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7Bw, Star TribuneThursdayNovember 111993 Obituaries Shorewood His crime spoke volumes Dakota judge throws book at library thief 1 Lakfl" Orono 1 yy 4 Minnetonka O-J Hennepin County Incorporated as a village In 1956 and as a city in 1974 Jos6 Felipe Santiago; he was'Amazo' the magician Jos6 Felipe Santiago, 68, a magician who performed at conventions, banquets and children's gatherings using the stage name "Amazo," died of respiratory failure Tuesday at his home in Richfield. Santiago had been interested in magic since he was a boy but didn't have the opportunity to pursue the hobby until he suffered a back injury at his Shorewood surrounds the southern Lake Minnetonka cities of Excelsior, Greenwood and Tonka Bay, a geographical relationship that has resulted in lots of sharipg and borrowing among those neighbors. "Excelsior serves as our downtown, we share a prosecuting books on topics ranging from Ziggy to Greek mythology out of libraries throughout the Twin Cities for about 10 years. LaPre was arrested May 5 as he drove away from the South St. Paul Library with 408 library books; only 19 were checked out.

After weeks of counting and sorting, officials said 30,248 books, tapes and videos, valued at more than $250,000, were seized from LaPre's apartment two lockers and car. Jim Adams A St Paul man whose love of books led him to steal more than 30,000 library volumes won't see the inside a public library for two years under a sentence imposed Wednesday. Dakota County Judge Gerald Kalina also sentenced Gerald LaPre to four months of electronically monitored house arrest and ordered him to pay for overtime costs of sorting and returning the stolen items. He also must attend counseling sessions. He was placed on probation for 10 years, the last eight of which he is permitted to visit a library if he has adult supervision.

LaPre, 40, had secretly slipped fL CO- rU Minnetonka I VT MplsA attorney with them and Tonka Bay, and there are many other examples of joint services with them and other cities here," said Jim Hurra Shorewood's city administrator. Shorewood is Shorewood fully developed and city planners don project much change over the next 20 years. A future priority, however, is housing for senior citizens. And again, Shorewood is likely to take the shared approach: "If a need that affects the area, so housing may be built in Excelsior or somewhere nearby," Hurm said. Shorewood is in the Minnetonka School District Population Percent change from 1980 Scott County of ficials hope jail annex will turn a profit Task force gives its findings on school bus safety to board A Bloomington schools task force on school bus safety recently gave its recommendations to the school board, and another task force on student conduct and discipline aboard buses is finishing its work.

The safety task force was formed after a 6-year-old girl was killed in a school bus accident in September. That group focused on students in kindergarten through eighth grade; about 8,000 children in that group ride school buses. Task force recommendations include: That seating on buses be assigned. That bus drivers can't lei students off the bus except at their assigned stops. That drivers must wait until all the students for a given stop have gathered at the door so they can be counted as they leave.

That drivers will meet with school officials to review bus procedures before the school year begins. The school bus conduct and discipline task force held its last meeting last week and is scheduled to give its findings to the school board sometime in December. Dan Freeborn Median age .27.3 34.4 6.3 1...2.92 Percent 65 or older People per household (avg.) Raceethnicity White Black Scott County officials have plans to make the jail annex a moneymaker for the county, and they have set aside $250,000 for a remodeling job they expect will be finished early next year. 5,787 ..35 Halverson said he estimates that revenue from housing state prisoners will pay for the project in the first year after its completion and thereafter provide a source of county revenue. "If you take 24 inmates at $50 a day, the revenue, before operating costs, comes to $438,000 a year," he said.

The jail annex is near Jordan. Dan Freeborn Asian or Pacific Islander American Indian, Eskimo or Aleut Other race Hispanic .78 .2 -15. .50 The plan calls for enhancing security in a wing of the annex to house medium-security inmates. Lt Bud Halverson said the idea is to add the capability to handle the county's medium-security inmates and take inmates from the state Department of Corrections. Ancestry (top three reported) German English Irish 2,465: 1,106 1,098 LL.89.6' LLL $602 DFLer charged with issuing false campaign information Housing Percent owner-occupied Median home value Median rent L.L-.1I EducationIncome Percent residents age 25 and older with at least a bachelor's degree Median household income Residents below poverty line Eileen Tompkins, IR-Apple Valley, who was reelected.

A grand jury charged him with passing out brochures that misrepresented Tompkins' position on homestead tax credits. Jim Adams DFL challenger Robert O'Connor has been indicted on a charge of distributing false campaign information about his opponent in the 1992 race for a state representative seat representing Apple Valley and part of Lakeville. O'Connor, 42, ran against Rep. 40.1 69 Average travel time to work (minutes) ,24.9 According to the census, Hispanic people can identify themselves as members of any race. Source: U.S.

Census Bureau C4l Metro people Low Voltage Lloyd has got it wired at school City considering a fourth liquor store to boost revenue Richfield, already the sales leader among Minnesota cities that have municipal liquor operations, is considering adding a fourth liquor store. The idea came out of discussions for the 1994 budget, and city liquor officials will make their forma) proposal to the City Council on Nov. 22. The council will vote on the proposed budget in early December. In 1992, sales from Richfield's three liquor stores totaled $6.7 million, with a net income of $583,313.

With another store, estimates call for sales of $8.2 million and a net income of $648,629. The money from liquor sales goes into a parks and recreation fund. Minnesota has 248 cities with liquor operations. Dan Freeborn job in the St. Paul post office.

He couldn't work for almost two years. "That's when he started getting books from the libraries, everything he could find on magic," said his wife, Dorothy. "He started practicing in front of mirrors. He started from scratch. Even though he did banquets and shows, his specialty was children's magic shows.

He enjoyed that the most." He mostly performed in the Twin Cities and in the five-state area, his wife said. He also had done shows in Canada and Mexico. He performed many times on the Twin Cities' "Lunch with Casey" television show. Santiago was born in Chambersburg, where his father owned a small hotel and restaurant He served with the Army's 51 7th parachute combat team during World War II. When the war ended, he graduated from the University of Denver with a degree in business administration.

He worked for the U.S. Postal Service for about 30 years and retired 12 years ago. He was a volunteer for Meals on Wheels and Helping Hands and a member of the International Brotherhood of Magicians, the Society of American Musicians, the Fraternal Order of Eagles and the Delano American Legion. Besides his wife, he is survived by sons Tomas, of St Louis Park, Joseph, of Eagan, and Ricardo, of Bloomington; daughters Linda Motzko, of Delano, and Angela Tuff, of Burnsville; sisters Juana Palmrose, of Minneapolis, and Jane Santiago, of Pennsylvania; a brother, Julio, of Burnsville, and 10 grandchildren. Services will be held at 1 1 a.m.

Friday at Assumption Catholic Church, 7700 2nd Av. Richfield. Arrangements are by the Cremation Society of Minnesota. I Missionary Hanna Bovre Vaagenes, 100 Hanna Vaagenes, 100, a former missionary nurse in Madagascar, died Monday at Lyngblomsten Home in St. Paul.

She was the widow of the Rev. Morris Vaagenes also a missionary and former visitation pastor at North Heights Lutheran Church in Roseville. Vaagenes was born Hanna Bovre in Bin, Norway. Her father, a saddle-maker, musician and orchestra leader, died when she was 10. Two years later, her mother, brother and sister emigrated to the United States.

She was left with her grandparents in Norway and, at age 14, she came to Galesville, and was reunited with her family. She worked as a maid and nanny on farms in Wisconsin and North Dakota for the next six years and also attended school. She felt the call to become a missionary afj a revival meeting in North Dakota. She entered deaconess training in 1913 at Lutheran Deaconess Hospital in Minneapolis. She graduated in 1916 in what was the last deaconess training class and the first nurse's training program.

She worked at Lutheran Deaconess Hospital, attended the old Minnesota College in Minneapolis and Moody Bible Institute in Chicago. She gave up her studies to take care of her infant nephew in North Dakota after his mother (her brother's wife) died. In 1923 she left for Madagascar as a missionary nurse for the Lutheran Free Church's Board of Missions. She married Morris Vaagenes in Madagascar in 1926. She and her husband had four children.

Their two daughters died in 1936 in Madagascar. Their two sons went away to boarding school at age 6 and then went to high school, college and seminary in the United States. The Vaageneses stayed in Madagascar until 1960. They moved to Minneapolis briefly, then to Superior, Wis. In 1962, Morris Vaagenes Sr.

became visitation pastor at North Heights Lutheran Church. He retired at age 80 and died in 1987 at age 98. She is survived by two sons, the Rev. Carl Vaagenes, of Brooklyn Park, and the Rev. Morris of Shoreview, eight grandchildren, and eight greatgrandchildren.

Services will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday at North Heights Lutheran Church, 2701 N. Rice St, Roseville. Visitation will be held from 4 to 7 p.m. Friday at the Adam-Bradshaw-Hauge Funeral Home, 1078 Rice St, St Paul.

Memorials to the Global Health Ministries, North Heights Lutheran Church or the Madagascar Film Project are suggested. I for Univac (now Unisys) and later for Control Data until he was laid off in 1 988. "I rattled around for a while and then a full-time custodial job came up here in Eden Prairie. That sounded pretty good and then later this job came along. I applied and got it I think it's the best job in the district superintendent included," he said.

He and his wife, Ellen, live in Tomahawk, about a S-hour commute from Eden Prairie. "I stay with my daughter in Victoria during the week and go home on weekends," he said. As for work, "I really enjoy it, and whenever it's a fun job it's easy." Dan Freeborn way his bottom half looks on a ladder. "I'm on ladders so much, with my head in the ceiling, that people recognize me from the waist down. They'll see my legs and say, 'Hi, he said.

Isaacson, 61, has been in and around electronics for most of his life. His experience ranges from working on guided missiles and jet fighter planes to wiring speakers in the school gym. He was born and raised in Milwaukee and served in the Navy during the Korean War. Afterward, he went to work for Boeing in Seattle, and later worked at missile sites in several states for 10 years. He then worked With his eager attitude and easy sense of humor, Lloyd Isaacson is a bright fixture at Eden Prairie's public schools.

Isaacson is the school district's low-voltage wiring expert On a typical day, he comes to work at 3 p.m., gets his instructions and sets off to thread wires through ceilings or walls, connect computers or hook-up video recorders. He says his nickname is Low Voltage Lloyd. "One of the truck drivers was kidding around and called me 'Low Voltage Lloyd' and that was how that got started," he said. His job takes him to all the buildings in the district, and many people know him by the Minneapolis gets five new proposals on garbage disposal By Steve Brandt StafT Writer Minneapolis analysts are poring over figures that will determine whether in a closed meeting this past Friday to draft a lawsuit challenging the county ordinance that allows the county to control disposal of most garbage generated within the county. The council hasn't yet authorized filing the suit.

City officials say they're being charged too much for county garbage programs that range from recycling subsidies to burning garbage to picking up household hazardous county is lowering its fees, but not enough for some city yesterday by city officials are for the entire job of handling the garbage in Minneapolis, hauling it elsewhere and burying it in landfills. Two are disposal-only proposals and one is for handling and transport only. Two of the three companies would use out-of-state landfills, one in Iowa and one in Illinois. The third would use an Elk River landfill. City officials say they believe court rulings elsewhere in Minnesota and the nation would allow the city to defeat county attempts to enforce its disposal-control ordinance.

port or handling for $33.83 per ton. The county charges a fee of $95 per ton for all of its garbage programs. The county has proposed lowering this charge to the equivalent of about! $82 per ton. "You're talking to someone who' would very much like to stay the county system if the numbers, allow," said Steve Cramer, chairman of the City Council's Budget Com-' mittee. But he said there's still a "very disparate" gap between the county's price and quotes for disposal that the city has received.

power to designate where garbage would go for disposal when it directed counties to minimize the use of landfills, which the state considered likely to contaminate ground water. But courts have held that such laws governing disposal are an unconstitutional restraint of commerce if they block movement of garbage across state lines. One proposal to the city, from Sanifill of Iowa would take the city's garbage to northern Iowa for $54.37 per ton. Another, by BFI Waste Systems, would take it to cen-. tral Illinois for $49.96 per ton.

The third company, Elk River Landfill offered disposal without trans the city exports its trash to save money, causing a court fight with Hennepin County, or remains within the county's garbage disposal fold. They're scrutinizing five proposals received this week from three companies that want to handle the city's residential garbage. They plan to get a recommendation to the City Council next week. The council authorized its attorneys Only two of the proposals released The Legislature gave counties the Appeals court denies Beatty IR task force examines violence in schools motion fraud sentence too stiff The Eighth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has rejected an appeal by Michael Beatty, the business partner of slain investment broker Dirk Van Slooten, who claimed that the judge improperly gave him a longer sentence than called for by state sentencing guidelines.

Beatty was indicted on 24 federal lyzed by fear of lawsuits if they try to remove troublemakers. Administrators complained that privacy provisions in state law keep them from passing along warnings when troubled kids 'leave their schools for another district By the end of die day, many legislators seemed convinced that simple solutions do not exist And Rep. Warren Limmer, IR-Maple Grove, said much of the problem may be out of the Legislature's reach. "AH we're capable of is reacting," he said. "The real solution is developing values for kids and parents to live by." session that would make schools safer.

They toured Central before holding the first of several public hearings that could result in tougher laws, stricter sentences and improved school security. Despite tougher penalties for bringing weapons to schools, more and more children feel the need to arm themselves, police say. Doug Matteson, school resource officer at Eagan High School, pulled brass knuckles, a police baton and several knives from a shopping bag items taken from students on school grounds in the past two years. Teachers talked about their inability to discipline unruly kids, para By James Walsh Staff Writer Cheri Carter, a 15-year-old St Paul Central High School student said schools would be a lot safer if someone would just listen to the kids. "If you had someone here who could talk to you, you know, just listen Someone who's been there," she told legislators visiting her school Wednesday.

"It would give kids a chance to let the bad stuff out" The legislators were part of a Safe Schools Task Force formed by the Independent-Republican legislative caucus to examine school violence and create proposals for the 1994 Judge David Doty. The sentence exceeded sentencing guidelines, which called for 27 to 33 months. Beatty's sentence was part of a plea agreement and meant that he did not have to go to trial. Local officials had hoped that trial testimony might be helpful in linking Beatty to the 1988 shooting death of Van Slooten. He was shot execution-style outside his girlfriend's home in Crystal in 1988.

Beatty was the main suspect, but he was never arrested or charged in the case. Van Slooten's slaying occurred just as the partners' business began to crumble. counts of fraud in January 1992 after he and Van Slooten allegedly bilked about 55 clients out of about $1 mil lion through their Minneapolis company, ITS. Beatty pleaded guilty in April 1992 to conspiring to commit mail fraud and to one count of mail fraud. Three months later he was sentenced to 41 months in prison by U.S.

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