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WednesdayMarch 81995Star Tribune Burnsville station set to open in June The Jewel Of My Creation My Child! Before the dawn of Creation, I thought of you, Before the dawn of Creation, I thought of Before the mist blew through the heavens, I thought of you; Before the blue water cascaded down the mountainsides, I thought of you; Before the first minnow jumped in a brook, I thought of you; For you, my pet, are the jewel of My creation. Bus service Continued from page 1A People who commute alone are the target of this investment The goal is to lure more of them from their cars and onto buses, holding the line on growing freeway congestion. And a lot is nding on its success: It comtort, convenience and service fail to boost ridership, transit planners don't know what else to do. If it's unsuccessful, I think transit has a very big problem bier than any of us realizes, and that is they are not willing to get out of their cars," said Beverley Miller, executive director of the transit authority. The round transit station, made of steel and glass and surrounded by 600 parking spots, will open in June.

Development proposals for services and shops on the 1 5-acre site will be received this month, and construction is scheduled to be finished next winter. A similar station with nearby business development on 24 acres is being planned for Eden Prairie. Hoping to catch a new wave of ridership, both will have high community visibility at a central and convenient location. Both will have plenty of free parking and easy links to freeways. And both will try to offer bus riders the kind of services that would simplify life perhaps a doctor or dentist, a day-care center, auto mechanic, dry cleaner and food shops.

"This is not your mother's bus station," said Kate Garwood, an administrator at Southwest Metro Transit, which serves Eden Prairie, Chaska and Chanhassen. "It's meant The station will be paid for with public and private money. The regionwide transit property tax will pay for loans to build the building, and officials are counting on the sale lease of commercial property around the station to pay for its operation and maintenance. it works, the transit authority would like to put passenger convenience centers at park-and-ride lots on Cedar Av. and on I-35E, Miller said.

"We think our citizens are going to love it," said Glenn McKee, a Burnsville City Council member who also sits on the transit authority board. "It becomes a focal point for how to ride the bus. One of the concerns of all bus riders is: Where do I catch the bus; what time does it come; where's the route going? And because we're not used to riding buses out here in the sutfurbs, we don't always know where to go to get the answers." The new station will offer peak-hour express service to downtown Minneapolis and downtown St. Paul, the Mall of America, the 1-494 commercial strip in Bloomington and the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport.

Buses will run all day to the Mall of America, Burnsville Center and downtown Apple Valley. Burnsville hesitated about giving up marketable commercial property for the new transit station. The site, formerly occupied by the Lucky Twin Drive-In, is well served by roads and surrounded by upscale office and warehouse complexes. But the city wanted to make the mcfff of the new carpool-bus lane built between Burnsville and Bloomington on I-35W last fall Buses can use thu special lane to bypass traffic congestion. "There's no better feeling than when you see 35W completely at a standstill or crawling and -y everybody's backed down Hwy.

13 for a mile waiting to get on and the bus just pulls out in front of everybody," said Warren Nordley, a Burnsville bus rider who serves on the transit board. "It's the feeling: I've beaten the system." nfj Bait is set to help swallows return to 3 San Juan Capistrano Associated Press 1 San Juan Capistrano, Calif. Swallows whose annual return to Mission San Juan Capistrano brings as many tourists as birds are gqt- ting encouragement in the form bjt ladybugs and green lacewing larvae strewn about the grounds. "Without a helping hand from th mission, there wouldn't be any more nesting," said Linda McLeod Evans executive director of the Pacific Wildlife Project. For years, McLeojJ has been adopting and raising swafc lows in trouble, often releasing theny at the 2 1 8-year-old mission.

Development has eliminated habitat and feeding areas for the swallows, A which migrate 6,000 miles from Ar- r-gentina. By tradition, they return1, each March 19, accompanied by7" some 10,000 tourists. The a 1939 song, "When the I Swallows Come Back to Capistrano. Just before dusk Monday, Evans, strolled through the mission's courtr yard, her arms covered with ladybugs tl Before the dawn of Creation, I had a plan for you. Your eyes are the color of a small sparrow's wing, Your skin is as dark as the coal in the earth; And again, your eyes are azure blue, Your skin is brown like My mother's.

I had a plan for you from the dawn of Creation. For centuries the grass blew softly on the great prairies. Sometimes as softly as you breathe And the grass was waiting for you; Yes, before the first crocus smiled at Me, I thought of your smile. I will remember you into Eternity. When the mist blows in the heavens no more, I will be with you; When the blue water cascades down the mountains no more, I will be with you; When the pine trees sprout forth no more, I will remember you.

My beautiful, My beloved! What are they doing to you? My pet, My creation! What are they doing to you? You lie on the table alone, You breath so hard; Will they not wash you with the blue waters of My mountains? Your breathing is becoming so still, like the grass on the prairies in a great calm. My child, I am thinking of you. My beautiful, My beloved! What are they doing to you? My pet, My creation! What are they doing to you? Your little fingers are so small and soft, like a pussywillow's bud; The steel from the cold earth; Why do they press it to your soft new flesh with such great force? My child, My thought is never removed from you. My child, My beautiful! What are they doing to you? With the suction, like a hurricane, they pull and tear you; Your little legs will never walk, until you run with Me. The salt in your mouth, when you were to sing for Me! The salt in your lungs, you who were to yell of your love for Me! Before the dawn of Creation, I thought of you.

U.N. panel ready to vote on China's human rights record for the first time M.livilg 1 gardens. The ladybugs and the lace1-wings attract swallow "scouts" thalf0 arrive in advance of the main migra--r tion to find nesting sites. 1 It seemed to work on the first try. No' r-1 sooner were the bugs out of their1'4 pint-sized box than swallows ancs -swifts began buzzing the roses.

The. treatment will be repeated weekly. Charles Goering I love you. I will love you all of eternity. The Jewel in colored folder, with Christ, children, send self-addressed stamped envelope to Jewel 4025 to serve the needs of the '90s." The new stations will lend a mature permanence to service that began with a suburban revolt from the then-Metropolitan Transit Commission (MTC) routes focused on Minneapolis and St.

Paul. Saying they were not getting their money's worth from MTC service, 12 second-tier suburbs decided in the 1980s to "opt out" of the MTC and to use their property tax revenue to build service of their own. Suburban ridership has gradually grown since theft, coaxed by park-and-ride lots and by custom-tailored community service. In Burnsville, Eagan, Apple Valley, Prior Lake, Savage and Rosemount, which formed the Minnesota Valley Transit Authority in 1990, ridership rose from 821,490 in 1991 to an expected 1.2 million this year. After adding more service in January, ridership jumped by 270 passengers a day.

"Our ridership success has encouraged us to just keep going," Miller said. But since most suburban bus riders catch the bus from a park-and-ride lot, keeping ridership growing has meant adding more parking, Miller said. At the same time, surveys show that passengers want heated, well-lit, safe places to wait for the bus. And by encouraging commercial development near the stations, planners hope to address another common complaint of commuters that they don't take the bus because they have to run errands on the way home. the records of the Security Council's powerful permanent members.

The U.N. rights panel holds a six-week meeting in Geneva each year to discuss human rights problems. This year, reversing previous practice, the 53-nation commission narrowly rejected a Chinese maneuver to take no action on the China resolution. The resolution was drafted by the European Union and backed by the United States and Japan. Russia voted with the West against China's no-action motion.

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