Wednesday, January 9, 2013
Eliecer Ramirez Vargas and Rebecca Dahlquist-Eckhoff helped neighbors to safety during a 2011 condo fire.
At 2:33 a.m. Dec. 19, 2011, firefighters went to Meadow Creek Condos to extinguish a heavy fire on the first floor. When they arrived, they found that two residents had already jumped in to help. Eliecer Ramirez Vargas and Rebecca Dahlquist-Eckhoff had pulled over patio furniture that they stood on to help second-floor residents climb down to safety through the windows. For their actions, Hopkins awarded them with the city’s Life Safety Award on Tuesday. “They had moved tables over, patio tables, chairs, whatever they could get to, to help rescue occupants of this burning building at 810 Old Settlers Trail,” Fire Chief Dale Specken said. Follow us on Twitter | Like us on Facebook | Sign up for our free daily newsletter | Check out Patch’…
Wednesday, August 8, 2012
Disputed money will be split between two projects.
The Hopkins City Council decided what had been a contentious dispute between the Meadow Creek Condos association and a group of roughly 10 Meadow Creek condo owners on Monday night, approving a plan which stipulates that roughly $130,000 in disputed capital improvement funds be earmarked for two specific renovation projects at the sprawling condominium complex. The resolution followed a heated June 19 council meeting which saw nearly ninety minutes of testimony about the disputed funds, “excess fee revenue” from a 1995 bond sale Hopkins undertook on Meadow Creek’s behalf. Due to allegations of property mismanagement, the group of owners asked that the city delay turning over the money until a lawsuit they had filed against the condo board …
Sunday, June 24, 2012
This week's selection includes a controversy over funding for field lights instead of classrooms, a teen collecting underwear for women in Honduras, and in-town bee hives.
Here's a look at some of the headlines from last week around the Twin Cities West Metro areas. Click on the links for the complete story. Duluth/Northern Minnesota Flooding Brings Flood of Memories Shakopee Patch Local Editor Lisa Baumann couldn't keep her mind off Duluth, as her former home dealt with a tragic deluge. Plymouth Man Charged For Selling Fake Phones Mario Samson, 39, of Plymouth faces a charge of one count of trafficking in counterfeit goods for selling refurbished and counterfeit cellular telephones on the Internet, claiming they were brand new. If convicted, he could face up to 10 years in jail. Cocina del Barrio in Hot Water Over Liquor Violations The 50th & France restaurant violated Edina's 60-40 food to liquor ratio and…
Thursday, June 21, 2012
The city must decide what to do with $130,000 left behind from an agreement made with the condo association in 1995.
Tens of thousands in money for Meadow Creek Condos improvements has caused a bitter internal dispute within the condo association to boil over to City Hall. City Council members ostensibly had a simple task on Tuesday. In 1995, Hopkins agreed to sell bonds on Meadow Creek’s behalf in order to fund improvements the association wouldn’t otherwise have been able to afford. With the original projects complete, there is now about $130,000 left in excess fee revenue. Hopkins could either give the money back to the condo association or direct it to further projects. City staff recommended the former option. “Staff is not comfortable telling the association how to spend the money,” Assistant City Manager Jim Genellie said. But Meadow Creek is …
Thursday, February 23, 2012
Randall Ray Rosenow told police he has a "savant" living inside of him.
Police are looking for a Hopkins man with a history of drug abuse and related mental health issues who is thought to have negligently started a December fire that caused $250,000 damage to Meadow Creek Condos, according to court documents filed Wednesday. Randall Ray Rosenow, 57, faces a felony charge of negligently causing a fire. Officers encountered Rosenow on Dec. 19 when they went to Meadow Creek after seeing smoke coming from a building, Officer Raymond Laudenbach wrote in the criminal complaint. They saw flames coming from Rosenow’s patio door and recognized him from earlier contacts. Rosenow initially said he was outside the building smoking and turned around to see his apartment full of smoke and in flames. He then changed his …
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Monday, December 19, 2011
A resident from another building helped evacuate two second-floor neighbors.
(UPDATED: 4:08 p.m. Dec. 19) A Meadow Creek Condos resident lifted two second-floor residents two safety during a fire Monday morning that displaced several people and sent one person to the hospital, Police Sgt. Michael Glassberg wrote in a news release. Firefighters and police found one of the condos on the 800 block of Old Settlers Trail completely in flames and heavy smoke in the hallways when they responded at 2:33 a.m. As they began to evacuate the building, emergency workers found a resident from another building standing on a patio table and lifting two second-floor residents to safety. One resident was taken to Hennepin County Medical Center with smoke-inhalation injuries. The Red Cross is helping several people who were displaced…
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Evelyn Janice Jakubec
1:28 am on Saturday, July 14, 2012
I wonder if he is above the law, it seems his control is never ending! more ›