In Waukesha, Wis a man tried to enter a bank at 5:36 PM on Wednesday, with a ski mask on and a gun in hand. Although the robbery was unsuccessful because the bank was closed.
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Monday, November 30, 2009
Monday, November 23, 2009
Little heart finally given a rest
Successful surgery leaves a family relieved in Becker, Minn. After one-year-old, Stellan McKinney had a hard time with surgeries due from supraventricular tachycardia, or STV. Doctors were able to stop his heart from racing up to 255 beats per minute. There is a 90% chance the STV is completely gone.
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Monday, November 16, 2009
Tragic ammonia leak
One dead and two more in the hospital after a fatal anhydrous ammonia leak Monday night in Rosemount, MN. At this point it is not reported how the leak started, though authorities believe it could be from a hose from one of the trucks. The entire plant is still currently shut down.
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Monday, November 9, 2009
Daycare shut down in Golden Valley
After being licensed in 1976,Arvilla Meinhardt's daycare was shut down after her arrest. Meinhardt is accused of safety pinning children to their beds. The charges include gross misdemeanor malicious punishment of a child as well as false imprisonment.
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Monday, November 2, 2009
"I don't want to hurt anybody. I'm drunk."
A 911 dispatcher answered a rare phone call in Neilsville, Wis. A drunk driver called to report her self as she was driving drunk, double the legal limit. The driver admits to “drinking all night long,” and will appear in court on Dec. 10.
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Looking into Anoka-Ramsey Community College staff members
ARCC has multiple ways of obtaining credit towards a degree. Some ways include Post Secondary Education Option (PSEO), online classes, on campus, or the way Heather Sorenson teaches, college courses in high school classrooms.
Sorenson works at the Princeton High School, in Princeton, Minn. Sorenson pointed out some courses that she’ll cover this year. “At the current time I am just teaching two College Government courses (American Politics and Government POLS 1111). I will being teaching College Psychology next trimester too (General Psychology PYSC 1110).”
Though Sorenson is not on a college campus she has many things she likes about the high school atmosphere. “I love that I get to work with the ‘high flyers’ at the high school. I get the students that are more academically minded. I very rarely have behavior issues… My students are the best in the school and I love working with them!” Sorenson said about some positives of teaching at high school.
Currently Sorenson teaches 44 high school students, and is not looking for a change onto the college campus anytime soon. “Not at this point in my life. One of my mentors, from ARCC, tried to convince me that being a professor would be better or my family and I. However, I just have no interest in being a professor. I love working with high school students and I love the community that you get at a high school… I also love working with seniors. They are always so excited to be seniors, but nervous to move on to the next step in their lives. I like to think that I help students through this process,” Sorenson said about her current position.
There were a few points that Sorenson considered pros of moving from high school to a college campus. For starters Sorenson said, “ more serious students, fewer interruptions to the classroom, more time to spend with my family, and more time to prep for the classes that I teach.”
Within the next five years Sorenson hopes to find herself in same position she is in now. “In five years I think I will still be teaching at the high school. I will probably be back to working full time (at the current time I work just .67 of a full time schedule.) I will probably be teaching both college and regular high school classes. I hope to move more in the direction of teaching teachers best practice methods as well.”
Now that there is not major change foreseen in Sorenson’s close future, that doesn’t leave out changes in the more distant future. Sorenson said that in “ten years from now probably some of the same…I would like to have taken more psychology courses, maybe have a master’s degree in psychology or working towards a masters in psych at least. Continuing to try to be the best teach I can be. Maybe one day I will move to a college campus. The future is open to many new and exciting things!”
Sorenson works at the Princeton High School, in Princeton, Minn. Sorenson pointed out some courses that she’ll cover this year. “At the current time I am just teaching two College Government courses (American Politics and Government POLS 1111). I will being teaching College Psychology next trimester too (General Psychology PYSC 1110).”
Though Sorenson is not on a college campus she has many things she likes about the high school atmosphere. “I love that I get to work with the ‘high flyers’ at the high school. I get the students that are more academically minded. I very rarely have behavior issues… My students are the best in the school and I love working with them!” Sorenson said about some positives of teaching at high school.
Currently Sorenson teaches 44 high school students, and is not looking for a change onto the college campus anytime soon. “Not at this point in my life. One of my mentors, from ARCC, tried to convince me that being a professor would be better or my family and I. However, I just have no interest in being a professor. I love working with high school students and I love the community that you get at a high school… I also love working with seniors. They are always so excited to be seniors, but nervous to move on to the next step in their lives. I like to think that I help students through this process,” Sorenson said about her current position.
There were a few points that Sorenson considered pros of moving from high school to a college campus. For starters Sorenson said, “ more serious students, fewer interruptions to the classroom, more time to spend with my family, and more time to prep for the classes that I teach.”
Within the next five years Sorenson hopes to find herself in same position she is in now. “In five years I think I will still be teaching at the high school. I will probably be back to working full time (at the current time I work just .67 of a full time schedule.) I will probably be teaching both college and regular high school classes. I hope to move more in the direction of teaching teachers best practice methods as well.”
Now that there is not major change foreseen in Sorenson’s close future, that doesn’t leave out changes in the more distant future. Sorenson said that in “ten years from now probably some of the same…I would like to have taken more psychology courses, maybe have a master’s degree in psychology or working towards a masters in psych at least. Continuing to try to be the best teach I can be. Maybe one day I will move to a college campus. The future is open to many new and exciting things!”
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