Joel Friday, e-PRO

I received a call last month from an assett manager in Dallas. He asked if I could check on a home in Ramsey, MN for him and of course I said yes. Asked if the utitlities were on he answered probably not and was stunned to find out it was -24* F here in the Twin Cities that day. He thought 50* F in Dallas was cold. The utility companies both said they were on but, a trip to the home quickly revealed the furnace was shut off. Apparently the last tenants had moved out in August so this wasn't a surprise.

The company who winterizes for me came out, shut off the well and started the furnace up. Pipes had already burst in several locations along with the fiberglass water softener tank. Fortunately the thaw produced very little leaking on sheet rock and other sensitive areas. The ice is now all melted so time to start marketing the home.

This is a great reminder for those of you who work with banks to make sure the winterizing is done by late September.

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We have been receiving snow almost every other day here in Minnesota this season. While that keeps everything nice and white, the slush tracked into your garage and driveway is annoying. Seems like I can shovel out gallons of the stuff on a daily basis. Worse yet that salt in the slush eats away at your concrete floor.

I have found a great way to clean your garage floor and remove the slush with out buying anything. The trick is to simply shovel clean snow onto the garage floor and wait an hour. By then shovel the snow back out as it has absorbed 90% of the salt and dirt that was on the floor. You will be amazed by how great this works. Just remember to use clean white, powdery snow.

I am dreaming of a green spring!

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I just went over to the Coon Rapids City Center to hear about the plans to widen Highway 242, now known as County 14 and Main Street. The road will be upgraded to 4 lanes from Coon Creek to Crane Street, which is just past Hanson. The construction will start in 2010 and likely close down the road from Hanson to Shenandoah Blvd to clear out the peat bog or build a land bridge. The county engineer said there is around 5 feet of tar from all of the fill down over the years in the area by the sod fields.

This project will be the first of many segments to turn county 14 into a 4 lane highway from 10 to 35W. Of course this will go as fast as funding comes through. The state has turn back funding available to help as part of giving the highway back to the county last year. Very little land acquisition is needed as the county has a wide right of way along the higway. They also plan to build a bike trail along this section of the road.

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We attended the fund raiser for Meadow Creek Christian School last night. They have a silent auction of donated items, you could buy anything from Wild tickets to baskets for presents. There was easily 400 different items to bid on. The items made by specific classes were always bid very high as each parent wanted to bring home what their child had made. My favortie was the scrabble board with everyone's name on it. We didn't win any bids.

After that we had dinner and updates on the capital campaign for the new building. Sounds like they are almost ready to start building on the land they bought in Andover, MN. The city has already apprived the plan for the lot at 161st and Tulip.

Sweetwater Revival performed while we ate our meals. They are 4 lady singers that sing original gospel music. They did a great job.

After dinner they do a live auction on 12 items that range from rock climbing with a couple of teachers, to a condo in Florida for a week. Everyone enjoyed the evening and a lot of money was raised. Last year they were able to purchase Mac books and projectors for the class rooms.

Hopefully we can raise enough money to start building the new school soon!

http://meadowcreek.com/

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After watching New Life Academy almost knock off Southwest Christian in their sub section final, the Meadow Creek Christian School girls volleyball team took the court against Heritage Christian. We were expecting to win coming in as the #1 seed and having beat them earlier this year. The Heritage team had a different plan though. After MCCS took an early lead in game one, they quickly found themselves in big trouble, down 23-17. Rolly called a timeout and Kelly Strandland rotation to serve was up. MCCs then rattled off the next 8 points to win 25-23. Heritage was not to be denied yet though as they came back to win game 2 25-19. The MCCS girls decided to take it to Heritage in game 3 winning decisively 25-7.

Heritage never gave up and survived several match points in game 4 before winning 29-27. The crowd was going wild on both sides at this point. Game 5 here we we come! Meadow Creek took an early advantage and never looked back in this game winning 15-4. Senior captain Tija Rudzitis had many blocks and made it clear this wouldn't be her last varsity game. Captain Lauren Sutherland also had a great match.

Here is the link in the Star Tribune showing their record.

http://preps.startribune.com/teamschedule.php?yid=0809&tid=1714

On to the section finals now against Southwest Christian who won the battle for the paddle earlier this season against MCCS. Stop by Minnehaha Academy Saturday at 1 to see how this match turns out. Winner goes to State!

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