pThe following obituaries are from the March 13, 2010 print edition of the Prior Lake American newspaper:/p pbr class="clear" /pa href="http://plamerican.com/news/deaths/obituaries-march-13-american-103"read more/a/p pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/8jVpVEJBDEeES6UBXyqQZVNoILg/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/8jVpVEJBDEeES6UBXyqQZVNoILg/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/8jVpVEJBDEeES6UBXyqQZVNoILg/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/8jVpVEJBDEeES6UBXyqQZVNoILg/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/plamerican-mainfeed/~4/PJl1tPgwIKM" height="1" width="1"/

pThird-grader Evan Fogelberg of Savage uses a magnifying glass to look at parts of a flower. Fogelberg and fellow third-graders in Beth Borchart’s class at Redtail Ridge Elementary School dissected flowers with Prior Lake-Savage Area School District naturalist Andrea Swanson Wednesday. (Photo by Keighla Schmidt)/p br class="clear" / pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/XibOzZB-ZsAUEmcbOV5QSELQKIM/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/XibOzZB-ZsAUEmcbOV5QSELQKIM/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/XibOzZB-ZsAUEmcbOV5QSELQKIM/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/XibOzZB-ZsAUEmcbOV5QSELQKIM/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/plamerican-mainfeed/~4/QulByPFrtog" height="1" width="1"/

pPrior Lake resident Brianna Larson, a seventh-grade student at Twin Oaks Middle School, packaged food at the Eagan headquarters of Feed My Starving Children, on Thursday, March 4. In just two hours, Larson and more than 50 of her peers packaged enough food to feed 68 children for an entire year. (Submitted photo)/p br class="clear" / pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/4KtlYST6_QG1LJ7Q6GY3-UqifNc/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/4KtlYST6_QG1LJ7Q6GY3-UqifNc/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/4KtlYST6_QG1LJ7Q6GY3-UqifNc/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/4KtlYST6_QG1LJ7Q6GY3-UqifNc/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/plamerican-mainfeed/~4/mDBmp5qVBQU" height="1" width="1"/

pPrior Lake resident Brianna Larson, a seventh-grade student at Twin Oaks Middle School, packaged food at the Eagan headquarters of Feed My Starving Children, on Thursday, March 4. In just two hours, Larson and more than 50 of her peers packaged enough food to feed 68 children for an entire year. (Submitted photo) /p br class="clear" / pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/ZmaZc31zfAJsysOwn1m619nGnxg/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/ZmaZc31zfAJsysOwn1m619nGnxg/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/ZmaZc31zfAJsysOwn1m619nGnxg/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/ZmaZc31zfAJsysOwn1m619nGnxg/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/plamerican-mainfeed/~4/M0J6n41GPLk" height="1" width="1"/

pstrongRating Legend: (4=Don't miss, 3=Good, 2=Worth a look, 1=Forget it)/strong/p br class="clear" /pa href="http://www.letsgosouthwest.com/short-redhead-reel-reviews-column-3122010"read more/a/p pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/2dNUoTJrjvepT1b4m6XkwgNAUwg/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/2dNUoTJrjvepT1b4m6XkwgNAUwg/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/2dNUoTJrjvepT1b4m6XkwgNAUwg/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/2dNUoTJrjvepT1b4m6XkwgNAUwg/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/p

p class="DTEXT"The Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community will hold two spring blood drives in March./p pThe first blood drive will be held for the public on Tuesday, March 16, from noon to 7 p.m. at Dakotah! Sport and Fitness, 2100 Trail of Dreams. A second blood drive will be held March 24, for SMSC gaming enterprise team members only at Mystic Lake Casino Hotel, 2400 Mystic Lake Blvd. from noon to 5 p.m. /p br class="clear" /pa href="http://plamerican.com/news/shakopee-mdewakanton-sioux-community/tribe-host-spring-blood-drives-103"read more/a/p pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/vG2d9kwMceWB03D5xmMvKo1Puuc/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/vG2d9kwMceWB03D5xmMvKo1Puuc/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/vG2d9kwMceWB03D5xmMvKo1Puuc/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/vG2d9kwMceWB03D5xmMvKo1Puuc/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/plamerican-mainfeed/~4/KWEGu0MWs8s" height="1" width="1"/

pWhen I took the Pepsi challenge I discovered one cola, Pepsi, tasted bigger and fresher than the others. By comparison, Coke seemed weak and thin./p br class="clear" /pa href="http://www.letsgosouthwest.com/tasting-wine-smackdown-style"read more/a/p pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/7hbhuw15fxQILyn8ozWtX9q1xnw/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/7hbhuw15fxQILyn8ozWtX9q1xnw/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/7hbhuw15fxQILyn8ozWtX9q1xnw/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/7hbhuw15fxQILyn8ozWtX9q1xnw/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/p

pBy Karla Wennerstrom/p p“Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing” opened Friday at the Stages Theatre Company in the Hopkins Center for the Arts./p br class="clear" /pa href="http://www.letsgosouthwest.com/local-teen-actors-take-stage"read more/a/p pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/uswkTPlF_fuXO_YOntTWXj7j3yI/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/uswkTPlF_fuXO_YOntTWXj7j3yI/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/uswkTPlF_fuXO_YOntTWXj7j3yI/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/uswkTPlF_fuXO_YOntTWXj7j3yI/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/p

pBy Karla Wennerstrom/p p“Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing” opened Friday at the Stages Theatre Company in the Hopkins Center for the Arts./p br class="clear" /pa href="http://www.letsgosouthwest.com/local-teen-actors-take-stage-0"read more/a/p pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/ngbRI2-CtL_anD5s87JAYbFlruE/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/ngbRI2-CtL_anD5s87JAYbFlruE/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/ngbRI2-CtL_anD5s87JAYbFlruE/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/ngbRI2-CtL_anD5s87JAYbFlruE/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/p

pRiver Valley Theatre Company will present Cole Porter’s “Anything Goes,” a musical comedy set aboard a 1930’s cruise ship./p br class="clear" /pa href="http://www.letsgosouthwest.com/039anything-goes039"read more/a/p pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/loKaQLhmU01Qo2i01uzfPlUQL0k/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/loKaQLhmU01Qo2i01uzfPlUQL0k/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/loKaQLhmU01Qo2i01uzfPlUQL0k/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/loKaQLhmU01Qo2i01uzfPlUQL0k/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/p

pThis very special concert event celebrating the music of Jimi Hendrix gathers an amazing all-star line-up of rock guitarists. Scheduled to appear are Joe Satriani, Billy Cox (of Band of Gypsys and the Jimi Hendrix Experience), Sacred Steel featuring Robert Randolph, Jonny Lang, Susan Tedeschi, Eric Johnson, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Ernie Isley, David Hidalgo amp; Cesar Rosas (from Los Lobos), Aerosmith guitarist Brad Whitford, Doyle Bramhall II, Living Colour, Legendary Howlin' Wolf guitarist Hubert Sumlin, and Chris Layton of Stevie Ray Vaughn and Double Trouble. Other special guests to be announced.br / Time: 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 17br / Cost: $38.50-$78.50br / Location: Orpheum Theatre, 910 Hennepin Ave., Minneapolisbr / Info: a href="http://www.hennepintheatredistrict.org" title="www.hennepintheatredistrict.org"www.hennepintheatredistrict.org/a or 612-339-7007/p br class="clear" /pa href="http://www.letsgosouthwest.com/experience-hendrix"read more/a/p pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/zv4Nvy9Ju1s93cDAxJ0lgB_mFrQ/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/zv4Nvy9Ju1s93cDAxJ0lgB_mFrQ/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/zv4Nvy9Ju1s93cDAxJ0lgB_mFrQ/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/zv4Nvy9Ju1s93cDAxJ0lgB_mFrQ/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/p

pPrior Lake junior Brady Johnshoy had a 40-win season, finishing third at the Class AAA state individual tournament at 119 pounds. He went 5-1 at state to earn a medal (top six) for the second straight year. For more, go to a href="http://www.scoreboardmn.com/"www.scoreboardmn.com/a./p br class="clear" / pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/ojI4waqFpEiKE8arg7jB8gQfw8Y/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/ojI4waqFpEiKE8arg7jB8gQfw8Y/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/ojI4waqFpEiKE8arg7jB8gQfw8Y/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/ojI4waqFpEiKE8arg7jB8gQfw8Y/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/plamerican-mainfeed/~4/qAASgyKnSC8" height="1" width="1"/

p class="DTEXT"strongBy Shawn Hogendorf, Staff Writer/strong /p p class="DTEXT"A Prior Lake man was one of two people indicted on fraud charges in federal court last week for his alleged role in an elaborate scam that bilked mortgage lenders of $2.5 million in less than a year./p br class="clear" /pa href="http://plamerican.com/news/courts/man-faces-federal-charges-mortgage-fraud-scheme-103"read more/a/p pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/Nz-VpzezqmNDXZX4sbsZFQoNIx0/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/Nz-VpzezqmNDXZX4sbsZFQoNIx0/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/Nz-VpzezqmNDXZX4sbsZFQoNIx0/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/Nz-VpzezqmNDXZX4sbsZFQoNIx0/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/plamerican-mainfeed/~4/P5YZOXzes4M" height="1" width="1"/

pOne of the first assignments I had as a newspaper reporter was to learn how to make maple syrup. A local State Park was offering a class and we wrote a preview./p br class="clear" /pa href="http://www.letsgosouthwest.com/sugary-sweet-maple-syrup"read more/a/p pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/JV61Ih2dGzrkoC69C8Ejske2QUI/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/JV61Ih2dGzrkoC69C8Ejske2QUI/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/JV61Ih2dGzrkoC69C8Ejske2QUI/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/JV61Ih2dGzrkoC69C8Ejske2QUI/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/p

pCast members of quot;The Aluminum Showquot; dazzled the crowd at the Mystic Showroom last weekend with dance, puppetry and a great light show during the performance group's first United States tour. (Photo by Shawn Hogendorf)/p br class="clear" / pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/FOVta7PkkmwaZhciWEZ9tIFsUF0/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/FOVta7PkkmwaZhciWEZ9tIFsUF0/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/FOVta7PkkmwaZhciWEZ9tIFsUF0/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/FOVta7PkkmwaZhciWEZ9tIFsUF0/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/plamerican-mainfeed/~4/ETJL80GqkVA" height="1" width="1"/

pGene O’Keefe, 84, of Prior Lake, entered God’s arms peacefully March 6, 2010 at his home. /p pVisitation will be Tuesday, March 9, from 4-8 p.m. at Ballard-Sunder Funeral Home, 4565 Pleasant St. S.E., Prior Lake, and also one hour prior to the Mass at church./p pMass of Christian Burial will be Wednesday, March 10, at 11 a.m. at the Church of St. Michael, 16311 Duluth Ave. S.E., Prior Lake./p pArrangements made by Ballard-Sunder Funeral Home, Prior Lake Chapel a href="http://www.ballardsunderfuneral.com" title="www.ballardsunderfuneral.com"www.ballardsunderfuneral.com/a/p br class="clear" / pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/S5b3EWuTnmW6-xRRA26JTdTDIEE/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/S5b3EWuTnmW6-xRRA26JTdTDIEE/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/S5b3EWuTnmW6-xRRA26JTdTDIEE/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/S5b3EWuTnmW6-xRRA26JTdTDIEE/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/plamerican-mainfeed/~4/AMt_tF1n4tk" height="1" width="1"/

p class="RAG"strongBy Shawn Hogendorf, Staff Writer/strong /p p class="RAG"For the second year in a row, the Mystic Showroom has been nominated for an award by the Academy of Country Music./p br class="clear" /pa href="http://plamerican.com/mystic-lake-nominated-country-music-award-103"read more/a/p pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/lh5Mlb37msRiEp92Eq1c04udt-s/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/lh5Mlb37msRiEp92Eq1c04udt-s/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/lh5Mlb37msRiEp92Eq1c04udt-s/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/lh5Mlb37msRiEp92Eq1c04udt-s/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/plamerican-mainfeed/~4/5VtEF0CtUSY" height="1" width="1"/

pPrior Lake junior Mariah Hovick tries to get to the basket in the Section 2AAAA semifinals March 6 against top-seeded Edina. The fifth-seeded Lakers struggled to shoot the ball in a 48-26 loss to the Hornets. Prior Lake finished the season with a 21-7 record. For more, go to a href="http://www.scoreboard.mn/"www.scoreboard.mn/a./p br class="clear" / pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/329akV75dvZxkiwEPXqPr0kDQ9Y/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/329akV75dvZxkiwEPXqPr0kDQ9Y/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/329akV75dvZxkiwEPXqPr0kDQ9Y/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/329akV75dvZxkiwEPXqPr0kDQ9Y/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/plamerican-mainfeed/~4/0T0vr1iOkm4" height="1" width="1"/

pPrior Lake High School freshman Lauren Johnson studied geometry during Cocoa and Cram on Wednesday, March 3. The event, sponsored by the school's National Honor Society chapter, provided freshman students a place to have refreshments and prepare for final exams. Tuesday, March 9 is the first day of the school's third trimester. (Photo by Meryn Fluker)/p br class="clear" / pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/sx9g0K4KTmAFAnFvZH_BJcpb9HM/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/sx9g0K4KTmAFAnFvZH_BJcpb9HM/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/sx9g0K4KTmAFAnFvZH_BJcpb9HM/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/sx9g0K4KTmAFAnFvZH_BJcpb9HM/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/plamerican-mainfeed/~4/WOK-k1Jsv5Y" height="1" width="1"/

pThe following obituaries are from the March 6, 2010 print edition of the Prior Lake American newspaper:/p pbr class="clear" /pa href="http://plamerican.com/news/deaths/obituaries-march-6-american-103"read more/a/p pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/q02-G6ndehXwfWRZ50YJpvyQnP8/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/q02-G6ndehXwfWRZ50YJpvyQnP8/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/q02-G6ndehXwfWRZ50YJpvyQnP8/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/q02-G6ndehXwfWRZ50YJpvyQnP8/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/plamerican-mainfeed/~4/FFmP0vMNjy4" height="1" width="1"/