With the theme of “Volunteers Put Compassion into Action,” on June 13 the Roseville Area Senior Program (RASP) served breakfast in honor of 426 volunteers who served a total of 9,082 hours during the past year.
Lynn Olson, past president of the Rosetown American Legion Auxiliary, presented a $500 scholarship award to Grace Schultz, one of the winners of the Legion’s award.
Familiar faces run for mayor, 6 seek council seats.
There’s so much enthusiasm to run for the Roseville City Council that primaries were triggered for both the mayoral race and the race for two council seats.
Graduating preschoolers from Kinderberry Hill in Roseville headed to Central Park May 31 for some pomp and circumstance to mark their move to kindergarten this fall.
photo courtesy of Renee Proue • House of Wong founder Teddy Wong, center right, with his wife Laura and children Renee and John in 2003. Wong, 94 and a World War II vet, founded the beloved Roseville restaurant 60 years ago.
Teddy Wong downplays his legacy.
“I did OK,” he says, sitting at the dining room table of his Roseville home on a recent May afternoon with his wife, Laura, and daughter, Renee. “We opened a couple of restaurants.”
Ragnar, the Roseville Police Department’s newest K9 officer, finished three months of intensive training at the St. Paul Police K9 School on May 24. The Dutch shepherd is seen with his handler, officer Kyle Eckert.
Courtesy of Minnesota Department of Transportation • The Minnesota Department of Transportation will begin four months of repaving work July 13 on Interstate 35W between County Road C in Roseville and Fourth Street in Minneapolis. The $17 million project includes five planned weekend closures of the freeway.
Though construction season came in with a whimper for most of the north suburban area this spring, roadwork just south of the area on one of its major thoroughfares is coming up this summer.