, Kylie

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Submitted photoFormer Wyoming City Administrator Craig Mattson oversaw many changes during his decade with the city. He retired at the end of 2016.
Amy Doeun
Wyoming Reporter
Craig Mattson was born in the Swedish Hospital in Minneapolis just after World War II. His brother had been born before the war, and his parents moved to the West Coast to build airplanes, P-38s. Though his father could have stayed out of the military because of the work he was doing, Mattson said his dad felt guilty and joined the Navy in 1942, serving for the remainder of the war. After the war, the family moved back home to the farm in Minnesota.broadstreet.zone(48036);
Mattson is a wellspring of knowledge about local history.
“My grandfather owned land that went from the Mississippi River to Earle Brown farm,” he said. “Back in the ‘30s and ‘40s, Earle Brown started the highway patrol. When he died, his land went to

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