The 5th annual Art for the Parks Fine Arts and Crafts Show is slated for 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 4, at Minnetonka High School.

Proceeds from this year's show will benefit Minnetonka Diamond Club projects. The Shorewood Parks Foundation sponsors the annual event.

Hello Parents:

Our newly founded company is iRide. We facilitate transportation needs for children ages 8-18 going to sports, lessons, friends, malls, or recreational activities. Our safe and reliable service is family built and focused on the needs of families in the community. Riders personalize their entertainment experience with an easy to use ipod/mp3 dock in the back of the vehicle of which they control.

Stevie Ray's Comedy Troupe will be on stage in the International Bazaar in the Minnesota State Fair at 3:15, 4:30, and 5:45 on Saturday, Aug. 28, and Sunday, Aug. 29.

Chanhassen Dinner Theatres and Stevie Ray's Comedy Troupe will be at the 2010 Minnesota State Fair. The dinner theater exhibit is in the upper grandstand center quadrant.

Meteorologists and hydrologists from the National Weather Service Weather and Water Forecast Office and the NOHRSC in Chanhassen will host a booth at The Great Minnesota Get Together, the 2010 Minnesota State Fair.

The NWS is at the fair daily from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. from Aug. 26 through Labor Day, Sept. 6.

The NWS, along with representatives from the Community Emergency Response Team (CERT), will have their booth in the education building on the east side of the fairgrounds. Their booth will feature the following:

* Computer terminals to navigate NWS web sites.

Rep. Joe Hoppe (R-Chaska) is scheduled to be at the Minnesota House of Representatives booth in the education building at the Minnesota State Fair on Monday morning from 10 to Noon.

A Ghost Where I Work

Some times when a person moves into a new apartment or a new home, if there is a spirit in there, they usually reveal themselves to the new tenants within a few weeks.
Note the key word here is sometimes. It depends on the motive of the spirit.

This is also true for your place of employment.

Familiarity breeds contempt. In the ongoing, somewhat ravaged environs of professional football, familiarity breeds only content.

Drowning under the usual dosage of sweltering transfer stories yesterday afternoon, ED was quick to pick up on the news from Germany that Sami Hyypia had been forced to discount a return to Liverpool because of Bayer Leverkusen's desire to retain him.

Liverpool manager Roy Hodgson wanted to sign the Finland defender, 36, but Leverkusen were not for selling.

The Monday, Aug. 23, Chanhassen City Council meeting has been canceled. Instead, councilors will meet for an extended work session, beginning at 5:30 p.m.

Carver County Sheriff's Lt. Jim Olson has temporarily stepped away from his job as liaison officer at Chanhassen City Hall.

Notice the Olson for Sheriff campaign signs that have been popping up around town.

He has been temporarily replaced, effective Monday, Aug. 16, by Sgt. Pete Anderley, who held the liaison position for about 17 months from mid-2007 to 2009. The Chanhassen City Council upgraded the liaison position from a Sgt. to a Lt. in 2009.